Weird Science is a, forgive me, weird movie (Ho, ho! Pulitzer, here I come!). Like
many movies made in the eighties based on the sexual drives of young teenage boys
(I'm not talking about the ones that ex-Congressman Foley liked), Weird Science was
based on a completely over-complicated idea of how to satiate said sexual desires.
Why go through all that trouble (computers, lightning, smoke machines, etc.) to
make a model materialize? If I've learned anything in the ways women, all you need
is some crystal meth, pounding techno and velour seats and models will flock to
your side.
A refreshing thing about Weird Science is that it starts out way outlandish and
continues to get more and more outlandish as the movie goes on. A perfect example
of this is when the group of Mad Max extras come storming into the party scene and
proceed to fuck the place up. Then our hero, Anthony Michael Hall, stands up to the
hulking ruffians and makes them run away by saying some tough shit and
brandishing a gun he can barely hold at arm's length.
Lame as this scene is, I've gotta say, little is lamer than the part when AMH's older
brother, Bill Paxton (who rocks in this flick), gets turned into a big toad-looking
monster for like ten minutes. How pointless was that? Turned into a toad; oh scary!
The shotgun wielding Bill Paxton really learned his lesson.
Couldn't we just have seen Kelly LeBrock's boobs instead?
many movies made in the eighties based on the sexual drives of young teenage boys
(I'm not talking about the ones that ex-Congressman Foley liked), Weird Science was
based on a completely over-complicated idea of how to satiate said sexual desires.
Why go through all that trouble (computers, lightning, smoke machines, etc.) to
make a model materialize? If I've learned anything in the ways women, all you need
is some crystal meth, pounding techno and velour seats and models will flock to
your side.
A refreshing thing about Weird Science is that it starts out way outlandish and
continues to get more and more outlandish as the movie goes on. A perfect example
of this is when the group of Mad Max extras come storming into the party scene and
proceed to fuck the place up. Then our hero, Anthony Michael Hall, stands up to the
hulking ruffians and makes them run away by saying some tough shit and
brandishing a gun he can barely hold at arm's length.
Lame as this scene is, I've gotta say, little is lamer than the part when AMH's older
brother, Bill Paxton (who rocks in this flick), gets turned into a big toad-looking
monster for like ten minutes. How pointless was that? Turned into a toad; oh scary!
The shotgun wielding Bill Paxton really learned his lesson.
Couldn't we just have seen Kelly LeBrock's boobs instead?
