Just to hear the song falling alone it’s worth watching the movie. Also , if you want to see uncle rico from napoleon dynamite when he had his own hair.
I was born in the early 60's so I was in my 20's during the 80's. Oh how I miss the 80's there was not another Decade like it. So Free so Original like everything was Brand New especially in Computers and Science. I bet I have seen this movie over 500 times. I remember seeing it in the Theater when it opened and I love it as much Today as I did then. A very Underrated great Classic. Thank you Val Kimer, and Long live the 80's
I was born in 72, and the 80s will ALWAYS be my life........best TV shows, best Movies and best Music..........hands down best time ever....................\\m//
I was in the Army in West Germany when I saw this. I was Fretting about where I had come in Life. Then this Movie Changed My Life. I left the Army went to the US for College and got My Degree in Physics. Absolutely Loved this Movie the 80's were a Decade of Wonder.
Agreed! One of my father’s and I, favorite movies. Actually got the gorilla shirt for my dad a few years ago. He passed away last year so I made a pillow out of the shirt! 🤣
The look on Hathaway sells it. He's knows right from the beginning it's not just a potential solution but one of the best solutions as because it's frozen it's perfect to work in space. You don't even need a special environment for it. Hathaway's eyes tell all and Atherton played it beautifully here. Oh... and the added beauty that the thing is small... very small. Getting into space won't be a problem. Update: Watching this again... look at the way Atherton plays it off the first minute of the scene. He's just annoyed of hearing Knight being pompous. The looks stays on the face until Knight explains the physics. You can see in his eyes Hathaway working the variables. Let's not forget the man has a PHD in this stuff as well. He may not be on the level of IQ of Knight, but he understands the physics. Notice how Hathaway goes from annoyed to 100% interested in everything Knight now has to say the minute he understands what Knight is trying to accomplish. Atherton deserves a LOT of kudos for this scene. What could have been overplayed, he underplayed it and just used his eyes to convey his emotional state.
That's a good point . I think what also got Hathaway excited was the power output of that laser. Coupled with the frozen nature, it solves his issues or appears to anyway.
The problem I have with it is their outrage over it as a weapon. You also can kill a tank from orbit with that thing, but say vaporize a man. Like... imagine using this against the Japanese high command instead of dropping two atomic bombs.
@@Hiraghm Well they killed two former U.S. presidents with it in a Robocop film. Them along with 111 other people in Santa Monica. They said it was a software glitch...
But it wasn't just that box, it was also that tall electronic box of power supply they used to "energize" it... and they would have to bring along all the super-cold rods to "reload" it with... which would all have to be kept super-cold until reaching space... and space isn't "cold" when you're in sunlight... In the movie Earth II they have to disarm a nuclear warhead before approaching sunlight sets it off by melting low-temperature "safety bars"...
I TRUELY appreciate the 80s celebration of science. Weird Science and Real Genius . Getting people consumed with the idea more with time travel with Back To The Future films. Being proud and fighting back as a nerd. Oh and can't forget the film Young Einstein with Albert and Marie. Imagine a romance a true romance as depicted in the film is touching.
I love this movie so much... I love how we all just totally disregard the fact that a killer laser burned its way across campus, somehow without incinerating a single student, lol... I miss 80's cinema
Well it was already high enough to hit the top of the statue so the people on the ground wouldn't be in danger. After that the curvature of the earth would make it higher and higher and less likely to hit someone.
I love Thomas Newman's film score in the background. It reminds me of Tangerine Dream. Why didn't they ever release an official soundtrack for Real Genius?
I was Born 1958 But I Loved the 60's 70's and Not knowing The 80's were my Last Happy Decade before My Parents Died and a Girl who was 12 Years Younger Played Me
Based on the height of that statue, unless there were people roaming the quad in the middle of the night who were roughly twelve feet tall, it would never have so much as grazed anyone.
