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I am watching the movie "Rudy" right now. This movie is one of my favorites, and has actually inspired me in my life concerning athletics.

Do you have any movies that inspire you?

I am watching the movie "Rudy" right now. This movie is one of my favorites, and has actually inspired me in my life concerning athletics.

Do you have any movies that inspire you?

Yes...
Léon

Yes...
Léon
The Strangers

Can't really think of a movie that strongly inspires me (unless you mean inspires me as a writer/film student). However, the Lord of the Rings books have been a source of inspiration when I felt pessimistic about the state of the world.

Reality about Rudy (http://www.cracked.com/article_16478_7-movies-based-on-true-story-that-are-complete-bullshit.html)

The Hollywood Version:
It seems that back in the '70s, there was a plucky little football player who dreamed of nothing other than playing for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Unfortunately for young Rudy, his support system consisted of people who went out of their way to point out his flaws, of which there were many, and let him know repeatedly that dreams are the main ingredient in the devil's pudding.

Thankfully, Rudy's best friend from back home got blown right the fuck up in a freak accident, inspiring him to play football for some reason. And play he did, no thanks to the evil scheming of Notre Dame coach Dan Devine, who only allowed Rudy on the field after the entire team threatened to walk out otherwise.

In reality ...
The real life Dan Devine was actually the one who insisted on playing Rudy in his final game. Hell, even when the movie was being made, Devine gave the filmmakers permission to turn him into the film's villain in order to help Rudy, who he considered a good friend.

Devine sounds like one helluva guy, right? So naturally he was repaid for his kindnesses by being turned into the Snidely fucking Whiplash of college football (sans mustache), and forever being remembered as the crotchety coach to whom winning football games was more important than anything. Anything other than ensuring that Rudy's dream would die.

By the way, ever wonder who saw Rudy play that day and got so inspired he just had to make it into a movie? Nobody. It was Rudy himself who spent a full decade trying to convince studios that his life was so awesome it deserved a movie, before one of them finally relented. That's the spirit, little guy!

Truckers: The Dyakovo Story - one bald man's dream of one day driving a truck.

Truckers: The Dyakovo Story - one bald man's dream of one day driving a truck.

Fuck You...
;)

Can't really think of a movie that strongly inspires me (unless you mean inspires me as a writer/film student). However, the Lord of the Rings books have been a source of inspiration when I felt pessimistic about the state of the world.

Film students have to have a film that inspires them. I mean, come on!

Raging Bull, perhaps?

Fuck You...
;)

Got the language down I see, brings a tear to the eye it does, bless,

There are films that inspire me to do stuff, such as Stick It or Centre Stage which inspire me to get back into gymnastics and/or dancing.

There are also films that inspire me to change social situations, such as Erin Brocavich.

Then there are films that inspire me to become a great filmmaker, such as Raging Bull.

Then there are films that are generally "inspiring", like I am Sam.

Reality about Rudy (http://www.cracked.com/article_16478_7-movies-based-on-true-story-that-are-complete-bullshit.html)

Don't really give a shit about that, it has inspired me. Besides, I already knew all that. Still, I wouldn't have played football in high school if it wasn't for Rudy, I wouldn't have been called the heart of the team by coach if I wasn't for Rudy.

I didn't ask for you to fuckin disillusion me, I just asked if you had a movie that inspired you.

Victory/Escape to Victory, whatever you call it.

There are so many anime films that have inspired me to live life in the present and damn what anybody else thinks of me, but I'm hard-pressed to name one in particular.

I also find it ironic that Japan, for producing so many films with the aforementioned theme, is still such a conservative society.

Mongol.


Im already gathering my Mongolian Horde. Watch out China.

After that, on to Russia.

Don't really give a shit about that, it has inspired me. Besides, I already knew all that. Still, I wouldn't have played football in high school if it wasn't for Rudy, I wouldn't have been called the heart of the team by coach if I wasn't for Rudy.

I didn't ask for you to fuckin disillusion me, I just asked if you had a movie that inspired you.

Yea, people never ask to be disillusioned, I just do it for funies.

Inspiring movies? There are so many...

Spaceballs inspired me to reach for the stars.

Big Trouble in Little China inspired me to believe in the unbelievable.

Commando just generally inspired me, to strive to do my best, in everything.

God, I loathe that movie. It always makes my father cry, which always irritates the hell out of me.

As for the question...

Dead Poet's Society. I know it's corny, but seriously, I wanted to be that kind of teacher.

There are many other movies I like much more, but they don't inspire me to do anything much other than watch them.

Dead Poet's Society.

Really...?


I mean....

Really?

Really...?


I mean....

Really?

Oh, stfu, I was a goddamn fiction major.

You know, I still get a little pain when I see Robert Sean Leonard on House. Especially when he cries. :'(

Don't really give a shit about that, it has inspired me. Besides, I already knew all that. Still, I wouldn't have played football in high school if it wasn't for Rudy, I wouldn't have been called the heart of the team by coach if I wasn't for Rudy.

Exactly. The message is the point.

On a similar note, I remember enjoying Papillon as a kid - classic prison story, redemption and perseverance and all that good stuff. Probably fabricated. Don't care. If important bits of it are true, that's fine by me.

As an aside, I've met the real "Rudy." He seemed like a nice enough guy to me.

Oh, stfu, I was a goddamn fiction major.

You know, I still get a little pain when I see Robert Sean Leonard on House. Especially when he cries. :'(

:eek:


Calm down sweety:p
Just poking fun.

Weekend at Bernies

Everyone I've talked to who has seen the movie mentions Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa. I want to see this movie incredibly badly, since it's supposed to be Kurosawa's best, which considering how highly I credit Seven Samurai, is quite a feat.

Predator.

Flash Gordon and Krull, the latter of which inspires me to go looking for arcane weapons of power in boiling magma. Still haven't got a woman to marry me by turning my hand into a flamethrower either...but I am looking for that special girl who can.

Das Leben der Anderen, because I now spy on people to hear their interesting lives go about around me.

Yea, people never ask to be disillusioned, I just do it for funies.

:(

Read that out to yourself again and think about it.

:(

Read that out to yourself again and think about it.

Think about what?

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
I sooo want to be Tuco.

I think Philadelphia has inspired me in more than one ocassion.

I think Philadelphia has inspired me in more than one ocassion.

Never actually seen it...

I still like my answer the best...

I think Philadelphia has inspired me in more than one ocassion.
inspired you to do what? Give Tom Hanks AIDS?

inspired you to do what? Give Tom Hanks AIDS?

lol

I believe the movie that best inspired me was Thank You For Smoking - by and far the best movie I've ever seen.

anything about athletics seriously does NOT inspire, or even interest me at all.

movies about straingeness, with lots of interesting special effects, well its just the kind of straingeness of the effects, espcially if they have, for lack of a better term, a kind of numinous sense about them, those i feel inspired by, as i also do by walking around by myself out in nature, a long way from populated areas, or even places near them that you couldn't tell were in a picture of them.

anime with those kinds of effects/straingeness in them, both inspire my own creativity and lift my spirits. the mundaneness of atheletics, or most other kinds of mundaneness, such as automobiles, christianity, bussiness, those kinds of things actually depress me, as does having to be around humans too much of the time.

inspired you to do what? Give Tom Hanks AIDS?

No, SpudHead. To conquer obstacles.:tongue: