Favorite Movies

So here’s a bonus I’ll talk about here favorite movies because I think your favorite movies speak a lot about you and I can definitely say it’s a definitive list. Star trek to the Wrath of Khan and Transformers The Movie are my two top films. I think they both have themes of sacrifice in them, namely Optimus Prime Transformers The Movie Mr. Spock in Star Trek two. Obviously Star Trek two it’s it’s more of a movie movie, dealing midlife and dealing with death. Or I suppose transformers was basically selling toys and wiping out the whole 84 line so they could sell us the 586 line of toys but both films are amazing to me. Transformers was definitely pretty epic. I saw that with Kevin Wagner and movie theater. I remember actually seeing a transformer in like houses or something. I think it was SS right before honestly the movie I remember seeing star screaming this Starscream got killed in Star Trek two.

As my mother was pursuing your education at Messiah college I was I was uh, I guess I was stuck tagging along and she took the Star Trek tape and put it in the library VCR put headphones on like these big oversize headphones and that’s what I did while she was studying doing library work. Eventually I recorded the ABC TV cut of Star Trek which is now known as the director’s cut but would be known as the director’s cut for another seven years, seven or eight years. I want to say even later so aired in 84. And the DVD I want to say came out in 2001 2002. So yeah, that was a was about 20 years really. But I remember reading the novel of Star Trek to the adaption there’s a lot of extra material on there, and then be able to surprisingly see it on the ABC broadcast of it I’d recorded it that kind of became the definitive version of Star Trek two.

Runners up for me include the Polar Express I think that is a great experience movie actually thought I was on the The Polar Express train. I have the the 4k the blu ray the Blu Ray 3d. And then amazingly enough I have the what we call the stereoscope 3d The red glasses, the red and blue lens, DVD and blu ray to I have the equipment to do the 3d Blu Ray I just haven’t been but the actual like three blu ray technology. But for now the stereo scope stuff works fine with me. With the red and blue glasses, the Polar Express is there. Just because I think it’s great escapism, great experience. I like the music Moreover, I feel like when I watch it, I’m on the Polar Express.

Alice in Wonderland, Johnny Depp love that film. Especially Alice and Alice Through the Looking Glass elsley looking glass into that gray box office. But like the idea of just being caught back somewhere that people don’t understand with a mission, and that’s what Alice had to do, because the Hatter had gotten mad and and then you know as obviously the list gets a little more obscure. From there, I can definitely say, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp. Just because I think much like the Twilight Zone. You’d like to see people get what’s coming to them.

That was definitely a trademark of Rod Serling was twilight zone scripts. So Twilight Zone had a lot of different writers, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson Rod Serling. And between the three of them you could always talk Beaumont skriver math as thin script and a rod script and Rod Serling. was always he was writing these morality plays and you know, whoever had something coming to them got what was coming to them. Whereas Matheson was kind of more of a fantasy writer and Beaumont obviously had his style of writing and stories.

So those are my movies one TV show I left out and again kind of the story of my life thing I should list these things out which is great because they can trigger stories. TV show Quincy me starring Jack Klugman. I remember watching reruns of that on Saturday afternoon or I’m sorry, a weekday afternoons one o’clock on WPM t 43.

I actually own them now on DVD took a little bit I think shout factory did the final releases of those universal did like seasons one, two and three and then you had to get the shout factory route for the rest of them. But my father being a funeral director, he was the first one notified after the coroner or the person who fight after the coroner. And I think because my father worked in death, watching Dr. Quincy you know the first thing you’re dealing with is death. Because he was the LA coroner, although he had more adventures than any coroner. I think that I know.

I think also you know the show obviously. Jack Klugman was an actor but he also pushed for different stories, because eventually became a social justice show. Quincy would just go on these different crusades. Whether it was elder abuse, whether it was drug abuse, whether it was lookalike drugs, whether it was water contamination, pollution, orphan drugs he had, he definitely actually had a real life impact on the passage of the Orphan Drug Act.

But because my father was dealing with death, I think Dr. Quincy was the closest thing that I could relate to. Definitely got me into the procedural when my sister was morning, my sister somehow I got glued on to bluebloods never did finish morning, my sister until the whole morning, my sister and my my mother together episode, but I just buried myself in blue bloods in addition to being a procedural, it’s a family drama and I was seeing when I was losing slowly losing which also led to the current stable NCIS with NCIS Los Angeles and see as New Orleans NCIS and CS why and now NCIS and Sydney.

But I think it really started with Dr. Quincy at one o’clock on weekday afternoons and just how that related to the world as I saw growing up with dead people