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- Good Will Hunting (1997) Directed by Gus Van Sant. Starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck. Drama, Romance (2h 6m) 8.3 on IMDb — 97% on RT. One of the most complex cinematic nerds of all time?
- Kick-Ass (2010) Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz. Action, Comedy, Crime (1h 57m) 7.6 on IMDb — 77% on RT.
- The Matrix (1999) Directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski. Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss. Action, Sci-Fi (2h 16m) 8.7 on IMDb — 88% on RT.
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Directed by Jared Hess. Starring Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries. Comedy (1h 36m) 7.0 on IMDb — 72% on RT. Napoleon Dynamite is the defining portrait of quirky in the indie world.
Super Nerds: Directed by Troy Miller. With Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, John Ennis. Two best friends named Leslie and Gayle hang out in a comic book store that Leslie is the manager of.
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1. Booksmart. 2019 1h 42m R. 7.1 (132K) Rate. 84 Metascore. On the eve of their high-school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
May 15, 2024 · Curated and ranked by movie buffs, this list reflects the community’s choices for the top movies for nerds. It’s a crowd-sourced celebration of movies like Weird Science and Back to the Future , which have become iconic in their portrayal of the nerd culture.
- 10 Wayne Szalinski - Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
- 9 Professor Julius - The Nutty Professor
- 8 Egon Spengler - Ghostbusters
- 7 Napoleon Dynamite - Napoleon Dynamite
- 6 Dr. Emmet Brown - The Back to The Future Franchise
- 5 Sandy Olsson - Grease
- 4 Andy Stitzer - The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- 3 Mclovin - Superbad
- 2 Hermione Granger - The Harry Potter Franchise
- 1 Peter Parker - Spider-Man Franchise
Played by Rick Moranis, everyone’s favorite go-to nerd actor of the '80s, Wayne Szalinski is the ingenious, albeit rather careless, father of the titular shrunken children in Disney’s 1989 sci-fi comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.The socially awkward scientist has spent years working to perfect a working shrink ray gun, and just as he feels he has ac...
Jerry Lewis, one of the most celebrated comedic actors in history, couldn’t have been a better choice to play the absent-minded, socially awkward Professor Julius, a scientist whose experiment creates his more attractive and charismatic alter ego, Buddy Love. Unfortunately, not everything works out as well as Julius had initially hoped, as he becom...
Blessed with immense intelligence, Egon is definitely the brains of Ghostbusters. Tall, lanky, laconic, and bespectacled, he is responsible for keeping the team together with his scientific knowledge, which he applies to their paranormal investigations and ghost-hunting operation in '80s New York City. Egon was played by Harold Ramis, who also w...
The perfectly cast Josh Heder plays the titular nerdy high school kid with aplomb in the 2004 low-budget comedy Napoleon Dynamite. In the film, Napoleon is a socially awkward teenager who does everything possible to turn into a charming guy. All he does is get the attention of the newest kid in school, and they become best friends. Luckily, it all ...
The rest of society appears to believe that the eccentric nerdy scientist known as Doc Brown (played by character actor Christopher Lloyd, in what is probably his most iconic role to date) is some sort of menace, a dangerous lunatic. But Back to the Future’s lead protagonist Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) sees past the book’s cover, as it were, and d...
Maybe not as nerdy as their walking stereotype classmate Eugene Felsnic, Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) as she is mockingly referred to by her contemporaries, certainly fits the bill as the ultimate square in Grease. A studious girl who played by the books, she was often ridiculed by her fellow students for not being hip enough, but that didn’t stop th...
In The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Andy Stitzer is a lovable character everyone can love. He's genuinely a good soul and has everything we all wished we had in a friend. But Andy is, unfortunately, too innocent, and everyone seems to take advantage of his gullible attitude. He's not an idiot, he's just too good. How this is associated with his virginity is...
In 2000s comedy gem Superbad, a trio of friends in their senior year at school try their best to make one night the night. In other words, they want to get drunk and get laid. Evan, Seth, and Fogell will desperately try anything on the best night of their lives, where nothing will turn out the way they planned. McLovin, the nickname conjured up in ...
Loud, nerdy, and very vocal, Hermione is the young who brings balance to the trio of friends who lead the adventures in the Harry Potter franchise. She will speak her mind no matter what and has a solution for every single issue. She's friendly and fierce and knows every spell in the book. It's hard to find a movie character everyone wishes they ha...
Spider-Man's Peter Parker is an interesting case study as his various depictions show different states of how nerds have been viewed. the character's roots in the comics, and especially the Tobey Maguire depiction in Sam Raimi's Spider-Mantrilogy, are very much rooted in the classic 1960s The Nutty Professor archetype of the nerd. Andrew Garfield's...
Apr 16, 2023 · And when it comes to nerds in film, there have been some fantastic depictions that remind everyone of just how cool being a nerd can be. Here are some of the most iconic nerds from movies. Let's see which geek manages to settle into the top spot! 17. Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984)
Jun 18, 2022 · Embrace Your Geekiness: 8 Great Movies Where The Nerds Are The Heroes. The film industry continuously introduces its viewers to plenty of different types of characters. From the rebellious...
