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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.

OP posts:
MoonriseKingdom · 04/04/2016 15:33

Turns out feminism is a really bad thing. The bees!

  • The Wicker Man remake with Nicholas Cage (really quite good fun if regarded as a comedy)
ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 04/04/2016 15:36

Younger brother is trying to take advantage of disabled older brother. (Rain Man)

Fast planes & testosterone overdose (Top Gun)

Girl gets better after horse riding accident (The Horse Whisperer)

Shite remake of Black Beauty (War Horse)

Man with sweary catchphrase wears dirty bloody vest and saves lives (Die Hard 1-6)

Men box (Rocky 1-6)

A house is being renovated (The Money Pit)

A baby is returned to his family in cold weather (Ice Age)

Heir to throne gets chased away then returns to claim throne (Lion King, Frozen)

People keep saying "nigger" (Django Unchained)

Brit pretends to be Kazakhstani and takes the piss (Borat)

Alcholic decides to drink himself to death (Leaving Las Vegas)

Man and friends rob a bank and commit other crimes (Ocen's 11-13)

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 04/04/2016 15:40

Talking bees win a court case then realise they fucked up (Bee Movie)

Spaceship gets fixed (Apollo 13)

Aerosmith advertises a song (Armageddon)

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 04/04/2016 15:52

Woman makes dress out of curtains. Doesn't allow American Civil War to stand in way of making money/nicking husbands. Blows hot and cold with love of life once too often. (Gone With The Wind)

Woman makes dress out of curtains. Doesn't allow impending WW2 to stand in way of nabbing bloke from fiancee despite ex-nun status. Likes kids. (Sound of Music)

Lweji · 04/04/2016 15:54

Love bites go wrong. (Interview with the vampire)

Mexican village plunderers are attacked by seven illegal immigrant gunmen, who like to take drugs (tobacco and liquor) and take the local women. (Magnificent seven) it leads to the Mexican government sending loads of illegal immigrants to the US so that a fence is built and patrolled at the expense of the US government

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WellThankYouAJPTaylor · 04/04/2016 16:23

Loveable idiots given time machine play fast and loose with laws of causality in order to pass school assignment (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)

quencher · 04/04/2016 16:36

A failed singer turned tap dancer travels north from the South Pole and ends up at an aquarium display park. In his quest for a better life and acceptance he finally realises that there is no place like home. He manages to communicate with a young little girl. He returns home to his fathers arms.
(Happy feet )

The struggles of a tap-dancing penguin in all singing world. ( happy feet )

Butteredparsnips · 04/04/2016 16:44

Charlie wins the chocolate factory after the other reality show contestants are voted off.

4 weddings, a funeral and a WH Auden poem

Single Mother says I do mamma mia

Lanark2 · 04/04/2016 16:51

Successful career woman goes home and all her achievements are ignored. She realises women can be successful, but everyone will hate them if they are. If you are successful, you will only be accepted if you infantalise yourself again. Then people will like you. You can never go back to the city again. (Sweet Home Alabama)

Lanark2 · 04/04/2016 16:53

Very cheap male prostitute (Free Willy)Grin

quencher · 04/04/2016 16:54

A chubby little girl who wants to become a beauty queen in America. Her family consisting of dead grand father who wants what is best for his grand child hidden in the van, colour blind brother who want to a be a pilot, a clueless mother and useless uncle embark on a journey to stardom were they ruined the whole competition. ( little miss sunshine )

Britney Spears biopic _ in relation to Britney Spears stint marriage in Vegas. I thought this would be fitting (what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas )

quencher · 04/04/2016 16:55

If you don't have time to bury a loved one take home with you ( little miss sunshine )

quencher · 04/04/2016 17:04

A woman finds out she has three potential fathers. Poor catchy singing with lots of dancing. (Mamma Mia )

A fancy word for male prostitute (European gigalo ) and the other gigalos too.

Lweji · 04/04/2016 17:12

Man drives Jaguar, switches to BMW, goes back to Jaguar. Blows up gadgets and drinks martinis. (James Bond series)

Tiny man steals neighbour's wife (it's ok, he was gay anyway) and finds oil in his land. (The giant)

Girl is prepped for high end prostitute career, but ends up as boring housewife. (Gigi)

Girl learns to speak posh and may or may not end up with her tutor. (My fair lady/Pygmalion)

MrsFring · 04/04/2016 17:21

Couple with treatable mental health conditions dance averagely well.

  • Silver Linings Playbook.

Gay couple shock horse.

  • Brokeback Mountain.
quencher · 04/04/2016 17:27

Three women sent on missions. (Charlie's Angels )

Middle age men with midlife crisis embark on a mission to find themselves by becoming bikers and going on a road trip. (wild hogs)

Shoot, kill, fight, drive, sleep with a good looking woman, end off ( any Jason statham movie)

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 04/04/2016 17:27

Jack Nicholson is livid coz his head gets stuck in a door (The Shining)

Only survivor of plane wreck has football for best friend and gets found after 4 years (Cast Away)

Oceanliner takes icebucket challange a step too far (Titanic)

Blue parrots sing & stuff (Rio & Rio 2)

Couple has 12 children and their lives are chaotic (Cheaper by the dozen)

Unsurprisingly, a live dino park test run goes tits up (Jurassic Park)

Brad Pitt is incomprehensible (Snatch)

Talking sperm turns into a baby (Look who's talking)

A guy finds a skull. It's foggy (Hamlet)

Good twin replaces evil twin on throne (Man in the Iron Mask)

Woman is definitely BU secretly BFing employer's baby (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle)

Rich bloke gets chest bling (Iron Man)

Woman gets widowed twice and procrastinates a lot (Gone with the Wind)

Joey is an astronaut (Lost in Space)

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 04/04/2016 17:30

Mr Bean pretends to be a spy (Jonny English films)

quencher · 04/04/2016 17:33

The Rio carnival from a birds view. Kidnap, theft, loss, revenge, singing dancing, and a wonderful Holliday. (Rio 1 )

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 04/04/2016 17:35

Stuff about the Mafia (Godfather 1-3, Goodfellas, Donny Brosco etc etc etc)

MrsFring · 04/04/2016 17:36

Penguin isn't really a chicken.

  • The Wrong Trousers.
ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 04/04/2016 17:37

Cowboy squints. A lot. (Any Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western)

butteredmuffin · 04/04/2016 17:39

Man eats too much cheese and has crazy dreams (Wallace and Gromit - A Grand Day Out)