NERD MOVIE KOMBAT

it is so fucking sad when that one chimp dies after saving everyone

you 'forgot' weird science

http://cache.cinemanow.com/images/boxart/175/baby_geniuses_175.jpg

you are making all of these up

wargames >>>> tron >>>> ones you made up

ok wtf if you haven't actually even seen real genius i think you deserve to be punched.

REAL GENIUS WAS FILMED AT MY SCHOOL

WHERE IS FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR

WHERE IS SHORT CIRCUIT

WHERE IS BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED????

these questions are URGENT AND KEY!!!

omg the Real Genius soundtrack

1. Don Henley - "All She Wants to Do is Dance"
3. The Comsat Angels - "I'm Falling"

THIS CAN ONLY HAVE GOOD RESULTS

oh excuse me it is *batteries not included

wait jessie 8080 re short circuit

christ i hate flight of the navigator

Does "The Goonies" count in this?

I am really sad no one else is repping *batteries not included it has JESSICA TANDY for christ's sake.

this is a battle between project x and real genius and project x wins on account of A) hundreds of chimps B) this ludicrious thing they are doing C) matthew broderick being better than val kilmer in general, but it is close mainly due to the pool party and the popcorn scenes in real genius.

tho fatty helen hunt <<<<<<< girl in real genius so that's another thing for me to consider.

no the goonies is not about the magic of science. it is about the magic of deformed men. xp

I MEAN THE CHIMPS THEY FLY A PLANE???!

nb I *have* seen Weird Science

(xpost and Goonies)

all these questions can be answered by starting your own fucking poll entitled TWEE ROBOT BULLSHIT

also really goonies is basically a terrible, terrible film

^^^^^ RONG.

it has joey pants!

What exactly is the criteria here then?

I mean at this point we’ll have to add Back to the Future

was real genius even released in the uk?

really though batteries not included belongs with cocoon as wrinkly sci-twee

TOMBOT 8080*)*)

GOONIES IS AWESOME HATERZ

CRITERIA: Nerd movies for kids. Hence: THE GOONIES PWNS

hahahahah "it has joey pants" is the least convincing argument ever that a movie is not terrible

I never saw Project X but this promise of monkeys in intriguing.

oh we'll HAVE to add things? Let's go start five threads on ModReq to tell Keith to code in so I can add your dumb ideas to MY POLL

whoa I am JW

OR YOU CAN JUST MAN UP AND VOTE LIKE A CITIZEN

what about "it has the lady from throw momma from the train"? xp

I VOTED. I VOTED FOR REAL GENIUS.

oh we'll HAVE to add things? Let's go start five threads on ModReq to tell Keith to code in so I can add your dumb ideas to MY POLL

YEAH YEAH YEAH GOONIES RULE

It has Joey Pants, Corey Feldman, Short Round, Samwise Gamgee and indie star Martha Plympton!

Goonies<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Police Academy 2

NO^

(All I know at this point is that I'm not voting for "Real Genius" because fuck Val Kilmer and I'm not voting for "Project X" because fuck a chimp.)

(I also now know that Ed is insane.)

yes

my friend had them both on the same betamax tape

Wow, Betmax makes you crazy.

Wargames, I guess. If I have to pick from this list, PROFESSOR FALKEN

i refuse to vote in this poll until short circuit is an option

ALSO SHORT CIRCUIT 2 WHERE THE ROBOT BECOMES AN AMERICAN CITIZEN

he leaps into the air with joy after pledging to defend america or whatever! most positive movie ending ever.

Goonies is basically like a poorly executed film adaptation of a popular Young Adult Novel except said Young Adult Novel never existed, and if it had, everybody would love the book and absolutely despise the film. It's just really atrociously done.

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/MilitaryBallotBox.jpg

hahahaha

OKay I pick Wargames, for real then.

I want a poll for early-90s animal movies.

Tom stop being mad because you never found a pirate ship in your backyard.

hey max how about you take your completely gay robot bullshit and start your own poll where you compare short circuit 1 & 2 to AI and that other brilliant gay robot classic BICENTENNIAL CHUMP

okay then i'm reppin Real Genius.

soley on the strenth of the the pool party they throw down in the auditorium

Word

http://members.cscoms.com/~suwat/poster/the_last_starfighter.jpg

ok seriously I DIED is 8080 why isn't last starfighter here.

this thread is living up to the KOMBAT part of the title

this is a contentious thread

the last starfighter is basically a movie about a gross android with one sequence of duder pressing the KILL-9 button on a really fake-looking spaceship

it has all the excitement of Project X if Project X had no monkeys and no broderick in it

KRULL

http://tntluoma.com/images/beyond30/krull-colwyn-glave-320x240.jpg

http://www.nndb.com/people/288/000090018/oherlihy-last-starfighter-sm.jpg

THIS POLL IS A TRAP

GUYS JUST VOTE FOR PROJECT X, IT IS THE BEST MOVIE UP THERE

ok seriously somebody brought up Krull

FUCK YEAH KRULL. GIMMIE SOME KRULL

http://www.xmission.com/~daina/images/mc/krull_bg.jpg

"man how about we make a videogame where LOVE is the secret weapon you have to use to defeat the final boss

no wait dude fuck a videogame let's make a MOVIE about that!!!"

