Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have

[Rangi Guy]

weird question:

What movie does a character say that he tells people that he works in the import/export business, so people won't ask him questions about his job? I could have sworn it was De Niro in Heat, but maybe not. Am I making this up?

I feel like you've planted a memory in my head - this sounds so familar, but I just can't quite place it, and now it's going to bug me for days

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Could be Pineapple Express.

[BurtReynolds]

weird question:

What movie does a character say that he tells people that he works in the import/export business, so people won't ask him questions about his job? I could have sworn it was De Niro in Heat, but maybe not. Am I making this up?

I feel like you've planted a memory in my head - this sounds so familar, but I just can't quite place it, and now it's going to bug me for days

Maybe its one of those Berenstain Bears things.

[VinylGuy]

i think its from friends

haha burt likes friendsss

[wease]

Art Vandelay from Seinfeld is an importer/exporter.

[Jorge]

And an architect

[Farmer John]

It's Elaine's fake boyfriend who is an importer/exporter.

When George convinces her to set him up with Marisa Tomei, they create the alibi that they're meeting to talk about how Elaine's boyfriend wants to give up the exporting and focus on the importing, but "George felt that she was too adamant her stance that he should focus on the exporting and forget about the importing".

[wease]

The first mention of Art Vandelay in the second episode of the series states he’s an importer/exporter.

[BurtReynolds]

Hmmm...

[Farmer John]

We'll never know for sure. Has anyone seen Heat?

[VinylGuy]

joey is a fan

[Jorge]

The only real Art Vandelay who ever showed up in Seinfeld was a judge. The other Art Vandelays were made up

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

[wease]

[wease]

The only real Art Vandelay who ever showed up in Seinfeld was a judge. The other Art Vandelays were made up

Yes but the name was there almost from the beginning. And as an importer/exporter.

[BurtReynolds]

My memory is some combination of the Seinfeld episode, the Heat scene where he says he works in metals, and a 3rd, as of yet undiscovered thing, where two people talk about telling people they have boring jobs so the other person won't ask questions about it.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

The only real Art Vandelay who ever showed up in Seinfeld was a judge. The other Art Vandelays were made up

Yes but the name was there almost from the beginning. And as an importer/exporter.

Yes. And then later a latex manufacturer

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.