Well, Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend, and there is nothing I like more on a cold night than a good movie. What movies inspire you?

1. Vision Quest
2. Breaking Away

Inspire me to do what?

Live my life: Harold and Maude

Create: Style Wars

Lift heavy things: Pumping Iron

Love: Amelie

Get out of my car through the window: Dukes of Hazard

Be a good person: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

:)

Movies by Michael Moore inspire me to vomit. :lol:

Two movies that help me out when I'm stressed is Office Space and Clerks.

Movies by Michael Moore inspire me to vomit. :lol:

yeah, the issues they cover scare me too.

which is i'm sure what you meant, of course.

Movies by Michael Moore inspire me to vomit. :lol:
:nod:

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Fight Club

(I'm weird.)

Friday Night Lights is ok. "Expectations couldn't be higher".

Centre Stage
Bootmen
Strictly Ballroom
The Company

Reign Over Me
Coach Carter:p
Remember the Titans :p
GI Jane :p

and definitely The Shawshank Redemption

Movies by Michael Moore inspire me to vomit. :lol:

x2.

Big Trouble in Little China (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utKqO0kdLqc) inspires me to extemporaneously generate cool monologues while eating a ham sandwich and driving a big rig.

Fargo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJUvPZI3Cr4) inspires me to annoy other people in the car by constantly asking "where's pancakes house?".

And last (but not least), Napoleon Dynamite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlmIYHUxVA4) inspires me to study Rex-Kwon-Do.

I love Michael Moore films.....:)

Fahrenheit 911....Oscar material
Bowling For Columbine.....ditto.

However for inspiration I like "Field of Dreams".

Inspiring
Shane
Saving Private Ryan
Gods and Generals
High Noon
Patton
MacArthur

Feel Good
How Green Was My Valley
Harvey
It's A Wonderful Life
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Miracle On 34th Street
I Remember Mama
The Quite Man

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...:whistle::whistle:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...:whistle::whistle:
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:lol:

Silverado
Conagher
Quigley Down Under
The Sacketts

x2.

Big Trouble in Little China (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utKqO0kdLqc) inspires me to extemporaneously generate cool monologues while eating a ham sandwich and driving a big rig.



I used to have fun quoting lines from that show....let's see....how about

This is Jack Burton on the Pork Chop express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listening out there. ... Like I told my last wife, I said honey, I never drive faster than I can see...besides, it's all in the reflexes.

Jack, what!...2000 years and he can't find one broad to fit the bill?...C'mon, Dave, you must be doing something seriously wrong!

...loses alot just reading it, you have to say it with the Jack Burton flair. :)


Rather than whole movies, I'm inspired mainly from scenes. For example, a movie might be mostly boring except for maybe one cool scene, or it could have lots of inspiring moments. I used to collect scenes as sort of a hobby. Like the scene where Eli Wallach meets the hired guns in the magnificent seven, or some of the kill bill scenes, also comedy, whatever. Even tv shows have some great scenes.

Love Actually

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...:whistle::whistle:

Absolutely brilliant...

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"

Then it was quiet again. My attorney had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest, to facilitate the tanning process. "What the hell are you yelling about?" he muttered, staring up at the sun with his eyes closed and covered with wraparound Spanish sunglasses. "Never mind," I said. "It's your turn to drive." I hit the brakes and aimed the Great Red Shark toward the shoulder of the highway. No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.

The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Half-Baked
Joe Dirt

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Kidding, kidding.

Body+Of+Work
Pumping Iron
The Replacements
The Shawshank Redemption
Rudy
Gladiator
Rocky I

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The Shawshank Redemption

it was only yesterday that i got to see this film. i asked my bf in advance if it was depressing, and he said 'it has a happy end'. half way through i felt like there was no way this film could have a happy end. and, does it really? so heavy. it's interesting that someone thinks it's 'inspirational', so, i'm curious, why?:)

it was only yesterday that i got to see this film. i asked my bf in advance if it was depressing, and he said 'it has a happy end'. half way through i felt like there was no way this film could have a happy end. and, does it really? so heavy. it's interesting that someone thinks it's 'inspirational', so, i'm curious, why?:)

Didn't you finish watching it?

It's one of the most powerful messages of hope that's ever been depicted in a story.

Didn't you finish watching it?

It's one of the most powerful messages of hope that's ever been depicted in a story.

i almost didn't. with all my depression due to poor weather i didn't really feel like it. hope, yeah, yeah, happy end, a chance for a new start, come on, what about all the memories and nightmares? it's like the end is too light compared to the rest of the film. and yes, it's one of the best films i've ever seen, but still, i don't find it inspirational if you know what i mean:)

i almost didn't. with all my depression due to poor weather i didn't really feel like it. hope, yeah, yeah, happy end, a chance for a new start, come on, what about all the memories and nightmares? it's like the end is too light compared to the rest of the film. and yes, it's one of the best films i've ever seen, but still, i don't find it inspirational if you know what i mean:)

It's difficult to answer without using the phrase "triumph of the human spirit" :lol:

It's about hope, salvation. The whole thing is almost an allegory of the story of Jesus. Hell, he even crawls out of the pipe and throws his arms out so he looks like he's on a crucifix... My dad (a church minister) always goes on about this bit being symbolic of the river washing away his sins yada yada... and of course the ending is him reaching his own personal heaven.

