is it in your head or between your sides

Apr 24, 2010 22:35

Stolen from misslucyjane: Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from better than it sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

1) Four Three Two British musicians. Tough to retire, but easy to kill.
2) Nerd with thick glasses tries to solve everyone's problems with a crowbar. Half-Life 2
3) Hugely popular remake of arty French opera La Boheme. Rent
4) Death is forced into early retirement and befriends a plucky old lady. Meanwhile, a dead wizard and his new friends try to stop a shopping mall from being built. Reaper Man
5) A cynic, with a swearing father and a workaholic mother, makes fun of everything while her sibling runs a fashion club where people wear the same thing all the time. Daria
6) Laser tag is Serious Business, Real Time Strategy games even more so. Ender's Game
7) Ordinary man from an ordinary planet (which has recently been torn down) goes galaxy- and dimension-hopping with a hot scientist, a perpetually unhappy robot, an alcoholic daredevil, and a narcissist with two heads and three arms. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8) Three men in unusual clothing go on a road trip, experience car trouble and stay in a small town while waiting for spare parts. To Wong Foo
9) A boy and his talking stuffed animal travel through time and discuss politics. Calvin and Hobbes
10) Rich drunk with a heart condition builds flying hotrod, races larger hotrod. Iron Man
11) A boy and his friends go camping. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
12) A forty-five-minute-long low budget romantic comedy supervillian musical tragedy in the form of a video blog. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
13) Time-Travelling George Carlin ditches his stand-up career to help two So-Cal losers cheat on their homework. They meet in the parking lot of a convenience store and, well, you can imagine where it goes from there. Napoleon is a fat bastard who eats too much ice cream and cheats children in meaningless competitions. Well, at least that part was accurate. For some reason, Neo doesn't save The Matrix. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
14) 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. Pirates of the Caribbean
15) Boy gets tormented by his older sister, who manages to bypass all things he builds to avoid her. The boy also has a rival, whose true name is Susan. Dexter's Lab
16) Twenty-something Muppets search for a purpose in life and extol the virtues of porn while living in a building run by a short black man played by a woman. Avenue Q
17) A small town in the old west gets the last sheriff it would ever want thanks to the machinations of a corrupt government official who is frequently mixed up with a famous actress. The sheriff manages to keep order with the help of a drunk and some tricks taken right out of a Merrie Melodies cartoon. The climactic fight is so violent it shatters the Fourth Wall. Blazing Saddles
18) A baby is switched at birth, which causes great problems later on. Meanwhile, a cynic with a fondness for antique cars, a rare book dealer, a Granola Girl, a man who breaks things, one of the last witch-hunters in Britain and the witch-hunter's landlady attempt to prevent four rather sinister bikers from causing The End Of The World As We Know It. Good Omens
19) A retired Marine with a redhead fetish, a lecherous playboy, a malapropping Israeli assassin, a murder mystery writer / computer nerd and online gamer, an old British doctor and a Perky Goth with a caffeine habit work for the US Navy. They Fight Crime! NCIS
20) A pro ballplayer's hometown is blown up by a giant Space Whale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father.

Also: Yesterday I broiled some fish all by myself, and it didn't end in disaster. I think this is a pretty good achievement.

music, to any passing fad, responsible adulthood, and a 1000 elephants!, links, l-space

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