Jamie today in the car paraphrased Ratatouille for a friend:
"It's a story about a rat who goes to Paris to be a cook, but they won't let him be a cook, because he's a rat."
With a paraphrase like that, who'd want to see it?
I was wondering if anyone else could take a good movie and ruin someone elses desire to see it by paraphrasing it in one sentence.
Example:
"Nephew of a moisture farmer develops magical powers and joins a rebellion against an Empire.... in space." -- Star Wars Episode IV
"College History professor helps uncover the Ark of the Covenant while avoiding Nazi's." -- Indiana Jones
Can anyone think of some good ones?
Edit: Newphew?
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Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Space truck drivers run into an alien. It kills all of them but the chick.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
"Snakes on a plane". Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Good one, Puffy.
How about...
Computer hacker discovers the world isn't real, and that he's the Messiah for a civilization of Road Warrior rejects.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Child kills a few other kids, plays video games, and commits genocide.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
"Girl hallucinates after receiving head injury"- The Wizard of Oz Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Which movie was that, port? Sounds interesting.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Child kills a few other kids, plays video games, and commits genocide.
That actually intrigues me.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Crazy rich dude in black outfit with bat ears on the hood goes fights criminals.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
quote:Originally posted by 0Megabyte: Good one, Puffy.
How about...
Computer hacker discovers the world isn't real, and that he's the Messiah for a civilization of Road Warrior rejects.
"Guy finds out he lives in a vitual world and learns some hacks to beat AI."
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
"Rats perform an engineering project for needy mouse."
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Small creature with furry feet defeats an evil enemy when his finger (with a magical ring on it) gets bitten off and falls into a volcano.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
SPOILERS!!!!!!
Crazy kid tells his problems to a ghost shrink.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I figure as long as you don't identify the movie, it's not a spoiler! Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
"Ape wants to live with blond chick."
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Spoiled Southern belle eats dirt during Civil War; husband doesn't give a d*mn.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
"Robot child is rejected by his mother and pairs with a male prostitute to find her again, only to spend a thousand years under a glacier."
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Theres this planet with evolved and intelligent apes that a dude goes to.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
quote:Originally posted by Epictetus: "Robot child is rejected by his mother and pairs with a male prostitute to find her again, only to spend a thousand years under a glacier."
Yeah. And it's about as good as it sounds, too.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
quote:Originally posted by Epictetus: "Robot child is rejected by his mother and pairs with a male prostitute to find her again, only to spend a thousand years under a glacier."
*snort*
You couldn't paraphrase that movie in a 2000 word essay that would make anyone want to see it. And it's a male prostitue ROBOT.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
Yeah, but male prostitute sounded funnier. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I disagree. Male prostitute robot sounds... aw dang. You're right.
Hey, I'm going to Utah next month. I'm going to send you a message on myspace about it.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
Another good one:
"Surfer-girl has sex with football player, gets over her fear of drowning, and rides a huge ass wave that propels her into fame."
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
People on an overpopulated future Earth eat food product made of people.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
A female prostitute wears lots of dresses.
(Could apply to Pretty Woman or Evita)
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Puffy, that was pretty amazing.
Short people team up with tall people to beat the bad guys.
A bunch of guys steal stuff. Cleverly.
People whose lives suck rally through singing together.
Man loses sense of proportion, falls in love.
Good robots become cars, bad robots become jets, fight over a spark.
Lovers from opposite sides of the tracks meet and part while a ship sinks.
PEOPLE, DREAMS, PHILOSOPHY 101, CONFUSION ENSUES
Dudes in suits kill aliens.
General's family is killed and he's forced to fight in tournaments.
Punitive psychotherapy works on future teenagers, but people object and nobody's really changed.
A baby barely survives a car crash which kills his parents and hallucinates about a magical universe for the rest of his life.
...
You know, most of these remind me of the short descriptions my digital cable service (Comcast) gives for movies in the guide channel.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
"Closet leads to another country."
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
"It's Paris, and everyone's killing each other over a stamp."
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
More:
Chinese crossdresser breaks the rules to save the Empire.
A broken home is healed by an exiled killer alien.
A llama lord and a farm dullard thwart a beefy, animal-friendly chef and a talking stick to learn a lesson.
A bunch of soldiers wander around and die trying to bring home a guy who doesn't wanna go.
An old dude defies logic by attracting a hot woman. Also, they steal stuff.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
*laughs* These are hilarious!
I love Uprooted's version of Gone With the Wind. Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
NPR has played that high-concept snippet about "Once"- something like "Two kindred spirits make music and find romance on the bustling streets of Dublin"- so many times that I think, even though I might actually like the movie, that I'm no longer physically capable of seeing it. "Kindred spirits" "bustling streets"? How freaking twee can you get?!
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
A young short man goes on a very long journey with a lot of singing and loses his finger.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
The Dude wants his rug back
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Tom Cruise in the future. Tom Cruise flying jets. Tom Cruise with an autistic brother. Tom Cruise racing cars. Tom Cruise pouring drinks. Tom Cruise as a spy. Tom Cruise as a spy. Tom Cruise as a spy.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Tom Cruise in the future. Tom Cruise flying jets. Tom Cruise with an autistic brother. Tom Cruise racing cars. Tom Cruise pouring drinks. Tom Cruise as a spy. Tom Cruise as a spy. Tom Cruise as a spy.