LOVE IS NOT NERD

the last starfighter has the whole male alien giving birth scene. that's not a good look.

real genius above all

xpost But it gave crucial inspiration to Judd Apatow

ENEMY MINE

"Real Genius" is so massively overrated, it's like "Buckaroo Bonzai" to the nth degree.

the last starfighter is also a bad wet dream for star wars fanboys who would play asteroids while pretending to trash talk darth vader

that's not so much nerd as just LOSER

we can have a LOSER MOVIE poll to, maybe Mr. Que should preside

Real Genius -- among all other reasons, because my physics teacher in 11th grade was a then-recent CalTech grad (barely older than us, frankly) and he confirmed that a good portion of what was in the movie was based on recent events and real people. (If you had told me then that Val Kilmer was going to turn into a bloated drunk playing Alexander the Great's father I would have roffled.)

TOMBOT maybe you haven't figured this out but I am slowly turning this into "TOMBOT REVIEWS SHITTY MOVIES THREAD"

Goonies

Goonies is basically like a poorly executed film adaptation of a popular Young Adult Novel except said Young Adult Novel never existed, and if it had, everybody would love the book and absolutely despise the film. It's just really atrociously done.

The Last Starfighter

the last starfighter is basically a movie about a gross android with one sequence of duder pressing the KILL-9 button on a really fake-looking spaceship

Krull

man how about we make a videogame where LOVE is the secret weapon you have to use to defeat the final boss

no wait dude fuck a videogame let's make a MOVIE about that!!!"

LOVE IS NOT NERD

Bilbo Bagshot: I once punched a guy out for saying that "Hawk the Slayer" was rubbish.
Tim Bisley: Good for you.
Bilbo Bagshot: Yeah, thanks. But that's not the point, Tim. The point is I was defending the fantasy genre with terminal intensity, when what I should have said was "Dad, you're right, but let's give Krull a try and we'll discuss it later."

dan this goes in the "anti-poison, pro-some goth bullshit" column in your permanent strongo record

Hahhhhahh Brian I totally love u, I re-read the book adaptation of The Last Starfighter like four times from the library.

IT WERE WRIT BY ALAN DEAN FOSTER I MEAN COME ON

laurel do you read dragonlance novels too?

But could Alan Dean Foster HACK THE PENTAGON???

i need to find the .jpg for the cover of that X-MEN MEET STAR TREK: TNG book i saw in barnes and noble the other week

http://www.arrakis.co.uk/jpg/dune4a.jpg

Dragonglance = no, but only b/c I was already v busy with Anne McCaffrey backlist.

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/57/65/b14a820dd7a000297a1df010._AA240_.L.jpg

lol lol lol

wow wow wow wow

"love is not nerd"?

xpost holy shit jess

REAL FUCKING GENIUS. So easy. Yes, Val Kilmer sucks in general but he's awesome in Real Genius so duh.

does jordi turn out to be a mutant?

Wait, don't spoil it for me.

And REAL GENIUS is not overrated, MONKEYS are fucking overrated.

http://store.perspicuity.com/sections/Products/MakeitWhat.sized.jpg

LOL-CUETEST OF BORG

http://www.execupundit.com/uploaded_images/star-trek-inspirational-poster-724610.jpg

one time i met val kilmer at a party. he didn't know where his car was. he literally actually said DUDE WHERE'S MY CAR and i couldn't stop laughing at this. he also was like randomly handing out flowers to girls.

this is why val kilmer does NOT suck, in general.

project x <<<<<<< wargames <<<<<<<<<<< REAL GENIUS WHICH WAS FILMED AT MY SCHOOL <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< XMEN MEET THE ENTERPRISE even tho i never read it

http://www.waynescomics.com/images/Cards/S/star%20trek%20quotable%20capt%20women.jpg

you forgot TRON

wow jess wow

I want a bigger version of that I need a new desktop

"what is...love?"

http://anwanore.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/insp_mudd_480.png

i can't be the only person to have noticed how much harry mudd looks like the guy from gogol bordello's dad

nerd love

http://www.bobmerritt.com/geek/mm/Meyrink024_sm.jpg

how on earth did we forget:

http://www.toastedpixel.com/comic/alienfashions/v.jpg

what the hell is that

cagney and lacey in outer space?

y

http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.10/spotlight/nerds/images/lamar/lamar5.jpg

y'all tellin' me you don't remember

http://www.stargods.org/V_Diana.jpg

???

