Best geeky movies ever

It's gotta be Star Wars ALL the way for me... it WAS my youth!

What's not to love?!

Princess Leia and that bagel hairstyle/gold bikini, Luke Skywalker and the Force, Han Solo and his Wookiee, C3PO and R2.....

I even bought Family Guy: Blue Harvest the other day (which was something of a disappointment - LESS focus on matching the film scene-for-scene, MORE interest in writing a FUNNY script next time please Seth!) not to mention I believed I could move things with the Force until I was 10 *cough* more like 31! *cough*. Plus there's all the versions I own on DVD/VHS, plus the novels, plus the merchandising......

Oh the merchandising!

Need I go on? ;-)

Star Wars made me the lesbian I am today!

or maybe it was Charlie's Angels/Cagney & Lacey....hmmm.....

The Sci-Fi Bard (proud owner of new Lego Luke Skywalker T Shirt)

Is a list created by people who are just wannabe geeks! Not actual geeks.

Anyway, here's my two picks: Sneakers, and Real Genius.

Take that Lord of the Rings!

Foolish foolish me

Forgot to add:

Enemy Mine

Princess Bride

Krull

and, of course, the list wouldn't be complete without

Xanadu.

(However, true geeks only live for Star Wars and/or Star Trek. Anything else is just the Diet Pepsi of geekdom....)

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The Sci-Fi Bard (about to watch ep 1 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles - YUM!)

p.s. 2001: A Space Odyssey is genius and anyone who thinks otherwise is "losing their mind..."

Star Wars Triology, Star Trek II - IV, Tron and Explorers ... absolutely loved them as a kid and still a nice trip down memory lane.

And I second Rocky Horror, Princess Bride, Short Circuit and The Matrix.

How about Wargames?

Ally Sheedy and a TRS-80. *sigh* Those were the days!

Definitely a chick-geek movie.

Metropolis is incredible--if you haven't seen it, watch it!...the whole thing. :)

extra terrestrials, futuristic technology, and hey, it's even got Jodie Foster.  i knew i liked that movie for a reason.

Rocky horror is one of my all time favorites, short circuit wa samazing too one from when i was a kid is batterys not included :D

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Heh, I was just taking a break on my LotR marathon (I know, I know.. Break on a marathon, I'm weak.)

Right, geeky movies. Won't repeat anything that's been mentioned, here are a few others on my list:

Tomb Raider - Based on a computer game, Angelina Jolie being a badass, riddles = lots of geeky goodness.

Minority Report - Just because of those invisible mid-air multi-touchpad like keyboards/displays.

And then there's stuff like Memento which isn't really a geeky movie as such, but it requires an at least somewhat damaged person to understand and/or enjoy the head-spinning, mind-boggling development of the movie. And geeks usually fall well within the "damaged" category.

- Fox

Is the uber geeky-est movie ever! I love it! Hee.

I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it blowing my wee baby mind. Seriously, if you haven't seen it, this scene probably says enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ODe9mqoDE

I assume the videogame came after and I remember trying (and failing miserably) to play it. Very hard game! Very cool, crazy movie.

Oops, I see it was sort of included on the list. Sort of. And I think it's supposed to be TRON. Sheesh.

Do I get kicked out of geekdom if I say that I only recently saw Bladerunner and was wildly bored and creeped out? Maybe a lot of it was because I can't stand to watch Sean Young...

Of course, Star Wars and LotR are at the top of the list. I'd also maybe include Indiana Jones in there although that's not sooo geeky.

Um, and yes, Trinity in The Matrix. Wow.

You're not the only one. I fall asleep within 5 mintues of watching it. Every. Single. Time. I tried at least 5 times, it never failed.

I also have that problem with another perennial favourite of such lists: Brazil. I can't even say I don't like it, it just has the same magical effect of putting me straight to sleep.

I'm an Alien girl myself. Maybe this explains that...

Galaxy Quest must qualify both as a movie for and about geeks.

Ok... I confess, I also watch Red Sonia eveytime it's on. I know. I'm weak. And Ladyhawke. And Willow (no, not that one, the other one, the movie). And of course Excalibur.

Pity criteria are space and sci-fi... Anything with Ray Harryhausen's name attached to it would qualify too (if we admit LOTR, we must remember Jason and The Argonauts).

I also own a dvd of Vegas In Space.

I loooove the rocky horror picture show. the cast who i loved to see every 1st saturday of the month just had their last showing cuz the theater decided not to have the showings anymore....booooo!!!

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Ghost in the Shell. It was cool like The Matrix before there was technology to make a live action movie that cool.

I agree that the Matrix sequels sucked pretty badly, but I thought The Animatrix was awesome, especially The Second Renaissance.

I think Terminator or T2 should be on there, too, and I think TRON should actually get a number not just be a bonus.

Personally, I like 2001, but I can get why people don't.

this was a movie that changed the way movies are filmed. (Er, does saying that make me a geek?)

No way! It's true, damnitt.

I don't think Reloaded was so bad, by the way. The fight scenes are so well-choreographed and... well, COOL! I'm not a fan of action movies or anything like that, but when The Matrix or Reloaded is on telly I can't tear my eyes away.

Is Rocky Horror really a "geek" film? (I guess I'm a geek then.) Even though it's a B-movie, it's an important film for a lot of people, especially for queer kids coming out. I mean, when you're queer and in high school, there are only so many places you can go at midnight to enjoy drag, debauchery and the company of other queers.

