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The Room has inspired me like no other film.
This is a thread for listing films that inspire you!
My list:
Wizard of Oz
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky Balboa
Creed
The Breakfast Club
Karate Kid
Pretty in Pink
Forrest Gump
Stand By Me
The Shawshank Redemption
A Hard Day’s Night
Woodstock
Boys Don’t Cry
Philadelphia
Good Will Hunting
The Great Dictator
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Off the top of my head I can’t think of any more but I’ll add them if as I think of them.
The Person in Question
The Room has inspired me like no other film.
Hang on, I like ST VI, but inspirational?
Same question for Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.
Hang on, I like ST VI, but inspirational?
Same question for Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.
I’ll explain. ST VI depicts overcoming prejudices that you’ve held your whole life in order to find common ground and help people that used to be your enemies. The Cold War metaphor is powerful and I find that inspirational. Also, Kirk’s character arc is basically overcoming racism. At the beginning he wished death on all Klingon’s and by the end realized how awful that was and became a hero. I’ve always really loved that movie and I think it’s the most intelligent of the ST films.
Pretty in Pink is a personal favorite. I was a poor kid in a rich school and was self-conscious about it. I guess inspirational may not quite be the most accurate word for this one, but I still feel inspired by it.
The Breakfast Club inspired me and still inspires me to empathize with people that are completely different than me.
The Person in Question
The Room has inspired me like no other film.
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Great thread idea!
Good Will Hunting is always reliable to lift ya up and Rocky will always be the most inspirational. Throw Rocky 2 in there as well. I might even like Rocky 2 more in some ways…
I think Rocky II handles the sequel trope of repeating the first film in an intelligent way. Rocky struggling to find work is sad but his victory over Apollo is, in my opinion, as inspiring as the stalemate in the first.
The Person in Question
Absolutely. I would say it is even more inspiring. Him telling his wife, who is watching over TV, that “He did it” is so emotional. And what’s funny is that they were forced to have her watch the fight over TV since scheduling issues wouldn’t allow for her to be at the fight. Luckily it made for a fantastic scene.
I didn’t know that piece of trivia. The story of Rocky, the movie, is pretty inspiring in that Stallone wrote it and it was his first real film and it cost under a million dollars to make and went on to be one of the most iconic films ever and even winning Best Picture at the Oscars.
The Person in Question
Yep, Rocky is literally Stallone in that movie.
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The blue elephant in the room.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Evil Dead
Rocky
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SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
Because someone had to say it (and because it was the first one that came to mind):
Star Wars
Here are a few that I find inspiring or otherwise overwhelmingly emotional.
Imitation of Life
Superman: The Movie
The Iron Giant
As Good as it Gets
The Princess Bride
Cinema Paradiso
My Dinner with Andre
Close Encounters
Five Easy Pieces
In the Heat of the Night
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Days of Wine and Roses
The Misfits
The Hustler
La Notte
Spartacus
The Ten Commandments
Bad Day at Black Rock
Brigadoon
Roman Holiday
Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Ninth Configuration