We are closing in on the 7th anniversary of my father’s passing. We have an UMR tradition that we share his Top 5 Movies as the post of the day on the day of his passing…..this year that day falls on Father’s Day. This year I would like to share other dad’s Favorite Movies or a movie memory shared with your father. So if you are willing to share the information….we will come up with an UMR page for Sunday to honor not only my dad but many other dads.
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My dad loved cowboy movies, with John Wayne easily being his favorite. His favorite movie and it is not even close is Wayne’s McLintock! He saw that movie so many times I had to replace his VHS tape with a DVD.
Thanks for all those that shared their memories of their father and movies….you will see these comments on a special Father’s Day page coming this Sunday. Shocked that my kids have memories about me and movies….shocked I tell ya.
HI BRUCE
We are going to have wall-to-wall action hero movies on one of our main movie channels over the next few weeks with input from the likes of The Rock, Statham, Arnie, Willis-Moore and even some action heroines who are only vaguely familiar to me. That in conjunction with your own funny tagline about superheroes and Dads reminded me of a humorous Father’s Day episode in the TV sitcom Frasier-
MARTIN CRANE [a big Van Damme fan] Thanks Frasier for taking me to that Jean-Claude movie as a Father’s Day present. What did you think of it , son?
Opera snob and Classics buff FRASER [hesitatingly stiffening and winching] It was educational.
MARTIN. What did you learn son?
FRASIER. In the Vatican scene where Van Damme overcomes an entire army of fake priests so that he can unmask that bogus Pope I learned that even a continuous array of bullets from a dozen trained assassins are useless against a man who can kick 20 feet into the air.
PS I see that your own children have already paid touching tributes to you on this site. That’s as it should be but I urge them to on the big day itself also have time for remembering possibly the Greatest Father of All Time – Jor El! – in the way that the Mother of the household recently did from what you say.
So way back when. I cannot remember my age, but I was young…maybe 10, give or take a year or 2, my uncle, BoC…by the way my dad is the one and only great, best dad, #1 movie/sports buff I know, Cogerson himself! Anyway back to the story, my uncle, BoC, had recently purchased a brand new projector tv. Back then, in the mid-to-late 90’s, these things next to big screen TV’s were awesome. It was not like today where everyone has a 42″ minimum. Needless to say this projector was pretty cool. It had its own stand that was the seemed to be as big as the wall as I can remember. So one day my dad, Cogerson, decided we were going to go over and watch a movie on the new BIG screen.
As a child and not being able to decide what I was going to do, I got to go with him. Now for some of you who know Cogerson, you understand that movie ratings prove to be no barrier when it comes to the right of passage for a young man to watch a movie. Some examples, my first movie ever, from what I have been told…Colors…in the theater…as a baby. Die Hard was one of my first quotable movies…I knew what happened to make John Connor in the Terminator before I was 10 (maybe, not sure on the age). P.S. He didn’t let me watch the adult stuff between Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese…but I knew.
Back to the story…so knowing what you know now, you will not be surprised to find out the movie we were going to watch on the new BIG screen was the one and only, John Carpenter’s “The Thing” starring Kurt Russell or as Cogerson put it, another Snake Plissken movie. As I recall I was told that the movie was funny…that was not an accurate description. The opening scene where they are trying to kill the dog led to a night of horror. I don’t remember much after that except for a few key moments.
Moment number 1…the dog is dead and Kurt Russell melts it with the flamethrower.
Moment number 2…the head comes off the dead guy and is crawling around the floor with legs (apparently this was the funny part because it looked cheesy).
Moment number 3…everyone tied to the chairs, testing the blood with heat, and then the thing comes out of the dude and it was bad.
Moment number 4…the last scene…the monster is massive and Dexter Riley has to fight it.
Moment number 5…they had to eat out of cans, not scary, but memorable I don’t know why.
Moment number 6…Macready lives! Little side note, there was really cool video game that came out called The Thing and at the end Macready shows up.
Now some of you may be thinking how could a man, a father, mentor, hard worker, comic, movie critic, sports guru, and friend put their first born son through so much trauma? Well you obviously don’t know Cogerson, but it was worth it. In the end I am grateful, I am fortunate, and I consider myself lucky to have been passed on so much knowledge of the cinema from someone who means the world to me. The Thing is a classic and I thank Cogerson for exposing me to such. Happy Father’s Day, Dad! Love you.
I am very fortunate to have two father figures in my life. My dad and Cogerson my step-dad. I remember my dad always enjoying the first 5 to 10 minutes of Top Gun, listening to the music and the sound effects and then rewatching the same thing over and over. He did the same thing with one of the Fast and the Furious movies.
As for Cogerson, lots and lots of movie memories here. He introduced me to opening night midnight movies. I probably saw half of the Harry Potter movies at the midnight showings on a school night…but I never missed a day of school. He introduced me to Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The movie that got him in the most trouble with WoC, was when he got me to watch Signs. I was fine until the knife under the door scene. At which point I went crying to my mom, and she made him turn the movie off. To this day I have never seen the end of that movie. Another thing he introduced me too was DVD release parties. A video store near our house would start selling new release DVDs at midnight on Monday night/Tuesday morning. Once when one of the Twilight movies was being released on DVD, I won a Twilight movie poster in a nice frame, because I was able to answer a trivia question. That was a proud night. All these years later and I still have that poster.
Reading DOC1’s opening line about how lucky she is to have Cogerson as a step father reminds me of an awards ceremony once where the actress reading out the awards announced Russell Crowe’s name and then proceeded to say what a wonderful human being he was. I had to ask myself “Do I know this guy? Are there two of him kicking around?”
Seriously though for anyone interested in movies having Cogerson as part of one’s household would be a huge bonus. My own father was as big a movie buff as I but unfortunately for the most part we had very opposite tastes so that watching films together would lead to flaming rows at times. If I presented hard facts to support my own preferences he would [Trump like!] accuse me of manufacturing them and his dogmatism about the perceived defects in my own idols drove me to pretend that idols of his were also “rubbish” even though on a few occasions I idolised some of his favourites myself, such as The Duke. Still in hindsight I miss all those quarrels so children of Cogerson “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may!”