Actually, the laser's elevation was higher than a 8'-0" person. But if you took the tall girl from duce Bigalow male gigalo, and she was in the path of the laser, you'd probably have a casualty- heh, heh!
just like the mistakes in the atomic bomb program that blew the bikini islands to hell, the scientists didn't realize it would be that powerful. they had a target and some cinder blocks which would have easily stopped a laser of the kind of power that was being asked for
This type of laser was actually considered at the time the movie was made but scattering losses in the matrix prevented it from acquiring the energy levels that are shown here
These little setbacks are sometimes what we need to make a giant step forward, right Kent ? Lol 😆😆 this is one of my all-time favorites but if you want to see another good one with Val kilmer , check out " top secret " it's hilarious.
This has remained one of my favorite movies since i was a little kid, even though i didn't understand much then. I keep watching that scene, where he's explaining how that ridiculous beam works, and can't help but feel he was teaching us ACTUAL laser science, even if quantum.
A lot of people criticise the 80s, and for different reasons. But make no mistake, the 80s was a fantastic decade to be a kid. Saturdays you could watch TV all day and never get bored. Cinema was great too with non stop classics. If I had to put my finger on it I would say that the reason the 80s stand out was because they gave birth to the digital age.
@@Basilisk4119 nah, just compare batman, hulk, captain america movie then and now. You must be hypocrite or maybe indenial if you say lou ferrigno's hulk is much better than the hulk today. You must be from "low quality" crowd
@@marcusmartin5758 Look...Marcus. Some people prefer the new ones and some people the originals. If it wasn't for the 80s (and earlier) you, Marcus, wouldn't have any cartoons to watch.
@@Basilisk4119 you're not funny but nice try though, im not into cartoon like you do. Im just comparing movie quality back then and now, including the story and effects.
@MultiSmartass1 You do realize going to college undergrad still counts as legit going to college right? Please don’t get caught up in all this bullshit
I just HAD to buy this DVD years ago. One of the best cult classics ever. I've been obsessed with lasers ever since. btw, looks very likely that Ron Howard / Brian Grazer are doing a SEQUEL / remake of Real Genius!! (Take a look at Brian Grazer's IMDB page, or on Pajiba.) I think the cast will be replaced by new youngsters though, so it might suck. :(
The laser WAS orange in the original version of the movie. For some reason they later updated the movie and changed the laser to violet in the revised edition.
My favorite movie. It was made 1 year before I was born but I watched it when I was 5 and have continued to love it since at 36. I roll coins and a bunch of other stuff between my fingers because of this movie.
That scene is a perfect metaphor for the recklessness of some tech bros today, so happy their machine works, so unconcerned about what it destroyed down the road.
you don't know what a metaphor is perhaps some deference to these 'tech-bros' is in order? you are, after all, posting this on a website made by techbros which implements standards designed by techbros transmitted over a protocol designed by techbros, itself built on a protocol designed by techbros (repeat two or three times) so guys in the MIT AI lab could play correspondence chess with their Caltech buddies.
Loved this movie as a kid still love the movie watch it whenever I find it on or just once in a while. It is possible to synthesize excited Bromide in an Argon matrix, love it... classic!
I crunched the numbers back when I watched this film as an engineering student, and although I've forgotten the exact figures, I remember that 1 megajoule per liter is roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a mid-sized automobile traveling at highway speeds. All that concentrated in a beam of light no wider than a salad plate. What a truly terrifying weapon.
Since the entire idea is BS, it's ok that the story was inconsistant with the violet color of the beam. Perhaps the theory, while a success, did not accurately describe correct freq. I just wonder and worry about the students asleep in their dorm rooms that got toasted by the errant laser beam, which evidently still had deadly energy after penetrating the taget, the window, wall tree, statue, etc.
I find how lasers and light pads through various mediums… and the same for sound and overlay of insights and information gathered over time… fascinating.
Absolutely love(d) this movie. One of my only problems with it -- and, yes, this is nitpicking -- is that all of these kids are super geniuses at (presumably) Caltech (DEI, BTW). They're probably all in the top 5% of their class. Kent would have had no worries about landing a killer job after graduation. His problem wouldn't be finding a job. It would have been filtering and digesting the offers.
