movie fever (NOW WITH ANSWERS)

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions (or any other forms of cheating)!!


1. If the good Lord had intended us to walk he wouldn't have invented roller-skates. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

2. You gonna order something, kid?
Ah, yeah... Give me a Tab.
Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something.
All right, give me a Pepsi Free.
You want a Pepsi, PAL, you're gonna pay for it. Back to the Future

3. Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. Annie Hall

4. Oh yes! Don't say anything about that dear, sweet, precious Vicky! That plus-faced child bride and her electric hips! The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills' version, of course)

5. In the court ruling US vs. Fishbine, a man subjected to potential incineration while wearing another man's suit is entitled to $10,000 worth of airline tickets. It's an obscure ruling, but a very important one to me. Fletch

6. And when I was in the delivery room, waking up from the ether, I asked the nurse whether it was a boy or a girl. She said it was a girl - and I turned my head to the side and cried. And then I said, I hope she grows up to be a beautiful little fool. That's about the best a girl can hope for these days, to be a beautiful little fool. The Great Gatsby

7. No matter what I say, it draws controversy. It's sort of like the abortion issue. The King of Kong

8. In the end, the answer was so simple it took a week to work out. The Virgin Suicides

9. Back home, they put me in jail for what I'm doing. Here, they give me awards. Casino

10. And then what did he do? Did he train you? Did he rehearse you? Did he tell you exactly what to do, what to say? You were a very apt pupil too, weren't you? You were a very apt pupil! Well, why did you pick on me? Why me? Vertigo

11. We have a whole life to live together you fucker, but it can't start until you call. me and you and everyone we know

12. When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman,and a ride home. The Outsiders

13. Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you're blinder than I am. Cinema Paradiso

14. It's a beautiful Saturday morning, John... What the hell else have we gotta do? The Thomas Crown Affair

15. Well, I see you're smoking pot now. I think using psychotropic drugs is a very positive example to set for our daughter. American Beauty

technological

Netflix. "Net" "flix." Getting flix from the 'net.

Better yet, WATCHING flix on the 'net, as part of your subscription. I'm currently watching "Postcards from the Edge" in my unpreferred browser (it's only currently available for IE, meaning I've had to use IE for the second time since I got this new laptop, ick) but I'm looking I've found a Firefox hack to remedy this.

Granted, there are only about 1000 titles currently available, most of which I've not heard of ("Infant Massage: The Power of Touch," anyone?) and don't care to watch, there are a handful of titles that are in my queue. I have not yet encountered a delay, and the video quality is top-notch.

I may be doing another focus group for them next week (fingers crossed!) at which I'll praise them for this addition. No, I probably won't, but I'll be thinking it.

I love technology.

sundancing

Givin' 'em what they want, says I. What that means for you is: few words, lotta pictures.

We hit the ground running on Friday, arriving at 9:30 in the ay-em into Salt Lake City. The rest, bullet-style from the BlackBerry, is more for my own memory than anything else.

Friday:
-saw "the unforseen" (documentary about environmental impact in austin, texas) @ the library
-ate at zoom for lunch
-dinner at the eating establishment and saw perez hilton , pink hair and all
-waited for "the ten" but wait was so long!


Saturday:
-waited from 11 to 12:30 for waitlist tix to the premiere "broken english" at the racquet club
-met Colleen from Ohio while waiting in line
-wait from 1:45 to 2:30 for waitlist spot, we're numbers 70, 71, 72
-wait as volunteer door operator violates ticket policy and continues to let ppl in after the cut off time of 15 mins
-race over to eccles theater on foot to assure number one spot in line for the premiere "the year of the dog" but end up waiting outside (it started to snow!) for an hour
-eccles staff let us inside to wait for another 45 minutes, we end up with waitlist numbers 68 69 70
-it was so dramatic waiting, but we got in with mere minutes to spare!
-saw john c. reilly, molly shannon, peter sarsgaard and other stars of the movie

Sunday:
-up at 4:45am to head to the box office to wait in line for tickets: it was 2 degrees outside!
-waited from 5:30 am to 8 am to buy tickets, we ended up with tickets to four shows: "the night buffalo" (my number one choice for the whole festival), "low and behold," "never forever" and "the nines"
-headed to the canyons for snowshoeing expedition
-headed to the holiday cinema for "the night buffalo." loves me some diego luna, even if the whole movie was effed up
-blazed over to the prospector square theater just in time for the premiere of "low and behold," about post-katrina Louisiana: loved it
-raced over to the racquet club theater to see the premiere of "never forever," about a korean man and his Caucasian wife that cannot conceive a child. she decides to have an affair with a man that looks like her husband in an attempt to have a child
-after three-back-to-back heavy, emotional movies, my head was throbbing

Monday:
-up early to see "the nines" at the prospector sqauare theater; very likely this will make it to theaters
-got to see ryan reynolds, john august, melissa mccarthy
-spent the rest of the day roaming main street

Overall: had a wonderful trip, can't wait to do it again, although after waiting outside in the (literally) freezing cold at 5:30am, the ($3000-$5000) festival pass started to sound like a drop in the bucket. I loved that we got to see a variety of films, even if we only got to see 6 of them. From a documentary to a foreign film, the only thing that wasn't represented in our choices was a comedy. We kept saying, "Where's the 'Little Miss Sunshine' of 2007?!"

The Sundance Bible


Sundance box office


Try figgering this out!


Yummy foodstuffs on our first day


Main Street, as seen from Zoom


Pretty scenery


The Library (and theater), where we saw "The Unforseen"




It looks like one of those miniature Christmas villages!


Movie posters, everywhere!




The cast of "The Year of the Dog"


Waiting (and waiting and waiting) for waitlist tickets at the Racquet Club Theater




Despite the sunny sky, it was brrrr cold!


Finally getting into the lobby of the box office after waiting outside in 2 degree weather for two hours


Here we go!




See that ridge at the very top, through the trees? Yeah. That was our destination!


Yup, we made it to the top -- 10,000 feet!


Looking down from the gondola at The Canyons


Pre-show entertainment at the Holiday Village Cinemas


Voting on "The Night Buffalo" for the Audience Award


Waiting for "Never Forever" to start at the Racquet Club Theater


Main Street (with a sun flare!)


The cast of "The Nines"


John August, director of "The Nines"


Ryan Reynolds


The famous marquee at the Egyptian Theater

return!

Got back late last night from the Sundance Film Festival, and I have so much to say! I need to install my photo software on the laptop, as Best Buy finally replaced my laptop last week, before I do a proper update with pics.

I'm looking forward to going again...maybe next year?