What movies have you seen that inspire or motivate you?
A Couple of Ones I really like are: Gattaca & The Original Rocky.
Rudy and the entire Rocky series
Pumping Iron, naturally. 
For me it’s usually not entire movies, but scenes within movies. The best example I can give is the final race in Days of Thunder. I don’t really like the rest of the movie, but when Cole overcomes his fear and makes it through that wreck…let’s just say I get a little pumped up.
Ricky Bobby.
“I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo t-shit. 'Cause it says, “I wanna be formal, but I’m also here to party too.” 'Cause I like to party so I like my Jesus to party.”
[quote]brucevangeorge wrote:
Gattaca[/quote]
Good call, man. “I never saved anything for the swim back”. Incredible line.
Gladiator all the way. followed by any of the Rocky’s and the scene from Knockaround Guys where Vin Diesel asks the hillbily at the bar, 500?, and then proceeds to give that ignorant hick the beating of his life.
All good stuff.
[quote]bigflamer wrote:
Gladiator all the way. followed by any of the Rocky’s and the scene from Knockaround Guys where Vin Diesel asks the hillbily at the bar, 500?, and then proceeds to give that ignorant hick the beating of his life.
All good stuff.[/quote]
I the only one who found that scene in Knockaround Guys to be kind of embarassing and stupid? I almost pulled out the DVD right there (I wish I had). I always cite this scene as one of the worst in Hollywood history. Of course, I’ve been in a few scapes in my time and I never decided to deliver a monologue first.
Me: “Fifty.”
Him: “What?”
Me: “That’s the number of times I’m going to punch you in your big fat face, pal! And then I’m going to OOOOOOOOOOOOOOPH!..”
Thud.
Does your mother sew? BAM!! Get her to sew that!
[quote]DS 007 wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
Gladiator all the way. followed by any of the Rocky’s and the scene from Knockaround Guys where Vin Diesel asks the hillbily at the bar, 500?, and then proceeds to give that ignorant hick the beating of his life.
All good stuff.
I the only one who found that scene in Knockaround Guys to be kind of embarassing and stupid? I almost pulled out the DVD right there (I wish I had). I always cite this scene as one of the worst in Hollywood history. Of course, I’ve been in a few scapes in my time and I never decided to deliver a monologue first.
Me: “Fifty.”
Him: “What?”
Me: “That’s the number of times I’m going to punch you in your big fat face, pal! And then I’m going to OOOOOOOOOOOOOOPH!..”
Thud.
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I think your understanding of the scene is very wrong. Are we talking about the same movie?
[quote]bigflamer wrote:
DS 007 wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
Gladiator all the way. followed by any of the Rocky’s and the scene from Knockaround Guys where Vin Diesel asks the hillbily at the bar, 500?, and then proceeds to give that ignorant hick the beating of his life.
All good stuff.
I the only one who found that scene in Knockaround Guys to be kind of embarassing and stupid? I almost pulled out the DVD right there (I wish I had). I always cite this scene as one of the worst in Hollywood history. Of course, I’ve been in a few scapes in my time and I never decided to deliver a monologue first.
Me: “Fifty.”
Him: “What?”
Me: “That’s the number of times I’m going to punch you in your big fat face, pal! And then I’m going to OOOOOOOOOOOOOOPH!..”
Thud.
I think your understanding of the scene is very wrong. Are we talking about the same movie?
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I think my understanding of the scene is pretty good. It’s nonsense. I also don’t see what’s inspiring about. What exactly did the scene inspire you to do?
My understanding of the scene is that they pick out the guy who is supposedly the roughest guy in town, someone plugged into the crimal culture, the guy who “runs the place”. By kicking this guy’s ass they serve notice that they are in town and they are to be feared, listened to, dealt with, etc.
My question is: Why the speech? The guy didn’t say “How many fights you been in there partner?” No. He says, obviously intimidated: “Look. I got no problem with you.” Then Vin goes into his childish little speech about his fifty fights and how he felt he needed that many to really be a tough guy and how he got past all the silliness of it, blah blah blah. The plot was not served by Vin’s speech. But it served to glorify Vin’s character, I guess. Don’t know. It was just dumb.
My parody of the dialogue was just to point out that if you did that in reality you’d probably get kick in the nuts before you made your point.
The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, American History X
With a BIG emphasis on Shawshank
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13th Warrior
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Master and Commander
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Pumping Iron
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Without Limits (Steve Prefontaine story)
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When We Were Kings
A lot were already mentioned. Here is my list. Rocky Set, Gladiator, Shawshank Redemption, Boondock Saints, Braveheart, Fight Club, Green Mile, Will Smiths new movie, Good Will Hunting, The Last Samurai, Cinderella Man, Million Dollar Baby, and my all time favorite…Vision Quest.
I cannot completely explain it, but Phenommenon always made me want to live my life better.
Braveheart, on the other hand, always made me want to compete at anything until my guts were ripped out as I yelled “FREEDOM!”.
All Rockys, Pumpimg Iron, The Program, Lethal Weapon 1.
Lone Wolf McQuad
Oh and don’t forget, anything with Jenna Jamison.
[quote]Deuce wrote:
A lot were already mentioned. Here is my list. Rocky Set, Gladiator, Shawshank Redemption, Boondock Saints, Braveheart, Fight Club, Green Mile, Will Smiths new movie, Good Will Hunting, The Last Samurai, Cinderella Man, Million Dollar Baby, and my all time favorite…Vision Quest.[/quote]
Vision Quest was fantastic!
Definately Gattaca and Rudy!
There is no gene for the human spirit!