Better Than It Sounds...

[thelibraniniquity]

Snagged from lady_drace:

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works, put up their summaries from Better Than It Sounds, & have your friends guess (without cheating).

I stopped at 15, folks :)

Edit: They're all either books, films or tv shows, some more obscure than others :)

01. Five teenagers (one of whom is technically mute) and a bird discuss politics, history, science and ethics before turning into bugs. Animorphs, guessed by explodedpen

02. An entire school is endangered by a girl writing in her diary. It takes a full school year to resolve the situation. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, guessed by wihluta

03. Undead cyborgs, cities that eat each other and lost boys with submarines. None of this is played for laughs.

04. Cynical writer can't get out of his hotel room. 1408, guessed by explodedpen

05. Batman cuts off Darryl Revok's arm, but is still easily beaten up by him.

06. Foreign Legion defector, librarian and greedy man try stopping an undead adulterer from destroying the world. The Mummy, guessed by explodedpen

07. Woman goes back to her childhood home where her son befriends some of her old friends from childhood.

08. Archaeologist shares candy with aliens. Then they rebel against GOD!

09. 93 minutes of Liam Neeson beating the shit out of people in Paris. Taken, guessed by explodedpen

10. A trigger-happy botanist and an elderly sanitation worker fall in love.

11. A pack of inept sex-crazed maniacs attempt to fight aliens in Cardiff, fail repeatedly, and die often. Torchwood, guessed by rainbow_goddess

12. An obnoxious Brit and his quirky team accuse people of lying and are usually right. Lie to Me, guessed by rainbow_goddess

13. A divorce gone wrong results in giant reptiles running around London. Primeval, guessed by explodedpen

14. Two snarky middle-aged men and two gorgeous alien warriors live in a flying city and fight bad guys. Stargate Atlantis, guessed by wihluta

15. Three middle-aged men arse about with cars and government-allocated money. Top Gear, guessed by rodlox

Comments

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

No. 11 is obviously Torchwood, and I think 12 is Lie to Me, but you didn't say whether they were movies, TV shows, books or video games. Are they all TV shows?

[thelibraniniquity]

Whoops, sorry, thought I had! They're all either books, films or TV shows - and you were right on both guesses! :)

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

2 - harry potter and the diary of doom.

3. BSG???

12. House

14. SGA! LOL

I'll stop there... :D

[thelibraniniquity]

2 - yes! :D
3 - no - but not a bad guess :)
12 - nope, it's "Lie to Me" and it's been guessed :)
14 - yep :D

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

8. Hellboy? I'm probably wrong...
5. American Psycho?
13 and 15 I remember from finding my own yesterday. Damn.

[thelibraniniquity]

Nooooo.... nil points for you :(

[explodedpen.livejournal.com]

isn't the first one that animaniacs book series thing which you can't get anymore and that you used to have most of the books from but dont' anymore??

4. That horror film with John Cusack based on a Stephen King novel... 1404?? Something like that

6 is the Mummy staring Brendan Frazer and Rachel Weiz :D

9. Taken??

[explodedpen.livejournal.com]

is 13 Primeval?? :D

[thelibraniniquity]

isn't the first one that animaniacs book series thing which you can't get anymore and that you used to have most of the books from but dont' anymore??
Animorphs. But close enough :D

And score on all of the others (the John Cusack film is 1408 but I'll give you that one ;). Well done you :D

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

08 - the Samarria book series? or the Chindi series?

15 - Top Gear?

[thelibraniniquity]

Oh, hello! :)

08 - sadly not.
15 - most definitely :D