Those aren't even fair. All you have to do nowadays is just MENTION Tom Cruise to turn people off.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
You're just jealous you didn't think of it first.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
I know I am.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
Jealous that is, not trying to blow up Hitler. Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Clive Cussler gets seriously ticked off, again. A Chinese Cop and an American loudmouth save antiques. Chinese Cop and American loudmouth fight crime again, this time there are some hot chicks. Guy from another planet flies around in tights, saves the planet, stars in anti-smoking ad.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
An alien really pisses off two United States governors.
And you forgot Tom Cruise as a vampire and Tom Cruise as a teen pimp.
And...
quote:You couldn't paraphrase that movie in a 2000 word essay that would make anyone want to see it.
Hey! I LIKED that movie!
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
@#$@# Nighthawk stole mine. (Eccentric old man...)
try these:
Jesus in pain.
A guy looses his girl to her not-dead husband and WWII.
They use an Apple notebook computer to defeat unbeatable aliens blowing up all humans.
Mars attacks, but bad country music kills them, though those who watch the movie hope for the same mercy before they are forced to watch it again.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
To Nighthawk: Wow, that opened up a window to your soul I didn't want to look through. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
"Guy blows up his apartment, beats himself up, gets beaten up, and blows up some banks."
"Peter Parker gets an evil suit, beats up Mary Jane, ditches evil suit, and fights evil suit and this other guy, all the while crying over life."
"Guy is a trained killer with amnesia in Europe."
"Morgan Freeman is God and teaches Jim Carrey that life doesn't suck."
"Eminem raps about stuff." - 8 Mile
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
"I want me a baby, Hy. They've got more than they can handle."
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
High school kid cuts school one day.
High school kids have detention.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Poor farm boy seeks fortune, is presumed dead, becomes pirate, reclaims true love.
Hotel manager's domineering mother is actually dead.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Boy with scissors for hands creates topiary.
Posted by otterk10 (Member # 10463) on :
A sports team of untalented players miraculously wins the championship against the best team on a last second trick play.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Underdog sports team wins because they have heart and learn to work together.
A giant killer robot falls from the sky, gets amnesia, and learns about love, while a paranoid detective seeks to destroy it.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Of all the gin joints in the world, woman chooses to enter Moroccan nightclub.
rewrite of earlier attempt: Spoiled Southern belle wears curtains; husband doesn't give a d*mn.
Jatraquera has no life; ups post count on a Friday night. (oh wait, I don't think they've released that one yet.)
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Someone finally says "But what does it do?" and "It doesn't do anything, that's the beauty of it."
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
-2 hours of Woody Allen whining. -A 14 year old girl flies a bunch of birds across international boundaries. -Movie with prolonged periods of silence, a psychotic computer, and flashing lights at the end. (Oh wait- I still didn't like that movie.) -Guy in prison. -Nicholas Cage tries to write a movie about flowers. -A jet engine doesn't fall on a kid because he was transported by a demonic bunny.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Columbo reads that 'Wonder Years' brat a bedtime story.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
A bunch of birds show up and people get freaked out over it.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Short men keep a dead girl under glass because she looks so good.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
"A giant killer robot falls from the sky, gets amnesia, and learns about love, while a paranoid detective seeks to destroy it."
"Short men keep a dead girl under glass because she looks so good."
Not too big on movies, but these actually sound intriguing. What are the names of these actually?
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
I assume the first is The Iron Giant. The second is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
quote:Originally posted by T_Smith:
quote:Originally posted by Epictetus: "Robot child is rejected by his mother and pairs with a male prostitute to find her again, only to spend a thousand years under a glacier."
*snort*
You couldn't paraphrase that movie in a 2000 word essay that would make anyone want to see it. And it's a male prostitue ROBOT.
I liked it. A lot, actually. Am I the only one?
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
A guy and a girl meet on a boat. Then it sinks
Woman wakes up from coma and stabs people with a sword
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: I assume the first is The Iron Giant. The second is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The Iron Giant is totally worth watching. It's an awesome movie.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
One of the very few 1999 films worth remembering.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Man dies, kills people who killed him. (Hey, that could describe at least three movies I know of off the top of my head...)
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: One of the very few 1999 films worth remembering.
Seriously? 1999 had a fair number of good movies. Some of them include The Matrix, Fight Club, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Sixth Sense, and Toy Story 2. Maybe we just have really different tastes in movies, but I thought 1999 was pretty decent.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a 2000 movie, not 1999.
The Matrix? Eh, the sequels ruined it for me. The Sixth Sense I enjoyed the first time, but subsequent viewings didn't hold up well.
I loved Toy Story 2.
