I honestly blew my mind when it finally clicked that he’s in Edward Scissorhands. I watched both that movie and Weird Science a lot growing up but it took years for the penny to finally drop 😂
I am black and was around 12 when I saw this film: The black bar scene had my cousin and I choking with laughter. Anthony Michael Hall was hilarious. The whole thing was just a giddy riff on pop culture of the time.
I remember working a promotional screening for it and one mother came up to me and asked me "Are you responsible for this? That woman was a pornographic Mary Poppins!" Needless to say, she did not like the film, but her teen sons were smiling while she was complaining.
"A pornographic Mary Poppins." Man...now that I think about it...some X-Film director from the 80s missed a trick. He totally could have run with an idea like that.
What a classic! I saw this at the theater when it first came out. Such a fun movie. Seeing Bill Paxton in this reminds me of how versatile he was as an actor. He’s still missed. Great movie to watch to start the weekend boys! Well done!
Yep, I saw this in the theater also when it came out. Such a great time, I think it was the first movie I ever went to at the time (I was 11) where I remember the audience just having a blast with it. Especially a certain frog person. :D
I saw it back then, too....I felt it was a step backward for him, but I did feel that it would rate higher in the entire body of his work, and I was right. It's better than his entire output from the 90's for sure.
Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall were big buddies back then. They did another movie together a few years later called “Johnny Be Good” and it’s actually pretty good, they play best friends in it. They also both got tapped to be part of the cast on Saturday Night Live in 1985, but only one season. They were the youngest regulars at the time.
I remember seeing "Johnny Be Good" and having whiplash seeing a buff Anthony Michael Hall, lol. Later, I figured he did that movie to break out of his typecast as the skinny nerd, and then wondered if Hollywood just wouldn't let him. I didn't see him in anything major for years, until "Pirates of Silicon Valley". Even there though, he was playing the nerd role. Despite being such a good actor (his Bill Gates was incredible), he still didn't really get to be the lead in a popular franchise until "The Dead Zone". He deserved better. This movie was also one of our first times seeing a young Uma Thurman. That was the other whiplash in the movie - I'd never seen a more beautiful woman in my young life.
@@lunacouer You don’t remember the kinda action movie he did before Johnny Be Good called Out Of Bounds? To me that seemed to be kind of his breakout of the geeky guy. Then he kept doing that with like the jerk roles such as his Jim character in Edward Scissorhands. I never got the fascination with Uma Thurman, yes she has a great model type body, but she has a buttaface. Her & Ethan Hawk’s daughter Maya has that same face poor thing.
This is by far one of the best movies in the 80's. Such masterpiece!! ❤ I've seen this movie a million times from childhood to adulthood. 🙌🏼 What a classic. 👌🏻
Umm no.. This movie is nowhere near as great as The Goonies 1985 from the same year or Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986. Weird Science is entertaining and has some big stars in it but the 80s had a ton of better movies, even if you're only considering movies about high school kids.
I like how this film presents itself as a mashup of every teen boy's wet dream, but slyly buried under the surface is the message that the creation wasn't really attracted to either, but flirted with them and went along with being their girlfriend in public to instill the confidence in them needed to approach the two girls they had crushes on...she was just what they needed most, a mentor. Another great film Hughes was involved in is Some Kind Of Wonderful, which I think is on par with The Breakfast Club if not slightly better.
I remember as a kid back in the 80s, this film was like on repeat daily on HBO. Me and my friends were like 10 years old when we first saw it and we laughed our asses off. Great film 10/10 😆🤣😁
I saw it at the neighbors house in 1986. I was 15 and they had one of those huge satellite dishes back when you could get everything for free. It was on one of the many HBOs that they had access to.
Fun to watch you guys react to this. If you're interested in another comedy with a young Robert Downey JR, I'd recommend Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield.
You guys didn't recognize Chett (the bully older brother)? That was a young Bill Paxton- Hudson from Aliens. He was also in The Terminator, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, etc.
It’s no good over-thinking this as a grown-up. Fifteen year olds have these crazy ideas and this was totally normal in the 80s. It’s still very innocent. We were all fifteen once.
I don’t know why but when Chet (Bill Paxton) catches the fly with his tongue and goes “Oh My God!” like he can’t believe he just did that cracks me up to this day
That bathroom scene when they're talking in the shower and it's focused on their mouths was so comediac brilliance. There are individual moments and scenes here that really shine.
