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Pithy movie summaries
Posted by drakeygirl on 29 August 2011 - 4:30pm.
I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time in ages last night.
The Dude abides, he really does.
I then thought about how I'd describe the film to someone who hadn't seen it. I decided this would do:
1) Funny as f**k. Goes a bit flabby in the middle. Ends well.
(Incidentally, I then decided I would love to have this as my epitaph. Unfortunately, the only part I know to be strictly true is the middle bit).
So, anyone else want to have a go at a pithy movie summary (or two)? You can tell us the title, or leave it for us to guess if you like...
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It's all about a sledge (or is it "sled").
Ah, I didn't think of this.
This could turn out to be just a list of spoilers, couldn't it? Look away now, if you haven't seen every film, ever.
"He sees dead people."
one word...
"Verbal"
You want spoilers?
You want this excellent t-shirt.
Warning: contains spoilers. Obviously.
Needless to say...
...I have that excellent t-shirt.
It has been noted by me before
that you have a mighty fine t-shirt wardrobe. This confirms it.
I had a happy moment earlier.
I found my t-shirt that says "Shakespeare Hates Your Emo Poems" in an important-looking gothic font. It was at the back of a drawer.
I know this one.
Is it Cool Runnings?
"Overgrown smurfs vs America..."
In a world designed by Roger Dean.
Drakey, have you seen
the 30 second bunny movies?
http://www.angryalien.com/0506/casabunca.asp
Drakey, have you seen
a double post before?
Yes
.
And similarly,
yes.
.
She was away from home, she made some new friends, they went off to see someone, he wasn't all he was cracked up to be, she woke up.
Phwoar! She's a bit alright!
My long lost sister you say? Erm lets just pretend I never said that...
Posh bloke
has affair with posh bird in the middle of the desert. He gets horribly toasted in an aviation calamity. Audience loses will to live, and goes home early in case they die before he does.
A broken man is given a shot at redemption
when a "substitute" daughter enters his gym. He then has his heart broken again when he is called on to do something he can never forgive himself for.
Two robots fall in love
On their first date they save the human race.
Titanic?
Apart from the "saving the human race" bit
VG
Made me larf, so it did.
Me
too.
Man refuses to close beach.
Not the best decision he'll ever make.
I'm drunk I'm nobody,
I'm drunk I'm famous, I'm drunk I'm dead.
Denis Leary
on Oliver Stone's The Doors I believe.
.
It's raining. I'm just singing and dancing.
1 - Daydream believer can't leave Bradford
2 - Old nag, crap jockey, amazing wins, true story
3 - Grim Up North noir with a copper so hard-boiled he's been left in the pan for a week.
Director spends years
preparing his gripping version of major historical figure's end days. Internet uses it to create spoofs about Oasis splitting up.
Tinkerbell -the sort of film I watch nowadays
Newly created fairy reconciles herself with her innate talent for engineering and saves Spring by mechanising the processes of Fairyland.
Honestly.
Bit of a fan
I have to say my three-year-old remains fairly ambivalent, but I for one am squarely on board with Tinkerbell and her fairy friends. (Especially Faun.)
Can I commend to you TB and the Great Fairy Rescue: a gripping rollercoaster ride of emotions, a searing indictment of domestic servitude in the... etc. etc.
Distracted by the lovely Lisa Bonet
Mickey Rourke takes several days to solve the easiest crossword clue in history.
John Travolta
Picks up a suitcase, takes the boss's wife out for dinner and cleans up a dirty car.
Not necessarily in that order.
A nation rises
and is crushed, and the hero couldn't give a damn
A monkey
And a monolith to begin with, and a freaky light show to finish.
"Never get off the boat"
Uuuurgh
"Nurse Bell? Well, ding dong..."
(actually applies to the entire series)
Gort - klaatu barada nikto
Phew
Nutter drives cab...
befriends child prostitute, kills pimp.
I beg your pardon....
....but, 'nutter'? NUTTER???!?
That is a little bit rude.
Are you
talkin' to me?
Well I'm
the only one here...
All dancers and stuff.
Proper mental. Absurdly melodramatic. Portman does some mucky stuff. Worth bothering with.
Another Coen brothers film
Fargo
Blackmail goes tits up
Don't mess with a woodchipper
Although, as we know...
