Try to guess a previously unsuccessfully guessed bad movie blurb-- ‘@’ the writer of the bad blurb you’re trying to guess so they can respond as to whether it’s correct or not. Once a bad blurb has been guessed correctly, it’s off the table.
Then contribute your own bad movie blurb. Write a blurb that’s technically accurate, but misleading, humorous or sarcastic, as if, say, it’s written in the viewpoint of someone incredulous that such a movie was ever made. A meta-example from the original thread:
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
(The Wizard of Oz)
Here are a few I wrote that hadn’t been guessed yet in the original thread to get started:
Gigolo and prostitute become friends with benefits, with a side helping of racism.
Two emotionally stunted, mentally ill man-children who like to cosplay get in a fight.
Christmas story about a businessman with a bad attitude who treats his employees and family badly, but has his holiday spirit restored through supernatural intervention.
The other oft-parodied Christmas story where supernatural intervention is involved.
BTW, the game requires a guess and a new contribution. The rules may need tweaking, since what if someone gets it wrong and tries to guess more than once-- do they have to post another blurb of their own every time they guess? Things could get messy that way.
Let’s say, every first guess of a blurb, you need to contribute a blurb of your own as the price of guessing. Then, if you’re wrong, you’re free to guess again, without another blurb of your own, until it’s guessed correctly.
I’m thinking that has to be It’s a Wonderful Life, but I’m not entirely sure it fits the blurb-- there are two businessmen, and one treats his employees badly, while the other has his holiday spirit restored by an angel.
Unless you mean George Bailey treating people badly for the few hours before he is on the bridge. I can’t think of him specifically treating his employees badly, though.
This blurb is genuine, which is to say that back in the day, the schedule in the newspaper actually described the plot of the movie thus:
Witches make trouble for a Scottish king and his wife.
Yep, It’s a Wonderful Life it is. Sure, it wasn’t a very long duration, but George was pretty shitty to several townsfolk and family members between the loss of money and the plunge off the bridge. And he was pretty harsh to his Uncle Billy, who could be considered his employee, after Billy lost the money. Not that George was wrong— Uncle Billy was kind of a stupid drunken fool.