The List of "Iconic" Nerd Movies

[Baron_BJ]

I was recently going through my DVD collection and I came to a not-so-startling revelation: My collection is a piece of shit. which conversly made me think "I've still not seen a lot of the movie "classics" out there and I really should.

So I've decided to get input from one of the nerdiest places I know (here) and compile a list of the greatest movies of all time, nerd or otherwise. After I make the list I'll probably go out and buy them

I'll get some shit out of the way so that it isn't listed by others:

Evil Dead Trilogy
Original Indiana Jones Trilogy
Original Star Wars Trilogy (Preferably the unmolested versions)
Blade Runner
Dune
Citizen Kane

OK, now you jump in; what belongs on the list of greatest movies of all time, Nerd or otherwise?

 

[Episode42]

Nerd movies:
Akira,
2001: A Space Odyssey,
Clerks,
A Scanner Darkly,
The Back to the Future Trilogy,
Terminator 1 & 2,
Alien & Aliens,
The Last Starfighter,
Flight Of The Navigator,
Scott Pilgrim vs the World,
Ghost in the Shell,
My Neighbour Totoro,


Great movies:
Requiem For A Dream,
Waking Life,
Trainspotting,
A Clockwork Orange,
Dr Strangelove (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb)
Toy Story,
Princess Mononoke,

Can't be bothered to think of anymore just right now.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Lord of the rings movies
the start trek movies
Tron and Tron Legacy
Short Circuit
Terminator
The Aliens movies
The Last Star Fighter
Enemy Mine
Masters of the Universe (live action)
Gatiga
Logans Run
The Matrix
ET
Battle Royale
Clerks and Clerks 2
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies
The Back to the Future Trilogy
Snatch
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrles
The Robocop Movies
Dark Man
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Zombieland
Dark Crystal
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Transformers the movie (the old animated one. not the ones done by Michale Bay)
Poltriguist
...Theres lots more but that should get you started

 

[O_Malley]

Serenity
Starship Troopers
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Super Mario Bros. The Movie
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Captain America
The X-Men movies
the Superman Movies
the Spiderman Movies

 

[Dags90]

Five posts in and no one has even mentioned Revenge of the Nerds? It has "nerd" RIGHT THERE IN THE FUCKING TITLE.

Really guys? Really?

 

[Nouw]

Moon.
Hellboy 1&2.
Day of the Dead.
The Thing.
Dawn of the Dead.
Paul.
Shaun of the Dead.

All fine films.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

The Blues Brothers
Gremlins 1/2
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The Twilight Zone Movie
The Doctor Who Movie
Anything by any of the Pythons
Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
The Room
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat 1-3
Downfall (Where all the Hitler memes came from)
They Live!
THEM!
Battlefield Earth
(Warning: A lot of these films are iconic for being bad...like atrocious)
Day/Night Watch
Hellraiser 1/2
Highlander 1/3
Flash Gordon ("GORDON'S ALIVE?!")
Bad Taste/Braindead/Meet the Feebles
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original only)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Lost Boys
The Man who Fell to Earth
The Man from Earth
All the Jimmy Bond films
All the original Pink Panther movies

 

[Baron_BJ]

Anyone able to seperate the truly good movies from the movies that are "so bad that they're good"?

Not everyone is able to appreciate a movie that is "so bad it's good".

 

[Teachingaddict]

I have a sad panda look right now because no one has mentioned

HACKERS!!

 

[Xixikal]

iRobot
and... not really a movie buuuuuuut: Game of Thrones

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Lord of the Rings trilogy
Mad Max trilogy
Die Hard
Evil Dead trilogy
Star Wars 4/5/6
Indiana Jones trilogy
Kill Bill vol 1/2
Pulp Fiction
The Thing
Fight Club
Full Metal Jacket
Highlander
The Matrix
The Terminator
Watchmen
The Shining
They Live
The Monty Python movies
Robocop
Shaun of the Dead
Paul
Transformers: The Movie

There's gonna be hundreds more that I've missed but these are all the ones I can list from the top of my head and by looking at my DVD library

 

[Something Amyss]

Anyone able to seperate the truly good movies from the movies that are "so bad that they're good"?

Not everyone is able to appreciate a movie that is "so bad it's good".

And mileage may vary even if they can.