Hi. I’m Libby. And I’m a pop culture geek. I love TV, movies, books and anything from the 70s and 80s. My iPod library is a little embarrassing, but I’m secretly very proud of it. Yes, I had a pet rock. Yes, I wore leg-warmers. And yes, I rocked the girl-mullet, propped up with vast quantities of Aqua Net.

I grew up in a town of about 75,000. We had a total of 4 movie screens (in 2 theaters, y’all!). There wasn’t a lot to do, so I spent a lot of time at the movies. And maybe I was a burgeoning computer geek (although I didn’t own my own computer until I was 22), because I always left the theater feeling jazzed after a techie movie.

The Social Network is set to premier at the New York Film Festival on Sept. 24. And I’m excited! It stars Jesse Eisenberg (master thespian from Zombieland) as Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s intrepid founder.

So in honor of that, I present you with my top 10 computer movies!

2001: A Space Odyssey
Hello, Dave.
Forget about the monoliths for a minute. How cool is HAL 9000? When the computer endangers the crew’s lives for the sake of the mission, Astronaut Dave Bowman must outsmart man-made technology.

Cloak and Dagger
Davey’s hero was imaginary . . . but the enemy agents were real!
The ET kid has no mom and a disinterested dad, so he spends his days gaming and losing himself in an imaginary espionage world. Good thing he’s got all that experience, because he finds himself in possession of a video game cartridge containing super-secret FBI data.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Programmed for laughs!
Dexter (a young Kurt Russel) zaps himself while trying to fix his university’s super-computer. He becomes a human computer, remembering everything he sees and reads, including secret intel about the illegal activities of the computer’s donor. Gasp!

Electric Dreams
Meet Edgar. He’ll make you sing, make you dance, make you laugh, make you cry, make you jealous, make you nuts.
Lonely architect Miles buys a computer, spills wine on it, and the computer gains self-awareness (and calls himself Edgar). Soon, both Miles and the computer fall in love with beguiling neighbor Madeline, a cellist. Edgar woos Madeline by playing computer-generated cello duets with her through the walls. Of course, Madeline thinks she’s playing with Miles.

The Net
Her driver’s license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED.
Angela Bennett is a software engineer who works from home and has little contact with actual people. She goes on vacation and gets romanced by Jack, who tries to kill her. She soon discovers that her entire identity has been erased by Jack and his sinister organization.

Office Space
Work Sucks.
Peter Gibbons is a software developer. He’s tired of work. He’s tired of TPS reports. When efficiency experts invade his company, they reward his lethargy and plan to lay off his hard-working friends. To get back, they plan a money-making revenge scheme by taking advantage of some dropped cents.

Pirates of Silicon Valley
Good artists copy… Great artists steal.
This is a biographical look into the great computer geeks of our generation, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. This film follows their paths from college students, to young entrepreneurs to leaders of global empires. It’s funny, too!

Tron
The Electronic Gladiator
Desperate to prove that his former employer stole four video games he created, Kevin Flynn spends his days trying to hack into their mainframe, which is protected by a Master Control Program. The MCP sucks Kevin into its virtual world, where he must find TRON, the security program, for help escaping.

War Games
The only winning move is not to play.
Teenager David accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer that has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing? David must track down the program’s creator in order to save the world.

Weird Science
It’s all in the name of science. Weird Science.
Two nerdy boys create a living, breathing woman using their computer. In order to build their confidence, she places them in situations (wacky situations!) that force them to act like men.