Believe it or not, a movie buff like myself actually found a classic 80s movie I’d never heard of the other day on iTunes called Vision Quest with Matthew Modine and it blew my mind, not only with how good it was but also the quintessentially 80s power ballad hit after hit with bands like Journey and Foreigner with a score by the ever awesome Tangerine Dream.
Plot wise it’s about a young dude in small town USA who is an amateur high school wrestler and he has to cut a load of weight to fight this monster at a lower weight level that everyone warns him not to fight whilst battling his attraction to an older woman.
Anyway, it was great. Got me thinking, what are peoples go to motivational movies as this one made me wanna run up a mountain with a backpack full of Spurs trophies. Actually, bad example.
Rocky 4, No Retreat No Surrender and Remember the Titans are ones that come to mind. I wanna say Gallipoli too but it’s also extremely sad as well as being motivational.
Inspirational movies
posted on 15/10/23
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
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comment by Jalisco Red - Losing My Reguilón (U4195)
posted 1 minute ago
I'm not sure I've even seen Clockwork Orange all the way through.
I've read the book and remember being mildly irritated by the slang/'nadsat' language. Maybe I should give it another go and/or give the film a proper watch.
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I've read it and it was extremely hard going.
Made it easier to deal with 4za in later life though.
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I think 4za wrote Riddley Walker.
posted on 15/10/23
I certainly think that's where 4Skins inspiration comes from.
posted on 15/10/23
i don't know that these films necessarily make me want to do anything - other than watch more films - but they might loosely count as inspirational:
casablanca
heaven can wait
a matter of life and death
the life and death of colonel blimp
never rarely sometimes always
the elephant man (too obvious?)
the crying game
arrival
eternal sunshine
precious
little miss sunshine
starman
the enigma of kasper hauser
happy as lazzaro
plus any laurel and hardy movie, obviously
posted on 15/10/23
posted on 16/10/23
Watched Heaven Can Wait recently, love a bit of Beatty.
posted on 16/10/23
A Clockwork Orange is inspirational because it was creative, controversial and influential. Sometimes 'art' cannot be pretty and can be a hard and uncomfortable. watch. Many people who watched the film at the time (and even read the book) were inspired in many ways.
posted on 16/10/23
The only correct answer is Blackball.
posted on 16/10/23
The pursuit of happiness
posted on 16/10/23
comment by RB&W - Whiteside has done it again (U21434)
posted 8 hours, 41 minutes ago
A Clockwork Orange is inspirational because it was creative, controversial and influential. Sometimes 'art' cannot be pretty and can be a hard and uncomfortable. watch. Many people who watched the film at the time (and even read the book) were inspired in many ways.
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Thought it was pretty crap personally, but deserves its place for artistic merit.
posted on 16/10/23
Anchorman....inspirational to chauvinists everywhere