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If you're familiar with Contextualize/Whamise This Line, then you may know how this will work. However, instead of a line, you must write a plot/synopsis based off a title from a work in a "Poster above you" format. For example...

Troper A: Soul Surfer

Troper B: Soul Surfer is a cyberpunk action film about a man who has the unique ability to go into the bodies of other people, and must do this to clear his name for a crime he hasn't committed.

Something like that. I'm just hoping I'm being concise enough. Alright, let's begin.

Lord of the Rings

edited 5th Feb '13 10:14:18 AM by Psyga315

jawal Since: Sep, 2018
#2276: Apr 21st 2024 at 3:28:15 AM

A movie about a cosmetic company that discovers their newest hairspray product is poisonous.

The movie follows the frantic meetings, where the board of directors is looking for a way to retire the product secretly without ruining their reputation on the market, all in an atmosphere of doubt, fear and blame shifting.

..............................

The Silmarillion

Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
drwhom Since: Nov, 2010
#2277: Apr 21st 2024 at 5:04:43 AM

The Framing Device is that a language academy has the task of coming up with words for ever larger powers of 1,000. The inner stories concern academic intrigues and rivals-to-lovers romances.

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2278: Apr 21st 2024 at 11:51:22 AM

A historical biopic about William Faulkner and his experiences in early 20th century America. The story is framed around the stories he writes and how they are reflections of his early experiences. The story begins with his novel aspirations before moving into his adventures in Hollywood.


Bride of the Gorilla

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
IncognitoAlbatross Incognito Nurse Albatross SOS from Down the rabbit hole Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: I don't mind being locked in this eternal maze!
Incognito Nurse Albatross SOS
#2279: Apr 21st 2024 at 11:54:30 AM

A Serial Killer, known as "The Postman" because he usually disguises himself as one to get closer to his victims, accidentally calls the wrong number one day and winds up having a long conversation with a bored housewife. The two strike up an unlikely friendship, but the woman doesn't know that her phone friend is the serial killer that her husband, a police detective, is trying to track down. The title is derived from how the serial killer always rings twice to let the woman know it's him.

Nowhere Stars

Angel Aid Bomb Beam!
IncognitoAlbatross Incognito Nurse Albatross SOS from Down the rabbit hole Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: I don't mind being locked in this eternal maze!
Incognito Nurse Albatross SOS
#2280: Apr 21st 2024 at 11:57:56 AM

Oops, looks like someone beat me to it.

(By this, I mean they posted their 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' plot before I did.)

What should we do? Sorry about this.

Angel Aid Bomb Beam!
Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2281: Apr 21st 2024 at 12:02:58 PM

[up] Don't worry about it. Just go with the flow.


Features a young rambunctious teen from Rhode Island who finds out that she is good at three things: being late to class, being the girl who doesn't get laid and singing her vocal chords out at Karoke Night. When she decides to form a band she ends up having to recruit an old fling from Middle School, a music teacher with nothing to lose and a whole trio of rough and tough country girls who wanna become the next American Idols. Their band name: Nowhere Stars.


Bride of the Gorilla

Edited by Patar136 on Apr 21st 2024 at 12:03:10 PM

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
generation81 Since: Aug, 2021
#2282: Apr 21st 2024 at 12:05:43 PM

Gothic horror Genre Throwback about a Dian Fossey-esque biologist who goes AWOL and when an expedition. Well recieved for its commentary on postcoloniaism and what it truly means to be human or a monster.

All Monsters Attack.

Starbug Dwar of Helium from Variable (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
Dwar of Helium
#2283: Apr 21st 2024 at 12:10:51 PM

A group of paranormal investigators/hunters of creatures discover that several monster attacks have been occurring all at once (rather than spaced out), with greater frequency, and some outside cause is responsible.

Unplanned Apocalypse

Edited by Starbug on Apr 21st 2024 at 3:11:26 PM

Now, I'm going to ask you that question once more. And if you say no, I'm going to shoot you through the head. - John Cleese
Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2284: Apr 21st 2024 at 12:20:55 PM

When a Soviet Submarine goes rogue and attacks an American Naval Base on the East Coast, Cold War tensions flare up in the 1970s. As the Soviet Union desperately seeks to hunt down their rogue submarine the United States is in an uproar with some demanding retaliation while others attempt to use this crisis to their advantage. Will World War III launch amid this unplanned apocalypse, or can cooler heads prevail before it's too late?


