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• Mad Max? I mean... look at those machines!!

  Posted by: aconbere on February 24, 2006 at 12:22 AM

• Back to the Future, 100%.

  Posted by: kryten007 on February 24, 2006 at 4:32 AM

• The flight of the Phoenix (1965), of course!
  They made a rad airplane in the middle of the desert...and it wasn't something that also happened in the film, it was the bleeding film!

  Besides that, erm,
  The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980), making a glass-bottom boat out of a B-29 using only bamboo, dynamite and a water-buffalo.

  Posted by: DerGolgo on February 24, 2006 at 4:51 AM

• The flight of the Phoenix (1965), of course!
  They made a rad airplane in the middle of the desert...and it wasn't something that also happened in the film, it was the bleeding film!

  Besides that, erm,
  The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980), making a glass-bottom boat out of a B-29 using only bamboo, dynamite and a water-buffalo.

  Posted by: DerGolgo on February 24, 2006 at 4:52 AM

• The flight of the Phoenix (1965), of course!
  They made a rad airplane in the middle of the desert...and it wasn't something that also happened in the film, it was the bleeding film!

  Besides that, erm,
  The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980), making a glass-bottom boat out of a B-29 using only bamboo, dynamite and a water-buffalo.

  Posted by: DerGolgo on February 24, 2006 at 4:54 AM

• I think I buggered up there...that was supposed to be only one post, sorry.

  Posted by: DerGolgo on February 24, 2006 at 4:56 AM

• It's also interesting to consider the great film-Maker films -- the ones that use ingenuity in their production design or otherwise:

  From films like Citizen Kane and Barry Lyndon that had special lenses developed just for their production to Maker-made production design films like Pi, Blade Runner, and Terry Gilliam's films (especially Brazil).

  Posted by: pharrill on February 24, 2006 at 6:02 AM

• It's also interesting to consider the great film-Maker films -- films like Citizen Kane and Barry Lyndon that had special lenses developed just for their production to Maker-made production design films like Pi, Blade Runner, and Terry Gilliam's films (especially Brazil).

  Posted by: pharrill on February 24, 2006 at 6:02 AM

• Does The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) count? I know all the projects in that movie are fictional; but still, what a great Maker spirit!

  Posted by: jasonpettus on February 24, 2006 at 6:24 AM

• A few more Maker movies:

  The Conversation (1974) - Gene Hackman is an electronic surveillance expert with a bitchin' workshop.
  Sneakers (1992) - Redford, Ackroyd, Poitier, figure out how to be hacker-makers for a living . . . just not a very good one.
  Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang(1968) - Dick Van Dyke as a turn-of-the-century Maker. Includes the Maker's anthem, "Up From the Ashes!"
  Cast Away (2000) - Tom Hanks takes making back to nature, just like . . .
  The Swiss Family Robinson (1960) - Out-Gilligans Gilligan in dressing up their uncharted desert isle.
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) - James Mason as arch-Maker, Captain Nemo. (In fact, any Jules Verne flick probably qualifies here.)
  And lest we forget:

  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - The tale of humanity, a species of makers, and how they went from antelope femurs to space travel in 1/24th of a second. Oh, and there's that great scene where Kier Dullea "mods" HAL.

  Posted by: Them on February 24, 2006 at 8:35 AM

• How about...

  WarGames
  Sneakers
  Real Genius
  

  Posted by: Harvey_Wallbanger on February 24, 2006 at 8:47 AM

• 3 Days of the Condor
  Robert Redford is a CIA Analyst and voracious bibliophile who's front company is taken out by an inside job by neocons attempting to destablize the mideast. Did I Mention it was topical? He has to doge both the CIA and the assasin using various hacks and gambits. The best bit is the trick with a lineman's handset.

  Posted by: monopole on February 24, 2006 at 8:48 AM

• My picks: Forbidden City Cop (1996) and The Goonies (1985), two movies featuring crazy Asian inventors.

  Honorable mention: From Beijing with Love (1994).

  There's a great take-off on the "Q" character in which the maker of secret weapons turns out to be incompetent and mentally ill.

  Posted by: mister.joshua on February 24, 2006 at 9:05 AM

• The Sand Pebbles is great if you have a love of steam power, and/or total respect of uber male Steve McQueen...

  No Highway in the Sky based on the Nevil Shute book which shows engineering gone wrong, and a preposterous (airplane) tail. Nevil Shute is a patron saint of Makers, read "Trustee from the Toolroom", "Around the Bend", "Ordeal" and his autobiography "Slide Rule", as well as all his other books...Nevil Shute Norway Foundation

  Posted by: NickCarter on February 24, 2006 at 9:26 AM

• This is the second time I'm posting a comment as the first time said it was "awaiting moderation"...

  I vote for The Sand Pebbles a great movie if you like steam power and Steve McQueen (the book is even better)...

  Nevil Shute's No Highway is a great movie by one of the patron saints of Makers. His books such as "Trustee from the Toolroom", "Around the Bend", "Most Secret" and his autobiography "Slide Rule" as well as his other books are well worth reading. Nevil Shute Norway Foundation

  Posted by: NickCarter on February 24, 2006 at 10:09 AM

• nick, when there are multiple links in a comment, it gets held (spammers) so i have to manually publish those.

  cheers,
  pt

  Posted by: philliptorrone on February 24, 2006 at 10:16 AM

• Brazil (1985) particularly DeNiro's commando engineer.

  Posted by: monopole on February 24, 2006 at 11:04 AM

• Surprised no one has posted this one yet.

  
  Explorers

  :D

  Posted by: timberwolfdp on February 24, 2006 at 4:32 PM

• The Manhattan Project

  Posted by: gswitter on February 24, 2006 at 5:41 PM

• The Manhattan Project (1986)

  Posted by: gswitter on February 24, 2006 at 5:43 PM

• How about Gene Hackman again in Ememy of the State (1998)? He had that cool home-made bug-proof cage in the warehouse.

  Posted by: microdot71 on February 24, 2006 at 9:18 PM

• How about Gene Hackman again in Ememy of the State (1998)? He had that cool home-made bug-proof cage in the warehouse.

  Posted by: microdot71 on February 24, 2006 at 9:21 PM

• How about Gene Hackman again in Ememy of the State (1998)? He had that cool home-made bug-proof cage in the warehouse.

  Posted by: microdot71 on February 24, 2006 at 9:25 PM

• Actually Hackman's character from Enemy of the State was a reprise of the main character of The Conversation a much better film and a better Maker film as well.

  Posted by: monopole on February 24, 2006 at 9:32 PM

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