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post #1 of 27
1/10/04 at 9:09pm
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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?
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post #2 of 27
1/10/04 at 10:46pm
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".
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post #3 of 27
1/11/04 at 1:34am
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.
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post #4 of 27
1/13/04 at 4:25am
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.
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post #5 of 27
1/13/04 at 4:50pm
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.
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post #6 of 27
1/13/04 at 8:11pm
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".
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post #7 of 27
1/14/04 at 5:28am
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.
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post #8 of 27
1/14/04 at 5:47am
Thrashin'

Gleaming the Cube

Mouse (Shot by Spike Jonze)
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post #9 of 27
1/14/04 at 5:48am
Quote:
Originally posted by Bunny Dracula

Zardoz
Fuck, dude.
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post #10 of 27
1/14/04 at 6:32am
If I was to pick one, I guess it'd be THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
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post #11 of 27
1/14/04 at 10:40am
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?
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post #12 of 27
1/14/04 at 10:48am
Journalist
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post #13 of 27
1/14/04 at 11:02am
Actually, that makes sense.

Lando Calrissian = space journalist
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post #14 of 27
1/14/04 at 11:04am
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.
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post #15 of 27
1/14/04 at 11:06am
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.
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post #16 of 27
1/14/04 at 11:16am
Office Space made me want a job - any job - where all my work is done inside a 6X8 cubicle.
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post #17 of 27
1/14/04 at 12:30pm
Quote:
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.
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post #18 of 27
1/14/04 at 12:37pm
I used to be in your fan club, Guttenburg, but this bragging must cease.

What do you do?
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post #19 of 27
1/14/04 at 12:42pm
Quote:
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.
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post #20 of 27
1/14/04 at 1:32pm
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.
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post #21 of 27
1/14/04 at 2:02pm
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.
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post #22 of 27
1/14/04 at 2:05pm
Nah, you wouldn't like it. It makes you feel like one of the Borg.
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post #23 of 27
1/16/04 at 3:04pm
Cubicles are hell on Earth. If I never go back it'll be too soon.
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post #24 of 27
1/16/04 at 3:08pm
Dawn of the Dead
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post #25 of 27
1/16/04 at 3:13pm
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.
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post #26 of 27
1/17/04 at 5:30pm
office space - i wanna do nothing.
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post #27 of 27
1/17/04 at 5:51pm
Quote:
Originally posted by Loki
office space - i wanna do nothing.
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