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~ Oscar Wilde

I can't believe that Monty Python and the search for the holy grail is not on either list. That is a Geek Staple, you have to at least be able to quote one line from from that movie to qualify for geek where i'm at.

But as for top geek movies- i'll name 3 that I believe should have been on the list

Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail

Princess Bride

Army of Darkness

Loved Short Circuit and the sequel too.

How about 'Batteries Not Included"  a real sweet movie.

Close Encounters

Coccoon

Do they qualify as Geeky?

Was Carrie Ann Moss channeling her inner Keanu?  Reminds me of Matrix.

Seriously.  If I have a root, she's it.

Gaaaaaaaaaah! 

I am "drawn" to the comic/graphic novel/video game movies:
Batman, Spider Man, Superman, Sin City, 300, Resident Evil, Fifth Element, Tank Girl, Tomb Raider, V for Vendetta and Punisher (to name a few).

Of course the Bourne series, The Matrix, LOTR, the original Star Wars triology, and Terminator/Terminator 2 are some of the best movies. 

I know there are more that I am forgetting....movies that I am sure I own. Oh well, it's not like I'm getting graded or am I? 

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now i'm gonna have to go and watch the matrix again bc it's in my head! it's taking over! arrrgh. i was soooo obsessed with that movie when it came out like crazy!

and the rocky horror picture show....classic! one of my all time faves ;)

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Hmmm, I've seen 15 of these....the ones I am missing are Akira, Pi, Office Space, Metropolis, and Brazil. I've seen parts of Metropolis and Brazil though.

I only own 6 on DVD... Hackers (AJ, of course I own it), Star Wars (I have em' all, not just the IV, V, and V1), The Matrix (I own the other two as well, but this gets more viewing), Serenity (I own the original DVD release and the more recent 2 disc edition....Love me some Joss Whedon), Lord of the Rings (Yep, but just the 2 disc versions, didn't pony up for the massive editions), and Spaceballs (I actually prefer Qalaxy Quest as a sci-fi parody)

I need to pick up Blade Runner, Alien Quadrilogy, Planet of the Apes (Charleton Heston of course!), Repo Man, Wargames, The Star Trek films, and Short Circuit for my collection though.

Some others in my collection that might make an AE list of geeky movies...Evil Dead I and II along with Army of Darkness, Back to the Future, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (yes the movie....good campy fun), D.E.B.S. (for us lesbian geek grrls), Excalibur (80's fantasy geekness), The Fifth Element, Frank Miller's Sin City, Galaxy Quest, Ghostbusters, Highlander, Tomb Raider movies (AJ of course), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I hung with folks who knew every line, myself included), Princess Bride, Red Dawn (the movie even geeks don't admit to liking it, but watch it every time its on), Resident Evil movies, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Showgirls (Geeky only for us grrls who want the Gena Gershon lesbian trilogy on DVD), Shrek movies (just for the parodys of other movies), Sneakers, Stargate, Terminator movies, Spinal Tap (yes, I was a geeky metal chick back in the day...), and UHF (geeky, but you have to be a Weird Al fan)

Of course there should be a seperate list for geeky tv shows like these from my collection....The 4400, Alias, Angel, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy, Charmed, Cleopatra 2525, Dark Angel, Dead Like Me, Eureka, Farscape, La Femme Nikita, Firefly, Heroes, Hex, Highlander, Lost, Numbers, Roswell, Space 1999, Veronica Mars, and Xena....sheesh, thats over 80 seperate tv boxes in my collection....just on the geeky stuff.

Guess that makes me a DVD geek too. No wonder I am always wanting more space....:)

should be mentioned in that row of geeky and bizarre space movies/shows ...

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Come on now.  Let's be reasonable you rabble-rouser you.  Yes, they suffered from some gaps in logic and some cheesy dialogue.  (I don't have an excuse for why the resistance didn't build body armor into the battlesuits at the end).  But...the ideaology behind the series, the grade-A action sequences, the latex jumpsuits, and the presence of both Carrie-Anne Moss and Jada Pinkett put them leagues ahead of most franchises. 

Perhaps when cruelly compared to the watershed moment that was the original Matrix, the sequels shine less brightly, but I enjoyed a mini marathon recently of all thre films and learned to appreciate the trilogy as a whole.  I suggest everyone on this list do the same!  This thread is to celebrate all that is good about geekdom after all.  What better way to nerd up your Saturday? 

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Hey the Matrix sequels weren't too bad. Two words: Jada Pinkett. And still Carrie Moss.

I looooved Repo Man. Aliens, yep, yep. Bladerunner, oh, THAT is the geek movie par exellence! Just as well Tron was there as a bonus. I can't believe they included Hackers! Such tripe. I totally love me some Serenity. That's a fantastic pic of all the women in this post!

But where is Terminator II? (And Linda Hamilton's biceps?) I totally second the Tank Girl suggestion. And then there's Strange Days. Angela Bassett is ripped and kicking arse! I also second The Fifth Element and the Rocky Horror (although when I first saw it, there was no such things as computers at school, so I think I was the only aficionado to turn out to be a techie. The others were "just" queer.)

Oh, and yes to The Princess Bride. It's not just geeks who love it, but I think anyone with geek pretentions has to.

I have to disagree on the hackers front. I absolutely love the movie - dated compu-torment and all.. This one gets my vote!

what about Harry Potter? i'm a huge HP fan. the books, the movies, the merch...all of it.

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