Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Goldilocks and the Three Bras...er I Mean Bears
Posted by Becca at Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5 comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Guess That Movie Quote: Week 37
How about another theme week? Okay you talked me into it...
This week I will be posting pictures of spaceships that have been featured in various movies. To receive credit give me the name of the ship and the movie it was featured in. A close approximation of the ship name will count but there are 2 ships here that do not have a name...at least that I know of.
Here are the rules:
If you know or think you know the source of the movie quote please leave your guess in the comments section. As people guess I will grey it out and give them credit (using google to find the answers will disqualify you), the person who has the most correct guesses each week will get a fun movie genius award to decorate their blog. Any person who wins 5 weeks (consecutive or non-consecutive) will earn a Movie Master award and must then refrain from guessing for 5 weeks but a master can email quote suggestions for the game.
Now to boldly guess...
1. Ben & (Crash Chloride)
2. Ben & (Adept Havelock)
3. (Crash Chloride)
4. Ben & Captian Incredible
5. Ben & Adam
6. Ben
7. Ben
8. Adam
9. Adam & Captian Incredible
10. Ben & (Crash Chloride)
**Update**
Since I said at the begining to win you had to name the movie and the ship I gave credit to the first person who identified the movie and the first person eho identified the name of the ship! But we have a clear winner this week so congrats to Ben for the most correct responses! You rock Ben and since I can't give you your own spacecraft you will find your very own award below:
Thanks to everyone for playing! This was a really fun theme! I will post the answers in the comments and come on back next week for more movie guessing fun!
Posted by Becca at Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12 comments
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Oh my god who is driving?
Bear...er um...Jesus is driving!
Randall Graves mangafied!
Posted by Becca at Thursday, April 24, 2008 7 comments
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Classic B-Movie Posters #15: Lorna
Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it's their anniversary.
This movie has everything!
Posted by Becca at Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6 comments
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Guess That Movie Quote: Week 36
Here are the rules:
If you know or think you know the source of the movie quote please leave your guess in the comments section. As people guess the source of the quote I will grey it out and give them credit (using google to find the answers will disqualify you), the person who has the most correct guesses each week will get a fun movie genius award to decorate their blog. Any person who wins 5 weeks (consecutive or non-consecutive) will earn a Movie Master award and must then refrain from guessing for 5 weeks but a master can email quote suggestions for the game.
Now on to the guessing!
1. "It only took me one night to realize if brains were dynamite you couldn't blow your nose."
2. "I have to get out of here! I have to find my son! I have to tell him how old sea turtles are!" Splotchy
3. "You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me?" Captain Incredible
4. "I'm only laughing on the outside, my smile is just skin deep. If you could see inside I'm really crying, you might join me for a weep." Ben
5. "I've been trying to figure something in my head, and maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Maybe you're just sitting around, reading "Guns and Ammo", masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, "Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!"? Yeah. Do you guys do that?"
6. "I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave." Splotchy
7. "Soon it was commonplace for entire teams to change cities in search of greater profits. The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music." (Crash Chloride)
8. "That was the end of Grogan... the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible!" The Imaginary Reviewer
9. "I looked at the clock... because I was saying to myself... It's five to seven, where could he be going with that sawed off shotgun?" Splotchy
10. "She was a junkie for the printed word. Lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice." (Carl)
**Update**
The brilliant Splotchy is this weeks winner! Congrats to Splotchy who correctly identified three quotes! You may collect your prize bellow:
And thanks to everyone for playing! Come on back next week for more movie guessing fun!
Posted by Becca at Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12 comments
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A couple of drawings I did this week.
I've had this whole Polynesian theme going on recently...not quite sure why but here are two of my favorite drawings from this week.
Posted by Becca at Wednesday, April 16, 2008 16 comments
Overlooked Movies: Downfall (Der Untergang)
"I've got the feeling that I should be angry with this child, this young and oblivious girl. Or that I'm not allowed to forgive her for not seeing the nature of that monster. That she didn't realise what she was doing. And mostly because I've gone so obliviously. Because I wasn't a fanatic Nazi. I could have said in Berlin, "No, I'm not doing that. I don't want to go the Führer's headquarters." But I didn't do that. I was too curious. I didn't realise that fate would lead me somewhere I didn't want to be. But still, I find it hard to forgive myself." ~Traudl Junge Hitler's Personal Secretary
As the Russians advance through Berlin in the spring of 1945, Adolf Hitler and his remaining military and secretarial staff shelter in his large bunker complex in the centre of the city. His mood swings between completely unjustified optimism that his forces will still break through, and rage against the incompetence and betrayal of his military commanders. Reality does finally start to break through and the Fuhrer and the others in the bunker start to make their final personal preparations for the inevitable.
