Proticon of the MOSLUG persuasion pondered:

What in your opinion are the 5 greatest geek/hacker movies of all time and why?

You can list more if you want, but I would appreciate getting at least five from you.

Top Geek/Hacker Movies of All Time

#1

• Star Wars ASCIImation via ... telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl
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#2 (tie)

• Fur Elise performed on a ScanJet 4c

• "We are the Champions" as performed by the Renault Formula 1 team on their RS25 V10

#3

• Hackers
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (this was a PBS bit, but not a fluff bit)
• mms://wmt-od.stream.ne.jp/ntv/hkzkt/hkzkt10.wmv (Sorry, Windoze only for now)

[not really, at the shell, paste 'mplayer mms://wmt-od.stream.ne.jp/ntv/hkzkt/hkzkt10.wmv' just make sure you have the proper codecs installed;-)]

• The Matrix (or is it The Meatrix?)
• AntiTrust
• 2001
• Sneakers

#4

• Space Balls
• Empire Strikes Back

#5

• Ernest Goes to Camp
• Any Wallace and Grommit bit

The Rest

• Star Trek: Generations
• Real Genius
• Pirates of Silicon Valley
• Triumph of the Nerds
• Hackers
• Electric Dreams
• The Star Wars stuff (I,II,IV,VI; see above)
• The Matrix Stuff
• Ghost in the Shell