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I saw this masterpiece in the theatre with my brother. It might've been at one of those discount threatres.

Dennis Hopper was really scraping for work with this one.

Bad movie, but watchable. If anyone feels the urge to watch, I wouldn't reccomend renting it, but catching it on TNT or some other cable channel.

I saw this when I was a kid, even then I thought it was bad, but yet I was still intruiged by its premise. I liked when the alien gadget goes haywire and all breaks loose within the highschool replete with dinosaurs and aliens and barbarians.

Pure 80's schlock.

Best part is the end where Hopper shows up in that same outfit he wore in  Easy Rider.

This was something of a big screen comeback for Hopper. While he was making films overseas and doing some television and video work, he had stopped making American films for a couple of years. This changed all that.

This was also part of a loose trilogy of films that loosely dealt with the same subject and came out about the same time. The second one was "Wierd Science." And the third one, the one that is regarded as being the best of the three, wouldn't you know I forgot the title of that one.

When I think of this movie I always recall the scene where the heroes are racing in that car against the electrical bolts travelling through the high tension wires.
When they hit about 120 mph that guy yells,
"WHOA!!  NOW WE ARE TALKING HYPERSPACE!!"

Man, I used to love that movie when it came out on video.  Then again, I think I was about 11 or 12 at the time.  Another favourite of mine at the time was 'Real Genius' with a young Val Kilmer.

That's the one I was thinking about. "Real Genius." Thanks, Archivist. Of the three, that is the most highly regarded.

Real Genius is available cheap on DVD at my local Target store.  I recall seeing My Science Project there as well.  Might have to go pick them up and relive some fun times. :-)

I found a copy of this at Salvation Army for $2 and bought it cause it looked like total crap. I feel like watching it now, I've been meaning to for awhile, it's been like months since I bought it. That guy with the machine gun on the cover  looks hilarious.

I think I remember this, and for some reason I remember the main character's friend wearing sunglasses at night and saying "I'm cool so the sun shines on me 24 hours a day"

Am I right??

Yes. It's been a long time since I've seen the film in theaters, but I do have a fanit memory of that line being used by one the characters in the film.