meme time!

[feuille]

Well, I really want to get into 3W4DW. I think it's incredibly awesome to see everyone celebrating and having fun. I'm currently working on my own contribution, which will come later and in the form of a 'the world is awesome' picspam, but for now we have meme time!

Post 20 anime/manga/games/films/tv shows' summaries from Better Than It Sounds. Guess them!

1. 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 ar 

2. Building supplies drop from the sky, and you must use them to erase any sign of your hard work to build the Kremlin. Tetris, guessed by thedivinegoat

3. A Cult-classic Self-insert fanfic about the Bible. The Divine Comedy, guessed by thedivinegoat 

4. A son saves his father's life, and they talk about baseball.

5. Uptight young man and his abuse-survivor sidekick sail high seas, commit mass murder.

6. A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes him/her solve their problems first.

7. Nine men try to return a piece of jewelry to the factory it came from. Lord of the Rings, guessed by thedivinegoat 

8. A group of dysfunctional people are chased by their pissed-off children.

9. A disastrous one-night-stand forces a recent hireling to prove hirself truly worthy of employment.

10. A sad couple drive around.

11. Wolverine is vehement that he prefers his wife alive. The Fountain, guessed by ar 

12. Boy named after a mouse helps locals improve their drug-filled sandpit, despite unfriendly wildlife. The government disapproves.

13. A fighter ace tours different careers in search of his wife.

14. A bunch of historians and a medieval reenactor get stuck in the Middle Ages.  Timeline, guessed by tivunel.livejournal.com

15. Siblings argue over how to inherit their father's legacy.

16. Two kids get invited to visit their grandfather's zoo and watch a lawyer feed one of the animals. Jurassic Park, guessed by auguris  and thedivinegoat 

17. Buff blond tours Spain, kills village folk. Resident Evil 4, guessed by auguris 

18. An entire colony has very bad stomach cramps. The only one who can help them was sleeping for years. Aliens, guessed by st_aurafina 

19. A group of FBI agents fly to different parts of the country in order to pretend that they are crazy people. Criminal Minds, guessed by lettersforblood 

20. Crooked Space Cop has problems with hir pre-owned vehicle.

A few of these are so damn obscure *glee!* and I love them.

Comments

[ar]

1. ...Aladdin. Ahahahahahaha.
3. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal?
11. The Fountain?

I find that my favourite part of this game is learning all the answers to the ones I have no clue about, because they always sound so interesting. XD

[feuille]

Yay Aladdin! And yep, definitely the Fountain.

Number 3 is a very classic, old piece of literature. I like reducing it to the status of Bible fanfic; it makes me feel (ha) witty.

[thedivinegoat]

Number 3 isn't The Divine Comedy is it?

(Your user names are missing the quotation marks around the name)

[feuille]

*whisper*thank you, changed! */whisper*

Yes, yes it is! Well done!

[auguris]

16: Jurassic Park.
17: Resident Evil 4!

Also I guessed 1 was Aladdin, but ar beat me to it. :P

[feuille]

Ahh, Resident Evil 4...Leon...what a hunk!

[thedivinegoat]

2. Tetris

7. Lord of the Rings

16. Jurassic Park

[feuille]

Good work! I was wondering if anyone would get Tetris :D

[nanila]

Oh, I'm useless. The only one I think I know is 11 (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and the fact that the others are so abstruse makes me think that that's just too obvious to be right!

[feuille]

I haven't actually seen Wolverine, so I didn't realise the summary would cross over quite so much - it's actually The Fountain! (Poor Hugh Jackman getting really weirdly typecast, I guess. And poor Hugh Jackman's fictional wives!)

When I was doing these I did realise that some of them are particularly rare. There are quite a few computer games in there, which I think are harder to immediately guess.

[sinatra]

Oh man - I have absolutely no idea, except for the ones I came across when I was looking up mine, and that's just cheating.

*throws up hands*

[feuille]

They are pretty obscure, right? I can't remember which one it was, but when I was doing mine I noticed one of yours I hadn't guessed when reading, and had an "Aha!" moment. Seemed like cheating to go and say so though!

[tivunel.livejournal.com]

3. Narnia?
14. Timeline?

[tivunel.livejournal.com]

Just read your comment saying that 3. is classic literature so I'm guessing not Narnia!

[feuille]

Yay Timeline! *hugs*

[tivunel.livejournal.com]

I just had a thought - number 5 wouldn't be Hornblower would it?

[feuille]

WOOOOOOOO!

[st_aurafina]

10. Driving Miss Daisy?

15. This is probably so wrong but is it The Godfather 2?

18. Aliens! (Stomach cramps, ew!)

[feuille]

Unfortunately 10 and 15 are far less classic than that (and 15 is a computer game)!

Aliens ftw! I've been watching it over a few days with breakfast, hahaha.

[lettersforblood]

8. The Children (I think; I've only read summaries and seen lots of pictures)

19. Criminal Minds (just too hilarious not to be the BtiS summary for it)

...Is 6 from mythology?

These are hilarious. I think I'll do this.

[feuille]

Yay Criminal Minds! Unfortunately 8 is a modern TV show, and 6 is a computer game... my tastes are apparently weird!

P.S. Hi! and OMG, I totally was reading some of your writing just now, and we both have 'Deathday' related shenanigans in our writing! High-five!