Archive through October 23, 2001
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Archive through October 23, 2001
Babyruth | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 08:26 am     Anybody interested in playing a game based on the contest I pasted below? ( I received this in an email) We could merge 2 movies or 2 books or 2 TV shows... my creation is posted at the end. ************************************************ Best of Merged Books- a contest- The aim was to merge two classics and create a new and unique book. "Machiavelli's The Little Prince" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is embodied in many delightful and intriguing characters, all of whom are executed. "Green Eggs and Hamlet" - Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing. I would not wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunnery. "Fahrenheit 451 of the Vanities" - An '80s yuppie is denied books. He does not object, or even notice. "Where's Walden?"- Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau in each richly-detailed drawing loses its appeal when it quickly becomes clear that he is always in the woods. "Catch-22 in the Rye" - Holden learns that if you're insane, you'll probably flunk out of prep school, but if you're flunking out of prep school, you're probably not insane. "2001: A Space Iliad"- The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane 10-year war against the Greeks after falling victim to the Y2K bug. "Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi"- Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia. "The Maltese Faulkner" - Is the black bird a tortured symbol of Sam's struggles with race and family? Does it signify his decay of soul along with the soul of the Old South? Is it merely a crow, mocking his attempts to understand? Or is it worth a cool mil? "Jane Eyre Jordan" - Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to lead the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship. "Looking for Mr. Godot"- A young woman waits for Mr.Right to enter her life. She has a loooooong wait. "The Scarlet Pimpernel Letter" - An 18th-century English nobleman leads a double life, freeing comely young adulteresses from the prisons of post-Revolution France. "Lorna Dune" - An English farmer, Paul Atreides, falls for the daughter of a notorious rival clan, the Harkonnens, and pursues a career as a giant worm jockey in order to impress her. "The Remains of the Day of the Jackal" - A formal English butler puts his loyalty to his employer above all else, until he is persuaded to join a plot to assassinate Charles deGaulle. "The Invisible Man of La Mancha"- Don Quixote discovers a mysterious elixir which renders him invisible. He proceeds to go on a mad rampage of corruption and terror, attacking innocent people in the streets and all the while singing "To fight the Invisible Man!" until he is finally stopped by a windmill. "Singing in the Black Rain"- A gang of vicious Japanese druglords beat the sh*t out of Gene Kelly. "Of Three Blind Mice and Men" - Burgess Meredith has his limbs hacked off by a psychopathic farmer's wife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life? "Planet of the Grapes of Wrath" - Astronaut lands on mysterious planet,only to discover that it is his very own home planet of Earth, which has been taken over by the Joads, a race of dirt-poor corn farmers who miraculously developed rudimentary technology and evolved the ability to speak after exposure to nuclear radiation. "Paradise Lost in Space"- Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend eternity in a flying saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and 2 annoying children. "The Exorstentialist" - Camus psychological thriller about a priest who casts out a demon by convincing it that there's really no purpose to what it's doing. ************************************************ OK, here's mine: "How Green Was My Valley of the Dolls": A young Welsh coalminer discovers a hidden talent and is aided by a teacher to take off for Hollywood to explore the empty world of fashion and celebrity. Give it a try! It's fun! |
Soeur | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 03:35 pm     "Gone with the Wind in the Willows" A tale of the antebellum south where a willful toad loses his manor, wreaks havoc and finds the way home again. |
Oregonfire | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 03:59 pm     "Nineteen Eighty For the Boys": Inspired by the success of "Springtime for Hitler," a group of hapless totalitarian thugs take their "song and thwack" act on the road to entertain the military troops overseas. Some laughter, some tears, and a lot of billie clubs. |
Oregonfire | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 04:15 pm     "The Ten Hobbits of Highly Influential People": An adventurous bunch of hobbits go in search of the fabled ring of yore, only to find themselves serving breakfast in bed and cleaning toilets at the White House. |
Babyruth | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 07:52 pm     ROFLOL!! These are great, Soeur and Oregonfire! Keep 'em coming- I'm going to try to add some more of my own. Maybe I'll try TV shows. |
Soeur | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 09:00 pm     "The Big Easy Rider" Down in the Lousiana swamp and into the heart of New Orleans our two anti-heroes meet their match. Mix a sultry siren, Captain America, hippies on Harleys, a big score and you have one wild ride |
