| John the OFM | 07 Mar 2021 6:19 p.m. PST |
I mean a movie where by the virtue of being nerds, they become heroic.
You can ignore this structure at your pleasure. After all, THIS IS TMP!!! Nobody cares if you stray and don't follow the rules. I have two favorites.
Apollo 13. A bunch of guys with crew cuts, short sleeved white shirts, pocket protectors and slide rules (Never forget the slide rules!) solve how to keep Our Heroes alive and not die. The Martian. This could almost be the same movie. Mark Watney figures how to stay alive by growing food in …. by "Sciencing the  out of it!"
Then there's Ms Park, and Rich Purcell, the Steely Eyed Missile Man.
God love nerds! |
| John the OFM | 07 Mar 2021 6:22 p.m. PST |
And all the nerds at JPL! |
Frederick  | 07 Mar 2021 6:30 p.m. PST |
The Martian does it for me! |
| cavcrazy | 07 Mar 2021 6:42 p.m. PST |
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| David Manley | 07 Mar 2021 7:48 p.m. PST |
The Dambusters Uber nerd develops superweapon, trigonometry on hand to save the day as wrll |
| Schogun | 07 Mar 2021 8:32 p.m. PST |
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| Perris0707 | 07 Mar 2021 8:47 p.m. PST |
Yup. Real Genius for sure. |
| Perris0707 | 07 Mar 2021 8:48 p.m. PST |
Although…does Stripes count? |
| John the OFM | 07 Mar 2021 9:33 p.m. PST |
As I said above in my OP, I can't possibly hold anyone to my criteria. |
| Tgerritsen | 07 Mar 2021 10:02 p.m. PST |
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| Arjuna | 07 Mar 2021 10:19 p.m. PST |
Ghostbusters. …
Just in case anybody needs a helping link to learn Tango, I may take you to the candy shop and suggest a little gem lying in my spider lair.
More or less everything you never or ever wanted to know about media tropes.
TVTropes.org And here you may find some inspiration, somewhat related to the question:
Give Geeks A Chance on TVTropes …
If you really want to dig deeper that rabbit hole, Lazarus, there still is Joseph Campbells 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'
'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' on Wikipedia
A more academic work some minor artists like Bob Dylan and George Lucas cite as their influence.
And if that Skywalker familiy pest isn't the royal family of geekdom I don't know. Just saying, before and after episodes IV and V there was just mediocrity.
Allthough I heard some of the spin-offs are quite good.
But they just come to late for me. 
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| Glengarry5 | 07 Mar 2021 10:29 p.m. PST |
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| rmaker | 07 Mar 2021 11:12 p.m. PST |
Gotta agree with Dambusters. Barnes Wallis is the nerd's nerd. |
| Timbo W | 08 Mar 2021 2:04 a.m. PST |
Surely more of a Top Boffin |
| Arjuna | 08 Mar 2021 2:42 a.m. PST |
@Timbo W Ah no, I'm a freelancer.
I work for my own amusement.
You shouldn't frother to much, spoils the stomach. The only way I ever used socks in my life, beside wearing them, was with a hart bar of soap in it. |
| ZULUPAUL | 08 Mar 2021 4:18 a.m. PST |
The first Spiderman movie. |
| Arjuna | 08 Mar 2021 4:58 a.m. PST |
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| ZULUPAUL | 08 Mar 2021 6:30 a.m. PST |
No not that one, haven't seen that one. |
| Son of MOOG | 08 Mar 2021 7:31 a.m. PST |
Revenge of the Nerds 2………"The nerds are back, and they're BAD!!!" |
| HMS Exeter | 08 Mar 2021 8:30 a.m. PST |
No Highway in the Sky. Jimmy Stewart plays an Uber boffin aircraft engineer in a highly fictionalized rendering of the 1950s BOAC Comet crash investigations. Watch the early version without the dubbed soundtrack. Also, The Man Who Never Was. And, The 13th Warrior…"at one time I was a poet, in the greatest city in the world…" Lawrence of Arabia, tho his "triumph" proved more than a bit hollow. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 08 Mar 2021 9:52 a.m. PST |
The Big Short (2015): Michael Burry (played by Christian Bale) is a supernerd hedge fund manager who actually reads all of the documents that comprise and define a mortgage-backed security (MBS). That leads him to short the MBS market, to his hedge fund's great profit. |
| Dukewilliam | 08 Mar 2021 10:24 a.m. PST |
Disney's ‘Onward' where a RPG and CCG nerd helps save his hometown. Was it called ‘Wargames'? Matthew Broderick uses his computer gaming skills to save the world. Steve |
| Sundance | 08 Mar 2021 11:21 a.m. PST |
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 Parzival | 08 Mar 2021 11:47 a.m. PST |
October Sky
Hidden Figures
The Imitation Game
Moneyball
Ocean's 11 (Clooney version: Sure, they're crooks but they're very techy crooks.)
Iron Man (you don't get more techy than building your own flying armored exoskeleton out of spare parts in Afghanistan.) |
 Murphy  | 08 Mar 2021 11:50 a.m. PST |
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| brass1 | 08 Mar 2021 12:00 p.m. PST |
Flight of the Phoenix either the 1965 or 2004 (I prefer the earlier version). In 1965 the plane crashes in the Sahara and in the Gobi Desert in 2004; the nerd whose job is designing model planes redesigns the full-sized plane, the crew and passengers rebuild it according to his plan, it works, they fly back to safety. LT |
 etotheipi | 08 Mar 2021 12:13 p.m. PST |
Cue Georges Bizet's Carmen overture, everybody it's … 5) The Bad News Bears! 4) The Mighty Ducks (aka the Bad News Bears on Ice 3) Every Scooby-Doo movie, ever 2) 21 1) Swimming with Sharks (It's only one nerd, but it's a lot of revenge) |
 Old Contemptible | 09 Mar 2021 3:37 p.m. PST |
Revenge of the Nerds
Napoleon Dynamite |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 09 Mar 2021 3:44 p.m. PST |
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| Arjuna | 09 Mar 2021 10:56 p.m. PST |
@Uesugi Kenshin But no one will ever know his triumph. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 10 Mar 2021 2:39 p.m. PST |
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was going to do the rifle teams next, but he forgot something… 