The 80s was a different time. I was in high school when this came out and it was perfectly fine at the time. It definitely didn’t age well but, to be honest, I still love it nostalgically and this is coming from a 55-year-old woman
Not sure what you mean - a lot of teenage boys could still relate to this now. She may look like a 30 year old woman - but they just made her. She's just a day old.
This was the 3rd VHS we owned. We watched it over and over again. I love it but it's uh, questionable now but I don't care. It's awesome. Our first 3 movies were : "Real Genius", "Top Gun", and this. Then "Mystic Pizza". We had 3 females and 2 males in our household so we went for movies that both sides really liked from the movie rental store (Blockbuster didn't even exist near where we lived yet).
Back in the day you couldn't watch movies at home or on your phone, you had to go to the theatre. This a movie was for teenagers to congregate at the theatre, it's not too serious, not too deep, just plain fun and ludicrous. Similar movies, "Up the Creek", "Better Off Dead" or "Ski School"
Better Off Dead is a great rom-com film to do for Valentine's Day. Im surprised hardly any youtubers have done this film yet....its friggin hilarious. Splash (Tom Hanks) also is another great romance-comedy I'd love to see these lads react to.
OMG, I loved this movie as a kid and totally forgot about it ..I had a blast from the past watching you guys react and I was laughing so hard. Thanks guys for the nostalgia
This isn't John Hughes' whole filmography but his most notable ones since you two were impressed that this came out the same year as the Breakfast Club. 1983: National Lampoon's Vacation - writer 1984: Sixteen Candles - Writer and Director 1985: The Breakfast Club - Writer and Director, European Vacation - Writer, Weird Science - Writer and Director 1986: Pretty in Pink - Writer and Producer, Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Writer, Director, Producer 1987: Some Kind of Wonderful - Writer and Producer, Plains, Trains & Automobiles - Writer, Director, Producer 1988: She's Having a Baby - Writer, Director and Producer, The Great Outdoors - Writer and Producer 1989: Uncle Buck - Writer, Director and Producer, Christmas Vacation - Writer and Producer 1990: Home Alone - Writer and Producer 1991: Career Opportunities - Writer and Producer, Only the Lonely - Producer, Dutch - Writer and Producer, Curly Sue - Writer, Director and Producer 1992: Beethoven - Writer, Home Alone 2 - Writer and Producer 1993: Dennis the Menace - Writer 1994: Baby's Day Out - Writer and Producer, Miracle on 34th Street - Writer and Producer He started to slow down at this point
He also wrote Flubber (with Robin Williams), Just Visiting (with Christina Applegate), Maid In Manhattan (with Jennifer Lopez) & the live action 101 Dalmatians (with Jeff Daniels) under a pseudonym Edmond Dantes.
And he also wrote and/or produced and/or directed - Mr. Mom (1983), Dutch (1991), Jack (1996), Home Alone 3 (1997) & Drillbit Taylor (2008 - based on Hughes original story and release shortly before his death).
There was a weird science TV series as well. I remember watching one episode at least. I don't think it lasted very long. The movie is kinda a combination of Frankenstein, Mary Poppins with a bit of like Aladdin, well the genie anyway. It's meant to be a teenage boys fantasy and not to be taken at all seriously.
Exactly! I've always said this is basically Mary Poppins, if the kids had thought they were creating Mary, rather than summoning her, when they wrote the letter. Except she's helping teens come of age, instead of little children, and there are cameos of characters from The Hills Have Eyes and The Road Warrior, instead of animated Pearlies and penguins.
That was a joy of a movie to scan over again.. Kelly LeBrock.. where was I? Oh yes. Surprise parts for Bill Paxton (sandwiched between The Terminator and Commando, Aliens and Near Dark) and Robert Downey Jr way before Ironman.. I just love the silliness of the humour and how they just go bare faced into it. Charlotte's confrontation with Gary's parents is superb and the soundtrack.. Killing Joke, Van Halen, RATT, Kim Wilde.. how could that not be great! A solid favourite from John Hughes and the eighties archive.
It's funny you compared it to Mary Poppins, Kelly LeBrock herself once said her role in this was "Mary Poppins with breasts"...also, the theme song was done by Danny Elfman's old band Oingo Boingo. This is easily one of my favourite movies from back then, and I was definitely one of those nerds for whom this story was a life goals at the time - the whole "be the hero, get the girl" thing. That's probably a big part of why I love it so much lol
Surprised you guys didn't mention that this film also exists in the same world as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. At the end Lisa ends up at Shermer High School which, again, is the same school from those films.