+WonkaVator72 "See, at Northern Electronics, you don't get stock options, which is what makes Darlington so sweet". -- as per Kent ... But, jokes aside, you're right.
Well if you really want to be picky, in the late 70s to 80s nearly 3/4 of the entering classes were ranked 1st or 2nd in their high school. Still the dropout rate was a tremendous 30% despite only having entering classes of about 230.
That's just the fuses at the substation, they'll have them back on in a couple of minutes... maybe I shouldn't have shorted across the transformer... Beautiful lines! :)
Kent's cronies prove they're serious about the science by shushing Kent when Chris is explaining the power source. They're friends with the wrong guy, but they still NEED TO KNOW how things work.
In this movie, Real Genius (Val Kilmer), there is a reclusive genius named Lazlo - who avoids others. They see him entering a closet, and he disappears. After a while, they realize the closet has a secret door to another entrance, which leads to... The point is, though it appears that Lazlo prizes his privacy (for why else would he hide from the others) they are not quite sure... So, they attempt to make contact, seeing how Lazlo has not explicitly said, No Contact is permitted... It is a very fragile line, between invading another's space, and saying, Hello... attempting to make, First Contact... This movie, is basically about social "misfits".. Also, the laser was really cool. I still remember that line, "It will be like lasing a stick of dynamite". I think they used a Bose Einstein Condensate, "as a primer" in a single atom laser... but that's a guess.
Much of this was based on real events at Caltech. Lazlo was based on Weinshenker who lived in the steam tunnels. And the closets were entrances to "hyperspace," the spaces between the ceiling and the floor above which allowed students to "tunnel" from one room to another.
Hathaway reminds me of a professor named Bob Prowell who asked me to design a laser pistol weapon so I suggested Femto pulsed flash cubes so I would like to thank him for encouraging me to go into nuclear aerospace and cryogenic laser fields to overcome my hangups about biology and egotistic self. Hathaway also reminds me of a snobby professor who would point their thumb at a steel mill to make condescending aspersion epithets of "Think of all those Archie Bunkers to say the very least" while I do appreciate how he congratulated me on my MIT work.
Rydberg levels of optical pumped laser excitation of a crystal is critical to lattice assisted nuclear reactions of loading isotopic fuels into materials.
Lasers are very highly directional weapons(devices) The line about hotter than the sun was referring to the point of contact the laser beam makes with everything it touches in a straight line forward(downrange) direction, not all around it and behind it. The laser could be firing 5 tetrawatts and as long as everyone was behind the apparatus and wearing the correct protective goggles for whatever wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum the laser was operating at(to protect from indirect and diffuse radiation, obviously at that kind of power level), then they would all be fine. C'mon guys, basic physics and laser safety, you know??
Also, you know what one of the best things about a weapon like this is? No recoil like you always have with conventional kinetic energy weapons, ie anything that fires bullets, rockets, missiles, etc. Also, you never have to reload ammunition either. You just have to maintain battery/capacitor power.
"Excited" bromide in an argon matrix... So, bromine ionized to the point of becoming argon? Perhaps with the same quantum # but with a nucleus of bromine.
For anyone that hasn't watched this movie, watch it. It is one of those quirky gems from the 80's. Well worth watching.
I agree!
Definitely! Kilmer is amazing.
I totally agree.
Just to hear the song falling alone it’s worth watching the movie. Also , if you want to see uncle rico from napoleon dynamite when he had his own hair.
Absolutely
Val Kilmer was brilliant in Real Genius!
Yes... and was Oscar worthy in Tombstone 🏆
Val is amazing. Even now with his health! The man is a monster of talent with perfect dash of crazy!
I was born in the early 60's so I was in my 20's during the 80's. Oh how I miss the 80's there was not another Decade like it. So Free so Original like everything was Brand New especially in Computers and Science. I bet I have seen this movie over 500 times. I remember seeing it in the Theater when it opened and I love it as much Today as I did then. A very Underrated great Classic. Thank you Val Kimer, and Long live the 80's
+OriginalMACMAN Lucky, I was born in 84. I too never get tired of this gem.
