Um, sorry, not Weird Science, Real Genius. Val Kilmer = the wossname in question. Somehow these are filed in the same drawer in my head.
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Oohhhh, THAT Wossname! Yes. Well. Arguably the last best role Kilmer ever played. And I did the name confusion between the movies too. At some point they untweaked, though, and I don't get them mixed up any more.
Hi! I'm Jordan, I'm hyperactive. I was just sanding my floors, and I also knitted you a sweater....
Emily reminds me of Jordan.
I was so disappointed when I saw the Jordan actress in something else--she was boring! I wanted her to grab a sander or something. I love Real Genius.
We still use, "Yes! How does it feel to be Frozen!" when something good happens, and "Well then, I'm happy and sad for you," when ambivilence is called for.
We do the "Take a step back. Now take a step forward." and "Are you there Jesus? He hung up." a lot. Another favorite it, "I was hot and I was hungry!"
My favorite is when we're out somewhere and for no reason whatsoever, one of us will point and shout, "THAT'S THE HALL!!"
Sigh. Kilmer is so amazingly perfect in that film.
Lovelovelove Real Genius!
"Socrates said, 'I drank what?!?'"
"Can you drive a spike through a 2x4 with your dick?"
"Um, no."
"Sorry, then--a girl's gotta have her standards."
We've said "It's a moral imperative" so many times over so many issues, trivial and important and in between, I had literally forgotten it was a quote. Seeing the movie last year and hearing the line just was a little weird. Almost like, "They're quoting us!"
I've said some mean things about Bogdanovitch over the years, but Robin's story makes me regret every one of them.
Just watched some of the CHILDREN OF MEN extras on the DVD, and apart from showing how the mind-boggling car sequence was done (and how the actors managed to do what they did, both outside and inside the car, still astonishes me), they also showed how elaborate the effects were for a sequence that never pinged me as difficult...until they showed how difficult it was - namely the sequence where the baby is born. I was so into the movie at that point that I didn't even stop to think how they achieved that moment. That's some good moviemaking there, I tell you what.