140 Character Movie Review – #140RVW
Hard to know what to say about a movie I avoided like the plague for 30 years & only watched because of the anniversary. It was as expected.
Spoiler-free Movie Review of Revenge of the Nerds:
After 30 years of indifference, I watched this movie for two reasons:
- because it is celebrating an anniversary and I figured that some people who actually liked the movie would be interested to see a review
- because it is mentioned in Anorak’s Almanac (http://readyplayerone.com) as one of James Halliday’s favorite movies.
I didn’t see this in the day, so it’s really hard to be open-minded about this movie. It often is the case that viewing movies for the first time far after their sell-by date makes for a difficult time – it’s really hard to separate how you view it now versus how you think you might have perceived it at the time. But usually when that happens, in my case anyway, it’s because of an oversight – I just haven’t gotten around to seeing a movie – there are a lot out there, after all. In this case it’s a little different, as I have intentionally avoided this movie because it looked horrible.
So, I don’t know, I might have enjoyed this more at the time because it was the 80’s, or because I was younger and more appreciative of the “humor”. So I really don’t want to be too tough on this movie, even if it lived down to my expectations of sophomoric, moronic, raunchy gross-out humor with absolutely zero cultural sensitivity. The sad fact is that there always have been and always will be stupid movies like this, so long as man craves boobies and bad behavior. This isn’t even the worst of them (by far).
Watching Revenge of the Nerds for the first time in 2014 was a penance – punishment for never watching this crap movie when I was in middle school and might have found it funny or at least enjoyed the nudity. Instead I spent 90 joyless minutes wondering what on Earth I was going to say about it. And now I’m done…
Poster:
Trailer:
Bechdel Test:
Fail
The Representation Test Score: D (1 pts)
(http://therepresentationproject.org/grading-hollywood-the-representation-test/)
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| Main Cast | Robert Carradine Lewis Skolnick, Anthony Edwards Gilbert Lowell, Timothy Busfield Arnold Poindexter, Andrew Cassese Harold Wormser |
| Rating | R |
| Release Date | Fri 20 Jul 1984 UTC |
| Director | Jeff Kanew |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Plot | At a big campus, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self respect. |
| Poster |  |
| Runtime | 90 |
| Tagline | It’s time for the odd to get even |
| Writers | Tim Metcalfe (story) &, Miguel Tejada-Flores (story) … |
| Year | 1984 |