Summarized Cinema

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Why waste your time watching an entire movie when you can read a plot summary that is only a few lines long. Here are a few of the classics that you may have once thought you should rent and spend an evening with:

2001: A Space Odyssey

A slab of onyx and a singing computer get two astronauts in hot water.

Alien

A feisty cat survives tense times onboard a spaceship.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

A drifter helps an old man with his math problems.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Frail aliens visit Earth in search of clothing, music, friends and possibly gym equipment.

Starship Troopers

Valiant insects try to repel totalitarian invaders.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

A nerd from another planet goes bike riding and trick-or-treating.

Stargate

Kurt Russell and his buzz cut outwit the guy who played the girl who was a guy in The Crying Game.

Predator

The future governor of California and the future governor of Minnesota go hiking.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

An archaeology professor searches for his college’s retirement buyout and a good rheumatologist.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Kirk, Spock and McCoy blend right in while visiting late 20th-century San Francisco.

Robot Monster

A guy in a gorilla suit and diving helmet with rabbit-ear antennas walks up and down a hillside for no apparent reason.

Iron Man

An arms manufacturer finds himself neck-deep but gets a leg up and heads home.

The Matrix

A man discovers his true destiny.

Star Wars

An adolescent discovers his true destiny.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

A boy discovers his true destiny.

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

A hobbit discovers his true destiny.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

A sad sack seeks a way to turn back time so he can live in the Dark Ages.

–––created by Steve Mirsky

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Mars Attacks!

Eddie Arnold saves world when yodel-challenged aliens attack while cops in donut shop

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Was it Woody Allen who wrote about speed reading War and Peace ? It's about Russia.