January 09th, 2021

A usual January warrants a night of motivating movies, but this week needs a whole new level of pushed across the finish line energy. What is a movie that motivates? Uplifiting, persistent and often a snapshot of truth from someone's life is how I look for some get your ass off the couch vibes. For instance, a throwaway seen for many in Forgetting Sarah Marshall is my exact reason for giving Movies That Motivate a look in the new year. Jason Segel has blown it - or so it seems - and hit the proverbial bottom. There is little else to do but to get up again, even if self-induced, start the treadmill and get to writing and finish the romantic, Dracula-themed rock opera he has always wanted. In doing so, he is now manifesting his own destiny and it ultimately leads to reconciliation with Mila Kunis. Now, just because you or I run on a treadmill and creat a rock does not mean that Mila Kunis walks into our lives, but you get the point. The feeling of the third act kicking after all the punches, kicks to the gut, the lost love, pain and failures, those are the movies to wrap yourself in on a cold January day.