I was born in 72, and the 80s will ALWAYS be my life........best TV shows, best Movies and best Music..........hands down best time ever....................\\m//
OriginalMACMAN Now you know how the '60's feel like to the people who were in their twenties then.
I was born in 1986. Same year _Short Circuit_ came out. I grew up as a '90s kid but I still appreciate the '80s.
I was in the Army in West Germany when I saw this. I was Fretting about where I had come in Life. Then this Movie Changed My Life. I left the Army went to the US for College and got My Degree in Physics. Absolutely Loved this Movie the 80's were a Decade of Wonder.
Such an underrated movie. One of my favorites of all time. Also the 2nd best role Val Kilmer ever did imho. Best role being Doc Holiday.
ughhhh You forget his portrayal of one Jim Morrison?
He's my huckleberry
Can't forget him as Madmortagan in Willow.
Agreed! One of my father’s and I, favorite movies. Actually got the gorilla shirt for my dad a few years ago. He passed away last year so I made a pillow out of the shirt! 🤣
That was Kurt Russel
The look on Hathaway sells it. He's knows right from the beginning it's not just a potential solution but one of the best solutions as because it's frozen it's perfect to work in space. You don't even need a special environment for it. Hathaway's eyes tell all and Atherton played it beautifully here. Oh... and the added beauty that the thing is small... very small. Getting into space won't be a problem.
Update: Watching this again... look at the way Atherton plays it off the first minute of the scene. He's just annoyed of hearing Knight being pompous. The looks stays on the face until Knight explains the physics. You can see in his eyes Hathaway working the variables. Let's not forget the man has a PHD in this stuff as well. He may not be on the level of IQ of Knight, but he understands the physics. Notice how Hathaway goes from annoyed to 100% interested in everything Knight now has to say the minute he understands what Knight is trying to accomplish. Atherton deserves a LOT of kudos for this scene. What could have been overplayed, he underplayed it and just used his eyes to convey his emotional state.
That's a good point .
I think what also got Hathaway excited was the power output of that laser.
Coupled with the frozen nature, it solves his issues or appears to anyway.
The problem I have with it is their outrage over it as a weapon.
You also can kill a tank from orbit with that thing, but say vaporize a man.
Like... imagine using this against the Japanese high command instead of dropping two atomic bombs.
@@Hiraghm Well they killed two former U.S. presidents with it in a Robocop film. Them along with 111 other people in Santa Monica. They said it was a software glitch...
@@B.B.Digital_Forest Good, yet frightening point, sir.
But it wasn't just that box, it was also that tall electronic box of power supply they used to "energize" it... and they would have to bring along all the super-cold rods to "reload" it with... which would all have to be kept super-cold until reaching space... and space isn't "cold" when you're in sunlight... In the movie Earth II they have to disarm a nuclear warhead before approaching sunlight sets it off by melting low-temperature "safety bars"...
STILL on of my all time favourite 80's movies of all times!
Chris Knight: Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
"My wife and I.....we had just left the bar and then......this purple laser beam came and........"
**breaks down sobbing**
The beam shot out of the second or third floor. The head of a statue was likely 12-15 feet high. It wouldn't have hit anybody.
"Put simply, in deference to you, Kent, . . . ." Classic. I love this movie. Cheers.
Damn lucky that laser didn't kill anybody walking across the quad.
i always thought it was too high
I am with you
Quite. It WAS the middle of the night though.
The laser was the wrong colour too!
That laser was akin to mini-gamma ray burst.
You did it. You graduate. You get the job.
Love this movie.
"What?, you can't that's my job"
@@TheDragonninja1983 haha always loved that response from Kent!
@@TheDragonninja1983 LOOK AT THIS MIRROR.... LOOOOK!!!!! 😂
few days later, the teacher loses his job, his house, his career and charged with treason!
man do I love a happy ending
@nicktechnubyte1184 Who the hell said Hathaway was charged with treason?
