List of Movies That Will CHANGE Your Life

[seek&destroy]

This may seem like a joke, but try Goodburger. That movie has definitely halped me see how two-faced some people can be.

Others....

The Count of Monte Cristo (Best movie ever made IMHO)
Castaway
King-Kong
Children of Men

 

[Charm]

Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River kwai
Indiana Jones 1,2,3
D1ck Tracy Returns (1938)
The Guns of Navarone
The Graduate

 

[bigjohnson]

If you fail to be inspired ... lack any kind of imagination.

Amazingly enough some people can imagine their own life changing inspirations without opening their head and letting Hollywood dump crap inside. Some others cannot.

 

[Charm]

Amazingly enough some people can imagine their own life changing inspirations without opening their head and letting Hollywood dump crap inside. Some others cannot.

Dont de-rail my thread. And a lot of these are foreign films, not hollywood.

 

[HaremMasterThomas]

Why The 40 Year Old Virgin he got a fvck in the end, enough woman liked him in the movie, he was just too frightened to fvck them, was Glengary Glen Ross likened to him.

 

[bigjohnson]

... a lot of these are foreign films, not hollywood.

Doesn't matter, "Hollywood" is a placeholder for "organized modern thought controlled media outlets", I use it because it rolls off the keyboard a lot nicer. I love movies, but when people start thinking that they're anything beyond entertainment real problems start.

Most real problems can't be solved neatly. Some don't lend themselves to any real solution. Almost NONE can be worked out in 105 minutes. Movie makers are STORYTELLERS, and as such only have the most tenuous of links with reality.

When a person loses sight of that it's a bad thing. Real life is complicated and does not come with an uplifting soundtrack.

 

[Serialized3]

Just wanna add American Beauty to the list.

The transformation of Lester (Kevin Spacey) from a submissive wimp to a man in control of his own experience is very powerful.

 

[logic1]

[B]"Lies and Alibies 2006"[/B]

This movie shows a total DJ who predicts the actions of AFC's in certain senerios to acheive the goals he is trying to reach. It is a classic.

 

[yungahdubz]

Can someone recommend the top 5 from each list please?
I'm pretty busy and it would take me over a year to get through that beast of a list.
I'd like something that adjusts your mindset, gives you a few techniques and inspires and motivates you

Thanks in advance

 

[chance-]

the last boyscout - bruce willis on how he handles his wife. he lays down the rules.
tears of the sun - again bruce willis with how he handles women.

 

[PeterNorthisawesome]

You also forgot Blow w/ Johney Depp

I don't get why so many people like Blow, I watched and it had nothing special. Depp's acting was ok in the movie, but the whole story was so stupid. Didn't his wife or mom rat him out?

The Departed was another great movie, also Goodfellas!

 

[Charm]

Can someone recommend the top 5 from each list please?
I'm pretty busy and it would take me over a year to get through that beast of a list.
I'd like something that adjusts your mindset, gives you a few techniques and inspires and motivates you

Thanks in advance

For a list of must sees from the big list:

City of God
The Departed
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Boondock Saints

 

[mrRuckus]

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.

 

[i am me]

man i hate donnie darko....but alotta those movies are good

 

[FlowStill]

I was very impressed with Matt Damon in the Departed. Also if you want to check out a great Chinese trilogy that The Departed is based on, check out Infernal Affairs, it's great. I believe Scorsese is in the middle of making part two to the departed right now.

Other mentionable movies are...
American Psycho
The Prestige (although not that great of a movie, Christian Bale is excellent in how he deals with his wife, maybe a little overboard.lol)
Most anything with Jack Nicholson is good (Carnal Knowledge, Wolf, Witches of Eastwick)
Alfie (The original. I haven't seen the new one, but Michael Cain is quite good in this)
2046 (another movie from Hong Kong, The main male character is pretty amazing in the way he handles woman)
Gladiator
Fight Club
The hbo tv show Entourage is pretty good.

 

[bigjohnson]

And amazingly ....

Some cannot. Yes.

 

[Solarium]

I can't believe only 1 person mentioned Gladiator, now THAT's a movie that defines man.

other awsome man movies:
A Beautiful Mind
Braveheart
Shawshank Redemption
The Pianist
Shine
Raging Bull
Fist of Legend
Oldboy
Pulp Fiction
Walk the Line

 

[Venusian Artist]

Great post! You included A Clockwork orange! :woo: p.s. I got Glengarry Glen Ross in my grandad's newspaper

 

[Venusian Artist]

Even though Tom Cruise totally AFC'd in this movie....Vanilla Sky, I thought the overall message was awesome.

"Every second that passes was another chance to turn it all around."

Lol it annoys me when any movies have AFCs getting laid, it goes against my view of life Anyway, yes, the message was cool

 

[Venusian Artist]

Hey, find a movie with a slightly over-arrogant lead character, and watch the film, watch it more than once, then BE that guy, really think, "what would *blah blah* do"... There are a couple of examples of movies like this in David DeAngelo's "Double Your Dating"...