Couldn't help myself...
Stealing this from imma_holiday. It's surprisingly addictive.
Pick 20 titles from any media (movies, video games, literary works, etc.) and find their summaries on Better than it Sounds. Have your friends guess without cheating.
Anime: 4
Film: 6
Literature: 2
Live Action TV: 3
Theatre: 5
(Some of these could count for multiple genres, so this just indicates which section the summary came from.)
1. Some plonker reads a book to his nephew. Or was it his grandson? The Princess Bride (still_ciircee)
2. A multi-cultural couple should get together for love of a vacuum cleaner, but they don't.
3. Pederast terrorizes the French upper crust from underground lair.
4. The weird life and misadventures of a drunk who owns a bookshop, his Cloudcuckoolander assistant/punching bag and their best (and only) friend. Black Books (animus_wyrmis)
5. Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque Negative Space Wedgies. Existence hangs on the outcome.
6. A circus specializing in explorations of aspects of Life, the Universe and Everything...with next to no dialogue. It's All There In The Manual! Cirque du Soleil (zakuro_neko)
7. Shakespearean characters discover gravity and play a game of tennis with questions. They die, but you already knew that. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (still_ciircee)
8. A southern housewife dies. Mind Screw ensues. Also, humans are bastards. Total bastards. Every last one of us. William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (animus_wyrmis)
9. A transsexual rock musician stalks her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to sue him for copyright infringement. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (still_ciircee)
10. The world's nascent chance of salvation is a boy who farms water in a desert and has inappropriate sexual attraction to his sister. He kills millions of enemy soldiers through exploitation of faulty safety regulations. Star Wars (Episode IV) (still_ciircee)
11. The boring lives of a group of people who work in a paper merchant's in Slough. The Office (UK Version) (jengou)
12. Five educated British men make complete fools of themselves on national television until they run out of ideas, at which point their American colleague cuts bits of famous paintings out and moves them in front of the camera. Monty Python's Flying Circus (imma_holiday)
13. Admittedly a Based Very Loosely On A True Story version of Feudal Japan. Samurai Champloo (imma_holiday)
14. A kind English church boy repeatedly rips his arm off to fight a clown. D. Gray-man (technovanilla)
15. Two guys use the same alias to woo shallow girls. Hilarity Ensues. The Importance of Being Earnest (still_ciircee)
16. Man makes fame and fortune by getting himself hit with large pieces of wood.
17. An overly dramatic honor student, a Perky Goth Genki Girl and a bored deity attempt to save the world by killing large quantities of the people living on it. Their sworn enemies include: a possibly autistic detective, a Teen Genius with action figure obsession and a chocolate-loving emo chick boy. Death Note (imma_holiday)
18. God hires Roy Cohn to represent him in a parental abandonment suit.
19. To get some money to her boyfriend, a girl runs and screams. Run Lola Run (still_ciircee)
20. Nomadic tribes travel through the Middle East and North Africa, enduring all kinds of hardships before finally coming to the Promised Land. In the sequel, a Pretty Cool Guy tells everyone how cool it is to be nice to each other but is executed by The Empire, comes Back From The Dead, and Ascends To A Higher Plane Of Existence. In the Distant Finale of the sequel, everyone dies. This is considered to be a positive ending. The Bible (imma_holiday)
Pick 20 titles from any media (movies, video games, literary works, etc.) and find their summaries on Better than it Sounds. Have your friends guess without cheating.
Anime: 4
Film: 6
Literature: 2
Live Action TV: 3
Theatre: 5
(Some of these could count for multiple genres, so this just indicates which section the summary came from.)
1. Some plonker reads a book to his nephew. Or was it his grandson? The Princess Bride (still_ciircee)
2. A multi-cultural couple should get together for love of a vacuum cleaner, but they don't.
3. Pederast terrorizes the French upper crust from underground lair.
4. The weird life and misadventures of a drunk who owns a bookshop, his Cloudcuckoolander assistant/punching bag and their best (and only) friend. Black Books (animus_wyrmis)
5. Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque Negative Space Wedgies. Existence hangs on the outcome.
6. A circus specializing in explorations of aspects of Life, the Universe and Everything...with next to no dialogue. It's All There In The Manual! Cirque du Soleil (zakuro_neko)
7. Shakespearean characters discover gravity and play a game of tennis with questions. They die, but you already knew that. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (still_ciircee)
8. A southern housewife dies. Mind Screw ensues. Also, humans are bastards. Total bastards. Every last one of us. William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (animus_wyrmis)
9. A transsexual rock musician stalks her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to sue him for copyright infringement. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (still_ciircee)
10. The world's nascent chance of salvation is a boy who farms water in a desert and has inappropriate sexual attraction to his sister. He kills millions of enemy soldiers through exploitation of faulty safety regulations. Star Wars (Episode IV) (still_ciircee)
11. The boring lives of a group of people who work in a paper merchant's in Slough. The Office (UK Version) (jengou)
12. Five educated British men make complete fools of themselves on national television until they run out of ideas, at which point their American colleague cuts bits of famous paintings out and moves them in front of the camera. Monty Python's Flying Circus (imma_holiday)
13. Admittedly a Based Very Loosely On A True Story version of Feudal Japan. Samurai Champloo (imma_holiday)
14. A kind English church boy repeatedly rips his arm off to fight a clown. D. Gray-man (technovanilla)
15. Two guys use the same alias to woo shallow girls. Hilarity Ensues. The Importance of Being Earnest (still_ciircee)
16. Man makes fame and fortune by getting himself hit with large pieces of wood.
17. An overly dramatic honor student, a Perky Goth Genki Girl and a bored deity attempt to save the world by killing large quantities of the people living on it. Their sworn enemies include: a possibly autistic detective, a Teen Genius with action figure obsession and a chocolate-loving emo chick boy. Death Note (imma_holiday)
18. God hires Roy Cohn to represent him in a parental abandonment suit.
19. To get some money to her boyfriend, a girl runs and screams. Run Lola Run (still_ciircee)
20. Nomadic tribes travel through the Middle East and North Africa, enduring all kinds of hardships before finally coming to the Promised Land. In the sequel, a Pretty Cool Guy tells everyone how cool it is to be nice to each other but is executed by The Empire, comes Back From The Dead, and Ascends To A Higher Plane Of Existence. In the Distant Finale of the sequel, everyone dies. This is considered to be a positive ending. The Bible (imma_holiday)