Films that have had an effect on you.
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In alphabetical order:
A Clockwork Orange - How many movies make you feel sympathetic toward a character that is a murderer, rapist, and all-around terrible guy?
Against the Wall - It's about the 1971 Attica prison riot/massacre.
American History X - I think enough has been said about this one by other people in this thread.
Be Cool - Be cool.
Braveheart - I like Mel Gibson's inspirational speech before they fight.
Donnie Darko - I'm not exactly sure what I took from that movie. I'm still thinking about it...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Even though losing someone/something important to you really ****ing hurts you have to go on with your life. There is no easy way out.
Forrest Gump - I was fine through the whole movie... but when he realizes that he has a son, starts to cry, and asks "Is he smart, or is he... like me?" it shows that his positive attitude throughout the rest of the movie wasn't from being blissfully ignorant of his shortcomings and all the horrible things/people he had to deal with in his life... and the thought of his son having to deal with the same problems is terrifying to him. Just replaying that scene in my head makes me want to cry.
Gandhi - Must I really explain this one?
Garden State - A few quotes should explain it: (1) Large - "You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. . . You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place." (2) Large - "You know, this necklace makes me think of this totally random memory of my mother. I was a little kid, and I was crying for whatever reason. And she was cradling me, rocking me back and forth, and I can just remember the silver balls rolling around. And there was like snot running down my nose. And she offered me her sleeve and told me to blow my nose into it. And I can remember, even as a little kid, thinking to myself, 'This is love... this is love.'" (3) Sam - "That's life. If nothing else, its life. It's real, and sometimes it ****in' hurts, but it's sort of all we have."
Groundhog Day - You only get one chance. Make it count.
Jaws - To this day, I continue to have trouble going out into the ocean past where I can still stand on the bottom.
La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) - The first half of the movie is a romantic comedy... then the main character and his family get sent to a concentration camp. I loved the way Roberto Benigni's character did anything possible to try to protect his son from the horrors of the Holocaust.
Léon (The Professional) - It is a sort of love story between an assassin and a young girl whose family was murdered... but the characters are played so that Jean Reno's character is almost childlike while the young girl, played by Natalie Portman (who was 13 at the time), seems to be the more emotionally mature and intelligent of the two. It's an interesting combination.
Lost in Translation - We've all been at a place in our lives where we just felt out of place... whether you moved around a lot, didn't have many friends, etc.
Philadelphia - The second appearance by Tom Hanks on my list. It made me think about how our society treats different kinds of people socially and legally.
Raging Bull - A wonderfully-made biographical movie about the middleweight boxing champion, Jake LaMotta, and his self-destructive life. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and it has the legendary performance by Robert De Niro in which he spent months of physical training with Jake LaMotta himself to get into shape for the beginning of the movie then gained over 60 pounds to play the out of shape LaMotta at the end of the movie.
Saving Private Ryan - The third appearance by Tom Hanks. I grew up watching the war movies my parents used to watch... you know, the kind in which you might see John Wayne. The kind that basically glorified war. Saving Private Ryan was a shocking film that gave me a lot of respect for the people that get stuck on the front lines of a war and the hell they go through.
Schindler's List - This is another film that has already been mentioned enough in this thread.
The Elephant Man - Basically, I picked up a similar message as in Philadelphia.
The Godfather - I've been interested in that subject matter ever since.
The Green Mile - The fourth appearance by Tom Hanks... and it would have been five or more if I included The Road to Perdition, Cast Away, Catch Me if You Can, etc. It's about how a big, gentle black man (who you later learn has a special healing power) gets framed for the murder of two young girls and sentenced to death. It's a really sad movie.
The Last Samurai - I don't what it is, exactly, about the end of that movie but after that last fight I had trouble holding the tears in until the credits started rolling.
The Shawshank Redemption - Despite the depressing view it gave of the legal system and prison, it was inspirational through the perseverance of Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman's characters.
I didn't include Band of Brothers because, technically, it was an HBO mini-series... not a feature length motion picture. Otherwise, it would be on the list for the same reasons as Saving Private Ryan.
A Clockwork Orange - How many movies make you feel sympathetic toward a character that is a murderer, rapist, and all-around terrible guy?
Against the Wall - It's about the 1971 Attica prison riot/massacre.