I know you get tons of messages and will probably not be able to read this but thought I’d give it a shot. Here are some movies you may want to add to your list Classic- enter the dragon, rocky horror picture show, modern times Romance- say anything, when Harry met sally, Larry crowne Drama- Philadelphia, flight, the verdict, rocky Action- kick ass
One of the craziest films i ever saw. Came out when i was 5 and i didn't see till i was a teenager myself. Shout-out to Anthony Michael Hall for getting this film and The Breakfast Club in the same year. Kelly Lebrock (Lisa) was incredibly hot all through the 1980s . She became famous for the Pantene shampoo commercials at the time and it's the catchphase, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful". Also she was the former Miss Steven Seagal, co-starring with him in Hard to Kill (1990). This and the original Fright Night came out the same day. I remember that the title is from a 1950s comic magazine that's a complilation of science-fiction stories. The title song was by Oingo Boingo (with composer in training Danny Elfman as frontman). I did watch the tv series (1994-1998). But not all of it. Definitely had the formula, good casting and even the theme song. Movies like these from that era, you don't forget. A movie for us, young guys who just wanted to have a good time without consenquences. RIP to Bill Paxton as Wyatt's brother, Chet.
I watched this movie so many times as a teen. I could probably recite the entire thing. This, Sixteen Candles, Better off Dead, The Last Dragon, The Goonies....
AWESOME!!! I am digging the John Hughes retrospective. I love this film. Kelly LeBrock, Oingo Boingo, "Chips, dips, chains, whips", what is not to love?
Class of 82' and I was rolling in my seat watching Weird Science. When Lisa reveals the Grandparents in the cupboard, I inadvertently knocked over my popcorn bucket. I bent down to retrieve it and forgot there was a box of Good and Fruity in my breast pocket. All those candies clattered onto the floor and began rolling into the shoes of those in front of me.
I remember after seeing this in the theatre, my buddy suggested we get on my Commodore 64 and see if this actual experiment could work. We were 12. We never actually summoned Kelly Labrock, but with my pre-internet dial up Modem, we were able to discover some early pre-internet sites, with names like Pirates Tavern, where you could look up your horoscope, read film reviews, and talk to people online and be like ooh, we’re talking to people on the computer. Our minds were blown. Again, it was 1985, and we were 12:)
Good call with the Mary Poppins reference! Ok Shaun and Tom, I would like to recommend 1987 "Less Than Zero". Just to switch it around, it's the antithesis of John Hughes 80s movies about teens lost in LA and is a hidden gem. You will recognize the actors.........Keep up the good work.
Brother Chet actor is Bill Paxton (Aliens, twister, etc...) And another early Roddy Downing Jr is Less Than Zero a very dramatic role and likely the height/start of the drug use by him so he doesn't have to act much!
A masterpiece. Hilariously funny, inventive, a young boys wet dream, and unapologetically crazy. These days we would never get anything so cool. We have regressed in many ways.
Check out Back to School. It stars Rodney Dangerfield and the lead from Christine (Keith Gordon) and RDJ is his best friend and has a bigger role. A very funny movie.
Great reaction. Breakfast Club was my coming of age film at age 16 or 17. Months later I saw WS at home as a rental not knowing what to expect. Had basically the same reaction at the time.
Dunno if I missed you realize that the brother Chet, was played by Bill Paxton. He was the soldier in Aliens that says "Game over man". Great actor from so many movies. I grew up in the 80's and had such a crush on RDJ after this movie.
Special movie to me, went to the mall last week in Northbrook Illinois as I was in Chicago. Depressing place now but I was excited about being where the slushie and elevator scene took place.
If you want to see another 80s movie with a young Robert Downey Jr, you should see "Less Than Zero". I still think it is his best performance. Great film.
Or, alternatively, he figured that Hollywood was so coked up at the time that they would green-light virtually any script. A lot of weird and seedy movies came out in the late 70's-mid 80's.
Fun Fact: The actress who plays Hilly, the girl who ends up with Wyatt, is Judie Aronson, who previously appeared in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter as Samantha.
