I have two to post- and why

1.  Dr. Strangelove  (Peter Sellers)     - pre Monty Python

This was the first movie I had ever seen that really helped me think "out of the box"  Sellers was to film what Tal was to chess.

2.  Once Upon a Time in the West  (Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards)

A true Spaghetti Western.  First seen with my father in 1970?  It was awesome watching my father explain why the best American Westerns were filmed in Italy and dubbed to English.  This movie along with the "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" (another spaghetti western) probably have the best "show down" scene's ever filmed.

Conan the Barbarian.  Because it showed me how years spent pushing the Wheel of Pain builds character and awesome pecs & stuff for when it's butt-kicking time.  Powerful lessons for life there.

Also, Office Space.  Different wheel of pain, but similar message.

When I saw the thread title, I was going to say Dr. Strangelove just to be a smart-aleck. I don't know that it changed my life in any way, but it was absolutely brilliant satire!

I think everything good starts with pain.  Otherwise we wouldn't know how good it is.

American Beauty. I wouldn't say it greatly affected my life but it certainly changed me to some extent.

The first films that affected me were probably ones that I watched over and over as a kid. So it was Cannonball run 1&2, robo cop 1&2 and, of course, A nightmare on elm street part one, they were my biggies .

Elm street was Johnny Deep's first ever movie. I wonder what happened to that kid, I thought he had potential.

The biggest films that have effected me are Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Psycho, Vertigo, Rebecca, Shaolin Assassin, and Reservoir Dogs..all of them made me think a different way

 .....is this your way of telling us your unhinged :)

I've never seen a movie that really affected my life, and I'm a big fan of movies. I'm a big reader, too, and I can only think of one book that really affected my life. I find that events have a much greater impact on my life than information does.

haha those are good movies..that's all

 agreed. Maybe we're jaded :) Although, have you seen cannonball run two? This could be the one to change your life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi4ccVBsZEM

If it made an impact please share it.  Something I have learned in my short time here at chess.com is that the players have much more to offer then playing chess.  Please note your book and event, I just had some movie memories today and based the post on that...

Pulp Fiction.  Gave me a heck of a lot more energy for a while...and a real keyed-in joie de vivre feeling.

 Do you know what is in the suitcase? I've an idea, do you want to know it?

Also, has anyone noticed that BarbWire is a remake of casablanca. I'm not even kidding on this one. That changed my life :)

Oh no, let's sinc up "Dark Side of the Moon" with "Wizard of Oz"

    and I am not kidding on this one either, I have done it three times-

           once without any mind altering substances

 you've got my attention, sir! Please, a little more info for my curiosity :)

I would not go that far as saying that any movie has really affected my life but there are some movies that comes to mind days after having been watched even weeks or months when as a child i saw a masterpiece movie"Whatever happened to Baby Jane" freaked me out .Also i remember a German movie"Der Blaue Angel" that made me think a lot and then of course all the good movies like "Deer Hunter"and many more can go on for ever but first what movie recently had most impact was "Basketball Diaries" about the early life of poet Jim Carroll made me start to read his books and poems even

Boys Don't Cry, Taxi Driver, Girl Interrupted, Manic, Full Metal Jacket

"Fight Club"

More so because it struck a nerve with what I already thought. Are you defined by your "table from the Ikea catalogue" or do your actions define you? I have too many friends who think their phone, their camera or their t.v. defines who they are.