ITT we poorly describe popular movie plots and other people try to guess them

[az]

oh my god i was just gonna post with some and poppy's second is the same as mine xDDD

it's lost in translation, no doubt inspired by seeing terminal up ^ there?

thrid is donnie darko

OK:

racist old man with sweet ride frames(??) neighbourhood for murder

eta: stellar thread

 

[moonbound]

A retired athlete gets recruited in a game that will decide the fate of a mystical land.

Space Jam

Edit: A guy gets laid off and is completely broke, but manages to lie his way into a position where he meets some people with the talents needed to get him back on his feet, if he can teach them how to use them without being caught.

 

[comatthew6]

Four misfits (a cowboy, a loser, and two Action Girls) have to defend themselves against unrelenting hordes of the undead.

 

[Ace Emerald]

A retired athlete gets recruited in a game that will decide the fate of a mystical land.

Space Jam

 

[Temperantia]

A group of guys walk somewhere and throw something stupid into a volcano.

Lord of the Rings

a teenage boy is plagued with visions of a bunny and obsessions about time travel

Donnie Darko (awesome)

Four misfits (a cowboy, a loser, and two Action Girls) have to defend themselves against unrelenting hordes of the undead.

Zombieland

racist old man with sweet ride frames(??) neighbourhood for murder

Gran Torino

 

[Texas Cloverleaf]

A sacred idol is stolen and a villager is sent to retrieve it from the corrupt, crippled man who stole it. Along the way he finds an estranged former villager who becomes an unwilling accomplice to the villager. People try to kill the villager, the villager goes apeshit and pulls some really cool free running stunts. In between attacks the villager fights in illegal fighting circles for money. In the end the estranged villager dies to save the idol.


EDIT: Good job Az!

 

[az]

you guys are so slow!!

dude takes his kid for a walk

eta: is texas's ong bak??

eta2 - temperantia ^ is right

 

[CaptKirby]

poppy the point was not to explain exactly what a movie is like

a couple of African missionaries board an airplane

everyone is focused on cups and birds

val kilmer kisses dudes, curses

a robot whore distracts an entire city

the nature of banking perplexes a formerly stable man

 

[Nastyjungle]

girl has to go through series of trials to rejoin her father but you aren't sure if any of it really happened at all
(pans labyrinth)

 

[cayr]

Things go wrong when 6 colorful guys try to rob a bank.

 

[Outlaw]

Jackie Chan doesn't want any trouble.

 

[biggie]

a couple of African missionaries board an airplane

val kilmer kisses dudes, curses

Snakes on a Plane?

Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang

Things go wrong when 6 colorful guys try to rob a bank.

Reservoir Dogs, was done already.

Jackie Chan doesn't want any trouble.

Rumble in the Bronx

 

[Temperantia]

girl has to go through series of trials to rejoin her father but you aren't sure if any of it really happened at all

Pan's Labyrinth

a robot whore distracts an entire city

I can't decide between Fifth Element or Metropolis

Reposting mine from Page 1:

Time's told backwards as some guy kills many people because he is mentally dysfunctional and a cop is sort of a dick.

 

[Outlaw]

Rumble in the Bronx

Psst.. it was a trick question. Jackie Chan never wants any trouble!

 

[biggie]

I almost said "every Jackie Chan movie ever" but went a more specific route.

 

[HawkeUsedBlackStorm]

An orphaned young man goes with an elder to overthrow the government, of which his father is high ranking.

 

[Texas Cloverleaf]

Hamlet, circa Walt Disney (GlassAbsol is correct)

A spy attempts to stop nuclear destruction, Wierd Al Yankovic sings the opening title sequence

A guy proves that even kings can bleed (Tempermantia is correct)

An illiterate women who later becomes a nazi has sex with a 15 year old dude who later studies law and observes the women's trial

 

[GlassAbsol]

Vin Diesel crosses the border and finds they are not happy to see him and his friends.

xXx

either that or one of the Fast&Furious films

Two guys and a girl go to some islands, some stones have been nicked by a group of recurring bad guys, some ocean warrior comes out and sings for everyone to calm the fuck down

EDIT:

Hamlet, circa Walt Disney

Lion King

 

[Ampharos]

A scrawny nerd gets killed, comes back to life, and kills a pale half-snake guy.

 

[Nix_Hex]

Hamlet, circa Walt Disney

The Lion King?

A guy with ugly teeth is cryogenically frozen and awakes to save the world from a penis.

A girl eats an apple.

A tribe of primitive bears destroys a troop of high tech soldiers with rocks and logs.

High school boys don't want to be virgins anymore.

 

[verbatim]

A retired athlete gets recruited in a game that will decide the fate of a mystical land.

A group of guys walk somewhere and throw something stupid into a volcano.

Space Jam

Lord of the Rings

An amnesiac pursues his identity and meets an attractive woman while being followed by a corporation.

Bourne series (you may want to tone down the hints, I got this despite having never seen the series)

 

[Texas Cloverleaf]

A scrawny nerd gets killed, comes back to life, and kills a pale half-snake guy.

Harry Potter 7 part 2

The Lion King? Correct, but late

A girl eats an apple.
Snow White

High school boys don't want to be virgins anymore.
American Pie

 

[Wikey]

Temperantia, yours is Memento. No one got my second one yet. Thought my first was harder.

NixHex. 1st is Austin Powers. Third is Star Wars VI.

 

[Temperantia]

A guy proves that even kings can bleed

300

 

[v]

Terrorist brings down totalitarian regime with the power of poetry.

fun thread idea jrrrrrrrrrrrr!!