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movie that made you want to make movies?

Corpse Bride and Lord of the Rings were huge inspirations in both understanding what a vast and epic scope a movie could encompass as well as making it 'reachable'. Don't really know if there is any one movie I could attribute it to though...

Other than the fact that I really started making films one day because a friend showed me a home movie and asked for 'constructive criticism' and I went on to ripping his movie to shreds - ending with the inevitable retort: "well if you're so good, do it yourself!"...which I took as a rather interesting challenge. Good thing too, otherwise I'd've never gotten anywhere...
 
Hmmm.

It would be easy to say 'Blade Runner' but that's so good it's more intimidating than inspiring, if you see what I mean.

If I ever do make a *movie*... Local Hero is right up there... and that last scene, the ending... is at the top of the list; best ending of any movie I've ever seen, and not a word of dialogue:



More realistically, my real inspiration... the Kraffts. If I can do a quarter of what they did, and not get killed doing it (like they did) I'll be a happy man:



If I ever make a music video... well....



Mike
 
Providence - directed by Alain Resnais


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The Breakfast Club
Se7en
The Matrix (I)
Knocked Up

It depends on what you mean by "Movie that made you want to make movies". The first? The most memorable? The most fitting to your style?
There can't be one answer; and it is a moving target as we grow. But if I had to pick one, it would probably be The Breakfast Club.
 
"True Lies"

I grew up in the Florida Keys and got to see a good bit of the filming in progress. The terrorist camp was on the same island as my parents house and I spent countless hours up at the seven mile bridge watching the Harriers. I remember it being a big deal for them to put oil onto the surface of the water and light it ablaze. Local politics and environmental protection clashed creating a big headaches for the production which played out in the local newspaper. I always loved cinema from a young age but seeing it get made put the whole thing into a tangible form I could digest. I knew how far things had come for me the day I was talking with an AC here in Hawai'i who actually worked on the film. He had a laugh about my age but for me it was a very cool feeling to be working with a part of that production all these years later.

Funny how small the world is!
 
Natural Born Killers. Still have the ticket stub.
 
Jurassic Park without a doubt. I watched the "making of" of that film more times than the actual movie when I was about 5 years old.

I'm grateful I did though because it has given me a clear path to focus on since then. Rather than dick around figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life I've just gone straight to doing films. The next step for me has just started as I just started doing union calls as an electric.
 
When I was a kid I used to watch a dubbed VHS copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark over and over and over and over again.
To this day I can still pretty much follow along with the dialogue shot for shot.
IMO SS is a master blocker.
 
A book, actually -- William Goldman's 1983 book, Adventures in the Screen Trade. Even now, I think it's still a great read. If I had to choose a movie, I'd say it would be Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was probably 8 or 9 when I saw it first, and I've been mesmerized with movies/movie-making ever since.
 
I guess I may as well throw into this thread myself... But for me it was some of the more common ones we've already seen listed here a bunch of times. STAR WARS. Episode IV for sure, but Empire sealed the deal. And then the other two films that did it for me were Raiders of the Lost Ark and Goonies.

I've also always had a soft spot for The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. Unfortunately, all of those have recently seen remakes that sucked so incredibly bad that it borders on inconceivable.
 
Blade Runner, Dune and Ghostbusters. Dubbed, in VHS, and believe me, the adapting / dubbing in French was excellent.

Blade Runner because it's awesome, and Dune because it's a bad movie which I love anyway. And Ghostbusters. I destroyed 3 VHS and seen it more than a hundred times when I was a young teenager.
And because they are the only movies I don't remember seeing for the first time. They have been here from the start in my life. And they are the only films I can watch dubbed too.

After that when I was 15, Dark City on the big screen. I knew I was pointing to cinema industry already, but it completly sealed the deal.
 
As a kid I was mainly influenced by films I saw on TV:
Bad day At Black Rock
Rear Window
Ben Hur
Dr Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia

At the cinema there were many great films that I'd love to mention to make me look cool, but to be honest the one that made the biggest impression on me at the time was:

Jaws...
Richard Dreyfuss in his day was amazing!
 
I grew up on television and movies but it never occurred to me that i could make them. The job seemed like too much of a dream to the point that I never even considered it. Not until I was in my late teens did someone suggest it to me after my millionth movie idea I had told them. Around that time the films I was watching, to the best of my recollection were...

Seven samurai
rashomon
run lola run
memento
waking life
akira
battle royale

To be honest most likely anything made in the 90's, I was a child of that decade and a product of it's movies.

there were others it was just at the time when I first began to learn the art of making films these were the movies I watched and was inspired by. Battle royale inspired me the least but I probably watched it the most it's a wild movie.
 
Has anyone mentioned "Slingblade"

HOLY-SH$T I just watched the 10 year anniversary DVD with
all the interviews. I just got a new respect for ol' Billy Bob.

And Carl :-)

Man I feel like I need to shoot something right now.
 
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