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Nothing like bringing back a 2.5 year old thread!!!

Anyway, back to topic,.....

Shawshank Redemption - I think that the closing lines pretty much wraps it up...

"I find I am so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."

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Brings back some good memories (of the movie).

Beautiful mind has been most influential on me. The first time I saw it, I actually missed all of John Nash's cockiness (because I didn't watch the movie in it's entirety). Since then, I've watched over and over and over and I pseudo-tear when everybody walks up and gives Nash pens.

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Here's a few I used to like:

Fearless - Jeff Bridges survives a plane crash and see's life without it's hindrances. It really made me think about risk and lifes hangups etc.

True Romance - a Tarentino movie. Generally I think this guys stuff is too far over the top. I also never liked Christian Slater. But this was a first of it's kind I guess. I thought it was the greatest movie ever after the first time. But then I watched it again a year or so ago, and now it's just OK.

Then the usual top guy movies:
Saving private Ryan - An awesome depiction of the sacrifices made.
Matrix - just a really cool movie. I bought these movies along with my first DVD player and just about burnt a hole in them with the laser.

Also There's something about Mary - I love slapstick, I'm glad somebody out there still makes it.

When I was younger it was Superman, Starwars, Caddy shack, Meatballs and Airplane

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Million Dollar Baby has been a great influential movie on my life and on other people that are in sports with me etc that have seen it. I also think that Legally Blonde and Blue Crush are very influential on my life too. yes there all like chick flicks but i think those movies have all the same moral or just a great moral to it.

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Lord of the Rings.

The picture itself is unparalleled, but whats even more amazing is that the guy who directed it was making splatter films(really really really bad movies) all his life before this. I'm just astounded that Peter Jackson can pull something like this off. It really makes you think what a bit of passion and perseverance can do.

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Friday night lights is my influentail movie...

Its such a great movie because it depicts the thrill of winning and the agony of defeat. But in the end, the greatest award of all is the notion that you came out of it stronger and ready for the next hurdle life throws at you. We all dont win "state championship" but when you come out of it stronger, you have won all the respect in yourself you need

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The Corporation

Noam Chomsky and the Media

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Garden State and the original Star Wars Trilogy changed my life forever.

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SLC PUNK it is shows how someone can grow up no matter what they were like as a teenager/young adult. And that not all punks are stupid.

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The Color of Friendship--yes, I know it's a Disney movie, but it opened my eyes and made me look outside of the plastic bubble I had sort of been living in and made things real for me. Now, I look at events that occur in other countries and hope to focus on that in my reporting.

And yes, I'm really going to say it

Legally Blonde--There was a lot of junk in this movie, that I'll admit. But what made a difference to me was the message behind it. A pretty face who was intellegent and forced people to accept her as an equal, while still keeping her femininity and personality. You can have your cake and eat it too. :D

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Identity: about multiple personality disorders I really really liked it and I opened my eyes up that there are people that existl like that.

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Apocalypse Now.

I am trying to base my entire life on the philosophy of Colonel Kurtz.

Thank you.

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Haha, yea, that chomsky sure is good at hating America and complaining about elitsts while being one himself.

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Ferris Bueler's day off. The standard guide to enjoying highschool and how to skip school successfully. It reminds me alot when I watch it that I still can have fun amoungst the dreads of High school.