Posted on 09/08/2014 12:22:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
If brevity is the soul of wit, can it also breathe life into bad movie descriptions? Twitter users had fun over the weekend coming up with obscure, sometimes humorously misleading summaries for the plots of famous films on the hashtag #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly. Here's a look -- we've provided stills, but can you recognize every film?
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Oblivion - Live action Wall-E with Tom Cruise
And Wall-E was so great. I can’t imagine Oblivion even came close.
the first one is a winner
“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
It did not. Oblivion had so many problems but they kind of, sort of pulled it together at the end.... in a way...
avatar - basically a sci-fi cowboys and indians flick (big blue ones) that takes place on another planet
This reminds me of something similar in National Lampoon ages ago. One I remember was “Man feigns insanity to escape penal institution; finds out the Indian can talk, and dies.”
Oblivion is equal parts Wall-E and Moon (the Sam Rockwell film).
OMG!
I'm pregnant!
I wonder who did it?
Well-worth seeing, IMO. Sam Rockwell's should have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.
Avatar = Pocahontas in space.
Rambo: rednecks hassle Viet vet, die horribly
Rambo II: there’s still money in this franchise
Rocky: chump chomps champ
Rocky XLLVI: there’s no money left in this franchise
Expendables: so let’s start a new one ...
We Were Soldiers: Charge of the Light Brigade with helicopters
Apocalypse Now: Heart of Darkness with helicopters
... or Coppola does Vietnam
... or Marlin Brando is bald, fat, and mumbles a lot in the dark
Van Helsing: sucks to be Dracula
Dracula: sucks to be him
Animal House: No, YOUR fraternity was NOT just like this
Porky’s: Dorks with hardons
The Longest Day: even on crutches, the Duke kicks butt
A Bridge Too Far: Yep. It was.
Magnificent Seven: Samurai aren’t all Japanese
The Great Escape: Steve McQueen jumps a fence
Men in Black: black ops guys seize interstellar tech to suppress the American public.
I am Legend: Genetics allow a black guy to live to try to bring back the white guy in Manhattan.
The Fugitive: Stupid doctor takes on BigPharma after allowing his wife to be murdered due to his zero situational perception skills.
Shooter: A hill-rat is led down to relieve the US of a greedy Senator and Attorney General.
Grease: Capitalist teachings totally miss when elders attempt to educate hormonally pumped teenagers.
Avatar: Like American Indians, they had reservations, which were cancelled.
Wall-E: Robot malfunction ruins pleasure cruise.
The Godfather: The son of an Italian immigrant outwits his business rivals in post war America.
The Abyss: Sub-surface oil drilling nixed by aliens, once again.
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