Because my friends are doing it...

[ladydrace]

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works, put up their summaries from Better Than It Sounds, & have your friends guess (without cheating).

I've tried not to pick any of my main fandoms... but I may have failed....

1. A cranky old lady escorts a little girl to the big city so she can get some magic lessons. They end up saving the world from Eldritch Abominations and discover that the best use of magic is not to use it. Equal Rites. Guessed by greenfairyels  

2. A man beats himself up. Lots of people think this is a good idea. Fight Club. Guessed by myworldmytrue 

3. Half-naked orphan with nobility backstory deals with animals and lost civilizations. Somehow, he doesn't have a beard. Tarzan. Guessed by mrs_tilford 

4. Obviously insane rich white guy with a compulsion to label everything lives with a younger guy. They both put on tights and go out looking for other men in tights so they can rough them up. Batman. Guessed by tli .

5. In The Future, a knightly caste make use of sentient, time-traveling dragons to protect their home from rains of alien fungus. The Pern book series. Guessed by mithrel . Just because.

6. Bloke who dresses like a hobo and drives a banger follows rich celebrities, generally annoying them so much that they confess to crimes just to get rid of him.

7. Nice dead people try to scare living people from a house. Also, a decomposing pervert with an identity crisis falls madly in love with a teenage girl and tries to marry her. Beetlejuice. Guessed by myworldmytrue 

8. Uptight but independent teacher falls for mopey rich man. Jane Eyre. Guessed by mrs_tilford .

9. The world will be saved by a hot girl with weird name. With the assistance of a cab driver and a cross-dressing radio disc jockey. Fifth Element. Guessed by myworldmytrue 

10. A man's teeth fall out, his skin gets awful, and he starts to have trouble with his eyesight.

11. Man arrives home very late after commute from hell and murders unwanted houseguests. And half the staff.

12. Two men have vaguely philosophical conversations while waiting for someone who never shows up. Waiting for Godot. Guessed by myworldmytrue 

13. An intergalactic furball, played by a puppet, takes refuge in a So Cal family home and wants to dine on their pet. Alf. Guessed by mrs_picard . 

14. An adopted orphan sasses his teachers, runs around naked and sets fire to a cat.

15. A retired Marine with a redhead fetish, a lecherous playboy, a malapropping Israeli assassin, a murder mystery writer / computer nerd and online gamer, an old British doctor and a Perky Goth with a caffeine habit work for the US Navy. They Fight Crime! NCIS. Guessed by myworldmytrue 

16. Four students who hate each other live together.

17. Old busybody pokes her nose into other people's business. Miss Marple. Guessed (or close enough) by mrs_tilford 

18. Introverted girl refuses the advances of an unrepentant womanizer. Guy grows a brain and dumps The Vamp. Readers disapprove of both.

19. Orphaned Street Urchin falls in love with Rebellious Princess, seduces her with the help of near-omnipotent comedian and a piece of fabric, and defeats the bad guy by trapping him into a device used for lighting. Aladdin. Guessed by myworldmytrue .

20. Long coat wearing, ghostbusting, goth styled detective in a parable about the dangers of smoking and not having a good exit plan for your afterlife. Has nothing to do with the comic book. Constantine. Guessed by myworldmytrue 

Comments

[myworldmytrue.livejournal.com]

2 is Fight Club, I think.

7 is Beetlejuice

9 sounds like The Fifth Element.

12 could be Good Omens.

15 might be NCIS. I dunno, I haven't actually watched that show, but the description matches.

19 is Aladdin!

20 is Constantine.

Hmm, many of these sound vaguely familiar but I just can't place them!

[myworldmytrue.livejournal.com]

Now that I think of it, 12 is most likely Waiting for Godot. :D

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

2. Ding!

7. Ding!

9. Ding!

12. Di... wait... yes, DING!

15. Ding!

19. Ding!

20. Ding!

You rock at this!

[mrs-picard.livejournal.com]

13 sounds like ALF!

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Ding!

[mrs-picard.livejournal.com]

YAY! What did I win? A washing machine, yes? lol

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Erm... you win a hypnotized cat.

He had a smoking problem, what can I say?

[mrs-picard.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!!

"Sure! Blame the guy in the dress!" XD Lucky and his smoking problem = LOL as well, though! XD

[mrs-tilford.livejournal.com]

Three is Tarzan. Seventeen is Murder She Wrote.

That's all I could get.

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

DING DING! Nicely done!

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Or, well... close enough. It was Miss Marple. ;o)

[greenfairyels.livejournal.com]

1 - Equal Rites

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

DING! :oD

[thelibraniniquity]

4 sounds like George Clooney-era Batman.

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Ding! Just Batman in general, but yeah, I thought Batman And Robin as well, when I read that.

[thelibraniniquity]

I saw a few bits of that movie when they repeated it on telly the other week, so it was 'fresh' in my mind.

And this looks like fun! Might have to try it myself! :D

[mrs-tilford.livejournal.com]

I think number five is part of McCaffrey's Pern universe. (just in case no one else gets it!) Could be Dragonriders of Pern?

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna give that to mithrel. Because I'm fair like that. ;o)

[mrs-tilford.livejournal.com]

...and eight is Jane Eyre.

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Ding!

[taricalmcacil.livejournal.com]

Darn, all the ones I knew have been guessed already!

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

That always happens to me!

[mithrel.livejournal.com]

The only one that hasn't been guessed that I know is 5. The Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Ding!