Zeyna | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 09:17 pm     "One flew over the Matrix": A computer hacker learns from rebels in a mental hospital about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against a nurse. |
Soeur | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 09:18 pm     "Fritz the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" More cat scratch fever southern style. With Big Daddy, his fat cigar and Bridge and his luscious wife; this movie will make you keep on truckin'! |
Zeyna | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 09:57 pm     "Good Will Taxi Driver": A psychotic cab driver, obsessively cruises the streets, helping customers solve complex math problems. Perfect flick for any first date! |
Donut | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 10:33 pm     Big Brother Where Art Thou- a group of 12 crazy hairy southern rednecks live together for a three month odyssey singing their way thru zany criminal sprees. |
Donut | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 10:37 pm     Searching for Bobby Fischer King of Comedy--The saga of a chessplaying boy genius who grows up to become a crazy alcholic discjockey who kidnaps Jerry Lewis so that he can play chess, drink and tell jokes with him in his mother's basement |
Donut | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 10:45 pm     Groundhog Days of our Lives- an unfortunate man has to live out his days watching the same melodramatic stories played out day after day after day after day.... babyruth, this is a great thread! at first when i read your samples, i thought there couldnt be any more than those, but then it starts to get you and you cant stop! i should tell the movie show on radio to use these as a game on the radio show. Actually it could be fun here to give the plot and have people guess the title! |
Donut | Friday, October 19, 2001 - 10:55 pm     Wait Until Dark Shadows-- a vampire and a fake rubber bat wait outside a blind woman's refrigerator to attack her. However they realize that they cannot open the refrigerator to see her because they must shun the light, so nothing much actually happens.. oohwoo-scary syncronicity alert: just as i read this to my husband he was actually reading an ad for a "bloodcurdling rubber vampire bat" in an old comic book! |
Oregonfire | Saturday, October 20, 2001 - 03:05 pm     Win Ben Frankenstein's Money: a science experiment gone horribly wrong produces an acerbic game show host with an irrational fear of fire. His condescending put-downs finally anger his contestants so much that they form a torch-wielding mob and chase him out of the television studio and through the streets of Los Angeles. |
Axman | Saturday, October 20, 2001 - 06:28 pm     Meet the Godparents: Ben Stiller has to go meet his girlfriends parents, (who happen to be major crime bosses) and do small favors for them in order to get the godfathers permission to marry his daughter. |
Oregonfire | Saturday, October 20, 2001 - 07:14 pm     Reality Bites the Little Match Girl in the @ss: A group of self-invloved slackers bemoan their sad fate inside of a comfy, warm cafe, completely oblivious to a shivering little girl outside lighting matches to keep warm. |
Oregonfire | Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 01:56 am     The Breakfast Fight Club: A group of unruly teens learns to confront the uncertainties of youth by beating the crap out of each other. |
Oregonfire | Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 02:17 am     A Passage to Indiania: A newly-arrived English teacher causes an uproar at a Hoosier high school basketball game when he swears that he saw the star player double dribble. |
Braveheart61901 | Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 02:41 am     "An Officer and a Gentleman Prefer Blondes" A handsome army officer sweeps mousy factory worker off her feet but then dumps her in favor of a blonde with big pointy boobs. |
Donut | Sunday, October 21, 2001 - 09:40 am     The Goodbye Girl Interrupted-- Richard Dreyfuss's annoying manner and habits drive his female roommate straight to a psychiatric institution |
Kayewer | Monday, October 22, 2001 - 08:50 am     The Hollywood Knight's Tale: Robert Wuhl plays dashing Sir Newbomb Turk, saving the honor of fair maidens and teaching the other knights how to break wind to "Volare." (Hope this isn't too deep). I LOL on the "Lorna Dune" one. |
Donut | Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 10:05 am     The Ed Sullivan Showgirls- "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, tonite, we have a really. really big boobie show!" |
Soeur | Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 10:16 am     "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at Eight" After a mistaken turn in the meandering hillside roads of L.A., Sidney Poitier and his fiance end up at a party attended by the Barrymores. Meanwhile Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn are surprised by the drunken arrival of Kitty (Jean Harlow) & Dan (Wallace Beery). This misguided couple are hitting a rocky patch in their affiar as earlier in the day they argued and Kitty shouted, "I've told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes!" Will Spence & Kate be able to sort things out? |
Donut | Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 10:26 am     Toy Story of Us- Mr.an Mrs. Potatohead's impending divorce really wreaks havoc with slinkydog, piggybank and all the other toys |
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