{"id":4924,"date":"2023-07-04T01:54:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2023-07-05T18:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:54:46","slug":"desert-island-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/desert-island-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As with the DID post, I was hoarding these in a custom MySQL database with some formatting and delusions about keeping images along with the Amazon links with my kickback URL. I can still do that, but keeping it outside of WordPress seems stupid at this point since I have a bunch of other data here. And given the death of my father this year, it&#8217;s clear that if you want things to be remembered and accessible, you need to make that easy and in one place. How&#8217;s that for old man morbid&#8230;but realistic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s my DIM list as it was in the early 2000s. As with the music, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d change it. I just might add \/ comment. Which means it&#8217;s a pretty good list.  There are only 7 because I included the X-Files first season, the Monty Python entire disc set and Beastie Boys anthology and, in retrospect, I think that&#8217;s cheating. I need to stick with movies. So I&#8217;ll do an addendum post with these 7 and some worthy additions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jacob&#8217;s Ladder &#8211; Adrian Lyne &#8211; 1990 &#8211; This movie works on many different levels. It&#8217;s a horror movie but with a spiritual theme. I like that it takes more than one viewing to absorb. The DVD has some cool extras. I consider extras a requirement to be a DID unless I REALLY like the movie.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To Kill A Mockingbird &#8211; Robert Mulligan &#8211; 1962 &#8211; One of the few examples where the movie is at least as good as the book. The new collector&#8217;s edition includes some nice goodies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Casablanca &#8211; Michael Curtiz &#8211; 1943 &#8211; I don&#8217;t think I really need to explain this choice. Bogie is the coolest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raising Arizona &#8211; Joel and Ethan Coen &#8211; 1987 &#8211; Totally hilarious. I love the Coen brothers. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t include Miller&#8217;s Crossing in my list (and it certainly would be included) as it isn&#8217;t available on DVD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unforgiven &#8211; Clint Eastwood &#8211; 1992 &#8211; Eastwood&#8217;s final word on westerns. There&#8217;s a reason why this won best picture. There are several other westerns that I&#8217;d love to include, Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West, High Noon among others, but I&#8217;ll live with this one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Great Escape &#8211; John Sturges &#8211; 1963 &#8211; This is an epic WWII movie that has been one of my favorites since the first time that I saw it as a kid. Steve McQueen is so cool in this one that they had to work it into his nickname in the film, &#8220;The Cooler King.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Player &#8211; Robert Altman &#8211; 1992 &#8211; Robert Altman&#8217;s return after a string of forgettable work in the &#8217;80s. A wonderful satire of the film industry. It&#8217;s fun just to watch all of the cameos. I also really enjoyed Short Cuts and Gosford Park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Current movie follow up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Miller&#8217;s Crossing is available on DVD. I&#8217;m not sure it ever wasn&#8217;t, but I&#8217;ll give myself a break. I&#8217;d put that on the list. The Big Lebowski is also up there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with the DID post, I was hoarding these in a custom MySQL database with some formatting and delusions about keeping images along with the Amazon links with my kickback URL. I can still do that, but keeping it outside of WordPress seems stupid at this point since I have a bunch of other data <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/desert-island-movies\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-120-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-1hq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4940,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}