In this game the last player will have provided the title of their fictitious movie - *don’t *use any real movie titles, please - and based only on that title, you’ll tell everyone what that movie’s plot is about: as for the length of the description, 1-4 sentence summaries should do it.
Then you end your post with the title of your movie for the next player to describe it.
Five-year old Rowena has a dream to cover the world in glitter, just as she covers her pet cats and dogs in it. She imagines a world where everything sparkles, but her single mom dresses in beige, has a beige car and works in a beige office. The new day care center Rowena arrives at is resplendent in grays, and all the other kids are perfect orderly offspring for whom blue violent is a daring choice to color a grape. The day care center operator, Dr. Dullard, however, hasn’t ever had to match wits with someone like Rowena. She inspires laughter and love of color and sparkle in the other kids. Dr. Dullard, who is secretly a dark wizard, calls upon the forces of Heck to deal with the upstart, but is finally defeated when Rowena finally finds a way to open a magic bottle her father left her before he died. Upon the bottle being opened, Larry the Cable Genie emerges and shouts “Glitter Done!”. And the rest is happy bedlam.
The president of the United States calls a press conference and proclaims that the country will now enable new international peace accords dubbed the Zurich Manifesto – they will immediately withdraw troops from trouble spots and dismantle the nuclear program. Public opinion is divided on the new declaration as some call it a bold advancement towards world peace while others think it’s “too much too soon” though everyone generally agrees that this did come from out of nowhere. Secret Service agent and former Special Forces soldier Blake Leonardo is about to go home for the night when he is pulled aside by the first lady. The two once dated briefly years ago and she confides that the president is acting strangely and she doesn’t know who she can trust.
Leonardo believes her but doesn’t grow suspicious until he is pulled aside by a Secret Service supervisor, who isn’t in his direct chain of command, and tries to get him to say what the first lady was talking about. Leonardo begins to question the supervisor’s reasons when two other agents attempt to subdue him, a fight breaks out in the White House which escalates into a running gun battle along the streets of Washington with the hero eventually escaping by commandeering a civilian car, then dumping it in an alley and getting a step ahead of his pursuers. Knowing that his home will certainly be under surveillance, Leonardo heads to an old Army buddy’s office. His buddy is now working in cyber security and starts researching “Zurich Manifesto” on the dark web until he realizes that his searches are being monitored. He does provide a clue just as more agents bust into the office.
Leonardo escapes once again while a news report voice over mentions that a terrorist cell was uncovered in DC and that the first lady had slipped into a mysterious coma. Leonardo tracks the clue and ends up in another battle in an abandoned New Jersey warehouse which ends in explosions. Leonardo then makes his way to Mount Rushmore (homage to North By Northwest) where he uncovers an international cabal who hypnotized the president and is looking to profit by weakening the United States. Leonardo fights his way through the cabal and stops their evil plans. Another voiceover confirms that the president and first lady are now OK while Leonardo walks quietly off into the night.
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Boogerburgers II: The Next Day
Having been fired from Burger Palace in the previous film, Freddie and Digger decide to start their own burger stand based on their own “special recipe.” Things are going swimmingly until Digger’s seasonal allergies subside, depriving them of their “secret ingredient.” Their schemes to infect various friends and family members with severe head colds eventually result in their being pursued as biological terrorists by the FBI. Freddie and Digger see the error of their ways and are hired back at Burger Palace.
Two very elderly ladies (played by Lillian Gish and Bette Davis) meet every fourth month of the year–for the past 133 years–on a small island off the coast of Newfoundland to sample fruit from the pomegranate tree they’ve nurtured since they were tots. A recently-relocated local religious fanatic named Avril sues them for possession of the tree, claiming the fruit is sacred (supposedly, it’s the actual fruit of The Tree Of Knowledge) and wins her case. The old ladies hand over the tree and die of heartbreak that very night. They are both cremated and their ashes are clandestinely mixed into the soil of the tree by the judge who ruled against them. The fruit never tastes the same again.
David Hasselhoff plays EVERY role but one in this 3-hour plus spectacle in which Capt. Quirk of the SS Boobyprize snags heroes from a number of realities in order to stop the evil that is Dark KITT (voiced by William Daniels). The special effects are all created through the use of non-cutting edge green screen technology, and no one has ever heard of CGI. Or stop-motion animation, for that matter.
