Retro Geek

[RaginAsian]

What's your favorite "Geek" movies from the past?

Here's my quick list:

The Last Starfighter
Goonies
Monster Squad
Spaceballs
Blade Runner
Tron
Conan the Barbarian
Plant 10 from outerspace
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Invasion of the Body Snatchers---the original
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzaii
Big Trouble in Little China

[The Jesus Geeks]

What is "Plant 10 from Outerspace"?

[The Jesus Geeks]

If you guys want to do a "Retro Geek" like I mentioned on episode 72 then lets do it this way. Do it by decades! List up to 10 movies since I will pick the top 10 for each decade.

Best of the 2000's
Best of the 90's
Best of the 80's
Best of the 70's
Best of the 60's
Best of the 50's
And best of the first half of the 20th century

Should be fun!

[trekker4ever]

Ditto to the above question. How about Starman?

[RaginAsian]

I'm sorry, it's Plan 9 from outer space. It's possibly the worst sci-fi movie EVER. But its a classic.

[tmead]

Um... where s War Games??? C'mon. That movie birthed a geek ON THE SPOT!! (yeah, me!!) I had to learn how to do everything (except narly start a war) that he did. Seriously, I do beleive that played a major part in my becoming a hacker and then a legit programmer.

Sad huh?

tim

[trekker4ever]

So does that mean that Karen is your geeky girl sidekick? And yeah I agree Tim SAD !

[RaginAsian]

Um... where s War Games??? C'mon. That movie birthed a geek ON THE SPOT!! (yeah, me!!) I had to learn how to do everything (except narly start a war) that he did. Seriously, I do beleive that played a major part in my becoming a hacker and then a legit programmer.

Sad huh?

tim

Everytime I play tic tac toe with my daughter, I think of that movie. I always wanted to play Global Thermoneuclear War.

[Portanas]

Best of the 2000's - LOTR - all 3, Pick the Comic Book Movie Franchise of your choice
Best of the 90's - Office Space, Contact, Galaxy Quest, Starship Troopers, The Fifth Element
Best of the 80's - Goonies, Empire, Jedi, Real Genius, Back to the Future (all 3
Best of the 70's - Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail, Star Wars


I could list a lot more. I like a lot on this list. I know nothing about the site, just a list of 81 geek movies I found through Google.

http://digg.com/d34FMx

Portanas

[Larry]

Guys, we need to have a common corpus of material.

Everyone must see "Plan 9 from Outer Space." It would be helpful to see Tim Burton's film "Ed Wood" to understand the context.