Yoinked from Everyone

[lilithisbitter]

Pick twenty artistic works that you like and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

Anime:

Boy meets girl. Boy is trapped in Human Alien time-slowing orb of death for many years. Boy uses Mecha against his will to kick copious amounts of ass. (RahXephon bishojo_kitsune)

Dead children are trained to be angels in a walled city. (Haibane Renmei bishojo_kitsune)

Love tetrahedron develops amidst various Twilight Zone-esque Negative Space Wedgies. Existence hangs on the outcome. (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya hellachu and bishojo_kitsune)


Film

Super-centenarian travels to New York to claim a prize.

Lots of Lens Flare and a time-traveling miner press the Reset Button on over 40 years of media. They kept the ham. However, some Nakamas are simply meant to be. (Star Trek XI idioticonion)

A farm hand becomes a pirate and his girlfriend becomes a princess and then he kidnaps her and dies. Then, with the help of a hungover fencer and a stupid giant, he kidnaps her again after coming back to life. Whilst all this is going on, a grandfather tells his grandson a story. (The Princess Bride hellachu)


Literature

A porn scriptwriter raised by a nanotechnological supercomputer in book form while living in a recreation of the Victorian society in China designs a chainsaw-sword while being raped, conquers Beijing with an army of young Chinese girls who have been memetically programmed to be her followers, and saves her foster mother from being killed as a result of a mathematical calculation involving an undersea orgy. Meanwhile, the other main character wakes up from a ten year nap, reconnects with his estranged daughter (who was also the scriptwriter's boarding school roommate), discovers that he is the Mac Guffin he was supposed to be looking for, and proceeds to turn lead into gold. Yes, Neal Stephenson wrote this book. Stop looking at me like that.

Two professional men's rivalry causes problems for England. Meanwhile, a man with unusual hair forcibly entertains a young noblewoman and a black servant.

A young man travels into a magical kingdom to find a meteor to give his girlfriend, except the meteor is another woman. The Film Of The Book has a gay (well, transvestite) pirate. (Stardust hellachu)


Live Action TV

A man tells his bored teenaged children stories about himself when he was younger. Evidently there's nothing good on TV in the future. (How I Met Your Mother sazz_k)

A DHS agent, a mad scientist, and a high-school dropout solve mysteries with dubious scientific techniques. (Fringe hellachu)

A semi-deranged FBI agent investigates a detective agency/bodyguard service/high-class brothel run by a manipulative British businesswoman, a nerdy scientist and an ex-cop. While a woman who is meant to have no personality and no memories because she has been voluntarilly mindwiped and enslaved by said dectective agency/bodyguard service/high-class brothel starts to gain her personality and old and new memories back and an Axe Crazy Knife Nut may or may not be trying to kill her. Moral ambiguity ensues. (Dollhouse sazz_k and hellachu)


Web Originals

A forty-five-minute-long low budget romantic comedy supervillian musical tragedy in the form of a video blog. (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog sazz_k and hellachu)

A grown man makes his action figures talk to each other and films it. (Marvel vs. DC skeelojoe)

Snarky gamer mocks poor writing/programing in movies and games. His future self (or something) is a mad scientist. (The Spoony Experiment falconwhitaker)


Western Animation

Toys fight crime, but not very well. (Action League Now! bishojo_kitsune)

A teenager volunteers to be tutored by a reclusive elderly billionaire, putting his social and family life on hold while avoiding questions about what they do together. (Batman Beyond hellachu)


Video Games

Play doctor. No, not in a sexy sort of way. (Trauma Center: Under the Knife hellachu)

For dead people, fashion is incredibly Serious Business. They overcome difficulties and learn to love. And kill people with Myspace Flare. (The World Ends With You hellachu)

MIBs solve everyone's problems through spontaneous song and dance numbers. (Elite Beat Agents hellachu)

Comments

[sazz-k.livejournal.com]

HIMYM, Dollhouse and DHSAB... No idea about the rest though...

[noms.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh I know some of these! :D

Third one in anime: Haruhi Suzumiya
Third one in film: The Princess Bride
Third in literature: Iknowthisone isn't it uhh Stardust?
Second in live-action TV: FRINGE OMG x)
Third in live-action TV sounds like what little I know of Dollhouse.
First in Web Originals is Dr Horribles Sing-Along Blog!
The second in Western Animation sounds like Batman Beyond.
First in video games is Trauma Center, second is TWEWY, third is Elite Beat Agents, and I play too many video games. XD

[idioticonion.livejournal.com]

"Lots of lens flare" - Star Trek (the current movie)

[falconwhitaker.livejournal.com]

"Snarky gamer mocks poor writing/programing in movies and games. His future self (or something) is a mad scientist."

The Spoony Experiment?

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I love Haruhi Suzimiya!!

[skeelojoe.livejournal.com]

Can I play?
A grown man makes his action figures talk to each other and films it.
That's gotta be "I'm A Marvel...And I'm A DC."

[bishojo-kitsune.livejournal.com]

1.) Rahxephon
2.) Haibane Renmei
3.) The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (should I continue working on that HIMYM/Haruhi fusion? Y/N?

Everything else is up in the air, but the 1st western cartoon is Action League Now! WIN.