What movies inspire you to get out there and train hard?

I just got done watching  Ultramarathon Man (Dean Karnazes: 50 Marathons, 50 days, 50 states).  http://www.journeyfilm.com/8/43/68/686348/store/deankarnazes/


Very inspirational.

Running the Sahara......awesome flick (the main guy turns out to be kind of a d-bag thou)

Prefontaine

X2 on Prefontaine

x3

Also I just watched the Red Bull Rampage on Versus last night with my 5 year old daughter.  Though I don't freeride, just XC, that stuff gets me psyched.

Gladiator

x4 on Prefontaine and x2 on Supersize Me. 

Also, this video of Winter Vinecki, who started racing triathlons at 11 in order to raise money for Prostate Cancer after her father was diagnosed at 40.  (He's since passed away from the disease...*sniff*).  Have tissues ready.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZa0GWa-o4

I can't admit to watching it in some time, but when I think traning, I think Rocky 4 . . . in the Russian wilderness, and, come on, it's worth it just for the speech at the end, Rocky talking to the Russian crowd after the fight, "When I came in here, you didn't like me that much, and . . . I didn't like youse much neither . . . but <building to a dramatic crechendo> if I can change, and you can change, then everybody can change!!!"

Pretty much any of the tri telecasts(but primarily those that spend more time on the AG's rather than the pro's.)

Breaking Away?

X2

And Four Minutes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457350/

Anything inspirational "one person's journey against the odds" type movies. Doesn't matter if it's a bit cheesy.

Truly one of the greatest moments in cinematic history.  (No sarc font needed here.) I think that scene was eventually responsible for the end of the Cold War and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. (Sarc font needed here - just don't know how to do it.)

I'm definitely a Rocky fan all the way for my inspirational moments.  Anything, except Rocky 5 (I pretend that that didn't happen.)  But watching Stallone pull trucks through the snow is really good for me for sure.
Erica

G.I. Jane 
Rocky IV for some crazy reason....  I wanted to be Ivan Drago

Rocky! Rocky! Rocky!   I love them all!  (except #5)  They have got me pumped since I was a little boy.   I am doing the Philadephia Marathon in Nov.  I get to run down that street towards "the steps".  Soooo excited.
 

Deliverance.  When I hear a banjo playing in the woods I want to be able to out run or out swim whatever is out there.

Inglorious Basterds

+1 on running the sahara and pretty much any documentaries on running/triathlons

also I really liked St Ralph..great movie

Screw you for posting this. I'm crying at my damn desk!

It is not a movie, but a video on youtube.com. Whenever I need some motivation - here I get it :

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

Besides that: There is a German Movie called " Andreas Niedrig - from a junkie to an Ironman ".

It tells a story of a Teenager who was an alcoholic and later addicted to heroin. In his mid-twenty's he decided to turn his life and started to run - later changed to triathlon. Some people realized that he had great talent an supported him.
He put the German triathlon scene in a flurry as he finished his first Ironman, took the 7th place  and left pro-athletes behind.
Additionally he wrote a book about his life and his success. It shows many people, that no matter where they are and what went wrong in their lives - the higher the hurdles - the higher you must jump. Just stand up and go ahead!

Timo


Edited by Timo79 2009-09-03 11:45 AM