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

Cantremember · 06-04-2014 01:53PM #1

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 · 06-04-2014 01:55PM

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 · 06-04-2014 01:56PM

cantremember

Cantremember · 06-04-2014 01:57PM

MS.ing wrote: »

cantremember

Yes?

MS.ing · 06-04-2014 02:00PM

Cantremember wrote: »

Yes?

do you still touch yourself?

J_E · 06-04-2014 02:03PM

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

Cantremember · 06-04-2014 02:06PM

MS.ing wrote: »

do you still touch yourself?

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

Tokyo · 06-04-2014 02:19PM

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 · 06-04-2014 02:27PM

The Dukes of Hazzard. That show had everything

MJ23 · 06-04-2014 02:34PM

Batman. I have a black car.

AnonoBoy · 06-04-2014 02:35PM

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 · 06-04-2014 02:38PM

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

Joe prim · 06-04-2014 02:41PM

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

Adamantium · 06-04-2014 02:46PM

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 · 06-04-2014 02:50PM

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 · 06-04-2014 04:19PM

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 · 06-04-2014 04:43PM

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 · 06-04-2014 06:07PM

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 · 06-04-2014 07:32PM

Breaking Bad.

thegreatgonzo · 06-04-2014 07:57PM

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.

06-04-2014 08:31PM

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

thegreatgonzo · 06-04-2014 08:35PM

Candie wrote: »

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

That would be the dream alright.

highly1111 · 06-04-2014 08:39PM

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 · 06-04-2014 08:41PM

TV series - Criminal Minds

Film - Man on Fire

Femme_Fatale · 06-04-2014 08:41PM

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 · 06-04-2014 08:49PM

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 · 06-04-2014 08:51PM

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 · 06-04-2014 08:52PM

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 · 06-04-2014 09:02PM

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 · 06-04-2014 09:07PM

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

Femme_Fatale · 06-04-2014 09:09PM

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.

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

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