Quigley Down Under


Crazy Cora! :dreamy:

It's difficult to answer without using the phrase "triumph of the human spirit" :lol:

It's about hope, salvation. The whole thing is almost an allegory of the story of Jesus. Hell, he even crawls out of the pipe and throws his arms out so he looks like he's on a crucifix... My dad (a church minister) always goes on about this bit being symbolic of the river washing away his sins yada yada... and of course the ending is him reaching his own personal heaven.

i like the interpretation. i guess the film just didn't touch me the way it was meant to perhaps. what i'm trying to say is that i understand the message of hope, but it didn't make me feel it really. therefore, it didn't inspire me. and even though i'm curious to know what others read in the story, i'm more interested to find out how they felt afterwards.

it's interesting that someone thinks it's 'inspirational', so, i'm curious, why?:)

IMHO it's 'cause he spends half of the movie miserable because of how unfair the situation is, then the other half accepting that it's not fair and making the best of a horrendous situation, then the climax getting over on everyone who made life hell for himself and others. :nod:

Inspirational
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Cinema Paradiso
Basquiat
Platoon
Starship Troopers

Raging Bull

As someone who works in film/television, I find it inspiring in a cinematic sense. Definitely not as a way to live my life!

Pocohontas

O Brother Where Art Thou

:D

Movies by Michael Moore inspire me to vomit. :lol:

;):nod::tu:

Love Actually

That was one I was going to list...it is one of my wife and I's favorite movies that we both enjoy.

My dad (a church minister) always goes on about this bit being symbolic of the river washing away his sins yada yada... and of course the ending is him reaching his own personal heaven.

*off topic*Does your dad know of a guy in the UK named Matt Redman? He is a music artist in the church circle over there?

As far as movies I consider inspiring:

1. Band of Brothers
2. 300

There are a ton more that just are not coming to mind right away...

Toy Story 2.

Ryan: No idea.

A Sunday In Hell
The Road to Paris

Invincible
Greatest Game Ever Played
Rudy
Top Gun

There's a theme here. :nod:

Clifford the Big Red Dog. :D Woof Woof

Top Gun

:drool:

it was only yesterday that i got to see this film. i asked my bf in advance if it was depressing, and he said 'it has a happy end'. half way through i felt like there was no way this film could have a happy end. and, does it really? so heavy. it's interesting that someone thinks it's 'inspirational', so, i'm curious, why?:)

what everyone else said. plus, red and andy remain unbroken, andy especially, who rises somewhat triumphantly above the hell he's in.

plus, it's one of the few movies i've seen that does the book (novella) justice. :nod:

The Pursuit of Happyness

yeah, the issues they cover scare me too.

which is i'm sure what you meant, of course.

Uhm, nope.

Uhm, nope.

:eek:

really?


what about chariots of fire? i love that movie. and a hero for daisy.

Since Shawshank and O Brother have been mentioned, it seems unfair to exclude Cool Hand Luke and The Great Escape.

:eek:

really?


what about chariots of fire? i love that movie. and a hero for daisy.

I don't think Moore directed Chariots of Fire. :P

it was only yesterday that i got to see this film. i asked my bf in advance if it was depressing, and he said 'it has a happy end'. half way through i felt like there was no way this film could have a happy end. and, does it really? so heavy. it's interesting that someone thinks it's 'inspirational', so, i'm curious, why?:)

This is to date still my all time favourite movie. I have seen it so many times. And enjoy it everytime, but I don't feel the same way after watching it everytime though, but alot of the time I do.

I agree with what everyone else said. But this movie leaves me feeling like if I just do a little bit everyday I will eventually escape the 'personal hole' I am in. But if I do nothing my circumstances will never change.


Other movies...

Simon Birch
Mulan

Spinal Tap.

I didnt think of that, but yeah....

Love Actually | We always feel optimistic & positive after that one.

It's like the non-Christmas Christmas movie.

The Dinner Game (French) is an inspiring funny movie by how great the main character is.

Rocky | Gladiator | Troy

Above are good testosterone inspiring movies for me.

Cinema Paradiso *** Edit

The Full Monty

Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chausseur Noir

Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chausseur Noir

Pierre Richard is the best !!! So funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOSmvL5wew

Pierre Richard is the best !!! So funny.

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it was only yesterday that i got to see this film. i asked my bf in advance if it was depressing, and he said 'it has a happy end'. half way through i felt like there was no way this film could have a happy end. and, does it really? so heavy. it's interesting that someone thinks it's 'inspirational', so, i'm curious, why?:)

IMHO it's 'cause he spends half of the movie miserable because of how unfair the situation is, then the other half accepting that it's not fair and making the best of a horrendous situation, then the climax getting over on everyone who made life hell for himself and others. :nod:

Inspirational
--
Cinema Paradiso
Basquiat
Platoon
Starship Troopers

I see a more of a reference to Viktor Frankl. Obviously you cannot compare the treatment in the movie to that of the conectration camps, but he did refuse to let imprisonment dictate his life. He had a goal.

It's been a while since I have seen it but wasn't him being miserable just a front because he had to have been working on that project of his for a LONG time.

O Brother Where Art Thou

:D

Coen Brothers have a new movie coming out this month the Cormac Mcarthy book :spaz:

Which films inspire me/

Zulu. The Dam Busters. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Each is about people who won't or can't give in or give up.

As for Zulu - I was there all those years ago at Rorke's Drift. Or so it seems, having watched it umpteen times.

Seabiscuit

Braveheart
8 Mile
First Knight
Gladiator
Pumping Iron
Rounders
Young Guns