Required viewing for Geeks
I'm blogging this for Phillip Senn. He asked what folks would consider as required viewing for geeks. His list was:
STTOS, STTNG, STDS9, Voyager, Enterprise
Star Wars IV, V, VI, I, II, III
Battlestar Galactica Original and extra crispy
2001, 2010
Office Space
I'd add:
Blade Runner
Matrix
Tron
And probably a few others. Anyone else care to chime in?
As for required viewing, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy has to be included.
I thought AI was good too - but I hated the Alien ending. To me - and this is a spoiler for some so consider yourself warned - when the movie had the boy robot waiting in front of the statue - just sitting there praying... to me that was _incredibly_ moving. I just pretend the movie ended there.
TV - Lost, Firefly, heroes (season one), mythbusters
Serenity, Ironman, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Superbad, Antitrust
SG-1
SG Atalantis
Eureka!
Gotta mention Ghost in the Shell (movies and tv) on the anime front.
Plus my geek side makes me record Nova on PBS
ou can almost tell the exact point in the movie where Spielberg took over. Dare I say, Bicentennial Man was better than AI.
Definitely +1 Firefly/Serenity and Dr. Who.
If you took sides in the LOTR vs Star Wars arguement in Clerks II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0sc-gS9AqM), you're a Geek.
Can't believe I forgot Farscape and B5
I was afraid that if I put a list together it would read like a geek list as of 25 years ago.
One of my students mentioned the move "Hackers", which I need to see.
I guess what I'm looking for is things that people quote that you should know if you're in the geek circle. Things like "a series of tubes", etc.
I forgot to mention Lawn mower man.
+1 for mentioning Nova.
My Extended Basic cable won't let me watch Tech TV any longer so I'm pretty bummed about that. Morgan Webb is hot Hot HOT!
I wonder if I can just pull it up in the tubes. It would be a massive amount of data.
Though I gotta say how come no one on here has mentioned Wargames?
Notable mentions should go to: Sneakers, Swordfish, and Takedown
Plus Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series, not the crap movie). And am I really alone in missing the days when we could fill our evenings watching Hercules and Xena?
I'm also pretty partial to Dark Angel (and not *just* because of Jessica Alba ... well, okay, mostly because of Jessica Alba).
If we're going to get in the Way Back Machine and include Battlestar Galactica v 1.0, then we should also include Buck Rogers. Sure, it was cheesy, but come on, weren't most of them in those days?
Oh, yeah, and for an extra big helping of geeky cheese, there's Thunderbirds.
On the movie side, I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned Alien and Aliens.
And just about anything that involved Ray Harryhousen: the Sinbad movies, Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, etc.
If we're not just interested in sci-fi, but rather the kinds of movies that geeks like to quote, then you have to include anything/everything Monty Python.
I told the students that if there was anything in the common vernacular that everyone should know about, let me know. Phrases like "Rickrolled", or "All your base".
I'll have to start making some clips to show in class. "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" will have to be one of the first.
No one has mentioned X-Files. My friends and I would spend the next day disstecting the show. It stunned the networks. It had a arching mystery storyline. And now we have Heros, Fringe, Lost, ....
Never watched Thundercats, but loved "Space 1999" with Martin Landeau.
I'm very much in shock that none of you mentioned The Cube. Any programmer worth his salt figured out that this state of the art future killing machine was a giant multi-dimensional array with elements in motion before the opening credits were finished rolling. It totally qualifies as awesome SciFi - it even spawned 2 or 3 other installments that never lived up to the awesomeness of the original (that's the definition of SciFi)! You must now turn in your geek cards - you too Camden...