Weird Science (1985) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

I don't think I've ever seen this movie. Anyone care to enlighten me?

^ It's a John Hughes movie. Two nerds (Anthony Michael Hall and another dude) build a hot woman (Kelly LeBrock) with their computer and chaos ensues.

I like the movie but if you're not a child of the 1980's or at least saw it when you were young, the chances of you liking it are probably pretty slim.

Thanks for the info. Guess I'll have to think on this some more.

Specs? Music replacement?

TravisR said:

^ It's a John Hughes movie. Two nerds (Anthony Michael Hall and another dude) build a hot woman (Kelly LeBrock) with their computer and chaos ensues.

I like the movie but if you're not a child of the 1980's or at least saw it when you were young, the chances of you liking it are probably pretty slim.

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Bill Paxton has a memorable role as the terrorizing older brother, Chet.

Always loved this movie. I remember watching it when it came to cable as a teenager - Day 1 purchase (even though I don't expect Universal to put a ton of effort into it).

I'm still on DVDs with Hughes stuff. A modestly priced blu ray set would be something I'd buy.

LOVE Weird Science. "Hi Nanny, Hi Grampy..." ..."was that my grandparents...?"

Great to hear this movie is finally coming out on Blu. I agree that if you weren't a teenager in the 80's, it'll probably be much harder to enjoy this movie. But if you were, especially a teenage nerd like I was, then this film is a real treat.

Ethan Riley said:

Music replacement?

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The anamorphic re-release from years ago had the original music so I'd assume that they got the rights in perpetuity at that point.

Good point--I only have the older DVD. Well, since I'm into malaccas, I think this will be a day one purchase.

Headline Date: TBA Release Date: 10/15/2013 WEIRD SCIENCE Product Source: Theatrical Theatrical Studio: Universal Theatrical Release: 8/2/1985 Synopsis: Blu-ray Widescreen (61106367) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: Blu-ray UPC: 0-2519-50543-3-1 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: 1 Street Date: 10/15/2013 PreOrder Date: Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: BD-50 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case with Slip Sleeve Layers: Single Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French DTS Digital Surround 5.1 Subtitles: English SDH Spanish Edition: - Picture: Widescreen Version: Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: - Bonus Features: • Digital Copy of Weird Science (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) • It’s Alive!: Resurrecting Weird Science • Weird Science TV Pilot Episode • Theatrical Trailer DVD Widescreen Flashback Edition(61103167) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: DVD UPC: 0-2519-50253-3-1 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: - Street Date: 9/16/2008 PreOrder Date: 8/12/2008 Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: DVD-9 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case with Slip Sleeve Layers: Single Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English DTS Digital Surround 5.1 French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish Edition: Flashback Edition Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen Version: - Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: [deleted]N/A Bonus Features: • It's Alive!: Resurrecting Weird Science • Weird Science TV Pilot Episode • Trailer DVD Widescreen (61021141) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: DVD UPC: 0-2519-21141-2-0 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: - Street Date: 9/15/2009 PreOrder Date: Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: DVD-9 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case Layers: Single Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English DTS Digital Surround 5.1 Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish Edition: - Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen Version: - Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: [deleted]N/A Bonus Features: • Trailer • Recommendations DVD Widescreen (61126189) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: DVD UPC: 0-2519-21836-9-0 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: 1 Street Date: 10/15/2013 PreOrder Date: Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: DVD-9 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case with Slip Sleeve Layers: Single Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English DTS Digital Surround 5.1 French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish Edition: - Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen Version: - Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: [deleted]N/A Bonus Features: • It's Alive!: Resurrecting Weird Science • Weird Science TV Pilot Episode • Theatrical Trailer WEIRD SCIENCE Product Source: Theatrical Theatrical Studio: Universal Theatrical Release: 8/2/1985 Synopsis: Teen life is full of mysteries, but nothing is more hilarious than Weird Science, the out-of-this-world comedy that helped define a generation! Join two socially challenged computer whizzes (Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith) as they set out to create the “perfect woman” (supermodel Kelly LeBrock). Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo’s heavenly creation guides the pair through the pleasures and pitfalls of teenage life. From writer/director John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles), Weird Science is an outrageous coming-of -age guilty pleasure where every teenage boy’s fantasy comes to life. Blu-ray Widescreen (61106367) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: Blu-ray UPC: 0-2519-50543-3-1 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: 1 Street Date: 10/15/2013 PreOrder Date: Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: BD-50 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case with Slip Sleeve Layers: Single Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French DTS Digital Surround 5.1 Subtitles: English SDH Spanish Edition: - Picture: Widescreen Version: Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: - Bonus Features: • Digital Copy of Weird Science (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) • Includes UltraViolet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) • It’s Alive!: Resurrecting Weird Science • Weird Science TV Pilot Episode • Theatrical Trailer DVD Widescreen Flashback Edition(61103167) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: DVD UPC: 0-2519-50253-3-1 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: - Street Date: 9/16/2008 PreOrder Date: 8/12/2008 Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: DVD-9 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case with Slip Sleeve Layers: Single Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English DTS Digital Surround 5.1 French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish Edition: Flashback Edition Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen Version: - Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: [deleted]N/A Bonus Features: • It's Alive!: Resurrecting Weird Science • Weird Science TV Pilot Episode • Trailer DVD Widescreen (61021141) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: DVD UPC: 0-2519-21141-2-0 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: - Street Date: 9/15/2009 PreOrder Date: Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: DVD-9 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case Layers: Single Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English DTS Digital Surround 5.1 Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish Edition: - Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen Version: - Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: [deleted]N/A Bonus Features: • Trailer • Recommendations DVD Widescreen (61126189) : Disc 1 (Side A) Format: DVD UPC: 0-2519-21836-9-0 Unit Type: Standard Number of Media: 1 Street Date: 10/15/2013 PreOrder Date: Run Time (HH:MM): 1 Hour 34 Minutes Language: English Disc Type: DVD-9 (Single Sided) Packaging: Snap Case with Slip Sleeve Layers: Single Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English DTS Digital Surround 5.1 French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Subtitles: English SDH French Spanish Edition: - Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen Version: - Color/B&W COLOR Rating: PG-13 CARA Rating: [deleted]N/A Bonus Features: • It's Alive!: Resurrecting Weird Science • Weird Science TV Pilot Episode • Theatrical Trailer

