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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 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. American Gods @ skaryma
2. Three Italian history geeks set out to defraud conspiracy theorists. One of them dies of cancer because the Qabala somehow penetrates his cell walls, and the second one witnesses the third one killed by a conspiracy group they had invented over the right to take over the world with a non-existent secret plan based on a laundry list. Foucault's Pendulum @ bonebird
3. A man beats himself up. Lots of people think this is a good idea. Fight Club @ mertondingle
4. A man dreams about going on a quest to climb a mountain that no one has ever seen so he can blackmail the gods into taking him to a city that he saw in a dream within a dream. (Actually, this one isn't better than it sounds.)Dream-Quest Of The Unknown Kadath @ bonebird
5. A girl learns philosophy from a book about a girl learning philosophy to escape a book about philosophy being read by the original girl, who as the reader knows, is also a character in a book about philosophy. Sophie's World @ littlemiss_aj
6. A stammering cripple pretends to be retarded so his family doesn't murder him. Becomes king of the world in the sequel. Oh, and incest! I, Clavdivs @ kerihan
7. A man searches for a magic feather that contains a virtual world that contains another magic feather that contains another virtual world where he must relive his worst childhood memories in order to swap his pet tentacled alien monstrosity for his long lost sister. (This makes as much sense as the original work.) Vurt @ bonebird
8. A man is forced to climb Mount Rushmore thanks to a figment of the CIA's imagination. North by Northwest @ telekine
9. Woman pursues man who wants to be a woman. There's also a jailbreak.
10. A guy tries to find his old friend in Vienna. Only succeeds after he stops looking. The Third Man @ skaryma
11. A faceless detective, an overweight loser, a Smurf coloured bald guy, a chick with mommy issues and a former Hitler Youth mourn the loss of a Robert Downey Jr. look alike and wonder if they'll get screwed because of it. Watchmen @ mertondingle
12. Man defies his main purpose in life.
13. Super-centenarian travels to New York to claim a prize. Highlander @ angrylemur
14. The tale of the return of an important religious leader, but this time he has to use kung-fu to save Ottawa's lesbian community from vampires. A luchador helps him. Also, it's a musical. Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter @ telekine
15. Incredibly tall man repeatedly prevents his almost-as-tall employer from marrying. His reward usually comes in the form of destroying the garments of his employer. Jeeves and Wooster @ notcrazy_honest
16. Obviously insane rich white guy with a compulsion to label everything lives with a younger guy. They both put on tights and go out looking for other men in tights so they can rough them up. Batman @ mertondingle
17. Vampire with a conscience works as a night cop, dates a mortician, and goes through a series of partners and captains. Also, he kills his vampire sire, who goes on to host a late-night radio show of some sort. Forever Knight @ seanchaidh
18. A drama about life in Italy, as seen through the eyes of two soldiers. Rome @ angrylemur
19. He's an ageing alcoholic frustrated academic singleton. He's a much younger family man from the north. Together they fight crime.
20. An elderly female author moonlights as a homicide investigator in her idyllic hometown and on the road. The Author is a lovely woman, but an astonishing number of her friends, relatives, and neighbours die every year, such that her hometown has a murder rate 3 times that of Detroit in 1974. Murders are solved through keen observation skills, clever verbal traps, and convenient confessions.Murder, She Wrote @ kerihan
1. 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. American Gods @ skaryma
2. Three Italian history geeks set out to defraud conspiracy theorists. One of them dies of cancer because the Qabala somehow penetrates his cell walls, and the second one witnesses the third one killed by a conspiracy group they had invented over the right to take over the world with a non-existent secret plan based on a laundry list. Foucault's Pendulum @ bonebird
3. A man beats himself up. Lots of people think this is a good idea. Fight Club @ mertondingle
4. A man dreams about going on a quest to climb a mountain that no one has ever seen so he can blackmail the gods into taking him to a city that he saw in a dream within a dream. (Actually, this one isn't better than it sounds.)Dream-Quest Of The Unknown Kadath @ bonebird
5. A girl learns philosophy from a book about a girl learning philosophy to escape a book about philosophy being read by the original girl, who as the reader knows, is also a character in a book about philosophy. Sophie's World @ littlemiss_aj
6. A stammering cripple pretends to be retarded so his family doesn't murder him. Becomes king of the world in the sequel. Oh, and incest! I, Clavdivs @ kerihan
7. A man searches for a magic feather that contains a virtual world that contains another magic feather that contains another virtual world where he must relive his worst childhood memories in order to swap his pet tentacled alien monstrosity for his long lost sister. (This makes as much sense as the original work.) Vurt @ bonebird
8. A man is forced to climb Mount Rushmore thanks to a figment of the CIA's imagination. North by Northwest @ telekine
9. Woman pursues man who wants to be a woman. There's also a jailbreak.
10. A guy tries to find his old friend in Vienna. Only succeeds after he stops looking. The Third Man @ skaryma
11. A faceless detective, an overweight loser, a Smurf coloured bald guy, a chick with mommy issues and a former Hitler Youth mourn the loss of a Robert Downey Jr. look alike and wonder if they'll get screwed because of it. Watchmen @ mertondingle
12. Man defies his main purpose in life.
13. Super-centenarian travels to New York to claim a prize. Highlander @ angrylemur
14. The tale of the return of an important religious leader, but this time he has to use kung-fu to save Ottawa's lesbian community from vampires. A luchador helps him. Also, it's a musical. Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter @ telekine
15. Incredibly tall man repeatedly prevents his almost-as-tall employer from marrying. His reward usually comes in the form of destroying the garments of his employer. Jeeves and Wooster @ notcrazy_honest
16. Obviously insane rich white guy with a compulsion to label everything lives with a younger guy. They both put on tights and go out looking for other men in tights so they can rough them up. Batman @ mertondingle
17. Vampire with a conscience works as a night cop, dates a mortician, and goes through a series of partners and captains. Also, he kills his vampire sire, who goes on to host a late-night radio show of some sort. Forever Knight @ seanchaidh
18. A drama about life in Italy, as seen through the eyes of two soldiers. Rome @ angrylemur
19. He's an ageing alcoholic frustrated academic singleton. He's a much younger family man from the north. Together they fight crime.
20. An elderly female author moonlights as a homicide investigator in her idyllic hometown and on the road. The Author is a lovely woman, but an astonishing number of her friends, relatives, and neighbours die every year, such that her hometown has a murder rate 3 times that of Detroit in 1974. Murders are solved through keen observation skills, clever verbal traps, and convenient confessions.Murder, She Wrote @ kerihan