Movies that changed your outlook on life

veryangryman

Hey, without elaborating myself (i mainly say TV series did)

But is there anything you have seen on either screen that totally altered your mindset on life?

fluke

veryangryman wrote: »

Hey, without elaborating myself (i mainly say TV series did)

But is there anything you have seen on either screen that totally altered your mindset on life?

Ah c'mon as the OP you're gonna have to elaborate!

Richard Dower

Ghostbusters...saved my life!

mike65

Well If of course!

/where's me Sten gun?

Slat3

The Blind Side:

It forced me to gouge my eyes out with a biro,now I literally have no outlook.

I would give a my view more toward documentaries :

Occupation 101 - Might be a little bias but heart-breaking
Paradise Lost - Harrowing
Supersize Me - Health message, USA STYLE
Touching the Void - Human spirit pushed to the limit(even if he is a ****head).
The King of Kong - My life isn't hilariously wasted after all.
When The Levees Broke - Republicans try some ethnic cleansing.
No End In Sight - Iraq war, you will laugh at the stupidity even when you shouldn't.

That is just some that I have thought of now but their is so much more.

digme

Rocky IV

Fizman

Well not that it has changed my outlook on life, but I saw Up in the Air (Clooney) a few weeks back and it definitely made me sit up and think about a few things! Well worth a watch.

jaykhunter

I dunno if it counts, but JAWS made me scared of the open water, and IT gave me an unnatural fear of clowns :pac:

foxyboxer

Groundhog Day.

The ultimate self-improvement movie.

fluke

Arachnaphobia made me check under the toilet seat!

BopNiblets

^ Lethal Weapon 2 for me!

MickShamrock

Fight Club.

Handsome Bob

American History X - It had a strong message about where hate can get you, and what can happen if you don't let go of your anger.

Brokeback Mountain - Made me realise how important it is that we live the way we want to live and to not let society stop us from being who we are. Otherwise one day you might look back on life and realise how utterly worthless it has been.

Mississipi Burning - That you grab hate by the balls and to not let go until it submits.

itac

Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind:
Got me thinking about why sometimes, despite the pain of the break-up, and the hard times after, a relationship can be well worth it.

Arachnaphobia: Saw it at a very young age, still have a fear of spiders twenty years on-that was definitely a lifechanging mindset!


And on the small screen, Six Feet Under:
Just reminded me that life is too short, and that losing the people I love most is what scares me the most in life! A very honest (and occasionally dramatic!) look at living, loving, and dying, and dealing with all those things.
Love the part where Claire is being given out to for not dressing up for the funeral, and says that she couldn't do it. When being told that the rest of the family managed it, she just says something like, yeah well the rest of you win. Just the pain she expressed in that line made me think, I know that feeling! And the final 5 minutes of the series was (imo) the best series finale ever!

nyarlothothep

Star Trek, the franchise anyway, growing up it certainly influenced my opinions on where humanity should go in the future. American History X and Fight Club were also mentioned and its kinda interesting that they could be interpreted to share a similar message, that seeking control over the random flow of events leads to bitterness and anger. For example I guess nazi dude in AMX is trying to using his ideology to simplify a complex world down into 1d prejudices, similarly Tyler Durden says to whats his name to stop trying to micro manage every aspect of his life and just let go, this is the car crash scene. Falling Down has a pretty powerful message too about how to deal with the modern world in that Foster reacts to it violently while Prenderghast endures the ups and downs with quiet patience.

del88

Has to be into the wild...true story of Chris McCandless.i read the book after i had seen the film.
I ended up getting in to hiking because of it...so you could say it changed my life

Sound track by eddie vedder(pearl jam) is also very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRUGvArWXLk

rebel10

Oh my God, was just thinking "Into the Wild". Such an amazing movie/story. Certainly didn't give me that chipper outlook on life, but just amazing. Saw "Precious" recently, must say it was a shocker.

tony1kenobi

MickShamrock wrote: »

Fight Club.

After Fight Club I stopped hanging out with my friend.I am a far more productive member of society for it.

del88

tony1kenobi wrote: »

After Fight Club I stopped hanging out with my friend.I am a far more productive member of society for it.

WHATS THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB??

Roisinbunny

jaykhunter wrote: »

, and IT gave me an unnatural fear of clowns :pac:

Man don't get me started. My eldest sister thought it was funny to make me watch it with her when I was like a kid; she told me it was a comedy with a clown. I'm 28 now and it still scares the sh**e out of me when I see a lone balloon straying along the road...........................

Maybe I should watch it again to conquer the fear:(:(

L31mr0d

[rec] - Gave me an irrational fear of

attics

:eek:

The Matrix - I think the rise of the nerd got into full swing with that films release. After that I didn't feel so bad about my love of computers and the internet.

rebel10

Did anyone here ever see the mini-series Salem's Lot? Saw it by accident when i was about 4, babysitter fell asleep at halloween, honestly not so scary when you youtube it now but lost many a nights sleep checking the fricking windows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

Ardent

Cinderella Man - made me acutely aware of the realities of a depression/recession and helped me prepare for the current one.

podgemonster

Roisinbunny wrote: »

Man don't get me started. My eldest sister thought it was funny to make me watch it with her when I was like a kid; she told me it was a comedy with a clown. I'm 28 now and it still scares the sh**e out of me when I see a lone balloon straying along the road...........................

