# MOVIE CHALLENGE: Describe a movie in five words or less

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 29, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-challenge-describe-a-movie-in-five-words-or-less/333136 "2005-11-29T00:05:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-challenge-describe-a-movie-in-five-words-or-less/333136/61 "2005-11-30T05:18:08Z")

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some Coen brothers movies:

**Miller’s Crossing** : Smart ass works crime bosses.  
**Fargo** : Murders in a snowy land.  
**Raising Arizona** : Need a kid? Steal one.  
**The Big Lebowski** : Fuck it Dude, let’s bowl.  
**Intolerable Cruelty** : Wife gonna take your money.  
**The Hudsucker Proxy** : Big dork invents hula hoops.  
**Barton Fink** : Whiny writer neighbor of Satan.

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**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-challenge-describe-a-movie-in-five-words-or-less/333136/62 "2005-11-30T05:25:48Z")

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And now for your animated, CGI special!

**Spirited Away** : Girl loses name, save parents

**Ghost in the shell** : Cyborg and worm fused as one

**Howl’s Moving Castle** :Pretty, but don’t make sense

**Ice Age** : Extinct animals befriend Baby

**Shrek** : Ugly orge saves princess

**Shrek II** : Too many movies rip off

**Monster Inc.** : Forbidden love between man and monster

**Find Nemo** :Fishy Dad looks for son

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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-challenge-describe-a-movie-in-five-words-or-less/333136/63 "2005-11-30T06:02:26Z")

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The Bond series:

Dr. No: Capt. Hook villain establishes template.  
From Russia With Love: Girl fight in purist’s delight.  
Goldfinger: Sisters, Koreans, gadgets, “Pussy”… _ka-ching_!  
Thunderball: Broke “no two brunettes” rule.  
You Only Live Twice: Phoning it in from Japan.  
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Savalas, Rigg, skiiing… and _Lazenby_?  
Diamonds Are Forever: Tiffany cases toupee (just _kidd_ing)  
Live and Let Die: Bond in Harlem… say _what_?  
The Man With the Golden Gun: Assassin story shoots blanks, a_maz_ingly.  
The Spy Who Loved Me: Battle of the sexes, Hamlisched.  
Moonraker: Great teaser stunt; Jaws II.  
For Your Eyes Only: Greek tragedy – nobody keeps decoder.  
Octopussy: Break egg for nuke omelette?  
A View to a Kill: Walken’s full of hot air.  
The Living Daylights: Timothy of Arabia plays cellist.  
License to Kill: Coke kingpins are ground meat.  
Goldeneye: Brosnan’s Bond retires rogue “00”.  
Tomorrow Never Dies: Chinese ally assists Pryce check.  
The World is Not Enough: Stockholm Syndrome plot sublimely ridiculous.  
Die Another Day: Jinxed curtain call fences nostalgia.

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