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AFI's 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time
American Film Institute ^ | 2006 | no attribution

Posted on 08/12/2018 8:14:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right

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To: Eric in the Ozarks
The Best Years of Our Lives"

I'm with you. That is my favorite movie...people overcoming tough things, and very inspirational.

Timeless themes.

21 posted on 08/12/2018 8:44:48 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Alberta's Child

LOL, now THAT is different...”identify” with! I am SURE nearly everyone who has seen Groundhog Day can identify with parts of that!


22 posted on 08/12/2018 8:46:19 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Leaning Right

Where’s’Behind The Green Door’ starring Marilyn Chambers?


23 posted on 08/12/2018 8:47:15 AM PDT by Proud White Trump Supporter
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To: Leaning Right
Some of those might be good movies -- even great ones -- but are hardly what I would call "inspirational."

The Shawshank Redemption is an inspirational movie?!

24 posted on 08/12/2018 8:48:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Good call. That is #11 on the list!


25 posted on 08/12/2018 8:49:13 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: Leaning Right

Where is The Incredibles?


26 posted on 08/12/2018 8:49:18 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: rlmorel

Correction; 1946.
It should be in a list of the top five movies of all time.


27 posted on 08/12/2018 8:49:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Leaning Right

Ben Hur should be higher on the list. Best epic evah, and very inspiring


28 posted on 08/12/2018 8:50:47 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: Leaning Right

One of my favourites that might make this list is “The Natural” (1984).


29 posted on 08/12/2018 8:51:07 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: rlmorel

LOL. I may not have described it correctly. The term used may have been “personally and culturally relevant” or something like that. Apparently Ramis was really surprised to learn that there were religious groups of all faiths all over the U.S. organizing group trips to theaters to see the movie when it came out.


30 posted on 08/12/2018 8:52:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Well, you are right in a way, but everytime its on, I get hooked again, so they must have done something right.

I find that many of the movies I liked are on the list, evern though I did not watch them to be inspired.

But the theme for Working Girl was inspirational.

“Let the river run...”


31 posted on 08/12/2018 8:55:08 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom
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To: rlmorel
I tear up every time I see it.
32 posted on 08/12/2018 8:56:53 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Leaning Right

I see the PC clowns dropped “Gone With The Wind” and “Citizen Kane” from the list.


33 posted on 08/12/2018 9:02:15 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I know people who reference that movie nearly once a day! Now THAT’S staying power!


34 posted on 08/12/2018 9:05:09 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Are you thinking of Battle Royale?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I dunno i have ZERO knowledge of the Hunger Games.

Battle Royale was a pretty cool flick though...


35 posted on 08/12/2018 9:06:06 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Leaning Right

Where’s Rudy?


36 posted on 08/12/2018 9:06:22 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Absolutely. Great cast. Great themes, Timeless,. Conservative, Family, and Military themes.

It was the first film to feature an amputee and the mental and physical issues so prominently. Also, dealt heavily with PTSD, and the themes of those who fought and those who got fat on the war economy.

Great film!


37 posted on 08/12/2018 9:09:38 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I watch it once a year...I find it. extremely uplifting, and reminds me of things I don’t want to forget.


38 posted on 08/12/2018 9:10:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: mkleesma

meeting with Trump


39 posted on 08/12/2018 9:11:03 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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The Fountainhead??????????


40 posted on 08/12/2018 9:11:31 AM PDT by Belakflognirb (Movies)
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