Twitter gets cheeky describing your favorite movies in only 5 words
Movie loglines -- those one-sentence descriptors that Hollywood studios put in press releases and on imdb -- are typically bloated, overstuffed with adjectives, clichéd ... and not always what they seem.
Unless Twitter users write them. As it turns out, Twitter users are great at this game.
The hashtag #DescribeAMoviesPlotIn5Words trended No. 2 in the U.S. on Thursday, with more than 50,000 tweets by late afternoon Pacific time, according to our friends at the social listening and analytics firm Fizziology.
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Star Wars and Harry Potter were particularly popular for five-word recaps, as you'd imagine:
But one film in particular stood at the tip of the iceberg. That's right, as #DescribeAMoviesPlotIn5Words whirled around Terrible Pun Twitter on Thursday, Titanic was king of the whirled.
Though the eternal Titanic debate over surface area vs. weight distribution won the day's hashtag in terms of volume, when it comes to making a classic dad-joke, there's nothing like a classic movie.
And finally, if you're in the movie, that's the movie you should be describing in five words.
Take it away, Daphne:
Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
