Rarely does a week actually go by too *quickly*.

[sarea]

This is just a little test. Click on the following pictures and let me know what you see: Pic #1 | Pic #2 | Pic #3

Do the pictures move for you? If so, how fast? I don't want to tell you what it's testing just yet -- want to get the answers so there's no corruption of data. :D If you already know, don't reveal!!

Once again, Jade rules supreme in remembering random things from random movies she's watched. Good job!

1) "I think I have a plan here: Using mainly spoons, we dig a tunnel under the city and release it into the wild." -- Monsters Inc., Mike Wazowski. I love this movie so much!! It makes me laugh like a crazy person, and it's touching at the same time. <333

2) "A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war." -- Pearl Harbor, Japanese Commander. Yes, this was subtitled. But as I said to Jade, would you rather have had me quote it in Japanese?!

3) "Fish slap calm me." -- 50 First Dates, Alexa. Another movie I love. Again with the funny and touching. But no funny touching.

4) "Tell them that joke you know." -- Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne. I can't believe more people didn't get this one. Separates the casual fans from the true BB fans! <g>

5) "Didn't you hear me? I'm the perfect servant; I have no life." -- Gosford Park, Mrs. Wilson. Am v. impressed w/ those who got this.

6) "I am so lesbian right now." -- The Hot Chick, Rob Schneider as Jessica Spencer. One of my very favorite bad movies. :))

7) "Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." -- The Shawshank Redemption, Red. Such a fabulous, fabulous movie. But one I can't watch too often.

8) "You have a price sticker on your forehead." -- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Bailey Graffman. I wish that had been in the book, actually.

9) "Hold up your badge, so they'll know you're a policeman." -- L.A. Confidential, Captain Dudley Smith. I don't know how James Cromwell can go from being Babe's true blue owner to someone this creepy.

10) "Yeah. So you have to do what I tell you."
"Not yet I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed." -- The Lion King, Simba and Zazu. Possibly my favorite Disney film.

11) "No, that's a bear in a bee costume!" -- Best in Show, Meg Swan. OMG, Parker Posey was just bloody brilliant in this. That line made me laugh so hard I was in serious danger of expiring from lack of oxygen.

12) "The Defense Department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid." -- Top Gun, Goose. So glad to know I'm not the only one who remembers (and loves!!) this movie. <333 Goose.

13) "There'll be a day when you will wish you had done a little evil to do a greater good." -- Kingdom of Heaven, Sibylla. I think someone actually got this one, which was v. impressive.

14) "You. My room. 10:30 tonight. You. 10:45... And bring a friend." -- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Sheriff of Nottingham. Bwahahahaha, I can't believe how many people got this one!! How delightful. I probably saw it 50,000 times as a teenager; I don't know why I loved it so. It might have marked the first time I'd ever preferred a villain to the hero. It's also the only Kevin Costner movie I can stand.

15) "I like your dress."
"That's because I have these incredible boobs to fill it out!" -- 13 Going on 30, Jennifer Garner. Love this movie, love JG.

16) "When I get home people'll ask me, 'Hey Hoot, why do ya do it man? Why? Just some war junkie?' Ya know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you, and that's it. That's all it is." -- Black Hawk Down, Sfc. Norm 'Hoot' Gibson. Again, I'm impressed by how many people recognized this one. I wasn't aware that many people saw BHD, which is a great movie. Of course, who can forget Eric Bana? Or Orlando Bloom's teeny tiny role?

17) "By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges." -- War of the Worlds, Narrator. I'm surprised more people didn't get this one. I figured, even if people didn't see the movie, surely they'd know it from the book. Of course, not having read the book, I don't know for a fact that line was in it ... and maybe, judging from the response, it wasn't.

18) "Come back and make up a goodbye at least. Pretend we had one." -- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clementine Kruczynski. I had to include a Kate movie.

19) "Save some insanity for menopause!" -- The Misadventures of Margaret, Edward Nathan. I think I am the only person to have seen this movie. Or to have seen it and absolutely loved it. Parker Posey, Jeremy Northam, and a young/American-accented Alexis Denisoff!

20) "I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it." -- Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm. They should never have made any others. Not unlike the Matrix movies.

21) "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time." -- Fight Club, Tyler Durden. I LOVE this movie. (I can't remember though, whether it was Tyler who said this line or the Narrator. If we're being nitpicky it doesn't really matter, I know, but still.)

22) "Evelyn. Evelyn. I'm sorry, but I have to kill your son." -- A League of Their Own, Mae Mordabito. I had actually thought Tom Hanks' character said this line, but Jade set me straight, it's actually Madonna's character. Whatever, it's funny as hell.

23) "Wise leader, forgive me. I am only a fledgling new to flight." -- Whale Rider, Koro. Could this movie be more awesome? This is the line that starts to make me bawl (if I haven't already started) every time.

24) "Tell Him I'm sorry. I'm too human. Too weak. Tell Him I can't keep my promises. I'm tired of being without you." -- The End of the Affair, Sarah Miles. There was a period of time in which I watched this movie like, every day. It just completely won me over.

25) "Someone has to die, Leonard, in order that the rest of us should value life more." -- The Hours, Virginia Woolf. This was an expectedly great movie. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I did.

