What Do You DO With It? - Page 2

Your Magnolia screening went a lot better than mine Nick. The people I showed it to fucking hated it. Talked through the whole thing and laughed during the serious moments. Made me turn it off during the scene where the kid pisses himself at the game show so we could watch some VH1 garbage. Still went a helluva lot better than my 2001(my favorite movie btw) screening a few years before that. Took shit for that for years. 

Well at first a friend of mine who had seen the movie(and loved it) threw it on with the intention of just showing the 5 or so other people the incredible opening credits and then turning it off.  We were all boozing fairly heavily and, luckily, the room was full of fairly intelligent people.  

I had a very similar experience one night when I decided to show my friends BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS... that was a nutty night.

I'm the 'movie geek' in my circle of of friends, which can be kind of lonely as there are times when I will get excited about something ("Hey, HMV has the Klaus Kinski/Warner Herzog collection on sale for twenty bucks!") and none of them know what I'm talking about.

I used to use my powers for evil, making my friends watch stuff that only I liked, stuff that I thought they should see merely because it was 'important.' I've grown up a bit since then. Now I use my film knowledge to try and pick something that's good but enjoyable for everyone (You like rom-coms? You like Audrey Hepburn? Let's watch the original Sabrina.).

As for moneatary rewards, I make a little extra money doing the occasional DVD review for my local paper. But what I find much more rewarding is that every time I see a movie, I gain a new way of looking at the world, like my mind has gained one more facet. With every movie I see I feel like my understanding of film as a whole grows. That alone is enough of rush.

Plus, it is sweet cleaning up at trivia nights.

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Originally Posted by Ambler 

As a day job I work for a total douche bag named Joe Francis...but it's good money and a lot of travel.

Seriously, get murdered.
 

I feel like my "it" is probably different than most of y'all's. I can quote Omar's entire monologue from La Chinoise in French and had Jo Shishido talking about rice as my answering machine message for a couple of months, but I don't know the first thing about these Bat-Man movies you dudes are so into. Probably something of a tactical advantage when talking to normies, I bet.

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Originally Posted by Sumeragi ("Hey, HMV has the Klaus Kinski/Warner Herzog collection on sale for twenty bucks!")

lol. Look @ this plebe who didn't pre-order that shit from anchor bay when it first came out like 10 years ago

I would love to get paid to review films but I doubt that will ever happen. I used to write a lot but aside from my blogging for Chud I do very little of that now.  I

I, like Rain Dog would consider myself more of a film fan than a cinephile, I have to much other stuff in my life to devote 24/7 to movies.  

This place, Facebook, and XBox Live are probably the only place I actually discuss movies. I've found that people in general are kind of disinterested in cinema in general and the few times I've had a genuine conversation with someone about film I've had other people complain that we were 'shutting them out' of the discussion. The most I do is use my DVD/Blu Ray collection as essentially a lending library and try and get people interested in certain films (managed to get a co-worker into Terence Malick after lending him Badlands and Days of Heaven on Blu-Ray).

I've actually got an idea for a book I'm working on, but I keep abandoning it and coming back to it a few months down the line and realising how shitty the entire thing is. I've started from scratch with it about 11 times now over four or five years.

I was Ask That Guy when I worked in video stores, and now find myself in a John Henry situation against peoples' iPhones.

As a cinema operator I do put my knowledge to use in a practical fashion (some folks just can't get their heads around stuff like aspect ratios), but it looks like that's on its way out too. At least as far as actual film is concerned.

I don't really do much with it other than as some have said: act as a recommendation source/lending library. I was the "local critic" for an independent newspaper for a few years, and that sort of led me to my job now (has nothing at all to do with film, but the writing wedged me in with the company I'm with now).

I've always loved creating/writing so I'm now writing screenplays in the hopes that one day I can use one of my friends who are in the business to wedge me into writing gigs. I also love/write music (been an electronic dj/producer for many years now and am trying to get a band going) so I'll be hopefully scoring a film for a friend of mine at some point (if he ever gets funding to get it made).

I usually stifle it, shove it down, push it in, try and restrain it and ignore that it even exists.  As a result, I skip over thoughtful or artistic fare and watch things like Machine Girl and Attack Girls Swim Team instead.

I'm the "movie guru" at work, and during guard shifts on duty I'll play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with whoever to kill the time, and as a way to stay awake. At times, that's gotten to the point where I have felt like a circus attraction.

And I love when I get stumped. LOVE IT. It's that same feeling Max gets at the end of PI after he does the self lobotomy, and can't answer the girl's multipication problems anymore. It's close to bliss.