Movies That Motivate Me
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I have a 5 disc DVD player that was state of the art 7 years ago when I bought it. Now its a bit outdated. Reguardless until we can decide on a HD DVD format it will suffice. there are 3 movies that are ALWAYS in my dvd player. These movies are Boiler room, Glen Gary Glen Ross, and Blow. All movies are about making money.
Boiler Room Group Interview: This is my favorite… so CRAZY there is like 9000 quotes from this speech.
Glen Gary Glen Ross - Alec Baldwins finest performance ever
EDIT: I have been adding ones I forgot about that users been adding in the comments.
Any Given Sunday - Pacino - FRICKIN AWESOME contributed by Corey Donovan in comments
Jerry Mcgwire - SHOW ME THE MONEY! contributed by Martin Muehl
Pulp Fiction - GET MY WALLET THE ONE THAT SAYS BAD MOTHER FUC*KER
So any movies motivate you?
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The sports movies are still my best motivators. ROCKY! is my all-time favorite.
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yeah this movie…
http://www.amazon.com/MTN-LAB-DVD-SHOES-dc-crew/dp/B000QTD5T8
maybe it cause i love snowboarding so much
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Rocky
Remember the Titans
The Waterboy, sports movies as well for me
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Jerry McGuire’s “Show me the money! SHOW ME THE MONEY!!” is an all time favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaiSHcHM0PA
Wallstreet with Michael Douglas as well.
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Other Peoples Money - Danny DeVito’s speach at the end is classic.
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Good choices. I’d also recommend Wall Street (how the heck did you leave that out anyway?), Two For The Money and although this is a movie thread, if you haven’t read “Ugly Americans” by Ben Mezrich… well it’s better than every movie we’ve mentioned here and I used to watch Boiler Room no less than 4 times/week.
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Boiler Room is the shit, I loved that movie, and Blow resurrected my respect for Johnny Depp and Pee Wee Herman.
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Ugly Americans is a phenomenal read, as much fun as Bringing Down The House too. I like how that guy writes.
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- american beauty
p.s.
mind if i do a line?…….i cant feel my face!
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You just cost me $70 buying DVDs!
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My ALL TIME favorite is……..
“The Secret of my Success”
It’s the 1985 classic with Michael J. Fox.
I am surprised that no one mentioned it yet.
Not only is it motivational it’s also funny.
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Shoe,
I don’t think anyone got the point..I just got 2 I/Os signed before lunch and the 3rd will be faxed to my staff by 3.00pm est. Just about the time, I close my office for my daily BJ and Steak at Peter Lugers…Im Pumped man!
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surprised nobody mentioned Scarface!
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funny, all movies are also about making money illegally. that what you into Shoe?
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Agreed about Baldwin’s performance. I think Boiler Room is Ben Affleck’s best performance too. Another Affleck movie, Daredevil, motivated me to try flotation tank therapy.
Also recently watching an episode of the X files motivated me to sculpt. Shoe, do you have any pics of your self without your glasses on?
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Shoe,
Your a smart guy man. I see you you as Jules with respect to this pro bono flock of 90%ers..We are that 10% bro.No matter what we say or do with people,we will always remain..
So here we really are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=julo7dPnu4A
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Great movies for sure, but it’s kind of ironic that you find them motivational. When in the end all these movies are about how the pursuit of money totally destroys the character’s lives…
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I think we watch Boiler Room (and Wedding Crashers) every time I’m in Lincoln.
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Office Space. As a reminder to never get a “real” job again
“You see Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.”
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Gotta love Boiler Room. Wall Street is good and for motivation to become my own boss, Office Space. It’s amazing how one can relate to that movie in an office.
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I’m going to go with the sports theme here. I’m a movie buff and I have LOTS of movies on my computer on DVD everywhere. I’m a big golf guy, Legend of Bagger Vance is awesome. These two main clips just get my skin crawling and want to out there and shoot great scores.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nDC0E1joRGQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jnNhHcZrDmM
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The Prestige, a movie about two magicians who keeping trying to top each other with the same trick. One of ‘em says, “NEVER tell anyone the secret. The secret impress no one - the trick you use it for is everything.” The whole movie is something any SEO can relate to. And David Bowie as Tesla - perfect casting.