Greta and Leon both have the same problem: they’re compulsive liars. One day, when Greta is about to go into a Liars Anonymous meeting and Leon is leaving one, they literally run into each other in the street, and a whirlwind romance follows. But will their love survive finding out that Greta isn’t really from NYC and Leon isn’t a French model?
Next: Help Wanted for the Tortured and Haunted
Seth Rogan plays an IT staffer who makes lotsa money until one day a new app makes his entire career obsolete. He’s already blown his money on high-dollar drugs and loose women, so he has to move back in with his smothering ogre of a mother. Desperate for a new career, he answers a “Help Wanted for the Tortured and Haunted” ad online, shows up for the interview, and is placed in a small auditorium along with other desperate job seekers who have similar down-on-their-luck stories. Ian McShane’s character B. L. Zebub comes to the podium and tells the attendees he’s a travel broker for the damned. Souls that have been damned to hell for eternity have paid him enough “soul ducats” (infernal money) to arrange for willing mortals to let the damned borrow their bodies for a week. Rogan thinks it’s all a sham but consents anyway, desperate for money. His damned soul turns out to be Billy the Kid, who wants to rob banks again, but doesn’t realize how much technology changed since his day.
The Tongue of the Dragon
In 1880s Chinatown, Joseph are Ming-Wa are young, in love and worlds apart – he the son of a prospector who struck it rich, she the neglected daughter of a powerful clan of organized criminals. As their families struggle for control of Chinatown, Joseph’s father is killed and Ming-Wa gives her lover her family’s most prized possession: the ancient sword known as the Tongue of the Dragon. With this powerful weapon, Joseph is transformed into the Avenging Dragon Spirit, and wreaks bloody vengeance on the men who killed his father.
A lone dwarf, isolated from his 6 former friends, joins a ragtag rebel group. Their goal - eliminating the monarchy that has blighted the realm. But the rebels are unaware of Doc’s secret - he’s motivated more by the love he lost, than by the political aims of the rebels. When faced with betraying his cause or harming Aurora, what will he choose?
Reginald Stirling Sequel, the dashing private detective, is back in this thrilling tale of a case of murder and mayhem in the hallowed halls of Tepid College. It begins with the murder of a don, a student and a groundskeeper, but soon develops into a darker tale of academic fraud and cricket malfeasance that could rock the foundations of British society.
Jeff Dunham plays himself in a behind-the-scenes mockumentary of his ventriloquist act. It’s revealed that his puppets want to band together to protest hostile working conditions. They can’t perform unless they give written consent to allow Dunham to stick his hand up their asses, they’re packed into suitcases for lengthy times with no bathroom breaks, and they want termite insurance. Since they cant speak unless Dunham holds them, they take the first half of the movie airing their grievances, one at a time. Dunham has to create a union rep puppet, which he makes look like a leech with vampire teeth and calls him Sucky McSuckface. The puppets all manage to speak simultaneously at the end, responding to Sucky’s call for action: SO SAY WE ALL!
In this delightful mix of live action and CGI, a young woman graduates from college and starts a new job in the Big City while her cartoon uterus comments and occasionally gives advice along the way. Returning to her small hometown one holiday, she meets the handsome and just-scruffy-enough local horseshoer but initially disregards him as “small town” despite her uterus’ protests that he’s actually pretty cute. After several heartbreaking romantic misadventures back in the Big City, she finally rushes back home and into scruffy blacksmith’s arms. While in the embrace, Uterus makes a contented comment about love and then hears a similarly contented male’s voice just below.
Swamp Lake got its name from its discoverer, Elijah Swamp, in a seldom explored area of Montana. Elijah’s family settled in that area during the Gold Rush of the mid 19th century and became a self-sustaining community. Whenever government officials arrived to take census or to tell them they had to pay taxes, they mysteriously disappeared. Further investigations revealed no trace of the officials, and none the Swamps would speak of the matter. One day, the heroine, a Nancy Drew type of ambitious entry level cop, wanted to prove she was just as capable of solving difficult crimes as her male counterparts, journeyed to Swamp Lake with her gang of teenage friends and their dog in a van they called the Conundrum Conveyance. They encounter ghosts that were actually Swamps wearing whiteface and images from film projectors, then expose the disguise of the kind little old lady who was actually Elijah’s descendant Elias, and the missing officials are found stacked like cordwood in a cave.
