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I've been working on surprises and finishing up a stint back in the ol' childhood bedroom, here's Weird Science! As always let me know if anything is wrong with the synch or otherwise!

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WEIRD SCIENCE PATREON CUT

This is "WEIRD SCIENCE PATREON CUT" by Shanelle Riccio on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Matt Gwinn

Weird Science is definitely made for teenage boys. Nerdy teenage boys specifically. I get why you didn't care for it. I do think the movie boring you resulted in you missing some things that would have made the movie less confusing. I kind of look at the movie as Mary Poppins for teenage boys. Lisa was basically magic and made everything happen. The guys on the motorcycles were a total play on the Mad Max movies that were popular around that time. Post apocalypse movies were really big in the 80's. As far as all the gun pointing goes, keep in mind that back in the early 80's we didn't have school shootings every other week, so gun violence wasn't as in your face as it is today. School shootings didn't really start ramping up until the late 80's. The 25 y/o woman making out with teenage boys certainly didn't age well. I loved this movie as a kid, and I find it pretty cringeworthy now. Honestly a lot of 80s movies didn't age well. 16 Candles aged even worse. The title song was by Danny Elfman's band Oingo Boingo. Elfman wen't on to do the soundtracks for a lot of movies, especially films by Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant.

Paul Cox

I have a theory that a lot of the movies that cycle through the reactor community, including in Shanelle's suggestions, are the result of kids in the 80s being planted in front of HBO and captively seeing the same 50 films over and over for years. It's distorted what people hold dear and clouded what people think of as "good" movies. I didn't have HBO, lucky me! But yeah, I've seen Weird Science twice in my life. Once in the 80s and again a few years ago. It did not age gracefully in any way, though I do still say "you're stewed, butt wad" sometimes lol.

Matt Gwinn

I don't think they came from the magazine. I think Lisa just created them the same way she did the clothes and cars.

Anonymous

The song is Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield from the Exorcist as well as included on the Pure Moods Album. One of the most purchased TV commercial compilation CD albums of all time. Anyone who was kid or teen in 90s, remembers the Pure Moods commercial. https://youtu.be/AZJSjrox_2s?t=29 Real Genius is a much better movie, directed by Martha Coolidge. It came out the same year. Yet the movie is much better.

Paul Cox

I still can't hear "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" without seeing a house full of popcorn in my mind's eye.