What are the top movies that inspire you?

TheDevastator
TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
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I have a few.

Rudy
The Shawshank Redemption
A Beautiful Mind
Fight Club
Good WIll Hunting
It's a Wonderful Life
Schindler's List
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  • Einahhh
    Einahhh Posts: 139
    Sounds cheesy, but Meet the Robinsons. Nothing like a good kid's movie!
  • BleedsCoffee
    BleedsCoffee Posts: 247 Member
    Hotel Rwanda
    RENT (I love the movie just as much as the play!)
    Schindler's List
    The Chronicles of Narnia (You never outgrow your imagination!)
    The Help
    The King's Speech
    The Lorax
    The Secret Life of Bees
    V for Vendetta
  • gerard54
    gerard54 Posts: 1,107 Member
    Rocky

    Forrest Gump

    Wreck it Ralph
  • sam308lbs
    sam308lbs Posts: 1,936 Member
    The Shawshank Redemption
    October Sky
    The pursuit of happyness
    The karate kid 3 with jaden smith
    Up in the air
    Flight
    Never back down
    million dollar baby
    Rocky series specially 4th and 6th
    i am legend
  • matt2442
    matt2442 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Superbad
  • Einahhh
    Einahhh Posts: 139
    Rocky

    Forrest Gump

    Wreck it Ralph
    Loved Wreck-it Ralph!
  • BleedsCoffee
    BleedsCoffee Posts: 247 Member
    I totally forgot about The Pursuit of Happyness and Seven Pounds. Pretty much any tear jerker with Will Smith gets me.
  • brit_ks_89
    brit_ks_89 Posts: 433 Member
    BATMAN!
  • strawberriekt24
    strawberriekt24 Posts: 61 Member
    I saw 42 this weekend and it earned itself a place on my list.

    The Help
    Wreck it Ralph
    Up
    Good Night and Good Luck
    Little Women (when I'm having trouble doing my homework- seeing how important it really was to them that a woman could have an education)

    ETA:

    Life is Beautiful (How could I forget this one?!?)
    How to Train Your Dragon (yes, I'm a little kid at heart)
    The Blind Side
    Radio
    To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Fat_Jimi
    Fat_Jimi Posts: 81
    the adventures of ford fairlane, rock n roll detective

    I live my life by this mans ethos ;)
  • hungrypotato
    hungrypotato Posts: 1,642 Member
    The Hangover :p
  • FATJAKE5
    FATJAKE5 Posts: 162
    The Outlaw Josie Wales - "Buzzards gotta eat,.....same as worms"

    Pale Rider - " If you're waiting for a woman to make up her mind,.....you may have a long wait"

    High Plains Drifter - "It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid"

    Dirty Harry - "You've got to ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"

    Magnum Force - "A man's got to know his limitations"

    The Enforcer - "Here's a seven point suppository, Captain"

    Sudden Impact - "Go ahead,.....make my day"

    The Dead Pool - "You're ****outta luck"

    My fingers are tired, Clint made too many good movies

    A Time to Kill - "Yes they deserved to die. I hope they burn in hell."

    Shawshank Redemption - "Get Busy Living,.....or Get Busy Dying"
  • pobalita
    pobalita Posts: 741 Member
    I watched "Spirit of the Marathon" Saturday night - a documentary about five people training for the Chicago Marathon for different reasons. It really inspired me for the training i'm doing for my first marathon in June. I ran 18.5 miles on Sunday.

    Karate Kid with Jaden Smith, too, I love that movie.
  • MichelleKacz
    MichelleKacz Posts: 28
    So many movies inspire, there are just a few:
    Juno
    Little Miss Sunshine
    Priscilla Queen of the Dessert
    Dead Poets Society
    Hesher
    Half Nelson
    High Fidelity
    Before Sunrise
    After Sunset
    Trainspotting
    Taken
    Braveheart
    Life of Pi
    The House of Sand and Fog
    The Pursuit of Happiness
    The Green Mile
    PS I love you
    The Wrestler
  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
    Anything Pixar.
  • xALEXANDROx
    xALEXANDROx Posts: 3,416 Member
    hachi
  • CMB1979
    CMB1979 Posts: 588 Member
    Getting Physical (old 80's TV movie).
  • gerard54
    gerard54 Posts: 1,107 Member
    So many movies inspire, there are just a few:
    Juno
    Little Miss Sunshine
    Priscilla Queen of the Dessert
    Dead Poets Society
    Hesher
    Half Nelson
    High Fidelity
    Before Sunrise
    After Sunset
    Trainspotting
    Taken
    Braveheart
    Life of Pi
    The House of Sand and Fog
    The Pursuit of Happiness
    The Green Mile
    PS I love you
    The Wrestler