I've never seen Fight Club because people I know who -have- seen it already spoiled every twist for me, and keep claiming it will completely rewrite my entire life. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
This boy wears some tights and gets some other kids to hang out with him, and they fight some pirates.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
It never became the grand opus I'd hoped it would, but there were a couple of cute ones.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
There's this dweeb with a horrible family of losers and he learns to dance (sort of) and his dweeb friend becomes class president.
or
Dweebs and losers -- no plot.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Whiny, annoyingly cute little kid, who will eventually become evil incarnate, accidentally blows stuff up and still manages to bag the older chick who's rich and powerful.
Julia Roberts proves you can sue someone for a bazillion dollars using cleavage alone.
Computer decides to kill all humans on board after being subjected to three hours of classical music.
Theme park has dinosaurs that eat people who are unable to run away.
He was Keyser Soze all along.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
A man from the future and a random woman run away from the energizer bunny for 2 hours before finally crushing it in an industrial press.
9 people on a spaceship mess with some zombies and a government.
Kids with computers cause corporate chaos.
Side note: Porteiro, what was the first movie you posted?
quote:Child kills a few other kids, plays video games, and commits genocide.
That one -^
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Highlights of the popular book, strung together.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
HEY! That's not a movie yet No fair.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
The one about the genocidal child is for Ender's Game.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Some guy does math and see things that aren't there.
Some boxer gets his butt kicked, gets really poor, then makes a comeback.
A bunch of guys on a B-17 nearly get killed on their last flight.
A bunch of guys with special powers fight other guys with special powers to protect everyone with out special powers.
Editted to add: Yeah, I guessed it was Ender's Game after I posted, hence the second post Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
quote:Originally posted by Alcon: 9 people on a spaceship mess with some zombies and a government.
I kept trying to come up with one for that -- not bad!
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:Originally posted by rollainm: I liked it. A lot, actually. Am I the only one?
No, definitely not.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Gene Kelly is happy again, thanks to the invention of dubbing.
Posted by otterk10 (Member # 10463) on :
The FBI tries to arrest a mob leader, and pretty much everyone dies.
A chauvinist rapes his sister-in-law.
A secret agent tries to stop an evil person from taking over the world and has sex with many beautiful women along the way.
Two people on a cruise ship fall in love, but the ship sinks and the man dies.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
quote:Originally posted by otterk10: A secret agent tries to stop an evil person from taking over the world and has sex with many beautiful women along the way.
I suspect a fair number of people would want to see that film... Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Holy crap, she's a guy.
Patton single-handedly wins World War II by being an annoying bastard.
Roller derby, but with motorcycles and steel balls.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
A secret agent plays poker with a guy who is good at statistics.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Girl meets guy and lands up having a big fat Greek wedding.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
Some comedians save the world from being overtaken by some ancient Hittite demon.
Alien learns to love Reese's Pieces.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sterling:
quote:Originally posted by otterk10: A secret agent tries to stop an evil person from taking over the world and has sex with many beautiful women along the way.
I suspect a fair number of people would want to see that film...
Heck, I bet they could even make more than one of them.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Conceited British spy has neat-o toys, thwarts evildoers and lands up getting the girl.
Repeat ad nauseam.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
quote:Originally posted by ricree101:
quote:Originally posted by Sterling:
quote:Originally posted by otterk10: A secret agent tries to stop an evil person from taking over the world and has sex with many beautiful women along the way.
I suspect a fair number of people would want to see that film...
Heck, I bet they could even make more than one of them.
Yeah, but you better make the agent British or something, give it some class. Otherwise, it'll just seem exploitive. Posted by Qaz (Member # 10298) on :
It sank.
Astronauts go to Jupiter to identify an alien signal, but they never do.
Children find they shouldn't play with dead things.
Alan Alda discovers he's a jerk.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
The ultimate one....
"Its like the book, but with most of the good stuff left out."
Others:
Its the VGer episode from the series, but stretched out way to long, and not as exciting.
Tom Cruise playing the part he always plays is in a uniform. Jack Nicholason playing the part he always plays is in a uniform. The fight, but in a court room.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac: A baby barely survives a car crash which kills his parents and hallucinates about a magical universe for the rest of his life.
Now that's funny.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by rollainm: I liked it. A lot, actually. Am I the only one?
I liked part of it. But the last half hour or so made me want to gouge my eyes out with rusty garden implements. It was about the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. If I knew of a medical treatment that would help me to forget ever having seen it, I think I'd pay just about anything for it.
AI was a crime.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: Gene Kelly is happy again, thanks to the invention of dubbing.
And the woman doing the real voice, ironically enough, was dubbed herself.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
It's a story about a robot who wants to be a human, but he can't becuase he's a robot, and after 200 years they let him be a human after he has killed himself.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
It's hard to ruin a movie that's already awful, T_Smith. Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Heathens...
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
Tom Cruise kidnaps a bald woman who can tell him the future.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Dude... I really wouldn't want to see that movie after that.
A candy maker takes 5 kids for a tour through his factory.
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
A short man is given a ring by his uncle, but he returns it.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
A pampered female dog has a night of pasta and illegitimate sex with a mongrel.
(It's funny how no one ever notices that part...even though they have her canine neighbors offer marriage to save her honor.)
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Two guys try to find their car, after getting really smashed.
Two guys get high and go to their favorite fast food place.
This dude goes back to his hometown after his mother dies and falls in love with a girl who has seizures.
