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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 [livejournal.com profile] greenfairyels  

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

3. Half-naked orphan with nobility backstory deals with animals and lost civilizations. Somehow, he doesn't have a beard. Tarzan. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] myworldmytrue 

8. Uptight but independent teacher falls for mopey rich man. Jane Eyre. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] myworldmytrue 

Date: 2010-04-27 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!

Date: 2010-04-27 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myworldmytrue.livejournal.com
Now that I think of it, 12 is most likely Waiting for Godot. :D

Date: 2010-04-27 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!

Date: 2010-04-27 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-picard.livejournal.com
13 sounds like ALF!

Date: 2010-04-27 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-picard.livejournal.com

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

Date: 2010-04-27 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-drace.livejournal.com
Erm... you win a hypnotized cat.

He had a smoking problem, what can I say?

Date: 2010-04-27 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-picard.livejournal.com

LMAO!!!

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

Date: 2010-04-27 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-tilford.livejournal.com
Three is Tarzan. Seventeen is Murder She Wrote.

That's all I could get.

Date: 2010-04-27 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-drace.livejournal.com
DING DING! Nicely done!

Date: 2010-04-27 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-drace.livejournal.com
Or, well... close enough. It was Miss Marple. ;o)
Edited Date: 2010-04-27 05:17 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-27 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenfairyels.livejournal.com
1 - Equal Rites

Date: 2010-04-27 05:52 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-27 06:31 pm (UTC)
thelibraniniquity: (Nick Cutter)
From: [personal profile] thelibraniniquity
4 sounds like George Clooney-era Batman.

Date: 2010-04-27 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-drace.livejournal.com
Ding! Just Batman in general, but yeah, I thought Batman And Robin as well, when I read that.

Date: 2010-04-27 09:01 pm (UTC)
thelibraniniquity: (Phlox: Orgy?)
From: [personal profile] 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

Date: 2010-04-27 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2010-04-28 11:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-drace.livejournal.com
I'm gonna give that to mithrel. Because I'm fair like that. ;o)

Date: 2010-04-27 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-tilford.livejournal.com
...and eight is Jane Eyre.

Date: 2010-04-28 11:31 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-04-27 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taricalmcacil.livejournal.com
Darn, all the ones I knew have been guessed already!

Date: 2010-04-28 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-drace.livejournal.com
That always happens to me!

Date: 2010-04-28 05:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mithrel.livejournal.com
The only one that hasn't been guessed that I know is 5. The Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.

Date: 2010-04-28 11:32 am (UTC)

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