A change-up from the usual rhyming stuff; hey, who doesn’t need to break out now and then?
1/ Alice Through The Looking Glass... Alice falls down, goes to Crazytown. 2/ Wuthering Heights... Cathy's unhappy home, Heathcliffe's moody manor. 3/ Moby Dick... footloose old sailor, avast! Whale tale. 4/ Fifty Shades Of Grey... modern bodice ripper; boy mistreats girl. 5/ Silence Of The Lambs... Hannibal offers Clarice a gristly story. 6/ Frankenstein... Doc makes monster- goes on fritz. 7/ The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon... lost girls nightmare. Tough to bear? 8/ The Bible... Big Fella's best seller. (Popular Fiction.) 9/ It's Not About The Bike (early pre-fallen hero Lance Armstrong ego-boosting bio)... drug pedaling Tour De Fraud loser. 10/ The Three Musketeers... Three musketeers? Add D'Artagnan, go fourth! 11/ Psycho... Crane gets stuffed at Moms Motel. 12/ The Help... recipe for disaster; fudging the ingredients. 13/ Falling Down... trafficking in misery; white collar crime. 14/ The Iron Lady... Right warmongering steely cold Falklands bitch. 15/ Die Hard... Secret Santa presence-party's a blast! 16/ The Shawshank Redemption... prisoner stonewalled, comes to inescapable conclusion. 17/ 1917... war is hell, takes- interminably long. 18/ The Lake House... love letters, years late. Silly stuff. 19/ Titanic... couple meet over icebreaker. Chilly stuff. 20/ The Shape Of Water... oddballs hookup, love wins. Gilly stuff. 21/ ET: The Extra-Terrestrial... alien lands, makes friends, heartwarming stuff. 22/ The War Of The Worlds... aliens land, make war, snuff it. 23/ Alien... spacemen versus monster; Dream Weaver's nightmare. 24/ Jurassic Park... long-lost resort revived, guests left enRaptored. Any more to add? put 'em in the comments, the more the merrier!
"War And Peace' is doin' my head in- and these are just the Cliff notes!?'
©Obbverse.
DUMB AND DUMBER…Trump supporters never learn.
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I forgot the summary should be six words, so I’ll go with:Trump supporters never learn — the sequel.
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LOL. In same the vein Night Of The Living Dead… Unused brains- look under MAGA cap.
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Some Kubrick fun
The Shining – Nicholson axes the door of perception
Eyes Wide Shut – Nic bares all for a Scientologist
Dr. Strangelove – Madman blows up precious bodily fluids
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Nicely done. I missed Stan myself. A Clockwork Orange- Sex, drugs, Rock’n’roll; Kills free will.
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Nicely done! High Fidelity: Slacker shopkeep despises girlfriend’s career rises?
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Added another one in Hi-Fi, ta Dave.
I’m struggling… ‘Grease’; Bad boy, good girl, then- switcheroo?
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i like that one ! How ’bout ‘Wicked’ – Green witch, but who’s the bitch?
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Hah! On her behalf though; ‘Its not easy being green.’
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Admirably done, mon ami. Personal favorites? #8 and #14. (I’m in that sort of mood tonight, it seems.)
Weak proffering: “Gone with the Wind…. Pretending racism wasn’t the real issue…”
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Nothing weak about the truth Brian. And as the dumb basta -bars and stars brigade say ‘ Thuh South will roil again.’
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You and your commenters set a high bar. I may have to give more thought to this.
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High Bar sounds like the last chance saloon before the summit of Mount Everest. Seriously, all submissions gratefully accepted.
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