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Re: Most influential movie on your life?
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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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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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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. ![]() |
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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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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.
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Ive thought about this all day on and off before replying.
Most movies are fiction, made up stories. In that catigory I cant think of a single one that had any real effect on my life. You cant base your life on fiction, because the situations and results are contrived for entertainment purposes, and they do not correlate to reality. But there have been several excellent movies that were more or less documentaries, and some of these have affected me deeply: Private Ryan is said to be an accurate protrayal of what it was like to be a soldier in WW2. My father was in Pattons 3rd army, and fought in the battle of the buldge. He never talked about it much, and when he did it upset him deeply. I gained a lot of insite into my father's life after seeing Saving Private Ryan. In a similar way the movie Gettysburg portrayed the insanity of the civil war. Ive been to the town recently, and its very depressing to contemplate the loss of life that happened there in only 3 days, and to come to terms with the war as a whole. I know we say now the war freed the slaves and saved the union, but I think we could have accomplished those things without hundreds of thousands of americans blasting each other into hamburger with grape-shot from cannons, musket balls, and hacking each other to death with bayonets and swords. The movies Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff gave a wonderfull insite into the lives of the people who made our space program possible, and gave me great inspiration as an engineer. And I have to include Shindler's List. We dont like to face the dark side of our human nature, but its there. If we dont accept who we are as a species, we will continue to repeat the horrors of our history. |
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