Unhappy, mixed-up Nigel Anne Clarence Prudence “Bobo” Phartuccio (Brad Pitt), discharged from the U.S. Army for excessive flatulence, is hitchhiking across the country when he’s picked up just outside Blawnox, Pa. by a mysterious trucker known only as O (Orson Bean). As the miles fly by, O and Bobo talk about their life experiences and, under O’s gentle questioning, Bobo comes to see that he really should be a she. O reveals, in turn, that he used to be a she. After a wacky abortive kidnapping plot suggested by three alluring sisters (Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman and Alicia Vikander) in Des Moines, O and Bobo reach Los Angeles. In a touching final scene just under the HOLLYWOOD sign, O pledges his life’s savings both to help Bobo get the hormone therapy and surgery he needs and, more importantly, to earn his long-haul trucker’s certificate.
Lando just wants to administrate his Cloud City mining operations and stay out of the Galactic civil war. Lando also just wants to host Cloud City’s 8th annual Space Dance Jam Turbo Throwdown Showdown and everything is going according to plan until an armored bounty hunter shows up followed by several star destroyers. Darth Vader lands in his shuttle demanding that Lando turn over his old friend Han Solo and Lando is forced to split his time appeasing the Dark Lord of the Sith and hosting some funky dance jams. Solo then lands along with his co-pilot Chewbacca, Princess Leia, and a protocol droid and Lando is then forced to split his time between the three parties until it all comes to a head when Vader crashes Solo and company’s dinner and captures them. Luke Skywalker also shows up while Lando still hopelessly tries to keep Vader from interrupting the Showdown until he’s forced to make the announcement that everyone needs to abandon the city. DJ Lobot refuses to stop rocking the joint even though Willow Hood makes off with his boomin’ system. Fett bugs out with Solo, who is now frozen in carbonite, while Skywalker escapes with the rest of the rebels. Vader is about to peruse with his Star Destroyer fleet except they are intercepted by part of the rebel fleet. Space battle and dance off occur simultaneously to the disco Star Wars theme and one of the Destroyers blows up just as the Dance off winner is awarded his trophy.
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The Moist Oysters of James Joyce
In 1919 Dublin, James Joyce (Orson Bean) is tormented by writer’s block. Another writer friend, Fiona (Susan Sarandon), confides that moist oysters, not dry, have always helped her write when nothing else would. Joyce consults with three other writer friends, Devlin Muldoon (Liam Neeson), Patrick Garrity (Gabriel Byrne) and Seamus Sweeney (Samuel L. Jackson), who give him conflicting advice. Having no better option, he tries a dish of moist oysters at his favorite pub and is suddenly propelled into a frenzy of creativity. As the pages fly beneath his racing pen, we see the title of his next masterpiece: The Moist Oysters of Ulysses. Then everything stops, and Joyce, after a long, thoughtful pause, draws a line through all but the last word of the title.
It’s 35 years later and old Hogwarts classmates have fallen on hard times. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) has discovered fame can be a double edged sword and while snorting pixie dust was at first great fun and escape, it has now turned into a life threatening battle with addiction. A gray haired and frumpy Hermione (Emma Watson) is struggling with isolation following her third unsuccessful marriage and has reached out to former nemesis Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton). Malfoy initially tries to conceal the illicit tryst from his spouse, Astoria Greengrass (Jade Olivia), but when the affair is at last discovered, instead of terminating the relationship, she offers to join the two in an a threesome of increasingly bizarre and perverted magical sex acts (visual effects supervisor nominated for Academy Award).
The Mediocre Chill
Aging Baby Boomer Jack (Kevin Costner) abruptly lapses into a coma, prompting his domestic partner, Jeb (Craig T. Nelson) to invite their old college crew to their beach house for one final, farewell get-together. The gang spends a tense weekend getting schnockered on wine and reminiscing about the good old days, in between bouts of listening to whatever old Motown songs are reasonably affordable to license. After his friends have spent an agonizing two days sleeping with each other’s partners, getting into fistfights and/or concluding that their entire lives were a failed attempt to substitute financial security for happiness, Jack awakens from his coma, surprised to discover himself surrounded by friends who, he senses, actually wish he had died.