that changed your life? I'm not talking "inspiration" or "feel good" here.

I mean one that actually changed your ideology or the way you live after having seen it.

No, I have seen 1000s and 1000s of movies. I don't think they are capable of changing lives.:cool:

Have you seen one?

There are movies that gave me a differenet perspective like Blood Diamond. Do you mean movies like that?

I know Saving Private Ryan gave me a whole different perspective on what war is like...

Well...this may seem a bit politically incorrect now...but...

The year was 1957. I was coming to Canada on a Cunard steamer (The Scythia) with my parents. They had a movie theater on board. Playing during the crossing (Mid-January) was "Moby Dick" with Gregory Peck.

I was about 10 years old.

After I saw that movie I was in love with all things nautical forever.

When some years passed by and I matured a little , I saw that whaling was wrong. (Actually I was cheering for "Moby Dick" all through the movie). But I also loved the marine "ambience" in the film.

When I got to Canada I finished out the winter using broken hockey sticks for harpoons and spearing large snowdrifts.:o

That was the first movie where the raw power of the ocean made an impact on me.

Prior to coming to Canada I saw two other movies with my parents.

One was "Shane' with Alan Ladd and Jack Palance. I was a kid and that movie had me in tears at the end. Life looks much larger when you're that age. I thought Shane was God.

The other one was "Davy Crockett" with Fess Parker as Davy.

My brother and I used to act out the scene where the Mexicans storm the ramparts over and over again. We'd use old wooden desks for the ramparts and cardboard boxes. And pop-guns with wooden handles.

We'd take turns playing Davy/Mexican. One time I was playing Mexican and he caught me with his gun-butt so good he almost broke my jaw.

The "western" definitely had an impact on my life. I spent a lot of time in my childhood emulating "film" cowboys. Any other time I was Ishmael on the "Pequod".

On my seventeenth birthday, I joined the Army on their Delayed Entry Program, meaning I could enlist up to 11 months before my ship date. I was to head off to Fort Sill, OK two days after graduating high school. I would have been over half way through basic training before I turned 18.

Anyway, I watched tons of military films. Unfortunately, I chose the wrong ones. Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket (over, and over, and over...). They made me rethink what I was entering and I ended up not going.

that was nearly 20 years ago and I regret not shipping off to boot camp everyday of my life. Not that I am not happy with where I am at in life, but that I feel I let myself and my country down by allowing myself to be brainwashed by Hollywood. Maybe I should have watched some of the old John Wayne military films instead....

Fight Club. I didn't see the film, only read the book, but they did make it into a film. That counts.

Movies don't impact me as much as books. But the Matrix, Donnie Darko, and Fight Club all had me seeing things for a while.

Donnie Darko and Shawshank Redemption.

Rollerball ( the original), Ghost in the Shell, Lord of the Rings

La Dolce Vita | Clockwork Orange | Montery Pop | & Dr. Strangelove.

All on the same day when I was 13 years old in a old cinema with my hippie type Aunt & Uncle.

The first two shaped who i am almost totally.

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No, I have seen 1000s and 1000s of movies. I don't think they are capable of changing lives.:cool:

Have you seen one?

While I do think that movies can't change lives as much as the written word. I do remember definitely one movie that I first saw by myself when I was six years old and have seen many, many times since. It was Gone with the Wind. A movie that will remain at the top of my best movie list.

When I saw it that day in 1948, I had to leave the theater in the Burning of Atlanta scenes. It made an impact on me. I was mad and scared. It still has impact, today, I watched it tonight.

office space, seriously. it opened my eyes.

The End of Suburbia and A Crude Awakening are both very similar. I'm a very skeptical person, but those kinda raised my eyebrows a little and made me think about preparing for the future somewhat..

One of my favorite films is American Beauty, it always reminds me to never live my life like that.