Movies or TV series that match your values or influenced you.

Cantremember

Being old now I grew up with movies like High Noon and John Wayne: all good versus evil and real men doing away with baddies. So I'm curious now about what movies or TV series people identify with; some of the recent TV is as good if not better than movies. What are your favourites and do they represent your values?

wazky

The A-team influenced me, I drive around in black van shooting like a wild man but never seem to actually kill anyone.

MS.ing

cantremember

Cantremember

MS.ing wrote: »

cantremember

Yes?

MS.ing

Cantremember wrote: »

Yes?

do you still touch yourself?

J_E

Oslo, 31. August left a huge impact on me.

Cantremember

MS.ing wrote: »

do you still touch yourself?

Yes. I'm picking my nose at the moment.

Tokyo

MacGyver for sure. After years of him being my childhood idol, I'm now like a reverse MacGyver. I can take a perfectly working item, step on it drunk, then turn it into dozens of unusable, meaningless parts.

131spanner

The Dukes of Hazzard. That show had everything

MJ23

Batman. I have a black car.

AnonoBoy

I used to always watch Different Strokes as a kid. It had a huge influence on my life. So much so that when I grew up me and my african american brother moved into the house of a rich old white man. He was furious when he found out.

e_e

Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm really influenced my sense of humour.

Joe prim

Dr Kildare.... I opened a medical practice in Naas where I pretend to be a doctor......

Adamantium

Born in 1991 so,

I'm sure Deep Impact and Armageddon and Titanic made me love space travel, exploration, seas, and science in general

BSG and its themes of honour, responsibility,manhood and survival were genuinely worldview changing. What's it all for in the end? Are we worth saving? How do we live out lives knowing mortality is for us? If we had do overs, would we even do much with them than what we'd in the first one? (cylon resurrection)


Anchorman, Back To The Future, Shaun of the Dead, Lost in Translation, made me realise ah those are parts of humor I enjoy,and made me see them in myself, want I want to emulate. Things that " I " found funny.

BY FAR, the most important:

DARA O BRIAIN comedy dvds was the first time I "got" stand up comedy, and thought this is hysterical, what an amazing way to be. It felt like I found a long lost twin. It felt like ah its ok to be that way, if he can do it and get laughs, the world is now open to me!

e_e

As a serious answer: The Wire made me understand so much about political systems, the futility of war on drugs, the inner structure of police departments, the media and so many other things.

bnt

Another serious answer: Six Feet Under, in the way it handled death in all its forms, has made death less scary for me. It's coming for all of us, how do we face up to it before our time comes?

poundapunnet

Farthing wood was on the telly when I was a kid, so I learned that I liked animals, and that nature is important also that everyone you love gets old and fcuking dies and the world is a cruel place and nothing matters. Man that show really got out of hand quickly.

osarusan

The movie Armageddon had a huge impact on me. It changed the way I thought about life.
I mean, if something so utterly f**king terrible can be a success, then there is hope for everyone, right?

The One Who Knocks

Breaking Bad.

thegreatgonzo

The Famous Five series made in the late 70's or early 80's. I looked a bit like the girl who played George and I thought she was deadly. All I wanted to do was go camping and horse riding and eat exotic sounding things like treacle tarts. I really haven't changed that much since I was 5 years old.

Postman Pat. I just want to bring a cat to work with me.

thegreatgonzo

Candie wrote: »

Postman Pat. I just want to bring a cat to work with me.

That would be the dream alright.

highly1111

A movie which had a big impact on me was American History X. Type of film you can only watch once - I found it extremely upsetting - still can't point my finger on why.

Some of my favourite tv series have been ER, Brothers & Sisters, Six Feet Under and more recently House of Cards. Don't know if they've influenced me but I did enjoy them enormously....

And, as a I girl, I have to say - I LOVED sex and the city.... pure escapism!

sopretty

TV series - Criminal Minds

Film - Man on Fire

Femme_Fatale

highly1111 wrote: »

A movie which had a big impact on me was American History X. Type of film you can only watch once - I found it extremely upsetting - still can't point my finger on why.

I can: The prison rape scene, the scene where he nearly chokes his sister and then attacks his mother's date, the scene where the Asian shop staff are attacked by the skinheads, the kerb scene, the ending... among others!

Amazing film though, I agree.

