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A movie that affected you beyond the norm
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:24 am
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:24 am
We go to movies to be affected on some level. When that doesn't happen we are dissatisfied. However if it happens beyond the norm we are changed. The first movie that did that to me was Dead Poets. It awoke within me an intellectual curiosity that had lingered beneath the surface for sometime. I saw it as a high school student. Up until then I was definitely anti-intellectual. How about you? What movie(s) has really made an impact on your life?
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Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:27 am to rebeloke
Restrepo. Seeing the change in those guys was unsettling to me. We all know about PTSD and have known people who came back changed, but watching it happen is just something new.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:32 am to rebeloke
Interstellar really got me pondering a lot of stuff I usually don't think about. Ending was kind of weird but it's one of my favorites
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:34 am to rebeloke
In before lots of Dear Zachary mentions..
Movies don't really affect me a lot, but some stay with me for a while and I think/read about them for a while. Some of the ones that have done that in the past are things like Primer or The Prestige.
I've said it before, but I guess the one that affected me the most was probably Jaws. I used to be freaked out at night in a dark swimming pool because of that movie. And in the ocean, sharks are always on my mind because of Jaws. So in a way, that one has affected me throughout my life I guess.
Movies don't really affect me a lot, but some stay with me for a while and I think/read about them for a while. Some of the ones that have done that in the past are things like Primer or The Prestige.
I've said it before, but I guess the one that affected me the most was probably Jaws. I used to be freaked out at night in a dark swimming pool because of that movie. And in the ocean, sharks are always on my mind because of Jaws. So in a way, that one has affected me throughout my life I guess.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:37 am to rebeloke
3 Movies completely changed the way how I saw film: Throne of Blood, City Lights and Murder on the Orient Express.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:37 am to rebeloke
Donnie Darko
Time travel, alternate realities, the futility of life etc. It was a lot more profound movie than I expected.
Time travel, alternate realities, the futility of life etc. It was a lot more profound movie than I expected.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:41 am to rebeloke
American History X
Taking Chance
Taking Chance
Posted on 11/18/15 at 8:58 am to rebeloke
2010
Jacobs Latter
Circle of Iron
Jacobs Latter
Circle of Iron
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:02 am to rebeloke
The first time I saw Pursuit of Happyness I cried for like 2/3rds of the movie.
I was in that situation.
A random thing I remember from Hesher with JGL is Natalie Portman's character loses her composure and cries in a car after a mental breakdown. It was pretty powerful.
I was in that situation.
A random thing I remember from Hesher with JGL is Natalie Portman's character loses her composure and cries in a car after a mental breakdown. It was pretty powerful.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:15 am to Pectus
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:20 am to jojothetireguy
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Taking Chance
Incredible HBO movie.
A River Runs Through It for me. Even more so after my brother passed.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:28 am to rebeloke
American Beauty
Made me realize that life was too short to spend it on a job that you hate. Quit my job of six years and went back to a lower paying job that I enjoyed.
Made me realize that life was too short to spend it on a job that you hate. Quit my job of six years and went back to a lower paying job that I enjoyed.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:33 am to rebeloke
Saving Private Ryan. Watched it with my WWII wounded vet dad.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:36 am to rebeloke
Can't think of one movie that's had any kind of real impact on my life.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:38 am to Jester
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Restrepo. Seeing the change in those guys was unsettling to me. We all know about PTSD and have known people who came back changed, but watching it happen is just something new.
Preach.
On a lighter note: Jaws. fricked me up for life.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:44 am to BluegrassBelle
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A River Runs Through It for me. Even more so after my brother passed.
bingo...always wonder how I would have turned out different in life w/o my brother passing at such a young age.
different note...Cape Fear..i swear as soon as I got home with wife I checked every closet with gun in hand
Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:51 am to Brosef Stalin
DEAD POETS SOCIETY is a huge part of why I'm a teacher. Mr. Keating's approach to teaching is spot on...beautiful to watch. I haven't been able to watch it since Robin Williams died, though.
FURY's effect took me by surprise. I had an uncle who was a tank gunner in WWII and Korea. When I was growing up, my grandmother always talks about what a wonderful man he was, but I only knew him as the homeless town drunk. He was my grandfather's brother, and he tried to help him out, but Uncle Doug could never stop drinking or hold down a job. He died when I was 12. I remember stories about the horror of war getting to him, but it never really was something I processed until I saw that movie from the point of view of the tank crew, and it hit me hard. I sobbed during the movie and couldn't speak for hours after.
FURY's effect took me by surprise. I had an uncle who was a tank gunner in WWII and Korea. When I was growing up, my grandmother always talks about what a wonderful man he was, but I only knew him as the homeless town drunk. He was my grandfather's brother, and he tried to help him out, but Uncle Doug could never stop drinking or hold down a job. He died when I was 12. I remember stories about the horror of war getting to him, but it never really was something I processed until I saw that movie from the point of view of the tank crew, and it hit me hard. I sobbed during the movie and couldn't speak for hours after.
