Your favourite and most inspiring movies

[one-eyed]

Late last night they had another one of those countdown shows about the most inspiring movies of all time. This time it was American. The top 10 were:

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Schindler's List
4. Rocky
5. Mr Smith goes to Washington
6. E.T.
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. Breaking Away
9. Miracle on 34th Street
10. Saving Private Ryan

So what's your favourite and/or most inspiring movies?

[Fishfinger]

Before I saw that list I knew mine. Not much of a movie person - they get in the way of sport.

Favourite: "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Most Inspiring: "Mr Accident" - that totally inspired me to never ever let the kids choose the movie again. 

[Jackstar]

The wedding singer

[Moi]

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Schindler's List
Goodwill Hunting
Life is Beautiful
Dirty Dozen
Going My Way
Gallipoli
Anzacs (mini series)
Lassie Come Home lol
Mississippi Burning
An Officer and a Gentleman
Sergeant York

10. Saving Private Ryan

The movie this was based on was pretty good movie called The Fighting Sullivans
True story about how one family lost 5 sons in WW2 in one incident.
Saving Private Ryan was too graphic for Moi, but a good one all the same.

[WilliamPowell]

2. To Kill a Mockingbird

One of my all time favourite movies adpated from one of my all time favourite books. Great thing about "To Kill a Mockingbird" was that the movie stayed so true to Harper Lee's book. 

3. Schindler's List

Another favourite movie - making it in B&W did great justice to the story

6. E.T.

A beauty 

10. Saving Private Ryan

I hated this movie not for the graphic footage but because at the end of it I justed wanted to deck Private Ryan for being a bloody selfish "so 'n' so" - geesh he was an idiot - remember right at the end when he is at Arlington and he's with his wife and he says something to her like "tell me I am good man" - I found myself yelling at the screen - "no sir you are a richardhead - all these people are dead because you wouldn't leave" 

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Absolute classic this one Moi - Spencer Tracy's final speech - magic

Gallipoli

I reckon to this day still one of the best if not the very best Aussie movie ever made

One of my favourites is a little obsecure movie call "Movie Box" that was made around 1989 - sensational stuff - a female lawyer defends her father against war crimes - you don't know right until the end whther the accusations are true.

[DallasCrane]

Life is Beautiful

Great film Moi.

My films aren't 'classics' like you movie buffs;
The Magician
Being John Malkovich
Reservoir Dogs
Empire Strikes Back
Police Story II
The last action hero
The Big Lebowski

[Ox]

LMAO@ How the Jewish producers of the program felt it historically fair of them to
show the comments of Speilberg and co regarding Schindlers List in black and white
for that "added effect 

Why is it that no other film in the countdown was processed in this manner ?
All comments were in color after every film except this one.

 

[julzqld]

Do you know who played Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

[Fishfinger]

A young Robert Duvall, Julz.
(Was that a quiz or were you trying to find out?  )

[WilliamPowell]

Why is it that no other film in the countdown was processed in this manner ?
All comments were in color after every film except this one.

 

Did they do that in the countdown show on Sunday night Ox?

[Ox]

whenever i watched it.
i think it was Sunday ???

[julzqld]

A young Robert Duvall, Julz.
(Was that a quiz or were you trying to find out?  )

Well done Fish - yeah it was a quiz.

[harry bosch]

The Right Stuff
Heat
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
A very long engagement
Serenity

[JohnF]

Most Inspiring:

The Searchers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Seven Samurai
Life is Beautiful
It's a Wonderful Life
Rocky
Underground
Ikiru
Zorba the Greek
Casablanca


Favourites:

American Psycho
Andrei Rublev
Casablanca
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Iceman Cometh
The Last Picture Show
L'Avventura
Long Days Journey Into Night
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Searchers
Solaris
Taxi Driver
Fight Club

[tiga]

Most inspiring

Coach Carter
Shawshank redemption
Blues Brothers - (for the music and the peak hour driving skills it taught me)
Wolf Creek -  (For when the driving skills I learnt from the Blues Brothers fail to get me to work on time  )
Rudy - (Triumph over adversity! David Rodan should have watched this film)
Reservoir Dogs  - (Never trust your work colleagues)
Courage under fire
Sting- Bring on the night (sting's good but my drumming idol "Omar Hakim" plays one of the best drum solo's ever recorded on film. A very good rockumentary)

My favorite films

The Castle
Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Cinema Paradiso
Donnie Darko
Memento - (Best reverse narrative ever! )
Punch-drunk Love - (odd but totally unique and very enjoyable to watch)
Crimson tide
Scarface
Taxi Driver
Rules of engagement