Inspired by this post in a totally different direction: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly/comments/1tcitaf/a_frankly_convoluted_plot_that_all_ties_back_to_a/
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released in 1978
really weird
He has to keep things on the DL for work but after some burning questions he goes back where he came from.
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Released between 2000 and 2005
No Adam Sandler
No Mel Gibson
No Tom Hanks
No Bill Murray
Not animated
Not literally about a fish but animals that live in water are key to the story
He's immediately a big hit again
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Released between 1988 and 2000
No Nic Cage
No Kevin Spacey
No Jim Carrey
No Billy Crystal
No Mike Myers
No Bruce Willis
No Samuel L Jackson
NOT animated
Sometimes he's hard to decipher
His colleagues are an interesting cast of characters. He makes music with one, another has some great dance moves, and they all learn a lot from one another.
No John Wick films
SPORTS
I am talking about A character, not the main character
Their unconventional relationship has history from a funeral, and despite family drama and a hospital visit, his life's work goes on.
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The Bait has Been Found!
Released after 1967
No Brad Pitt
A happy ending for one character doesn't preclude a sad ending for another
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Takes place on Earth/Not a space movie
Released before 2025
And there is a lot of crying and life changing drama, including multiple attempts at getting married
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Released in the 1990s
No Will Smith
The friend is also sort of a colleague
Big drop off toward the end, though
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Action movie
Released in the 1990s
No Pierce Brosnan
No Sylvester Stallone
No Harrison Ford
No Tommy Lee Jones
No Charlie Sheen
"Drop off" is literal
No Schwarzenegger
No Will Smith
No Elijah Wood
No Macauley Culkin
No Keanu Reeves
He butts heads with someone close to home. His big argument is all wet, but while he's always kept things local, he is willing to brave the river for the next adventure.
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Released after 2019 (will keep updating as guesses come in)
NOT animated
Not based on a Mark Twain book
MC can't seem to catch a break. There's always a little trouble along the way. Love hurts yet there is always hope it will blossom and grow. Can they make beautiful music in the end?
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NOT animated
Released between 2003 and 2007
NOT a Tarantino flick
He's all talk and no action
With this month's featured ingredients of raspberry and elderflower, I wanted to try tiki, one of my weak spots. But as I messed around adding allspice dram where it didn't belong, I said eff it and busted out the blender. I present to you The Monk's Summer Garden:
1.5 ounces Green Chartreuse
0.5 ounce Wray and Nephew Overproof Rum
0.25 ounce Elderflower liqueur
0.75 ounce lime juice
1.5 ounces cream of coconut
0.25 ounce raspberry syrup*
6-8 fresh raspberries
8-10 ice cubes
*Raspberry syrup instructions:
This is a roughly 2:1 syrup approach. Combine 2 cups of sugar with 1 cup of water, bring to a boil. Add ~1/2 cup of fresh raspberries, simmer for about 5 minutes and then let cool. Mash through a sieve or strainer and refrigerated.
Add all ingredients to a blender. Blend, adding more ice to achieve desired consistency if necessary. Pour into a tall glass and garnish with a dehydrated lime wheel and/or fresh raspberry.
Description --
Scent: Despite the low amount, the nose is pretty much all rum with a little coconut.
Flavors: It is boozy, boozier than expected. The herbaceousness of the chartreuse definitely takes a backseat to the rum, coconut, and lime. Bartender's ketchup seems to help the blending of the flavors, especially as the drink warms a little. The taste is sweet upfront but finishes brighter and more complex with the chartreuse notes coming more into play. But again, boozy. This packs a punch.
Mouthfeel: I mean, it's a smoothie, so the mouthfeel is cold and smooth. The raspberry seeds are....prominent so if you find that annoying omit the fresh ones and increase the syrup.
Conclusion: I will make this again, and not only because I need an excuse to finish the cream of coconut can I opened for it. If I were to become a monk, I would want to be the kind that is sitting in a hammock sipping on something like this.
His successes, his failures, his stints being frozen out, his romances, and his odd friendships and rivalries are all explored
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Released between 2017 and 2021 (will keep updating as this narrows)
Not a DC comics movie
Not a Michael Bay movie
Not a Bond movie
Not a Mission Impossible movie
Not a Christopher Nolan film
No Tom Hanks
No Leo DiCaprio
No Brad Pitt
MC is American
Movie is about a real person, but not a musician
In fact, it's a documentary....
Sports but not racing or soccer or tennis or football
It's basketball
Sometimes you need to be brave and the times be damned. Go for what you want.
She digs, but she and a bunch of other girls get kidnapped. Things get a lot weirder from there, including some family drama, weird politics, woman on woman violence, and goo.
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released between 1989 and 1996 (will keep updating as more guesses come in)
No vampires
It is NOT:
Earth Girls Are Easy
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Dazed and Confused
Split
Silence of the Lambs
Tucker & Dale vs Evil?
Last House on the Left
Taken
SFW
The Faculty
Society
From Dusk Til Dawn
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
She'll do ANYTHING for her child. There are some international incidents and a lot of struggle, but they end up with a happy ending.
Someone's baby goes missing.
The small crew piss away and/or blow chances to stay on track and need to rely on the kindness of strangers to get where they need to go.
Turns out they were lied to about the mission but the adventure changes them and their bonds, both with one another and one of the strangers, deepen to the point of life-changing commitments.
Also some gratuitous and misplaced homophobia.
He's just a blue collar dude but they're scared of him for some reason. He's not what's keeping them from their important destination.
As does an odd man. Teachers are distracted from teaching their normal lessons. Dinner is disgusting but at least it's meager so there will be room for sweets. A lot of little songs. Just a bit of sailing. Some danger. Some lessons in responsibility and morality.
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Grandma is the one who reveals the big secret, and like that the younger generation must prepare for battle.