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Posted on 11/18/15 at 9:52 am to rebeloke
Willard didn't see it in theatres saw it on tv when I was around 6 years old im 23 years old now and I still cringe whenever I see rats/mice
Posted on 11/18/15 at 10:01 am to rebeloke
Star Wars is probably the only movie that "changed my life" and that's because I was a kid growing up in the late 70s and early 80s. But I have been moved by movies before. When I saw Hotel Rwanda I had 2 thoughts, Africa is seriously fricked up, and why did I have to see a movie to learn about this? It just made an emotional impression on me.
This seems silly in comparison to the emotional pull of Hotel Rwanda, but I found The Matrix a little bit mind blowing. It was a new (to me) twist on rise of the machines, and it also got me thinking about the nature of existence and if we were living in a simulation, we really wouldn't have a way of knowing if it was well done.
This seems silly in comparison to the emotional pull of Hotel Rwanda, but I found The Matrix a little bit mind blowing. It was a new (to me) twist on rise of the machines, and it also got me thinking about the nature of existence and if we were living in a simulation, we really wouldn't have a way of knowing if it was well done.
Posted on 11/18/15 at 10:04 am to lsuroadie
If we don't count Dear Zachary:
1) Saving Private Ryan on opening day. It was an incredibly powerful experience because the entire theatre was full of WWII veterans and their wives/family due to the hype this movie generated about being the most realistic and brutal war movie of all time (up to that point).
2) Flowers in the Attic. Still affects me to this day. One of my favorite movies of all time. Very underrated musical score.
3) Jacob's Ladder. Based on the classic old Civil War short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Very clever adaptation. Made me spend considerable time contemplating death.
4) Braveheart. Made me want to fight for my women. LOL. I was in high school, folks. Give me a break.
5) 9 1/2 Weeks. Obvious reasons.
6) Marley and Me. Went into movie with wife silently thinking "I wish we would've chosen another movie"...and came out of movie full blown crying. I can't explain it.
7) Pulp Fiction. It just changed movies, period. And it changed my perception of how a really great movie should be filmed. It changed my expectations of what a good movie should be like.
8) The Prestige. Nolan's best movie, imo. It made me want to start learning magic, which I did and continue to do as a hobby to this day.
9) The Crow. Saw it as a freshman in High School. Lived and breathed The Crow until I left for college.
10) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's unbelievable how great this movie and the acting is. From the moment you start the movie you can just sit back and soak in the greatness. The movie is so good that it allows you, the viewer, to truly participate in its perfection. I truly believe this movie is an incredibly rare "perfect movie".
Honorable Mentions:
1) The Emerald Forest. Totally unique movie. Made me appreciate a parent's timeless love for their child and the extents a parent(s) will go to help their child.
2) The Day After. Scarred me for life. Made me deathly afraid of nuclear war in the 1980s. I grew up in Missouri, a state that had some of the most nuclear missile silos in the country not to mention the nuclear bomber Whiteman Air Force Base. The movie takes place in Kansas City and shows the aftermath of a USSR nuclear strike. Scary shite to watch when you're just a child. fricked me up. I still have nuclear war nightmares from time to time.
1) Saving Private Ryan on opening day. It was an incredibly powerful experience because the entire theatre was full of WWII veterans and their wives/family due to the hype this movie generated about being the most realistic and brutal war movie of all time (up to that point).
2) Flowers in the Attic. Still affects me to this day. One of my favorite movies of all time. Very underrated musical score.
3) Jacob's Ladder. Based on the classic old Civil War short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Very clever adaptation. Made me spend considerable time contemplating death.
4) Braveheart. Made me want to fight for my women. LOL. I was in high school, folks. Give me a break.
5) 9 1/2 Weeks. Obvious reasons.
6) Marley and Me. Went into movie with wife silently thinking "I wish we would've chosen another movie"...and came out of movie full blown crying. I can't explain it.
7) Pulp Fiction. It just changed movies, period. And it changed my perception of how a really great movie should be filmed. It changed my expectations of what a good movie should be like.
8) The Prestige. Nolan's best movie, imo. It made me want to start learning magic, which I did and continue to do as a hobby to this day.
9) The Crow. Saw it as a freshman in High School. Lived and breathed The Crow until I left for college.
10) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's unbelievable how great this movie and the acting is. From the moment you start the movie you can just sit back and soak in the greatness. The movie is so good that it allows you, the viewer, to truly participate in its perfection. I truly believe this movie is an incredibly rare "perfect movie".
Honorable Mentions:
1) The Emerald Forest. Totally unique movie. Made me appreciate a parent's timeless love for their child and the extents a parent(s) will go to help their child.
2) The Day After. Scarred me for life. Made me deathly afraid of nuclear war in the 1980s. I grew up in Missouri, a state that had some of the most nuclear missile silos in the country not to mention the nuclear bomber Whiteman Air Force Base. The movie takes place in Kansas City and shows the aftermath of a USSR nuclear strike. Scary shite to watch when you're just a child. fricked me up. I still have nuclear war nightmares from time to time.
This post was edited on 11/18/15 at 10:14 am
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