My Geek Entertainment top 30.

There is out there on the net selections of film, video and television to suit every taste. Geeks even get a nice big share these days thanks
to blogs like wired’s geekdads. Probably the only blog I’ve ever seen that reviews DVD-sets of TV-series (because who else but a geek holds
a tv-series marathon watching the entire thing over a weekend ?)

Well, I decided to try my hand at it, and pick my top ten items in three fields of media that I consider to be geek must-haves. Some are mainstream
popular, some are obscure in the extreme. I’m not doing every piece of geek media (for example I’m skipping Anime and Comics because although I love them
there are many people far more up-to-date on them than me) – instead I’m focussing on those where I feel I am particularly clued up (and my university
classes actually gave me the training to judge them at a more highly-trained level) – that being film, television and books.
Now before I proceed I should point out that I do not as a rule watch television – it’s a rare thing for me to do so. I do however like to rent,buy or
download DVD-copies of those shows I do like, and watch them as a whole when it suits me.

These listings have no time-limit, they cover everything I ever saw that I would count in my top-ten and they are listed in no particular order
e.g. placing a film at number 3 as opposed to number 4 does not say anything about how good it is, I think everything on this list should be
seen by any geek). The really hard part was keeping the list down to only ten items each- a lot of very good stuff were left out, that could very easilly
have made the cut and some people will argue they ought to be there- please feel free to list your choices that you think should have been there in the
comments. Just to name an example – my first draft had spiderman on it, it got knocked out on review by District 9.
I did include some graphic novels under books – I seperate them from “comics” here in that they are not serial and each copy represents a full story.

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Film:
1. Metropolis
2. Gattaca – The first and still best movie about genetic manipulation ever made, and highly underrated
3. Dark City – Sifi meets the psychological thriller
4. District 9
5. The day the earth stood still (the original, not the remake)
6. Star Wars (The original three)
7. The princess bride
8. Bill and Ted’s totally excellent adventure
9. The Matrix – the original
10. Wargames

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Books:
1. Any and all discworld books (what you thought I would leave them out ?)
2. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
3. Good Omens – By Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
4. Stranger in a strange land – By Robert Heinlein
5. Ender’s Game – By Orson Scott Card
6. 2001 – A Space Odyssey – By Arthur C. Clarke
7. Snowcrash – By Neal Stephenson
8. The death of doctor Island, The Island of Doctor Death and The Doctor of Death Island – By Gene Wolfe
9. The last question – By Isaac Asimov
10. The Amtrak Wars (especially the first book, but read all four) – By Patrick Tilley

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Television:
1. MacGuyver
2. Doctor Who
3. Firefly
4. Star Trek – The Next Generation
5. The X-Files – Especially season 3
6. Buffy the vampire slayer – Especially season 2
7. House M.D.
8. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
9. Spider-Man: The Animated Series (I prefer it over the 60′s series, it had better voice-acting, better writing, great production and very well-done mix of 3D and 2D animation styles)
10. Gargoyles. (Our second animated series on the listing. Useless fact: The voice talents were almost entirely provided my former cast members of ST:TNG)