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Movie that changed your life.

I don't know if it's life changing but the Princess in The Neverending Story 2 definitely changed my perspective on a few things.

I went from 'girls are useless because they don't like baseball and Nintendo' to 'why would I waste my time with baseball and Nintendo when I could be around girls.'

I was 8-ish. ;)

In all seriousiness, Saving Private Ryan changed my life. It was the first and only film I've seen to make me forget I was watching a movie and actually become very emotional, and the only movie to ever give me nightmares.
 
No help for fools

I'll just copy and paste my Amazon review. I don't quite like the wording, but I'm to lazy to edit it:
When people ask me what my favorite movie of all time is I always reply Yojimbo. Which is funny since this is not my favorite Kurosawa film. That honor goes to Drunken Angel. This is my favorite movie because it opened my eyes to the world. I first saw this film in my freshman year of high school. Before seeing it I had no interest in anything that wasn't shinny and new. I didn't like any film, book, or music that wasn't modern and new. After seeing Yojimbo alot of the things I used to hate and thought were boring I actually grew to love. Lawrence of Arabia was better the second time I saw it. The Killer Angels was better the second time I read it. I never really "got" Mash before this. And I became more interested in other genres of music besides rap. Westerns staring Clint Eastwood were once boring, but not anymore. And why not Toshiro Mifune was the Japanese Clint Eastwood... or should that be the other way around? See it for yourelf.
 
Conan the Barbarian

Made me want to work out all the time. Then slay people with a sword while quoting the riddle of steel. :D

Seriously though I would say "The Three Musketeers" 1974 version with Raquel Welch. This movie really helped boost my interest in Medieval history.
 
half baked was a corker, but deffinately not life changing.

the Boondock Saints was an awesome film, although often caught in a love hate feud. what are peoples views on it?
 
No movies have changed my life per se; and that's coming from a self-confessed movie snob. I feel that they more often lack the emotive subtleties that some music pieces or some novels have. I’m pretty sure my life would not be too different today even if I hadn’t seen (and consider to be one of the best movies made) the thrice mentioned 2001.

But I do wonder how I would be in my manner and approach at my place of work, sat at my desk day in day out, if I had not seen Brazil. That is the one I’d say comes closest to having a life altering effect.
 
hamish_holmes said:
the Boondock Saints was an awesome film, although often caught in a love hate feud. what are peoples views on it?
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Completely overrated and mediocre. With the subject of this thread, I really doubt this movie changed anyone's life.
 
Ah, just thought of another one.

I just thought of one (more) film that actually had quite an impact on me and my thinking. That was The Maxx. Yes, it's actually a series (from MTV's Oddities, back in the mid-90's), but it was also released as a film. I love it to pieces. Very deep for an animation, way deeper than most 'real' productions...
 
A couple of you put down Kevin Smith's Dogma. Well, mine is the one right before that one; Chasing Amy. I caught this in a dollar theater and instantly knew what I wanted to do with my life. At the time, I was a Secondary Education major with a History emphasis. Well, due to poor grades and loss of scholarships, I was kicked out of school. When I finally was able to get back into school, I switched school and changed my major to Film Studies.

The movies since that point that have changed my life have been Murnau's Sunrise and Fellini's 8 1/2.
 
Lord of the Rings : The fellowship of the ring

Got me into reading the books before the other films, in turn got me into reading as a whole.

I truly thank the books though, they helped me through lossing my Grandmother, Grandfater, Very Close Family friend & my Uncle.

They have also changed my outlook on life.... I think books can be more influential than the books but it all started off from watching the film, Peter Jackson has got to have created one of the best Book to Film adaptations ever!!!
 
Field of Dreams.
Makes me always remember to be aware of the here and now.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Silliness. Reminds me not to take myself too seriously.

"you've got two coconuts and you're bangin' them together"
 
silence of the lambs -- evil lurks everywhere.

beautiful life - what parents will do for the sake of a child

saving private ryan - gives an example of how great nations are made

shawshank redemption - even if everything seems to be going against you, there's still something good to look forward to
 
Capote.
And Crash. I watched it on my iMac at 3:00AM in the morning w/ earbuds b/c my dad had rented it for him and me to watch it and my mom didn't want me to.
In the hanging seen in Capote I almost literally cried out and jumped out of my seat in horror. The most emotional I've ever been in a moment of film.
 
Brokeback Mountain. That movie helped me identify several things that were holding me back. The resulting changes in my life have all been for the better. They were robbed at the Academy Awards.
 
electronboy said:
Brokeback Mountain. That movie helped me identify several things that were holding me back. The resulting changes in my life have all been for the better. They were robbed at the Academy Awards.
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Glad the movie helped you threw some things, but they weren't robbed. Crash is a fantastic movie.
 
Not sure about "life changing", but Dead Poets Society is one movie that is special to me.

I graduated from high school in 1988, and so my friends and I all parted ways as we left for college that fall. Leila, one of the girls from my senior AP English class, went to NYU, and for reasons that none of us quite understand, she committed suicide the following spring. Word of her death spread pretty quickly through the "network" of her former high school classmates; she was a well-liked girl, and a lot of us took the news pretty hard.

Fast forward a month or so. Around the time that Dead Poets Society was released, in the summer of 1989, a lot of us were back home on break. By coincidence, a large number of former members of my AP English class -- including our teacher -- showed up for the same showing of the movie. If you've seen the movie, you will understand why we were all in tears by the ending.

Afterwards we all got together and talked about Leila, and how the first year of college went, and things like that. I guess the main thing that I took away from that experience is not to take people for granted, and to enjoy the company of friends and loved ones as much as possible.
 
Donnie Darko...have to watch it about 8 times to understand EVERYTHING, but a great movie that really makes you think about the possibilities of things and if there is such a thing as coincidence...
 
henry and june

as a musician, i mostly liked very light and happy music...nothing too deep...but that movie really brought out a need to "express" myself artistically and it translated to music in the form of listening to new artists and writing my own music
 
Once again, 2001. How refreshing to have a movie that doesn't give ANY answers to its audience -- you have to figure it out on your own.

Twelve Monkeys -- The entire film fits together perfectly in a way that most movies of its kind only dream of doing. The final/opening scene is amazing.
 
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