What Movie

[SeaCat]

What movie had the most effect on your life? What movie changed your outlook or your approach?

For me it was Patch Adams with Robin Williams.

Cat

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I almost said "There is no way I could pinpoint that," but then I remembered that I searched for and found my kung fu school after watching Gordon Liu in "The Invincible Pole Fighter" (8 Diagram Pole Fighter, international title) around 100 times too many.

 

[angelicminx]

What movie had the most effect on your life? What movie changed your outlook or your approach?

For me it was Patch Adams with Robin Williams.

Cat

It's a Wonderful Life is the one I would say had the most impact on me. George Bailey is me, giving up my own dreams for other people's needs. Losing sight of what's important in a built up resentment of doing what's 'expected'. Going down the narrow path of being 'worth more dead than alive'. Realizing, while watching that movie the first time (less than 10 years ago), that I've had an impact on every life I've touched, no matter how small.

I still have moments of resentment, but that's okay, I'm only human. I know my worth and I've realized a few dreams... I've even developed some new ones.

 

[rgraham666]

Paths of Glory

The most cogent critique of the horror and ultimate futility of war I've ever seen.

 

[shereads]

American Beauty.

I think it helped save my life.

 

[3113]

For me it was Patch Adams with Robin Williams.

Does this mean you walk around the hospital in big red shoes?

Brother Sun, Sister Moon I was always a flowerchild at heart.

 

[cumallday]

I don't know if any film had a decidedly "profound" effect, but I really enjoyed "The Motorcycle Diaries" about young Che's journey through South America. Also, "Requiem for a Dream" scared the socks of of me. Has anyone seen "Hotel Rwanda?" I, of course, recomend all of these. And if you haven't seen Hitchcock's "Psycho" - wtf?

 

[TE999]

I saw 'Them!' in 1954 and it scared the shit out of me.

Big, ol' atomic giant ants gave me nightmares for weeks, no lie.

James Arness, Fess Parker and Leonard Nimoy had small parts in the movie, BTW.

I still hate those little fuckers.

Especially when they get in the sugar bowl.

Peace.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I have seen more movies in these first 35 years than most people will see in a lifetime, so narrowing down to any one movie that has a profound effect on my life will be next to impossible.

I can however name two that had a profound effect on a certain aspect of my life: Quills and Private Parts. There have been many movies that I've seen that had the same resounding message in them, but for some reason these two stick out at this particular moment in time.

The message in both is to do what you're passionate about doing and damn the consequences!!! Both movies are also about men who display(ed) nothing less than genius in their particular niches in life. No matter how much anyone may disrespect, or even hate either of these men, no one can deny the immortality that they've achieved through doing what they love to do at any cost.

Most people will never get to say that about their lives.

 

[cloudy]

My mother took me to the theater, just the two of us, when I was 13 to see Gone With the Wind.

to backtrack a little, I have heard, as long as I can remember, my mother's pronouncements on what a lady does, and does not do.

"A lady doesn't walk and smoke a cigarette at the same time. She sits to smoke."

"A lady doesn't cross her legs at the knee, but at the ankle."

"Don't take such long strides. I know you have long legs, but a lady looks graceful."

etc., etc.

Watching that movie on that huge screen finally brought home to me the culture that my mother came from. She's a true southern lady, something I'll never be.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

"Don't take such long strides. I know you have long legs, but a lady looks graceful."

I thought long strides were graceful? Like an elk or gazzel?

 

[oggbashan]

A classified military documentary about the results of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with pictures of the dead, dying and surviving victims in glorious technicolor...

Og

 

[Guest]

"The Silencers" , the first Matt Helm movie. I was about ten. Suddenly, girls were strangely compelling.

Even I think that is a waste after seeing many great movies on my own and in film study classes, but it's the truth.

A classified military documentary about the results of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with pictures of the dead, dying and surviving victims in glorious technicolor...

Og

A classified film about what the Roswell aliens have in planned for us when they return in force in January 2007. Have a good holiday season everyone.

 

[sophia jane]

Dead Poet's Society. I was already interested in books and writing when I first saw that movie, but it made me feel like it was okay to like books and to love words. More than that it made me believe it was okay to stand up for what you believe in. The scene at the end when Ethan Hawke's character stands on my desk makes me teary just thinking about it.
"Oh Captain, My Captain!"

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Excellent movie. I recommend it to everyone

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Flirting
Rent
Crash
Life Is Beautiful

 

[R. Richard]

The Monster That Devoured Cleveland. No contest!

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

L'Atalante.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The Monster That Devoured Cleveland. No contest!

I don't know, RRichard... Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was pretty good

 

[Selena_Kitt]

The Piano

 

[R. Richard]

I don't know, RRichard... Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was pretty good

I will admit that Attack of The Killer Tomatoes had few plot flaws. But then, that was mainly due to having very little plot.

 

[rgraham666]

I don't know, RRichard... Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was pretty good

Try Killer Klowns From Outer Space sometime.

 

[oggbashan]

Plan 9 from Outer Space

I thought I could make a better film than this.

I couldn't...

Og

 

[Recidiva]

My Dinner With Andre.

I have a copy and watch it every few years. How much of it I've adopted into daily life, and still think and practice, is comforting.

My daughter finally got to the attention span where she could watch it with me, since we're both interested in theater and have experiences on stage, it hit her kinda hard too. Nice to see.

 

[shereads]

Dead Poet's Society. I was already interested in books and writing when I first saw that movie, but it made me feel like it was okay to like books and to love words. More than that it made me believe it was okay to stand up for what you believe in. The scene at the end when Ethan Hawke's character stands on my desk makes me teary just thinking about it.
"Oh Captain, My Captain!"

<sniff>

I love that movie.