I had a little insomnia the past couple nights (the kind where you wake up at 2 am and can’t fall back asleep for hours), and to occupy my brain while I was lying awake I came up with this little game.
Googling shows there are a few sites out there that do this (one’s even “Four word movie reviews”), so it’s not original, but I thought it would still be fun to see what you creative dopers come up with.
Rules are simple-- five words, compound words (ex: lightsaber) count as one word, but not hyphenated word pairs (I was going to use “plot-twist” as one word, decided that was cheating).
Here are a few I came up with in the middle of the night. A couple are spoilerish, but none are too new, other than “Oblivion”-- having two little kids we don’t get out much. Some are more synopsis than review, but hey, I was only half awake. I bet you guys’ll come up with better ones! Feel free to improve on movies I already did if you like.
Oblivion
Very attractive movie, nobody home.
OR
Way too much Tom Cruise.
The Godfather
Italian immigrant achieves American dream.
Star Wars Ep. IV, A New Hope
Good versus evil, plus lightsabers.
OR
Should still be episode I.
Looper
Hey, you’re me! Stand still.
The Dark Knight Rises
Bane blathers, breaks Batman’s back.
After.Life
You’re not really dead, stupid.
The Sixth Sense
You’re really, actually dead, stupid.
M. Night Shayamalan movies are good for this–
Signs
Invading aliens? Just add water.
The Village
Blind girl fetches medicine? Really?
OR
Monsters? Olden times? Not really.
OR
You’ll guess both plot twists.
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The Happening**
Attack of the oppressed vegetation.