    Hows life of.pi...
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Vision Quest

    I don't know what it is about that movie. I was in Okinawa. I studied Shorin-Ryu Karate and got my black belt. Fast forward about 10 years and had pretty much stopped working out. Saw Vision Quest, got inspired and within a week had found a new school in So Cal. Changed styles and worked on my Black Belt in TKD. Stayed with that school until I opened one of my own. It's almost 30 years later and I still dabble, though I no longer teach.
  • NutellaAddict
    NutellaAddict Posts: 1,258 Member
    Top Gun
  • PepperWorm
    PepperWorm Posts: 1,206
    V For Vendetta, hands down.
  • MichelleKacz
    MichelleKacz Posts: 28
    So many movies inspire, there are just a few:
    Juno
    Little Miss Sunshine
    Priscilla Queen of the Dessert
    Dead Poets Society
    Hesher
    Half Nelson
    High Fidelity
    Before Sunrise
    After Sunset
    Trainspotting
    Taken
    Braveheart
    Life of Pi
    The House of Sand and Fog
    The Pursuit of Happiness
    The Green Mile
    PS I love you
    The Wrestler

    Hows life of.pi...
    It was a bit too on the religious side so if that irritates you, you'll hate it, but overall I thought it was sweet (probably cause I'm an animal lover and a bit of a dreamer) and it made me think (I usually consider movies that do that to me "good")
  • theCarlton
    theCarlton Posts: 1,344 Member
    So many movies inspire, there are just a few:
    Juno
    Little Miss Sunshine
    Priscilla Queen of the Dessert
    Dead Poets Society
    Hesher
    Half Nelson
    High Fidelity
    Before Sunrise
    After Sunset
    Trainspotting
    Taken
    Braveheart
    Life of Pi
    The House of Sand and Fog
    The Pursuit of Happiness
    The Green Mile
    PS I love you
    The Wrestler

    Hows life of.pi...
    It was a bit too on the religious side so if that irritates you, you'll hate it, but overall I thought it was sweet (probably cause I'm an animal lover and a bit of a dreamer) and it made me think (I usually consider movies that do that to me "good")
    Read the book before you see the film. You should feel the main character's conflict over choosing a religion and how he uses all of the ones he's interested in to do what he does. I haven't watched the film because I enjoy the intended ambiguity of the book so much that I don't want someone to choose the ending for me, not even for theatrical purposes. And believe me, normally I can appreciate a book-based movie on its own merits, but there is an art to the way the storyline was posed in this book that doesn't translate well to a movie.
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  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Boogie Nights
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
    peaceful warrior...I can relate a lot to this movie.

    Lots of others but I will leave it at that.
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
    The karate kid 3 with jaden smith

    I believe that would be the 5th Karate Kid since 1,2, and 3 were all Ralph Macchio and 4 was Hilary Swank...for me I think I would have to put only the first one down as inspirational.
  • jacklis
    jacklis Posts: 280 Member
    Anything Pixar.
    Agreed!
  • eventerchick80
    eventerchick80 Posts: 98 Member
    So many good movies on these lists. One I didn't see or might have skipped over is "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken." It's based on a true story of a girl during the depression and is sappy fabulousness.
  • Penny_Lane_
    Penny_Lane_ Posts: 163
    Grandma's Boy
  • bmqbonnie
    bmqbonnie Posts: 836 Member
    +1 for Life is Beautiful.

    One of my favorite movies is Meet Joe Black. Now hear me out. I thought it was a chick flick and never felt compelled to watch it. One night at work one of the kids of the woman I work for was watching it though, and I really really liked it. Another night I felt like watching it again and boyfriend was skeptical, also thinking it was a chick flick, but he really liked it too. There is a romantic understory but there is so much more to it than that. If you haven't seen it, you should. I can just about promise you'll like it.

    Also Big Fish.

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