Tagline:
April 1945, a nation awaits its...
Trivia:
This film was Based on the books Der Untergang by historian Joachim Fest and Bis zur letzten Stunde by Traudl Junge, Hitler's last private secretary from 1942 to 1945.
To prepare for his role as the infamous Adolf Hitler Bruno Ganz studied Parkinson's patients in a Swiss hospital and developed his accent with the help of a young actor from Hitler's childhood home.
Most of the outdoor city scenes for the movie were filmed in Saint Petersburg, Russia. This was for two reasons, one the architecture of the city has many Germanic aspects. Second, there are plenty of streets with little or no modern advertisements and other commercial aspects.
Many of Hitler's lines are historically accurate, based on account of Albert Speer and Traudl Junge, most of them however are from earlier date.
Corinna Harfouch who played Magda Goebbels stated that she nearly broke down when filming the scene in which she gives her children their "medicine" to put them to sleep before poisoning them. Bruno Ganz felt similarly when he held the girl playing one of the Goebbels' children in his lap as they sang, because he knew that these children were soon to be murdered by their parents.
During the war, the majority of the cyanide capsules produced were made in the concentration camps, which made sabotage a real problem. This is one of the reasons why many Germans who committed suicide by cyanide also shot themselves to make sure they would die. This is also the reason why Hitler's beloved dog Blondi was poisoned; he wanted to make sure his batch of cyanide was not fake.
Of the thirty-seven named real life people featured as characters in the film, Rochus Misch was the only one who was still alive when the film was released. As of 2006, he is one of the last remaining survivors of the Führerbunker.
The movie featured interview samples with Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge taken from the documentary "Blind Spot" recorded in April and July 2001 (an amazing documentary you must see). Due to serious health problems Junge wasn't able to attend the film's premiere on the 9th of February 2002. The premiere had been a great success and the camera man went to hospital to inform Junge whereupon she is said to have answered "My lifework is accomplished. Now I can release." Just hours later she died aged 82 after a long fight against cancer.
Quotes:
Heinrich Himmler: When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?
Magda Goebbels: Sleep tight, children.
Traudl Junge: All these horrors I've heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadn't made the connection with my past. I assured myself with the thought of not being personally guilty. And that I didn't know anything about the enormous scale of it. But one day I walked by a memorial plate of Sophie Scholl in the Franz-Joseph-Strasse. I saw that she was about my age and she was executed in the same year I came to Hitler. And at that moment I actually realised that a young age isn't an excuse. And that it might have been possible to get to know things.
Posted by Becca at Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7 comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Guess That Movie Quote: Week 35
Here are the rules:
If you know or think you know the source of the movie quote please leave your guess in the comments section. As people guess the source of the quote I will grey it out and give them credit (using google to find the answers will disqualify you), the person who has the most correct guesses each week will get a fun movie genius award to decorate their blog. Any person who wins 5 weeks (consecutive or non-consecutive) will earn a Movie Master award and must then refrain from guessing for 5 weeks but a master can email quote suggestions for the game.
Now on to the guessing!
1. "To a new world of gods and monsters!" Adam
2. "Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you." Adam
3. "Are you sure you were talking about water skis? From where I sat it looked as though you were conjugating some irregular verbs."
4. "Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork." rab
5. "I'll be honest with you, I love his music, I do, I'm a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman". rab
6. "Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god. A god of life and death. The trick is not to fear him." J.D.
7. "This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff." MC
8. "It is a lonely life, the way of the necromancer... oh, yes. Lacrimae Mundi - the tears of the world." rab
9. "Are you a Mexi-CAN or a Mexi-CAN'T?" MC
10. "Hello. My name is James St. John Smythe. I'm English." Captain Incredible
**Update**
It was close but it looks like this week's winner is the fabulous Rab! Hooray for RAB! You may collect your award below:
And thanks to everyone else for playing and come back next Tuesday for more movie guessing fun!
Posted by Becca at Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11 comments
Classic B-Movie Posters #14: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Lead actress Tura Satana, legally owns her likeness and image. So, whenever Russ Meyer wanted to change the artwork or re-release the project, he had to get her permission and sometimes pay her all over again. Smart lady!
Posted by Becca at Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6 comments