Till the one day when the lady met this fellow
And they knew it was much more than a hunch,
That this group would somehow form a family.
That’s the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
The Brady Bunch,
That’s the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
The Brady Bunch.
It’s kind of like Spice World - this band has a concert that night, but they all wander off and go make fun of random people and stuff. Also, one of their grandfathers is there, and he’s this dirty old man.
They really are a good band, though, I think you’d like them. Kind of poppy, but catchy.
There’s this movie with Paulie Shore …
but, I’ve said too much already.
Big hungry fish ruins tourism.
It’s Snakes! On A Plane!
Wait a minute…
Total Recall - I can’t remember the plot. 
Total Recall - Is it real or Memorex? I think this sums it up completely.
Groundhog Day - This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. This is something only a groundhog would enjoy. Let me repeat. …
If you liked that you’ll love Groundhog Day. If you skipped down to here, you’d best skip Groundhog Day.
The Postman - The bright point of everybody’s day is getting the mail, and watching the Sound of Music.
Water World - This is a very wet movie. The opposite of Dune. This movie would be improved if the people at least received mail and watched the Sound of Music. The star of the film collects mud and sells it to people. The fact that there is a market for mud should warn you off if you haven’t already been.
Brigadoon - Now you see it. Now you don’t. A Scottish town that can’t be found, more than once a century. To stay one night, is to stay forever, so be sure you’ve got it right.
Lots of music, girls in skirts and guys in skirts. Only the dogs don’t wear skirts. No one there wears short shorts. Don’t watch if you can’t stand plaid or skirts. That damn near kilt me to do that review.
A convicted murderer and the rest of his hillbilly family go to California to pick fruit.
Princess Bride: A grandfather reads a bedtime story to his sick grandson.
Anchorman: A comedy about sexual abuse in the workplace, animal abuse, the mentally handicapped, and gang violence.
The Swiss student’s grandson finds his grandfather’s diaries, makes a new friend, named Abby, who is a song-and dance man. Eventually the grandson and his friend swap wives.
A bad 70’s sci-fi TV show gets re-made, but they change the one cool thing about the old show. The robots no longer look like robots, but instead like look like regular people. And they changed a bunch of characters from men to woman. It is brought to us by one of they guys that worked on Voyager.
Battlestar Galatica
I don’t see how any of these make it sound stupid. They just boil it down to an extreme degree of over-simplification, but it doesn’t make it sound good/bad/stupid/anything in particular. The idea here is that when people are dissing a movie/book/etc they didn’t like, they will describe it to you (often unfairly) in a derisive way that makes it sound lame as hell. I posit that just about anything, no matter how good, can be described in such a way as to seem lame and stupid. That’s what we’re trying to do here.
Also, some of you guys aren’t telling what it is you’re summarizing, which kind of defeats the point. Despite one person saying it would be fun to make it so, this thread isn’t a guessing game.
Linty Fresh: I have never seen Flash Gordon but now I want to. That was hilarious
Similarly, Marlitharn, I have no idea what you were describing but now I want to see it or read it or whatever.
Eutychus, great summary of 2001
Bahahaha! (except that technically you were supposed to summarize something you like. Unless… that means… :eek: no!!! say it isn’t so!)
There’s this spaceship, see, that’s been gone a really, really long time. And then it crash lands on a planet. The guys get out and walk and walk and walk until they come to a cornfield and then they get captured by these big gorillas with guns on horseback. And then they get taken back to the gorilla-city, but there’s also orangutans and chimpanzees that talk. Some stuff happens and this one guy and his hot as shit but mute girlfriend escape and ride up the beach until they see a statue. The guy then REALLY overacts.
Please state the name of whatever it is that you are summarizing. If you really feel it needs to be super-secret then just put it in a spoiler box.
This is obviously Beach Blanket Bingo.
Ha ha very funny. Look, I know that one was obviously Mystic Pizza, but the general trend of not saying what they are is not good. Not everyone has read/seen even every common book/movie. I didn’t intend this thread to be a guessing game (though it might make a good thread, if someone wanted to start it).
Maybe you just don’t realize your own brilliance.
Sorry, Opal.
This was The Grapes of Wrath.
There’s this snot-nosed, whiny little kid in New York who feels sorry for the homeless bums who hustle chess in some park. His dad teaches him to play, and he starts beating his dad. Then his dad gets all pushy and makes him compete in tournaments, even though he’d rather just stay home and mope. The dad also hires a tutor for the kid, a burned-out and pissed-off former chess great, who warns the dad that chess is a dead-end street - witness the homeless bums, many of whom are well-known players in the chess world. Dad pushes the kid anyway, the kid takes it too seriously, then the dad takes it too seriously, then they go to Russia to half-assedly search for Bobby Fischer, who dad says is a total dick but the world needs him anyway. The kid cries, then doesn’t win some big tournament, then gives up on chess. Dad realizes that he was a dick for pushing his kid too hard. The end.
Searching for Bobby Fischer (the book, which was better than the movie)
A bullied kid goes off to a boarding school, where some of the kids regard him as a hero, some regard him as a kook, and others regard him as a threat to their way of life, so the bullying continues. He finds out that some murderer is looking for a magic rock that is kept at his school. The kid and his friends, though sheer pluck, make their way past a series of challenges that the headmaster of the school thought would foil the murderer, to get to the rock. The rock, it turns out, is in the kid’s pocket and there’s no way he can keep it from the murderer or his accomplice, so the kid’s basically screwed, but the murderer decides that now would be the time to taunt the kid. The accomplice touches the kid and his (the accomplice’s) skin burns, the accomplice dies, the murderer flees, and the kid gives the rock back to the school’s headmaster. Then the kid gets on a train to go back to a place that he doesn’t really consider home.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone