I’ve got a new favourite game, this week: Movie Title Mash-Ups (with thanks to Cougar Town). Ruth and I sat up far too late last night, playing it. Here’s how you do it:
Movie Title Mash-Ups
Take two movie titles which share a word (or several words, or just a syllable) at the end of one and at the beginning of the other. Shmoosh them together into a combined movie title, then describe the plot of that movie in a single sentence by borrowing elements from both component movies. See if anybody can guess what your mash-up movies were.
Here are some examples. The answers are ROT13-encoded, but if you’re reading this post directly on my blog, you can click on each of them to decode them (once you’ve given up!).
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Zombies claw their way out of a graveyard, and Batman spends most of the film hiding in the attic.
Gur Qnex Xavtug bs gur Yvivat Qrnq
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While trapped in an elevator at the end of October, a superficial man is hypnotised into murdering a bunch of high-school students with knife.
Funyybj Unyybjrra
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A crazy professor and a kid travel back in time in a souped-up car, where local bully Biff cuts off the kid’s hand and tells him he’s his father.
Gur Rzcver Fgevxrf Onpx gb gur Shgher
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Bill Murray has to live the same day over and over, until he can survive the zombie apocalypse by escaping to an island.
Tebhaqubt Qnl bs gur Qrnq
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A pair of alcoholic, out-of-work actors stay at the countryside house of a Monty, dangerous robot who has learned to override his programming.
Jvguanvy naq V, Ebobg
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An evil genie who maliciously manipulates words and misinterprets wishes opens a portal between Eternia and Earth, which He-Man and Skeletor come through.
Jvfuznfgref bs gur Havirefr
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A bunch of outlawed vigilante superheroes fight shapeshifters and werewolves as they investigate a mystical curse which threatens to shatter the fragile cease-fire between Dark and
Light forces in Russia.
Avtug Jngpuzra
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Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer hold a seance to communicate with subterranean humans who worship a giant bomb.
Jung Yvrf Orarngu gur Cynarg bs gur Ncrf
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A lion cub born to a royal family grows up, climbs the Empire State Building, and fights aeroplanes.
Gur Yvba Xvat Xbat
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James Bond is sent to investigate the murder of three British MI6 agents, who turn out to have been killed using a military satellite that concentrates the sun’s rays into a
powerful laser. (hint: both films are James Bond films)
Yvir naq Yrg Qvr Nabgure Qnl
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Your turn!
So, what can you come up with?
@scatmandan a group of mentally ill patients are forced to build a bridge during the war – One flew over the Bridge on the River Kwai?
@bryns Those don’t really have a word in common though, do they? I’d still watch that movie, though.
@scatmandan “the” is the link word… which is quite tenuous I suppose
@bryns Contrast #moviemashups: A lion cub born to royalty grows up, climbs Empire State Building, fights aeroplanes. – The Lion King Kong
@scatmandan yeah, I came up with that one without reading your post :-)
@scatmandan thinking about it, by the end the guys in Bridge were a bit insane themselves… so I could have been describing the original :-)
Y’know I very nearly thought the last one was going to be The Man With the Goldeneye.
Clearly there are far too many incredibly powerful, poorly-understood, LASERS in Bond films.
A rich eccentric creates a suit of metal allowing him to fly and perform great feats of strength, and then adds a bit of carbon to the suit, with drastic consequences to his awesomeness and watchability.
Iron Man of Steel? (I haven’t seen Man of Steel, so I can’t be sure if you’re referencing a plot point or not, but your clue seems to be referencing steel production)
Extra one for anybody who wants a bonus challenge:
Nazis from the far side of the moon attack MI6, and Daniel Craig has to stop them.
And another:
A jury is assembled, but are hung eleven-to-one on the guilt or innocence of an insectoid alien; later their memories are erased by a pen-shaped device which flashes with a bright blue light.
12 Angry Men In Black
A tough San Franciscan Muggle needs to find a memory that is key to He-who-must-not-be-named’s downfall. In the end Harry has to ask if he feels lucky
— Dirty Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Please visit my kickstarter about the movie mashups card game.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1524146619/movie-mashups-the-card-game-a-game-of-mixed-up-mov
A young Patrick Dempsey is tired of his life in the ocean; so he trades his voice for legs to attend his best friend’s wedding.
The Little Mer-Made Of Honour! Genius.