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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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dizzytomato · 04/04/2016 02:16

A bunch of unemoloyed men who claim to see spirits and drive around New York in an old ambulance, setting off nuclear bombs and covering the city in marshmallow.

Ghostbusters

Grohlette · 04/04/2016 02:18

Teenage losers all have Saturday morning detention, chat for hours and all realise they have a lot in common
'Breakfast Club'

Guy on desert island makes mates with a football and talks to himself a lot
'Cast away'

Little boys toys all come alive and there is an alpha male struggle between the cowboy and the astronaut. In the second film in the series the woman comes along and sorts them both out
Toy Story 1 & 2!

dizzytomato · 04/04/2016 02:30

An orphan from a war torn land is illegally adopted by an old couple in the American midwest, when he grows up to discover he has hidden talents he bites off a bit more than he can chew.

Superman

Multi-Millionaire with PTSD dresses up in strange outfits and goes out attacking the criminally insane.

Batman

Class geek suffers a severe attack from a venemous spider and develops strange side affects.

Spiderman

dizzytomato · 04/04/2016 02:34

Genetically mutated rat takes over the mind of a French man

Ratatouille

I need to stop now, this is addictive Grin

seadragonusgiganticusmaximus · 04/04/2016 06:12

Bored housewife on the brink of having an affair instead finds fulfillment with exciting new career (True Lies)

Man dies horribly (Anything with Sean Bean in it)

Dowser · 04/04/2016 08:14

Gorgeous sexy, hunky man dies and the rest of the film is shite.

( ps I love you!)

SausagesAndLaughter · 04/04/2016 08:50

A man drives a fast car, shoots people and has a bit of sex (James Bond)

SausagesAndLaughter · 04/04/2016 08:59

A bored woman fucks off abroad to "find herself". She generally fannies about before shacking up with a Brazilian. (Eat, Pray, Love).

JessTitchener · 04/04/2016 09:08

Should have gone on a spa day.

The Descent.

MrsJayy · 04/04/2016 09:11

anything with sean bean Grin.

Man is pissed off shoots people (falling down)

Southwestwhippet · 04/04/2016 09:17

Stroppy teen turns mother into a bear in fit of pique - Brave

Family employ nanny with dubious Attitude to health and safety - Mary Poppins

Man wakes up,to find everyone is a zombie - 21 days later

ThomasRichard · 04/04/2016 09:27

Two blokes have a fight and make a mess.

(Batman vs Superman)

Newes · 04/04/2016 09:29

Pedant goes a bit OTT about the definition of the word 'funny'
Goodfellas

OneMagnumisneverenough · 04/04/2016 09:31

Pandamonium

Kung Fu panda 1,2,and 3

ThomasRichard · 04/04/2016 09:34

Man's business fails but he gets a girlfriend.

(Hitch)

Pollaidh · 04/04/2016 09:51

One man's quest to rescue sister kills far more people than it saves. (Vertical Limit)

Lweji · 04/04/2016 10:12

A small group of young people get paranoid in a forest and lose their camera.
(Blair Witch Project)

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 04/04/2016 10:36

Bowling fan loses carpet. (The BIg Lebowski)

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 04/04/2016 10:40

Bowling fan loses rug.

Ahem.

SuffolkNWhat · 04/04/2016 10:41

British government subjected to sustained terror attack. Everyone is fine about it.

(V for Vendetta)

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 04/04/2016 10:43

Like the sensation of feeling car sick? Then eighty minutes' hand held camera footage of a monster running amok in Manhattan is for you.
(Cloverfield).

quencher · 04/04/2016 10:45

A woman and two men fall in love with each other. They produce good strain of weed for growing in South America. The business becomes tricky they meet up with the South American drug lord/ was woman. All three die for the love of each other. (Savages )

A man manages to be converted and transfer himself into an avatar. Befriends the natives, falls in love. He becomes rogue and goes native. (Avatar )

Experts in car theft. (Gone in sixty seconds)

Who knew you could be an ordinary scared little teen today with bushy eyebrows and unkept hair to a princes the next day whizzing around in a limo.

It must be the lottery (princes diary 1) in two she finds herself and learns more manners or etiquette on how to become queen while fighting off the person who wants to supersede her (2)

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 04/04/2016 10:49

Men drive Saab, drink wine, make regrettable phone calls. (Sideways)

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 04/04/2016 10:53

Scissor-dodging woman wins freedom, goes nc with mother. (Rapunzel)

InteriorLulu · 04/04/2016 10:56

The story of a little boy who has the imp in him
(The Omen)

Group hide from Zombies in a pub
(Shaun of the Dead)

Fat girl looks thin. With hilarious consequences.
(Shallow Hal)

Policeman visits remote island and gets burnt alive
(The Wicker Man)