Unless this has an absurd price, this is a buy. I don't expect this movie to come up on the used market.

John Hughes movies tend to not be cheap...even used...

I was a teenager in the 80's and even then I thought it was pretty bad, his worst film till that point. I watched it recently on HBO and it didn't fare much better. Of the films John Hughes has directed, Curly Sue is his worst, with She's Having My Baby his second worst and then this. That being said its still entertaining for what it is, and Bill Paxton is a hoot..as is Robert Downey Jr. I'll probably pick it up anyway.

Well I watched the Australian Weird Science release tonight (it's the same as the European version, since the disc has all the European ratings logos on it). And, in a totally expected move for Universal, it's a rather poor presentation. I'm not going to call it unwatchable, because I watched it and still enjoyed it. But it's a very rough piece. It's got liberal doses of edge enhancement and digital noise reduction, so you get a Blu-ray that looks like an upscaled DVD with the sharpness control turned up.

Since I didn't own the DVD of this movie, and bought it for $12, I think it's still (just) worth it for me. But shame on Universal for treating one of the greatest movies of the 20th century (it routinely appears in the AFI's top 50,000 movies list) in this manner.

Seriously though, if you have the DVD, don't bother with this Blu-ray version. Universal just keep outdoing themselves as the studio to watch for crappy transfers.

Persianimmortal said:

But shame on Universal for treating one of the greatest movies of the 20th century (it routinely appears in the AFI's top 50,000 movies list) in this manner.

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It's unfortunate news about the transfer but that's a pretty funny joke.

Tino said:

I was a teenager in the 80's and even then I thought it was pretty bad, his worst film till that point. I watched it recently on HBO and it didn't fare much better. Of the films John Hughes has directed, Curly Sue is his worst, with She's Having My Baby his second worst and then this.

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IIRC, John Hughes was in the Guinness Book of Records (no joke) at one point as "Fastest Screenwriter", for reportedly writing Weird Science, Ferris Beuller and The Breakfast Club in four days.
And not to be harsh, but in Weird's case....it shows.

(And as a teen in the 80's, I was never Breakfast-Club hypnotized into thinking Hughes "spoke for a generation, as I always associated Hughes with loud slapstick gags, over-the-top camera shticks and cartoon music.
I remember seeing a Hollywood screenwriter in a TV documentary talk about how it was both a cause and product of his lifestyle that he was literally afraid of maturity--"I keep thinking someone's going to walk up to me one day and slap an 'Adult' label on my chest"--I don't remember who it was, but darn, that sounds like the guy who wrote Breakfast Club in his 40's.
Which's why I go easy on She's Having a Baby--It looked like Hughes finally trying to look maturity, marriage, and a day job in the face and come to terms with adulthood for the first time, but then his next big hit was Home Alone. Ah, the road not taken. )

Ejanss said:

IIRC, John Hughes was in the Guinness Book of Records (no joke) at one point as "Fastest Screenwriter", for reportedly writing Weird Science, Ferris Beuller and The Breakfast Club in four days.
And not to be harsh, but in Weird's case....it shows.

(And as a teen in the 80's, I was never Breakfast-Club hypnotized into thinking Hughes "spoke for a generation, as I always associated Hughes with loud slapstick gags, over-the-top camera shticks and cartoon music.
I remember seeing a Hollywood screenwriter in a TV documentary talk about how it was both a cause and product of his lifestyle that he was literally afraid of maturity--"I keep thinking someone's going to walk up to me one day and slap an 'Adult' label on my chest"--I don't remember who it was, but darn, that sounds like the guy who wrote Breakfast Club in his 40's.
Which's why I go easy on She's Having a Baby--It looked like Hughes finally trying to look maturity, marriage, and a day job in the face and come to terms with adulthood for the first time, but then his next big hit was Home Alone. Ah, the road not taken. )

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Seriously, he never "spoke to a generation". But if his dramatic themes resonated with much of the teens(and adults) of the 80's, I'd attribute that to a well written movie rather than gags, and cartoon music.

I can't believe we are discussing the merits of a John Hughes movie.

I see John Hughes movies the way I viewed casual sex in my early 20s.

"It was great, can't wait to do it again." (do we really need discussion...)