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I have a black and white poster with Johnny Depp and another drug dealer from Blow, in the scene where they’re in the room full of money…great scene, great poster - Great Motivation…
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My favorite part of Office Space and the part that motivates me is the guy that knocks on the door (the Sprite guy) of the apartment selling magazines, it’s just so characteristic of the things we’ll do for money instead of traveling the road of self reliance…
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The Prestige, about 2 19th century magicians trying to top each other with the same trick. Great lines+plot that any SEO would appreciate: “Never tell anyone your secret. The secret impress no one, the trick you use it for is everything.”
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I freaking LOVE Boiler Room! I never heard of Glen Gary Glen Ross before though, but it looks equally exciting, so I’ll definitely have to check it out.
Rounders is another movie that motivates me, but in the poker sense as opposed to the business sense.
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That’s so funny you say Boiler Room and Glen Gary Glen Ross… those are two of my top motivational movies. My friends and I always quote lines from Boiler Room. Even more so for me though is the movie Wall Street with Michael Douglas, everytime I watch it I think to myself… that should be MY life. Another one for me is Vision Quest (I used to be a wrestler). Nice post Shoemoney.
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Al Pacino’s locker room speech from Any Given Sunday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFx6OFooCs
Makes you feel like you can do anything.
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How could you forget about me?
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It was 75 Euro for me (Glengarry Glen Ross, Boiler room, startup.com, Two for the money)
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I can just see Show giving Dillsmack the Boiler Room speech during his interview
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That’s funny when I had a stint in vacuum sales my boss’s 2 favorite movies were those 2…
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There is no way that you can compare Baldwin’s scene to Afleck’s! I’m very dissappointed in you!
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I find the final game in shaolin soccer is a good one.
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Boiler Room is my all time favorite movie. And I knew right away which clip you were going to post. Great scene
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I think I own less than 10 movies - boiler room and glengarry glen ross being 2 of them.
“welcome to the new american dream”
Two others of the bunch include Waiting and Idiocracy.
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Hes running his own stock chop shop on the side obv.
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Office space is funny for sure but its not like the other 2 he posted. Everytime I watch those movies it just motivates me so much to make more cash
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dare I say…WALLSTREET
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i was going to say rocky too
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Didn’t know anyone else actually watched much less liked Glen Gary Glen Ross. One of my favs…
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I didn’t even interview!
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Casino, from Nicky’s p.O.V’s Not DeNiro’s.
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1) Godfather 1/2/3
2) Wallstreet
3) Barbarians at the Gate
4) Pursuit of Happyness
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Godfather. 1 for sure, 2 almost. Best way to learn about business. I have used some of those chops in sales before.
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rudy…rudy…rudy
the end where he gets to play and sacks the quarterback…totally motivational!
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I absolutely LOVE that scene from Any given Sunday. He gives an amazing speech.
One of my favourite scenes is from Gladiator. Right at the end when he dies, and rejoins his family in heaven.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VAGuRbZGdoY
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This is a great post. Anyone in business can relate to many of these scenes
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Inches!!! I immediately knew that video before I even played it. There was so much good content in Any Given Sunday, I love that scene as well.
I might be one of the only people who haven’t seen Pulp Fiction but I’m lol @ hunny bunny!!
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Rocky 1/2/3/4 (NOT 5) and 6 (Balboa)
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Jeremy, all of those movies ROCK! The Rocky movies are definitely ones that motivate, I agree with Josefvirek.
As for your 5 disc DVD player, you’re way ahead of me–I’m still trying to find movies that will play on my laser disc player!
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al pachinos speech from devisl advocate
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gdam7qQMkzs
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It’s not business in nature but I always loved the speech before the final battle in Independence Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBR4g_H7JD4
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That interview from Boiler Room is one of my favorite scenes ever. But I think Office Space is my favorite. What’s better than quitting because you don’t want to work anymore??