This is easily an 8.5/10 for me. I saw this when I was 7 or 8 - I'm a child of the 80's - and I absolutely LOVED it! Sure the computer effects were ridiculous (they were then, as they are now - but how else are you going to make hacking into a 'national' database visually interesting!) The comedy was on point throughout (especially with older bro Chet - RIP Bill Paxton), the bar scene, Lisa & Gary with his parents, etc. My wife and I quote so many lines from this. We introduced this flick to our boys (who were older than when I first viewed it), and they loved it. They are in their mid-teens now, and we watch it probably once a year. Fun, lighthearted family flick, that underneath the teenage angst & sexual humour, has a good message of being true to yourself! Even if you're a nerd, jock, popular, introvert - it doesn't matter. Most of John Hughes films are like this - which is why their usually lauded as good films. Sure the comedy may be dated or risque (or sometimes downright inappropriate!), but it was/is funny - so I'll continue laughing at them! Cheers.
Anthony Michael Hall getting drunk in the bar scene is still one of the most hilarious scenes to this day 😂 He can do both drama and comedy so well.
I LOVED him in The Dead Zone. Still kinda pissed it ended on a cliffhanger like it did, but it is what it is.
I honestly blew my mind when it finally clicked that he’s in Edward Scissorhands. I watched both that movie and Weird Science a lot growing up but it took years for the penny to finally drop 😂
I am black and was around 12 when I saw this film: The black bar scene had my cousin and I choking with laughter. Anthony Michael Hall was hilarious. The whole thing was just a giddy riff on pop culture of the time.
It’s great how the people in the bar were relating to Gary while he pours his heart out.
I love that scene!
You're not black..
I love when non black people pretend to be black on social media to try to make something cringe today, not seem so cringe. lol smh
@@ultimatewarrior3310 This is fascinating. What makes you so certain that I'm not black?
I remember working a promotional screening for it and one mother came up to me and asked me "Are you responsible for this? That woman was a pornographic Mary Poppins!" Needless to say, she did not like the film, but her teen sons were smiling while she was complaining.
LoL friggin hilarious 😆🤣😁
"A pornographic Mary Poppins." Man...now that I think about it...some X-Film director from the 80s missed a trick. He totally could have run with an idea like that.
@@sethraelthebard5459 They didn't miss it. Don't ask how I know.
"Youuuuu told meee youuu were combing yourrrr hairrr?"
"BUT I WASSSSS....I WASSS!!"
What a classic! I saw this at the theater when it first came out. Such a fun movie. Seeing Bill Paxton in this reminds me of how versatile he was as an actor. He’s still missed. Great movie to watch to start the weekend boys! Well done!
Yep, I saw this in the theater also when it came out. Such a great time, I think it was the first movie I ever went to at the time (I was 11) where I remember the audience just having a blast with it. Especially a certain frog person. :D
I saw it back then, too....I felt it was a step backward for him, but I did feel that it would rate higher in the entire body of his work, and I was right. It's better than his entire output from the 90's for sure.
No criticism shall be allowed of Weird Science. This flick is an absolute masterpiece!
Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall were big buddies back then. They did another movie together a few years later called “Johnny Be Good” and it’s actually pretty good, they play best friends in it. They also both got tapped to be part of the cast on Saturday Night Live in 1985, but only one season. They were the youngest regulars at the time.
I remember seeing "Johnny Be Good" and having whiplash seeing a buff Anthony Michael Hall, lol. Later, I figured he did that movie to break out of his typecast as the skinny nerd, and then wondered if Hollywood just wouldn't let him. I didn't see him in anything major for years, until "Pirates of Silicon Valley". Even there though, he was playing the nerd role. Despite being such a good actor (his Bill Gates was incredible), he still didn't really get to be the lead in a popular franchise until "The Dead Zone". He deserved better.
This movie was also one of our first times seeing a young Uma Thurman. That was the other whiplash in the movie - I'd never seen a more beautiful woman in my young life.
@@lunacouer You don’t remember the kinda action movie he did before Johnny Be Good called Out Of Bounds? To me that seemed to be kind of his breakout of the geeky guy. Then he kept doing that with like the jerk roles such as his Jim character in Edward Scissorhands.
I never got the fascination with Uma Thurman, yes she has a great model type body, but she has a buttaface. Her & Ethan Hawk’s daughter Maya has that same face poor thing.
@@iChristyD I sure don't. Then again, I didn't have cable for a long long time in college, so that's probably why 😅
This is by far one of the best movies in the 80's. Such masterpiece!! ❤ I've seen this movie a million times from childhood to adulthood. 🙌🏼 What a classic. 👌🏻
A true masterpiece and I hate that it's constantly ignored.
lol ok calm down, it's good but far from a masterpiece.
