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              It was the best of ideas; it was the worst of ideas
                                        
From Spring [1] comes news that Val Kilmer [2] is signing up for a sequel [3]
to “Real Genius [4]” and I for one, have mixed feelings about this news. 

On the one hand, I loved the film, the lines (“What are you looking at?
You're laborers; you should be laboring. That's what you get for not having
an education.”), the characters (especially Michelle Meyrink's [5] Jordan)—
everything about the film. So why shouldn't I want to see more of these
characters? 

And then we come to the second hand—“Real Genius” was self-contained. There
were no dangling plot lines to tie up. The Good Guys got the girls, the Bad
Guys got a home filled with popcorn, all was right with the world. What
possible story could they do after twenty years? Mitch, Chris, Jordan and Ick
go in search of Lazlo and Sherry Hollyfeld before Jerry Hathaway and Kent get
to him first? 

I'm having problems seeing a possible sequel. Sometimes, no sequel is better
than a sequel (Highlander II: The Quickening) [6]. 

And I think this is one of those times. 

But I hope (if this pans out) to be pleasently surprised. 

[1] http://springdew.livejournal.com/661808.html
[2] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/
[3] http://movienews.virgin.net/Virgin/Lifestyle/Movies/virginMoviesNewsDetail/0,15384,1792394_movies,00.html
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
[5] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001534/
[6] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102034/

Email author at sean@conman.org