This week’s game focused on movies with #ImprovedMovieTaglines and with Christine Wonders [aka @googlegirl98] and Portmanteau Jones [aka @SadlyCatless] jumping in to perform co-hosting duties, we knew it was going to be a blast… and it was. Thank you to two wonderful, amazing and fun women who are kicking the butt cheeks of the Twitterer in the absolute best of ways. Was great to have you on board…
MEET THE CO-HOSTS:
Twitterer’s Portmanteau Jones (@SadlyCatless) is a cat whisperer turned comedy writer and hashtag warrior.
She has won the coveted Tweet-of-the-Day on @ComedyCentral‘s @midnight where she continues to win points and place in top 10’s.
Most days Jones achieves a top-3 spot on comedian blog @JokeBlogger. She hosts the popular and long-running hashtag game, @HashtagJones1 (on @HashtagRoundup and @TheHashtagGame), which regularly trends to #1 in North America, also trends globally, and has twice had its own @TwitterMoments.
Jones’ own well-received tweets have earned her a place on many other hashtag game top 10 lists, as well as in several @TwitterMoments. She also contributes to the current events blog @absrdNEWS with satirical commentary on live news events.
He will cut you. #ImprovedMovieTaglines pic.twitter.com/XQRkgiCi1Q
— Portmanteau Jones (@SadlyCatless) February 3, 2016
Twitterer’s Christine Wonders (@googlygirl98) is an impulsive, emotional, overly empathetic badass. She got invited to co-host my game because she is an absolute CHAMP at championing other peoples’ games and gives great promos for @AfrikkinHashtag every single week.
She is currently hiding from adulthood. (Please don’t tell it where I am…)
Oh, and she plays a lot of hashtag games.
Seriously? You’re going to see this?#ImprovedMovieTaglines pic.twitter.com/w3LvR45Q84
— Christine Wonders… (@googlygirl98) February 3, 2016
Yep. AGAIN with the dinosaurs.#ImprovedMovieTaglines pic.twitter.com/ieg1T6Gupt
— Christine Wonders… (@googlygirl98) February 3, 2016
Sadly the quest to get South Africa’s Premier game trending in South Africa remains a thing of the future, but Americaland and Canada were there in full force as were many others from around the world and we had a lot of fun. AND this was the most family friendly game i have yet played so WELL DONE EVERYONE for keeping it clean. You guys went for witty and clever and misdirectional and random which are my four favourite things to see in Hashtag Games. Well done on bringing it.
@AFrikkinHashtag the 1st mention of #ImprovedMovieTaglines appears on your TL. Now is Trending Topic in United States! #trndnl
— Trendinalia USA (@trendinaliaUS) February 3, 2016
#IMPROVEDMOVIETAGLINES
So this week’s tag was pretty straightforward – you’ve watched the movie, but you felt there was a more appropriate or realistic tagline to go with it. As usual i put together a few of my own, you know, to get the ball rolling…
Maybe with a whiff of spoiler, but if you haven’t seen it yet… The next one was a widely hated movie [in Fantastic Four’s third movie outing] so the tagline looked to the future in hope:
Subtle reference to the Sharknado movies with this one:
Whereas this one nodded to that great pencil-in-the-forehead moment in the best of the new Batman movies:
A pair of Star Wars movies, again with the subtle spoilers cos surely by now…
A reference to how many times the movies have had to save Private Damon…
And finally, one last spoiler for one of the best twists a movie has brought us:
Which of these was your favourites? I really liked, “Look ma, no HanS!” Leave your preference in the comments below…
But then there was the main focus of the game, which, as always was you, and as always there were way too many good ones to grab them all, but some of them we did manage to hold on to, and these are the entries that made it on to…
THE FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS [F.L.O.P]
Paul got all scientific on us:
In Space, No One Can Hear You.#ImprovedMovieTaglines@SadlyCatless @AFrikkinHashtag @googlygirl98
— Paul Mixed Up…311 (@trickstergod) February 3, 2016
While Matt looked at the bigger picture:
#ImprovedMovieTaglines Die Hard: Worst Christmas Party Ever
— MuttleyMatt (@Ti_FusedCynic) February 3, 2016
Conduct spoke the truth which could have been applied to a whole lot of franchise offers:
#ImprovedMovieTaglines
Oops we did it again pic.twitter.com/ni1p9crH1C— Obscene Conduct (@Obsceneties) February 3, 2016
While Guapo asked the question:
Silence Of The Lambs: Fava beans and chianti go well with what?
