Highway to

The following story is true in all details, only the names have been changed, not to protect the innocent but to have cooler names.
Picture the scene.....
It was a dark and stormy night. Um, not that late really, more like late afternoon and it wasn't really stormy just a bit overcast. But, it had been snowing the day before.
I'm not doing such a good job of building the tension here.
Interior of car, driving along, listening to the radio.

Zephyr is driving, Zola in the passenger seat, Zoltan the dog in the back.
Just ahead in the other lane is are two oversize load trucks, with their accompanying convoy vehicles. All are travelling much faster than the posted speed limit.

Up ahead a road sign.....

The song playing on the radio is (seriously) Highway to the Danger Zone

listen to it here

You know the one, from the Top Gun film, includes the lyrics

Revvin' up your engine

Listen to her howlin'roar

Metal under tension

Highway to the Danger Zone

Ride into the Danger Zone

Anyway, back to the car. The trucks are speeding along, snow is blowing and swirling, the bridge is getting nearer....
Zola tenses in the passenger seat, her mind flashes back to several years previous, another snowy day and a head-on collision. The injuries that time were minor -just bruises and a chipped ankle bone.
Zephyr speeds up slightly....
And safely passes the trucks.

Monday Movie Quiz...the return

Valentine's Day. I don't know your feelings for this day. I find it to be a troubling time.
Forced, ritualised displays of affection, where the pressure is on to supply or receive conspicuous bouquets or ridiculous balloon arrangements and public displays of affection.
And, of course it's then there are the "romantic" movies ... I'm not talking about actual romantic movies like Casablanca, Harold and Maude, Amelie, True Romance or even Shrek.
I mean movies that are either overrated or, in some cases, just plain creepy. Like Dirty Dancing, Maid in Manhattan or Along Came Polly.
Disagree, call me a cynical jerk, whatever.
Anyway all the quotes below are about all that gushy mushy stuff. Well sort of. If you are expecting hearts and flowers, you are on the wrong blog.

Name the film.

Update -some answers
1. I know better than to argue romance with a French woman.

2. We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

3. If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together. And til this day, the events that followed all still seems like a distant dream. But the dream was real and was to change our lives forever.

4. You wanna know why? Cause you wanted to believe it. You wanted it all. All the romance and emotion, all wrapped up in a cute little nose and a cute little ass!

5. [voice over] random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.

6. Jane divorced her husband. I never knew him, it was before I met her. Apparently she came home from work unexpectedly one morning and found him in bed with the milkman. Honest to God, the milkman ! But from that day forward I've noticed she never takes milk in her tea.

7. Equally important: will find nice sensible boyfriend and stop forming romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workoholics, sexaholics, commitment-phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits, or perverts. cristin got - Bridget Jones's Diary

8. It would be nice to think that since I was 14, times have changed. Relationships have become more sophisticated. Females less cruel. Skins thicker. Instincts more developed. But there seems to be an element of that afternoon in everything that's happened to me since. All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one. Aunty got - High Fidelity

9. Wouldn't he? Lizzy, how can you put your faith in a man you spectacularly binned for being unreliable? A man whose idea of a romantic nightspot and an impenetrable fortress are the same thing? It's... This is a pub! We are in a pub! What are we going to do? Aunty got - Shaun of the Dead

10. Marriage license, did you say marriage license? Oh I love you Adam, Alex, Peter, Brian, whatever your name is.

11. I've got a new theory about marriage. Two people are in love, they live together, and then suddenly one day, they run out of conversation.

12. Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.

13. A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

14. Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. I should just go and knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we could someday tell our kids. I'm gonna do that right now.