(OK I guess the Ferrari keys are pretty nice, too
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This is probably going to be an odd pick but The Girl Next Door shows a kid that goes for what he wants and becomes quite the entrepreneur in the process.
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Godfather 3? Are you kidding me? What did you learn from that?
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okay, one more movie that really motivated me, but I dont know why is 25th hour, that scene when hes in the bathroom, and tells everyone to fuck off…
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Seriously, those videos are awesome. Some people get offended by people like that, those people are the ones who fail. Simple as that.
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I just saw “Rudy” again on HBO the other day (starring that rather overweight hobbit, what’shisname). I remember watching it for the first time in high school — absolutely inspiring.
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I love that scene from Boiler Room. Another movie that motivates me is Hoosiers.
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From Glengarry Glen Ross:
Blake: PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN! Coffee is for closers!
We use that around the office frequently.
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Glen Gary Glen Ross - Alec Baldwins finest performance ever–its priceless//
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“If one is to understand the great mystery one must study all it’s aspects,not just the dogmatic narrow view of the Jedi.” -Darth Sidious
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wow, I haven’t seen any of these movies other than Jerry Mcguire. Some of them look nice, especially the first one (I agree the speech is great). Maybe I’ll rent some of these later…
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Pulp fiction is sweet. It’s one of my all times favorite.
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V for Vendetta: Pick any on of V’s speeches, they’re all excellent.
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You forgot about Forest Gump… that is movie about making money for dummies
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I’d like to see a remake (updated version) of boiler room (a bit more futuristic maybee)
But Die Hard 4 is the best movie i’ve seen in a very long time,
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Buffalo Soldiers. Ray Elwood is my hero.
“Cleanliness is next to godliness.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnLf5mX_EY
and Fight Club.
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good ole Gordon Gekko..
“Greed….works….”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_icgdMQ4MdQ
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fight club, thats a motivator!
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any given monday should get anyone motivated. along with fight club!
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I love the first video. Oh, and i haven’t seen fight club…yet.
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Two For The Money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umtgkbw8RJE
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and this scene in rocky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfFvKyLrGYc
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Godfather 3 is better than 99% of the crap out there. not as good as the first 2.
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Blow is a great movie (actually one of my favorites), but it doesn’t motivate me. However, if you want to speak in the means of his way of making money, here are some other great movies:
The Sting (Great movie about scams)
Heat (Bank robbery)
The Score (High-Class theft)
Other movies that motivate me in other ways than money are:
The Shawshank Redemption (jail escape)
The Green Mile (innocently killed)
Saving Private Ryan (war, fight to the death)
Road to Perdition (bank robbery)
And more movies about money:
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Route 9 (money)
8 Mile (sucky movie, yet shows the progress of M&M
Fargo (excellent movie, ransom for daughter)
Ransom (rich guy puts up money for missing son)
Well, that is my thoughts. Lots of great movies.
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Cool post. All great movies. A couple more off the top of my head.
Far and Away
October Sky
Cinderella Man
Legend of Bagger Vance (the two scenes the poster above links to are the 2 best scenes in the movie)
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Looks like you missed an Amazon affiliate link op, Shoe
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I love movies like Snatch or Uturn.
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Nice video round-up, shoemoney! Some great clips from some great films in there, too.
Steve
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I am actually a GlenGary GlenRoss man, I love Alex Baldwins speech. You are right, it is his best piece EVER.
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This motivates me to study hard in school (Goodwill Hunting):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=txV_RdA6Sd8
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Nosenko..
“sometimes a lie can be as revealing as the truth”
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You’re missing the greatest motivational speech ever written by the greatest story teller of all time…
Shakespears Henry V battle speech…
Here’s a youtube link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z399i_PksfU:
This is a must watch…
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Nothing like money that is for sure…
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WALL STREET!!!
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ditto. I even liked a few parts in the new Rocky movie.
