Background: I’m looking up movies and see the description for one that reads:
My first thought is “Why name-drop Christine?” She’s the only named character, which means she should be the focal character, right? But that reads like we should know who Christine is. Almost like a TV show blurb, where every week we see who is up to what.
But this is a one-off movie with no connections to anything I know of. It just feels weird.
Watching the movie, it doesn’t even stress Christine any more than the rest of the ensemble. Armie Hammer and Cillian Murphy get more air time.
TDLR
This bad movie blurb got me thinking and amusing myself. It’s like describing Star Wars as
I mean, it’s accurate, sort of, but leaves out a lot and mysteriously name drops the villain.
Christine or Justine? And what movie–is guessing the movie part of the fun? Is it:
My contribution:
Family drama in which an Italian-American family achieve the American dream. The aging father meets guests and grants favors at his daughter’s wedding, while his son tries to fit into the family business.
You are correct. And that’s a double surprise because the character is Justine but the blurb I just copied said Christine. Or I flubbed when typing it in.
I think you mean “The Godfather”, but I first thought “Meet the Fockers” for some reason.
“Independence Day” - You’ll be gripping your seat with excitement as an Air Force fighter pilot and a cable TV guy use a Windows 95 laptop to hack technology ten thousand years more advanced than hours and somehow breach the mother ship and destroy their entire invasion force.
Um, that was an Apple Powerbook 5300. and the reason why the hack worked was because the Mac OS had been reverse-engineered from the OS of the spaceship they recovered at Roswell
In case it isn’t obvious, the reason the plucky Hoomons used a computer virus to disable the ID4 invaders was to be a homage to War of the Worlds, where a lowly virus killed the Martians.
(Plus Apple OS was adapted from the aliens’ software system.)
…led by two mentors who are known as being ‘good’ and ‘great’ respectively, but turn out to be manipulative con artists with their own selfish agendas.
In real life, I remember there were two completely different trailers for Cocoon, one that emphasized the charming aspect of old people have fun, and one that emphasized aliens that can pull their skin off. Which ever trailer you saw, yoiu were in for a surprise when you went.
An interloper hijacks a vibrant desert community’s religion to manipulate them to serve his political ambitions, leading to a religious jihad and the ultimate destruction of their culture.