#ImprovedMovieTaglines@AFrikkinHashtag— Guapo 20Sxtn (@GuapoFlames) February 3, 2016
Conduct was back with a literal tag:
#ImprovedMovieTaglines
Some people need to get hammered pic.twitter.com/2i1yYsi3xa— Obscene Conduct (@Obsceneties) February 3, 2016
And Jonathan said what we were all thinking:
#ImprovedMovieTaglines
The Revenant:An unbelievable tale of a man and his fight for an Oscar.
— jonathanxavier (@TheRealJmar) February 3, 2016
Christmas Fairy nailed it with this one:
#ImprovedMovieTaglines Highlander: there should be only one
— Christmas Fairy (@XmasFairy2016) February 3, 2016
Geff called Marvel out [although personally i LOVED Ant-Man! Don’t judge me!]
@afrikkinhashtag @SadlyCatless @TheHashtagGame#ImprovedMovieTaglines Ant-Man…Yep, We Made Ant-Man
— Geff Gefferson (@GeffGefferson1) February 3, 2016
Craig is clearly not a fan of this franchise:
Paul Blart 3: you hate your money #ImprovedMovieTaglines
— Craig Hargis (@chargis) February 3, 2016
While Rob and Damo both caught the essence of this brain-bender:
Memento: Wait, explain it to me again#ImprovedMovieTaglines
— Rob who? (@papermonkeynz) February 3, 2016
Arrived late and missed the start? No you didn’t! #ImprovedMovieTaglines pic.twitter.com/UGIwqO4QN0
— ᗪᗩᗰO (@Kiely76) February 3, 2016
Misty called out Hollywood:
Based on a trilogy, but we’ll make 4 movies ’cause cash#ImprovedMovieTaglines
— Misty may have (@DaiseyDoesIt) February 3, 2016
While Greg riffed a classic with another classic:
We’re going to need a bigger moat #ImprovedMovieTaglines pic.twitter.com/8UG0hNFIop
— greg bernhard (@GregBernhard) February 3, 2016
And Bradley crossed genre with this brilliant catch:
#ImprovedMovieTaglines Home Alone: Are you smarter than a 5th grader..?
— Bradley S. Howell (@BradleySHowell) February 3, 2016
There were SO MANY good ones this week, but the THREE i loved the most had to be
our regular F.L.O.P. appearee, Bunniboila with:
Wayne’s World
They’d Like To Teach The World To Schwing…#ImprovedMovieTaglines pic.twitter.com/DPeTIq2F8N— Bunniboila (@bunniboila) February 3, 2016
Followed by Barnaby with the absolute PUN of the week:
Titanic – Look Before You Leak! #ImprovedMovieTaglines
— Barnaby Griffin (@BarnabyGriffin) February 3, 2016
While John is my @AFrikkinHashtag Winner of the Week with this misdirection beauty:
Cocktail: Move over, Daniel Day Lewis, it’s Tom Cruise with the last of the mojitos #ImprovedMovieTaglines
— John Lund (@Lund_John_Lund) February 3, 2016
Thanks for joining us at the movies. HUGE THANKS to all of you for playing and especially all of you who made it on to the F.L.O.P. and once again to the incredible Christine Wonders [aka @googlegirl98] and Portmanteau Jones [aka @SadlyCatless] for schweet co-hostage – if you don’t follow them, please do, but preferably on the Twitterer.
We will see you all again at 1pm South African time [6am EST] this Wednesday for another fun-filled witty/clever/misdirectional/random game of FAMILY vibes and HUMOURific proportions so make sure you download the @HashtagRoundup app if you have not and play along with us and BRING YOUR FRIENDS.
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