A really horrible transvestite director convinces his friends to make horrible movies with him time and time again.
A man with a low IQ becomes a national celebrity 8 different times.
Four boys design a rocket when everyone else thinks they are crazy.
A mermaid loves a human.
They try to fly a rocket ship to the moon, but the rocket has technical problems.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Hot Rod has got the touch, got the power.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Man has drinks with a dead bartender, goes crazy, does some hotel remodeling his wife doesn't care for, then freezes to death.
Man does some really bad things until he's caught, then Beethoven makes him sick.
Four comic book heroes come to life, but they're completely unlike their comic book selves and fight an enemy that's completely unlike their comic book enemy. And there's lots of weddings.
Burt Reynolds plays a bit part in a remake of the only movie he ever made that was good, thus causing the new movie to suck.
An alien kills everyone but the chick.
Lots of aliens kill everyone but the chick.
An alien kills everyone but the chick, but she dies anyway.
Lots of aliens kill everyone but the chick, the midget, Hellboy and Winona Ryder.
Lots of aliens kill lots of other aliens and some people who get in the way.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
Cartoonist girl likes girls. Cartoonist girl likes boy. Boy blows it, big time. Girl likes girls again.
Two guys hang out in a mall, have their fortunes read and trash a game show.
Woman hears message from Vega, goes on a six second windsurfing trip on another planet that lasts sixteen hours.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
A dozen men snap and argue with each other about someone they don't even know.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Guy's friend sends him to jail, takes friends wife. Guy escapes jail, stabs friend, takes wife back.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Dead dude possesses a painting, four guys investigate.
A weatherman finds an infinite number of ways to screw up the same day.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Poor man becomes rich.
Eccentric man moves in with a mechanic brother and insane sister from a lost hand in poker.
A poor milkman watches his daughters get married. EDIT Except the last one, 'cause she eloped.
Two guys try to make a failure of a play and fail.
Socially inept man dances.
(My favorite so far have been Titanic's and Lady and the Tramp's.)
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Pointy-headed aliens from outer space ineptly screw up a invasion mission to earth but make a home there after a forced residence.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
Man tries to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather by raising the dead with hilarious results.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
men run around with coconuts, eat minstrel, and get attacked by rabbit.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Man goes to jail, gets raped, gets taken advantage of, gets out of jail.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Chinese women band joyously together to form a lucky club
John McClane Dies Hard, but it turns out to be all about the money
John McClane DiesHhard again... but in an airport
John McClane Dies Hard... but with a vengeance
John McClane Dies Hard... with a lot of computers
Leonardo joins a gang in new york
Posted by Desu (Member # 5941) on :
People get sick, bite eachother then starve.
28 weeks later, a woman gets partially sick, bites husband and everyone gets sick again.
Life of an honest idiot from Alabama is chronicled.
Bunch of doctors in the Korean war prove that you need a Doctorate to make war funny.
Posted by anti_maven (Member # 9789) on :
Curses, I am so late for this... OK, here goes:
Aussie policeman survives nuclear war and drives cars.
Two dudes like travel in a totally radical phone booth to like meet chicks and stuff.
POWs tunnel to freedom and then get shot.
Commandos blow up a cannon on a Greek island.
Old woman channels a shipwreck using costume jewellery.
Some bad stuff happens to a redheaded girl, she shaves her head and is made Queen.
Bowling dude gets his rug peed on and doesn't rescue the not kidnapped pornstar wife of a guy in a wheelchair.
Guy gets sucked into a computer and has to play games.
Fish gets caught by a diver and is rescued by his Dad.
Two guys work in a store and stuff happens.
Enjoy Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Hmm...
Japanese dude goes on quest, meets a crazy woman with lots of medieval firearms, then meets a crazy woman who runs around with big wolves in the forest, and has to stop said crazy ladies from killing each other. Oh, and there's a weird elk god thing involved somewhere...
Swedish woman goes crazy as the men in her life ignore her.
Swedish guy goes home from the crusades. He plays chess with death, then dies.
Japanese cyborg cop investigates crazy murders. Perp turns out to be a sentient computer program. They become one person, or something.
And finally, a 14 year old mentally unstable, voyeuristic, depressed, self-hating, not-quite-rapist kid undergoing a nervous breakdown, who happens to pilot a giant robot, loses his mind. The world ends, he becomes God, kills everything, has really weird sex with the 14 year old clone of his mom/the goddess-mother of all humanity (funny how they turn out to be the same thing, huh?), then goes back to the Earth which he blew up to hang out with the girl who hates him more than anything, and who he was both voyeuristic to earlier and nearly raped. He chokes her awhile. Then he breaks down crying. The end. Forever. (Until the creators decided it was time to make more money off of it.)
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Shoot. That wasn't a one liner. Let me try it again:
A crazy kid becomes God, has sex with the clone of his mom, the world blows up, he gives up his Godhood, the end.
Posted by Tresopax (Member # 1063) on :
quote:"It's a story about a rat who goes to Paris to be a cook, but they won't let him be a cook, because he's a rat."
With a paraphrase like that, who'd want to see it?
