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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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DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 04/04/2016 19:22

Heist caper {cringe} movie with starry cast and little chemistry but made inexplicably vast sums of money.

(Oceans 11, 12 and 13)

SausagesAndLaughter · 04/04/2016 19:22

A cocky young upstart bunks off from school [Ferris Bueller's Day Off]

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 04/04/2016 19:25

That b+w film where Orson Welles runs around Vienna

(The Third Man)

MrsFring · 04/04/2016 19:31

Caged love birds cause a ridiculous over-reaction.

  • The Birds.
Lweji · 04/04/2016 19:32

Someone killed someone's father and should die for it. There may be a princess and someone who wants to marry her and a discusting pirate. (Princess bride)

quencher · 04/04/2016 19:39

Father who has been cockhold and daughter with relationship issues like the same man. Daughter falls in love with the man. Father hates the mans behaviour and attitude. Daughter brings him home to meet the parents. All hell breaks loose with family and babysitter's father ( crazy stupid love )

quencher · 04/04/2016 19:43

The squirrel just doesn't drop that damn acorn. ( ice age 1+)

MrsFring · 04/04/2016 19:50

A teenager kills loads of people and it's totally his mothers fault. It might not be though.

  • We need to talk about Kevin.
pointythings · 04/04/2016 20:13

Slacking debt collectors find alien object (Repo Man)

pointythings · 04/04/2016 20:16

Another one from DH: Homicidal writer eats bugs (Naked Lunch)

Lweji · 04/04/2016 20:48

A man is convinced some people want him dead. Except he's not, he's just paranoid. Except he's not, some people do want him dead. (Conspiracy theory)

Two cops. One is too old for that shit. The other is too crazy. (Lethal weapon)

A gambler's dad pretends not to know him. (Maverick)

Crop circles are made by aliens who are afraid of water. (Signs)

SinisterBumFacedCat · 04/04/2016 20:51

Pensioner absconds care home, abducts small boy and breaks health and safety regulations and the laws of science (Up)

SinisterBumFacedCat · 04/04/2016 20:55

Flash hit shags 2 girls in a field. Alcholism. Domestic Violence. Teenage pregnancy. Union Jack duvet cover. (Rita, Sue and Bob too)

ShamefulPlaceMarker · 04/04/2016 21:01

Skating girls who punch each other (whip it)

kennyp · 04/04/2016 21:12

disruptive teens at detention (breakfast club)

woman meets man thenthey break up (about last night)

actor wears his mothers clothes (tootsie)

man in ill fitting suits likes prostitute (pretty woman)

two women in a nice car drive off a cliff (thema and louise)

comedy japes with jude law and european destinations (spy)

children who've evaded the local pru get a new stepmother (nanny mc phee)

has anyone seen the rich hall thing he does about tom cruise and the tom cruise film plots? it's genius and on youtube somehwere but i wouldn't know how to upload it.

kennyp · 04/04/2016 21:14

vermin disrupt a bachelor's life (alvin and chipmunks)

AllisonWonderland · 04/04/2016 22:01

I've seen Rich Hall do that piece Kenny, it's really funny.

Teenagers are ultimately all the same, except only one can put lipstick on using her bra - breakfast club (again!)

Poor black guy gets rich, while rich white guy gets poor. Jamie Lee Curtis shows her taa-taas then something impossible to understand happens at the stock exchange - Trading Places

Dysfunctional family bonds over dysfunctional automobile, then someone dies and everyone else dances - Little Miss Sunshine

Twentysomethings pretending to be teens engage in a series of high school flash mobs - Grease

Man going backwards meets himself going forwards - back to the future

Truck is ostracised from the vehicle community for leaking oil, until they realise he didn't - Cars 2

buildalegohouse · 04/04/2016 22:17

4 kids come out of a closet

(The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe OR One Direction:This is Us)

Admittedly I stole this from tumblr...

NightWanderer · 05/04/2016 02:33

Gay men on a mountain (Lord of the Rings)

EdithBouvierBeale · 05/04/2016 11:09

Boy meet girl. Boy loses girl. They sing and dance. Boy gets girl back.

Any Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly etc musical

Voteforpedr0 · 05/04/2016 11:22

Mans phone gets swapped by accident with woman's, they swap childcare in a very busy city then end up the perfect blended family (one fine day)

cantcookshouldntcook · 05/04/2016 11:39

Crazy lady abducts child, locks her up and grooms her (repunzel)

PreemptiveSalvageEngineer · 05/04/2016 12:18

3-4 ethnic men -no stranger themselves to appearance flaws -relentlessly ridicule an overweight woman, as well as sing, play piano and harp whether or not the plot calls for it. (Every Marx Brothers film. Ever)

quencher · 05/04/2016 13:32

The only white male to have got the memo to use the n-word in almost every movie he makes, directs or produces (Quentin Tarantino )

A lovely girl had to change her self to please a boy and be accepted with the in crowd. (Grease )

quencher · 05/04/2016 13:40

The only person to not realise they were having a dream this man who thought every one else had amnesia. When he wakes up he changes his ways. Boho ( family man )

A man clicks on a remote control and loses his sense of realty. Everything changes. When he wakes up he decides to change his ways. Family is now important thing. (Click)