Odd/Unusual Movie descriptions

[Mytical]

Misprints/etc welcome also. Just seen the description of the movie Brain Dead (another zombie flick). See if you can spot the problem.

In this low-budget horror flick from director Kevin Tenney, a sleepy fishing port town is consumed with terror when a small crater crash-lands nearby and releases a slimy parasitic agent that transforms the residents into brain-eating zombies. Cornered in an abandoned fishing lodge, six strangers are forced to band together to stave off the blood-sucking monsters clawing the walls outside. Joshua Benton and Sarah Grant Brendecke star.

Now I admit, it was a description on Netflix (paid for by my cousin to give me something to do)..so there will probably be more if I should find them.

[Andara Bledin]

Wow. A whole crater crash lands?!? O.O

Wait... "blood-sucking?" When'd the zombies get replaced with vampires?

^-.-^

[wolfie]

Quoth Mytical

Misprints/etc welcome also. Just seen the description of the movie Brain Dead (another zombie flick). See if you can spot the problem.

In this low-budget horror flick from director Kevin Tenney, a sleepy fishing port town is consumed with terror when a small crater crash-lands nearby and releases a slimy parasitic agent that transforms the residents into brain-eating zombies. Cornered in an abandoned fishing lodge, six strangers are forced to band together to stave off the blood-sucking monsters clawing the walls outside. Joshua Benton and Sarah Grant Brendecke star.

Now I admit, it was a description on Netflix (paid for by my cousin to give me something to do)..so there will probably be more if I should find them.

How can a crater crash-land? That's my guess as to the problem.

[Mytical]

Both of you are correct. Andara spotted the second problem, though that one is not as worthy lol. I've seen a few others, but lost them and can't find them again..I am sure that I will though. Though the streaming section of the service leaves a lot to be desired.

[Barracuda]

This one speaks for itself.

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/fb125.jpg

[Mytical]

*laughs* I think Netflix is finding and correcting the odd descriptions..movies I know had misprints/etc now do not.

[Merriweather]

My favourite movie description was in the U.K.'s version of TV Guide.

BG for the US - Over there, at least a decade ago, Christmas day was when all the TV stations try to show the newest & best movies - often this was the first time they aired on TV after being shown at the cinema. So in this context, a "Christmas movie" is just a regular movie airing, probably on TV the first time, at Christmas.
End BG

So, all the other reviews were long and detailed, but this one review simply said
"Turn on the oven, it's another Christmas turkey".

I can't even recall the movie, but I just loved that review - brief and to the point

[bhskittykatt]

I have not personally seen this one. I just read the article about it yesterday: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...envelope_.html

It's the description on the Netflix sleeve for "Woman Under the Influence".

Cassavetes gives us experiences as complex, demanding, and intense as life itself. Most films tell us what to know and feel, what things mean. The result is a slight but decisive abstraction from everything in them. These movies are about an experience, rather than giving us the experience itself. Rather than plunging us headlong into life, these movies tell us about life the way reading an essay about an experience is entirely different from having the experience. Cassavetes takes away the aboutness, the abstraction. To watch one of his movies is not to learn about a group of characters and situations, but to have something very close to the kind of experiences we would have if we were actually in similar situations with similar figures.

Apparently, the paragraph was actually just plagiarized from a book about John Cassavetes.