I TRUELY appreciate the 80s celebration of science. Weird Science and Real Genius . Getting people consumed with the idea more with time travel with Back To The Future films. Being proud and fighting back as a nerd. Oh and can't forget the film Young Einstein with Albert and Marie. Imagine a romance a true romance as depicted in the film is touching.
Try the movie "I.Q." starring Walter Matthau and Andy Dufresne.
Don’t forget about My Science Project and Manhattan Project both in the 80’s.
There's also The Fly, Tron (the dialog about programming), Back to the Future, My Science Project, InnerSpace, ProjectX, and War Games
@@Hiraghm I.Q. is from the 90s
Revenge of the Nerds?
I love this movie so much... I love how we all just totally disregard the fact that a killer laser burned its way across campus, somehow without incinerating a single student, lol... I miss 80's cinema
Well it was already high enough to hit the top of the statue so the people on the ground wouldn't be in danger. After that the curvature of the earth would make it higher and higher and less likely to hit someone.
@@markthompson2813 there are still multistoreys buildings around somewhere I’m sure.
"Would you classify that as a launch problem or a design problem?"
PROGRESS.---------------------->*
Duck !!!
Yes.
It’s a penis stretcher.
My favorite Val Kilmer movie. Love it!
I love Thomas Newman's film score in the background. It reminds me of Tangerine Dream. Why didn't they ever release an official soundtrack for Real Genius?
@The Anthropologist _Forensic
And the actual real songs too
This was basically my nonlinear optics grad school friends & profs in mid 1990's ! . . . Amazingly True to Reality !
An overlooked gem of the the eighties. Great sound track and musical score as well.
"I Passed...BUT I FAILED!" "Well then I'm happy and sad for you"
I wrote down all the questions Hathaway has ever asked on any of his finals. Are those they?
"Put simply, in deference to you, Kent."
Chris Go Better translation: "Because Kent, you're a moron."
Ah do me a favor Kent, and put the target in front of the cinder blocks will ya? Lol subtle jab
"It's like lasing a stick of dynamite. "
love that line...
Deborah Foreman fell off the face of the earth after this flick.......she was ULTRA cute in this film
I had such a crush on her. Loved the scene where she shows up to the pool party with her scuba gear.
It's amazing how many people don't believe this is her a year or so after Revenge of the Nerds.
@@pts5217 ??
I was FB friends with her. I don't think she acts anymore .
@@pts5217 I think that was Jordan, not Foreman's character Susan.
I love how Kent reacts to the whole situation.
I was Born 1958 But
I Loved the 60's 70's and Not knowing The
80's were my Last Happy Decade before
My Parents Died and a Girl who was 12 Years Younger Played Me
I love how the geniuses never thought how that laser could have killed scores of people on campus.
That's why they did what they did later in the film to atone for making said laser.
Based on the height of that statue, unless there were people roaming the quad in the middle of the night who were roughly twelve feet tall, it would never have so much as grazed anyone.
Actually, the laser's elevation was higher than a 8'-0" person. But if you took the tall girl from duce Bigalow male gigalo, and she was in the path of the laser, you'd probably have a casualty- heh, heh!
@@ChaosWolf1982 Most of those college buildings were not single-story...
just like the mistakes in the atomic bomb program that blew the bikini islands to hell, the scientists didn't realize it would be that powerful. they had a target and some cinder blocks which would have easily stopped a laser of the kind of power that was being asked for
My mom LOVED this movie and so it grew on me in my youth, 80s gem ,:(
This type of laser was actually considered at the time the movie was made but scattering losses in the matrix prevented it from acquiring the energy levels that are shown here
@Keaos0 author Dean Ing used the idea of powerful lasers to help lift and propel large airships - blimps - in his novel The Big Lifters, for example.
Inverse square law.
Now our military has microwave gun, not quite the same as on here but it is a laser weapon.
love the score music, here. Thomas Newman is sheer genius. Great movie, too!
