Claudia and Duffy

A Challenge: Trouble in Paradise Lost in Translation

My online book discussion group is having a party merging movie titles and plots. Please feel free to add your own.

Clockwork Oranges are Not the Only Fruit -
Misunderstood young lesbians form gang and wreak a terrible revenge upon a future society - before they settle down and join the police.

Daredevil in a Blue Dress: A rare example of the crossover superhero-cross-dressing genre. Ben Affleck and Denzel Washington star.

Lord of the Ringu: Cult Japanese fantasy horror. Teenagers are dying in a remote peninsula after watching a mysterious video. A reporter investigates and discovers that they are suffering from DVT after sitting through all 12 hours of the extended edition in one sitting.

War and Peace of the Worlds: Tolstoy’s majestic classic set in Czarist Russia has a cast of thousands battling first Napoleon and then an alien tri-pod invasion force from Mars.

Breakfast Fight Club: Troubled teens bond during school detention and form underground group who beat each other to a pulp then blow up big buildings in protest at the consumer culture. Cheer as Molly Ringwald defeats Brad Pitt and Meatloaf in a bare-knuckle fight, just after Eng. Lit.

Spirited Far and Away: Peculiar but enchanting mix of traditional hand drawn animation and the worst Irish accents ever committed to film. A young girl and her family get lost in a disused theme park which turns out to be a health spa for nineteenth century Irish immigrants to the US.

Don't Look Who's Talking Now: Donald Sutherland is stabbed to death in Venice by a talking baby dressed in a red raincoat. Featuring the voice of Bruce Willis.

Boyz 'n' the Parenthood: Steve Martin stars in a bittersweet family comedy which takes a darker turn when the entire family is slaughtered in a series of crack-related killings.

Godfather Brown: Kindly Catholic priest-cum-amateur detective, Kenneth More, is really the brutal head of Sicilian gangland family with cotton wool balls in his mouth.

Steel Magnolia: Watch the plot simultaneously thicken and unravel as you follow seemingly unrelated events in the lives of a screwed-up group of close-knit Southern strangers who are prevented from finding true meaning in life by freak weather conditions.

Chicken Lola Run: Every time Ginger thinks they're in the clear, everything ends horribly, but they keep inexplicably getting second chances for about forty minutes.

The Sixth Sensibility - Impoverished Victorian girls falling in love with restless dead men.

My Best Friend Flicka's Big Fat Greek Wedding Singer - oh dear, I think that's going way, way, way too far.

Along Came a Spider-Man - Morgan Freeman tries to pin down a double-crossing superhero in spandex.

Curse of the Black Pearl Harbor - I'm not going to start on the possibilities of this one, except to say that Johnny Depp really shows up Ben Affleck.

Snow White and the Se7en Dwarves - the wicked stepmother systematically punishes the Snow White by brutally murdering her little friends until the girl turns and poetically kills her own innocence by forcing the witch to eat her own poisoned apple.

The Lion King and I - double the singing, double the culture clash, double the power struggle, double the romance...oh gosh, I am so glad this isn't real...

Posted by tuggy at 05.04.04 20:13