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Movie Quote of the Day – Penelope, 2006 (dir. Mark Palansky)

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Max: All Halloween I’ve been running into someone I used to know.
Penelope:  This someone – she meant a lot to you.
Max: Yes, yes she did.
Penelope: What happened?
Max: I couldn’t give her what she wanted.
Penelope: What did she want?
Max: To be free.

Movie Quote of the Day – The Fountain, 2006 (dir. Darren Aronofsky)

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Tom Creo: All these years, all these memories, there was you. You. . .you pulled me through time.

Movie Quote of the Day – A Scanner Darkly, 2006 (dir. Richard Linklater)

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Waitress: Hey, how is everything?
James Barris: Everything is super good.
Charles Freck: Not with me. I’ve got a lot of problems that nobody else has.
James Barris: Freck, come on. More people than you’d think and more people each day. This is a world getting progressively worse. Can we not agree on that? What’s on the dessert menu?

Movie Quote of the Day – Thank You for Smoking, 2006 (dir. Jason Reitman)

Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they’re looking to make. Message From Sector Six. All takes place in a space station. They’re actively looking for some co-financing.
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?
Jeff Megall: It’s the final frontier, Nick.
Nick Naylor: But wouldn’t they blow up in an all oxygen environment?
Jeff Megall: Probably. But it’s an easy fix. One line of dialogue. ‘Thank God we invented the… you know, whatever device.’ [beat] Brad Pitt. Catherine Zeta-Jones. They’ve just finished ravishing each other’s bodies for the first time. They lie naked, suspended in air underneath the heavens. Pitt lights up. He starts blowing smoke rings all around Catherine’s naked, flawless body, as the galaxies go whizzing by over the glass-domed ceiling. Now, tell me that doesn’t work for you.
Nick Naylor: I’d see that movie.
Jeff Megall: I’d buy the goddamn DVD.  [beat] You know, if the Academy didn’t send them to me for free. [beat] You know, you guys ought to think about designing a cigarette to be released simultaneously with the movie.
Nick Naylor: Sector Sixes.
Jeff Megall: Nobody’s ever done it with a cigarette.
Nick Naylor: Wow.

Movie Quote of the Day – The Holiday, 2006 (dir. Nancy Meyers)

Arthur Abbott: You know what I’ve been asking myself all night?
Iris: What? Why I’m bothering you with all these questions?
Arthur Abbott: I’m wondering why a beautiful girl like you would go to a strangers’ house for their Christmas Vacation, and on top of that spend Saturday night with an old cock-up like me.
Iris: Well, I just wanted to get away from all the people I see all the time!… Well, not all the people… one person. I wanted to get away from one… guy.[sobs] An ex-boyfriend who just got engaged and forgot to tell me.
Arthur Abbott: So, he’s a schmuck.
Iris: As a matter of fact, he is… a huge schmuck. How did you know?
Arthur Abbott: He let you go. This is not a hard one to figure out. Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You’re so right. You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god’s sake! Arthur, I’ve been going to a therapist for three years, and she’s never explained anything to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.

Movie Quote of the Day – Venus, 2006 (dir. Roger Michell)

Maurice: I am about to die and I know nothing about myself.
Ian: You have been loved, though, Maurice. You’ve been adored.
Maurice: Yes. And so have you, Ian, a little bit. Except you didn’t always notice it.

Movie Quote of the Day – Marie Antoinette, 2006 (dir. Sofia Coppola)

Marie Antoinette: This is ridiculous.
Comtesse de Noailles: This, Madame, is Versailles.

Oscar Vault Monday – Little Miss Sunshine, 2006 (dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)

2006 is one of my least favorite Oscar years in the last decade. Mostly because I think Children of Men was the best film to come out that year and although it got a few tech nominations, I think it deserved a Best Picture nod over several of the nominees that year. That’s why I’ve waited so long to write about this year. As it happens, I don’t love any of the nominees from 2006 (and actively dislike one of them, in fact.) But I do like Little Miss Sunshine, thus I am writing about it. I think this film is more about the performances than it is the story. I mean, it has a fun story, but it is weak in more places than people like to mention. The performances, however, I think are flawless. Although, I guess the Academy disagrees with me because it won for its screenplay. Go figure. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning two: Best Original Screenplay (won), Best Supporting Actor Alan Arkin (won), Best Supporting Actress Abigail Breslin, Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: Babel, Letters From Iwo Jima, The Queen and winner The Departed.

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Movie Quote of the Day – Volver, 2006 (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)

Regina: With your cleavage and my mojitos, we’d make a fortune.

Movie Quote of the Day – 300, 2006 (dir. Zack Snyder)

Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!
King Leonidas: Madness…? [beat] This is Spartaaaaaaa!