These little setbacks are sometimes what we need to make a giant step forward, right Kent ? Lol 😆😆 this is one of my all-time favorites but if you want to see another good one with Val kilmer , check out " top secret " it's hilarious.
'What's your name?" ... "Nick." ... "What does that mean"... "I don't know, my dad thought of it while shaving"..... That's comedy GOLD!!
I never understood why Susan reacted that way to being told to take a cab
damn i love this movie.
20 people did not graduate and didn't get the job
2 more did not graduate and didn't get the job.
Thank you for a more realistic portrayal of laser warfare instead of a campy "phasers on stun" where they cleanly vanish.
This has remained one of my favorite movies since i was a little kid, even though i didn't understand much then. I keep watching that scene, where he's explaining how that ridiculous beam works, and can't help but feel he was teaching us ACTUAL laser science, even if quantum.
"Listen to me you grovelling bug, I have exams....!"
The music definitely adds to the tension...
After all these years, I still wonder: what was the equipment and the shield supposed to protect them from?
A lot of people criticise the 80s, and for different reasons. But make no mistake, the 80s was a fantastic decade to be a kid. Saturdays you could watch TV all day and never get bored. Cinema was great too with non stop classics. If I had to put my finger on it I would say that the reason the 80s stand out was because they gave birth to the digital age.
Marvel heroes back then sucks, just saying.
@@marcusmartin5758 You're obviously from the 'more is better' crowd.
@@Basilisk4119 nah, just compare batman, hulk, captain america movie then and now. You must be hypocrite or maybe indenial if you say lou ferrigno's hulk is much better than the hulk today. You must be from "low quality" crowd
@@marcusmartin5758 Look...Marcus. Some people prefer the new ones and some people the originals. If it wasn't for the 80s (and earlier) you, Marcus, wouldn't have any cartoons to watch.
@@Basilisk4119 you're not funny but nice try though, im not into cartoon like you do. Im just comparing movie quality back then and now, including the story and effects.
Grad school was totally like this :)
I only went to college undergrad but this movie actually has a bit if the feel if going to college or university.
@MultiSmartass1 You do realize going to college undergrad still counts as legit going to college right? Please don’t get caught up in all this bullshit
Completely forgot about this movie. I’ve it a few times as a kid. So long ago lol.
Everyone in this movie is an incredible actor!
"Take a cab." That's just cold! Ha!
i always thought Kent looked like a geekier ver. of John Tesh from the old entertainment news broadcast
That EMP-like shot sound at the end of that blast is friggin cool.
I just HAD to buy this DVD years ago. One of the best cult classics ever.
I've been obsessed with lasers ever since.
btw, looks very likely that Ron Howard / Brian Grazer are doing a SEQUEL / remake of Real Genius!! (Take a look at Brian Grazer's IMDB page, or on Pajiba.)
I think the cast will be replaced by new youngsters though, so it might suck. :(
25 trees across the quad did not like this.
FWIW, 600 nm would be orange light, not violet as depicted in the movie.
@Paull LLC nahhh it's first harmonic of 1200nm IR ha ha !!!
well so he didn't give 400 nm calculations doesn't mean the laser couldnt still be uv.
Everyone knows that it would be violet because it's amethyst plasma.... :D
The laser WAS orange in the original version of the movie. For some reason they later updated the movie and changed the laser to violet in the revised edition.
@@joshhernandez5069 oh, now that makes sense... Where did you hear about this ?
My favorite movie. It was made 1 year before I was born but I watched it when I was 5 and have continued to love it since at 36. I roll coins and a bunch of other stuff between my fingers because of this movie.
One of my old time favorite flicks that sends me back to the 80s. =)
Look at this mirror. Look. LOOK!
it's not even large enough to reflect all his ego :-D
So you'll HAMMER later , LOL !!!!
Classic line from a great movie ,Ha,Ha....
Everyone play their part in this movie so well - Awesome
Who WOULDN'T want to hammer Deborah Foreman?
And, once again, why STEM needs (and is getting) a giant revolution, so that we don't have to work with guys like this.
