This is a entry I originally posted way back in 2014. It still holds up today.
Fight Club – the great existentialist story of our time. A real man’s-man’s movie. This movie and book’s influence on me is evident by clicking here.
Star Wars – my first true movie-love. Star Wars taught me how to dream.
Rocky (Any of them, or all of them) – The ultimate underdog story of our time. Any, or all of the Rocky movies will suffice.
The Matrix (the first one only) – In addition to being the most influential sci-fi movie of the last 25 years, this movie reminds me that the only limits are one’s imagination. There is no spoon, indeed…
Napoleon Dynamite – another underdog story. A surprisingly powerful story about love, family, friendships and perseverance.
Dead Poet’s Society – The movie that really made me fall in love with English Literature and made me want to be a teacher.
Silver Linings Playbook – A story about a less-than-perfect guy trying to rebuild his life. ‘Nuff said.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Before the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, no other movie had done as good of a job of transporting me to another world since Star Wars. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Swingers – another great guy movie. This one taught me that sometimes you are are money, even if you don’t know it.
Singles – A movie that captured a great moment in time: the Seattle musical movement of the early 1990s and a series of great inter-connected love stories.
Pulp Fiction – By far, the most influential American movie, of any genre, of the last 35 years. Timeless and yet so relevant.
Finding Nemo – A modern day version of The Odyssey, and a great father-son story about a father who takes on an a nearly-impossible task of finding his son; and becomes a man along the way. I don’t care what anyone says, Finding Nemo is Marlin’s story. Period.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High – another movie that really capture a moment in time for me. It follows the real calendar by which young Americans live…the academic school-year calendar.
Field of Dreams – A man who go to any lengths to answer his inner calling. A true father and son story, and it revolves around baseball.
Superman: The Movie – Yes, I’m a Batman guy, but this is still, the measuring-stick by which all other superhero movies are measured.
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