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Originally from Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London and then Leeds, England, I now live in Toronto, Canada. Oh and now back again. Anyway, you can take the woman out of Ireland but, you know the rest. Basically the stuff on here will be the same no matter where I am. Ramblings and rantings about stuff, some from Canada.Some of them really do say 'eh' ~~~~~ "ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed"

Monday, July 23, 2007

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

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5 Comments:

At Wed Jul 25, 05:53:00 p.m., Blogger Steve said...

No Waterworld?

1. The Lake House
5. Hard Rain

and nice to see that you are posting again!

 
At Thu Jul 26, 02:38:00 a.m., Blogger Kathy said...

2. River Phoenix
3. Water
5.Open Water
6. Rain Man ("Quantas never crashes")
7. Dark Water (my uncle lives on Roosevelt Island where it was filmed--its a lot nicer than the movie made it seem)
8. Mytic River
10. The Ice Storm

Taffy

Amanda-welcome back and thanks for the kind words!

 
At Fri Jul 27, 07:46:00 p.m., Blogger Amanda said...

well done steve, I knew I was missing one.
as always, excellent, Taffy

 
At Tue Jul 31, 05:50:00 p.m., Blogger Unmutual said...

(virtually) pure guess - is 9 Lake Placid?

 
At Tue Jul 31, 10:09:00 p.m., Blogger Will said...

Dang it, I just realized you were back and say 9 wasn't answered and had Lake Placid, then I see ninquelosse beat me to it.

Arrrrgh.

Welcome back

 

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