Showing posts with label PTSNBBMS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PTSNBBMS. Show all posts
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part VII: Piling It On!
Passengers (Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner) are trapped with a terrorist and a plague on a Eropean train heading for a condemned wooden bridge.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part VI
Dating the campus hunk (Fred Savage)...
—No One Would Tell
(He turns out to be abusive. Who woulda thunk?)
—No One Would Tell
(He turns out to be abusive. Who woulda thunk?)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part V
A British professor, a playboy and a rich woman in pink pants...
(1960, The Lost World: The rich woman in pink pants—assuming they're not all in pink pants—is Jill St. John.)
(1960, The Lost World: The rich woman in pink pants—assuming they're not all in pink pants—is Jill St. John.)
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part IV
After her niece is kidnapped, as sassy secret agent/supermodel (RuPaul)....
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Phrases That Should Begin MORE Movie Synopses, Part I
A bikinied sky diver (Raquel Welch)...
--Fathom (1967)
--Fathom (1967)
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part III
A man (Ray Liotta) injects memory-ladened brain fluid...
--Unforgettable
I guess I'm nit-picking here, but when space is at a premium--as it always is with these descriptive capsules--why would you go to "ladened"? It doesn't even sound like English! Well, maybe Olde English, as a rhyme for "maidenhead".
--Unforgettable
I guess I'm nit-picking here, but when space is at a premium--as it always is with these descriptive capsules--why would you go to "ladened"? It doesn't even sound like English! Well, maybe Olde English, as a rhyme for "maidenhead".
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part II
An Egyptian princess (Cameron Mitchell) rises from the dead...
--The Tomb (the actual Egyptian princess is B-queen cutie Michelle Bauer)
--The Tomb (the actual Egyptian princess is B-queen cutie Michelle Bauer)
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Phrases That Should Never Begin Movie Synopses, Part I
Keanu Reeves stars as a scientist....
(Chain Reaction)
(Chain Reaction)
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