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Any suggestions on movies for the Bus?

June 27th, 2007 by Mike Chambers

It just hit me that some of the bus trips between cities are pretty long (20 hours from Portland to Vegas, 20+ hours from LA to Dallas), so I figured we should make sure that the bus is well stocked with some movies to wile away the hours.

Of course, I have picked up some of the standards like Spinal Tap, Monty Python’s Holy Grail, and Hackers (a very accurate portrayal of computer hacking… not!). Anyone else have any suggestions? What are the best geek / coding movies? What do we need to make sure is on the bus?

Post your suggestions in the comments…

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 11:37 am and is filed under Bus, General, You Tell Us.

24 Responses to “Any suggestions on movies for the Bus?”

On June 27th, 2007 at 11:41 am, Chris Phillips wrote:

Office Space - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
On June 27th, 2007 at 11:47 am, Joe Kromer wrote:

here are some ideas:

The Wizard

Strange Brew

Space Balls

Boondock Saints

The Transporter 1 & 2

Pulp Fiction

Snatch

Red Dawn

Goonies

oh and since your going to be on one… Road Trip.

Hope some of these might work for ya. See you in Pittsburgh.

Joe
On June 27th, 2007 at 11:49 am, Yohannes Wijaya wrote:

you guys missed Pirates of the Silicon Valley on the list. It’s a must. Good will hunting is also a killer movie. To kill the time, get some tv series like 24, entourage, numb3rs, etc.
On June 27th, 2007 at 11:51 am, Chris Judson wrote:

adding to the other standards of _Princess Bride_, Indy Jones (I and III), Seasons of _The Office_; I’ll toss some other “series”: _Arrested Development_ and _Curb Your Enthusiasm_.
On June 27th, 2007 at 11:53 am, Chris Judson wrote:

One more: _10 MPH_ (http://www.10mph.com): the documentary of two guys traveling the USA on a Segway…very cool.
On June 27th, 2007 at 12:03 pm, Damon wrote:

A Scanner Darkly - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/
On June 27th, 2007 at 12:04 pm, Christopher Keeler wrote:

Full Metal Jacket (Me love you long time)
Chappele Show Season 2 (I’m Rick James)
Species (Natasha Henstridge…need I say more?)
The Net (Pretorians are so clever…)
Airplane (don’t call me Sherly)
Jumpin Jack Flash (Sperry Repair Man)
War Games (OMG that is so 80’s)
Tron (even more 80’s than Atari 2600)
D.A.R.Y.L (that darn turtle)
On June 27th, 2007 at 12:07 pm, Faye Cragin wrote:

How about Firefly and Serenity? Also, I highly recommend Pan’s Labyrinth.
On June 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pm, Christopher Keeler wrote:

Logan’s Run
On June 27th, 2007 at 12:35 pm, joshspoon wrote:

Sci-Fi Mini-series: The Lost Room,
Rad (80s bike movie);
Gleaming the Cube (80 skate movie);
No one said Ghostbusters or Back to the Futures;
12 Monkeys;

Thats all for right now.
On June 27th, 2007 at 2:12 pm, Andre wrote:

Rome
Kill Bill (whole thing)
Aliens
Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle
Matrix
Final Fantasy
On June 27th, 2007 at 2:50 pm, Kevin Suttle wrote:

Casshern. Live-action anime. Bam! Doens’t get much better than that for geeks!

Amazon
On June 27th, 2007 at 2:51 pm, Kevin Suttle wrote:

Doh!

One you can actually buy!
On June 28th, 2007 at 4:23 am, James wrote:

Boondock Saints is always a good movie.

You could get the full dvd version of Band of Brothers, it’s ~10 hours long and it’s great to be able to watch them all back to back hehe
On June 28th, 2007 at 7:29 am, Biffer wrote:

Come to the uk :) To Brighton / Lewes :) Do IT
On June 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am, joshspoon wrote:

Oh Little Shop of Horrors. The one w/ Honey I shrunk the kids guy.
On June 28th, 2007 at 10:04 am, Beth Fraker wrote:

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood … for all of us cool chicks out here who’re actively tracking the tour!
On June 28th, 2007 at 4:18 pm, charlie griefer wrote:

“Species (Natasha Henstridge…need I say more?)”

… yeah, because you want a bunch of horny guys stuck on a bus for 20+ hours :)
On June 28th, 2007 at 7:31 pm, Robert M. Hall wrote:

Hey Mike, trying this one more time….for some reason its not taking my comments…

Ok, so forgive the obvious and silly, but you gotta have “Speed” on the bus - you could even re-enact some of the scenes with the AIR bus!

In addition to a couple faves that other mentioned already:
12 Monkeys, Strange Brew, Logans Run and Casshern (very cool indeed)

Another good geek movie is:
Sneakers

Also, if you can find a copy of it on AmazonUK, the BBC series “The IT Crowd” is especially apropos and definitely funny.

Here are some other favorites from my list of classics (had IMDB links for all of them, but the comment system thinks its spam with all the links)

Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension
Reuben and Ed
Brazil
Testsuo (Iron Man)
Naked Lunch
eXistenZ
Cabin Boy
Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid
The man with Two Brains
UHF
Forbidden Planet
Brainstorm
Bubba Ho-Tep
Repo Man
Blade Runner
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
Eraserhead
Breakin 2 - Electric Boogaloo
Army of Darkness
THX 1138
Donnie Darko

Thats what I would stock up with. :)
On June 28th, 2007 at 9:13 pm, John S. wrote:

The first geek comedy: “Desk Set,” starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Tracy plays the geek. The computer is huge!

It’s the only geek flick/chick flick. A rare combination.
On June 29th, 2007 at 11:52 am, Stefan Richter wrote:

I agree with the first poster, Office Space is a must and so is Idiocracy! If you haven’t watched it yet then you’re in for a treat.
On July 3rd, 2007 at 9:49 am, AIR Bus Tour : Weblog wrote:

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On July 4th, 2007 at 1:13 pm, Mike Givens wrote:

I’ll second “Red Dawn” and “24″. If you can lay your hands on “The Cube” that’s a good sci-fi one. Jackie Chan’s “Who Am I” is entertaining. Classics like “The Omega Man” and “Soylent Green” or even the original “Planet of Apes” are worthwhile. “The Band of Brothers” could kill a lot of the road weariness. And throw in a couple of zombie movies - they always satisfy the hunger. :-)
On July 5th, 2007 at 6:08 am, Mike Troiano wrote:

Sounds like you guys need MyMovieMatch, built on the Adobe Integrated Runtime Beta :)

Here’s the blurb on the AIR Showcase page: http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/air/

It works - Just go through the FLASH-based “key forge” and rate 5-10 movies once you pull down the app.

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