Okay... what I want to know is why you think this description would make you not want to see it? It's pretty much exactly what I thought the story would be about going into it, and I went.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by 0Megabyte: Shoot. That wasn't a one liner. Let me try it again:
A crazy kid becomes God, has sex with the clone of his mom, the world blows up, he gives up his Godhood, the end.
Um... what is it?
Posted by Tresopax (Member # 1063) on :
Evangelion?
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Creepy?
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
A lot of one-liners are actually more appealing the movie itself.
While there are several mentioned above, here's another example: "Hot alien chick kills a lot of people." That's Species... but even after that intro, you'd be disappointed by the movie.
How about these [Edit: These are not meant to be illustrations of my comment above, but actual attempts to ruin a movie with a one line phrase]:
"A man doesn't want to enter the family business, but ends up doing it anyway." - The Godfather
"Three men go through a midlife crisis on a ranch." - City Slickers
"Several miserable racists' lives intersect in a series of vignettes." - Crash
"An old woman's memories of falling in love on a sinking boat." - Titanic
"A group of men cheat another man out of a lot of money." - The Sting
"A cognitively impaired man reminisces about his life while waiting for a bus." - Forrest Gump
"A sports agent tries to rebuild his life after losing his job." - Jerry Maguire
[ July 02, 2007, 12:34 PM: Message edited by: FlyingCow ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
You can be forgiven for not liking Titanic. But you don't like Forrest Gump? Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Not that I don't like them personally - but that description could turn someone off to it.
And, of the movies listed, Forrest Gump would rank far, far below The Godfather, and slightly below City Slickers and The Sting. It would, however, rate well above Jerry Maguire, Titanic, and Crash.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Ah, I thought these were meant to be examples of "one-liners more appealing the movie itself."
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
I've edited for clarity. I originally had a paragraph in-between that I edited out prior to posting... losing that paragraph made things confusing.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Works for me. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Better late then never? NOT ALWAYS!
"Baby dinosaur loses mother, follows her in cloud form to new grazing grounds, brings friends."
and from the same director/producers,
"Baby mouse loses family, joins a socialistic revolution to extradite cats, finds family."
"Kid accidentally travels back in time, wastes the opportunity improving his already decent family rather then accomplishing any real good."
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:"It's a story about a rat who goes to Paris to be a cook, but they won't let him be a cook, because he's a rat."
With a paraphrase like that, who'd want to see it?
This is what I've thought of every Pixar movie since Finding Nemo. They all sounded and looked lame, but when I finally saw them, I loved them.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
See, all three of those that you listed are interesting synopses to me, BlackBlade.
"following in cloud form" - piques my interest. "joins socialistic revolution" - interesting "kid accidentally travels back in time" - already hooked
Howzabout:
"Group of dinosaurs walk until they find food." and "Mice sail to America to find life no better."
I can't seem to find any shortening of Back to the Future that seems mundane. I can't put in the words "Time Travel" without making the one-liner seem at least somewhat interesting, and I can't leave it out while still making the one-liner descriptive of the movie.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Kid goes back in time and narrowly escapes making out with his hot mother.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Flying Cow: One man's poison....
I wrote synopsis of movies I love that would make them very uninteresting to me.
I'll admit though upon review, the second one interests me now but only because I am a political science major.
I am sick to death of time travel, I actually prefer radical change to mundane. The cloud form thing to me is a turn off because I hate the, "ghost/phantasm" mentor archetype.
As for Back to the Future and making it sound mundane.
"Kid goes back in time, calls the science behind it, "heavy."
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Man attempts to commit suicide, but is persuaded otherwise by a dead guy.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
Green flash leaves scar.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Fair enough.
Still, though, the description of An American Tale could have actually been the marketing pitch.
As for some others:
"Three guys in a boat kill a big fish." - Jaws "Hamlet with fur." - The Lion King "30 minutes of great action best seen by using the scene selection feature of the dvd." - Ong Bak
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Still, though, the description of An American Tale could have actually been the marketing pitch.
Grudgingly agreed.
"Scuba tank malfunction results in the death of a fish."-Jaws
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"Kids play a board game called Jumanji, decide the game is not fun."
"Kids play a board game called Zathura, decide the game is not fun.
Also I have tried to get several people to go to Ratatouille with me, every time they ask about the plot I can feel how stupid the words coming out of my mouth sound. But I am positive its going to be great!
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Lisa:
Tres was right. It's the End of Evangelion, and, of course, while being completely truthful, I tried to make it sound infinitely less appealing than it really is.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Also I have tried to get several people to go to Ratatouille with me, every time they ask about the plot I can feel how stupid the words coming out of my mouth sound. But I am positive its going to be great!
Just say "It's the latest Pixar movie".
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
quote:Originally posted by Epictetus: Man tries to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather by raising the dead with hilarious results.
Nice!
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
Woman gets good at boxing, then has an accident and wants to die.
A war hero becomes a slave, is forced to fight for entertainment, then defies the head of state.
Skirt-wearing man is angry over death of his secret wife, goes on a rampage killing lots of Brits.
Depressed male resident of American suburbia fantasizes about having relations with his daughter's friend from school.
