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Movies that most impacted you
2006-12-08, 4:14 PM #1
What movies hit you the hardest after watching them? That doesn't mean they're necessarily the best movies, but the ones that just left you stunned with happiness, sadness, guilt, inspiration, etc. I've been watching a ton of movies due to my film classes, and I've seen some great, powerful movies.

1. Schindler's List
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. American Beauty
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. American History X

You?
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2006-12-08, 4:17 PM #2
I have never been packed firmly together or struck forcibly by a movie.
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2006-12-08, 4:27 PM #3
American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, A Scanner Darkly, Garden State
D E A T H
2006-12-08, 4:29 PM #4
Crash
2006-12-08, 4:38 PM #5
Life Is Beautiful - This was possibly the movie that hit me the hardest in my entire existance
Serenity
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
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2006-12-08, 4:43 PM #6
The New Wicker man. It filled me with a sense that I got ripped off, which then lead to rage.


Hotel Rwanda.
Saints and Soldiers.
Equilibrium.
A Scanner Darkly.
Serenity.
Memento.
Life is Beautiful.

. . .There are a lot actually. But whatever, those are top of the list ones.
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2006-12-08, 5:09 PM #7
MANOS: Hands Of Fate
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2006-12-08, 6:12 PM #8
Hotel Rwanda's the only movie that has ever made me shed a tear. Schindler's List will probably move me as well, as soon as I get around to seeing it.
2006-12-08, 6:15 PM #9
All About Lily Chou Chou

I bet none of you have even heard of it, but something about it blew me away.
2006-12-08, 6:24 PM #10
Clerks 2
Clerks
Garden State
Serenity
[edit]Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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2006-12-08, 7:08 PM #11
Not really a movie but Band of Brothers had its mark.
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2006-12-08, 7:16 PM #12
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Schindler's List
  • Twelve Monkeys
  • Band of Brothers
  • American Beauty
  • Before Sunrise
  • Before Sunset
  • The Insider
  • Garden State
  • La Vita è Bella
  • Crash
  • BRICK
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2006-12-08, 7:40 PM #13
  • Braveheart
  • Gladiator
  • Silent Running
  • Star Wars
  • The Beach
  • The Lord Of The Rings
  • The Patriot
  • Troy
2006-12-08, 7:48 PM #14
The Patriot
The Shawshank Redemption
Saving Private Ryan
2006-12-08, 7:53 PM #15
[QUOTE=Michael MacFarlane]I have never been packed firmly together or struck forcibly by a movie.[/QUOTE]

i've been struck forcibly by a movie... someone threw a copy of the big lebowski at me really hard... hit me right in the dangly bits
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2006-12-08, 8:07 PM #16
Originally posted by DrkJedi82:
i've been struck forcibly by a movie... someone threw a copy of the big lebowski at me really hard... hit me right in the dangly bits

What an awesome movie.
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2006-12-08, 8:17 PM #17
Street Fighter: the movie.

I've never been changed so much from watching a 2 hour movie.
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2006-12-08, 8:50 PM #18
Saving Private Ryan
Stranger Than Fiction
Finding Neverland

I'm sure there are others.
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2006-12-08, 9:14 PM #19
Saving Private Ryan, once I grew up and watched it other than "OMGGUNSKEWLKEWLWARKEWLKEWL"
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2006-12-08, 9:15 PM #20
Forrest Gump.


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2006-12-08, 9:49 PM #21
Lost in Translation
Pi
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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2006-12-08, 9:52 PM #22
Finding Neverland
Requiem for a Dream
2006-12-08, 10:13 PM #23
Pleasantville.
Serenity. I was at a preview screening. And let me tell you, you could feel the air being sucked out of the room when IT happened. People were devastated.
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2006-12-08, 10:28 PM #24
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2006-12-08, 10:58 PM #25
Blow. God that movie was so sad...
D E A T H
2006-12-08, 11:43 PM #26
Damn.

I'd usually know but not now.

Last movie I saw which made me go "woah" was Dark City, though.
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2006-12-08, 11:52 PM #27
-Fight Club
-Blow
-Donnie Darko
-American History X
-V for Vendetta
-Clerks
-Clerks II
-Dogma
-Good Will Hunting
-Office Space (seriously)
-Boondock Saints
-Rounders

There are probably more.
2006-12-09, 1:20 AM #28
Random, me and Iz watched Shawshank last night. There are loads, but most have been mentioned.
2006-12-09, 3:09 AM #29
I was completely depressed for the entire evening after watching The Holiday last night.
2006-12-09, 7:16 AM #30
Star Wars
Saving Private Ryan
Some Bond films (the music of the films mixed with specific scenes impacted me as opposed to the film as a whole)
2006-12-09, 8:59 AM #31
Koyaanisqatsi
The Power of Nightmares
Why We Fight
The Root of All Evil
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2006-12-09, 9:55 AM #32
I remember watching The Matrix for the first time and my eyes were opened to the fact that were could be living in a program. I also remember watching Terminator 2 as little boy, and scene of Armageddon scared me to the roof. However I don't usually find that many movies have much effect on me.
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2006-12-09, 9:59 AM #33
Originally posted by Axecrasher:
I remember watching The Matrix for the first time and my eyes were opened to the fact that were could be living in a program. I also remember watching Terminator 2 as little boy, and scene of Armageddon scared me to the roof. However I don't usually find that many movies have much effect on me.


Good point about The Matrix, considering I was like 13 when it came out it had a pretty large impact on me.
2006-12-09, 10:08 AM #34
Shawshank Redemption was a good movie, but how did it impact you guys? I just went "Wow, good movie." and went about my life. It didn't impact me that much.
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2006-12-09, 11:13 AM #35
It's definitely one of my favorites, and it revolves around one of the most important emotions (IMO) for any human... hope. Nothing else is possible without hope, not even love. (Spoilers) I also liked how Andy saves Red at the end, as Red was on the same path as Brooks, but Andy's hope brought him hope as well.
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2006-12-09, 11:19 AM #36
My favorites are the ones that had the largest impact on me:

Fight Club
Collateral
Office Space
2006-12-09, 11:53 AM #37
Originally posted by JediGandalf:
Not really a movie but Band of Brothers had its mark.


Indeed
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2006-12-09, 1:45 PM #38
Waking Life
City of God
Requiem for a Dream
Taxi Driver
Fight Club
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Hotel Rwanda
SLC Punk!
Blow
Magnolia
Memento
Amores Perros
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2006-12-09, 2:45 PM #39
LOTS everyone already listed. Here are the ones no one's said yet.

The World According to Garp
The Butterfly Effect
The Animatrix
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2006-12-09, 2:53 PM #40
Originally posted by Whelly:
It's definitely one of my favorites, and it revolves around one of the most important emotions (IMO) for any human... hope. Nothing else is possible without hope, not even love. (Spoilers) I also liked how Andy saves Red at the end, as Red was on the same path as Brooks, but Andy's hope brought him hope as well.

Oh, ok. I can see that. I've only seen the movie once so I haven't dissected it/picked it apart and stuff.
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