Movies that affected or changed your life?

[Garfield_]

Are there any movies or tv-shows that has affected your life or even changed parts of it, your way to live, see things or feel?
Have they made you a better or worse person?

 

[ríomhaire]

No, not in the least.

 

[Lucid]

Not really. o.0

 

[jimbo118]

Amelie gave me a kind of general happy feel after seeing it, dunno really what else tbh :|

 

[Greatgat]

Oh yeah. Amelie makes me content whenever I watch it.

Requiem for a Dream ruins my day, I get all depressed.

Punch Drunk Love makes is a wonderful movie, which fills me with a bunch of different emotions after watching. Oh Adam Sandler, you could've been somebody...

 

[Doppelgofer]

nothings 'changed my life' but certain films affect me after watching

for example i watched crash the other day and appreciated cultural difference a little more ...then i ..god no i can't make jokes like what i'm thinking on this forum

I'LL HAVE MYSELF BANNED! banned i tell you. i sometimes think that when i write things online, i'm talking to my equally non-pc friends. turns out i'm not

 

[KagePrototype]

I have sneaky feeling that watching Alien 3 when I was young helped develop my unexplained tendancy to avoid rooms with a big-ass'd hole in the ceiling.

I remember my old high school bathroom had one. Oooh, I used to shudder when I looked at it. Things always went really silent when I was in there alone. :x

 

[Sparda]

The Matrix, i think it's real.

 

[DeusExMachina]

There's definitely a few, but I can't remember them at the moment.

 

[Danimal]

Requeim for a Dream kind of made me sad, but not really changed my life.

 

[CptStern]

I could list a bunch but the most of you have never heard of them ..and wouldnt watch them either cuz they're mostly art films


mainstream film I'd have to go with the classics like

casablanca, Maltese falcon, on the road movies (bing crosby, bob hope) ...maybe some spaghetti westerns ..a few dramas here and there but mostly classics and art films


oh and Bladerunner

 

[DeusExMachina]

I could list a bunch but the most of you have never heard of them ..and wouldnt watch them either cuz they're mostly art films

Try me. 8 1/2 must be in there.

 

[Kamikazie]

The Godfather Part I and II

There is no Part III.

 

[DeusExMachina]

The Godfather Part I and II

There is no Part III.

Take that back. TAKE THAT BACK.

 

[Ennui]

oh and Bladerunner

Wonderful flick.

I don't know. Movies don't really change my life, just let me think about new things.

 

[Feath]

I could list a bunch but the most of you have never heard of them ..and wouldnt watch them either cuz they're mostly art films

Please do say, I'm looking to watch more arty films.

I can't think of any films that changed my life. I liked the film Strange Days because part of it captured how I felt about a certain girl.

 

[Kamikazie]

Take that back. TAKE THAT BACK.

NEVAR!

 

[Adrien C]

The lion king man. I never felt about lions like that after watching the flick.

 

[pvtbones]

Total Recall.

I was like seven at the time and it was on the tv, you know the scene where he's trying to get onto mars dressed up as that chick? I just started watching a few seconds after he took of the robotic head and it started talking... then proceed to blow up. I had nightmares about that untill I was like 11.

 

[CptStern]

Please do say, I'm looking to watch more arty films.

I can't think of any films that changed my life. I liked the film Strange Days because part of it captured how I felt about a certain girl.

just pick any of the great directors like Ingmar bergman, federico fellini, pier paulo passolini, Jean-Luc Goddard, Michelangelo Antonioni etc


it all depends on what you like personally as some art films can be dreadfully boring unless you have an interest in the particular movement or era in film making

Ladri di biciclette (the bicycle thief) is often credited as one of the best films of all time yet seen outside of it's context it's kinda boring


some art films of interest.

La chinoise, Breathless, Les Carabiniers: Jean-Luc Goddard
the passenger: Michelangelo Antonioni
La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, : Fellini
Bob le Flambeur: Jean-Pierre Melville
Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game: Jean Renoir
Jules et Jim: Francois Truffaut
Il Conformista, Last Tango in Paris: Bernardo Bertolucci
Belle de Jour: Luis Bunuel

mind you most are more than 40 years old ..and it helps if you know the specific history around the movie and what art movement it belongs to ..oh and all of them are subtitled

most of those films are enjoyable to watch as well as being an art film



here's a good list of good movies (not all are great) but they represent (for the most part) the best of the best ..ironically it's from a film studies course list


http://www.essex.ac.uk/filmstudies/current_students/Video_Collections.htm

watch the classics ..they're classic for a reason


edit: DeusExMachina :thumbs:

 

[Lemonking]

LOTR 1,2,3 and Lion King.

 

[Sparda]

LOTR 1,2,3

How did they change your life???

 

[Lemonking]

they made every movie after that and before that a bad movie

 

[Adabiviak]

Bladerunner for me too. The scene where Decker meets Dr. Tyrell - the perfect metaphor at the right time in my life with the best quote ever: "I want more life, fu*ker." That was so well done, I think I'll watch it again!

 

[the_wolf27]

Karate kid trilogy and Back to the future trilogy. Also the goonies and Stand by me. My four alltime fav classic movies

 

[knut]

Alien made me fear sleeping on my back for a good few years. I felt my chest was too exposed to having something burst out of it.

 

[Harryz]

Motorcycle Diairies. Probably one of the few movies that I was still thinking about after a few days I saw it. I really really really recommend this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1800327728

 

[Sparda]

they made every movie after that and before that a bad movie

LOL yes i think the TLOTR movies are very good but don't match the book to well.

 

[Asuka]

Neon Genesis Evangelion #1

Thats the big one the insane one the great one. Best thing EVER MADE!

 

[CptStern]

ya it's right up there with citizen kane




some of you have horrible tastes in movies :E

the lion king? come on ..that story is as old as civilization itself ..sentimental pap

 

[Gray Fox]

Fightclub affected me, showed me alternative views.
Falling Down affected me.
American Psycho.
Trainspotting, again showed me alternative views
Jesus Christ Superstar, showed me that musicals need not be superficial expression of a lack of imagination.

 

[Javert]

Speilberg's A.I.

 

[Asuka]

ya it's right up there with citizen kane




some of you have horrible tastes in movies :E

the lion king? come on ..that story is as old as civilization itself ..sentimental pap

Your talking to me i hope!

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Speilberg's A.I.

Damn good movie.

Can't say I feel deeply about any I've seen though.

But for some reason... now I want to watch Robot Carnival. :S

 

[Adrien C]

ya it's right up there with citizen kane




some of you have horrible tastes in movies :E

the lion king? come on ..that story is as old as civilization itself ..sentimental pap

You should turn on your sarcastic detector on.