Exiled army officer befriends natives and dances with some canines.
Four guys hate their jobs and fail miserably in their attempt to rip off their employer.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Aliens invade earth and Tom Cruise gets scared until the Aliens die from the Common Cold. Morgan Freeman narrates.
Penguins get it on, have babies, some die. Morgan Freeman narrates.
Posted by DeathofBees (Member # 3862) on :
It's a kilt, not a skirt!
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:Also I have tried to get several people to go to Ratatouille with me, every time they ask about the plot I can feel how stupid the words coming out of my mouth sound. But I am positive its going to be great!
Just say "It's the latest Pixar movie".
That is pretty much the line I rely on. Its the only one that even counts as a selling point.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
"Aliens invade earth and Tom Cruise gets scared until the Aliens die from the Common Cold. Morgan Freeman narrates.
Penguins get it on, have babies, some die. Morgan Freeman narrates. "
So very awesome.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Lonely guy can't sleep then hits himself.
A bunch of guys try to climb a hill but most can't.
The babysitter dies and the kids run amuck.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
A mangeled commentary on race relations in the old west creates riots on the set.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Bored rich guy steals painting, but doesn't really.
Posted by otterk10 (Member # 10463) on :
Aliens don't use anti-bacterial soap.
A bunch of men fight a war while wearing kilts.
Teen has sex with apple pie.
Two angels don't like living in Wisconsin.
Posted by Alethea (Member # 10457) on :
19th century Parisian ghetto dwellers sing 90's pop songs while Nicole Kidman dies of tuberculosis.
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
Two young Mexican high school graduates take a road trip with an older woman who has cancer.
Puppets attempt to get their musical on Broadway.
Upscale hooker falls in love with poor writer.
Nun in training marries man with seven children, sings as the Nazis take over Austria.
Seven brothers kidnap seven women, force them into marriage and sing about how great it all is.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
This guy gets out of college and can't figure out what to do next, so he sleeps with his girlfriend's mother and gets married.
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
quote:Originally posted by DeathofBees: It's a kilt, not a skirt!
I know, and I apologize for any offense; it just sounded funnier my way.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Confederate soldier deserts, makes it back to his girl, then dies.
Union soldier goes native and deserts.
Farmer builds baseball field and ghosts play there.
Girl named Eve isn't as nice as she seems.
Two women flee the law and drive off a cliff.
Two outlaws flee the law and get shot in Bolivia.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Chess prodigy plays many games of chess.
Woman dies in car accident, and the recipient of her heart meets her widower.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
So there's this TV show. It's a sci-fi western, and it got canceled after half a season.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Woman dies in car accident, and the recipient of her heart meets her widower.
Beverly told me the basic plot of the movie, and I thought she had to be joking. It just sounds so ludicrous for a romance.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Doesn't it? But it's one of my all-time favorites. I own both the DVD and the soundtrack.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
An Englishman goes up a hill but comes down a mountain.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head:
quote:Woman dies in car accident, and the recipient of her heart meets her widower.
Beverly told me the basic plot of the movie, and I thought she had to be joking. It just sounds so ludicrous for a romance.
What move is this?
Also,
Man role plays going back in time in order to meet girl he is infatuated with, foiled by a penny.
^^ I own the movie and part of the soundtrack played at my wedding reception Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
BB, Return to Me.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Two dogs and a cat run away and then come back.
Then they do it again.
Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
Steve McQueen and a bunch of British POWs escape by digging tunnels. Steve Mcqueen gets put in brig, British POWs are shot.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
An old french guy tells a tall tale of how he used to be cool.
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Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Somebody's Spartacus.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
A bunch of WWII prisoners of war build a bridge over a river.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
There's an Indian in the cupboard.
Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
quote:Originally posted by Papa Moose: There's an Indian in the cupboard.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Like Driving Miss Daisy, except it's a taxi and the passenger is a professional hitman.
(That's the way I described it to my wife. She hates it when I say that.)
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
This whale named Willy gets caught and needs to be freed. - Free Willy
Willy gets caught again. And then again. - Free Willy 2 & 3
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
An amphibian with a non-meteorological interest in the refraction of light has a keen desire in auditioning for Orson Welles.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
William Shatner displays his utter lack of talent.
A fish swims around looking for his son.
A girl graduates from college and her life sucks. Her insensitive parents give her a BMW.
M. Night Shyamalan makes a movie in which nothing at all happens for an hour and a half, and then there's a surprise twist.
This Volkswagen bug has like a soul.
An orphaned girl goes to the English countryside to live with her dysfunctional uncle and hypochondriac cousin.
A Halloween-themed deity kidnaps Santa Claus.
A boy wizard defeats an accomplished evil badass using the power of love.
The President of the United States fights off a bunch of armed terrorists who have taken over his plane.
Two guys are really dumb. One is, in fact, dumber than the other.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
A man discovers he has incurable gastric cancer, develops intense desire to build swing-sets.
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
"Two guys are really dumb. One is, in fact, dumber than the other."
Yay, teh funny.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Two guys have beer and peanuts and hitch a ride.
An estranged son and father have to fight, and end up killing the father's boss.
