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Uprooted
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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.)

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Someone finally says "But what does it do?" and "It doesn't do anything, that's the beauty of it."
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-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.

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Columbo reads that 'Wonder Years' brat a bedtime story.
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A bunch of birds show up and people get freaked out over it.
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Short men keep a dead girl under glass because she looks so good.
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"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?

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I assume the first is The Iron Giant. The second is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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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?
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A guy and a girl meet on a boat. Then it sinks

Woman wakes up from coma and stabs people with a sword

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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.
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One of the very few 1999 films worth remembering.
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Man dies, kills people who killed him. (Hey, that could describe at least three movies I know of off the top of my head...)
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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.
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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. [Smile]

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This boy wears some tights and gets some other kids to hang out with him, and they fight some pirates.
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A while ago we started this:

http://www.mildlyamusing.com/oldsite/entertainment/barely/barely.html

It never became the grand opus I'd hoped it would, but there were a couple of cute ones.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Child kills a few other kids, plays video games, and commits genocide.
That one -^
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Highlights of the popular book, strung together.
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HEY! That's not a movie yet [Razz] No fair.
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The one about the genocidal child is for Ender's Game.
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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 [Wink]

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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!
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quote:
Originally posted by rollainm:
I liked it. A lot, actually. Am I the only one?

No, definitely not.
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Gene Kelly is happy again, thanks to the invention of dubbing.
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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.

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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... [Smile]
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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.

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A secret agent plays poker with a guy who is good at statistics.
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Girl meets guy and lands up having a big fat Greek wedding.
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Some comedians save the world from being overtaken by some ancient Hittite demon.

Alien learns to love Reese's Pieces.

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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... [Smile]
Heck, I bet they could even make more than one of them.
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Conceited British spy has neat-o toys, thwarts evildoers and lands up getting the girl.

Repeat ad nauseam.

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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... [Smile]
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. [Wink]
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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.

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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.

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quote:
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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.
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quote:
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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.

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quote:
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Gene Kelly is happy again, thanks to the invention of dubbing.

And the woman doing the real voice, ironically enough, was dubbed herself.
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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.
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It's hard to ruin a movie that's already awful, T_Smith. [Smile]
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Heathens...
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Tom Cruise kidnaps a bald woman who can tell him the future.
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Dude... I really wouldn't want to see that movie after that.

A candy maker takes 5 kids for a tour through his factory.

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A short man is given a ring by his uncle, but he returns it.
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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.)

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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.

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Hot Rod has got the touch, got the power.
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