ravens_nest said:
Jamienra said:
a japanese film called Casshern. After it finished i was the most confused i have probably ever been
I'll agree with that. It looked fucking awesome but it makes as much sense as my donut eating bat detector gun... Good film though, oh and it was Korean not Japanese...
My answer goes to the sublimely non-sensical Hitchhikers gudie to the galaxy... It's one of those rare films that thought having an obvious plot was completely optional yet it gets away with it because it's so damn good. Sum up the plot in a sentence, I dare you...
Man named Arthur Dent meets a woman at a party who he's attracted but who ends up ditching Arthur at a party for an alien later met by Arthur when he barely escapes the planet's destruction with another alien who happens to be a writer for an encyclopedic omnibus called "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and, after escaping the Vogon (who are a race of bureaucratic, horrible-poet aliens who wouldn't save their mothers from a ravenous beast without forms signed in triplicate) Ship end up being saved again by the aforementioned alien named Zaphod Beeblebrox who also happens to be the president of the galaxy and who has also just stolen an improbability drive-driven ship because nothing in the universe is impossible but highly improbable so that he [Zaphod] can acquire the question to "life, the universe, and everything" which happens to have an answer of 42 because an answer without a question is pointless and, while on this whirl-wind adventure ends up trading one of his two heads for coordinates to this planet which manufactures planets, like earth, and is manned by the alien Slartybartfest (or something like that) who shows them the corporation's different planet designs and explains that the Earth was manufactured and can be made again while it turns out that mice have been running the show and need Arthur in order to finish a billion year question-seeking cycle in order to figure out the question to the answer of "42," and all of this comes to some kind of crazy conclusion when Marvin (I think) ends up shooting the entire Vogon army with a woman-commissioned gun which makes others see things from the shooter's point of which, because Marvin is absolutely depressed, depresses the entire Vogon army into submission which allows the last Earthlings consisting of Arthur Dent and the woman at the party to rebuild their planet which essentially negates all of the previous actions but allows Arthur to undergo a character reformation and become stronger.
Okay, so maybe it's not a grammatically correct single sentence... actually, I'm pretty sure it is. However, I think that it is more than one
independent clause which is essentially what you were calling a sentence. However, there are an ass-ton of dependent clauses (relative, adverb, etc) in addition to tons and tons of other phrases such as participial. If you really wanted to stop someone who knows too much about English structure for his/her own good, you ought to have specified that he/she use only one independent clause (which would exclude compound and complex (sentences with dependent clauses) structures. I'm pretty sure that the subject in that sentence is Man and the verb is meets and rest (though there may be one other independent clause, oops) is just predicate (stuff that follows the subject if I remember correctly).
Yes, I do have too much time on my hands apparently. But it's also good grammar practice so yay for studying English on forums.
