# Guess the movie from the bad movie blurb **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 1, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579 "2025-08-01T13:16:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/1 "2025-08-01T13:16:10Z")
Inspired by this CS thread: [Write bad movie blurbs for popular film (long intro) s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-bad-movie-blurbs-for-popular-film-long-intro-s/1021465) **The rules:** 1. 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. 2. 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. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/2 "2025-08-01T14:03:49Z")
Is the third one _A Christmas Carol_, or am I going for something too obvious? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/3 "2025-08-01T14:13:47Z")
Yep, that one was an intentional misdirect 😉 Here’s a clue if you need it: 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/4 "2025-08-02T09:55:45Z")
Single mother attempts to raise a family in her isolated dwelling, but a bungling group of soldiers arrive and get in the way of her plans. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/5 "2025-08-02T11:26:01Z")
Some sort of bug hunt, right? Where the bugs mostly come at night…mostly. A city dweller moves to the country, helps the locals with some building work and learns a lot about manure. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/6 "2025-08-02T13:15:23Z")
Hey guys, remember the rules, or else it ain’t a thread game, it’s just a carbon copy of the thread by Irishman that this thread game was inspired by. 1. Guess a previous blurb 2. Contribute your own blurb 3. If your guess is wrong, you can try to guess again without another blurb contribution. Like this: > [@Chelonaut](#): > > Single mother attempts to raise a family in her isolated dwelling, but a bungling group of soldiers arrive and get in the way of her plans. Aliens? Here’s my new blurb contribution: Astronauts have a whale of a time. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/7 "2025-08-02T13:52:39Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Here’s a clue if you need it: > > The _other_ oft-parodied Christmas story where supernatural intervention is involved. 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. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/8 "2025-08-02T15:01:55Z")
Sorry I guess I should have put _Aliens_ on my answer, was just trying to be clever. The second part of my post was my puzzler for everyone to guess. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/9 "2025-08-02T15:42:00Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/10 "2025-08-02T17:53:13Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Astronauts have a whale of a time. Star Trek voyage home * * * “Astronauts stare wide eyed with open mouth at mediocre space scenery for 2/3 of the movie” ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/11 "2025-08-02T17:56:44Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Some sort of bug hunt, right? Where the bugs mostly come at night…mostly. Game over, man! ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/12 "2025-08-03T01:05:55Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Witches make trouble for a Scottish king and his wife. MacBeth? A mentally ill man is wrongly accused of killing off the Earth’s population by another mentally ill man and his psychiatrist. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/13 "2025-08-03T10:54:30Z")
> [@Gr8Kat](#): > > > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > > Witches make trouble for a Scottish king and his wife. > > MacBeth? Yes. That one was fairly easy-- I still wanted to post it, because it seems a very odd way of summing up MacBeth, and it really appeared in print. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/14 "2025-08-05T04:12:49Z")
> [@Gr8Kat](#): > > A mentally ill man is wrongly accused of killing off the Earth’s population by another mentally ill man and his psychiatrist. _12 Monkeys_ “A crazed surfer attacks a beach-side village to surf a break the locals don’t even use.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/15 "2025-08-05T11:53:33Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > “A crazed surfer attacks a beach-side village to surf a break the locals don’t even use.” Apocalypse Now? “An archeology professor does some field work and meets up with an old girlfriend, but otherwise doesn’t accomplish much”. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/16 "2025-08-05T13:41:54Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > A city dweller moves to the country, helps the locals with some building work and learns a lot about manure. No one had a go at mine so I’ll just give the answer, _Witness._ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/17 "2025-08-05T13:53:00Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Two emotionally stunted, mentally ill man-children who like to cosplay get in a fight. Every Adam Sandler film. Although some have more than two. > [@solost](#): > > “An archeology professor does some field work and meets up with an old girlfriend, but otherwise doesn’t accomplish much”. _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/18 "2025-08-05T13:56:06Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Every Adam Sandler film. Although some have more than two. That may be true, but not the movie I intended. > [@Gyrate](#): > > _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ Yep. BTW, the rules again are- guess a previous blurb, add your own blurb. If you guess wrong you can guess again without adding another blurb of your own. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/19 "2025-08-05T13:58:41Z")
Sorry - I’m _still_ angry at both him for making _The Ridiculous Six_ and me for watching it. New blurb: “A middle-aged man abandons his family to go travelling with some people he just met.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579/20 "2025-08-05T14:04:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “A middle-aged man abandons his family to go travelling with some people he just met.” _Close Encounters of the Third Kind?_ “A man and his son go for a walk, and encounter some interesting people along the way who want them to stay for dinner”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-bad-movie-blurb/1021579.md?page=2)