American History X - I think enough has been said about this one by other people in this thread.
Be Cool - Be cool.
Braveheart - I like Mel Gibson's inspirational speech before they fight.
Donnie Darko - I'm not exactly sure what I took from that movie. I'm still thinking about it...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Even though losing someone/something important to you really ****ing hurts you have to go on with your life. There is no easy way out.
Forrest Gump - I was fine through the whole movie... but when he realizes that he has a son, starts to cry, and asks "Is he smart, or is he... like me?" it shows that his positive attitude throughout the rest of the movie wasn't from being blissfully ignorant of his shortcomings and all the horrible things/people he had to deal with in his life... and the thought of his son having to deal with the same problems is terrifying to him. Just replaying that scene in my head makes me want to cry.
Gandhi - Must I really explain this one?
Garden State - A few quotes should explain it: (1) Large - "You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. . . You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place." (2) Large - "You know, this necklace makes me think of this totally random memory of my mother. I was a little kid, and I was crying for whatever reason. And she was cradling me, rocking me back and forth, and I can just remember the silver balls rolling around. And there was like snot running down my nose. And she offered me her sleeve and told me to blow my nose into it. And I can remember, even as a little kid, thinking to myself, 'This is love... this is love.'" (3) Sam - "That's life. If nothing else, its life. It's real, and sometimes it ****in' hurts, but it's sort of all we have."
Groundhog Day - You only get one chance. Make it count.
Jaws - To this day, I continue to have trouble going out into the ocean past where I can still stand on the bottom.
La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) - The first half of the movie is a romantic comedy... then the main character and his family get sent to a concentration camp. I loved the way Roberto Benigni's character did anything possible to try to protect his son from the horrors of the Holocaust.
Léon (The Professional) - It is a sort of love story between an assassin and a young girl whose family was murdered... but the characters are played so that Jean Reno's character is almost childlike while the young girl, played by Natalie Portman (who was 13 at the time), seems to be the more emotionally mature and intelligent of the two. It's an interesting combination.
Lost in Translation - We've all been at a place in our lives where we just felt out of place... whether you moved around a lot, didn't have many friends, etc.
Philadelphia - The second appearance by Tom Hanks on my list. It made me think about how our society treats different kinds of people socially and legally.
Raging Bull - A wonderfully-made biographical movie about the middleweight boxing champion, Jake LaMotta, and his self-destructive life. It was directed by Martin Scorsese and it has the legendary performance by Robert De Niro in which he spent months of physical training with Jake LaMotta himself to get into shape for the beginning of the movie then gained over 60 pounds to play the out of shape LaMotta at the end of the movie.
Saving Private Ryan - The third appearance by Tom Hanks. I grew up watching the war movies my parents used to watch... you know, the kind in which you might see John Wayne. The kind that basically glorified war. Saving Private Ryan was a shocking film that gave me a lot of respect for the people that get stuck on the front lines of a war and the hell they go through.
Schindler's List - This is another film that has already been mentioned enough in this thread.
The Elephant Man - Basically, I picked up a similar message as in Philadelphia.
The Godfather - I've been interested in that subject matter ever since.
The Green Mile - The fourth appearance by Tom Hanks... and it would have been five or more if I included The Road to Perdition, Cast Away, Catch Me if You Can, etc. It's about how a big, gentle black man (who you later learn has a special healing power) gets framed for the murder of two young girls and sentenced to death. It's a really sad movie.
The Last Samurai - I don't what it is, exactly, about the end of that movie but after that last fight I had trouble holding the tears in until the credits started rolling.
The Shawshank Redemption - Despite the depressing view it gave of the legal system and prison, it was inspirational through the perseverance of Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman's characters.
I didn't include Band of Brothers because, technically, it was an HBO mini-series... not a feature length motion picture. Otherwise, it would be on the list for the same reasons as Saving Private Ryan.
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nah i preferred bob probably coz it was like 12 hours long,had more interesting characters imo(based on real folks),damien lewis in particluar,the bits at the start with the vets was great,also it was more fair to both sides,no "every german was a skinhead nutter who killied in cold blood",carentan was my favourite episode with blight,poor blight ,the scene at the end with the german fallshirmjaeger *sniff*Ennui said:
also im biased coz i guy i know was in it... :dozey:
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