@@lordwalker71 It's a masterpiece so no I won't calm down.
A masterpiece for horny teen boys maybe. haha Fun flick tho, before political correctness. lol
Umm no.. This movie is nowhere near as great as The Goonies 1985 from the same year or Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986. Weird Science is entertaining and has some big stars in it but the 80s had a ton of better movies, even if you're only considering movies about high school kids.
I think every young lad who watched this back in the day wished they could create their own Kelly LeBrock!
“Are you ok?”
“Well my nuts are half way up my ass but other than that I’m perfect!”😂
I love this movie. R.I.P. Bill Paxton
Best part of the movie:
"Gary was just taking a shit!" (Cut to Wyatt's face getting slapped) LOL!
I like how this film presents itself as a mashup of every teen boy's wet dream, but slyly buried under the surface is the message that the creation wasn't really attracted to either, but flirted with them and went along with being their girlfriend in public to instill the confidence in them needed to approach the two girls they had crushes on...she was just what they needed most, a mentor. Another great film Hughes was involved in is Some Kind Of Wonderful, which I think is on par with The Breakfast Club if not slightly better.
I remember as a kid back in the 80s, this film was like on repeat daily on HBO.
Me and my friends were like 10 years old when we first saw it and we laughed our asses off.
Great film 10/10 😆🤣😁
I saw it at the neighbors house in 1986. I was 15 and they had one of those huge satellite dishes back when you could get everything for free. It was on one of the many HBOs that they had access to.
Fun to watch you guys react to this. If you're interested in another comedy with a young Robert Downey JR, I'd recommend Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield.
One of the greatest comedies ever imo
You guys didn't recognize Chett (the bully older brother)?
That was a young Bill Paxton- Hudson from Aliens. He was also in The Terminator, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, etc.
And the biker gang were from Mad Max! :)
It’s no good over-thinking this as a grown-up. Fifteen year olds have these crazy ideas and this was totally normal in the 80s. It’s still very innocent. We were all fifteen once.
I love Weird Science so much. When I was a kid I would rent this, Jumping Jack Flash, and Labyrinth constantly. Lol
I don’t know why but when Chet (Bill Paxton) catches the fly with his tongue and goes “Oh My God!” like he can’t believe he just did that cracks me up to this day
Bill Paxton is amazing (as always) The theme song is also killer.
Anthony Michael Hall & Robert Downy Jr were best friends at the time, they were on SNL around that time as well.
Every movie becomes exponentially more entertaining when you add Bill Paxton.
Fun fact! Ilan Mitchell-Smith was my Medieval Literature professor at university. He's a great guy!
Same! Im taking two classes with him this semester and he'll likely be one of my readers for the Medieval comps next semester.
"Gimme da keys!" Cracks me up everytime. This movie is a classic.
7:07 - you might know him from one of his memorable movie lines “That’s it, man. Game over, man. Game over!”
Kelly Le Brock - teenage boys’ dream in the 80s! ❤
I remember her from the Pantene shampoo ads. She would flick her hair and say ‘Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.’
That bathroom scene when they're talking in the shower and it's focused on their mouths was so comediac brilliance. There are individual moments and scenes here that really shine.
The 80s was a different time. I was in high school when this came out and it was perfectly fine at the time. It definitely didn’t age well but, to be honest, I still love it nostalgically and this is coming from a 55-year-old woman
Not sure what you mean - a lot of teenage boys could still relate to this now. She may look like a 30 year old woman - but they just made her. She's just a day old.
Robert Downey Jr. also has a comedic bit part in another 80's classic, Back To School (1986) with Rodney Dangerfield.
This was the 3rd VHS we owned. We watched it over and over again. I love it but it's uh, questionable now but I don't care. It's awesome. Our first 3 movies were : "Real Genius", "Top Gun", and this. Then "Mystic Pizza". We had 3 females and 2 males in our household so we went for movies that both sides really liked from the movie rental store (Blockbuster didn't even exist near where we lived yet).
This is such a fun movie. I watch it every couple of years. My favorite John Hughes movie is "Some Kind of Wonderful."
Same, along with She’s Having a Baby.
I love them both and both are super underrated especially She's Having a Baby
@@KD-cd2ck Right? I mean the cast is so good and it’s such a great story.
The Chaplin movie was in 1992. Seven years after this one. This is one of RDJ's first movies but he was around as a child actor since an early age.