Maybe I should watch it again to conquer the fear:(:(

Halfway through reading IT at the moment and will get the movie once ive finished (1100 pages) but I've never been scared or nervous around clowns before but one came near me on St. Patricks day and my heart was pounding!

Die Hard inspired me to wear vests again...

Roisinbunny

podgemonster wrote: »

Halfway through reading IT at the moment and will get the movie once ive finished (1100 pages) but I've never been scared or nervous around clowns before but one came near me on St. Patricks day and my heart was pounding!

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I'll be curious to know what you think of the film although if you're reading the book you must have nerves of steel.. The thought of it makes me shiver... Can only imagine how he describes him on paper!!!

AllGunsBlazing

rebel10 wrote: »

Did anyone here ever see the mini-series Salem's Lot? Saw it by accident when i was about 4, babysitter fell asleep at halloween, honestly not so scary when you youtube it now but lost many a nights sleep checking the fricking windows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

That damn show was must watch tv back in the early 80's when it was first broadcast here, it scared the hell out of me.

Hasn't aged very well though and you can totally see the kid sitting on a cherry picker or something similar during one of the later Danny Glick window scenes.:D

Giselle

I see I'm not the only one who chose American History X. It made me think all kinds of good and hopeful things about how even the most entrenched hatred can be turned around.


A Single Man certainly made me think of just how lonely and difficult it was in the past (and now, but I really hope less so) to be anything other than completely conventional. How heartbreaking and soul destroying to live your life compelled to pretend to be something you're not.

pocketvenus

Remember Me - which I saw recently def made me look at my life a bit differently. As the tag line says Live in the Moments and that has stayed with me & to try to appreciate the little things and to appreciate each moment.

nacho libre

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Into the Wild
M
He Was a Quiet Man
12 Angry Men
Birdman of Alcatraz
Eduart
Johnny Mad Dog
Fisherking

didn't change my outlook on life, but i thought about the subject matter in each of these films for a long time after viewing each one of them

MrMojoRising

MickShamrock wrote: »

Fight Club.

+1

Has had a profound effect on some of the major decisions in my life...

duckysauce

rebel10 wrote: »

Did anyone here ever see the mini-series Salem's Lot? Saw it by accident when i was about 4, babysitter fell asleep at halloween, honestly not so scary when you youtube it now but lost many a nights sleep checking the fricking windows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

yep cant trust clowns anymore after seen it , best vamp series ever

ultain

'Close encounters of the third kind'

bnt

The first films I thought of were Sofia Coppola's two films, which make you think in existential terms: The Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation. All the more effective for being so atmospheric and understated.

nachoman

rebel10 wrote: »

Did anyone here ever see the mini-series Salem's Lot? Saw it by accident when i was about 4, babysitter fell asleep at halloween, honestly not so scary when you youtube it now but lost many a nights sleep checking the fricking windows!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y

Yeh, I remember that film alright and it scared the bejaysus out of me, thought this was a more scarier scene in the film though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHmWLYmwgo

rebel10

nachoman wrote: »

Yeh, I remember that film alright and it scared the bejaysus out of me, thought this was a more scarier scene in the film though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHmWLYmwgo

Dunno, didn't have the same impact on me, maybe all that bizarre make up! That "let me in Mark, he command it" scene was pretty horrid too. Its the tapping on the window that freaks me out, just the way he could easily just open the window and have his way, creepy creepy

mle1324

Mississippi Burning
Cry Freedom
A Time to Kill

MagicMarker

del88 wrote: »

Has to be into the wild...true story of Chris McCandless.i read the book after i had seen the film.
I ended up getting in to hiking because of it...so you could say it changed my life

Sound track by eddie vedder(pearl jam) is also very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRUGvArWXLk

Okay movie, but the guy came across as a pretentious prick tbh.

mikhail

The piece of work which has made the biggest impression on me is The Wire, but that's a TV show. In that vein, Star Trek TNG probably reinforced my early interest in science.

In terms of film, Brazil has the same message as 1984, but resonates more with me because it's has a more relatable hero (he's not much less whiny and pathetic than Winston, but it's enough - at least he dreams) and doesn't write off everyone else as a faceless prole. Raging Bull shifted my attitude towards self-destructive people to something a little more sympathetic. The Coen brothers' films reinforce my misanthropy.

del88

+1 for The Wire

Eile

Recently The Road. I'm a fan of post-apocalyptic narratives - I like Hollywood blockbuster visions and less mainstream ideas too.
But, The Road really makes the viewer ask some difficult questions. The film is harrowing, emotional and bleak and, although there were bits that really terrified and horrified me, I could not stop thinking about it for a long time after seeing it. It has certainly made me consider humanity in a different light.

RandolphEsq

Lost in Translation

Despite all the heartache that comes with life (sickness and dying and the associated heartache), perhaps it isn't so bad to let yourself form close relationships with others