Cienciano

highly1111 wrote: »

A movie which had a big impact on me was American History X. Type of film you can only watch once - I found it extremely upsetting - still can't point my finger on why.

Ehhhh, the kerb scene? And as Femme_Fatale says, the scene where his mother brings her date back to the house is probably the most upsetting to me.
It's a great film, haven't watched it in years, might give it a go again.

highly1111

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I can: The prison rape scene, the scene where he nearly chokes his sister and then attacks his mother's date, the scene where the Asian shop staff are attacked by the skinheads, the kerb scene, the ending... among others!

Amazing film though, I agree.

Yes, of course you're right - I think it's kerb scene which initially impacted me the most - still shudder at the thought of it.

Think it's one of those films that everyone needs to watch.

Adamantium

I remember 7th Heaven coming on every Sunday, weren't the parents overly protective (and 90's suburban Christian) and literally feeding off their kids brain. I literally cringe at the theme tune. I don't remember being so 90's. Its so long ago, it that never seems that real to me.
I do remember enjoying it and been drawn to it as a kid though, but you could watch worse things as a kid, and I probably picked up a few attitudes from it.

For the LOL's, you won't be disappointed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKH0XUjOq0o

Conall Cernach

I seem to be a bit older than most of the posters her so many won't have heard about this one: The Monocled Mutineer. This tv show demonstrated the ****tiness of class and war.

RayM

The knowledge I've gleaned from years of watching House has enabled me to diagnose chronic illnesses in other medical dramas.

Femme_Fatale

Threads

It was a one-off TV film 30 years ago. I was only small at the time but saw it 20 years later. Verrrrrrry powerful message: obviously that nuclear war is bad (and if it'll happen, better off dead tbh) but also how intertwined we are as a society and how reliant we are on each other, and how "There's no such thing as society" is such bollocks.

Its message is applicable to other contexts besides nuclear war. Any war. And any society. How lucky we are in this particular society, and how fragile it all is.

MRnotlob606

well reservoir dogs

Waitsian

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I seem to be a bit older than most of the posters her so many won't have heard about this one: The Monocled Mutineer. This tv show demonstrated the ****tiness of class and war.

One of my all-time favourite TV dramas. Very controversial in it's day too. One could easily watch alongside Paths of Glory for an examination of the class issue during the 1914-18 war.

singledad80

I have to say it would be star gate still think half my brain is still in the cloud

Lenin Skynard

The Simpsons definitely. Everyone from all walks of life loved it, and I'm constantly surprised by how people immediately react in a familiar way to even the most obscore references from it.

thegreatgonzo

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Threads

It was a one-off TV film 30 years ago. I was only small at the time but saw it 20 years later. Verrrrrrry powerful message: obviously that nuclear war is bad (and if it'll happen, better off dead tbh) but also how intertwined we are as a society and how reliant we are on each other, and how "There's no such thing as society" is such bollocks.

Its message is applicable to other contexts besides nuclear war. Any war. And any society. How lucky we are in this particular society, and how fragile it all is.

Did you post about this a few months ago? I went off and googled it and just reading the synopsis freaked me out, don't think I could watch it. I was terrified of nuclear war when I was a kid.

Ray Palmer

e_e wrote: »

As a serious answer: The Wire made me understand so much about political systems, the futility of war on drugs, the inner structure of police departments, the media and so many other things.

I hope you live in the USA as it would not have so much relevance to Ireland.

Kunkka

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Threads

It was a one-off TV film 30 years ago. I was only small at the time but saw it 20 years later. Verrrrrrry powerful message: obviously that nuclear war is bad (and if it'll happen, better off dead tbh) but also how intertwined we are as a society and how reliant we are on each other, and how "There's no such thing as society" is such bollocks.

Its message is applicable to other contexts besides nuclear war. Any war. And any society. How lucky we are in this particular society, and how fragile it all is.

Really great watch. One of those things you are glad you watched but wouldn't watch again. Extremely dark but boy is it effective.

Too Tough To Die

Do The Right Thing. I've not seen it, but if they did in fact do the right thing in that movie then its values are very much in line with my own.

pundy

American Horror Story.

because all the characters are unhinged take-no-crap cvnts.

stoneill

I was brought up in the ethical and moral world of Worzel Gummidge

RoboRat

Office Space made me realise that working in a cubicle is the equivalent to purgatory.