...there are only two valid reviews/summaries possible: "Shit" and "Not Shit". Thanks to Eamonn Forde, these are now my watchword.
Eamonn Forde:
shit.
name this western
stranger rides into town, appoints the local dwarf as Sheriff, paints the town red to look like Hell, kills the local baddies and rides off into the distance.
Had that been High Noon
American postwar history would have been much more interesting
but
is he dead ALL ALONG???!!!!??
Ooh thought provoking..
Are you by any chance the person who started the Ferris Bueller/ Fight Club thing?
well done
you know it. but don't tell. let them guess. :)
Man bites neck
Stake holders get upset
Feral boy has shitloads of fun with animals
Then gets domesticated by a doe-eyed bint with a pot on her head
Man arrives to fix fridge.
Gets laid.
Fridge remains knackered.
Man arrives to attend to sick girl
it gets messy
Man makes man
Pitchforks are waved
Transvestite space alien shags uptight American couple
Meat Loaf for dinner
Boat founders on rocks
Hebrideans get pissed
Snakes On a Plane
"
Plumber visits suburban Californian home
Attends to housewife for quite a long time.
I forget what it's called, but it was one in a series.
Oh hang on
Bob's already done this one...
What are the chances?
...
Oh, I know this one
Is it: one to the power of 16 billion and twenty-four?
people
get massacred with a chainsaw. In Texas.
Little Englanders tear up their ration books
and become Burgundians before becoming Londoners again.
An Injured Pele scores an overhead kick
while Sly saves a penalty in a 4 all draw. You don't find out if they all get out or not.
Man stabs woman in shower in remote hotel
metamorphoses into mother.
IRA volunteer
falls head over heels in love with dusky beauty.
Oops, unexpected item in bagging area.
Roll credits as Boy George murders title song.
Harry
Goes Camping
Two robots
escape from a bloke dressed in black with a bucket on his head. Tuckloads of poor dialogue and quasi-Freudian issues follow.
Short chap finds a gold ring. Another short chap puts it back where it came from.
LOTR summary
= genius
Just popped in to say that you lot
are making me howl with laughter.
But Sir Tainley is my current favourite with his perfectly condensed summary of Lord Of The Rings saga ⇧⇧
Kevin Smith does his own nifty precis in Clerks II
"Three movies about people walking. Even the fucking trees walk."
Loved Ben
hated Hur.
Mort Sahl I think.
Or Lenny Bruce after 3 hours of the premiere of the film Exodus, leaves shouting "Let my people go!"
Superb! - In the same league as Dorothy Parker's famous
'Me no Leica' response to 'I Am A Camera'
Or her on the play of 'The Admirable Crichton'
"For Crichton out loud"
Job for the winter,
eyebrows are raised, so is baseball bat.
Nun makes doe eyes at sea captain.
Adopted family wins Austria's Got Talent.
can't let Glenbervie have all the fun...
Child in romper suit imagines creatures on an island.
Nic Cage in a vest stops a plane full of bad people. Twice.
Failed plan to blow up Hitler. Failed film with no German actors.
See the pretty man with blond hair? He's Death. Honestly.
Tom Hulce in a wig giggles. Dies.
Two friends go on holiday by mistake.
Nude Tom Hanks talks to a basketball.
Bridges Of Madison County
Meryl falls in love with Clint whilst her husband is away for 4 days. In what feels like real time.
Or...
It takes bloody ages but Meryl finds her Clint
Wonderful thread
James Stewart wants to travel. Doesn't. James Stewart wants to die. Doesn't.
Yentl
Man walks into a bar mitzvah.
Fat gay man
laughs self to death. Shit actress fails to notice precipitation.
Ben Hur
star shows arse. Swears at monkeys, cries at broken statue lady.
Ben Hur
star shows arse. Swears at monkeys, cries at broken statue lady.
***The sequel isn't much better***
Shouty, diminutive method actors
bond over disdain for KMart and mutual admiration for Quantas' safety record.
Sorry
to be a twat and all that, but QANTAS is an acronym/initialism for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services" and as such has no "u".
Signed, the Rainman ;-)
Sorry.
I just can't get that one, mojo. I've tried and tried. Is it Con Air? Bird On A Wire? Flight Of The Phoenix? ;-)
It could be...
