Meme ganked from saphire_child

[milieva]

Pick 25 movies/literary works/television series and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess them.



1. A farm hand becomes a pirate and his girlfriend becomes a princess and then he kidnaps her and dies. Then, with the help of a hungover fencer and a stupid giant, he kidnaps her again after coming back to life. Whilst all this is going on, a grandfather tells his grandson a story. ladymalchav sciathan_file

2. An angry and bitter man destroys a girl's place of employment and then befriends her. teikachikata

3. Two hard-on-their-luck guys attempt to make the worst play in history. They fail. Spectacularly. ladymalchav sciathan_file

4. Southern Belle who is also a CIA-trained interogator and her quirky side-kicks fight crime. ladymalchav sciathan_file

5. Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead.

6. A group of men (united by wearing womens clothing), including a Rabbi plot to take down Richard Lewis, whilst parodying everything they can. shengirl

7. A girl trades her voice for feet to impress a guy who thinks she is her voice. ladymalchav sciathan_file

8. A hotel near some of America's most popular ski resorts shuts down for the Winter and is left in the care of a hallucinating drunk and his insane family. ladymalchav

9. A college professor joins forces with a bartender to fight an entire army over a box that will kill you if you try to open it. teikachikata

10. Magical Girls, Mecha, and several other genres that should not meet, do. It somehow works. sciathan_file

11. Following the death of her niece, a young woman watches a really creepy and confusing video, and soon finds herself threatened by a spooky little girl with long, stringy hair.ladymalchav sciathan_file

12. A spy loses his job and tries to find out why while helping the helpless. ladymalchav

13. A reclusive, unloving hermit is forced to go on a quest to rescue the rest of her kind after a jive-talking butterfly hints that they've been taken prisoner by a lightly carbonated energy drink. Over the course of her adventures, she learns how to love, but eventually gets better.

14. Vast armies fight over a piece of jewelry. ladymalchav sciathan_file

15. King Arthur on a low budget. With many original additions. ladymalchav sciathan_file

16. Two divorcees get married and bring their children from previous marriages to live together in a really big house the man designed himself. (Which nonetheless has only one bathroom.) teikachikata

17. Teen does chores for an old man, and as a result goes from being a bully magnet to an expert fighter within months. teikachikata

18. A blacksmith's rich girlfriend gets kidnapped by zombie pirates, and he goes to rescue her with the help of another pirate who is not a zombie but wears eyeliner. And it's based on a theme park ride. teikachikata

19. Girl pursues a lagomorph into a land ruled by playing cards, bad logic, and nursery rhymes. ladymalchav sciathan_file

20. A paranoid nerd and an attractive doctor (who may or may not be sleeping with each other) spend a lot of time trudging through forests and other out-of-the-way places in search of the truth whilst an elderly government employee smokes a lot. ladymalchav sciathan_file

21. The boy keeps seeing a midget and has to stop a snake. sciathan_file

22. Evil far-reaching corrupt government counter-attacks. Boy learns mystical powers from a Muppet with a speech impediment, then gets his hand cut off by his long-lost father. ladymalchav sciathan_file

23. Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression. ladymalchav sciathan_file

24. Police officers investigate crimes. Lawyers argue about them in court. ladymalchav sciathan_file

25. A doctor hangs out with midgets, giants, mad scientists, and talking horses. His experiences lead him to conclude that the human race sucks. ladymalchav sciathan_file


Let's see how many you can get right. :)

Comments

[teikachikata.livejournal.com]

2. Doctor Who
13. Sarah Jane Adventures
16. The Brady Bunch
17. The Karate Kid

[milieva]

13. Is not Sarah Jane.

If you would like I will give you a hint. It is both a book and a movie. Think about beverages that were also animated "villains".

Good job on the other three.

[teikachikata.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind, I'm going to take a stab at some of the others.

9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. Pirates of the Caribbean

[milieva]

Of course I don't mind. and you are correct.

[ladymalchav.livejournal.com]

1. The Princess Bride
3. The Producers
4. The Closer
7. The Little Mermaid
8. The Shining
11. Ring
12. Burn Notice
14. Lord of the Ring
15. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
19. Alice in Wonderland
20. The X-Files
22. Star Wars
23. Sailor Moon
24. Law and Order
25. Gulliver's Travels

[milieva]

All correct. Good job.

[sciathan-file.livejournal.com]

1) Princess Bride
3) The Producers
4) The Closer...?
7) The Little Mermaid!
10) MAGIC KNIGHT RAYEARTH(!!!!!)
11) The Ring
14) Lord of the Rings (The vast armies only fight in Return of the King, though...and a bit in The Two Towers at Helms Deep)
15) MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Niiiiiii!)
19) Alice in Wonderland
20) X-Files
21) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (it works!)
22) The Empire Strikes Back (Happy 30th anniversary!)
23) Like every anime ever? Also, Sailor Moon.
24) Bonk Bonk! Law and Order
25) Gulliver's Travels

If I got some of those I pulled them out of my ass.

[milieva]

Win on getting MKR! I figured it would be you. Also, way to go on being specific about Harry Potter and Star Wars

There are only three left. Can you name them all? ;)

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

6: Robin Hood: Men in Tights (no easy ones are left!)

[milieva]

I know. ladymalchav and sciathan_file knocked them out rather quickly.

But you are correct.