The Head, The Tail, The Whole Damn Thing

Edited by Patar136 on Apr 21st 2024 at 12:21:23 PM

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
jawal Since: Sep, 2018
#2285: Apr 21st 2024 at 12:44:10 PM

A man was traveling in a private plane when an accident happened, and the plane crashed into an abandoned mountain, killing the pilot.

The man loses both his glasses and his contact lenses, and without them, he is near blind, since the plain deviates from the planned course, there is no guarantee that rescue is coming.

So now he has to somehow fix the plane and fly with it with zero experience, aside from a book about flying and the plain's manual he found inside.

In those dark hours, the man can't help but remember the old saying about the blind men meeting an elephant.

................................

Avakoum Zahov Versus 07

Edited by jawal on Apr 21st 2024 at 8:49:51 PM

Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2286: Apr 21st 2024 at 1:12:26 PM

The year is 2007, Avakoum Zahov finds himself against the combined forces of NATO intelligence who want his secrets and a home nation that wants him dead. With a decreasing list of allies, he finds himself on the run from both the former Warsaw Pact and the combined forces of the west. Can he survive for one year more or will this be his last?

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Beware Jack Frost

Edited by Patar136 on Apr 21st 2024 at 2:21:33 AM

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
MorningStar1337 Like reflections in the glass! from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
Like reflections in the glass!
#2287: Apr 21st 2024 at 2:18:09 PM

Horror B movie with Jack Frost as the antagonist. The deathchill of winter being a force of nature that freezes a diminishing number of people to death.


Hopeful Horizon

Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2288: Apr 21st 2024 at 2:28:42 PM

An Alien Ambassador arrives on Earth, declaring peaceful intentions and expressing her desire on behalf of the planet Altion to form an interplanetary alliance. Humanity sends a team of astronauts to accompany the ambassador back to her homeworld and hopefully ensure peaceful negotiations between races. Will this see humanity expand across the stars or will this result in the outbreak of war?


The Lost World

Edited by Patar136 on Apr 21st 2024 at 2:29:18 AM

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
jawal Since: Sep, 2018
#2289: Apr 22nd 2024 at 3:31:36 AM

In the 29th century, the Spaceship Challenger, return from an exploration mission outside the solar system.

But when they return, something is not right. Our solar system seems to be the same as always, except for two small differences:

1-Mars and Venus seem to be deserted, and there is no trace to the space stations, and colonization cities that were built since the 25th century.

2-There is no Earth: The entire planet simply disappeared (as did the moon)

....................

Now Captain Malone must find an explanation for this mystery, while at the same time dealing with the decreasing morals of his crew, who find themselves alone in the universe with no chance to return home.

....................

Much Ado About Nothing

Edited by jawal on Apr 22nd 2024 at 4:06:00 PM

Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2290: Apr 22nd 2024 at 7:47:40 AM

Helen Shaw seems to have everything she has always wanted in 1950s America. A loving family, in laws that don't hate her, a baby on the way and even a beautiful neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado. Everything was going great.

Until her husband got fired for missing a vital business presentation.

Now, with her husband grounded and jobless, she finds that they have an excess of time. All the time with no direction on how to spend any of it. Afterwards, her baby who was otherwise healthy experiences a miscarriage. Then, her son gets sick with polio. And now her former mother in law is now acting out against Helen.

What started as a perfect lifestyle is now a deteriorating marriage as Helen finds herself trying to hold things together in this historical martial issues drama.


Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
Trainbarrel Submarine Chomper from The Star Ocean Since: Jun, 2023 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Submarine Chomper
#2291: Apr 22nd 2024 at 7:53:50 AM

The story of as group chasing down the "Statics", a growing enemy which is composed of people who never changed or moved on from the past, rendering them in "forever yesterday"-mode and by doing so, inviting the cosmic force that "devours today when it becomes yesterday" into the present when they start getting noticed.

The Group, T.U.R.O.K, is on the losing side as more and more cameras have been made and more and more pictures, with the possibility of creating "Statics" by accidents, are getting taken. The protagonist being one of the "Statics" due to emergency transformation as they themselves had their picture taken right before a devastating accident, and hope they can save themselves somehow while clinging onto that one last picture of themselves as a final life-line and exploring the Static World while under the protection program of T.U.R.O.K.

...

