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Val Kilmer was fantastic!

This is the second time in under a week I’ve thought about Real Genius, a movie I absolutely loved. Jon Gries from White Lotus played Lazlo. Rest well, Val. 🫶🏻

omg i should watch, i always liked lasers

I was 9, my sister was 12, and we're still quoting Real Genius to this day 😁

absolutely love that movie.

All the science was accurate except their purple 600nm laser

while visiting my old engineering school, I met a student who was drinking and chain smoking with a blank gaze in his eyes...he was working on a math problem at a party...so that scene hit home...lol

I love that movie!

Personal favorite.

All through highschool, my NYE tradition was watching Top Secret and Real Genius double feature. These extra tidbits are so cool!

My introduction to VK & my favorite role of his.

One of my favorites when I was young. Also, Top Secret. Yeah, I’m a dork.

I love that film. It is the source of many internal gif responses for me.

He was totally HOT in Top Gun. RIP Val

He was in several of my favorite favorite list

That was such a fun movie. I still love it.

Wonderfully talented actor.

I loved this movie!!!! “morale imperative” to watch it anytime I see it

Love that movie!

One of my absolute favorites in movies of the 80s. And the ending song, Everybody Wants To Rule the World by Tears For Fears, is the cherry on top of this classic! It's time to watch it again for the nth time. 🧪🤘

Didn’t anyone ever tell you to clean your optics, Knight?

Woohoo!! Finally the first Val Kilmer retrospective post I come upon which references my favorite movie of his, Real Genius! Love that gem of a movie

The screenwriter must had studied or consulted with an engineer.

Yeah it actually surprised me!

Oh absolutely although pop secret works a bit better in practice

Laser in a B-1B

RIP, you daisy!

Loved that movie

This is one of the greatest movies of the 80s, IMHO. His performance was amazing and hilarious.

Classic!

I was slightly acquainted with the consultant for Real Genius (through his brother) and he slipped a lot of inside jokes into the film… there is a whole section about it in one of the Legends of CalTech books!

❤️ That movie.

I always thought it was weird how they were jumping in the popcorn that had only recently busted windows. What a great actor!

Real Genius = Good comedy that also just happens to contain a message about morals and values. Fun with a lesson for all tucked in.

But have you cooked popcorn with it?

This movie was one of the formative influences why I became an engineer. We had so many good science movies in the 80's. Ghostbusters, Weird Science, The Manhattan Project, My Science Project, War Games, The Explorers..... So many where the main characters were just really smart people.

Such a great movie and it helped create my love for science when i was a little one. Thanks to so many great movie memories Val!

One of my favorite Val Kilmer movies!

Funny part was that you could tell the script was written earlier, because by 1983, pull tabs were gone for quite a few years. It was accurate but more accurate in '80 than '83.

Followed. This is my jam.

It's a moral imperative

Not so good with psychology... youtu.be/MmaTxljCoKk?...

I built something like that back in high school in '87. I forgot about that 🤣

Such a good movie!

It’s where I learned to put my safety glasses in my collar behind me.

kinda ticks me off when someone makes oodles of money, pretty easily and still is a miserable human

loved this movie in all its oddity

I loved him in Real Genius. He was brilliant. The whole premise was awesome. #RIPVAL

Of course, the laser wasn’t the most frightening thing mentioned in the movie. “Hollyfeld, in his underwear.”

Great actor! Great parts! Doc Holiday! JACK

Man, he was a great actor. Gonna watch tombstone today.

Hmmm Val Kilmer RIP Bro

I never saw this movie. Something to look forward to.

I know!! I did NOT expect that going in, and it was a weird series of moments. I think the first moment I realized something weird was going on was when the science fair poster made sense

Pew Pew Pew!

Mm education works.

underrated movie just on that point alone. It made science interesting.