WOF: What's your favorite 'geek' movie of all time?

Event Horizon was creepy; the whole thing Sam Neill had going on with his eyes was freaky!

As for the Matrix, has anyone seen The Thirteenth Floor? It had a very similar concept that was also a tad more interesting IMHO.

OK. I had to go find it.. but another funny Bill Paxton line from the movie (the brother talking to the two "geeks") "You two donkey-dicks couldn't get laid in a morgue." :haha:

Mystery Science Theater 3000. The movie and the series.

Wow, am I out of touch, I thought that was Courtney Cox

I thought it was somebody who farts in the bathtub and bites the bubbles. No wait, that's a "Gorp"......:rolleyes: :haha: :wave:

KhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAaaaaAAnnnNnnnn!

all time favorite... i cant believe its not on more peoples list... i swear.. ill burn this place down...

Nope, The scene on the Genesis planet where Kirk kicks Christopher Lloyd of a cliff saying, "I HAVE ...HAD...ENOUGH.... OF YOU....!!! Man, that's the defining moment in Shattner's careen..! Oops, I meant career.

Don't be picking on Bill. Ever see Boston Legal? now that is some master thespianism.

It would be good to have a movie-mix of Tron, Star Wars and Space Oddissey, plus a bit of vamparies touch to give it 'colour'. Ah! and an alien-predator type would be just the top of the cake. Has anybody hear of such a movie?? )

You may need to scour the cutting-room floor to find a movie with all those plot devices. Maybe Lifeforce comes close. If you're willing to substitute Austria for deep space and bad music for the sentient computer there's always this

I'd say... National Treasure..

Swordfish was a fairly good hacker movie.

Gotta be Napoleon Dynamite.

Finally, somebody actually mentioned an actual geek movie.

What is the difference between a geek and a nerd?

Isn't geek nerd spelled backwards....?

I don't know...my wife tells me a nerd is intelligent, and a geek is a socially awkward *****. apparently I am a nerd/freak.

Oh, i beg to differ on that point

The more i think back about Weird Science the more i remember about it and that i liked it. In fact, I'm gonna have to go put it in my Netflix queue so I can watch it again.

The geeks in Weird Science run up to their bedroom to use their home computer gear to create their own perfect girlfriend. Now, how geeky (and resourceful ) is that? haha

from Movie Gadget Friday: Weird Science and 'Weird Science' vs. 'Real Genius': 25th Anniversary Geek-Off

• They use a Memotech MTX512 with FDX add-on home computer
• They have an AI Feed Scanner to scan in photos of the characteristics they want to create
• Use Crypto-Smasher V3.10 program to hack into the Pentagon's mainframe for more data and power

First off, I was on board with, "Real Genius" back on page one, go check.

Second; then you should put "Repli-Kate" **, in you queue also. Ali Landry is sort of like Lisa, but with implants. This movie also had Eugene Levy, of "American Pie" ("fame"?).

I knew that Courtney Cox's name linked to "science" somehow. She was in "Misfits of Science", the TV series.

** Repli-Kate is one of the very few actually almost really funny movies from National Lampoon. Well, then there's "Animal House".

As this thread moves along, it would seem that every movie with a computer theme, special FX, or is sci-fi, has become categorized as a "geek" movie.

As an example "Star Trek" can be enjoyed be geek and normal mortal alike. It's when you spend too much time in your room waxing your phaser to "Voyager" episodes with a heavy, "Seven of Nine" presence.in them, that you may have to hope they develop implant goggles like Giordi's, so that you remain sighted during your retirement. This would be known as the. "guh-ick" factor, which when combined with the "eek" your mother shrieks when she catches you, is probably the root origin of the term "geek" in the first place....:rolleyes: (See you never knew it was an acronym, did you)?

Then there's "Plan B", Jolene Blalock.

Well there is the definition.