Ryan Mullaney at 2010-11-15 15:27:19:
Sorry, but those "good loglines" kinda suck. The second and third completely fail to tell us what the hero is spending 110 pages trying to accomplish.
If a logline does not include the task that must be completed in order for the story to conclude, then it is not a proper logline.
You cannot accurately describe Jaws, for example, with a logline like this: 'A killer shark terrorizes a beach'. You have to include the part about the hero trying to stop the shark, which is literally what Jaws is all about.
The active, physical pursuit of a specific goal is the #1 most important part of a logline. If you don't have that, then you don't have a good logline.