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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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quencher · 05/04/2016 13:53

Actors making up the story line as they film goes a long. No sense of storyline. Middle aged men behaving badly and wishing it was what they did when younger. (Grown ups 2)

Watch and learn. This is how climate change comes about and capitalism operate. No more green trees and air is for sale. The grinch behind climate change and mr. Burns as the capitalist git . ( The lorax )

Lweji · 05/04/2016 14:42

An adult female goes to another planet and marries a man with a son. She eventually decides to stay. (My stepmother is an alien)

AugustinaDuBois · 05/04/2016 15:00

Man fights and murders many people whilst shagging a lot. Is paid to do this.
Strong racist and sexist overtones throughout film.

Every James Bond film ever

chelle87 · 05/04/2016 17:41

A man's wife and kids are brutally slaughtered.his one remaining child is kidnapped.he is then stalked by a dementia patient on his journey to find his son.-Finding nemo
( i didn't do it right but saw a funny version on FB )

OrlandaFuriosa · 05/04/2016 18:30

From DH

Mission is supposed to be impossible but isn't. mission impossible

People set out on journey but decide to come back again. Apollo 13

OrlandaFuriosa · 05/04/2016 18:32

Woman falls in love with man who doesn't give a damn. Gone with the wind

Another DH one

bolleauxnouveau · 05/04/2016 20:36

Breaking the ice ruins the party - Titanic

sereniti · 06/04/2016 13:11

People video themselves at night , while things move by themselves. All paranormal activity films

quencher · 06/04/2016 13:23

The events in the movie literally follow the title form eating in the US to praying and then finding love. (Eat, pray, love )

51 dates in a movie because the woman wakes up having forgotten the previous day. ( 51st dates )

How far can a young man go without penetrative sex? A movie that acts to prove that men think about sex more than women. what would happen if they don't wonk in the meantime. (40 days and 40 nights)

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 06/04/2016 13:35

Something is going on then vampires appear until sun up.
(From dusk till dawn)

Undercover agent fucks up and dies (Reservoir dogs)

Robots fight (Transformers)

Green jelly bounces about (Flubber)

Guys vacuum up ghosts (Ghostbusters)

Woman escapes being murdered by kicking off one shoe (Copycat)

Black cop is too old for that shit (Leathel Weapons 1-4)

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 06/04/2016 13:42

People have unreasonable employers (Horrible Bosses)

Extremely long history lesson of gladiators uprising (Ben Hur)

People have ornithophobia (Birds)

Man kills woman in shower (Psycho)

Bear steals pic-a-nic baskets (Yogi Bear)

Guy wears headband in jungle (Rambo)

Jury duty (12 Angry Men)

Heston Blumenthal's prototype menu of human organs with beans and wine is popular with exactly one man (Silence of the Lambs)

JessTitchener · 06/04/2016 13:51

Should have gone to Centre Parcs.

Deliverance

quencher · 06/04/2016 14:16

A two part movie. First half, father and children going on holiday and they get kidnap. Second half is when they enter a bar and the movie turns into a vampire movie and the kidnapped and the kidnappers join forces to fight evil.

(From dusk till dawn )

quencher · 06/04/2016 14:31

A book writer with agoraphobia who uses a male pseudonym decides to go on a guest. Ends up on an island run by a little girl because her irresponsible father left her on her own.
(Nim's island )

GhostOfChristmasPresents · 09/04/2016 20:42

Detective does detection, wears jumper.
(The Killing 1,2 and 3-hopefully boxsets are OK)

mrsjskelton · 09/04/2016 21:15

A man wants to get home today but instead gets home two days late.

Planes, trains and automobiles.

bolleauxnouveau · 16/04/2016 20:57

Swallows and Amazons - rival gangs in a turf war unite against a common enemy.

SandyMumsnet · 20/04/2016 14:50

Hi everyone,

We're just going to sweep this great thread into films. OP do shout if this is a problem for you. Flowers

toadgirl · 18/07/2016 16:57

These are hilarious, brevity being the soul of wit and all that.

Here's mine:-

Really annoying guy starts building stuff out of his mashed potatoes and really pissing his wife and kids off. They leave him. He gets into a spaceship and goes off for a good probing session by some aliens.

(Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Fadingmemory · 25/07/2016 00:46

Hot men sliding in cold place. (Cool Runnings)

user1469376681 · 25/07/2016 01:00

Mother and Father to be attacked. One child survives but with a disability, he then goes missing on his way to school. Father goes searching and with the help of someone with a Learning disability they find his son sfter almost being killed.
Finding Nemo

Destinysdaughter · 25/07/2016 01:06

Slightly overweight woman dates her posh boss. He dumps her, then realises another posh bloke fancies her. first posh bloke comes back. 2 posh blokes have a fight. Time passes. It's snowing. She snogs second posh bloke in the street half dressed. The end.

Destinysdaughter · 25/07/2016 01:08

Oops Bridget Jones Diary. Also everyone drinks, smokes and swears. A lot Smile

JakeBallardswife · 25/07/2016 01:15

Rabbits look over a hill. ( watership down)

ipswichwitch · 25/07/2016 01:16

Young man has some daddy issues (Star Wars)