Better Than It Sounds Meme
Stolen from umihebizanomiko! I hear other people are doing it to, but Umi is my official source!
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. A teenage biker becomes a powerful psychic. This is followed by multiple explosions
2. A bunch of amnesiacs, one of whom thinks he's Batman, run around destroying a city with giant robots. Eventually revealed to be inconsequential.
3. A man is let out of prison and is hired as chauffeur and bodyguard to a weird man who's conducting a secret war against another bunch of other weird people. The story is occasionally interrupted for history lessons or stories that are almost completely unrelated
4. Girl pursues a lagomorph into a land ruled by playing cards, bad logic, and nursery rhymes.
5. Kids fight slugs by turning into animals.
6. A group of bored people walk to visit the site where somebody died. On the way, they tell stories in hopes of winning food.
7. A girl has second thoughts about running away from home after her new mom threatens to rip her eyes out.
8. In The Future, a knightly caste make use of sentient, time-traveling dragons to protect their home from rains of alien fungus.
9. Laser tag is Serious Business, Real Time Strategy games even more so.
10. A boy is hit by a curse that should kill him, but it doesn't. Then he sets out to save the world, armed with magic and The Power Of Love.
11. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London.
12. A girl thinks she's in a Gothic romance. Narrated by a Troper.
13. Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by building himself a rocket powered car and becoming a vigilante. His arch-nemesis is a drugged-up clown.
14. Emo Kid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a White Haired Pretty Boy and tries to get his sister to accept him.
15. A group of people have fun playing superhero, until a real superhero shows up and ruins everything.
16. A stomach cramp gets out of hand.
17. Orphan girl travels with two conmen to visit her grandmother she doesn't remember.
18. '80s entertainer is ditched at altar, and gets over this by planning waitress' wedding.
19. A group of historical re-creationists terrify their children with rubber costumes and forbid them from wearing red.
20. Insurance salesman lives humdrum life completely unaware that he's the most famous person on the planet.
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. A teenage biker becomes a powerful psychic. This is followed by multiple explosions
2. A bunch of amnesiacs, one of whom thinks he's Batman, run around destroying a city with giant robots. Eventually revealed to be inconsequential.
3. A man is let out of prison and is hired as chauffeur and bodyguard to a weird man who's conducting a secret war against another bunch of other weird people. The story is occasionally interrupted for history lessons or stories that are almost completely unrelated
4. Girl pursues a lagomorph into a land ruled by playing cards, bad logic, and nursery rhymes.
5. Kids fight slugs by turning into animals.
6. A group of bored people walk to visit the site where somebody died. On the way, they tell stories in hopes of winning food.
7. A girl has second thoughts about running away from home after her new mom threatens to rip her eyes out.
8. In The Future, a knightly caste make use of sentient, time-traveling dragons to protect their home from rains of alien fungus.
9. Laser tag is Serious Business, Real Time Strategy games even more so.
10. A boy is hit by a curse that should kill him, but it doesn't. Then he sets out to save the world, armed with magic and The Power Of Love.
11. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London.
12. A girl thinks she's in a Gothic romance. Narrated by a Troper.
13. Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by building himself a rocket powered car and becoming a vigilante. His arch-nemesis is a drugged-up clown.
14. Emo Kid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a White Haired Pretty Boy and tries to get his sister to accept him.
15. A group of people have fun playing superhero, until a real superhero shows up and ruins everything.
16. A stomach cramp gets out of hand.
17. Orphan girl travels with two conmen to visit her grandmother she doesn't remember.
18. '80s entertainer is ditched at altar, and gets over this by planning waitress' wedding.
19. A group of historical re-creationists terrify their children with rubber costumes and forbid them from wearing red.
20. Insurance salesman lives humdrum life completely unaware that he's the most famous person on the planet.