The Man Who Knew Too Much ;-)
or "Begone
Dull Care", even. 8-0
yo
sck
yo
relax
nly
jking, hnst! :-)
Yo
peace! ;-)
Peace out
brutha! :-)
Every Mel Gibson film:
It was the gay English Jew that did it.
I must have missed that bit
in Gallipoli. Or do we have some refreshing new light on the British Army here ?
bookshop worker on minimum wage
with £1m+ flat cops off with frog-mouthed Hollywood actress in whites-only enclave. Lanky skunkhead in pants provides unsuccessful comic relief.
name this gangster movie
Middle aged air stewardess rips off a gangster and the drug cops pursuing him with the help of a bail bondsman, to a Randy Crawford Bobby Womack etc soundtrack.
Jackie
Brown?
American bloke goes to Scotland.
Much whimsy ensues.
Bloke gets given a railway station. Not much happens. But what does does so very well.
I was going to do a summary of Betty Blue but I never managed to make it past the "Man shags woman on bed.." bit at the start so I don't know what the rest of the film's about.
You've missed a lot in BB
There's running about with her kit off, more shagging, and bank robbery. And IIRC more shagging.
Damn.
I thought I'd seen all the good bits.
A "could have been a contender" boxer...
...With a dowdy girlfriend, narrowly loses a fight.
a man pretends to be nuts...
his mate (who isnt really mute), kills him.
Bad guys come back to town at midday to kill an officer of the law.
They fail.
Man brings old creatures back to life.
they get pissed off.
Small boy asks Alan Ladd not to go into the saloon.
He goes in anyway.
Sorry
Didn't know there was a film version of Shameless out yet
Man buys farm.
Voice tells him to build baseball pitch.
Man plays baseball with his dead Dad.
Thousands of men with runny eyes complain of hay fever.
Oedipus in Space
Without the 'shagging his mother' bit. Although the sister looks a bit tasty.
Halloween:
BOO!
a french delight
lovely little girl with odd haircut helps her friends and neighbours and gets the bloke she fancies.
Small town is attacked
by huge flocks of birds.
Several injured or dead, miraculously no bird shit.
Edward Woodward discovers what is meant by
the expression "The islanders are renowned for their warm welcome"
Prince
with speech impediment is cured and makes big Kingly speech.
Was he wearing a...
... waspberry bewet?
Zulus. Everywhere.
S**t!.
cheerleaders need to raise money
To go to national finals or something. That bit doesn't really matter.
Guy Pearce
...err, where was I now? Hang on, I think I wrote it down... what was I looking for again?
Big ship
s(t)inks
Young woman
goes to a school disco and has a bloody terrible night.
Preachers with tattooed knuckles
are best avoided.
A bit like a Revels advert
only with Meryl Streep.
Gimp-gilante justice
is surprisingly effective.
Sarah Connor
forgot to contact Bell to go unlisted.
Larf
Nice one Centurion etc
White collar worker
hallucinates Brad Pitt in pimpwear after unexpected brush with Meatloaf's manboobs.
Cowboys
do it without lubrication.
Cowboys
do it without lubrication.
***and they always reciprocate***
Still can't get over the fact
that ballet shoes appeared to be available in County Durham.
For a bloke!
For a
Blerk ?
All this trouble in the country
simply because Ned Beatty has a pretty mouth...
Isn't it Jon Voight that has the pretty mouth?
Whereas Ned Beatty's derriere emerges as his own most alluring feature?
I'm only quoting the film here, you understand...
Erm...
Correction:
All this trouble in the country, simply because Ronny Cox has an alluring plectrum.
Broadsword calling Danny Boy
Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood shoot everyone in Austria with 2 ammo clips then get on a bus.
Harrison Ford
successfully wears a hat.
Nothing unusual happens in Cumbernauld
Apart from the penguin
Middle-aged American bloke shags 17 year old girl
17 year old moves to London, phew
Fetching woman wears black PVC vest
Some kung fu happens
Hugh Grant
really should have married Kristen Scott-Thomas
Mouse gets steamboats
Leads to world domination
Man gets incorrectly locked up for
killing his wife. Makes friends with bloke who looks a bit like Nelson Mandela and someone from Ally McBeal. Escapes.
Bruce Willis
has very shit Christmas.
American students try to get laid,
with variable results.
Well if you're going to be that vague....
....Unfeasibly old man cops off with young poppet half his age. Or much less.
