The world of cinema has given us so many good times. From blasting off into galaxies far, far away to visiting fairy tale fantasy lands, filled with myths and magic, movies let us escape from our boring day-to-day lives and enjoy whole new experiences.
The best films are exciting, epic, and adventurous, but if you really boil them down to their simplest forms, it turns out that they can actually sound a little dull!
Twitter users have been having fun recently trying to describe some of their favorite flicks in the most boring terms possible. Here are 50 of our favorite funny examples.
1) Star Wars
Star Wars is one of the most thrilling sci-fi dramas of all time, filled with lightsaber duels, alien encounters, and galactic battles. But Matt here has done an amazing job of making it sound super dull!
2) The Exorcist
The Exorcist is one of the scariest films ever made, but really the vast majority of the story concerns a young girl lying in bed and being grumpy.
3) Die Hard
When you fail to mention the gun fights, explosions, and hilarious one-liners from Bruce Willis, Die Hard sounds a lot less exciting.
4) Lord Of The Rings
The Lord of the Rings is a sweeping, epic adventure, filled with fantasy creatures and magical lands, but when you really boil it down, it’s basically just a story about a kid and his pals taking a ring to the place where it was made.
5) Jurassic Park
This description just makes us imagine a boring little island with a senior lizard sanctuary on it, nothing like the crazy dino action of the Jurassic Park franchise.
6) The Breakfast Club
That pretty effectively sums up The Breakfast Club, but the real fun of the movie comes from the way those kids interact.
7) The Shining
When you describe The Shining like this, it sounds like a dull, dreary, talking head sort of film, rather than the suspense-ridden psychological horror it really is.
8) The Wizard Of Oz
Well, that’s certainly one way of describing The Wizard of Oz. It makes it sound more like a terrible horror movie than a fun fantasy romp though.
9) Star Wars
Here’s another short and sweet description of the entire Star Wars franchised, cleverly summed up in the most boring way possible.
10) Fight Club
Fight Club is a deep and engaging movie that works on a lot of different levels, but it’s also a movie about a weird insomniac dude who just wants to punch people.
11) Groundhog Day
All the charm, humour, and unique time-bending fun of Groundhog Day disappears when you describe it like this.
12) Karate Kid
This one actually doesn’t sound that bad! It might not be the most action-packed description, but it could make for an interesting film.
13) Shaun Of The Dead
Definitely one of the funniest zombie comedies ever made! Although it sounds a little weird when you fail to mention the zombies.
14) Ratatouille
Ratatouille is a Pixar classic, but really, the idea of a rat in the kitchen of a classy Parisian restaurant seems more and more strange the more you think about it.
15) Die Hard
Here’s another Die Hard one. You’d never know that this is actually the description of an action blockbuster.
16) Titanic
Titanic is a 3-hour long epic filled with romance, excitement, and tragedy, but it’s also basically just about an old lady and a boat.
17) The Shawshank Redemption
This dull description of one of the top-rated movies of all time cleverly omits the part about the widower breaking out of that prison by digging his own tunnel through the wall.
18) Kill Bill
This one doesn’t actually sound that bad, as far as movie descriptions go, but it is a little confusing.
19) The Princess Bride
If you heard this description, you’d probably ignore the film, but you’d be missing out on an absolute classic!
20) Ghostbusters
If you just add the words “of ghosts” to the end of this sentence, it suddenly sounds way more exciting.
21) Indiana Jones
This one is fabulous. There’s so much fun and excitement in the Indiana Jones series, but you can essentially boil it all down to a professor looking for some old stuff.
22) Up
Just thinking about the opening scenes of Up is enough to get us all teary-eyed! Let’s move on.
23) Speed
Could also be described as “Bus fails to make any of its scheduled stops.”
24) Jurassic Park
Technically this could also appeal to Jurassic Park 2 and 3, as well as the Jurassic World movies! When will they learn that bringing back dinosaurs just isn’t a good idea?
25) Monty Python And The Holy Grail
A cult comedy classic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail gave us some of the funniest lines of dialogue ever! Here’s one of them.
26) Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers includes crazy encounters with Neo-Nazis and a man named Mr. Fabulous, but you wouldn’t guess any of that from reading this one-line description.
27) Alien
Ellen Ripley is one of the most badass female protagonists in any film franchise ever made. She’s also a bit of a cat lady.
28) Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Here’s another Monty Python one, accurately describing the state of affairs throughout the film. They may not have horses, but they do have coconuts!
29) Gremlins
This could so easily be a description of a film about cat poop, but it’s actually talking about that cult comedy horror from the 80s: Gremlins.
30) The Shining
In just six words, Andrew made The Shining, arguably among the greatest horror films ever made, sound like a snoozefest.
31) The Matrix
The Matrix is one of the most intriguing sci-fi films of the last few decades, but it’s also mainly about a lonely tech geek taking a pill.
32) Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
This is a really hilarious and cheeky description of a family classic. Now that we think about it, Willy Wonka isn’t such a good guy after all, huh?
33) Back To The Future
Was the DeLorean ever really that popular? It always seemed like a bit of a disappointment until the movies came along to make it famous.
34) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey goes into some weird places throughout its 142 minute runtime, but it all starts off with a prehistoric man playing with a bone.
35) Indiana Jones
Here’s one more Indiana Jones description that sounds deathly dull. They definitely wouldn’t have put this quote on the movie poster!
36) Back To The Future
Here’s another funny Back to the Future one. Aside from being boring, it sounds absolutely outrageous!
37) Groundhog Day
Imagine watching a movie trailer that introduces itself with this statement. You’d want to walk right out of the theater and never look back!
38) Happy Gilmore
Definitely one of Adam Sandler’s better films, Happy Gilmore is based on a very simple premise, as this tweet proves.
39) The Big Lebowski
Nobody would want to watch this movie after reading such a bland description, but there’s so much to The Big Lebowski than this!
40) Forrest Gump
That’s a pretty fair description of Forrest Gump, but it fails to point out that the dude’s past is completely crazy and incredibly interesting.
41) The Shining
Here’s another great one for The Shining. Despite being an iconic horror classic, that film is really easy to describe in super boring sentences.
42) Inception
Pretty much the entire cast spends most of Inception sleeping! Or do they? The mysterious ending is still confusing viewers to this day.
43) Seven Samurai
This one might also be about The Magnificent Seven too. Either way, it’s a classic film that sounds super boring when you describe it like this.
44) Memento
Memento is a really interesting, mind-bending kind of movie you probably need to watch twice to totally understand, but nobody would want to watch it even once after reading this dull description.
45) Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park strikes again! It’s amazing to think that the whole film’s premise is based around some little bugs, trapped in amber.
46) Lord Of The Rings
This might be the best Lord of the Rings one yet! It sounds so silly when you put it that way.
47) Seven Samurai
Again, this could also apply to The Magnificent Seven, which was a Western-style remake of the Japanese samurai classic.
48) The Martian
There sure is a lot of math on Mars in The Martian, as well as a terrific performance from leading man, Matt Damon.
49) The Devil Wears Prada
We think this Twitter user was referring to The Devil Wears Prada, but there are quite a few films from the past that would fit this very vague description.
50) Home Alone
This is so good! It takes all of the fun and excitement out of Home Alone, which is actually one of the most fun-filled family movies of all time.
It’s amazing how even the most action-packed blockbuster can sound so dull when you really break it down like this. Share the list around with your friends and family and have some fun making up your own boring movie descriptions too!