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Explain a film plot badly

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ThunderInMyHeart · 02/04/2016 09:14

Just read about this as I think it's "trending". I reckon we could come up with a pretty good list...

e.g. 'young girl leaves home to live with 7 strange men' (Snow White)

Your turn.

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JacobFryesTopHatLackey · 03/04/2016 20:00

Man sings to prostitute. (Moulin Rouge)
Strange, eccentric man offers children sweets. (Charlie and the chocolate factory)

JacobFryesTopHatLackey · 03/04/2016 20:01

Man sings to prostitute. (Moulin Rouge)
Strange, eccentric man offers children sweets. (Charlie and the chocolate factory)

StrictlyMumDancing · 03/04/2016 20:02

Spoilt posh boy wins world title only after rival catches fire (rush)

lljkk · 03/04/2016 20:29

Escape from London to the peaceful countryside (Hot Fuzz)
Man decides to accept his undead step-father (Shaun of the Dead)
It's never too late to start a fitness regime (Run Fat Boy Run)

Spirael · 03/04/2016 20:30

Girl ignores birthright (Anastasia)

Orphan gets adopted (Annie)

Unlucky cowgirl (Calamity Jane)

Boy falls in river (Water Babies)

Rabbits die (Watership Down)

Girl takes the long route home (Wizard of Oz)

corythatwas · 03/04/2016 20:53

Boy groomed by local industrialist (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

Party of French aristocrats and American revolutionary in pursuit of the perfect outfit
(The Night in Varennes)

British villagers sacrifice all for coveted prize
(Hot Fuzz)

Rupert Graves is sexier than Hugh Grant
(Maurice)

Playing chess doesn't get you anywhere in life
(The Seventh Seal)

Heeeelp!!! where did I put my sunglasses!!! it's sooo pink!!!
(The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)

Sleazy middle-aged men perve from rooftops
(Wings of desire)

or slightly less succinct:

If you are a beautiful, talented young woman who can do amazing things in a trapeze what you need to make life worthwhile is a sleazy middle-aged man to look up your skirts
(Wings of Desire)

and some useful advice to be derived from films:

always confirm receipt of email
(Romeo and Juliet)

never take relationship advice from a celibate
(also Romeo and Juliet)

avoid dentists and men in Lederhosen
(Buddenbrooks)

refer to MN for identifying signs of a man child
(Look Back In Anger)

quietbatperson · 03/04/2016 21:00

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mathanxiety · 03/04/2016 21:04

Just after the end of World War II the city of Vienna is crawling with foreigners and bombed to ruins, but still has an intact and functioning sewer system. (The Third Man)

Lweji · 03/04/2016 21:09

Boy is trained by bearded bloke in a hooded robe and falls for cradle snatcher former queen.
His annoying CGI sidekick and an evil Republican senator (no, not Cruz) make him turn his back on his friends. He gets a new shiny black helmet as reward.
(Star Wars episodes 1-3)

CaveMum · 03/04/2016 21:30

John Tucker behaves like a twat: girls take revenge (John Tucker Must Die)

Spoilt rich girl interferes in everyone's love lives (Emma/Clueless)

She's judgemental, he's stuck up. They get married (Pride & Prejudice)

HooseRice · 03/04/2016 21:42

A fall out over shoes (the Wizard of Oz)

SugarplumMary · 03/04/2016 22:08

Routine space mission goes bad really fast - only one make it back to earth (gravity)

Two friends fall out of a woman with lots of betray and some kind of secret organisation apparently trying to organise a rebellion fitting in somewhere with lost of great customs and a very sudden change of season (HouseofFlying_Daggers)

quencher · 03/04/2016 22:10

Four penguins hijack a ship carrying zoo animals to the coast of Madagascar. The lions domesticated lion gets hungry and friends become prey. Friends come up with a plan by fishing. And they leave happily until they get on the same ship heading to the mainland Africa. ( Madagascar 1 almost 2 )

Man has sex, goes on the train meets a woman, eye contact only, man has sex, meets his sister naked, man has more sex, sex, helps his sister, man gets on the train eye contact with same woman. Woman interested, man isn't. The end (shame )

quencher · 03/04/2016 22:12

Man befriends a teddy bear. ( ted )

quencher · 03/04/2016 22:20

Road trip from hell, a priests faith is tested to the max in ( from dusk till dawn )

A man wins a holiday to France by accident. On his trip he kidnaps a little boy, meets a woman, stars in a movie. He mummers and never speaks throughout the movie. ( mr. Beans holiday )

EverySongbirdSays · 03/04/2016 22:23

90 minute commercial for an overpriced toy range

The LEGO Movie

quencher · 03/04/2016 22:26

Unfit man runs a race to please his hard working ex wife and child after failing as a competent husband. ( run fat boy run )

Lweji · 03/04/2016 22:29

Man breaks tradition by screaming good morning on radio in a war torn country. (Good morning Vietnam)

Boy reads a book and the nothing happens. (Never ending story)

quencher · 03/04/2016 22:33

A bored doctor becomes the last king of Scotland by blind folding himself, dropping a pin on the map of Uganda on the globe and traveling there. (The last king of Scotland)

A man denies his British heritage to protect himself and become friends with the president. ( last king of Scotland )

Voteforpedr0 · 03/04/2016 22:41

Man stranded passes time talking to a round object (Castaway)

Boy wants to find certain coloured piece of paper to walk about a food production building. (Charlie and the chocolate factory)

Gryla · 03/04/2016 22:44

Very pretty blue eyed man playing someone in British army meets another good looking man in flowing robes at new man's water hole - think someone is shot - lots of camels, sand, fighting long dessert trek someone gets annoyed when a picture is taken - all goes to shit and sort of peters out - vaguely historical ( Laurence of Arabia)

Voteforpedr0 · 03/04/2016 22:45

Transgender parent desperate to provide childcare to kids. Mrs Doubtfire

quencher · 03/04/2016 22:51

Two men and woman fight over a realistic looking woman with lots of issues. ( Bridget jones diary )

A man who thinks he is a God sent to all women after being struck by lightening. ( what women want )

It must be stars wars but it's not,lots of flat heads and time-travel, two class systems it must be earth, no it's Mars ( John Carter )

A young girl falls in the field of poppies, gets high and hallucinates ( wizard of oz )

ShamefulPlaceMarker · 03/04/2016 22:51

Depressed kid runs away (where the wild things are)

Voteforpedr0 · 03/04/2016 22:58

Guy struggles to look after his morbidly obese mother ( What's eating Gilbert grape)