My bro and I have been playing this by email today.
The exercise: sum up a movie, using up to five words, punning if you can.
King Kong: Big gorilla goes ape.
Jaws: Toothmarks confound municipal disbelief.
Withnail & I: Aspiring actors lose the plot.
Anyone else care to participate?
Pulp Fiction: Of sequence killings out told
Trainspotting - Heroin addict off the rails
Titanic - Boat sinks - get over it.
StG
Signs: Sound, no fury, signifying nothing.
Star Wars: Cool stuff happens
The Empire Strikes Back: Cooler Stuff Happens
Return of the Jedi: Return of the Cool Stuff
The Phantom Menace: Cool Stuff with Lame Jokes
Attack of the Clones: More Cool Stuff, but Good
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Essence of Movie
For the Star Trek series:
TMP: Old space probe causes problems
TWOK: Old lunatic causes problems
TSFS: Dead Vulcan must be found
TVH: Get whales to help us
TFF: Found God. Oops, wrong one
TUD: Save Klingons or we die
GEN: Crazy scientist yearns for past.
FC: Help Cochrane start it all
INS: Help pretty aliens defeat ugliness
NEM: Send in the clones.
Blair Witch Project: Shit. Give my money back.
Oh, well. Whatever.
The Usual Suspects: Spacey is Keyser Soze.
O, Brother Whereart Thou: Hilarious antics of escaped convicts.
Memento: Trust your instincts…maybe.
American Pie: Eventually, you’ll get laid.
Raising Arizona: LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!
But seriously…
Raising Arizona: Kidnapped kid kids with Cage.
Rocky II Lose, train, win
Rocky III Lose, train, win
Rocky IV Lose, train win
Hoosiers Lose, train, win
Color of Money Lose, train, win
Youngblood Lose, train, win
Days of Thunder Lose, train, win
99.9% of every sports movie ever made: Lose, train, win
Rudy: Samwise joins the Fightin’ Irish.
Blazing Saddles: Cowboys horse around.
All Woody Allen Films These Days: Young woman gets a Woody.
Gone With The Wind: I don’t give a damn.
Star Trek The Motion Picture: Where Nomad has gone before.
The Crying Game: Jay’s a girl’s name too
Damnit! Some of us still haven’t seen that movie. Thanks just fucking lots, Juanita.
The Mothman Prophecies: The book sucks, too.
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:Nice kid tours confectionary, inherits it.
Poltergeist: Suburban family plagued by ghosts.
The Others:
They’re dead but don’t realize.
The Sixth Sense:
He’s dead but doesn’t realize.
Animal House:
Drunken Delta’s get their revenge.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone:
Magical British kid defeats villain.
Alien: Crew gets their asses kicked.
Aliens: Marines get their asses kicked.
Alien3: Prisoners get their asses kicked.
Alien: Resurrection: You get the picture, already.
Amelie: Funny French femme finds friendship
Swimming to Cambodia: Silly, serious Spalding spins stories
The Color of Money: Cruise crushes cues, captures championship
Star Wars: Luke says, “The Force rocks!”
Empire Strikes Back: Vader asks, “Who’s yo’ daddy?”
Return of the Jedi: Yoda says, “Kick his ass.”
Phantom Menace: Vader-to-be says “Whoopeeeeee!”
Attack of the Clones: Yoda talks, then kicks ass.