life-changing books or movies?

[AShannon04]

Hey guys, I'm kinda in a funk right now and am looking for some sort of inspiration. Are there any books or movies out there that you were totally hit by and changed your outlook on life?

[FrancesTheMute]

i don't know about changing my life, but here are some good movies...
21 grams
25th hour
american history x
being john malkovich
big fish
eternal sunshine
fear and loathing in las vegas
fight club
garden state
kids
lost in translation
menace II society
pulp fiction
requiem for a dream
reservoir dogs
seven
snatch
trainspotting
vanilla sky
wonderland


check them all out.

[AShannon04]

i don't know about changing my life, but here are some good movies...
21 grams
25th hour
american history x
being john malkovich
big fish
eternal sunshine
fear and loathing in las vegas
fight club
garden state
kids
lost in translation
menace II society
pulp fiction
requiem for a dream
reservoir dogs
seven
snatch
trainspotting
vanilla sky
wonderland


check them all out.

thanks man. I've seen almost all of those, but I'll def check out the ones I haven't seen...

[Darren McLeod]

If you're in a funk, no book can cheer you up like A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. The man describes an extremely tough time with some of the best humour you could ever read. It might not change your life, but it's still worth a read.

[exthuse]

the crow made me think about not wanting to lose someone

[Rebs]

movies:
pulp fiction.
fried green tomatoes.

books:
the secret life of bees.
the five people you meet in heaven.

[punklet2101]

If you're in a funk, no book can cheer you up like A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. The man describes an extremely tough time with some of the best humour you could ever read. It might not change your life, but it's still worth a read.
Yes!!!!

[ummmmmmmmm182]

The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky...Great, great book.

As for a movie...I'm nto really sure.

[mrskinnyarms]

life changing? hmmm...
i can't say it change my life. but it gave me a different way to look at it.

Amelie.

movie by the way. there's also a couple that have already been mentioned such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

[apoemtothedead]

If you need a movie or a book to change your life, then you need to learn to think for yourself. That might change your outlook on life just a bit.

[Riverwings]

hahaha.. this thread makes me laugh.. cuz it reminds me of the time my friend saw the movie "capturing the friedmans".. and he said "this movie changed my life.. i'm no longer a pedophile" (he was joking btw).. but personally, the movie "stand by me" inspires me for whatever reason

[mrskinnyarms]

inspire

that's the word i was looking for.

[punklet2101]

The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky...Great, great book.

As for a movie...I'm nto really sure.
Good call

[Andy]

Fight Club, American Psycho and Survivor, books

Garden State

[ArTkY_]

Tuesdays With Morrie can be a life changing book :D

[Alex Djaferis]

hmm nothing "changed" my life. But some books got me inspired to learn more/act more like a certain way etc.

Forrest Gump,21 Grams, the Truman Show etc.

books...man....the outsider by albert camus, primo Levi's "If this is a man"....ill come back to this thread, im a bit blank right now.

[Louise Heng]

The Ender's Series by Orson Scott Car (namely the first book, Ender's Game) and
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Album

They haven't really CHANGED my life, but they've made me think a lot more and (like PeeDster said) inspired me in the way I've acted.

[slickwataris]

Watch the movie Grave of the Fireflies. It's about a brother and sister who lose their parents after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan and eventually lose each other. I like the fact that not once in the movie did they mention "America" even though we all know we screwed them over.

[jeremyfromva]

If you're in a funk, no book can cheer you up like A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. The man describes an extremely tough time with some of the best humour you could ever read. It might not change your life, but it's still worth a read.


Agreed!

[Spooky]

a bunch of people have 21 Grams.... i dunno, i couldnt get into that movie. Some movies are shot out of order and it works (memento, eternal sunshine), but it seemed like 21 Grams did it to be cool. It wasn't a bad movie, the actual story and idea was cool, but i dunno... maybe just not my thing.

[The Don]

a bunch of people have 21 Grams.... i dunno, i couldnt get into that movie. Some movies are shot out of order and it works (memento, eternal sunshine), but it seemed like 21 Grams did it to be cool. It wasn't a bad movie, the actual story and idea was cool, but i dunno... maybe just not my thing.
I hear you. This movie bored me out of my mind and made no point whatsoever. It's just one of those artsy movies that puts more into style than substance.

If you want an inspirational movie, look not further than The Shawshank Redemption. I've seen it about 20 times, and it's still therapy like no other.

[btbam > you]

fight club is that movie for me. it makes you think about everything and the way you live your life and the decisions you make. i love it.

[burntheaction]

American Beauty always gets me thinking.

And Six Feet Under. Alan Ball is just a dude.

[Vincewithouthee]

i don't know about changing my life, but here are some good movies...
21 grams
25th hour
american history x
being john malkovich
big fish
eternal sunshine
fear and loathing in las vegas
fight club
garden state
kids
lost in translation
menace II society
pulp fiction
requiem for a dream
reservoir dogs
seven
snatch
trainspotting
vanilla sky
wonderland


check them all out.

I agree with almost all those.

And I'll add another one:
Leaving Las Vegas

[wender]

Sloppy firsts and second helpings

are books by megan mccafferty

[Hilikus]

The House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danwelski. I cant stress to you enough how amazing of a book that is. It took the man 10 years of his life to write. Aside from that i would suggest anything by Samuel Becket. He is a play writer and a poet but i belive he has also written some short stories. Beckett is a genuis and pretty much created his own genre of writing known as absurdism or i guess experimental literature.

[AShannon04]

If you need a movie or a book to change your life, then you need to learn to think for yourself. That might change your outlook on life just a bit.

I agree with you. I think I may have just worded the thread a little wrong, but I'm looking for something that makes me see things differently or inspires me.

[YoungNastyMan]

Has trainspotting not been mentioned?

[celebrate ashes]

as much as the perks of being a wallflower seems to be the cliche emo kid book or whatever... it truely is an amazing book. you won't be able to put it down. i read it in one sitting the first time.

and word up to trainspotting. trainspotting > requiem for a dream

[TitoThePoolBoy]

life changing movies...

simon birch
a.i.
donnie darko
the pianist
october sky
love actually

[djUbilla]

I hear you. This movie bored me out of my mind and made no point whatsoever. It's just one of those artsy movies that puts more into style than substance.

If you want an inspirational movie, look not further than The Shawshank Redemption. I've seen it about 20 times, and it's still therapy like no other.
My favorite movie. I know of none more inspirational.

As for 21 grams, it was shot out of order to show that our lives are intertwined regardless of chronical order. It was a theme running throughout the plot of the movie, and the director found a way to address that way in the fasion that the movie was shown.

[CreepyManHug]

as much as the perks of being a wallflower seems to be the cliche emo kid book or whatever... it truely is an amazing book. you won't be able to put it down. i read it in one sitting the first time.

It took me 3 days to read that book, and I thought it was way overrated. Until I got to the very end and realized how much like the damn kid I am. The last third of the book definitely got me hooked on it.

But I wouldn't say it was life-changing for me. It just made me think about myself.

[redandblack]

Terminator 2 changed my life. I began a life of steroids and big guns. I now walk around harassing women and telling everyone one to refer to me as "the govenator"

[takingback98]

american history x changed some of my perspectives.