Hand in your Geek Card. What movies are a must see?

[Phlexor]

Just talking with GA online and he says he hasn't seen "War Games".

What movies do you consider "must see" for a geek/nerd/aspie/whatever, and what movies haven't you seen but feel you should to still consider yourself among said group.

Myself I haven't seen any of the LotR movies.

List away!

[Christopher McCandless]

The Matrix. All 3 of them.

[Phlexor]

The Matrix. All 3 of them.

Is that movies you should see, or movies you personally haven't seen?

[GalileoAce]

At least one Star Trek film.

[Phlexor]

At least one Star Trek film.

I think you have to have seen them all, even the ones that suck, just so you can bitch about them with other geeks. 

[GalileoAce]

Which one's sucked?

I think they all have their merits.

[Phlexor]

Which one's sucked?

I think they all have their merits.

5 and 10 I feel are the worst in that order. Which is unfair, cos 10 looked very good visually, just the plot sucked balls.

[GalileoAce]

10: The plot was lost in the poor direction from Stuart Baird... It needed a better touch, Frakes could've pulled it off I think. I don't even know why they hired Baird, it's a bloody action director... The story was good...but you have to think about it later to realise what it could've been.

5: is almost the opposite.

[Phlexor]

5 died cos they didnt have the budget for what they wanted to do, so what they were left with was shit. 10 was written by a big star trek fan, and I think that is the last thing you should ever do.

[GalileoAce]

5 died cos they didnt have the budget for what they wanted to do, so what they were left with was shit. 10 was written by a big star trek fan, and I think that is the last thing you should ever do.

5 had some pretty awesome FX for it's day though.

I disagree on that, a fan would know more about the content...but it needed a clean up definitely.

[Phlexor]

5 died cos they didnt have the budget for what they wanted to do, so what they were left with was shit. 10 was written by a big star trek fan, and I think that is the last thing you should ever do.

5 had some pretty awesome FX for it's day though.

I disagree on that, a fan would know more about the content...but it needed a clean up definitely.

Well see, what I feel is wrong with a fan writing a star trek movie is that they will try to include all the things that they think the fans have been wanting/asking for, and that just doesn't work. The wanting is a personal thing, experience if you will. A good movie will leave you wanting more, dreaming about it, thinking about how things could be or play out. If its all handed to you on a nice silver platter, you just feel empty at the end.

Plus they broke a fair bit of cannon as well, and that never goes down well with trekkies.

[GalileoAce]

5 died cos they didnt have the budget for what they wanted to do, so what they were left with was shit. 10 was written by a big star trek fan, and I think that is the last thing you should ever do.

5 had some pretty awesome FX for it's day though.

I disagree on that, a fan would know more about the content...but it needed a clean up definitely.

Well see, what I feel is wrong with a fan writing a star trek movie is that they will try to include all the things that they think the fans have been wanting/asking for, and that just doesn't work. The wanting is a personal thing, experience if you will. A good movie will leave you wanting more, dreaming about it, thinking about how things could be or play out. If its all handed to you on a nice silver platter, you just feel empty at the end.

Plus they broke a fair bit of cannon as well, and that never goes down well with trekkies.

Which canon? Picard's hair?

I think most of the "fanboi" stuff included came from the director (such as the Scimitar folding wing thing, and probably the whole battle in the green nebula, the script probably said "and battle ensues")

[GalileoAce]

All three Back To The Future movies.

[Christopher McCandless]

The Matrix. All 3 of them.

Is that movies you should see, or movies you personally haven't seen?

Should see

I cant really recommend stuff without seeing it, now can I

[Lucifer]

Fifth Element.  dunno if it's geeky, but it's probably my favourite film.