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Wired Magazine is offering up a list of ten films that will help you raise your kids as geeks. First on the list is Star Wars, one of the most significant space movies in history. What geek in the seventies didn't dream of being Luke Skywalker and saving the universe from the evil Darth Vader? Of course, Star Wars is more romantic fantasy than hard science fiction.If you want your kids grounded a little more in the science part of SF, skip down a few entries to War Games where Matthew Broderick uses his IMSAI computer to hack into a military supercomputer and very nearly starts World War III. Or, last on the list, the Back to the Future series where Michael J. Fox travels through time in a DeLorean.
There are a couple of essential (in my opinion) films that were left off the list but mentioned in the comments -- The Princess Bride and Labyrinth (sure, they're both fantasies, but they offer adventure and positive lessons that will serve any geek well.) Are there any others you'd add to the list as being essential viewing?
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8-31-2008 @ 4:04PM
Gabby said...What? No Star Trek? Trekkies are the ultimate geeks!
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8-31-2008 @ 8:13PM
Rose said...oh this explains a few things, my son (now 20) always LOVED star wars, he likes star trek too. But as my son became a teen, he got into computers big time, now he is one of those smart geeks. He knows how to build robots, fix everything that goes along with computers, build web sites and is now a graphic designer making the big bucks. He still has all his star war toys, they all have a place in his room......