Sorry it's taken a long time to get around to this: with more than 120 responses, I needed some time to collate the answers to the question "what's best geek movie of all time"?
After filtering the answers, compiling the votes and running through the numbers, we now have a top 25. There's a little bit of fudging - mainly around the question of sequels and trilogies (plenty of those in there) - but in the end, I decided on a mixture of common sense. All of the movies on this list were mentioned at least five times.
Read the list as they came in, below, then go and cast your votes now.
Looking closely at this list, two things became clear: science fiction heavily dominates what you guys deemed "geek", and Terry Gilliam is clearly the geekiest film director in history. While others came up with a slew of geek sequels, Gilliam hits the top 25 with three entirely seperate entries - Brazil, Twelve Monkeys and Time Bandits (and that doesn't count other nearly-made-its like Monty Python and the Holy Grail).
The shortlist of the top 25, then, as put forward by readers.
1 The Matrix 2 Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back 3 Blade Runner 4=2001: A Space Odyssey Gattaca 6 Brazil 7 Dark Star 8= Pi Serenity 10=Tron Twelve Monkeys Donnie Darko 13 Cube 14 Akira 15= War Games Terminator 17= Minority Report Dr Strangelove Aliens 20= Fifth Element Weird Science Silent Running Ghost in the Shell Time Bandits Lord of the Rings trilogy
That's the shortlist. Now we need to make sure we get the right answer, so go and cast your votes now!.
