Sentences with phrase «revenge of the nerds»

In the 80s you had Revenge of the Nerds, and now we have the «brogrammer» culture.

They are so about the coming revenge of the nerds that they forget that even scientists and philosophers have to be animated by erotic longings that could only exist in beings with bodies, minds, and other stuff too — in persons.

Never has an Enneagram 3 been more happy to be alive and winning things than when summer finally rolled around and it was Revenge of the Nerds for us book worms.

Or a well - earned revenge of the nerds?

«I call it the «Revenge of the Nerds» effect.»

With Baby Boomers becoming grandparents, the stodgy old codger and plump, cookie - baking white frizzy haired grandparents are getting a «Revenge of the Nerds» star Curtis Armstrong dishes on Tom Cruise and John Goodman in upcoming memoir

Described by one prominent critic as Revenge of the Nerds with an increased fart quotient and added projectile vomiting, this dumb - dumb frat comedy cast Heder, Spade and Schneider as a trio of losers who form a baseball team to thwart a bunch of elementary - school bullies; Heder played a booger - eating dork with an unhealthy degree of maternal attachment.

In this sense, Revenge of the Nerds will surely be a pleasant treat for fans of the origin al and it is a silly, yet pretty funny movie that is just mindless fun from start to finish.

This would be the final good entry in the Revenge of the Nerds series.

The story's a sort of older version of «Revenge of the Nerds» meets «Animal House,» with a slight twist: Three 30 - ish buddies, frustrated by their nowhere lives and the women who seemingly control them, form a fraternity on their old college campus.

Think «Animal House» crossed with «Fight Club» and «Revenge of the Nerds» and that's pretty much it.

In case you are wondering about the director, Jeff Kanew, he is known best for directing the classic comedy film «Revenge of the Nerds».

Imagine Animal House or Revenge of the Nerds with a PG - 13 rating and you get an idea of the kinds of compromises necessary to allow teenagers into this movie.

Occasionally, movies work for audiences simply because they want them to — which may have been the case with «Revenge of the Nerds,» an erratically funny 1984 college comedy — full of raw, predictable gags — that became a surprise smash hit.

Just as the girls are close to landing a record deal from an important producer (Curtis Armstrong, adding to his legacy of black musician films in an apparent effort to further shed his reputation as «Booger from Revenge of the Nerds»), Sister's troubled situation costs them their big break.

There's also a more pronounced REVENGE OF THE NERDS theme in play.

«The DUFF,» a pleasantly predictable cross between «Revenge of the Nerds» and «Clueless» — in the social media age — is a teen comedy about a high school girl who has a life crisis when she discovers that she's the «Designated Ugly Fat Friend.»

Think Superbad meets Revenge of the Nerds!

This teen comedy, a cross between «Revenge of the Nerds» and «Clueless» in the social - media age, concerns a high school girl who has a life crisis when she discovers that she's the «Designated Ugly Fat Friend.»

Monsters University feels most like Revenge of the Nerds, particularly as Mike and Sully join a particularly clueless fraternity of rejects and must build them up to become an effective scare team.

Beta House, as a standalone film, isn't much more than a completely raunchy regurgitation of story elements found in other frat comedies, such as Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.

«Up until Obama, it was basically Urkel and the black guy from Revenge of the Nerds,» self - professed nerd, Obama impersonator, and Oscar - nominated director Jordan Peele told NPR in 2012.

The Buzz: Smells a little like «Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise,» which sucked twenty years ago.

Anthony Edwards does a good job shedding his Revenge of the Nerds image to be an appealing leading man, reuniting with Nerds director Jeff Kanew, although the role didn't exactly make him the heartthrob poster boy that the producers of this film probably sought to make him.

After all, I still enjoy watching high school and college party movies like «Porky's,» «Revenge of the Nerds,» «Animal House» and «Superbad.»

The DUFF This teen comedy, a cross between «Revenge of the Nerds» and «Clueless» — in the social media age — concerns a high school girl who has a life crisis when she discovers that she's the «Designated Ugly Fat Friend.»

This colorful prequel, featuring Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) as college freshmen, plays like a G - rated «Revenge of the Nerds,» and that's mostly a good thing.

After a fellow mourner (Mike Birbiglia) tells a moving story about seeing Hotel Rwanda with his late friend, who was moved enough by the movie that he started volunteering, Duplass counters with his own moviegoing story, recalling his brother as a bully who changed his ways after seeing Revenge Of The Nerds.

Toss in a little Revenge of the Nerds and Old School for good measure, and you basically have a movie that covers absolutely no new ground of its own.

But much to my surprise, Revenge of the Nerds turned out to be the only slob comedy since Animal House worth watching.

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Call it «Revenge of the Nerds,» if you like, but it shows the day is not always saved by the fighters; sometimes the thinkers get their day in the sun, as well.

The rest of the movies that Deadpool invaded are Revenge of the Nerds, Edward Scissorhands, Assassin's Creed, Cast Away, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, My Cousin Vinny, Office Space, Predator, Speed, The Terminator, and War for the Planet of the Apes.

There is a level of intelligence in the casting, with such roles from previous frat party films like Tim Matheson of Animal House and Curtis Armstrong from Revenge of the Nerds.

Using a very basic formulaic plot of the misfits in school doing good for themselves (in as sanitized of a PG - 13 «Revenge of the Nerds» way it can), «The Internship» serves as a stepping stone from joke to joke and gag to gag.

It sports a solid soundtrack, good location shots (set in Santa Cruz), nice cinematography from Michael Chapman (The Last Waltz, Taxi Driver), and an effective score by veteran Thomas Newman (Revenge of the Nerds, The Shawshank Redemption).

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He and a partner (Goodman, Revenge of the Nerds) across town are assigned to investigate a series of murders where the victims are men who have placed personal ads in the paper only to be found naked and dead from a shot to the head, while the classic «Sea of Love» plays on a record player nearby.

The two films I couldn't watch growing up were Halloween and Revenge of the Nerds, so I can't wait to invite my parents to this one.»

Extra Special: No mainstream Hollywood composer has so beautifully balanced experimental funk with soaring, lush orchestration as Thomas Newman, the scion of a film scoring family whose humble musical beginnings were spent in bands and writing the funky beat - driven scores of such youth - oriented comedies as «Revenge of the Nerds» «Desperately Seeking Susan» and «Real Genius.»

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The # 1 New York Times bestselling author of 12 books, Jennifer Weiner, took a few minutes to talk with me about the writer's life, her new memoir, and Revenge of the Nerds.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy's sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process.

It was the revenge of the nerds.

Chart Source: Revenge of the Nerds, The Economist Data Team.

Call this the revenge of the nerds.

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In the entertainment field, he has illustrated numerous movie posters which include «Conan the Barbarian», «Revenge of the Nerds», «Coming to America», «The Marrying Man», «The Firm», and others.

This is the revenge of the nerds.

The whole climate caper is beginning to look like a revenge of the nerds — a mass movement of harmless types, tired of slogging away in the backwaters of science for a pittance, suffering ridicule and cutbacks, who have discovered the cure for their ills.