**NOTE: I'm going to start this out by saying that the "challenge" portion of this is easy. No need to make a comment about that...I get it. That was purposeful. I made this listing with a theme in mind, one that applied to the challenge, the puzzle AND the hiding spot. It carries through all three. I think we've all started looking at challenges like statisticians these days, but I see nothing wrong with making them a bit sillier. That being said, onto the challenge!
I'm a movie lover. Not a film critic, not a movie snob. I enjoy anything from a non-stop action film to a stupid comedy to an intense drama. I don't watch films over and over, learning dialogue and reciting it to friends; nor do I analyze and pick apart films, studying themes and deeper meanings. I enjoy them for what they are - a 90 (or more) minute escape from reality, a show.
In going through my list of found caches, I discovered a lot of caches with names that matched those of films I'd seen or knew of. Then, over time, I saw a number of challenge caches come out that involved generating lists of found caches based on a theme - water, baseball...a specific word in the cache name...that sort of thing. With this, I realized I could make a challenge cache that the rest of us who aren't interested in logging 1000 caches in a day or filling up a grid in our stats pages could qualify for. So I'm being a bit hypocritical by creating a challenge cache because I generally speak out against challenges as caches. I don't object to the idea of challenges, only when they become more about bragging about one's own achievements than about inclusiveness and encouragement in the "game" of caching.
This challenge is simple and achievable, even by those of us who do not have thousands of finds. The rules are:
1 - Find 30 caches (any type) with names that either:
- ...match that of a feature length film, or,
- ...contain the full, uninterrupted name of a feature length film (e.g., the cache "I am Iron Man" contains the movie title "Iron Man")
- Single letter film titles must not be used as a letter within the title as part of a longer word (i.e., "O" cannot be used on a cache that merely contains the letter o in a longer word, such at "over")
- No duplicate films. It must be 30 different films.
** Television series - or the names of an episode in that series - do not qualify.
2 - Post either an image or a public bookmark list showing cache titles, GC numbers and the name of the film it is taken from. I will spot-check any title that seems off.
"Feature Length": According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a feature length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes.
For help in compiling your list, sources for movie names include, but are not limited to: IMDB.com, wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com, allmovie.com and yahoo.com/movies.
My list is here.
Now for the puzzle:
Below are ten screen shots from movies that I would place among my top 20 or 30 favorites. The images represent a memorable or important scene or moment in the film. Identifying the film will help you complete these coordinates:
N 33° ab.cde W 084° fg.hij
Check your solution