Marvel-ous Movies

One of the best all time multi-genre films = The Princess Bride!
(if you haven't seen it, shame on you!)

 

Alright so... now that we have talked about favorite and great movies, I would like to throw this question on out there to you guys...

What was one of the most inspiring scenes from one of your favorite movies? And why?

edit: Forgot to answer my own question

So one of my favorite most inspiring scenes from a movie... really is the entire movie itself, called "Avatar" (no not the last airbender) but rather the movie that too a LONG to to make and dealt with the planet Pandora and it's "native" people. I thought the story itself was just inspiring and plus I have gotta say... the graphics and everything else including the music was just so spectacular. Overall... really inspiring to watch as far as overcoming oppression and that sort of thing go.

 

Well as for movie scenes that are inspirational...I'd have to say that one of mine is the scene in Now Voyager where Bette Davis' character tells her mother that she's going to go on living her life the way she wants to and not go back to being the way she was before she left. Anyway, inspiring for very personal reasons. Very powerful movie and my favorite starring Bette Davis.

 

Not so much inspirational as poignant - the scene in Schindler's List group of people and a little girl in a red coat (for those who haven't seen it the movie is in black and white).

 

"The Insider" it inspired me to quit smoking, 16 years and still smoke free.

 

Wow cool all ya'll, great stuff. Lol I just gotta add, another one of my favorite/inspiring scenes comes from the "Chronicles of Narnia" movie, the final major battle of the entire movie... I don't know but there is just something really cool about the forces of good and evil fighting each other and as a writer... watching that scene or part of the movie is just really really inspiring and cool at the same time... hehe

 

I don't know about inspiring (I get tht mostly from books; ie Stranger in a Strange Land), but my fave scene/line is from Bladerunner, Rutger Hauer "all lost, like tears in the rain." Always feels so poignant for me

 

Hey Chris, I love that book and Bladerunner has to be one of the most underrated movies ever. I don't know about inspiring but moving certainly and I'll throw in enlightening as well for some movies. There are quite a few that I think should be viewed at least once, most of those I wouldn't watch a 2nd time. Not because they were not good but because they affected me so deeply or took me to a really dark place that I simply do not want to revisit. Sophie's Choice, Schindler's list, Midnight Cowboy are 3 just off the top of my head.

 

Sophie's choice...I saw that on a date. What can I say our town only had one movie theater that showed one movie for a week, maybe two. I didn't just tear up and cry a bit at the end, I sobbed almost uncontrollably for the last half hour or so of that movie. I agree it was an amazing film but no need to ever see it again.

Just as a side funny note I also saw Blue Velvet on a date. Not exactly a fun date movie, lets just say that was a short lived romance.

 

Oh speaking of dates, does anyone remember the days "way back" with the drive-in theaters, (I am unsure they still exist) but who here remembers those and even perhaps has been to one?

 

My family went a lot, I even went to one in San Antonio with my daughter's dad when I was pregnant with her back in 2005. They're out there still, you just have to look really hard to find them.

 

My family also went to the Drive in. The last one I knew of in my area was torn down some time ago. Now sad to say it would not be safe to go anymore as you would probably get car jacked.

 

We still have a drive-in in my town. Shows are on the weekends from Memorial Day to Labor Day. They always have a double feature.

Fridays are usually Families
Saturdays are usually date nights
Sundays are a mixture. Often times people don't always watch the movie but just socialize with friends.

 

Wow that is all so cool guys, glad to hear there are some still out there, I wouldn't taking a visit or going to one sometime one of these days, perhaps after I get a drivers license finally... (still working on that) but cool... all great to hear all ya'll.

Off-Topic: I have no idea who in the world established that pink is a "girls" color because quite honestly, pink is a pretty neat color

 

The three drive-ins in Great Falls did not survive. If you want to see one of them in a movie (as well as other local landmarks and scenery) watch the movie Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (Clint Eastwood). Another film made here back in the 1970's is Telefon with Charles Bronson.

Pink is not a 'girly' color. It's just a color. All colors are just colors (okay, I'll give you that black is an absence of color if you're a purist). I wish we did not associate certain colors with certain things, but we do. And, everyone is allowed to have a favorite color. Mine is PURPLE!

Oh yeah...Blue Velvet. The movie. Strange movie. Not as strange as Lost Highway, but David Lynch does seem to dwell in a weird world of his own creation. But then, he's from Missoula, MT. So maybe it's something in the air around these parts?

 

Off-Topic: Here! Here! Says I... and purple I must say is a lovely color, I myself (favorite color being all) particularly like the dark royal color shade of purple as my personal preference...

On-Topic: Another group of movies I really enjoy are the James Bond films, while I may not have seen them all (yet due to certain restrictions)... of the very few I have seen I really did enjoy "Skyfall", while it may be one of the "newer" once, there is another one with Sean Connery that acted as Bond, (I forgot the title of it but it had to do with him going to Japan and stopping some guy from launching a rocket ship, or was it a large missile? cant remember...) but it too I have to say was pretty good...

 

Has anyone here seen What's Up, Tiger Lily? I have not and I have always wanted to... Woody Allen dubbed a Japanese action movie. Plot revolves around an egg salad sandwich recipe.

Love me some vintage James Bond. I watched Octopussy the other night. Had been a while since I saw that one.

JioCash - I think the one you are referring to is You Only Live Twice. Sean Connery 1967.

 

Nope, sorry to say I have not seen that movie... I actually have never heard of it up until now... sounds like something to look into.
And yes thank you Sewinglady, that's it the very one I indeed was talking about... I thought the gadgetry was simply marvelous, speaking of gadgetry, it was a bummer the guy who made all of James Bond's gadgets died... he was in nearly all of the Bond movies if I recall correctly...

 

Yes, I've seen this. Very funny but I'm a huge fan of early Woody Allen movies. Sleeper is one of my favorites.

 

I like watching movies... a lot. So I've seen a lot of all kind of movies. And I have a lot of favorite movies but the movie that moved my heart is "1 liter of tears". Like the movie title say's, I cried a lot. The movie is made after real story. I'ts a Japanese movie. The movie inspired me to compose a poetry. I will search and share it with you all.
A movie to NEVER watch is "Run Lola run". I lost precious minutes from my life for .