"I guess you'll hammer later..."
@@litsci1877 Not only does STEM have a critical lack of women, they have an abundance of white knights.
The 80s had the best Sci/fi movies ! I'm going back to 1985 after my time machine is done !
One of the best movies ever made. HATHAWAYYYYY is one of the best villains ever
"5 megawatt laser" of a cryogenic exciton crystal core is of Patent #3557370 by Lawrence Peikenbrock of January 19, 1971 Colorado.
That's a real lab, or at least all the equipment from one. The optical table, the connectors, the big old Tek on a cart, etc
That scene is a perfect metaphor for the recklessness of some tech bros today, so happy their machine works, so unconcerned about what it destroyed down the road.
you don't know what a metaphor is
perhaps some deference to these 'tech-bros' is in order? you are, after all, posting this on a website made by techbros which implements standards designed by techbros transmitted over a protocol designed by techbros, itself built on a protocol designed by techbros (repeat two or three times) so guys in the MIT AI lab could play correspondence chess with their Caltech buddies.
Loved this movie as a kid still love the movie watch it whenever I find it on or just once in a while. It is possible to synthesize excited Bromide in an Argon matrix, love it... classic!
I crunched the numbers back when I watched this film as an engineering student, and although I've forgotten the exact figures, I remember that 1 megajoule per liter is roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a mid-sized automobile traveling at highway speeds. All that concentrated in a beam of light no wider than a salad plate. What a truly terrifying weapon.
My favorite scene from a very inspiring movie!
love this movie!
Best Lines = So You will hammer Later! God Let Me have It!!!
Now listen here, Jesus...
Since the entire idea is BS, it's ok that the story was inconsistant with the violet color of the beam.
Perhaps the theory, while a success, did not accurately describe correct freq.
I just wonder and worry about the students asleep in their dorm rooms that got toasted by the errant laser beam, which evidently still had deadly energy after penetrating the taget, the window, wall tree, statue, etc.
I find how lasers and light pads through various mediums… and the same for sound and overlay of insights and information gathered over time… fascinating.
Absolutely love(d) this movie. One of my only problems with it -- and, yes, this is nitpicking -- is that all of these kids are super geniuses at (presumably) Caltech (DEI, BTW). They're probably all in the top 5% of their class. Kent would have had no worries about landing a killer job after graduation. His problem wouldn't be finding a job. It would have been filtering and digesting the offers.
+WonkaVator72 "See, at Northern Electronics, you don't get stock options, which is what makes Darlington so sweet". -- as per Kent ...
But, jokes aside, you're right.
Well if you really want to be picky, in the late 70s to 80s nearly 3/4 of the entering classes were ranked 1st or 2nd in their high school. Still the dropout rate was a tremendous 30% despite only having entering classes of about 230.
"Take a cab" Hathaway does not play!
I would love to see Legal Eagle or any other law channel tackle this film.
Ironically laser weapons are today's social norm so who is nerdy?
Another great scene!!
Every time I see a catcher's mask, I think of movie rather than baseball, and I like both very much.
That's just the fuses at the substation, they'll have them back on in a couple of minutes... maybe I shouldn't have shorted across the transformer... Beautiful lines! :)
This movie came out when I was born I never seen it. I just watched it and it is a really good movie.
Kent's cronies prove they're serious about the science by shushing Kent when Chris is explaining the power source. They're friends with the wrong guy, but they still NEED TO KNOW how things work.
an underated under viewed teen masterpiece
"So you'll hammer later"
In this movie, Real Genius (Val Kilmer), there is a reclusive
genius named Lazlo - who avoids others. They see him
entering a closet, and he disappears. After a while, they
realize the closet has a secret door to another entrance, which
leads to... The point is, though it appears that Lazlo prizes his
privacy (for why else would he hide from the others) they are not
quite sure... So, they attempt to make contact, seeing how Lazlo
has not explicitly said, No Contact is permitted... It is a very fragile
line, between invading another's space, and saying, Hello... attempting
to make, First Contact... This movie, is basically about social "misfits"..
