UPDATE: THE CONTEST IS NOW OVER. COMMENTS CLOSED.
In association with Warner Brothers, Monitor Duty will be running a few contests this summer to give away movie merchandise.
The first will be a drawing for the new romance/fantasy movie “The Lake House,” opening June 16th. (View the trailer) It reunites “Speed” stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, although “reunites” may not be the right word, as it’s about two people who correspond via letters and find that they are living two years apart. She lives in 2006; he lived in her house in 2004. They begin testing the limits of their correspondence and trying to find some way to connect in person.
It’s either a time travel movie you can take a ladyfriend to, or a “chick flick” with just enough sci-fi for guys, I’m not sure which. All I know is that I watched the trailer on my computer while I was preparing this item and now my wife wants to go see it!
I kept joking that if I was in Sandra’s place, I’d tell Keanu to call Vegas and put all his money on Bush winning the election in November and by the exact number of voters. Yeah, I know, I have a mercenary mind. Then again, I wrote “Melvin and Marvin Middler, Time Meddlers” back in Shooting Star Comics Anthology #4, so I guess that tends to be my take on time travel.
Then it hit me: that will be our challenge for “The Lake House” contest. It’s going to be a simple drawing, but you have to qualify to enter.
TO ENTER:
1) Reply to this message. You must use a valid e-mail address. (Set up a Typekey account if you like.) This e-mail address will be used to contact you if you win. You will only be asked for a mailing address upon winning so that the prizes may be sent to you. Sorry, USA/Canada shipping only for these prizes.
2) Answer this question in your reply: If you could send a letter to a person living two years ago, what would you do? The answer may be as short as you like; about 100 words or less. All entries must have some answer to the question. Your answer will not be graded; all answers will qualify.
3) ALL qualifying entries will be entered in a drawing upon conclusion of this contest at MIDNIGHT Central Time on JUNE 20th 2006. The winners will be chosen at random and announced on June 21st.
4) The Grand Prize Winner will receive a Lake House poster, tote bag and tee shirt. The Tee shirt comes in pink; winners not wanting the women’s pink T-shirt may opt for a clock post-it holder.
5) The runner up will receive a Lake House poster and a keychain.
6) Michael Hutchison of Monitor Duty is not eligible. All other contributors are as eligible as anyone else.
Watch for our “Superman Returns” contest in a few days.
10 responses to “Monitor Duty’s “The Lake House” Contest”
If I could send a letter to a person two years ago, that person would be Edward. I was so in love with him and never gotten any closure with him. he dissappeared. I ould tell him how hurt him leaving me had an affect on me. It left me with the feeling of emptiness. I would kiss the back of the letter with my favorite lip stick and spray my good cologne on it too.
I’d send a letter to myself, to tell me to shift my arse into gear and get writing, because what Keanu really wanted was a great romantic script and I would be the onen to write it
Why not to send it? That will be amayzing and one try in this life tine! I would writte all my life in to it and hope for and answer from Keanu! That will be super!
Alina
I would write to my grandmother and tell her how much I love her, and explain why i couldn’t live the life she wanted so badly for me. I’d beg her to understand that I’m happy, and that I love her. I’d beg her not to stay down South.
Maybe she’d still be alive now.
“The Lake House” is a remake of a 2000 (or was it 2001?) Korean film called Il Mare and this if Keanu’s version is an accurate adaptation this is definitely a date movie of the highest degree.
If i was able to write a letter to Keanu, i would tell him how i feel and give him my whole heart.
Assuming I’m sending a letter to June 2004…
I’d send myself a letter, assuring myself that the decision to take a day off from working to spend the time writing would turn out to be the right decision.
If I could send a letter to a person living two years ago, I would send it to the leader of Indonesia to warn him of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake of magnitude 9.14, which triggered a series of tsunamis that would strike East Asia on December 26, 2004. Hopefully, he would read this letter and tell the coastal cities to evacuate, which would help prevent the deaths of approximately 230,000 people.
I would send a letter to the American public. This letter would be spread from coast to coast to inform the voters of the number of American military casualties that have occurred in Iraq since 2004. To inform the public of the cost of fuel and the overwhelming feeling that middle-class America no longer exists. Discussion on the election in 2004 was very heated, and I think if the public knew then what we know now, they would have voted differently.
I would write a letter to Keanu while he was filming in Chicago, and ask him to have dinner with me.