Explain A Film Plot Badly

[Nihil Obstat]

Interestingly enough, the actual plot of Grand Theft Parsons reads in much the same way.

Snipped from Wikipedia:

The death of singer Gram Parsons prompts Phil Kaufman to fulfill his promise that whoever died first would be cremated by the other in what was then the Joshua Tree National Monument, an area of desert they both loved and cherished. Kaufman bribes mortuary personnel, rents a psychedelic hearse from Larry Oster-burg, and treks across the southern California desert, pursued all the while by Parsons' ex-girlfriend with Kaufman's girlfriend and Parsons’ step-father.
 

 

http://youtu.be/ivNHdDlRJuw

[PhuturePriest]

3 scientists get fired for being incompetent so they drive around NY in a hearse blowing up things with leaf blowers strapped to their backs and get paid enough for it to hire someone else to help them until until a jealous guy blows up their headquarters and they get arrested and locked up until the whole city starts having hallucinations and then the mayor asks them to use their leaf blowers again to clean up everything. Before they can do that, they hallucinate that a giant man made out of marshmallow is attacking them so they point all the leaf blowers at each other and blow everything up and all the hallucinations go away. Meanwhile one of the scientists gets a girlfriend and an accountant wanders around looking confused all the time. But everybody in NY is smiling at the end, which is a miracle so someone decides that maybe they should make another movie using the same leaf blowers because they make New Yorkers so happy. But that's a different story.

 

Those were run-on sentences that would make Tab proud.

[Not A Mallard]

A whiny man turns evil and murders everybody because he has a bad dream.

[puellapaschalis]

A man possibly named Jonathan goes nuts, smashes a door, and announces his presence.

[puellapaschalis]

I don't know; it doesn't sound like any movie plot that I know.

 

Hm.

 

Well, there are in fact several murders to be solved, glasses to be fixed, and a theological debate to be raged. And then everyone goes up in flames at the end!

 

(I might be conflating the film with the book here though)
 

[Ancilla Domini]

A princess turned human-ladder and rejuvenating-dermatologist has spent 18 years in a tall stone tower, obsessively combing her hair, schizophrenically talking to herself, and playing with a chameleon who is personified as best-friend by this socially impaired teen. She runs off with the first man she meets, after putting him in a temporary coma by savagely attacking him with a frying-pan. The man falls in love with his pugilist schizophrenic friend and returns her to her parents, the king and queen, from whom she was stolen as a baby, and then marries her. Their marriage is celebrated by the release of thousands of flaming paper cylinders into the air.

Edited September 11, 2014 by Ancilla Domini

[Not A Mallard]

Hm.

 

Well, there are in fact several murders to be solved, glasses to be fixed, and a theological debate to be raged. And then everyone goes up in flames at the end!

 

(I might be conflating the film with the book here though)
 

Of course!  Sherlock Holmes Meets Indiana Jones!  The previews looked great!

Edited September 11, 2014 by Not A Mallard

[puellapaschalis]

Of course!  Sherlock Holmes Meets Indiana Jones!  The previews looked great!

 

:ohno:
 

[puellapaschalis]

Lady having a third-life crisis and believing she has some kind of mystic connection with someone from the past decides to start blogging and obsessively focus on what she's having for dinner for the next year, nearly jeopardizing just about the rest of her entire life in the process.

[Not A Mallard]

:ohno:
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

[puellapaschalis]

Girl fails in looking after her brother, goes on to solve a bunch of logic puzzles, and then oh-so-surprisingly turns down an offer of marriage from a guy with a crazy hairdo and strange dexterity when dealing with crystal balls.

 

(This is more fun than I could have ever given it credit for, though I fear I'm showing my age.....)

[Not A Mallard]

Girl fails in looking after her brother, goes on to solve a bunch of logic puzzles, and then oh-so-surprisingly turns down an offer of marriage from a guy with a crazy hairdo and strange dexterity when dealing with crystal balls.

 

(This is more fun than I could have ever given it credit for, though I fear I'm showing my age.....)

I haven't seen it, but it sounds like Labyrinth.

[puellapaschalis]

Ding ding ding! :winner:

[Credo in Deum]

A robot travels through time to kill the boy who will one day kill it. Little did they know they would become BFFs.

[Credo in Deum]

After a coke problem lands on a little village in Africa, wreaking havoc on the local inhabitants, one father decides he will go to the ends of the earth do free his village from its clutches! While on his way to complete his mission, he is arrested and later bailed out by a goofy scientist who is accompanied by a teacher, who later becomes abducted by a band of revolutionaries. All in all it is quite, aye yi yi yi yi.