The Worlds Worst Synopsis game!

[roseembolism]

Pretty much everyone has heard this truly awful movie synopsis: ""Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete stangers to kill again." .  My attitude is, why should the fun stop thee?

So, for a boring Wednesday, here's the game: I'll come up with some bad, bad synopsies, and if anyone answer any, you can post your own.  Ready?  Go!


(Movie) "After a long hospital stay, a woman decides to visit some old friends and her daughter."

(Book/Movie/Etc.) An alien infiltrates Earth culture, and imposes his ideology on various entrepeneurs and businessmen. 

(Movie) "Two children interfere with a military archeological expedition, and indirectly cause the deaths of nearly everyone on the island."

(Movie)  A sorceress tries to gain her fortune by infiltrating a city and seducing a local inventor. 

(Book) A dwarf cop stalks a married woman.

(Book) A brilliant, troubled scientist reminisces about his school days, before being evicted from his island home.

(Movie) On his last night in New York, a young man has trouble reaching his girlfriend. 

(Book) A man committed to an institution escapes, takes a long drive, and decides to kill his brother. 

Comments

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

(Movie) On his last night in New York, a young man has trouble reaching his girlfriend.
"Cloverfield"

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Cloverfield it is. I'm perversely proud of that one, actually.

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

All of them are nice stumpers, actually. Kudos!

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

Um... is #3 "Jurassic Park"?

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

Hee hee... and (Book) A brilliant, troubled scientist reminisces about his school days, before being evicted from his island home could be The Island of Dr Moreau, I suppose...

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

I guessed the same thing, but the browser ate my reply.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Close. I always forget to mention that it's a very recent novel. The author is fairly local as well.

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Then it must be Soon I Will Be Invincible, although I'd initially thought of Moreau, too.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

No it isn't. It's a movie I think you might have in your library. I know we have it in ours.

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

I am fascinated by #4, but have no idea what it could be.

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Ooo! I know the last one, but I'll give someone else a shot. I KNOW others on this list know it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That shows up as a subplot in "Arsenic and Old Lace", though the bad brother isn't actually committed beforehand (just wanted).

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Oh, these are fun. I'm going to give them numbers, because I don't want to copy the whole over. ^_^ Cloverfield was especially brilliant!

#2 pings as Superman for me, given the "businessmen" aspect.

Ah hahahaha, #1 is Kill Bill.

#4 is driving me crazy. I'll be back. ^_^

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Yes, and yes! you get a cookie!

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

Ah! Ah! 4 is Kiki's Delivery Service! I kept racking my brain over witch movies (even looking at my own DVD collection), and this finally came to me. Well played, sir.

I like this game! ^_^ Now I'm setting my sights on #3, which is also making me slightly mental.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Again, yes. And with Three, it's once again looking at things in as twisted a light as possible.

[(Anonymous)]

Not only had I never heard your first example, the one everyone is supposed to have heard of, I have no idea what it refers to, or any of the other ones.

I am having the worst brain day ever.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

I am having so little brain I didn't even realize I wasn't logged in.

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

(Book) A dwarf cop stalks a married woman.

A Civil Campaign, by any chance?

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Komarr, surely.

[sakon76.livejournal.com]

Hmm, point. She was widowed by A Civil Campaign. But ACC somehow has more of the "stalker" feel to me.... *shrug*

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Komarr it is. I was a little iffy on that one, actually.