So If I Never Watch "The Fifth Element," Do I Get To Live Forever?

[snurri]

Fifteen Geek Movies to See Before You Die.

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[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

How is Holy Grail a geek movie? Are you kidding me?? Utter half a syllable of any line at a convention, and you'll get 50 people completing the rest of the movie's dialog from that point forward and giggling like ninnies (me included). It's THE Geek Check flick.

But Brazil doesn't belong on this list. Mundane's embrace it too readily. :)

Now, Munchausen...?

[douglain.livejournal.com]

I'm in denial about Monty Python. Is Life of Brian a geek movie too? Of course it is.

Munchausen is not my favorite.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Brazil (the full version) belongs on this list because the TV/US version of the movie ends before the movie is actually over. :)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I love Munchausen. It might be a failure, but it's a fascinating and gorgeous failure.

[(Anonymous)]

It also has a cow for no apparent reason.

(Well, OK, apparently Gilliam was reading No One Writes to the Colonel when he was shooting the vulcan stuff, but no reason that was in the movie. Kind of like the watermelon in Buckaroo Banzai...)

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

We adored it while growing up. I should watch it again, see if it's better or worse now. And Time Bandits.