By Sasha Geffen
Late last night, movie geeks from all over Twitter took to their feeds to start a new movement in cinema humor: #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly. The hashtag, which is now trending, attempts to summarize popular movies in hilariously blunt terms—like describing Lord of the Rings as “Racially diverse group journeys to a volcano to destroy jewelry.”
Apparently inspired in part by a newspaper blurb that summarized The Wizard of Oz as “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again,” #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly exposes the alarmingly simple stories that make up some of our favorite flicks. Take away all the movie magic, distill a story to its most basic parts, and everything from “Lord of the Rings” to “Mrs. Doubtfire” starts to sound pretty ridiculous.
Check out some of the best tweets that have emerged since the hashtag started taking off.
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