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
A guy in prison does everybody's taxes.
Guy writes a play about his fantasies with young boys. (That is one way to ruin Finding Neverland
Crazy guy does math.
Smart Kid has Issues.
[!SPOILER WARNING FOR HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX!]
Sirius dies.
[/End Spoiler]
Man in a Spider suit fights a mechanical Octopus.
Teenagers corrupt fictional TV show.
Starring Ben Stiller! Starring Nicholas Cage!
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
"An estranged son and father have to fight, and end up killing the father's boss."
Return of the Jedi. Awesome description.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
A bunch of peasants hire a bunch of samurai to fight a bunch of bandits.
A bunch of them die.
Posted by otterk10 (Member # 10463) on :
The last samuari in the world is Tom Cruise
Posted by Chopped Liver (Member # 10660) on :
quote:A bunch of peasants hire a bunch of samurai to fight a bunch of bandits.
A bunch of peasants hire a bunch of cowboys to fight off a bunch of bandits.
A bunch of peasants hire a bunch of TV cowboys to fight of a bunch of bandits.
A bunch of insect peasants hire a bunch of circus insects to fight of a bunch of bandit insects.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
The first one there is The Magnificent Seven.
I dunno about the other ones.
Posted by Chopped Liver (Member # 10660) on :
The Three Amigos A Bug's Life
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
Three Amigos and A Bug's Life, probably.
Two roommates attempt to get rid of a small child that they are not equipped to take care of. In the process, they discover that their employer is corrupt.
Guy loses his memory, but manages to whine about it a lot despite the fact that he shouldn't remember that he has a memory problem.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Adam Sandler and a child act like children.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
John Travolta and the Magical Brain Tumor.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
quote:Originally posted by Papa Moose: John Travolta and the Magical Brain Tumor.
LOL!
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
quote:Originally posted by otterk10: The last samuari in the world is Tom Cruise
Aww, the Last Samurai in the world was Ken Watanabe.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Papa Moose: John Travolta and the Magical Brain Tumor.
Two problems with that. One, it might intrigue me enough to watch it. Two, hey, SPOILERS! I mean, I've seen it several dozen times, but not everyone has been so fortunate.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Cowboy is deeply upset that his best friend now sleeps with another man.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Two, hey, SPOILERS! I mean, I've seen it several dozen times, but not everyone has been so fortunate.
Isn't there a statute of limitations of movie spoilers? It's been over ten years.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
You have a point. However, there are spoilers and there are spoilers. That one is a large part of the point of the movie.
Then again, we had a number of similarly pivotal spoilers in this thread. Ok, I withdraw the objection.
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
attraction park becomes death trap when fail-safe precautions give out.
Posted by Zhil (Member # 10504) on :
Crazed mathematician becomes a numerologist obsessed with delicious pastry, then drills self.
Pirates in boats and pirates in water and pirates on land; also, pirates.
Capulets and Montagues fight with guns while two stupid teenagers do something really stupid.
Rosencrants and Guildenstern die.
Robin Williams as a doctor. Robin Williams as a professor. Robin Williams as a scientist. Robin Williams as a... ...
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Professor fights Nazis while looking for a crate.
Professor fights zealots while looking for rocks.
Professor fights Nazis while looking for a cup.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
quote:Originally posted by Eduardo St. Elmo: attraction park becomes death trap when fail-safe precautions give out.
Good one! That actually works for several movies.
Angry women dance naked.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Aliens live in our oceans, they want us to stop fighting or they'll kill us all.
Man decides to stop being a femme elf wannabe and returns as king.
Rich guy fails to get the endorsement neccesary for funding towards his new theme park featuring dinosaurs.
Guy takes unknown pill at the behest of stranger, his perception of fantasy and reality are effected.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
An aspiring singer/songwriter gets over her stagefright by donning ho clothes and dancing on a bar while soaking wet.
Posted by Mig (Member # 9284) on :
Spoiled rich girl during the Civil War tries to hook-up with a rich dude who thinks she's an air-head.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
A bunch of people try to win a karaoke contest.
Posted by DavidR (Member # 7473) on :
"An ex-con, forced to steal, does it with style." -- Hudson Hawk
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
quote:Spoiled rich girl during the Civil War tries to hook-up with a rich dude who thinks she's an air-head.
What movie is this? That can't be Gone with the Wind.
Rhett doesn't think she's an airhead at all. In fact, he is one of the few in the beginning who knows that she isn't.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
quote:Originally posted by DavidR: "An ex-con, forced to steal, does it with style." -- Hudson Hawk
You make it sound worth watching...
Posted by DavidR (Member # 7473) on :
It is worth watching. I had only read the first few examples when I composed and posted that. As I continued reading posts it dawned on me that I had misread what we were attempting to do here, but I decided to just leave it be. Let me try again with another movie.
"British diplomat, suddenly widowed, throws away career, and life, to avenge her against the pharmacutical industry and British government." -- Constant Gardener
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Nicholas Cage tries to write a screenplay. Takes advice from Nicholas Cage.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Japanese orphans eat dirt and die.
Boy gets infected by pig and falls in love with a girl raised by wolves.
