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Monday movie quiz

In this weeks film quiz all the films are linked by a theme, and that theme is water in it's various forms.
Update
1. Name the film from this still.









Steve got- The Lake House










2.. Name the actor:






Taffy got - River Phoenix











3. George Lucas took out a full-page ad in "Variety" to support director Deepa Mehta in her struggle to make this film when Indian authorities made clear their intentions to shut the production down. Name the 2005 film.
Taffy got- Water


4. Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left. The tagline was: Drifting into theaters this summer. Name the film.

Taffy got- Open Water

5. This 1998 fim stars Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater and Randy Quaid, is about a robbery and had the tagline: In the worst storm in living memory, one guard stands between five men and three million dollars. Name the film.

Steve got- Hard Rain

6. The first line of this 1988 film is - Charlie: [on telephone] Now it's five and a half weeks and I'm still sitting on four Lamborghinis that can't meet spot emissions standards. Now, how many times you wash out with EPA?
For in-flight viewing, several airlines deleted the sequence in which one of the two main characters reels off statistics on airline accidents and the scene in the airport was cut by most airlines on their plane trips... except Qantas. They even promoted one of the movie's writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline. Name the film.
Taffy got- Rainman


7. Name this American remake of the Japanese film, now set in New York City, Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) has just divorced from her husband and is disputing the custody of their daughter Cecilia (Ariel Gade). She has a very restricted budget, so she moves with Cecilia to an old small apartment in an island near Manhattan. She does not pay attention to a stain of water on the ceiling of the bedroom, but once living in the place, she realizes that there is a drip of dark water in the bedroom and she asks the landlord to repair the leakage.

Taffy got- Dark Water

8. Name the film from the poster.








Taffy got- Mystic River






9. Name the 1999 film these quotes are from:
Sheriff Hank Keough: Tents were sent ahead. Should already be set up by the time we get there. Kelly Scott: Tents? We're staying in TENTS?
Sheriff Hank Keough: I told you, two days we'd have to camp.
Kelly Scott: Yes! Camp! But I thought that meant Ramada Inn. I never heard tents! Will there be toilets?
Jack Wells: Maybe we should just take you back.
Kelly Scott: Why? Because I prefer toilets? Maybe I should just wipe myself with some leafy little piece of poison oak. And then I can spend the whole day scratchin' my ass, blendin' in with the natives.
and
[Upon finding a decaying toe] Hector: Is this the man that was killed?
Sheriff Hank Keough: He seemed... taller.

10. Before he directed Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee directed Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci and Elijah Wood in this 1997 filmwith the tagline "It was 1973, and the climate was changing." Name the film.
Taffy got -The Ice Storm

back by popular demand

I was going to post something here, honest.
It's been a bit of a week really.
Some bad stuff going on back home.
And with being on flood-alert here cuts in to the time I can tell you.
Not sure if it's a problem with the roof, the window or the gutters but when it rains (and boy, did it rain the other day) water pours in through the window frame in the middle bedroom, down the wall and eventually through the ceiling and into the living room.
Can you just picture the scene? Mr. eh has not yet been to bed after a night out buying drinks for all his new collegues and I've had about an hour sleep. Every towel in the house is soaking wet on the floor and still the rain keeps falling. After 45 minutes of mopping, wringing out towels, using everything in the laundry basket and rigging up a wicking system into a large bowl, the rain did finally stop. For a few hours anyway.....

elephants? outstanding

Before we moved to Canada some people warned us about bears, thinking that the whole of Canada is over-run with wild animals. Up to now all we have seen is lots of black squirrels and the family of raccoons living in the tree in our front garden (the four babies are getting pretty big now), but this story shows that nature is out there.
Imagine the scene, you are strolling down the street and there is an elephant eating someones tree in their front garden. 'Time to cut back on the booze' you think.

Read all about it here.
This website tells some of the story but this one even has the audio of the call to the police.Which you HAVE GOT to listen to. Like.

Tales of the George, part 1

The citizen has mentioned that we got a dog. That's him, George.

He is a small part of my reason for not blogging as he likes a lot of attention.

On a recent late-night walk (about 2.30am)we passed a group of about 5 lads. One of them looked at George and said 'Hello fluffster'.

I looked at the speaker, raised my eyebrows and said 'Fluffster?'

The guy, let's call him Gerald, replied ' I just took a wild guess'.

We walked on.

eh?

Last week was Canada Day. I had intended to do a Canadian-themed Monday Movie quiz, but it got away from me. So here it is, only a week late.

1. Name the Canadian who wrote and directed the highest grossing movie of all time (ignoring inflation).


2. Name the Canadian film from the clues:
a. This 2006 film stars Carrie-Anne Moss and Billy Connolly and has the tag-line : Laugh your head off.
b. Based on the novel by J. G. Ballard this controversial 1996 film stars James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger and Rosanna Arquette.
c. 7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.

3. Odd one out. Which of these is NOT Canadian?
a. John Candy,












Dan Ackroyd












Glenn Ford
















Hank Azaria

















and which one of these?
Holly Hunter













Carrie-Anne Moss




















Catherine O'Hara


















Kim Catrall




















and finally which one of these is not Canadian
Joshua Jackson

















Ryan Reynolds



















Justin Long




















or Brendan Fraser






















4. What music icon played the role of radio psychologist Nicki Brand in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome?
a. Patti Smith
b. Siouxsie Sioux
c. Belinda Carlisle
d. Debbie Harry


5. What horror film offender is the basis for the Ginger Snaps series?
a. Zombies
b. Vampires
c. Ghosts
d. Werewolves
e. Killer tomatoes

and finally....

Thanks to all those who have commented and joined in the movie quizzes.
I have not posted anything for ages.
Lot's of reasons.
Like for example, although you wouldn't know it, it takes me ages to come up with topics and then to actually write them is another age.
Also, it's largely shite.
but what the hell, I'll have another go at it.