I tried to forget.

what the hell is that??

V

oh V is awesome, lizard sex right??? with markie post?

ok it is cool for strongo to talk about V but nobody else

Space Camp! SPACE CAMP!

you are completely fired, walk the plank, good luck in cuba

no Monster Squad no credibility

Monster Squad is some whole other thing. Whatever category Goonies and maybe Lost Boys is in.

ok. let's start a thread for that!

HEY IT SEEMS LIKE SOME OF THEM ARE CATCHING ON

I love poll thursday!

michelle meyrink = original indie awkward hottness + dated crispin glover > U and your friends

Space Camp was great! The future Johnny Cash forms his only emotional bond to a frank welker-voiced droid! kelly preston is the valley girl! larry b. scott as the token black guy! tate donovan! Putting Huntsville, Alabama within a short driving distance to Cape Canaveral!

Hell, i went to Space Academy 4 years after this flick came out. I consider it job training for later getting my aerospace degree.

what kind of an asshole grows up in Seattle and doesn't even know how to swim?

It has Joey Pants, Corey Feldman, Short Round, Samwise Gamgee and indie star Martha Plympton!

this was gonna be the worst movie ever til I hit Martha Plimpton

hey y'all don't forget:

http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/wizard.jpg

I went to Space Camp and it was fucking horrible.

Bill Paxton was so good in Weird Science.

The Wizard rules, guys

i think fred savage is his own genre

i was gonna make a powerglove/get to third base joke, but i opted no

all of the movies you guys are talking about suck the shit out of a leper's ass

all of the movies LISTED AS OPTIONS IN THIS POLL, THAT I MADE, FOR YOU TO VOTE ON, are orders of orders of magnitude magnitude better, in every possible dimension

hey does anyone remember a movie called "D.A.R.Y.L." or something about a robot that becomes a real boy or some shit? and he hacks into an ATM and gives his new suburban family a lot of cash? and is good as baseball?

OMG YES

YEAH DARYL WAS LIKE SHORT CIRCUIT ONLY NOT FILMED AT YOUR SCHOOL

HAY HAY BUDDY JUST BECAUSE YOUR SCHOOL ISNT THE FILMING SITE FOR SUCH CELLULOID CLASSICS AS "REAL GENIUS," "CLUELESS," "DON'T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD," "ORANGE COUNTY" AND "THE WEST WING" DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE TO GET ALL JEALOUS AND SHIT

In earlier drafts of the storyline, a Russian shuttle is sent up to rescue the American kids. At the end of the film, it was to be revealed that Russian kids had rescued the American kids.

max can you please stay off this thread before I goad you into saying a racial slur and get you permabanned

to summarize, max, shut up

shut the fuck up

I'll stay off your thread if you stay off mine

hey TOMBOT what about Spaceballs

I voted for what I'm pretty sure is the only movie I've ever seen with a climactic finale that involves thousands of cubic feet of popcorn, but not just because of that, mostly because jesus Val Kilmer used to be SO DREAMY.

HEY MAX DO YOU KNOW THE POPULAR WATERPARK DESTINATION "WATERLOO" FROM THE FAMOUS FILM "BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE"? THAT IS A PLACE CALLED "SUNSPLASH" IN PHOENIX, AZ AND I HAVE BEEN THERE LITERALLY 17,000,000 TIMES.

ALSO, SAN DIMAS HIGH? I ATTENDED THAT SCHOOL!!!!! SO U TAKE YR CLUELESS AND BITE ME!

whoa xpost dudes i am just being funny fyi let's not get real here.

except i am not being funny about san dimas high :D

Hey so did San Dimas High School Football actually rule?

it was ok. i don't think it really ruled.

it's not even really called "san dimas high" which is disappointing

omg how did we go this long without bringing up BILL & TED

IT HAS CLARENCE CLEMONS IN IT

ALSO IT IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE

ah...bill & ted

it is the best movie ever made

bill & ted unfortunately NOT EVEN REMOTELY A "NERD MOVIE"

srsly! jane wiedlin as joan of arc! clarence clemons and martha davis as the most important ppl in the future world! keanu!

where's The Manhattan Project

perhaps you could start ANOTHER POLL for I dunno KEANU REEVES but at any rate we should be talking more about JEFF BRIDGES AS THE COMPUTER JESUS and not HISTORICAL ROMANCE FILMS

OK NERD NAZI I'LL TAKE THE BILL & TED TALK ELSEWHERE

I saw TRON when I was about 6 in the largest lecture hall at an engineering school, and then on the way home my friend's dad talked about what UNIX was.

man I don't even know how you talk about what unix is without referencing win32 as a comparison

that's like talking about water before they invented dirt

jeff bridges <3

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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not bad, nerds

real genius should have won

"don’t you know that eating cheesburgers can give you very large breasts? oh my god, i’m too late! "