You were spoilt for choice when it comes to California-related movies, so it's only right you weren't spoilt for word length as well. If Twitter is teaching us anything, it's the art of brevity, which lent many of your entries a haiku-like elegance.
The best of them worked hard to squeeze every one of those 140 characters for maximum impact, and threw in comedy, poetry and an evocation of some movie landscapes to boot.
A quintessentially Californian title certainly helped (Kiss Me Deadly, Repo Man, Chinatown, Mulholland Drive), as did a bit of alliteration (close call, Matt Reilly), a cheeky joke (nice one, Andrew Kenyon), or an appreciation of the form (nearly, Jonathan Eccles). But to win this competition, you had to cover all the angles.
To my surprise, the most popular title in the competition was not something from the major cities but Alexander Payne's charming comedy Sideways. The pastoral beauty and enviable lifestyle of the state's northern wine-making regions are clearly what many of you had in mind for your holiday – perhaps after a whistlestop celeb-spotting tour of Hollywood boutiques?
This winning entry by J Messenger somehow conjures the feeling of the film itself – intelligent, witty, sunny and offbeat. It does an impressive amount with very little, packs in some inspired wordplay, and it even rhymes! Well done. Have a glass of pinot noir on us. But take out your gum first.
THE WINNER:
SIDEWAYS glances on oenophiles' noses, Enjoy the daze of wine neuroses, Sip Hooray for the Grape Outdoors, as comedy reigns and pours
Julia Messenger
The shortlist:
SUNSET BOULEVARD. He knows her...She used to be in silent pictures...She used to be big! This movie is big. It's the review that got small.
Jonathan Eccles
BLADE RUNNER: Runner Rick retires replicants. Rutger's rain-riddled Roy ruminates. Rachael remains. Ridley's revolutionary robot romp rules!
Matt Reilly
FALLING DOWN: Cop nears pension amid racial tension.Loner snaps:sanity lapse.Golfers derided,Gangsters chided.LA on trial-a city in denial.
Rick Haswell-Cohen
HAROLD & MAUDE:Death-obsessed young M (own hearse) WLTM 70-something Bay-area beauty with lust for life.Must enjoy Cat Stevens and funerals.
Minnie Scott
TERMINATOR 2: killer cyborgs rip up LA, tin man finds heart to save humanity, fight ends in total meltdown, you leave cinema in golden state
Nick Cowan
VERTIGO: Scottie hates heights but mad about Madeleine. Detecting, dreaming, deceit, depression, denial, death. Scary stairs suddenly safe.
Kirsty Langley
KISS ME DEADLY: Just your average boy meets girl, thugs kill girl, boy can't prevent the world blowing up, apocalyptic film noir movie!
Steve Donovan
PRETTY WOMAN. Perky prostitute with big feet picks up mean old man and charms him into no longer having to pay for her services.
Louise Witts
BULLITT. Steve McQueen and an iconic car chase around San Francisco. Would it have been as cool if it had been filmed in Barrow-in-Furness?
Andrew Kenyon
