The Academy Asked Twitter to Describe Their Favorite Movies in 5 Words — Hilarity Ensued

Updated on 8/1/2018 at 6:00 PM

Twitter never fails to pleasantly surprise us. On Tuesday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences asked its followers to describe the plot of their favorite movie in just five words. Anyone fluent in Twitter should already be pretty used to condensing their thoughts in a few hundred characters, but five words is a pretty big limit. However, the movie lovers of Twitter did not disappoint. Some responses were amazingly well worded, some inspired head scratching, and others were just plain hilarious. See the standouts ahead and try to guess which movies they're referring to!

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The Academy Asked Twitter to Describe Their Favorite Movies in 5 Words — Hilarity Ensued

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