What movies have touched you?

[PushHands]

The Way Home

 

[anno]

philadelphia

 

[morkinva]

Stand by Me
Rudy
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction

 

[jjyiz28]

the last emperor

 

[Judgement]

Originally posted by: yhlee
voices of a distant star (hoshi no koe)
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
grave of the fireflies

a land before time (when i was 5)


highly recommended

OMG, a land before time! I had completely forgotten that movie even existed until you mentioned it. Didn't they make sequels to it? I wonder if they're any good

 

[geckojohn]

Vanilla Sky has touched me. It makes you think about life.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: geckojohn
Vanilla Sky has touched me. It makes you think about life.

Yeah, that was a good one.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Judgement

Originally posted by: yhlee
voices of a distant star (hoshi no koe)
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
grave of the fireflies

a land before time (when i was 5)


highly recommended

OMG, a land before time! I had completely forgotten that movie even existed until you mentioned it. Didn't they make sequels to it? I wonder if they're any good

They made like 3 sequels to the original. I didn't think the original was all that good to begin with.... ::shrug::

 

[TheNinja]

Gladiator
Private Ryan
Platoon
Monsters Inc (when the big monster might never see the girl again at the end)

 

[SandLizard]

Originally posted by: Palek
Saving Private Ryan, for being the first film that showed me the true horror of war.

We Were Soldiers, for being the first Vietnam-related war movie - that I can remember - that did not takes sides and did not depict the Vietnamese or Americans as utterly evil, but as soldiers defending their country / defending freedom (or whatever they thought they were defending). That, and it was another extremely realistic war movie that left me hoping I would never face a situation where I would HAVE to take a man's life, whatever the reason.

um, what about Platoon?

Didn't see this one anywhere:

Band of Brothers (it's just a really really long movie...)

 

[dpopiz]

donnie darko and fight club
I have to try some of these other suggestions

 

[guapo337]

green mile
fight club
the great gatsby (book/movie)

 

[guapo337]

oh, and saving private ryan

 

[StephenM]

The Third Man
Grave of the Fireflies
High Noon
October Sky
A Place in the Sun

 

[idNut]

Originally posted by: bbkat
In Diana Jones and the Temple of Poon

actually, that movie made me touch myself. Does that count?

LMFAO

 

[idNut]

Braveheart and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

 

[CChaos]

Originally posted by: Judgement
I was having a discussion with my brother recently about films that changed the way you look at things. They are few and far between, and as I was reflecting I realized the movies I felt changed by weren't even necessarily well received. You can't always put your finger on what it is about the movie which touches you, but you can tell its there as you see the credits for the movie come up.

The conversation was prompted when going through some old VHS tapes and I came across the movie Stand By Me.... yes the one with a young Corey Feldman in it. Something about that movie has just made me really like it, from the first time I saw it to the most recent viewing. There are tons of movies I've loved, but they didn't necessarily leave feeling different then before I had viewed them.

So now I prompt the Anand community: which films have left you feeling like a slightly different person; which touched you on a deeper level?

This is the film I thought of when I read the title of the thread. I was pretty young when it came out and when Chris fades away at the end while the voiceover explains how he died it got me good.

 

[CChaos]

Originally posted by: masterxfob
simon birch

Have you read A Prayer for Owen Meany? This is the novel that Simon Birch is based on. If you haven't read it you should. It's one of the best books I've ever read and prompted me to read everything Irving has written.

I'll second Platoon and American Beauty as well.

 

[AmerDoux]

To Wong Fu!

 

[Wallydraigle]

Return of the Living Dead has affected me more than any other movie. It's not my favorite by a long shot, but I saw when I was waaay too young, and I still have zombie dreams based on this movie today.

Conan the Barbarian is a good one.

The Goonies

Most of my others have been listed already.

 

[wviperw]

The Perfect Storm (at the end)
AI (once again, at the end)
Good Will Hunting
The Truman Show
Majestic

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Grave of the Fireflies


I'm suprised the matrix fan boys haven't chimed in yet.

 

[roncarter]

you guys should watch life is beautiful

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker

Originally posted by: MacBaine
The one movie with the bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'.

actually, i think it was called "god awful"

90% on rottentomatoes

 

[Palek]

Originally posted by: SandLizard
um, what about Platoon?

Didn't see this one anywhere:

Band of Brothers (it's just a really really long movie...)

I have never actually seen Platoon. I really should, though.