Kelly LeBrock is still a Babe! Did you recognize the actor from Mad Max Road Warrior he is dressed in the same costume from that movie.
Saw this in the 80s and still love it
LOVED this movie in my NERD years ! 🤪YES i was a HUGE programming NERD when this movie hit the movie theatre !
Back in the day you couldn't watch movies at home or on your phone, you had to go to the theatre.
This a movie was for teenagers to congregate at the theatre, it's not too serious, not too deep, just plain fun and ludicrous.
Similar movies, "Up the Creek", "Better Off Dead" or "Ski School"
Better Off Dead is a great rom-com film to do for Valentine's Day. Im surprised hardly any youtubers have done this film yet....its friggin hilarious.
Splash (Tom Hanks) also is another great romance-comedy I'd love to see these lads react to.
Err, yes, you could, vhs cassettes where very popular.
OMG, I loved this movie as a kid and totally forgot about it ..I had a blast from the past watching you guys react and I was laughing so hard. Thanks guys for the nostalgia
This was actually one of my favourite flicks as a kid. The bully on the left was actually in Nightmare on Elm street 2.
One of the bikers is from, The Hills Have eyes, the other, with the Mohawk, is from, Mad Max 2.
This isn't John Hughes' whole filmography but his most notable ones since you two were impressed that this came out the same year as the Breakfast Club.
1983: National Lampoon's Vacation - writer
1984: Sixteen Candles - Writer and Director
1985: The Breakfast Club - Writer and Director, European Vacation - Writer, Weird Science - Writer and Director
1986: Pretty in Pink - Writer and Producer, Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Writer, Director, Producer
1987: Some Kind of Wonderful - Writer and Producer, Plains, Trains & Automobiles - Writer, Director, Producer
1988: She's Having a Baby - Writer, Director and Producer, The Great Outdoors - Writer and Producer
1989: Uncle Buck - Writer, Director and Producer, Christmas Vacation - Writer and Producer
1990: Home Alone - Writer and Producer
1991: Career Opportunities - Writer and Producer, Only the Lonely - Producer, Dutch - Writer and Producer, Curly Sue - Writer, Director and Producer
1992: Beethoven - Writer, Home Alone 2 - Writer and Producer
1993: Dennis the Menace - Writer
1994: Baby's Day Out - Writer and Producer, Miracle on 34th Street - Writer and Producer
He started to slow down at this point
He also wrote Flubber (with Robin Williams), Just Visiting (with Christina Applegate), Maid In Manhattan (with Jennifer Lopez) & the live action 101 Dalmatians (with Jeff Daniels) under a pseudonym Edmond Dantes.
And he also wrote and/or produced and/or directed - Mr. Mom (1983), Dutch (1991), Jack (1996), Home Alone 3 (1997) & Drillbit Taylor (2008 - based on Hughes original story and release shortly before his death).
Mary Poppins meets Jumanji is a great description. 🤣
Love this movie. The underlying lesson is be yourself & stop trying to fit in with the crowd.
Also, Bill Paxton plays the older brother and went on to be in Aliens, Titanic, True Lies...
There was a weird science TV series as well. I remember watching one episode at least. I don't think it lasted very long.
The movie is kinda a combination of Frankenstein, Mary Poppins with a bit of like Aladdin, well the genie anyway.
It's meant to be a teenage boys fantasy and not to be taken at all seriously.
@@bgeery did it 🤣🤣
All I remember is thinking is she ain't as hot as Kelly lebrock 🤣🤣
I still quote the bar scene. "Dringit." 🥃
I think its the only way to say it at this point.
You have to see my 2 favorite Hughes films:
1. Some Kind of Wonderful
2. She’s Having a Baby
I absolutely love both of them so much.
It's definitely not one of John Hughes's best films but I love this film unironically
Exactly! I've always said this is basically Mary Poppins, if the kids had thought they were creating Mary, rather than summoning her, when they wrote the letter.
Except she's helping teens come of age, instead of little children, and there are cameos of characters from The Hills Have Eyes and The Road Warrior, instead of animated Pearlies and penguins.
Plus no Dick Van Dyke.
That was a joy of a movie to scan over again.. Kelly LeBrock.. where was I? Oh yes. Surprise parts for Bill Paxton (sandwiched between The Terminator and Commando, Aliens and Near Dark) and Robert Downey Jr way before Ironman.. I just love the silliness of the humour and how they just go bare faced into it. Charlotte's confrontation with Gary's parents is superb and the soundtrack.. Killing Joke, Van Halen, RATT, Kim Wilde.. how could that not be great! A solid favourite from John Hughes and the eighties archive.