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Shoe,
Although not really a speech this movie has a great quote that I love, “This business is binary, you are a 1 or 0, alive or dead”
Check out the vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYMn6pXOmJU
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Nice collection. I also go with those movies as great motivation. There are certainly lots of strategies and lesson that we can apply..
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The Simpsons Movie (well trailer rather).
Homer choking Bart: “Why you little… I’ll teach you to laugh at something thats funny”
Could be my job description too =P
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Rocky speech (to his son):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBtO8Ay1MNk
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These are some great movies… maybe except Any Given Sunday, I prefer the ‘Godfather’ Pacino or even the Devil’s Advocate or Scarface Pacino all performances are just amazing.
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Here are some of my favorite motivational videos:
Mix of Michael Jordan’s skills
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1p2t0_michael-jordans-skills
Facing The Giants - Never Give Up! Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HNHbucBXrA
Peaceful Warrior Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GPLqEbkOn4
300 Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnIPkfXNHfc
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I agree with the list. Great selection of movies. I never thought movies about business would be that motivating until I saw it.
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your the freaking man! honestly, post of the year this one!
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A lot great movies here. I like part in Star Wars where Yoda teaches Luke to use the force.
Star Wars
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g-zD-RohzNY
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Wall Street speech by Michael Douglas
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LOL - see movies dont motivate me, they give me a reason to be lazy and watch them!
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Here is a commercial Michael Jordan did for Nike regarding failure.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc
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For some reason the Usual Suspects motivates me. A lot like life where the least suspected guy is actually the one pulling all the strings
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when it comes to triathlon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EokseUskyDI
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6 disc player here - boiler room, wall street and pulp fiction. it’s funny that the director of boiler room now says he doesn’t even like the movie…
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Freakin’ great collection of clips.
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Now THERE’S a movie with a good message
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Nice list. Boiler room is one of the best. Pulp fiction is great too. There are certainly lots of motivational movies to choose from depending on our taste.
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Big Rudy Fan.. “5 foot nothing.. 100 and nothing..”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V5L0ThLloD8
great post shoeman
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Blow is a great movie, one of my favorites. But I think that the greatest movie of all time is Goodfellas, you just can’t beat it.
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Rocky III & IV are my favorite. New Rocky Balboa movie was surprisingly good too!
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“Say ‘Hello’ to my little friend!”
I don’t think that will qualify as inspirational. Unless your a marathon runner!
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Everyone hates 5, but when I watch it, it’s not that bad to me. I used to feel the same way. But it’s not in my top 3, no.
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Poolhall Junkies - Undiscovered movie, Christopher Walken at his best.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jzekDivpK3M
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f_q8nWTMpZs
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Poolhall Junkies - Undiscovered movie, Christopher Walken at his best.
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FARGO. It motivates me — big time — to stay out of debt. The tension in that film (via William H. Macy’s car salesman) is palpable.
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Rocky Balboa and 300!
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very nice scene Jerry Mcgwire still the best show me the money
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You missed some great movies on that list… Interesting though
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I’ll second the Wallstreet call but by far, Boiler Room is the ultimate leader.
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The Any Given Sunday speech is the best
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Great list! I couldnt agree with you more on the majority of these clips…
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agreed! it literally gave me chills - those nostalgic ones will do that! as for motivation.. I’d say the godfather series… lots of planning… lots of money… lots of motivation!
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I agree completely!
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Movies? Can porn be considered motivational? I guess it can, in a sense…
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haha… so predictable
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Seriously…what about Scarface, The Godfather & Blow?
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hehe…they sure motivate me!
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My favourite film out of the few above is pulp fiction - I haven’t even seen any of the others
lol
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I love Pulp Fiction. One of the best films ever. Still need to watch Glen Gary Glen Ross, seen some of it, amazing acting.
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Here are some of my favorites: “Catch me if you can”, “Confidence”, “Jerry Maguire”, “Men of honor”, “The pursuit of happiness” and “Two for the money”
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yeah, but that last rocky sucked, call me a liar.
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