Lesbian hides murder from the law and her girlfriend in 1930s Alabama.
Talking pig herds sheep.
Immortal battles other immortals in contest to get ahead.
Man marries sweetheart's sister till she dies of bad gas.
"Man survives inappropriate touching from his sister, only to have his hand cut off by his father."
Empire Strikes Back?
"Woman reluctantly faces her fears while accompanied by a campy, rowdy cadre of space marines"
Aliens?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Pixiest wins. Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
"Women drive cross country only to run out of road."
Cute. Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
0meg: Yes on your guesses. The giant robots one describes probably the worst scene in transformers.
I felt bad describing the Japanese Orphans movie that way. Till I started giggling.
Olivet: Yay!!! I won a thread! and a HUGE thread too! Thank you =)
Nighthawk: =)
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
Yeah. I gotta agree. Pixiest won the thread.
So far.
Yes. As for the Japanese Orphans movie, I felt sad a moment reading it, until, yes, I started laughing. More of a combination "laugh" and "aww" all at one time.
Really? That's a scene in Transformers? Oh dear God...
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Nah, the worst scene in Transformers is either the peeing Bumblebee scene...or ANY scene with Code-Crackin', Donut-Eatin' Sassy Black Stereotype Guy.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
... once again: Oh dear God...
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
These are kinda fun...
Young author and harlot girlfriend musically con Duke into building a theatre.
Froofy man tortures young woman, and wears masks in attempt to destroy government.
Barefoot man hides in air ducts during robbery attempt.
Meg Ryan stalks Tom Hanks from across the country.
Revolting Gladiator helps Dictatorship come to Rome.
Men fake kidnapping till woodchipper comes between them.
Sinking ship puts lovers' romance on ice.
Junky woman spurns rich and famous, but simple man till she gets sick.
Hitmen discuss european fast food on the way to their mark.
Man given entire planet seeks revenge on man who put him there and didn't call, didn't write.
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
"Hitmen discuss european fast food on the way to their mark."
Oh, come on, that was, like, ten minutes of the movie, tops.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
...and it wasn't really a "mark", was it?
Posted by 0Megabyte (Member # 8624) on :
mmm... I dunno.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Pixiest: Man marries sweetheart's sister till she dies of bad gas.
Sounds about right. I didn't like that movie at all.
quote:Originally posted by The Pixiest: Meg Ryan stalks Tom Hanks from across the country.
Too true. I like this movie, but when you really look at what happens during it . . . .
And even worse, she gives up the really great guy who GETS her and wants the same things she does for some guy she doesn't know who happens to have a sweet kid.
Posted by The Flying Dracula Hair (Member # 10155) on :
Three hours about a ship sinking.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Dude solves dysfunctional family problems till everybody dies and Poland invades.
Boy and girl, too young to marry, end up dieing thanks to their religious leader's silly plan.
(Or--better one: Its High School Musical, without the music, and set in Italy, and the kids die.)
Old dude writes will, retires, and goes bonkers in the rain till he dies.
Three old ladies and a nagging wife send a good guy into the world of ultimate dirty politics till he dies.
Child molesting dysfunctional family of fairies screw around with the love lives of Athens finest couples. (Surprisingly nobody dies)
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: And even worse, she gives up the really great guy who GETS her and wants the same things she does for some guy she doesn't know who happens to have a sweet kid.
That's a pattern in Ephron movies. Her leads are always involved with somebody else, and these SOs are always given the flimsiest of flaws in order to justify them being dumped.
Meg Ryan's squeeze had allergies. Oooh, how terrible!
I agree with Mike Nelson, that it would have been easier to swallow if the guy had at least gotten UPSET when she dumped him.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Sarcastic samurai is irritated by association with enthusiastic samurai wannabe-rebel groupies, ends up feeling guilty about the whole thing.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
Band of extremely ethnic children fight with extremely ethnic criminals for an extremely one-eyed pirate's hoard.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat:
quote:Originally posted by rivka: And even worse, she gives up the really great guy who GETS her and wants the same things she does for some guy she doesn't know who happens to have a sweet kid.
That's a pattern in Ephron movies. Her leads are always involved with somebody else, and these SOs are always given the flimsiest of flaws in order to justify them being dumped.
Meg Ryan's squeeze had allergies. Oooh, how terrible!
I agree with Mike Nelson, that it would have been easier to swallow if the guy had at least gotten UPSET when she dumped him.
It didn't seem she dumped him because of the allergies, but because of the lack of "magic." If a friend used that line in real life, I'd tell her she was nuts. When I watch this movie, I get sucked in enough to get misty when she finally meets Tom Hanks.
I'm such a sucker.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
A bunch of people go to four weddings. And a funeral.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
there is a dead bride. she stays dead.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Random people have psychological issues. Their therapist makes them worse. Depression ensues.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Various damaged people emote convincingly, are connected by frog rain.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
High school students join military, fight big bugs.
Rock band slides toward obscurity, kills several drummers.
Mopey teenage girl gets ahead of herself in martial arts, ruins things for everyone else.
Mopey teenage boy gets ahead of himself in the Force, ruins things for everyone else.
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