The Journey to Mount Geek: The Brotherhood of Geeks (2001)
Created and Written by Spencer Green
Rating: ********1/2
Summary
Huge, epic adaptation of the first part of C.L.L. Morten's classic trilogy about a group of pasty-faced computer users, led by the brilliant Poindexter, who have no lives and must travel to the fabled Mount Geek, the only place in the world where they are guaranteed to get laid. Danger begins after their moms drop them off at the bus station, continues with The Journey to Mount Geek: The Socially Shunned (2002).
Director
Cast
- Austin Barber (Poindexter)
- Klare Lodington (Qwinhild)
Didja Know?
- Special DVD includes 45 hours of extra scenes, footnotes, home movies of director Rodney Wendon getting beaten up by bullies as a child, swearing revenge.
- C.L.L. Morten rather indiscriminately (and interchangably) uses the terms "geeks" and "nerds" throughout his trilogy, which writer/director Rodney Wendon faithfully replicates. Although geeks do have much in common with nerds, the term "nerd" sometimes has more of a negative connotation in today's world, implying an unhealthy obsessiveness when it comes to pursuing some goal to the point where that goal becomes irrelevant. And don't even get us started on "dorks."
Famous Quotes
Qwinhild: It began with the drawing of the maps. Three were given to Mighty Space Explorers and Don't Blame Joseph Campbell (1977) fans, the most benign and yet saddest of all nerds. Seven were given to the unwashed goth nerds, silent and often deadly. And nine, nine maps were given to the computer nerds, who above all had the technical knowledge to influence our world. For within these maps were the directions to a wondrous land where pleasures of the flesh would unfold for all of these pathetic creatures. But these maps were a trick, for a new map was made, in the very place which these nerds sought: Mount Geek. And put into this map were explicit instructions that even these wretched beings, who had ventured only to comic book conventions, could follow and find the paradise that had been thought only a legend. The map was given to Ogilvie, a programmer from MIT, to share with his nerd brethren but he lost it amidst his many manuals and the map slid from memory, like the seed spilled by these nerds alone in their bathrooms. Until a video game enthusiast named Eugene who worked at Best Buy came upon the map and took it into the employees' break room. It consumed him and he tried to find Mount Geek on his own. But the sounds and colors of a role-playing game, no matter how intricate and graphically stimulating, are no match for the real journey and so the candle was once again snuffed. Until now…
Critical Views
"The most perfect, astounding, kick-ass movie in the history of the universe." - Parents' Basement Dwellers Monthly
