List of Movies That Will CHANGE Your Life

[Buck Rogers]

The only way that movies changed my life is the aggravation they cause by being so bad and how fat I got while sitting there trying to be inspired by trite bullsh1t like Fight Club, which was nothing more than a "haha look dudes are getting punched i bet that hurts" movie, not an inspiring greek tragedy to go around quoting ad nauseum.

so what inspires you then?

 

[KarmaSutra]

If you're strictly talking films for men about being men then here is your list:

Glengarry Glen Ross
The Wild Bunch
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Skin Deep
Closer
Braveheart
Yojimbo
Ran
Kagemusha
Blade II
Roger Dodger
When Harry met Sally
Heat
Star Wars episode IV - Empire strikes back
Caligula
Mean streets
The best years of our lives


These should be staples in every mans collection.

 

[azanon]

No one mentioned "The Matrix"????? Unfreakinunbelievable!!!!! All of you bastards are living in IT - I suggest you watch it!!!!

damn that's funny LMS.

But if I am, then leave me alone and don't forget to leave the blue pill on the table. Does it really matter if bliss is real or fake?

 

[Fluffy]

films good for sarging
Glengarry Glenross (lightning pace dialogue will pump you up, alec baldwin scene)
Boiler Room (same as above, not as well done)
Domino (true story about bounty hunters done in tony scott's hyperkinetic style)
Sin City (stylised male world)

good character studies of the loser/badboy type
Buffalo 66'
Stranger Than Paradise

bleak/depressing or sad (i like sad/depressing movies, so im interested in what movies made you feel like sh1t for days?)
Boys Dont Cry
Dead Ringers
Mean Creek
Dancer in the Dark
The Sweet Hereafter

Personal Favourites
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Brazil
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Manhunter
A.I.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

[IrReSiStIbLe]

my 2 cents, take it or leave it-

"Meet Joe Black" With Brad Pitt. Watch both the characters Pitt plays, especially the main one, Joe Black. A must.

"American Beauty" with Kevin Spacey. Great philosophical movie.

 

[playa99]

i cannot believe no-one has mentioned:
oceans 11,12 or 13, im well and truly shocked lol
the matrix and fight club are also both amazing movies which show manliness.
Any james bond film shows DJism and vin diesel in the fast and the furious or XXX both show extreme masculinity

 

[Mavrick]

"Rudy" changed my life. It gave me motivation to go back to college and finish. Thanks Rudy! It did nothing for my love life though. ha

Let me add "A River runs Through It". If you want to do something manly and peacful, take up fly fishing. I love it.

 

[just so suave]

For masculinity; Highlander, Kickboxer

Testosterone boosters: The Football Factory, The Firm, Green Street, most of the Bristish football films really.

I can't think of any 'changing your life' films that haven't already been said, except for maybe Kidulthood, and This Is England.

 

[Birdem]

Groundhog day, Gattaca, Matrix, Into the wild. I agree most movies glorify afc's

 

[Blue Phoenix]

Man, I can´t believe nobody mentioned "Butterfly effect".

This movie is do deep and raises so many questions. The guy was obsessed over a girl and tried everything possible to get her back, only to find himself in worse situations later on.

"Second intentions" shows the dark side of seduction.

 

[Bible_Belt]

"The Jerk"

She tattooed my name on her ass, right there under the J's. I bet more people see that than in the phone book!

 

[j-flex]

i cant believe no one mention the movie "Rudy"

 

[Mavrick]

i cant believe no one mention the movie "Rudy"

Look back a little, and you'll see that I did.

 

[The Bat]

Man, I can´t believe nobody mentioned "Butterfly effect".

This movie is do deep and raises so many questions. The guy was obsessed over a girl and tried everything possible to get her back, only to find himself in worse situations later on.

"Second intentions" shows the dark side of seduction.

Ditto on the Butterfly Effect. Did you see the Director's ending? Now, that is an ending. The theatrical one was terrible.

And do you mean, Cruel Intentions with Ryan Phillippe?

 

[the_govner]

Did you seriously add ROCKY FIVE?!?!?!?!??! Are you kidding me?!?!? Rocky 12346 are pantheon films but 5?!?!?

The list is great though. You know I watched 2001 and Apocalypse now for the first time the same evening right after graduating high school. My head's been messed ever since.

 

[Rhoto]

Just wanted to add one movie to this list

Waking Life

 

[PlayToWin]

I haven't read the whole thread, but just the first page is full of awesome movies plus plenty I haven't seen before so I sure will be adding these to my list of movies to rent.

 

[CTApprentice]

Gattaca
Last of the Mohicans
Sunshine
Batman Begins
Tao of Steve
The Protector
The Matrix
Terminator 2:Judgement Day
Platoon
Apocalpyse Now
Godfather trilogy
Scarface
Heat
Pulp Fiction
The Departed(as well as the original)
There's Something About Mary
Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith
Troy
Gladiator
300
Cruel Intentions
The Rock
Saving Private Ryan

 

[darkme_legendary]

Peaceful Warrior
Great movie

 

[mintxx]

If you want an injection of awesome that will make your testicles explode from the glory of sheer dominance, you must see 300. I wish King Leonidas was my dad.

your dad? wow not it's not just the girls with daddy issues. jesus