bad for you, disgusting, might make you sick

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      Yeah, but it still manages to be watchable because the cast was great, and the underlying story resonates. You just have to put blinders on lol

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        Someone already prepared you for the worst part. There’s also a scene where the nerds install hidden cameras into a sorority house to spy on the women getting changed.

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        I would mention that they did the rape scene classy and all. As classy as being in a fun house and banging someone that you thought was your boyfriend can be…ya know classy for the 80s

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            If it makes it any better, the victim finds out the dude isn’t her boyfriend while they were cuddling afterwards. She seemed unreasonable cool with it. Something along the lines of my jock bf never made me cum before and you did. She ended up dumping the jock and staying with the nerd…so…yay happy love story ending?

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              I mean, if anything makes that scene any better is that there’s nothing super explicit about it. They position themselves with their clothes on, there’s a cut to a different scene, and when they cut back they’re already done. Yes, it’s rape, but the way people talk about it you’d think it was much more hardcore than it really is.

              The thing about Revenge of the Nerds is that there was tons of backlash even when it was new. The sequel barely has any sex in it at all by comparison, it’s because the creators caught a fair amount of grief so they had to make Part II a tad more family-friendly (there’s still a scene where they all get stoned though lol).

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                The movies were progressive for their time. I guess for the current times as well. They have questionable scenes, but the Nerds were always very open and supportive of all groups and walks of life. Gay people, people from different countries, people from different walks of life (booger) to include former jocks that changed their ways.

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      Yeah, the payoff is very literally a rape joke, and we transit through a bunch of non-con plot points to get there.