Motivational Movies

c - 13

Motivational movies, you know the ones the ones that make you want to run to the nearest gym after watching them or to better yourself in some way.

I got thinking about these after watching "Bloodsport" last night, no plot, fairly badly done, but yet immensely enjoyable and it leaves you with the feeling at the end that you want to go straight to the gym, but it was midnight so I went to sleep insted.

Throw up another few films (with reasons why, lists are boring) , might help boardsies along when theyre feeling unmotivated.

Another prime example would be the Rocky films, who doesnt enjoy the training montages from 3 and 4 (Lang and Drago).

J.R.HARTLEY

c - 13 wrote:

Another prime example would be the Rocky films, who doesnt enjoy the training montages from 3 and 4 (Lang and Drago).

beat me to it, i always found Rocky itself incredibly motivating especially the bit where roclky realises he's punching above his weight (pardon the pun) and just wants to go the distance, always made me feel that it was alike a lesson to always strive for your best even if your not the best.

Bodhidharma

I remember when i was about 9 or 10 i got so pumped up after watching "Kickboxer" that i went to my room and pretended to be Van Damme in the mirror. I tried to do some sort of jump kick and kneed myself in the face. I bust my lip and told my family i fell off the bed.

Those movies should come with a health warning for the stupid.

Ruu_Old

Bodhidharma wrote:

I remember when i was about 9 or 10 i got so pumped up after watching "Kickboxer" that i went to my room and pretended to be Van Damme in the mirror. I tried to do some sort of jump kick and kneed myself in the face. I bust my lip and told my family i fell off the bed.

Those movies should come with a health warning for the stupid.

Yep, it was Van Damme films for me also. The sort of Popeye comeback that would occur. Get hammered by some chap, train for ages (kicking down the tree in Bloodsport and then getting one back for his buddy in the second one I think it was).

RuggieBear

Rudy

sonic juice

The scene in the shining where Jack imagines a bar and a ballroom...makes me want to imagine a bar and a ballroom too!!!!!

ObeyGiant

Triumph of the Will

Maxwell

Rocky is the classic and I used to love Van Damme too.

Anyone remember "No Retreat, No Surrender" from the 80's?

marshmallow

Coach Carter

"Our deepest fear is not that we are in adequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure"

garred

Maxwell wrote:

Rocky is the classic and I used to love Van Damme too.

Anyone remember "No Retreat, No Surrender" from the 80's?

Yep absolutely, loved that film. Cheesy lines, cheesy acting but some very good fight sequences. Think it was Van Damme's first Hollywood picture. Took up karate after that film but left when Bruce Lee did'nt come to train me.

DapperGent

ObeyGiant wrote:

Triumph of the Will

lol

Muzzy

Remember the Titans....I know its cheesy but I liked it
District 13....God damn, I wish I was good at Parkour

Madge

"Without Limits" was on the tv there a while ago. Its about the short young life of american olympic athlete steve prefontaine, I thought it was good

LundiMardi

Maxwell wrote:

Rocky is the classic and I used to love Van Damme too.

Anyone remember "No Retreat, No Surrender" from the 80's?

yeah i LOVED that film as a kid... i actually bought the dvd a few months back and oh my, it's soooooo bad. But nostalgia prevails.

LundiMardi

but i'm like everyone else, the van dammage and rocky films do it for me...

Anybody remember ''King of the Kickboxers''? hahaha, oh man. (not van damme)

get up ya bum, cos mickey loves ya!!