Tasks / What Was It About Again?
Write a misleading review for a famous film, focussing on all the unimportant bits and missing out any relevant plot points. For instance, The Wizard Of Oz was all about the dog, or Blade Runner's main character was an eskimo with an eye fetish.
Make other people try to guess what film you're describing, bonus points if you can send them on completely the wrong track while stil describing the original film.
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Created by Haberley Mead
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...I'm desperately trying to work it out - any clues?
The only thing that springs to mind here is Leon, but that's kind of hugely too obvious.
Oh Scarlett, proving your superhuman amount of awesome once again.
I've got one:
A scientist has overcome physical disability and established himself at the forefront of his field: research into an unprecedented technological advance in transportation. He is also a respected professor, and sometime match-maker. Pursuant to a letter from his estranged nephew, who has disappeared and is clearly in distress, the scientist sets out to investigate. This investigation re-unites him with some former students, and leads him to discover that aliens have perfected the very technology that he has theorized about for years. It is the alien leader who has abducted the scientist's nephew and used him as part of yet another scientific experiment. Upon confronting the alien leader, the scientist learns that his nephew met with a brutal end. The leader's behavior grows increasingly erratic, and the scientist must compromise his integrity to indulge the leader's whims and histrionics. Luckily, the leader is killed in a mutiny, and the rebellious aliens leave the scientist and his students physically unharmed (though emotionally shaken).
Wait, it is supposed to be a review or a plot summary?
I meant to write 'synopsis' rather than 'review' in the task description, but couldn't think of the word at the time.
Ah! Everybody else understood... I'm just retardedly pedantic.
Oh Anna, you're not pedantic at all!
Edit: on reading that back I realized it might sound like I'm sarcastically inferring that she is pendantic, which wasn't my intention at all. I was really honestly saying she wasn't pedantic, and trying to be comedically snarky by not mentioning the retarded part. I apologize if anyone thought I was actually trying to say that A-1 was in any way pedantic.
No one wants to guess? I *know* you all have seen this movie.
I am desperately furrowing my brow at it, but nothing's coming... I feel like it should be something X-Men related, but it isn't...
I was thinking Back to the Future until the whole alien thing came in...
Ah, but recall that the scientist is not the main character...although he is the man who began it.
When she first posted it I thought it was The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai across the 8th Dimention, but it doesn't fit exactly, and I have been all over the map from The Fly to Star Trek: First Contact. I even thought about Enemy Mine for a bit there. I almost convinced myself it was E.T. for awhile, but I'm still at a loss. I haven't stopped thinking about it though.
Back to the Future + Musical Numbers + Aliens = ....
D'oh! I can't remember the Hindi name...
No, it's not Koi Mil Gaya. Plus technically that's Flowers for Algernon + ET. But you get awesome points for thinking it's bollywood. (It's not.)
You have made a step to the right direction, however.
yah... that's what i was thinking of.... 'cept it took me awhile to stumble upon it, while i was convinced that shahrukh khan was in it, not stephen colbert's hindi alter-ego...
so... starship troopers?
No form of transportation in Starship Troopers. Or kidnapped nephews.
Woah. Woah there. Much as I do love Stephen Colbert, Hrithik Roshan is the Hindi alter-ego of the love-child of Elvis, Carey Grant, and Gene Kelley (with some *devastatingly handsome* and *completely ripped* and *extra thumbs* thrown in).
Stephen Colbert has a certain...naive charm. But no muscle.
This made me clap my hands with glee.
Thanks, caro.
misce stultitiam consiliis brevem,
dulce est desipere in loco.
yesss, thet's horece-a. in my-a lungooege zee vurk ves trunsleted quooeete-a neecely by a mr. hurty flurty cherles vreeght:
"Sereeuoosly, noo, poot ooffff ell thuooght ooff cust und dellyeeng,
Remember deeth's derk boorneeng, und vheele-a zeere's steell teeme-a,
Meex up yuoor veese-a veys veet a beet ooff fully;
A leettle-a fuuleeshness is sumeteemes sveet.”
Rippling Colbert muscles, Latin (Horace, no less!) charmingly translated into Swedish...*swoon*
Best thumb war, EVER:
Hrithik the Thumbs
vs.
Thumnitus the Scarlett, ruler (in absentia) of kitchendom
It wouldn't be great in the sense of an evenly-matched fight. It would be great in the sense of I would be convulsing with pleasure the whole time.
(There were no hints in this comment. There *have* been hints in previous comments...I have faith that someone in SF0-land is as ridiculously obsessed with this movie as I am.)
It's The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I feel dumb for not getting it sooner.
Like I wasted all of my high school years at the Nuart for nothing.
"The man who began it" Damn it Janet that clue was so blatant!!! Grrr...
OK, I have one.
A man tries to make amends with his estranged son, in the hopes that the son will help run the family business. He must struggle against his son's teacher, who has been trying to convince the son that what the father does is worth rebelling against. The son ultimately winds up using teddy bears to help sabotage his father's latest project. Meanwhile, the man's daughter - who shares her brother's radical political views - winds up falling in love with her brother's good friend.
Hah. Good guess, but not what I was thinking of.
Tricky, Doktor.
That's Star Wars you describe there. Pretty much the entire original trilogy, but Return of The Jedi specifically.
{EDIT: Haberley got me beat}
This is a tragedy based on one man's constant pursuit of perfection. Born with a physical disability, he has pushed past all stigmas and made a success out of his life. He's a well respected man who is a talented scientist, sword-fighter, inventor, political consultant, and man of action, his latest invention is a machine thathas taken his half of his life to design and build, which has the potential for huge scientific and philosophical ramifications, and thus spends most of his free time testing and gathering data based on its operation and performance. The geo-political landscape of the time makes it difficult for his work and he must keep it all secret. All of his work is ended when he is tragically murdered by a misguided, revenge hungry, deluded, long forgotten acquaintance from his distant past.
Is it The Princess Bride? For if it is, you receive bonus epic points for taste.
Good guess, that is indeed the film in question.
Of the infinite great lines from that movie, my favorite is, "We are men of action. Lies do not become us."
simplistic, if you ask me. the real story was far more fun.
Obviously. Read the task description again, there Wes.
This is the story of an every man who is happy and content to go to work every day, and work a job to make money to pay his rent to continue the cycle. His boss and owner of the business is a bit... odd. But every once in awhile this boss takes him with him on his crazy trips and that makes life that much better and fun. He may not understand his whacky boss, or why he brings the things he brings into the office, but life isn't dull with him around and at least now he dresses better because of having this strange boss in his life. And that's not at all bad.
I'm glad you like this game, Lincoln, thanks to this wall of comments I'm glad I thought it up. As for the movie though, no clue.
Sorry, I didn't see that guess until just now. And also sorry because that is not the correct answer.
It all started out with a man. She was a regular girl living a regular life, sure she was a little strange and did things a little off of what we'd call 'normal' but she had her routine. Until she met the guy that would change her life forever. When she first saw him, he was just like every other guy she'd ever met, normal. A little fucked up, but normal. But there was something about this guy, something different. She found herself drawn to him and though she tried to avoid it, she found herself falling in love with him. Before she met him, her life was sad and miserable, and it took all of her strength not to find exciting ways to kill herself, but since she met him, she had someone to share her misery with, someone who was maybe a little more fucked up than she was. She finally found the adventure that her life was missing. There were of course problems, there were times when he would ignore her, times when his work would take him away for long periods of time, but through it all she knew there was something special about him, she'd finally found the thing she thought was forever out of her reach, true love. And really, what's a little attempted murder compared to true love?