Also, the laser was really cool. I still remember that line, "It will be
like lasing a stick of dynamite". I think they used a Bose Einstein
Condensate, "as a primer" in a single atom laser... but that's a guess.
Much of this was based on real events at Caltech. Lazlo was based on Weinshenker who lived in the steam tunnels. And the closets were entrances to "hyperspace," the spaces between the ceiling and the floor above which allowed students to "tunnel" from one room to another.
2021 and laser weapons are still being researched as the next breakthrough in warfare ...
A laser was deployed on the USS Portland in 2021 for field testing.
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several lasers have already been developed so far. however, none operational for real combat yet ...
@@rogernevez5187 The US military is field testing laser weapons now, air, sea, and land. Lasers for targeting have been used for decades.
Hathaway reminds me of a professor named Bob Prowell who asked me to design a laser pistol weapon so I suggested Femto pulsed flash cubes so I would like to thank him for encouraging me to go into nuclear aerospace and cryogenic laser fields to overcome my hangups about biology and egotistic self.
Hathaway also reminds me of a snobby professor who would point their thumb at a steel mill to make condescending aspersion epithets of "Think of all those Archie Bunkers to say the very least" while I do appreciate how he congratulated me on my MIT work.
Rydberg levels of optical pumped laser excitation of a crystal is critical to lattice assisted nuclear reactions of loading isotopic fuels into materials.
1:54 say "and Go ahead and stand in front of it"
Amazing scene. What a triumph.
real genius laser final clip popcorn house ending
it's hotter than the sun but.... we didn't need protective clothing from 5 feet away! BRILLIANT!
Lasers are very highly directional weapons(devices) The line about hotter than the sun was referring to the point of contact the laser beam makes with everything it touches in a straight line forward(downrange) direction, not all around it and behind it. The laser could be firing 5 tetrawatts and as long as everyone was behind the apparatus and wearing the correct protective goggles for whatever wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum the laser was operating at(to protect from indirect and diffuse radiation, obviously at that kind of power level), then they would all be fine. C'mon guys, basic physics and laser safety, you know??
@@davidkohler6827 In other words, because it's a laser, the point of maximum exposure to the emission is small ... and it's supposed to be small.
Also, you know what one of the best things about a weapon like this is? No recoil like you always have with conventional kinetic energy weapons, ie anything that fires bullets, rockets, missiles, etc. Also, you never have to reload ammunition either. You just have to maintain battery/capacitor power.
@@davidkohler6827 And regarding the laser weapon in the movie, don't let it lase for too long. Otherwise it will burn itself out.
@@Watcher3223 Yup. It's supposed to have a short firing time.
so you'll hammer later. Classic
This is one of my favorite movie when I was younger, still shocked no one got killed from the laser.
Best movie ever
Look...Look..LOOOOOK!!!!!!!
Yes he's amazing!
Chris Knight > Elon Musk
Nowhere near enough vengeance in that ending. They should have "accidentally" lased off some of Jerry's anatomy. Whoops.
"Excited" bromide in an argon matrix...
So, bromine ionized to the point of becoming argon?
Perhaps with the same quantum # but with a nucleus of bromine.
At least it was not some Osmium scam as the US made the SSSR believe :-D
All I could think about was “it’s all fun and games until your little laser kills a bunch of random students across campus.”
The 80’s rule forever!
And Maui is confirmed
They could've killed someone. As a kid i didn't think about they're lack of safety.
Eh, it's still an awesome movie.
Saw this for my 11th birthday party
Hathaway's very relieved he's not facing being audited anymore...
"Are those they?"
I say this all the time, instead of is that them, or are those them... better English grammar through 80s movies!
They say that Michael Riconosciuto built a laser once.
Gostaria que esse filme voltasse a passar na tv brasileira no canal 10 pra relembrar e matar a saudade
©1985 TriStar Pictures, Inc.
i love this movie, but 25 years later i have no idea what chris is talking about! so not a science person!!