CookieCows

The Legend of Billy Jack
One Who Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Jeremiah Johnson

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CValentine

Forgot to add: Fireproof

~Cheryl

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

jmoore

Gotta be
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure and bogus journey,
Wayne's world
breakfast club,
stand by me,
flatliners
nil by mouth,
leon
saving private ryan

Alvarasstuff

Classics lol

Dumb and Dumber
BloodSport
Blacksheep
Apocalypto
Remember the Titans

island cassie

Inspirational:

To kill a mockingbird
Stand by me


Favourites:

Phantom of the opera
Apocalypse now
Good morning Vietnam
Pulp fiction
Strictly ballroom
Muriel's wedding
American beauty
Das boot
The rocky horror picture show
The producers (the original with Mel Brooks)
Lord of the rings

probably other too, but can't think of them

damaclese

Cassie i have to agree on Muriel's wedding
vary interesting move about how people sell them selves short and the devastating consciouses to others

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saltydad

Cassie, thanks...don't know how I omitted To Kill A Mockingbird.

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momoese

I could make a neverending list but this one film sticks in my mind as something I think everyone should see.

A Japanese film called Tampopo

Tampopo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think this person sums it up.

island cassie

Hey Mitchell - Tampopo sounds really interesting - I will try to order it locally.

Howard - I was beginning to think that I was the only person who remembered "To kill a mockingbird" - haven't seen it for years but will never forget it - will try to order that locally too!

Paulo - glad you liked "Murial's wedding" too - I'm a big fan of Baz Luhrmann and "Strictly Ballroom" was surreal! In 1979 after getting out of Iran during the revolution, we spent 6 months touring around Australia and the Australia we saw then was just like "Murial" and "Strictly" - Jim was offered a job there in Brisbane and I had to say - "on your own!". So many murders and thefts - shops wouldn't serve the surfers and we had to buy milk and bread for them. Not at all what the propaganda says about the country.

Iran was lovely and I would go back there in a heartbeat - kind and decent people.

lorax

Oh yeah! Tampopo is a fantastic movie. All those noodles!

momoese

Makes me hungry and happy every time!

momoese

Oh, one more must see Insprational film, and probably my all time favorate movie.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The original one.

Lagniappe

Gene Wilder has been in several potentially inspirational films.
Remember "Frisco Kid" or "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" ?

momoese

See No evil Hear no Evil was very funny! Never saw Frisco Kid.

lorax

Frisco Kid was fantastic, but Stir Crazy was better.

Jack Daw

TV Shows:

Babylon 5 (THE best Sci-fi show ever)

Star Trek

Stargate... you get the point (scifi theme mainly)

Family Guy (it's so stupid, that it's hilarious, really, there are only very little shows that are stupider... I watch series like this to keep up with English slang, "social dilemas" and "fun")

...

Movies:

Impostor

Equillibrium

The time machine (top 10)

maybe also something with Brucie boy, like for example The 5th element

Matrix was fine (1st movie)

...

Most of the movies I like are, well, distinctive, mostly unknown.
Like

Spartacus

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Zeitgeist - Corporatocracy 101 (~2hrs)

Zeitgeist - Moving Forward (~2.5hrs)

lorax

Matrix was fine, by Equilibrium! That's the better film by far.

Jack Daw

I usually need to feel a really strong idea behind the movie. All of these were such films.
Btw, did you know, that the art of avoiding bullets and positioning yourself in such a way, that the enemy can't hit you/doesn't want to shoot from that angle was developed and trained as shooting and fighting practice of Russian martial art called The System (Система)? The only force in the world, that truly masteres this fighting style is Russian elite force Spetznas (спецназ - Войска специального назначения), also called the army of special assignments in translation.

If you have an option, try to get somewhere your hands on The time machine, sort of philospohical and also adventurous movie. A guy builds a time machine to save his beloved girl, whom he wants to marry, from death, that he witnessed in a park. But each time he goes to the past...

And there was one sentence in the movie, that explained it all. Actually, that explains a lot, when you watch the behaviour of many people. And he had to travel so long and so far, just to hear it (I wouldn't have thought that the point of the film would be so deeply phylosophical).
PM me, when you've seen the movie, we can discuss.

OK, I said too much. Watch the movie, you will be gald that you did. I promise. Beth you seem a lot more philosophical than I anticipated. Also, you seem to like dreaming. Nice. That's one of the basic Slavic traits (and thus mine too). Really.

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Zeitgeist - Corporatocracy 101 (~2hrs)

Zeitgeist - Moving Forward (~2.5hrs)

Bob

What color were the "oompa loompa's"?

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lorax

Oh gawd, bright industrial-carpet orange. With green hair.

And I completely forgot, but nothing rivals the original BBC1 production of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for sheer wierdness and excellence.