217 - One Line Movie Blurbs Challenge
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captain_slinkyI'd appreciate all y'all's help with this, because it's kind of difficult. I'm trying to come up with at least 54 different one-line movie descriptions that don't use any real terminology from the movie itself to tell you what the movie is, while still letting you know exactly what movie we're talking about.
GOOD EXAMPLE: "A soldier from the future is sent back in time to protect a young woman from a killer robot". That's the original TERMINATOR, right?
BAD EXAMPLE: "Luke Skywalker and Han Solo join The Rebellion and help destroy The Death Star" - That's using specific names, specific locations, specific plot points. The way this one should be written for my challenge would be "A farm boy, a smuggler and a Princess join forces to destroy a weapon of mass destruction before it's too late".
ALSO, I'm not looking for "clever" or "Humorous" lines. If I wanted those, I'd just use
GOOD EXAMPLE: "A soldier from the future is sent back in time to protect a young woman from a killer robot". That's the original TERMINATOR, right?
BAD EXAMPLE: "Luke Skywalker and Han Solo join The Rebellion and help destroy The Death Star" - That's using specific names, specific locations, specific plot points. The way this one should be written for my challenge would be "A farm boy, a smuggler and a Princess join forces to destroy a weapon of mass destruction before it's too late".
ALSO, I'm not looking for "clever" or "Humorous" lines. If I wanted those, I'd just use
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I'd appreciate all y'all's help with this, because it's kind of difficult. I'm trying to come up with at least 54 different one-line movie descriptions that don't use any real terminology from the movie itself to tell you what the movie is, while still letting you know exactly what movie we're talking about.
GOOD EXAMPLE: "A soldier from the future is sent back in time to protect a young woman from a killer robot". That's the original TERMINATOR, right?
BAD EXAMPLE: "Luke Skywalker and Han Solo join The Rebellion and help destroy The Death Star" - That's using specific names, specific locations, specific plot points. The way this one should be written for my challenge would be "A farm boy, a smuggler and a Princess join forces to destroy a weapon of mass destruction before it's too late".
ALSO, I'm not looking for "clever" or "Humorous" lines. If I wanted those, I'd just use <a href="http://www.knowable.com/a/21-poorly-explained-film-plots-that-are-so-bad-theyre?utm_content=inf_4_3136_2&tse_id=INF_a53a3961134b47d6a9915882a6acbb25"this link to 22 Poorly Explained Film Plots That Are So Bad They're Good</a>. I don't need jokes, I need straight lines.
This is harder than it sounds!
I hope to get ten movies from each of these categories: Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy, Drama, Children.
And they need to be films that everyone has seen. Like, <a href="http://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice3.html">100 Most Popular Films Of All Time</a> levels of recognition.
GOOD EXAMPLE: "A soldier from the future is sent back in time to protect a young woman from a killer robot". That's the original TERMINATOR, right?
BAD EXAMPLE: "Luke Skywalker and Han Solo join The Rebellion and help destroy The Death Star" - That's using specific names, specific locations, specific plot points. The way this one should be written for my challenge would be "A farm boy, a smuggler and a Princess join forces to destroy a weapon of mass destruction before it's too late".
ALSO, I'm not looking for "clever" or "Humorous" lines. If I wanted those, I'd just use <a href="http://www.knowable.com/a/21-poorly-explained-film-plots-that-are-so-bad-theyre?utm_content=inf_4_3136_2&tse_id=INF_a53a3961134b47d6a9915882a6acbb25"this link to 22 Poorly Explained Film Plots That Are So Bad They're Good</a>. I don't need jokes, I need straight lines.
This is harder than it sounds!
I hope to get ten movies from each of these categories: Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy, Drama, Children.
And they need to be films that everyone has seen. Like, <a href="http://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice3.html">100 Most Popular Films Of All Time</a> levels of recognition.
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Date: 2015-12-27 08:09 pm (UTC)A nosy voyeur believes his neighbor is a wife-killer.
A man turns a young lower-class woman into a model for high society on a bet.
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Date: 2015-12-27 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-09 09:28 am (UTC)"A woman and a robot sent back in time protect her son from a killer robot sent back in time." :-P
"A family taking care of a hotel for winter experience changes"
"A hacker learns a secret about the world and joins a resistance movement"
"Siblings find life challenging in wartime Japan"
"Two detectives investigate a series of symbolic murders"
"An adventurer travels the world to find a relic for the government"
"An eccentric military officer creates a complicated situation for world leaders"
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Date: 2016-01-09 05:57 pm (UTC)You... I... I mean, *this*... You can't...
*sigh* I approve :)