[meme] better than it sounds // stolen from everyone :P
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works, put up their summaries from Better Than It Sounds, & have your friends guess (without cheating).
01. Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression. Sailor Moon, karenjeane.
02. A young woman searches for her lost love by playing dress-up.
03. An American TV show with fight scenes made up of recycled footage from a Japanese show that somehow managed to be popular enough that most people have heard of it. Power Rangers, outoftime.
04. A schoolgirl avoids living in a tent by moving in with an incestuous family with intimacy issues. Not a porno. Fruits Basket, aurianrose.
05. A loving family raises a teenage savant who was literally born yesterday.
06. Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet. His girlfriend is whomever he sucks up to the most.
07. An angry and bitter man destroys a girl's place of employment & then befriends her. Doctor Who (9), sabotabby.
08. Emo Kid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a White Haired Pretty Boy and tries to get his sister to accept him.
09. A class goes on a field trip; most don't make it back. Battle Royale, sabotabby.
10. Dead children are trained to be angels in a walled city.
11. One man is a king, a prophet, a philosopher, a pissboy, and torturer with a musical number that nobody expects.
12. A loving mother writes letters to her son. A blind French (maybe) guy dies. A tattoo artist has a lot of sex & does a lot of drugs while editing the Frenchman's book, which is about a non-movie about a house with a growing interior. Then he dies. Maybe. Not necessarily in that order, and creepy as hell. House of Leaves, katemonkey.
13. A cynic, with a swearing father & a workaholic mother, makes fun of everything while her sibling runs a fashion club where people wear the same thing all the time. Daria, katemonkey.
14. A man is let out of prison and is hired as chauffeur & bodyguard to a weird man who's conducting a secret war against another bunch of other weird people. The story is occasionally interrupted for history lessons or stories that are almost completely unrelated. American Gods, whisperwords.
15. Thieves kidnap a young princess as part of a political coup. They're the good guys. Final Fantasy IX, tawnytrio3.
16. Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles. It doesn't sound too bad. The Princess Bride, hermionesviolin.
17. A mass murderer claims to have reformed, but occasionally relapses. Also, all your favorite characters die. Angel, hecatehatesthat.
18. Guy chooses between Earth & a really hot chick. It is not really a difficult choice. Farscape, whisperwords.
19. A directionless twentysomething takes on a second job to pay off a debt his parents incurred. His friends help. Reaper, kattahj.
20. Girl is forced to move in with her neighbor, and gets interested in his job. Leon/The Professional, outoftime.
And... go! XD
01. Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression. Sailor Moon, karenjeane.
02. A young woman searches for her lost love by playing dress-up.
03. An American TV show with fight scenes made up of recycled footage from a Japanese show that somehow managed to be popular enough that most people have heard of it. Power Rangers, outoftime.
04. A schoolgirl avoids living in a tent by moving in with an incestuous family with intimacy issues. Not a porno. Fruits Basket, aurianrose.
05. A loving family raises a teenage savant who was literally born yesterday.
06. Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet. His girlfriend is whomever he sucks up to the most.
07. An angry and bitter man destroys a girl's place of employment & then befriends her. Doctor Who (9), sabotabby.
08. Emo Kid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a White Haired Pretty Boy and tries to get his sister to accept him.
09. A class goes on a field trip; most don't make it back. Battle Royale, sabotabby.
10. Dead children are trained to be angels in a walled city.
11. One man is a king, a prophet, a philosopher, a pissboy, and torturer with a musical number that nobody expects.
12. A loving mother writes letters to her son. A blind French (maybe) guy dies. A tattoo artist has a lot of sex & does a lot of drugs while editing the Frenchman's book, which is about a non-movie about a house with a growing interior. Then he dies. Maybe. Not necessarily in that order, and creepy as hell. House of Leaves, katemonkey.
13. A cynic, with a swearing father & a workaholic mother, makes fun of everything while her sibling runs a fashion club where people wear the same thing all the time. Daria, katemonkey.
14. A man is let out of prison and is hired as chauffeur & bodyguard to a weird man who's conducting a secret war against another bunch of other weird people. The story is occasionally interrupted for history lessons or stories that are almost completely unrelated. American Gods, whisperwords.
15. Thieves kidnap a young princess as part of a political coup. They're the good guys. Final Fantasy IX, tawnytrio3.
16. Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles. It doesn't sound too bad. The Princess Bride, hermionesviolin.
17. A mass murderer claims to have reformed, but occasionally relapses. Also, all your favorite characters die. Angel, hecatehatesthat.
18. Guy chooses between Earth & a really hot chick. It is not really a difficult choice. Farscape, whisperwords.
19. A directionless twentysomething takes on a second job to pay off a debt his parents incurred. His friends help. Reaper, kattahj.
20. Girl is forced to move in with her neighbor, and gets interested in his job. Leon/The Professional, outoftime.
And... go! XD