A friend posted the instruction to, "...Post the most boring description of a movie..."
The results were totally hilarious, and some of them were quite the puzzle, too!
The rules are simple: Just post the most boring description of a movie (don't say the name!) and let people guess.
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Example: "Band plays benefit for an orphanage."
Answer: The Blues Brothers
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Example: "Nazi's foil a grave robber."
Answer: Raiders of the Lost Ark
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So hubskiers... Show me whatcha got!
A few people finish a boat ride from Europe to the US.
This is actually a useful writing exercise for reasons that have been largely lost to time, because Hollywood is bullshit and everything sucks now. "High Concept" is a term that was used from about 1997 to about 2014 or so. It was never used correctly; "high concept" basically described something that was humongous and expensive because, you see, all good things are "high concept." The ironic thing is that 'high concept' was a term coined by Michael Eisner and Barry Diller to describe what they were looking for in concepts for the ABC Movie of the Week. ABC was trailing NBC and CBS by a stupid amount and had no budget for anything and they had time to fill. So they had this weird experimental two-hour slot where they could try out pilots and stuff. And since there was no budget whatsoever, the only advertising they would ever get was in the description in TV Guide. So. Barry Diller ends up running Paramount until 1984, at which point he starts Fox. Michael Eisner ends up running Disney from 1984 to 2005. And both of them said "high concept" often enough that everyone knew that everyone knew that "high concept" meant "something the heads of Paramount, Fox and Disney demand of you" but almost nobody knew that it literally meant "Gidget Grows Up." So. "The most boring description of a movie" was originally the best advertising that film was ever going to get, and now it's become a parlor game. 
That's the point, though: for 30 years, plots have been about cutting through obfuscation. "A small town sheriff goes fishing to make his beaches safer" still sounds kinda dope. "Farm boy leaves home to return misdelivered mail" - you'd watch that even if you didn't know the farmboy is Luke Skywalker. It's the navel-staring movies that fall apart - do a boring capsule for Syriana and no one will know what the fuck you're talking about. See, you can't even do it - "band seeks (yet another) drummer" is plenty to engage you and it isn't even what Spinal Tap is about. Rock Star did pretty good ratings. A good movie you have to lie about what it's about to obfuscate it properly. "Annoyed with traffic, commuter abandons vehicle and walks home." That's the inciting incident, not the plot - the plot is "retiring cop must tie up one last loose end" and even that language is loaded with meaning. This is how "The Emoji Movie" gets made - nobody gives a fuck what it's about, it's two hours worth of emojis so people are gonna see that. "Cats?" "Cats run around singing about stupid shit" (never watched it, not an Andrew Lloyd Weber fan). You have to take it to bad movies - "house cleaner saves the universe" - and even there you can tell that Jupiter Ascending should have been awesome. "Man helps son on hike" - After Earth fails in the execution. Which, really, shows you a lot about twist movies in general and M. Night Shamalyan in particular: "Cult lives in a forest." If the basic bones are there, you can't hide them.
A rock appears. 164 minutes of reaction to the rock follow, concluding with a light show.
Shipwreck survivor fights primitives, shacks up with dumb blonde and shouts at a statue.
Can’t find it now, but Four Word Film Review had a classic: Nutter slices mumbling baldie
A son discovers the lies were just hyperbole.
A retarded mans journey through American history to fatherhood.
Troubled out of towner rejects New York City, fights air force.
Born loser commits identity fraud to further his career.
After arriving at a small town, a stranger manipulates young children to help him avoid scrutiny by the authorities.
Woman commits larceny and escapes to a small town motel.
A man and his dog befriend some ferals in the desert and take them to the beach.
Accepted? Good ol’ South Harmon Institute of Technology