The Better Than It Sounds Meme!
Taken from vampirenaomi.
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from better than it sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
These are all either so obvious my cat could get them, or so non-obvious even I'll forget them the next time I look at this entry.
1. A government official tries to rape Demi Moore and emotionally abuses a handicapped man who talks to architecture. It's a musical. Hunchback of Notre Dame (the Disney version)
2. European thieves are defeated by man without shoes. Die Hard
3. Scrawny young teen stops a seven-generation-long war and impresses his dad by eating a raw fish that his best friend spit up. Cuteness ensues. How To Train Your Dragon
4. Foreign Legion defector, librarian and greedy man try to stop an undead adulterer from destroying the world. The Mummy
5. A slacker prince finds himself with a bizarre skin condition after having his fortune told. To combat this situation, he teams up with a workaholic black chick, a reclusive jazz enthusiast, and a redneck who's in love with a star. The Princess and the Frog
6. A grumpy man and a clingy jackass are sent to fight a dragon because of a zoning dispute. Shrek
7. Willy Wonka exacts revenge on Snape, but to do so he must kill Borat. Meanwhile, a woman sticks strange things into her pies. Sweeney Todd
8. Pale boy steals rock and saves government. Then, poor girl destroys statue so that pale boy can save government. Then pale boy destroys government. (Not guessed, but is The Bartimaeus Trilogy
9. Football is serious business. Unseen Academicals
10. Vast armies fight over a piece of jewelry. Lord of the Rings
11. An Officer and a Gentleman throws away his naval career for his new pet. Temeraire
12. People stuck in a place where weird things happen and no one has any idea what's happening. Not even the producers. (Not guessed, but is Lost
13.It's The Roaring Twenties. You and up to seven of your friends run around a small town in Massachusetts trying to avert the end of the world as we know it. Arkham Horror
14. A greedy young punk who has really bad halitosis frees his elders and battles an orc. His health bar is a dragonfly. Spyro the Dragon
15. Seven Samurai. With insects. A Bug's Life
16. Two suspiciously close Spaniards attempt to cheat a Native American tribe out of money. The Road To El Dorado
17. A scientist with daddy issues goes on adventures with his idiot sons and his overzealous bodyguard while an army of men in butterfly suits try to kill him. The Venture Brothers
18. A Massive Multiplayer Crossover featuring characters from fairy tales and folklore who are forced out of their homelands by a ruthless dictator and take refuge in New York City. Fables
19. A widower and a Cloudcuckoolander with blue skin go on a quest to rescue the widower's son, who has been captured in a watered crystal jail with tiki figures in it by a dentist who is four times their size. Finding Nemo
20. Magicians who work for the British government regulate magic, travel to parallel universes, and die. A lot. (not guessed, is The Chrestomanci Chronicles
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from better than it sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
These are all either so obvious my cat could get them, or so non-obvious even I'll forget them the next time I look at this entry.
1. A government official tries to rape Demi Moore and emotionally abuses a handicapped man who talks to architecture. It's a musical. Hunchback of Notre Dame (the Disney version)
2. European thieves are defeated by man without shoes. Die Hard
3. Scrawny young teen stops a seven-generation-long war and impresses his dad by eating a raw fish that his best friend spit up. Cuteness ensues. How To Train Your Dragon
4. Foreign Legion defector, librarian and greedy man try to stop an undead adulterer from destroying the world. The Mummy
5. A slacker prince finds himself with a bizarre skin condition after having his fortune told. To combat this situation, he teams up with a workaholic black chick, a reclusive jazz enthusiast, and a redneck who's in love with a star. The Princess and the Frog
6. A grumpy man and a clingy jackass are sent to fight a dragon because of a zoning dispute. Shrek
7. Willy Wonka exacts revenge on Snape, but to do so he must kill Borat. Meanwhile, a woman sticks strange things into her pies. Sweeney Todd
8. Pale boy steals rock and saves government. Then, poor girl destroys statue so that pale boy can save government. Then pale boy destroys government. (Not guessed, but is The Bartimaeus Trilogy
9. Football is serious business. Unseen Academicals
10. Vast armies fight over a piece of jewelry. Lord of the Rings
11. An Officer and a Gentleman throws away his naval career for his new pet. Temeraire
12. People stuck in a place where weird things happen and no one has any idea what's happening. Not even the producers. (Not guessed, but is Lost
13.It's The Roaring Twenties. You and up to seven of your friends run around a small town in Massachusetts trying to avert the end of the world as we know it. Arkham Horror
14. A greedy young punk who has really bad halitosis frees his elders and battles an orc. His health bar is a dragonfly. Spyro the Dragon
15. Seven Samurai. With insects. A Bug's Life
16. Two suspiciously close Spaniards attempt to cheat a Native American tribe out of money. The Road To El Dorado
17. A scientist with daddy issues goes on adventures with his idiot sons and his overzealous bodyguard while an army of men in butterfly suits try to kill him. The Venture Brothers
18. A Massive Multiplayer Crossover featuring characters from fairy tales and folklore who are forced out of their homelands by a ruthless dictator and take refuge in New York City. Fables
19. A widower and a Cloudcuckoolander with blue skin go on a quest to rescue the widower's son, who has been captured in a watered crystal jail with tiki figures in it by a dentist who is four times their size. Finding Nemo
20. Magicians who work for the British government regulate magic, travel to parallel universes, and die. A lot. (not guessed, is The Chrestomanci Chronicles