Let’s Play a Game
One of the things that I loved about the Sunday paper was the compilation of TV listings for the coming week, printed in a handy booklet that would live in the TV room. The best part was reading the incredibly brief synopsis of the movies. These condensed reviews were often unintentionally funny. Thankfully there were copy editors that fearlessly chopped down those synopsis until they fit into the daily grid. I salute you.
This weeks game is a nod to all of those bygone booklets, another victim of the digital age we live in.
And we certainly must give thanks to the comedic genius of Rick Polito, who in 1998 wrote what is possibly the most famous movie synopsis for the Marin Independent Journal:
The Wizard of Oz
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
Thankfully the internet was invented and allowed his review to go viral years after the fact.
This weeks game is simple:
Give a synopsis for a movie or TV show, book, etc. in one brief, not necessarily kind, sentence; for example:
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Entitled blonde burglar is in for a rude awakening.
Bewitched
Besotted humans constantly rely on the advice of a housewife / necromancer to save their advertising agency.
The Twilight Saga
Not just the vampires, Meyers democratically makes all of her characters suck.
It’s that simple. One short sentence.
