3 of your favorite films, in a summarized one sentence synopsis

agree. im still trying to wrap my mind around 3 women !

 

"ABBA-The Movie" - Reporter follows Pop Super-Group on their tour to get an interview which showcases their music for their fans.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" - A trip from apes on earth then to man in space now involving a very colorful journey.
"On Moonlight Bay" & "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" (Tie-BTLOTSM is the sequel to OMB) - A simple "Down home family life" musical.

 

Planet Of The Apes: Chuck Heston crash lands on another planet where apes talk, later he finds out he was on earth the whole time and cusses out the statue of liberty.

Revenge Of The Nerds: Campus misfits square off against the school jocks, both sides do stuff that would land them in jail in real life, nerds triumph in the end with a song and dance number and a melodramatic speech.

A Christmas Carol: Mean guy hates Christmas, is visited by 3 ghosts, by Christmas morning former mean guy loves Christmas. The end.

 

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Makes Ben Hur look like an epic... King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table go on a quest to find the Holy Grail and discover that some French Knights already have one.
Monty Python and the Life of Brian A man is mistaken to be the messiah but is actually just a very naughty boy, gets cruicified by the Romans anyway.
Apocalypse Now A US Army Captain goes on a top secret mission to terminate a rogue Colonels command, with extreme prejudice, the Colonel turns out to be an overweight Marlon Brando who mumbles incoherently.

 

My favorite film is Lawrence of Arabia. I thought about this thread and it yesterday and could not come up with anything. Then this morning, I thought:

Intellectual loner follows fascination with violence to both some success and ultimate disappointment in the desert.

 

I'm going to try three more favourites. Accidentally there is a theme here.

Ran
Sad dad, so sad...

The Natural
Too old man thinks he is still great and makes the same mistakes he made as a young man

That Thing You Do
What could have happened to your dad in the band he was in

 

Dirty Harry....Clint shoots bad guys while saying do you feel lucky punk.

Magnum Force .... Clint shoots more bad guys while saying a mans got to know his limitations.

Sudden Impact.....Clint shoots even more bad guys while saying go ahead make my day.

 

Notebook -True love lasts forever.

Overboard-Treat people with kindness or Karma comes back at you..

Steel Magnolias-Friendships blesses our hearts...

 

The Great Escape: Mans desire to be free can be achieved while also messing up the enemy in subtle ways.
The Thing (John Carpenter 1982): We humans are not alone. You can fight for your life, but it probably won't matter in the long run.
Jurassic Park: A movie designed for the big screen that is fun to watch...not really good, but really fun....Okay, okay, man is not meant to mess with certain things because they may come around to literally bite you in the a$$.

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales: Clint shoots bushwhacking bad guys while saying, "Buzzards got to eat, same as the worm."
A Fistful of Dollars: Clint gets beat up, then shoots the head bad guy while repeating, "In the Heart Ramon."
Two Mules for Sister Sara: Clint evades and shoots bad guys while saying, "Well... maybe a nun ought not be so good-lookin'."

 

The Deer Hunter. A wedding and hunting followed by 3 friends going to Vietnam, and different outcomes; one does well and bags a young Meryl Streep, the others not so much.

Vertigo. Obsessive compulsive detective develops fear of heights, but it is love object who ends up falling.

 

The Revenant - Getting torn apart by a bear is the least of his problems
This Is Spinal Tap - Second billing to a Puppet Show
Glen Garry Glen Ross - Coffee is for closers.

 

Jaws - resort town overreacts after a few deaths in the water.

Sunset Boulevard - screenwriter/gigolo finds the wrong patron.

An Unmarried Woman - woman gets married, man gets some on the side, woman flips out, man splits, woman rebounds, man wants back - doesn't work that way.

 

"We're after men. And I wish to God I was with them." Robert Ryan as Deke Thornton.

The Wild Bunch - Convict sells out his old gang to buy his freedom.

 

Celine and Julie Go Boating French chicks horse around, and a cat is startled.

 

So, not really “unmarried” is she?

 

LOL also
Death Wish: Really bad guys kill Bronsons wife and he kicks their asses!
Death Wish II: More really bad guys kill his daughter and he kicks their asses again!
Death Wish III: Even more really bad guys kill his friend? and he kicks their asses once again!

 

The Untouchables - Robert De Niro has a killer swing, good enough for the big leagues.
Poltergeist - Why are there ghosts in the TV?
The Exorcist - Linda Blair's neck sure must hurt.

 

1.Performance (1970)...A perfectly literate Swinging London time capsule that plays out as a tale of weird surrealism with lots of sex, drugs & Rock N Roll against the established London Syndicate, strange indeed

2.The Night of The Hunter
(1955)...Robert Mitchum is perfectly cast as the switchblade wielding "Love - Hate" psycho false prophet whose lust for money is far greater than his love for God or anything else

3.The Last Tango In Paris (1972)...The most controversial film ever made by any major star & poetry in motion thanks to Brando's totally commited performance

 

An futuristic spaceship crew encounters a monster accidentally created by a scientist using a brain-enhancing machine. [Forbidden Planet.]

A guy dresses up as his mother and kills women in showers. [Psycho.]

A former San Francisco police detective is forced to confront his fear of heights when he realizes a woman has been dressing up as a lady he once saw fall out of a church tower. [Vertigo]

 

A deeply devoted FedEx worker spends four grueling years stranded on a deserted island with the worst case of male-related purple veins in history, yet doesn’t take his own life, for the sole purpose of someday being able to fulfill yet another Purple Promise.

Cast Away

 

Kubrick's 2001, Dr. Strangelove and The Shining:

You can't always control what happens in life.

 

Some more

Almost Famous
A warm remembrance through the loss of innocence along with...well...the loss of innocence

1941
Americans go nuts, maybe not for the first time

War of the Worlds
This is the first time

I know this title has been done but forgive me...
Jaws
Shark!!!!

Sharknado
Shark!!!! Tornado!!!!

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark
An Archaeologist, his ex lover and the best digger in Egypt face off against Nazis and snakes for the Ark of the Covenant that ends up in the hands of TOP MEN.

A Clockwork Orange
A naughty boy enjoys to much ultra violence and is made good again.... or is he?

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Lots of people freak out over a decent amount of money that's buried under a big W.

 

Godfather II - Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The Florida Project - Life can be rough when you're broke.

Easy Rider - Being outwardly rebellious might play on the coasts, but...