The older I get, I identify with the grandparents. "Doesn't he have anything to read?"
Mary Poppins for the adolescent boy. I've never heard that, but.👍
It's funny you compared it to Mary Poppins, Kelly LeBrock herself once said her role in this was "Mary Poppins with breasts"...also, the theme song was done by Danny Elfman's old band Oingo Boingo.
This is easily one of my favourite movies from back then, and I was definitely one of those nerds for whom this story was a life goals at the time - the whole "be the hero, get the girl" thing. That's probably a big part of why I love it so much lol
Another fun film with Robert Downey Jr at a young age is Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield.
Return of the living dead 1985
I love Shaun's proclamation of love at the end of this. 😂
Surprised you guys didn't mention that this film also exists in the same world as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. At the end Lisa ends up at Shermer High School which, again, is the same school from those films.
I know you get tons of messages and will probably not be able to read this but thought I’d give it a shot. Here are some movies you may want to add to your list
Classic- enter the dragon, rocky horror picture show, modern times
Romance- say anything, when Harry met sally, Larry crowne
Drama- Philadelphia, flight, the verdict, rocky
Action- kick ass
One of the craziest films i ever saw.
Came out when i was 5 and i didn't see till i was a teenager myself.
Shout-out to Anthony Michael Hall for getting this film and The Breakfast Club in the same year.
Kelly Lebrock (Lisa) was incredibly hot all through the 1980s .
She became famous for the Pantene shampoo commercials at the time and it's the catchphase,
"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful".
Also she was the former Miss Steven Seagal, co-starring with him in Hard to Kill (1990).
This and the original Fright Night came out the same day.
I remember that the title is from a 1950s comic magazine that's a complilation of science-fiction stories.
The title song was by Oingo Boingo (with composer in training Danny Elfman as frontman).
I did watch the tv series (1994-1998).
But not all of it.
Definitely had the formula, good casting and even the theme song.
Movies like these from that era, you don't forget.
A movie for us, young guys who just wanted to have a good time without consenquences.
RIP to Bill Paxton as Wyatt's brother, Chet.
Better Off Dead and Bachelor Party are also 80's comedies that you might enjoy.
Cool reaction as always fellas, you both have a great weekend 💯
I watched this movie so many times as a teen. I could probably recite the entire thing. This, Sixteen Candles, Better off Dead, The Last Dragon, The Goonies....
Scream 6 is on paramount+ btw
Oh the guy who plays Wyatt is actually a Professor now. Him and Anthony Michael Hall both have been on the TV show “The Goldbergs” playing teachers.
AWESOME!!! I am digging the John Hughes retrospective. I love this film. Kelly LeBrock, Oingo Boingo, "Chips, dips, chains, whips", what is not to love?
The whole bar scene is one of the best all time. I wanted an older brother like Chet after seeing this back in the 80s
Class of 82' and I was rolling in my seat watching Weird Science. When Lisa reveals the Grandparents in the cupboard, I inadvertently knocked over my popcorn bucket. I bent down to retrieve it and forgot there was a box of Good and Fruity in my breast pocket. All those candies clattered onto the floor and began rolling into the shoes of those in front of me.
One of the weird things about this film is that it exists in the same universe as The Breakfast Club
One of my favourites from childhood.
I had the biggest crush on Kelly LeBrock. Hubba hubba. 😍
I dont care how poorly people think this has aged me and my friends loved this when we were 13 or 14 when it came out on video
I’m a child of the 80’s and this film was always a favourite ❤️
Gary's little voodoo song is hilarious 😂😂
Had a poster of the shot of her in the doorway
I remember after seeing this in the theatre, my buddy suggested we get on my Commodore 64 and see if this actual experiment could work. We were 12. We never actually summoned Kelly Labrock, but with my pre-internet dial up Modem, we were able to discover some early pre-internet sites, with names like Pirates Tavern, where you could look up your horoscope, read film reviews, and talk to people online and be like ooh, we’re talking to people on the computer. Our minds were blown. Again, it was 1985, and we were 12:)
Good call with the Mary Poppins reference! Ok Shaun and Tom, I would like to recommend 1987 "Less Than Zero". Just to switch it around, it's the antithesis of John Hughes 80s movies about teens lost in LA and is a hidden gem. You will recognize the actors.........Keep up the good work.
