I'll start: MATRIX 1 because of the interesting use of effects, esp 'bullet time' and amazing sound. Sadly, I could have done without Keanu, but oh well. Trinity is amazing, great outfits. And any movie that ends with Rage against the machine has to rock. - Jeremiah Owyang

Matrix 1 and Minority Report. Only one! Ugh lol umms.................................Matrix 1. - Corvida

Depends upon the definition but how about Office Space? Oops got to get back to my TPS reports - Barry Graubart from twhirl

Short Circuit! Number 5 is alive... - Dave Peck

Tron - Bwana ☠

Corvida, pick one! - Jeremiah Owyang

Barfly. - Thomas Hawk

An oldie but a goodie - War Games. The concept of a learning computer - WOPR - in 1983 was pretty cool. Plus, I had a crush on Ally Sheedy :) - Bryan Hunter from twhirl

wargames - Adrian from twhirl

Minority Report (like idea mother of MS Surface) : ) - Erhan Erdogan

The underrated Sneakers..... And for old school, War Games.... - Chris Reed

My two favorite movies are Ali and Spaceballs, and Ali can't be defined as a tech movie. So I guess it's Spaceballs, although it's more of a business movie (promotions) than technology. - Ontario Emperor

Star Wars... if you count LightSaber as "Tech". Matrix too, albeit I would tend to say it is more philosophical than tech. - Parth Awasthi from twhirl

The First Matrix cuz, for some reason, the technology in it seemed plausible and the Operator desktop with all the scrolly crap reminded me of my Linux setup - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

war games for it's accurate depiction of phreaking in the early 80s, tron since it got me into 3d animation as a career, and BBS: the documentary (http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/) because it's brings back tons of memories. - Doug Brooks

Real Genius (1985) - Geoff Schultz

What about Jumpin' Jack Flash? She was chatting when no had heard of it. ;) - Yolanda

Sneakers FTW! - Morgan from twhirl

Hackers? The Net? Jumper? Johnny Mnemonic? all were so good. ok.. I'll go with Real Genius as my real answer. :) - Jeremy Toeman

For extraordinary gadgetry, I vote for James Cameron's THE ABYSS (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald

Three movies popped into my head before I read any comments. Others have mentioned them all.... War Games, Tron and Sneakers. I think we've defined a new move genre. "Tech Films". I guess perhaps, "Metropolis", although considered sci-fi really spoke to what would happen with advanced technology. Maybe we could also add Chaplin's "Modern Times" to the list. One last film that may qualify, "WestWorld". I'm sure there are many more that I'll think of with a few hours to ponder. - Kevin Shannon

iron man! ok, i just saw it but still... - Frankie Warren

Minority Report - Baard @ Pixum

Short Circuit for sure. Such a classic! - Tom

I'm sorry, but they all suck. Too many of them sacrifice believability for a story point. - William Beem

For wild speculation about the evolution of the Internet, I'd go for LAIN (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald

Wargames (drama) and Real Genius (comedy) - Michael W. May from twhirl

I have to go with Sneakers; better than average for techie-type movies. Office Space for corporate tech. And Brazil... just because. - Phil Crissman

For alternate technology and alternate history, SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald

For ruminations on technology and machine intelligence, Spielberg's AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald

ooo, forgot about Sneakers... good call - Michael W. May from twhirl

Wait William... you mean Hackers wasn't real?? I guess you think Sandra Bullock's movie "The Net" couldn't happen either!? - Yolanda

First Matrix, bar none. Nothing else competes. @Jeremy Johnny Mnemonic was GOOD? You did read the book first, right? - Cyndy

While I really like Short Circuit, Matrix is definitely my favorite. Those who know me, know that my "in game" name is Trinity. - Becca

The Net! - Steve Rubel

Matrix does do an example job of bringing up issues that I think are important. How far are we willing to become dependent on technology? - Leif Hansen from Alert Thingy

The Thirteenth Floor. Better than Matrix, in my opinion. Wargames for sentimental reasons... I actually had my younger brothers convinced for years, that Matthew Broderick was me... (I used a stage name because it was a secret from Mom & Dad that I was acting!) - Kenneth LeFebvre

Pi (http://www.pithemovie.com/) from Darren Aronofski and the German hacker movie 23 (http://www.imdb.com/title...) - Matthias Zeller

THX 1138 - John Reese

Star Wars Episode 1, 2, 3 and Matrix trilogy - wrecks

Office Space. Does that count?? - Sarah

"Sneakers" - Best Line "It's about who controls the information..." a movie before its time. - jyamasaki from twhirl

@cyndy - was being sarcastic, the first examples were all terrible. By the way, I'd add in "Enemy of the State" for cool surveillance tech - Jeremy Toeman

Swordfish - Giridhar from twhirl

The Last Starfighter - Gregory Ng

War Games. - Mike Reynolds

Sneakers - Jeff Mincey

c'mon...The Fifth Element? Anybody? Totally what the future will be. - Marc Vermut from twhirl

While I'm partial to War Games and The Last Starfighter (hey, I went to see TLS *musical*...) I have to say that none of 'em top Real Genius. - felix

Hackers - it was the movie that first got me interested in computers. I have yet to meet a developer that looks like Agenlina Jolie though ;) - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

many favs: Matrix 1, Paprika (anime), and Minority Report - Carolina Velis from twhirl

Are documentaries allowed? Startup.com. They could have swapped out govworks.com with any dot com i worked in pre-bust and it would have been the same storyline. - J.J. Toothman

Real Genius - Kevin Fox

Wow, no one mentioned Blade Runner? Loved the 5th Element, Marc. Real Genius, great. Sneakers. Matrix 1. Star Wars. War Games, god this list is great! I can't decide. I hope you blog it somewhere for reference. If anyone ever wants to learn about our geek culture, we can link them to the post! - Christine Cavalier

Matrix 1 - Varun Mahajan

Hell yeah War Games, Real Genious, Fifth Element and Swordfish all great. I am so watching War Games tonight. That totally got me into BBS too. I remember the first time I logged onto a BBS I felt like I was about to hack into something like in war games. I can't remember the name of the movie but it had these robotic bugs that injected people and poisoned them. Well it looks like the military will now be using robotic bugs in less than six months: http://streetknowledge.wordpress.com/2008... - Adam Gershenbaum

The Last Mimzy. Not the best movie, but we get a glimpse of what Intel can power waaay in the future. - Nathan Hull

What no votes for "Weird Science?" Can you imagine making Kelly LeBrock!! err...well making <insert your fav., I'd have to say Jolie> - Snay Trivedi

I'll have to go with Bladerunner. Except for the replicants, I think that will be very much our future - John Frost

Hackers. Loved the part where they are drooling over the laptop with the built-in 56k modem. - Richie Escovedo

What, no Terminator? I"m sure someone out there is building Skynet as we go about our business. When they finally make Ender's Game into a flick, then we'll have something to talk about! - Marc Sirkin

When The Matrix came out, I was working in IT as a network administrator. It felt great to see computer geeks portrayed as kung fu badasses. - Wade Rockett

@Matthias 06:34 Euclid Predicts: Pi will remain the best 06:35 Press RETURN ;) - Mario Olckers

definitely Office Space. no tech show-off, cheap effects and hackers. pure tech life. - Berk D. Demir

Matrix I is all by itself on the top - Dobromir Hadzhiev

The Matrix - Dimitar Vesselinov

TRON. - l0ckergn0me