I already did Manhattan up there ^
;-)
Hold on
Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, were in Manhattan ?
Bats in the desert show...
...that the Sixties failed
Surely it's a disaster?
Yes it is a disaster and stop calling me Shirley.
Cockneys rob Wops.
Getaway is not without incident.
Hurt Fieldings
Popular beat combo scamper hither and yon, incurring all manner of contretemps and set-to's. Includes a hurt field.
Four suburban buddies
go away on a canoeing weekend in hillbilly country, where they encounter an autistic banjo picker and some mountain men.
Unpleasantness ensues.
Head hillbilly tells fat buddy he's got a "real purdy mouth" before instructing him to "squeal little piggy".
Male cinema-goers instinctively look away en masse.
A lost clownfish is eventually reunited with his father.
Star Wars?
In the meanwhilst, I've been considering how best to summarise the porn reimagining of The Sound of Music. The closest I can get is "Ah - you must be Christopher Plummer!"
The Porn Sound Of Music
"These are a few of her favourite Things"
"and that brings us back to
Oh oh OH OHHHHHHHHHH!"
Aha!
Hello, you must be Frau Maria. I am Herr Plummer. I em here to unblock your von Trapps.
Hmmm
Nice lederhosen, putzi
Edelscheiss
Lonely, goatherd?
Obi Wan Kenobi
Falls down a toilet. Sinks into the floor. Upset by miraculous low flying infant. Robert Carlyle does some swearing.
The other one
is the Messiah.
Damage
Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche break the furniture and a few other things.
12
11-1,10-2,9-3,8-4,7-5,6-6,5-7,4-8,3-9,2-10,1-11, Not Guilty.
Genius...
...but made me angry....!
Some 70's/80's Horror Films.......
1. Adoption pans out really badly.
2. Temporary hotel caretaker’s job pans out really badly.
3. Inclement coastal weather conditions pan out really badly.
4. Demonic possession pans out really badly.
Girl......
Girl kicks herself after over complicating what turned out to be a relatively simple journey back to Kansas.
The Exorcist
Dead good, dead scary, dead priest.
It's a story
about toys
Spy with bad toupee
Tangles with transvestite in Vegas and on an oil rig
Someone watched...
... Diamonds are Forever over the Bank Holiday.
Yep
Well the end of it anyway
Young man joins well-known criminal organisation...
...works his way up from a lowly position.
Kills precieved enemies to get ahead.
Either feels bad or enjoys it.
Makes money, enjoys money.
Becomes suspicious of boss, or people connected thereof.
Is betrayed / dies.
In a hail of bullets with blood going psssssssshhhhhhhhhhh.
Double posts...
...are irritating.
Blame beer. I do.
North by North West
Left... left a bit more. That's it.
Vertigo
Jimmy Stewart fails to get off with Kim Novak. Twice. Can't look down.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A man knows too much
The Man with X-Ray Eyes
Doesn't look at lasses knickers as much you'd hope.
Earth stands still
Then moves again thanks to Michael Rennie's Jesus impression
Hard-bitten bar owner makes noble gesture
The befriends a Frenchman
Snows a bit on 25 December
Big-eared bloke sings
Superman Returns.
Also...
The Empire Strikes Back
The Return of the King
Storyteller extemporises
Then loses his limp
Boat goes upriver
Machete action
Ape chucks bone
Windows XP crashes - useless help desk. Spaceship goes wrong. Old man in premier Inn.
Englishman rides camel to Aqaba
because it was just a matter of going
Spaniards go rafting in Peru
Get shot with arrows
Monkey climbs skyscraper
"Actually, it's an ape..."
Promiscuous hairdresser
gets comeuppance
Every scene is numbered,
1 to 100.
2 blokes
...go to fucking Bruges...they fucking swear a lot and fucking moan at each fucking other...another fucking bloke goes to fucking Bruges and fucking shoots them.
Student
takes a job as an assistant to a grumpy, blind, retired Army officer.
Cue much shouting and general rudeness. But it's OK cos he's blind.
Not mine...
...and I think the film's already been done above, but still worth mentioning: -
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
(Google it if you draw a blank.)
That carpet really held the room together, man...
Get weaving and see this film!
One usually has to go to a basketball game to meet such class...
