Ok, guys, a new challenge:
Link together **three **movie titles this time, and describe the plot.
For example:
**Close Encounters of the Third Man Who Came to Dinner **- An obnoxious extraterrestrial breaks his hip in post-WWII Vienna, and recuperates in a ferris wheel, where he annoys people by whistling a little tune ad nauseum.
Star Wars Platoon Butterfly Effect - A love story between two Stormtroopers in the Empirial army as they struggle with the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy.
Silence of the Rocky Red Dawn
A down and out boxer from the streets of Philly teams up with some plucky high school kids led by a young Patrick Swayze to fight off an invasion of serial killers.
Crouching Rudy, Hidden Dave A lush martial arts epic about a young football player (Sean Astin) who desperately wants to become President of the United States.
Regarding Henry V: The young king of England must cope with the lingering aftereffects of an arrow wound to the head received at the Battle of Agincourt while simultaneously fending off an invasion by lizard-like extraterrestrials.
Sling Blade Runner: A mentally challenged half-vampire/half-mortal hunts replicants.
American Psycho/Beauty/Wedding: A man goes through a midlife crisis and murders a cheerleading squad before marrying one of the corpses.
Galaxy Quest for Fire Walk With Me: The washed-up cast of a cancelled TV show about prehistoric cavemen are caught up in the increasingly twisted events surrounding the death of Laura Palmer.
Silent Running Man: Ah-nold must fight psychopathic killers while trying to save the last forests of Earth while being helped by three cute robots.
Murder by Death of a Salesman: Famous fictional detectives gather to solve the murder of an aging salesman.
George of the Jungle Fever: A wild man from the jungle comes to America and falls for the sistas.
Land of the Lost in Space 1999: While searching for a new planet to settle, a man and his family fall through a black hole and land on a runaway moon overrun by dinosaurs and Sleestaks.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Miles to Graceland: An Elvis impersonator and his robot pals are forced to watched unedited Kevin Costner movies 24/7.
In and Outland: A Federal marshall on a mining colony is forced to confront his sexuality while trying to stop a gang from killing him.
Wow, this is harder than I thought.
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure Planet of the Apes - An animated tale - A scientific expedition discovers gold on Tarzan’s home planet, but on the way there (travelling in highly improbable vessels), the adventurers travel back, forward or perhaps sideways through time and find the place overrun by talking primates.
The Other Side of Midnight Express: While in a Turkish prison for smuggling heroin, a young American falls in love with a dashing pilot.
Batman and Robin Hood: Men in Tights: The Dark Knight goes to Sherwood to kick ass and dance.
The Superman of a Thousand Faces: A talented alien actor from a dead world comes to Earth and is forced to live in his tenement after mistreating the tenants.
Time After Timecop and a Half Baked: HG Wells and Jean Claude Van Damme travel back and forth through time to help Jack the Ripper stop Burt Reynolds from making a bad movie with a small black kid, but fail after getting stoned and ending up in jail.
I Want to Live and Die in LA Story: Steve Martin is an LAPD cop whose partner is killed, who swears revenge on the killer, but becomes distracted by a talking traffic sign that helps him win the love of a barhopping English woman who winds up framed by the killer for the crime and sent to the gas chamber.
um… Pssst… Mr. Blue Sky
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I’m in the wrong thread!
At least the third one in post #10 and fourth in post #8 fit, then.
Here’s one I came up with in an earlier thread:
Who’ll Stop The Rain Man of La Mancha? - Vietnam veteran Sancho Panza becomes autistic and gets conned into helping his buddy Donny Quixote smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with Donny’s girlfriend Dulcinea when the deal goes sour. Quixote ODs and hallucinates windmills taunting him as he dies.
The Great Escape From [A] New York Minute: rampaging theater patrons, angry about the money they wasted on the Olson twins’ first feature film, flee the theater and…uh…rescue the Donald Pleasance.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day of the Dead Man Walking: zombies! Robots! Sean Penn! Plot? We don’t need no steenking plot!
And one from the other thread…
Dangerous Groundhog Day of the Dead: Ice Cube thought he could relax once he had defeated the zombies, only to find that they come back - day after day after day after…