Comments

[gianfared.livejournal.com]

I see subliminal messages telling me to go out and buy spirographs and markers of the green, blue and brown variety.

;P

They move sort of slowly, like waves lulling me to sleep via some hypnotic tra... zzzzz.

[empressvesica.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was creepy. Yes they move. Sort of slow waves, ripples - perhaps a ripple every 3-4 seconds, unless you start right at them in which case they don't move.

Did I mention the that was creepy part. *shivers* I expect an explanation for the trauma.

[gianfared.livejournal.com]

Yo, no kidding. I'm feeling violated... *grins* But, yes, oddly creepy.

[empressvesica.livejournal.com]

I am not sure I feel violated. Just sort of quesy and unsettled. :P

[maya-morning.livejournal.com]

As I enjoy odd tests like this I'll say very slowly. Kinda creep too. Made me shiver.

[rainpuddle13.livejournal.com]

All the images have some movement almost like a wave I guess. Very, very subtle.

[corianderstem.livejournal.com]

Dear God ... the pictures ... they move!

[yazethet.livejournal.com]

Ooops... I'm a dork. But still way cool :) Slow movement. Heh.

[hannah-kim.livejournal.com]

Okay so the pictures creeped me out with their "ooh, now I move, now I don't" evil parlour tricks, but what was really amazing about this post??? Someone else was as obsessed with Robin Hood Men in Tights as me!!! Im not alone!!! OMG the relief that I'm flooded with - the only other person I knew who like it was the middle aged man who lives across the road from me. Oh Sarea. How I love thee.

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, sweet, weird, Hannah.

She means Prince of Thieves, not Men in Tights. Unless you also meant Prince of Thieves, and typo'd Men in Tights, which would be awfully funny. Though I tend to believe you were so excited by your love of Men in Tights that you saw what you wanted to see in Sarea's post, as so many of the insane do.

At any rate, I will now confess that I love and adore Men in Tights and will sing a little ditty from it.

*ahem*

We're men!
Manly men!
We're men in tights -- tight tights!
We ride through the forest defending the people's rights!
We're butch!

Though I also saw Prince of Thieves 50,000 times, and am not at all put off by the fact that Men in Tights mocks every single frame of it, and mocks it well.

Unlike some *other* Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent.

[hannah-kim.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think I must have been projecting my weirdness on to others again. I just want to be like everyone else! Is that so wrong???

But luckily, in my corner of shame I have Jade. And when in your company I feel a calm settle, a feeling of not being the oddest one in the room. And it is due to that wonderous feel that I divert my love of Sarea on to you. Oh Jade. How I love thee more.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

O FOUL DISHONOR!!!

[aud-woman-in.livejournal.com]

They do move, or seem to. In the first one, the flower-like patterns rotate to and fro, while the other two have a sort of wave movement. This only happens, though, when your eyes are moving over the picture. If you look at one particular oval, you can see that it's not actually changing position, and if you direct your focus on the background and hold it, everything stops moving altogether. Fah-REAKY!

[sunshinefanfics.livejournal.com]

The third picture seemed to ripple faster than the others, but I'm pretty sure that's due to the way they're arranged and the order in which they move. The first picture seemed to move the slowest, but I'm sure all the pics were moving at the same speed but it seemed augmented by the pattern.

It also made me slightly nauseated, yo. :)

[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

Yes, the pictures move. Really slowly. :P I'm sure that's a good, quantitative answer.

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

Creepy!!! I hate those optical illusions. They ripple and move all creepily for me. The almonds (at least I HOPE THEY WERE ALMONDS) in particular, but they were all creepy and I couldn't look at them for long. I don't know why these kinds of things freak my brain out, but they do. I used to get really wigged by those 3-D art paintings, too, where you'd stare at them long enough that an image would emerge. (Though I wonder, wrt your vision, if you could ever see the picture. I know my dad always had problems.)

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

I see I was too busy being creeped out to be scientific. Therefore:

1) Flowers turn like door knobs.
2) Dots are like they're circling around and around on a rotating pedestal.
3) Almonds ripple sort of diagonally. All same speed for me, though if I had to choose, I guess the flowers in #1 move the "slowest" and the "least." And the almonds the "fastest" and the "most." But it really seems more like the same pace, if not frequency.

[selinakyle47.livejournal.com]

The flowers are rotating, clockwise on the right, counter-clockwise on the left. The lower row doesn't seem to move at all for me.

The dots appear to be grouped into 3 side-by-side cylinders, rotating lengthwise towards the middle.

The leaves are rippling, but I can't detect a pattern.

[the-lunchroom.livejournal.com]

They all seem to be moving, although my brain knows they're not really.
The flowers rotate slowly, the dots move in a wave vertically, and the leaves seem to ripple diagonally. For me at least. Kinda makes me dizzy.

[lielabell.livejournal.com]

It moves when I look at it. Slowly if I am looking dead on and fast if I am looking from the corner of my eye.

[talathmeril.livejournal.com]

Wow, I feel like I'm on acid or something. They all moved, fairly quickly I'd say.

[kstanley.livejournal.com]

It seems like it is moving, but when I focus on a specific part of the image--I can tell that nothing is really happening. These are optical illusions right? They're neat though.