Despite constant carping from his ageing British butler, spoilt alcoholic multi-millionaire gets the girl from 'Cabaret'.
Unmissable!
Small folk travel a long way to chuck a magic ring down a volcano.
'Awrence!
Handsome English army officer dresses up as an Arab and struts around desert blowing up trains to upset the Turks.
Very Bunny...
Six foot white rabbit leads drunkard to psychiatry.
Government sponsored...
US Mail helps man prove he is Santa Claus.
There can be only one
Frenchman plays Scottish swordsman, Scot playsh Egyptian mashquerading as a Shpanish fencer. Badly.
Autumn in New York (terrible terrible film)
Middle aged bloke pulls young hottie. She dies.
James Cameron generic movies...
Space Soldiers fight hard-to-kill Aliens.
James Cameron specific
Dances with Wolves on Pandora
Tom Cruise also gives it a go
Dances with Wolves in Japan
Tom Cruise also gives it a go
Dances with Wolves in Japan
"I see dead people. Like you, Bruce."
Also:
No girls, six guys, one cup. (And some coconut shells.)
Murder on the Orient Express. By everyone.
After a build-up that seemed to take forever, two boys and a girl do very little of interest in a tent for most of the film. Audience leaves in disappointment, hoping the follow-up will tie up loose ends. Sadly, Blair Witch 2 is even worse.
Aliens travel millions of miles to catch a cold.
Or get fucked over by a computer virus.
Or water.
Or Arnie in a facepack.
Yank backpacker is attacked by Yorkshire lycanthrope and taken to the nearest hospital. It's in London, apparently.
Precinct 9 gets assaulted, despite title.
Borat presents xenophobic, much-maligned picture of backwards country, invoking wrath of its proud natives. Tail between his legs, he returns to Kazakhstan.
Long-awaited messiah of the future (The One) is finally discovered by freedom fighters-cum-world's most inept anagram solvers.
So-called children's movie ends in highly dubious fashion with Axel Foley-voiced donkey fulfilling the promise of the title of Bruce Lee's final film.
Clint is clearly 'the good', but fans argue about the other two for decades.
Just remember you're supposed to be German, then the escape will be as good as was promised. (One slip, though, and you'll be condemned to a career forever associated with Lewis Collins.)
True love = no more Sonny and Cher.
Bloke invents fake documentary about fake workplace. Hollywood gives him big budget. Bloke invents God. Budget never seen again.
Head bashing in gay bar. Bum bashing in subway. Bummer.
Lad gets bird. Brother kills bird. Yorkshire Tourist Board shares plummet.
Irritating, no-hoper becomes toast of late-night US TV, despite having no discernible talent. (Doesn't feature Adam Sandler, surprisingly.)
Dreadful stage musical which should by all accounts be a flop becomes surprising smash hit. (See also Mamma Mia.)
Unarmed, weedy American mathematician Dustin Hoffman takes on a gang of burly, gun-wielding Cornish manual labourers. Wins. Could happen.
That Mary... can't quite put my finger on it...
Failed actor Dustin Hoffman drags up. Seemingly intelligent bloke falls for the horrifying result. Could happen.
Hilarious 'documentary' about deluded band touring America, despite being well past their sell-by date. Funniest bits: highly embarrassing visit to Elvis's grave, nonsensical soundbites from their singer and guitarist, the duet with BB King.
Eponymous hero Darren Boot gets into fearful scrapes with his U-boat crew.
From '69.....
'I didn't know it was that kind of camp, did I Bernie?'
Old dude
drops snowglobe, pegs it.
Cholera.
Canals. Perving. Mahler.
No music.
Heavy pecking.
Alluring Animal
Rock misses sunbather.
Film follows.
Boats.
Banjos. Bumming.
Holes.
Midgets. A map.
A Real One...
From the Daily Record TV listing many years ago:
3.30pm: Forty Guns To Apache Pass.
"A Western"
No shit there Sherlock.
Blue folk
what stick out at yer.
Confessions of a Pandoran
starring Robin '3D' Askwith?
Well,
see I though that was the Smurfs just happy to see me.
High class hooker loses cat
Finds Hannibal Smith
There's a Jock in that red windmill
And he can't sing
"Will you...
...cobbled together lady with memorable hair, take this lumbering metaphor to be your husband? Will you love, honour and keep him as long as you both shall live?"
"Jog on."