Motivation: Movies

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on July 18th, 2007
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Sometimes it is hard to get motivated to do work or start a new project. One good way to become motivated is to watch a movie that will motivate you. A lot of movies can motivate you, they don’t even have to be about what you are doing. I always have a few movies lying around that are the motivators. Some are about making money, others are about doing something important. The biggest thing is that they motivate me so I can get back to work. Although I don’t want to waste 2 hours of my day on a movie, I usually only watch movies when I am really unmotivated. Here are a few movies that you might want to check out if you feel unmotivated. NOTE: There is explicit language in these clips!!

Boiler Room
Everyone has to have this in their collection. The movie is about selling stocks and how these young guys are becoming filthy rich and having everything they want. One of the best scenes of the movie is where Jim (Ben Affleck) does the group interview. One of the best quotes, “They say money can’t buy you happiness, look at the f*cking smile on my face!” Here is that clip…

Anti-Trust
The story of a young programmer who gets a job at a Portland-based software company. Sort of a spin-off of Microsoft. One of my favorite quotes in this movie is, “This business is binary, you are a 1 or a 0, alive or dead”. Here are the opening credits of the movie.

Startup.com
If you haven’t seen this it is a great documentary about the rise and fall of govWorks.com. This is a true story about the startup of govWorks.com during the dot com boom. It is very interesting to watch and reminds me of how crazy that time was. They received if I remember correctly around 20 million in venture capital and signed over 40 major cities up for the service. To bad it never worked out for them. If you have a chance check this one out.

These are 3 that I wanted to point out for everyone to check out. Other motivational movies I like include Rudy, any of the Rocky movies, 300, Glen Gary Ross, Wall Street, and Get Rick or Die Tryin’. There are probably more I am forgetting, but check some of these out if you feel unmotivated.

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ThomasDM said on July 18th, 2007 at 8:05 pm

The only movies I’ve seen from this list are Boiler Room and 300, both were pretty good.

I’ll check out some of the other ones soon

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Softsled Reply:
July 18th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Dude, you look Robert Eiler from the Soprano’s.

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Bob Buskirk Reply:
July 19th, 2007 at 2:30 am
haha he kinda does

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ThomasDM Reply:
July 19th, 2007 at 5:35 am
lol, perhaps a little bit ^^

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Softsled said on July 18th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

Good post Bob.

I get alot of motivation from Movies and stories I have heard/read also.

I have never seen Boiler Room. It looks like a good flick. Gonna download it tonight.

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Leo said on July 19th, 2007 at 12:25 am

Boiler Room is an awesome classic. Vin Diesel was actually good in it

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Softsled said on July 19th, 2007 at 4:53 am

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BigMan said on July 19th, 2007 at 7:20 am

Good tips, I guess I have to sit down and watch a few of these.

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Joel Szerlip said on July 19th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

I love Antitrust, one of my favorite Tech movies of all time.

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daniel said on October 16th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

pzl sent some motavated movies

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ian said on December 17th, 2008 at 4:05 am

I like startup.com, a lot, if you liked that, you should also check out e-dreams.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/ another good documentary similar to startup.

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Michelle said on July 6th, 2009 at 5:44 am

Boiler Room is a good movie. Other motivational movies for me are In a Good Company, Jerry Maguire, and The Pursuit Of Happyness. Highly recommended when inspiration and motivation are needed.

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