Brother Chet actor is Bill Paxton (Aliens, twister, etc...) And another early Roddy Downing Jr is Less Than Zero a very dramatic role and likely the height/start of the drug use by him so he doesn't have to act much!
"Roddy Downing Jr"?
I haven't seen this in years - it's one of my favorites! I love the theme song, I sometimes hear it on my car radio!!
A masterpiece. Hilariously funny, inventive, a young boys wet dream, and unapologetically crazy. These days we would never get anything so cool. We have regressed in many ways.
These days movies feel like they’re written by AI.
A movie written by AI could never come up with something this weird and inventive.
This is my favourite John Hughes movie hands down! It’s iconic in my family
I'm black and the bar scene was frickin hilarious. Just drunk Gary was hella funny.
Check out Back to School. It stars Rodney Dangerfield and the lead from Christine (Keith Gordon) and RDJ is his best friend and has a bigger role. A very funny movie.
Shaun having fun in this video is the best thing ever! 😁👌
Great reaction. Breakfast Club was my coming of age film at age 16 or 17. Months later I saw WS at home as a rental not knowing what to expect. Had basically the same reaction at the time.
I've seen people comparing this to Mary Poppins, but I think it's more like 'The Cat In The Hat'.
I loved this movie as an 80s kid! Until now I had no idea how inappropriate it was for a child. 😅
Kelly LeBrock grew up in London and her mother is British and father is french-canadian.
Dunno if I missed you realize that the brother Chet, was played by Bill Paxton. He was the soldier in Aliens that says "Game over man". Great actor from so many movies. I grew up in the 80's and had such a crush on RDJ after this movie.
Loved this movie when it came out and still do.
Watching your reaction to this was like you were only watched the bits that you showed us.
Special movie to me, went to the mall last week in Northbrook Illinois as I was in Chicago. Depressing place now but I was excited about being where the slushie and elevator scene took place.
If you want to see another 80s movie with a young Robert Downey Jr, you should see "Less Than Zero". I still think it is his best performance. Great film.
I’m convinced John Hughes was high AF when he wrote the script for this one.
Or, alternatively, he figured that Hollywood was so coked up at the time that they would green-light virtually any script. A lot of weird and seedy movies came out in the late 70's-mid 80's.
Fun Fact: The actress who plays Hilly, the girl who ends up with Wyatt, is Judie Aronson, who previously appeared in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter as Samantha.
"You stoooopid, Wyatt!" RIP Bill Paxton.
I put this in the category of ‘Only in the 80s’
Where only the 80s could come up with something like this and one you can’t remake today
This Is one of my guilty pleasure movies of the 80’s!
If someone asks why they have bras on their heads, the answer is "Because."
Ahhhh 😁 !!! Finally I was wondering when you would react to this classic ❤ this saucy movie was a teen favourite ❤️ great reaction
You guys definitely would like drop dead fred
Glad you watched this. Comedy classic. Another good John Hughes hidden classic - She's Having A Baby.
This is easily an 8.5/10 for me. I saw this when I was 7 or 8 - I'm a child of the 80's - and I absolutely LOVED it! Sure the computer effects were ridiculous (they were then, as they are now - but how else are you going to make hacking into a 'national' database visually interesting!) The comedy was on point throughout (especially with older bro Chet - RIP Bill Paxton), the bar scene, Lisa & Gary with his parents, etc. My wife and I quote so many lines from this. We introduced this flick to our boys (who were older than when I first viewed it), and they loved it. They are in their mid-teens now, and we watch it probably once a year. Fun, lighthearted family flick, that underneath the teenage angst & sexual humour, has a good message of being true to yourself! Even if you're a nerd, jock, popular, introvert - it doesn't matter. Most of John Hughes films are like this - which is why their usually lauded as good films. Sure the comedy may be dated or risque (or sometimes downright inappropriate!), but it was/is funny - so I'll continue laughing at them! Cheers.
Question: Has anyone ever suggested that you review the 1983 movie Angel, starring Donna Wilkes?
Absolutely Love Angel (1983). I don't believe any Reactors have ever Reacted to Angel. And there are a couple of sequels not do good.
@@denisletourneau9750 I thought the follow up, Avenging Angel, was fun but you're right, the ones after that were bad.
Still as fun as when I saw it at 12. And the title song is awesome.