Better Than it Sounds meme

[my_daroga]

Pick 20 movies and put their summaries from TV Tropes' Better Than It Sounds and have your friends guess WITHOUT CHEATING.

Note: Okay, I cheated: they didn't list 20 of my favorite films so you're getting a little mix.


Anime
1. Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world. OR Anyone who claims to understand it is a liar. Even the creator.

Film
2. An idealistic British officer brings the Ottoman empire to its knees, but becomes a cynical recluse in the process. He dies at the end, except it's actually at the beginning. Guessed by holyschist

3. A transsexual rock musician stalks her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to sue him for copyright infringement. Guessed by holyschist

4. Blonde Canadian woman is unhappy after moving to LA.

5. A dying old man says something very strange on his deathbed, prompting someone to order someone else to interview everyone he ever met to try and find out what he meant.

6. Obnoxiously religious man meets people who are even more obnoxiously religious than he is.

7. Oil baron goes crazy, discusses dessert beverages.

8. Boy meets girl. Girl wants him to write script for her. Boy writes script with other girl instead. Boy dies.

9. Children flee the wrath of their tattooed stepfather.

10. Three different parties all search for a valuable meteorite.

11. Bisexual tries financing his lover's sex change by robbing a bank, with help from his dimwitted friend. Based on true story.

12. Pics or it didn't happen.

TV
13. The man in the grey flannel suit commits identity theft, votes for Nixon, and provides an object lesson in why the women's movement was a Good Thing.

14. A blonde high-school age female solves a crime every episode with the help of her African-American male friend, trusty dog, and protective father while she struggles to fit into the high school social scene. (Hint: it's not Nancy Drew.) Guessed by holyschist

15. Three men and four hundred extras travel through space in their futuristic living room/model UN club, going where no man has gone before. (Okay, that's a gimme.) Tacitly guessed by holyschist

16. 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.

17. A pair of bitter war veterans, a prostitute, a mercenary with an ugly hat, a cute mechanic, a Hawaiian-shirt wearing pilot, a preacher with a Mysterious Past, a socially inept medical genius and the cutest little psychotic killing machine ever all get together on a ship. They Fight Do Crime! Guessed by holyschist

18. A super-strong cheerleader, a Jewish computer nerd witch, a goofy slacker, and the school librarian fight undead (mostly) monsters of the week while their personal lives turn into a soap opera. Beloved people die with depressing regularity. Guessed by holyschist

19. A group of dysfunctional people are chased by their pissed-off children. In Space! Guessed by holyschist

20. Obviously insane rich white guy with a compulsion to label everything lives with a younger guy. They both put on tights and go out looking for other men in tights so they can rough them up.

Comments

[holyschist]

#1 actually sounds kind of like Ender's Game, which is not an anime. Ha!

#2: Lawrence of Arabia

#3: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

#14: Veronica Mars? I haven't seen it, though.

#15: Yes, it is.

#17: Firefly

#18: Buffy

#19: Battlestar Galactica?

[holyschist]

AHAHA, I looked up #20! Best description ever!

[my_daroga]

I know, right? I love that show. Because that is how I read it.

[my_daroga]

#1 actually sounds kind of like Ender's Game, which is not an anime. Ha! (Oh, it does, but no.)

#2: Lawrence of Arabia YES

#3: Hedwig and the Angry Inch YES

#14: Veronica Mars? I haven't seen it, though. YES

#15: Yes, it is. :D

#17: Firefly YES

#18: Buffy YES

#19: Battlestar Galactica? YES

[holyschist]

Here's their summary for Ender's Game: Laser tag is Serious Business, Real Time Strategy games even more so.

Hehehe.

[my_daroga]

That's cute.