Meet Me At The Movies

Seen about the internets: Post your ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).

I have a problem getting up to ten on this, not least because much of the visual material I'd choose for this purpose is TV, not movies. Seriously, go watch all of The Sandbaggers, and maybe some Remington Steele, Blakes 7, and Burn Notice, then get back to me. And... you know what? I'm just going to do a TV list, too. But first, the movies. In approximate order of chronological influence, although it all blurs a bit at this point.

The Breakfast Club
Harold And Maude
Ghostbusters
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across The Eighth Dimension
The Stuff
Ladyhawke
Labyrinth
Grosse Pointe Blank
National Treasure
RED

Okay, maybe not so much trouble, once I opened the movie cabinet; I had to cut Mortal Kombat (which most people think is about, um, whatsisname, the kid, instead of the characters played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Linden Ashby) to get it down to ten.



But if you really want to get to know me through video, you gotta watch some TV.

In no particular order:

The Sandbaggers
Remington Steele
Star Trek (the original, thank you very much)
Blakes 7
Burn Notice
Max Headroom
Campion (the Mystery! edition, if there's any doubt)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy (the TV programme, though the books and radio show have their place, too)
WKRP In Cincinnati
Waiting For God

The housemate has reminded me that I forgot Daria. Good grief, how could I have forgotten Daria? That pretty much is me. Um... oh, hell, make it eleven.

Which opens up space for a Spinal Tap joke, but that's enough pop-culture reference for one day. ;-)