From taure:

[saviourseph]

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds. WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess

1. Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she runs into and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. The Wizard of Oz (chaobell )
2. Guy named after a penis builds a fortress named after a clitoris and is defeated by a guy named after an erection.
3. Bicycle courier finds himself on the run from extremely ticked-off urbanites. He meets up with a woman keen on hacking people to death with a machete, a slightly mad taxi driver, and his quiet daughter, who take him on a road trip through the countryside. The four encounter a small group of soldiers living in a country mansion who intend to restart the human race. One of them wears a pink apron. 28 Days Later (gunnhildr )
4. A psycho declares war on the government. He may or may not be right to do so. V for Vendetta (gunnhildr )
5. A youth goes looking for a missing parental unit. The game starts off with you shooting out of your mom's vagina into the waiting arms of Liam Neeson. Fallout 3 (yunghustlaz )
6. A creepy blond woman wants to talk to you about birth. You end up killing God. Silent Hill 3 (wrongly_amused )
7. Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression.
8. Washed-up former celebrities deal with their sexual identities on the eve of the apocalypse.
9. One boy must recover his lost memories, the other must conquer his darkness. They accomplish this using trading cards. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (taure )
10. Bounty hunters in space barely make enough money to eat properly. The soundtrack is popular. Cowboy Bebop (pirateseneschal )
11. A kid runs away from the circus, learns Psychic Powers by collecting random junk to earn merit badges, and must save the world from an angry midget and a mad dentist. Psychonauts (yunghustlaz )
12. A school bureaucrat is outraged when students take an interest in their education.
13. The only guy in town and his monkey are dragged all the way around the world by a cloning expert and a secret agent so secret she doesn't have a name. Y The Last Man (pirateseneschal )
14. A Mexican luchador, a blind kid, a shirtless guy with horrible posture, a cocky guy with a huge revolver, a high-jumping thief, a barefoot woman who cuts her wrists a lot, and a black man in a suit shoot smiling, exploding people at the behest of an old Jew in a wheelchair, who spends his days playing chess with a crazed Korean demigod. The whole thing may or may not be a metaphor for something. killer7 (chaobell )
15. Nerd with thick glasses tries to solve his problems with a crowbar. Half-life (chaobell )
16. A bureaucrat tries to get some loose paperwork errors corrected, and maybe get his air conditioning repaired in the process. Brazil (yunghustlaz )
17. Ninja detective fights mad scientist that wears a bag on his head. Batman Begins (bludstone )
18. Drifter and Jerk Ass argue about how best to defend a farmhouse that isn't theirs from intruders desperate to break in, whilst PTSD victim cowers in shock and mother worries about ailing daughter. Night of the Living Dead (wrongly_amused )
19. A romantic comedy about international finance in which a nerdy hacker and his tomboyish girlfriend discover that their grandfathers saved the world from Nazis by solving math problems.
20. Pirates try to conquer the universe using jellyfish, and the only one who can stop them is an orphaned girl raised by birds. Metroid (chaobell )

Comments

[wrongly-amused.livejournal.com]

6. Silent Hill 3
7. Every Japanese porn fantasy game ever.
15. Hrm, Bioshock?
18. Night of the Living Dead?

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

6 & 18 are right. :)

[chaobell]

1. The Wizard of Oz
14. Killer 7
15. Half-Life
20. Metroid

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

Yep, Yep, Yep and Yep. :)

[gunnhildr.livejournal.com]

4. V for Vendetta

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

Aye. :D

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

(also, are you sure you don't know what #3 is?)

[gunnhildr.livejournal.com]

3. 24 Days Later

It sounded familiar, but I wasn't sure. Now it's clicked.

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

4 days early, but I'll give you it. :)

[gunnhildr.livejournal.com]

...I'm mentally challenged.

[yunghustlaz.livejournal.com]

Oo! 11 is definetely Psychonauts. And 16 is Brazil.

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

You got it. :]

[yunghustlaz.livejournal.com]

Oh and I've got a feeling 5 is Fallout 3. The only game where you get to play a ~birth sequence~. Sorta. The darkness and confusion is probably accurate at least.

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's another one. :)

[pirateseneschal.livejournal.com]

10: Cowboy Bebop
13: Y the Last Man

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

Ja. :)

[bludstone.livejournal.com]

17 is, pretty obviously, batman begins.

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

Yep - I was surprised no-one had got that yet, actually.

[bludstone.livejournal.com]

i woulda got more of these but im late to the party.

[taure.livejournal.com]

9. Chain of Memories

...I don't know the remaining ones.

[gilhamilton.livejournal.com]

9: I hate myself, but that's "Yu-Gi-Oh!"

All the good ones got taken!

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

You got it. :)

[paulnolan.livejournal.com]

Sorry - Leigh got it (Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories)