I've unexpectedly exhausted much of my creative output for the day by playing a newly discovered "ten second trailer" game my friend invented with his other friends. It's been a slow Monday. Basically, you take a famous movie title, turn it into a pun, and provide a synopsis that could be shown as a trailer in five to ten seconds. Here are some of my favorites on the day:
The only way to stop crime in Detroit...was to hire the one man with literally nothing to lose.
HOBOCOP
Tensions rise to a boiling point as commercial airtravel slowly makes trains obsolete in 1960's America.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CHOOCHOO'S NEST
A small girl abandons her see-saw in a playground journey of self discovery.
BONNIE AND SLIDE
A Confederate solider stumbles upon a broken VCR remote.
REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE
A rising senator misses his morning train to his first day on the hill- has he doomed his political career ...or is there still time?
THE MANHURRYIN' CANDIDATE
A young boy is taken in by a retired Parisian baker, who patiently teaches him the difference between the active and subjunctive tenses.
THE FRENCH CORRECTION
A mother asks her son for a paper towel, and eyes it suspiciously while holding it up to the light.
SCRUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
A young boy assembles a three-piece styrofoam plane for his seventh birthday.
EASY GLIDER
An artisanal pastry chef seeks retribution against an unfair food critic.
THE CREPES OF WRATH
Stop looking at me like that.
