Powerful Movies

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2005-02-19 11:35am

I watched Full Metal Jacket again earlier today, and it reminded me that there are a lot of good movies out there that aren't designed to scare you, or make you laugh or cry. They're designed to be powerful, and just make you think.

So this being said...favorites?

EDIT: Post 300! Go me! :dances:

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-02-19 11:37am

To kill a mocking bird. I can't help but shed a tear when Atticus walks out of the court house

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-02-19 11:49am

I like FMJ, but for different reasons. Black Hawk Down is in the same boat.

The Butterfly Effect, I think it was called. In a word, mindfuck.

A Beautiful Mind is another one I liked.

Last but certainly not least: Forrest Gump, for what should be obvious reasons.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2005-02-19 12:10pm

Schindler's List would fall in that category, I think.

EDIT: And while we're at it, I'd also include Apocalypse Now and Platoon.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2005-02-19 12:28pm

Kinsey was such a film. As was October Sky and Inherit the Wind

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-02-19 12:45pm

planet of the apes series.

Jalinth · Post by **Jalinth** » 2005-02-19 12:53pm

Shawshank Redemption.

Fully agree with Shindler's List.

Tora, Tora, Tora

Shark Bait · Post by **Shark Bait** » 2005-02-19 12:55pm

The Shawshank Redemption one of my favorites The Boondock Saints another favorite, both because of the strong brother like ties between the characters.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-02-19 12:55pm

A Clockwork Orange, easily.

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-02-19 01:06pm

What qualifies as a "powerful" movie? I find virtually all movies have some type of emotional element to them. If not, I generally would consider them bad ones.

I suppose movies like "Star Wars: Attack of Clones" strikes me as a powerful movie, because I'd don't feel much emotional attachment to it, but love watching large scale action and...well, power.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2005-02-19 01:15pm

Hotel Rawanda Sure its a reliving of real life events but the involvement you have in the story is just amazing.

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-02-19 01:26pm

Finding Neverland. But I don't think that quite fits the bill...

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2005-02-19 01:46pm

Easily Schindler's List.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2005-02-19 01:49pm

To me out of all the movies I've seen, powerful movies are The Best Years of Our Lives, On the Waterfront, Raging Bull, Twelve O'Clock High, Do the Right Thing, The Blackboard Jungle, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Young Lions, Exodus, A Raisin in the Sun, Twelve Angry Men, Casablanca, Judgment at Nuremberg, Platoon, The Third Man, All Quiet on the Western Front, Das Boot, Stallingrad, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Dr. Zhivago, Papillon, and I would also say Farenheit 450 if it were not for its silly element.

And, as I will be seeing this movie in a week, I'd also add Battleship Potempkin to that list.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2005-02-19 01:56pm

CmdrWilkens wrote:Hotel Rawanda Sure its a reliving of real life events but the involvement you have in the story is just amazing.

Yes! Hotel Rwanda was the first movie I've seen in years that hit me so hard that it was really able to move me. I haven't really cried since I was twelve years old, but a few events have been able to force me to blink away tears. The scene in Rwanda when the whites are being evacuated from the Milles Collines and the blacks left behind did that, especially when the priests and nuns from the orphanage showed up.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2005-02-19 02:09pm

Kubrik's work manages to exude power accross the board.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-02-19 02:13pm

Robert Walper wrote:What qualifies as a "powerful" movie? I find virtually all movies have some type of emotional element to them. If not, I generally would consider them bad ones.

If "powerful" means emotionally tempting, my choice would be Hannibal.

Well I'm pretty serious. The choice has nothing to do with KAN's typical trademark of insanity. The movie has done well showing Lecter's affection to Agent Starling, despite a psycopath he is. I was particularly moved when he was tending her injury, with so much care shown on his expression (point goes for Sir Anthony Hopkins for this one). Not to mention the scene when Lecter cut his own hand to escape.

Truly, Hannibal Lecter is the best book/movie character IMO, and none other would play him better than Anthony Hopkins.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2005-02-19 02:25pm

Grave of the Fireflies.

Don't knock it 'till you've tried it. I cried like a baby at the end.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-02-19 02:51pm

Pretty much half of Speilburgs works qualify as "powerful"

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2005-02-19 03:02pm

Pi, Grave of the Fireflies, and A Clockwork Orange all stunned me the first time I saw them.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2005-02-19 03:34pm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:If "powerful" means emotionally tempting, my choice would be Hannibal.

Well I'm pretty serious. The choice has nothing to do with KAN's typical trademark of insanity. The movie has done well showing Lecter's affection to Agent Starling, despite a psycopath he is. I was particularly moved when he was tending her injury, with so much care shown on his expression (point goes for Sir Anthony Hopkins for this one). Not to mention the scene when Lecter cut his own hand to escape.

Truly, Hannibal Lecter is the best book/movie character IMO, and none other would play him better than Anthony Hopkins.

The movie is for nothing on those counts, read the book.

Me?
A Clockwork Orange
Harold and Maude
Blue Velvet
Southern Comfort
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fight Club
Suburbia(1984)
Last of the Mohicans

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2005-02-19 03:39pm

Recent Movies:

Big Fish
Forrest Gump
Hannibal

Older Movies:
Clockwork Orange

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-02-19 03:42pm

Frank Hipper wrote:The movie is for nothing on those counts, read the book.

Of course. Most cases books always better than their movie version. This is particularly true for Jurassic Park. When I watched it on highschool, I though it was great until I read the book.

Don't bother mentioning The Lost World though....

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2005-02-19 03:54pm

Brazil

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-02-19 03:55pm

The only ones I've seen that I think fit the bill are The Pianist, Forrest Gump, and Boys N the Hood, although I only saw the last half hour or so of that.