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post #1 of 27
Thread Starter 
There were two movies that I saw when I was in my early teens and during my high school years that inspired what I do today.

Wall Street

The Secret of My Success

These two movies lead me to go to college for business and today I own my own company and am a venture capitalist.

I was wondering if any movies did the same for you?
post #2 of 27
I'll have to follow Bunny's lead-

Moulin Rouge!
Xanadu
The Dark Crystal
Interview with the Vampyr

But I guess you could say for the job I have now it'll be a tossup between "Scream" and "Superstar".
post #3 of 27
Training Day
Bad Boys II
Jackie Brown
Reservoir Dogs
Traffice
The Corruptor
Bonnie and Clyde
The French Connection
Bullit

...Not really but it is the right field.
post #4 of 27
you know, Evil Dead, Clerks, Pump up the Volume, Batman, the Crow, Raiders of the Lost Ark - those were movies that started me in the right direction and made me think about the possibilities

The people in my life (at college) helped push me in the direction showing me how much fun it would be and how I was actually good at it

Magnolia, however, is the movie that made me realize that making movies is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
post #5 of 27
the movie that really did it for me was fight club, though i've sinced od-ed on it and can't watch it without feeling like i'm having my body ripped through a time portal. But I think films like Army of Darkness and Big trouble in Little China are what have shaped my stylings the most.
post #6 of 27
Movies like Jaws, Halloween, Alien or Batman Returns showed me the right direction. I always loved watching movies, but it were those who made me think "movie business, that's were I belong".
post #7 of 27
Rarely do I post anymore but I have to acknowledge this strange coincidence. To this day I have no idea why, but after seeing Magnolia I decided I wanted to spend my life making films. Why was it that Magnolia had this affect on you? As I stated, I don't know why Magnolia had such an affect on me. There are so many great films I have seen, films that I love more than Magnolia, yet that was the film that did it.
post #8 of 27
Thrashin'

Gleaming the Cube

Mouse (Shot by Spike Jonze)
post #9 of 27
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Originally posted by Bunny Dracula

Zardoz
Fuck, dude.
post #10 of 27
If I was to pick one, I guess it'd be THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
post #11 of 27
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally posted by Charles B
If I was to pick one, I guess it'd be THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
So what are you today? A stormtrooper?
post #12 of 27
Journalist
post #13 of 27
Actually, that makes sense.

Lando Calrissian = space journalist
post #14 of 27
Psycho, Dial "M" for Murder, Rebecca, Vertigo, Notorious, The 39 Steps,... hell any Hitchcock film will do.

Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, and Citizen Kane are classics I love.

The original Star Wars trilogy no doubt sent me on the path I am on now.

Wonder Boys, Se7en, and Fight Club are fairly current films that I could watch all the time if I were forced to.
post #15 of 27
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was the first movie I ever saw, hence inspiring my love of movies and writing about them, which led me to write about them on the net and for this very site, which then led me to my current job and in a nice full circle kind of thing, Movie Insider.
post #16 of 27
Office Space made me want a job - any job - where all my work is done inside a 6X8 cubicle.
post #17 of 27
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Originally posted by Sammy Jankis
Office Space made me want a job - any job - where all my work is done inside a 6X8 cubicle.
I feel the same way. I've always wanted to experience the community atmosphere of a cubicle. Unfortunetly, I've always just had my own office.
post #18 of 27
I used to be in your fan club, Guttenburg, but this bragging must cease.

What do you do?
post #19 of 27
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Originally posted by Guttenberg Fan Club
I feel the same way. I've always wanted to experience the community atmosphere of a cubicle. Unfortunetly, I've always just had my own office.
Yeah, me too. My office consists of the section of my upstairs bathroom that contains a shower, a toilet, and a stack of fishing magazines.
post #20 of 27
E.T.
My first moviegoing experience.

The Empire Strikes Back
My first insight into what you can do with film.

Se7en
My first insight into what you CAN'T do with film, but do anyway. And the film that helped me decide to become a filmmaker myself.
post #21 of 27
Quote:
Originally posted by Sammy Jankis
I used to be in your fan club, Guttenburg, but this bragging must cease.

What do you do?
Oh, it's nothing that impressive, I'm not meaning to brag. I work for a small consulting company and there just aren't enough people in the company to warrant cubicles. Everyone has their own office. I know I just got lucky, but the idea of working in a cubicle for a huge company in some Chicago skyscraper also holds a strange appeal to me. As I mentioned before, I think it's the community atmosphere. Sort of like high school for grown ups.
post #22 of 27
Nah, you wouldn't like it. It makes you feel like one of the Borg.
post #23 of 27
Cubicles are hell on Earth. If I never go back it'll be too soon.
post #24 of 27
Dawn of the Dead
post #25 of 27
Double Indemnity. When I was offered a job in insurance investigations it's the first thing that popped into my head.

10 years later and I admit regrets. I wish the Muppets Take Manhatten would have won out.
post #26 of 27
office space - i wanna do nothing.
post #27 of 27
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Originally posted by Loki
office space - i wanna do nothing.
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