Uncomfortable plot summaries

[firecat]

(via jae)

My favorite (because I always thought so): GROUNDHOG DAY: Misanthropic creep exploits space/time anomaly to stalk coworker

The OH tells about a friend who was able to sum up any story in a sentence. He was challenged to sum up Dune and he said "Two gangs fight it out over the drug trade." There are a couple of other plot summaries of Dune in the comments to that post.

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[laughingrat]

That's the best plot summer ever, that first one. Although the Dune one is pretty slick.

[wild_irises]

Here's an old favorite (not so much uncomfortable as off base) from a 1970s newspaper blurb:

"Hamlet: Murder and madness afflict the young prince of Denmark. An Olivier classic."

All true, but ....