This is a great game if you’re with some really creative folks.
One person picks two actors who never worked together and the other player/team has to come up with the plot of the movie. Actors can be any age they appeared on film, so someone like Helen Mirren can be anywhere from 18 to 81 years old.
Here are a few of the better combinations we came up with.
I’d put them both fresh out of high school age in a film like Adventureland, mashed up with a Breakfast Club theme. Just a bunch of young adults figuring out where to go next in life.
The one we came up with was Ricci as the daughter of James Garner. He’s a Texas oilman and she’s a Yale/Harvard MBA who is super focused on being the next CEO. Applegate is Daddy’s hot new wife. We were playing teams and there was a lot of back and forth as to whether Applegate should be a total airhead, a scheming psychopath, an eco-freak who hates oil, or some combination…
Bruce Lee is fresh out of law school but is questioning what direction to go in life and whether or not he really wants to become a lawyer. He meets Marlene Dietrich on one of his more existential days and it leads to a strange journey through space and time…
Gary Coleman is a very inconspicuous process server and Leslie Howard sure as shit has a lot of cases against him. See the zany ways of Gary Coleman outsmarts Leslie Howard in ‘Dinner Is Served’ rated X.
Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci star as two hockey players fighting for a spot in the NHL.
James Earl Jones plays Kevin James playing Doug in ‘King of Queens’ and Marlon Brando plays Frank Constanza playing Arthur and then it’s just like them going to work and then Jerry Stiller is Frank Costanza in this universe.
I spent too much time on this and vaped a decent amount of weed. Not a ton but a sizable amount.
1930s Shanghai. Bruce was high up in the Hong Kong underworld but killed the boss’s son in a sparring match gone bad. Marlena runs a casino. He becomes her bodyguard enforcer, but he finds out she’s spying for both the British and the Japanese.
English Civil War. Howard is a cavalier. Well bred, well read, a swordsman, a lady’s man, a poet, a scholar, and a soldier. He’s blinded when a cannon explodes in a battle and is captured. Coleman is another prisoner of the roundheads. He’s a travelling one man circus who does whatever he has to. The warden makes Coleman be Howard’s ‘seeing eye dog’
They eventually become friends and when Howard’s eyes begin to improve they plan an escape
Marlon is an English lord exiled to the American colonies circa 1700. He’s losing his mind due to an STD. Billy Bob Thornton owns a small plantation and hopes to improve his lot by catering to the lord’s family back home. Thornton has promised to keep Brando happy and out of trouble. Jones is an elderly slave that Thornton brought cheap. He was his old master’s lifelong companion. He secretly knows how to read. Thronton assigns Jones to Brando, tellign his to keep the Englishman safe. When Brando proves to be uncontrollable, Billy decides it would be smarter to just kill him and blame Jones.
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This is a great game if you’re with some really creative folks.
One person picks two actors who never worked together and the other player/team has to come up with the plot of the movie. Actors can be any age they appeared on film, so someone like Helen Mirren can be anywhere from 18 to 81 years old.
Here are a few of the better combinations we came up with.
Bruce Lee and Marlene Deitrich
Leslie Howard and Gary Coleman
Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci
James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando
I’d put them both fresh out of high school age in a film like Adventureland, mashed up with a Breakfast Club theme. Just a bunch of young adults figuring out where to go next in life.
The one we came up with was Ricci as the daughter of James Garner. He’s a Texas oilman and she’s a Yale/Harvard MBA who is super focused on being the next CEO. Applegate is Daddy’s hot new wife. We were playing teams and there was a lot of back and forth as to whether Applegate should be a total airhead, a scheming psychopath, an eco-freak who hates oil, or some combination…
Bruce Lee is fresh out of law school but is questioning what direction to go in life and whether or not he really wants to become a lawyer. He meets Marlene Dietrich on one of his more existential days and it leads to a strange journey through space and time…
Gary Coleman is a very inconspicuous process server and Leslie Howard sure as shit has a lot of cases against him. See the zany ways of Gary Coleman outsmarts Leslie Howard in ‘Dinner Is Served’ rated X.
Christina Applegate and Christina Ricci star as two hockey players fighting for a spot in the NHL.
James Earl Jones plays Kevin James playing Doug in ‘King of Queens’ and Marlon Brando plays Frank Constanza playing Arthur and then it’s just like them going to work and then Jerry Stiller is Frank Costanza in this universe.
I spent too much time on this and vaped a decent amount of weed. Not a ton but a sizable amount.
What we came up with.
1930s Shanghai. Bruce was high up in the Hong Kong underworld but killed the boss’s son in a sparring match gone bad. Marlena runs a casino. He becomes her bodyguard enforcer, but he finds out she’s spying for both the British and the Japanese.
English Civil War. Howard is a cavalier. Well bred, well read, a swordsman, a lady’s man, a poet, a scholar, and a soldier. He’s blinded when a cannon explodes in a battle and is captured. Coleman is another prisoner of the roundheads. He’s a travelling one man circus who does whatever he has to. The warden makes Coleman be Howard’s ‘seeing eye dog’ They eventually become friends and when Howard’s eyes begin to improve they plan an escape
Marlon is an English lord exiled to the American colonies circa 1700. He’s losing his mind due to an STD. Billy Bob Thornton owns a small plantation and hopes to improve his lot by catering to the lord’s family back home. Thornton has promised to keep Brando happy and out of trouble. Jones is an elderly slave that Thornton brought cheap. He was his old master’s lifelong companion. He secretly knows how to read. Thronton assigns Jones to Brando, tellign his to keep the Englishman safe. When Brando proves to be uncontrollable, Billy decides it would be smarter to just kill him and blame Jones.