Souls of Salt in The Sea of Sugar

"If there's problems, there's simple solutions."
jawal Since: Sep, 2018
#2292: Apr 22nd 2024 at 8:04:49 AM

Two orphan twins are sent to live with their old and unmarried aunt, after all their family died in the civil war.

Their new home is big, the town is peaceful, and their classmates are actually nice.

Yet, the orphans are melancholic and taciturn; despite being only 12, they have already witnessed so many atrocities in the war, that they seem like dead inside.

And so they remain, grim and cynical in a world of joy outside them.

Can their aunt reach them? Or is it already too late?

............................

Al Harafish

Edited by jawal on Apr 22nd 2024 at 4:05:24 PM

Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2293: Apr 22nd 2024 at 8:41:01 AM

A historical fictional drama about a rising prophet in Egypt. As political turmoil grows during the 1952 revolution in Egypt, lines are being drawn into the sand. The prophet finds himself trying to stem the rising wave of violence while also appealing to crowds that dream of a better tomorrow. Determined to see Egypt restore its rightful place in history, he takes it upon himself to rise the ranks of politics, unaware that in the search for Egypts soul he may have to sacrifice his own.


Pride and Prejudice

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
MorningStar1337 Like reflections in the glass! from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
Like reflections in the glass!
#2294: Apr 22nd 2024 at 8:46:51 AM

A story about the victims of a powerful and prideful bigot, and how they are harmed by them, as well as how the became the agents of the demise the bigot courted with their hubris.


On Stranger Tides

king15 Having Faun from not certain Since: Mar, 2024
Having Faun
#2295: Apr 22nd 2024 at 8:56:07 AM

A bunch of self-conscious, introverted strangers are all put on a boat. Unbearable awkwardness ensues.


Super Smash Bros.

Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2296: Apr 22nd 2024 at 10:40:31 AM

Frank and Tom are demolitions experts. When stuff needs to be demolished, blown up, torn apart…. they’re your men.

This slapstick comedy features all sort of violence and comedic mastery as the two discover brotherly love… but utterly smashing shit.

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“Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories”

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
Trainbarrel Submarine Chomper from The Star Ocean Since: Jun, 2023 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Submarine Chomper
#2297: Apr 22nd 2024 at 10:52:28 AM

A tragic platonic love-story involving the anthropomorphic avatars of Arctic and Antarctica, one snow-Boy and one ice-girl, who have been sitting alone on their ends of the poles, thinking back on how they used to be so closed that they could hold each others' hands every day, but having to part due to the distance between them (read "their frozen shore-lines") have forced them to rely on ice-floats for the purpose of sending messages between one another, wondering how the other is doing while waiting for the response.

All while Antarctica, the snow-boy, is gradually growing older wrinklier, losing all of his hair bit by bit and Arctic, the ice-girl, is slowly fading away and melting into non-existent physical form.

All while they both are thinking about each other and holding on to their memories, making scarce new ones, as the wait between their messages is getting longer and longer...

...

Nine Rings: Our Journey Down their Eye.

"If there's problems, there's simple solutions."
Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2298: Apr 22nd 2024 at 2:37:29 PM

A jewel crafter, Evelyn Cross, finds herself in over her head when her talents for craftsmanship cause her to gain a lot of attention, from nine European monarchs who all want the finest ring ever crafted. Worst of all, they all want large and exceptional diamonds. Succeed, and she will be showered in enough wealth to last her whole life. Fail, and she will be marked for assassination.

An epic historical swashbuckling epic across the world set during 18th century.

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“Cloak of Deception”

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!
Starbug Dwar of Helium from Variable (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
Dwar of Helium
#2299: Apr 22nd 2024 at 3:23:16 PM

A spy thriller, where everyone’s backup plans seem to have great-grand-backup plans.

THE TWIN SNAKES

Now, I'm going to ask you that question once more. And if you say no, I'm going to shoot you through the head. - John Cleese
Patar136 Hero of the Winds from A Nice House on Outset Island Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Hero of the Winds
#2300: Apr 22nd 2024 at 4:09:46 PM

World War 2 war drama. A Nazi Traitor and a British Traitor conspire to bring secrets of their respective regimes to the opposing side. The consequence would be catastrophic for either party. The catch? Both traitors are themselves blood brothers.

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“The Approaching Storm”

Edited by Patar136 on Apr 22nd 2024 at 4:10:37 AM

I discover my own destiny as I command the winds of life!

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