Posted by Neil Bulson under Animal House, Arbitrary Rankings, Back to the Future, Degenerate movie characters, Doc Brown, Edward Cullen, featured, Jurassic Park, Law breakers in movies, Lists, Luke Skywalker, Movies, Revenge of the Nerds, Risky Business, Star Wars, Twilight
People in movies do things that the rest of us can’t do – they fly, they ride dragons, they travel back in time, they bang Megan Fox – and sometimes that even extends to the world of the law. Occasionally, a movie character will do something outrageously illegal only to get away with it completely.
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Posted by Neil Bulson under Animal House, Arbitrary Rankings, Back to School, Best college movies, college movies, college movies list, featured, funny college movies, Higher Learning, important life lessons, Life lessons, Lists, Old School, PCU, Real Genius, Revenge of the Nerds, Rules of Attraction, The Social Network, The Waterboy, top college movies, Van Wilder, Wonder Boys
Movies have a way of both reflecting culture and shaping it at the same time. Nowhere is this truer than in movies about college. And since college is all about education -– at least a little bit, anyway -– we figured it would be a good idea to take a look at what we learned from each one of these masterpieces.
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Posted by Neil Bulson under Albert Einstein, Arbitrary Rankings, Bill Gates, Chuck Bartowski, Dennis Kucinich, Family Matters, Famous geeks, famous nerds, featured, Gary Wallace, Lewis Skolnik, Lists, Mark Zuckerberg, Nerds, Nerds who won at life, pics of nerds, Revenge of the Nerds, Ric Ocasek, rich nerds, Steve Urkel, Weird Science, Wyatt Donnelly
Nerds are a valuable staple of our twisted self-culture, serving as punching bags for the elite and as loveable underdogs for the downtrodden. Sometimes, these nerds manage to break free of their geek chains (which they will be quick to tell you are made from Adamantium) and overcome the odds. It is these nerds who we gather here today to celebrate.
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Posted by Neil Bulson under Arbitrary Rankings, Edward Cullen, featured, Lists, Lloyd Dobler, movie stalkers, Movies, Pretty in Pink, Pump Up the Volume, Revenge of the Nerds, Say Anything, Superman Returns, The Graduate, The Matrix, Twilight, Wedding Crashers
Hollywood is filled with unrealistic characters –- robot killers from the future, vampires, talking dogs, boy wizards, teenwolves, the Kardashians, etc. -– but perhaps nothing is more unrealistic than the lovable stalker, that movie staple that makes girls swoon and cast the ol’ side eye at their boyfriends and wonder why he can’t be more ...
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Posted by Joel Stice under '80s films, '80s movies, 1980's teen icons, Arbitrary Rankings, Back to the Future, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, featured, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Jeff Spicoli, Lambda Lambda Lambda, Lists, Marty McFly, Revenge of the Nerds, Teen Wolf, The Burbs, The Lost Boys, Weird Science
No other decade seems to represent teen comedies as well as the 1980s. Not that the actors or screenwriters were any more talented back then, but the teen comedy had come into its own and the ideas were fresh. Fast forward 25 years, and it all seems played out. Whether popular or not, the characters ...
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Posted by Shawn Norris under Arbitrary Rankings, Citizen Kane, Die Hard, Douche Larue, Entertainment, Favorite movie characters, Forrest Gump, Gordon Gekko, Indiana Jones, John McClane, Lists, Movies, Revenge of the Nerds, Smokey and the Bandit, The Godfather
We’d always like to imagine our heroes are invulnerable. But no matter how tough you are, fictional or not, odds are that there’s some quirk which will make you crumple like a drunken game of Jenga. Here are the fatal flaws of nine of your favorite movie characters.
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