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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:
Gobbolino6 · 02/04/2016 22:00

Boy's mother is brutally murdered, he is kept a virtual recluse by his father before rebelling and escaping on a journey of self-discovery with an amnesiac stranger.

Finding Nemo.

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 02/04/2016 22:10

Single father's battle to rescue his disabled son.

StuRedman · 02/04/2016 22:14

Crew leave dead comrade on distant planet. He isn't dead.

(The Martian)

NomNomNominativeDeterminism · 02/04/2016 22:22

Most of these seem like pretty accurate plot descriptions to me. Just sayin'.

Gobbolino6 · 02/04/2016 22:55

Mermaid almost loses her own soul because she can't find a pen.

Itinerary · 02/04/2016 23:20

Most of these seem like pretty accurate plot descriptions to me. Just sayin'.

Grin

Nun becomes a governess and sings on mountains.

Star Wars

Shirkingfromhome · 02/04/2016 23:33

It's that one that thingy from neighbours was in. I can't remember it, neither can he Grin

quencher · 03/04/2016 09:51

A destiny's child vs Beyoncé biopic. ( dream girls )

A nun becomes a music teacher in a deprived are area. Finds a few singing gems and win competition to pay for the falling roof. ( Sister act )

Politics, assassinations and attempted assassination , entitled little fucker, dictatorship, royalty, traitors, failure, disappointment, revenge, sorcery, pride, tradition,
All is forgotten when The songs play.

( the lion king )

NerrSnerr · 03/04/2016 09:54

Teenagers want to have sex (American Pie)
Jamaicans are crap in the cold and the egg (Cool Runnings)
Psychopath gets groundbreaking treatment (A clockwork orange)

SafetyLast · 03/04/2016 10:08

A man on a quest to find the perfect coat.
(The silence of the lambs)

SafetyLast · 03/04/2016 10:12

A young female orphan is adopted by a single, older man. Social Services do not get involved.
(Annie)

quencher · 03/04/2016 10:22

Scientist made manna ( cloudy with a chance of meatballs)

The chef's assistant is a vermin, rodent hiding in the kitchen. The rival chef smells a rat. They lose all their customers except the food critique and his followers. ( Ratatouille)

JaneHair · 03/04/2016 10:46

Woman realises that the handsome man who loves her is actually a bit of alright.

(Gone with the Wind)

Shirkingfromhome · 03/04/2016 10:50

Man jumps off ski jump (Eddie the Eagle)

Shirkingfromhome · 03/04/2016 10:51

Bobsleigh team don't win (cool runnings)

counterpoint · 03/04/2016 10:57

Woman driver with passenger drives off cliff. (Thelma and Louise)

MrsJayy · 03/04/2016 11:04

Parents leave son behind TWICE (home alones)

cranberryx · 03/04/2016 11:06

Everyone is John Malkovich.

MrsJayy · 03/04/2016 11:07

3 children handed over to strange european man Despicible me

Lweji · 03/04/2016 11:14

Ship sinks

what film is that, Flora?

It's Perfect Storm, of course. Wink

ohidoliketobe · 03/04/2016 11:22

I can't believe no one else has used this perfect opportunity to quote Malcolm Tucker!

"The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego. They're all made of fucking lego."

Star Wars

Lweji · 03/04/2016 11:27

Illegal alien introduces itself, reproduces, and takes over US ship/farming community/prison facility, finally mixing with the pollution.

(Aliens 1-4)

Illegal alien goes hunting.

(Predator)

Killing bots keep coming back, baby.

(Terminators)

Lweji · 03/04/2016 11:27

Population, not pollution!

LauraChant · 03/04/2016 11:28

I came on here to quote Malcolm Tucker but I see I have been beaten to it.

SirBernardWoolley · 03/04/2016 11:30

Bored aristocrat convinces group of peasants to follow him in crime spree (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves)

Some men do lots of running in races. They win some, lose some (Chariots of Fire)

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