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Don’t have time to sit through a whole movie? Don’t even have time to read a review? You need Movie-a-Minute, a brilliant web site that reduces movies to their brief, hilarious essence. If produced, the Movie-a-Minute scripts really would take less than a minute. My favorite:
The Sixth Sense
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, 1999
Ultra-Condensed by Derek RichardsonHaley Joel Osment
I see dead people.Bruce Willis
Try talking to them.Haley Joel Osment
It worked.
Read many, many more movie summaries. (Tomorrow we’ll bring you their sister site, which is equally full of laughs — stay tuned.)
If you’re talking about the bookaminute page - it’s hilarious. I used a few of them in a marching band away trip magazine article years back. Catcher in the Rye’s ultracondensation is perhaps my favorite.
posted by Liz on 3-28-2007 at 12:08 pm
Thanks! Hilarious. My fave’s Dr. Strangelove
posted by patri on 3-28-2007 at 12:46 pm
Personally, I’m a fan of the bunnies that reenact movies in 30 seconds or less at angryalien(dot)com.
posted by Beth on 3-28-2007 at 1:23 pm
That Top Gun one was particularly hilarious.
posted by Johnny Cat on 3-28-2007 at 1:55 pm