Crap film but 'Wanted' gave me the idea to tell my boss to 'shut the f*** up' and look particularly psychotic whilst doing so. Actually that scene alone tied me over for over 2 years... dreaming about the moment and thinking of how it would pan out!

Masterchef Ireland gave me the insight to know that although I may think I am average at something, I am better than most people, by a country mile.

Pay it forward inspired me to do nice things to others in the hope they would do likewise.

Wall Street showed me that only the most ruthless will succeed.

e_e

Ray Palmer wrote: »

I hope you live in the USA as it would not have so much relevance to Ireland.

Yeah, because as we all know it's impossible to learn from and/or enjoy a tv show/movie made outside our own country. :rolleyes:

e_e

Too Tough To Die wrote: »

Do The Right Thing. I've not seen it, but if they did in fact do the right thing in that movie then its values are very much in line with my own.

The whole point of the film is that

nobody does the right thing.

Great stuff anyway, highly recommend it.

Ray Palmer

e_e wrote: »

Yeah, because as we all know it's impossible to learn from and/or enjoy a tv show/movie made outside our own country. :rolleyes:

Well you will find that when a show is about the specifics of a completely different political system, police organisations, media organisations, school systems, society etc... you might not learn much to know about your own country.

You can learn from it just not about this country and to say it influenced you and your values for living here you are wasting your time. It is also an entertainment show which feel free to enjoy but it doesn't make it accurate especially in this country.

If you ever got arrested would you plead the fifth and ask for your one phone call? Even the one phone call is not true in the USA but certain shows would have you believe it.

I pity anybody who in Ireland would consider The Wire as a serious influence on their life or say it reflects their values.

pundy

Ray Palmer wrote: »

I pity anybody who in Ireland would consider The Wire as a serious influence on their life or say it reflects their values.

so .... the wire - ... you've clearly never seen the carry on around talbot street and abbey street in the last decade then. It IS the wire.

poundapunnet

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Well you will find that when a show is about the specifics of a completely different political system, police organisations, media organisations, school systems, society etc... you might not learn much to know about your own country.

You can learn from it just not about this country and to say it influenced you and your values for living here you are wasting your time. It is also an entertainment show which feel free to enjoy but it doesn't make it accurate especially in this country.

If you ever got arrested would you plead the fifth and ask for your one phone call? Even the one phone call is not true in the USA but certain shows would have you believe it.

I pity anybody who in Ireland would consider The Wire as a serious influence on their life or say it reflects their values.

The Wire's depiction of the futility of the war on drugs can be applied to any western country really. The way it balanced the story between cops and criminals and made you identify with people on either side would influence anyone who hadn't been exposed to that kind of story-telling, I would think (and most people hadn't at the time it came out). It's certainly influenced me insofar as I find most other police procedurals very difficult to engage with now.

And by all accounts its very factually accurate in its representations of police and court procedures, as well as the criminal side. Unless you know something all the David Simon and all the consultants he brought in failed to mention?

Ray Palmer

pundy wrote: »

so .... the wire - ... you've clearly never seen the carry on around talbot street and abbey street in the last decade then. It IS the wire.

What!?! No it is not, nothing like. We have welfare, healthcare etc... It exactly that idiotic belief that is the problem with taking The Wire as an important as a reflection in or country.

Seriously how many drug related shooting has Ireland got? Anywhere close to Baltimore?

Many of the problems in inner city Baltimore shown is not even possible in this country. How many kids do you know raising a family of kids? How about the mass housing for foster kids.

There are some connections but it is moronic to suggest it gives you an idea of Ireland. How much crack is sold here, how many addicts? I cannot emphasis how ridiculous it is to think it gives you any knowledge of Ireland.

e_e

Ray Palmer wrote: »

I pity anybody who in Ireland would consider The Wire as a serious influence on their life or say it reflects their values.

Massive straw man here. I didn't say it influenced my perception of Ireland. In fact you're the one who brought up Ireland, not me. Many of the ideas of the show are hardly exclusive to American society either.

e_e

You're being far too literal and pedantic Ray_Palmer, nobody is saying that it accurately reflects Irish life too but that some of the core ideas of the show are applicable to other parts of the world too. The show is essentially a microcosm of America that can also be reflected in other societies.

Vandango

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Everyone from all walks of life loved it

If by everyone you mean not me? Then you are correct.