History BetterThanItSounds / Film

* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheLordOfTheRings]]'': Midget destroys stolen property, is stranded in the desert during the last days of the war.
** ''[[spoiler: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'': A group of unrelated men fight off claimants to a jewelry inheritance.

** ''[[spoiler: Return of the King]]'': Defective merchandise is returned to the manufacturer, causing it to go out of business due to the resulting upheaval.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheLordOfTheRings]]'': Midget destroys stolen property. Fights break out.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheLordOfTheRings]]'': People fight over a piece of jewelry.
** ''[[spoiler: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'': Nine men try to return a piece of jewelry to the factory it came from. Two of them die during the trip.
** ''[[spoiler: The Two Towers]]'': Aristocrat and his servant trying to return a piece of jewelry help a man with multiple personality disorder.
** ''[[spoiler: Return of the King]]'': Ring is returned to the factory. Factory Owner blows up the place as result. Everyone else celebrates [[EndingFatigue for a really long time.]]
*** Alternatively: Midget destroys stolen property.

* ''[[spoiler:TheWizardOfOz]]'': Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she runs into and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. (This actually appeared as a capsule synopsis in a TV guide, making it the UrExample; [[http://www.suddenlysenior.com/vanostrandmoviequiz.html More where that one came from, but with a few factual errors]])

*** On top of it, said ninja falls in love with an undergraduate of Law school that pretends she's a District Attorney, and has his combat equipment designed by the eponymous driver from The Driver of Ms. Daisy.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/BeautyAndTheBeast]]'': Young woman is captured by violent fanged monster, and talks to furniture and crockery. Fortunately, [[LoveRedeems she convinces her captor to not be such an ass,]] and everyone lives HappilyEverAfter. Except for a Bruce Campbell lookalike, who [[DisneyVillainDeath falls off a building.]]

** or, french woman gets kidnapped. Developes Stolkholm Syndrome.

* ''[[spoiler: ChildsPlay]]'': Criminal becomes shorter and frames a kid.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs}}]]'': A BunglingInventor creates a machine to make food out of water so everyone won't have to eat sardines.

* [[spoiler: ''Crank'']]: A very angry man will die if he stops moving.

* ''[[spoiler:Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'': A popular TV story, [[CompressedAdaptation compressed]]. Some AdaptationDecay, made more severe by later seasons of the show.

*** Alternatively, The sane man shows a bunch of pacifists the goods of mass murder, and how you should never trust yellow people.

* ''[[spoiler: Godzilla]]''[[spoiler: (1998, American)]]: Sea critter gets stuck with a misnomer and tries to nest despite humans disturbing the area.

** [[spoiler: ''Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Movie'']]: The Bee Gees steal a bunch of musical instruments from Aerosmith's hired goons, and it's almost a downer ending until the weather vane comes to life.

* ''[[spoiler:Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle]]'': Two stoners have difficulty finding their favorite restaurant.

* ''[[spoiler: Precious]]'': Teenage girl fights with mother over pregnancy, then writes about it in her diary.

* ''[[spoiler:{{The Prestige}}]]'': [[Film/XMen Wolverine]] hires DavidBowie to build a teleporter so he can frame [[DarkKnightSaga Batman]] for murder.

** ''[[spoiler:Spider-Man 3]]'': Alien turns crimefighter into aggressive man who does Tony Manero impressions.

*** ''[[spoiler: X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'': Angry Canadian wants to kill his brother, and asks the help of evil colonel.

* ''[[spoiler: Zodiac]]'': Police fail to find a serial killer.

** ''[[spoiler: BatmanBegins]]'': Ninja detective fights Irish ninja and Irish mad scientist that wears a bag on his head.

* [[spoiler: ''Equilibrium'']]: In a futuristic dystopia that has outlawed ''emotions'', a former enforcer of the system must fight for freedom with laughably unrealistic gunfighting skills.

* ''[[spoiler: United 93]]'': [[KnightTemplar Religious nuts]] try to fly planes. BasedOnATrueStory.
* ''[[spoiler: {{WallE}}]]'': A garbage worker goes on a mission to save his his trigger-happy girlfriend and inadvertantly saves the human race

** ''[[spoiler:Lo]]'':The main character paints a circle in his apartment floor, spends the entire film sitting in that circle.

* [[spoiler: ''Equilibrium'']]: In a futuristic dystopia that has outlawed 'emotions', a former enforcer of the system must fight for freedom with laughably unrealistic gunfighting skills.

* ''[[spoiler: ApocalypseNow]]'': Stan, Kyle, and Kenny go looking for Cartman in the jungle. Predictably, everybody they meet has lost their marbles. Kenny gets his head cut off. So does a water buffalo. Guest starring Morpheus and Han Solo.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Kick-Ass}}]]'': Teen discovers being a hero hurts a lot.

*** Alternatively: Nine gay guys take a trip to New Zealand, but none of them come out of the closet. Half the cast are midgets.

* ''[[spoiler: ThePassionOfTheChrist]]'': A nice guy shows up and tries to help, but the last half of the movie is him getting tortured to death.

*** Alternatively: [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses A guy with a sword. His father. They don't get along.]]

*** Alternatively: Nine gay guys take a trip to New Zealand, but none of them come out of the closet. Half the cast is midgets.

* ''[[spoiler: ApocalypseNow]]'': A soldier is ordered to assassinate one of his own superiors, both of them go batshit crazy, and then someone hacks a water buffalo to death. Also, [[StarWars Han Solo]] is a nervous and sweaty secretary, and [[TheMatrix Morpheus]] is a horny teenager who dies like a punk.

* ''[[spoiler: ThePassionOfTheChrist]]'': A Jew dies after a long and painful process. Makes Christians hate MelGibson.

* ''[[spoiler: The Fountain]]'': Wolverine is vehement that he prefers his wife alive.

* ''[[spoiler: A Goofy Movie]]'': Reject from the DisneyAnimatedCanon, featuring wacko suburbanite and his son on a crazy RoadTrip, culminating in the two of them ending up on stage at a concert by a performer who appears to be a cross between Prince and 1980s-era MichaelJackson.

* ''[[spoiler: The Man Who Laughs]]'': Man cannot stop smiling, despite his best efforts. Romantically pursued by [[MrMagooAndTheMonster blind girl who doesn't mind]] and [[FreakyIsCool another woman who thinks it's sexy.]]

* ''[[spoiler: Modern Times]]'': A man's job drives him insane, and he has to make a living thereafter.

* ''[[spoiler: NoCountryForOldMen]]'': The husbands of Pen?pe Cruz and Diane Lane chase each other all over Texas.

* ''[[spoiler: Passion of the Christ]]'': A Jew dies after a long and painful process. Makes Christians hate Mel Gibson.

* [[spoiler:{{Videodrome}}]]: A exploitation TV station producer discovers an S&M television program that alters the viewer's perceptions by giving them brain tumors. And [[MindScrew might or might not]] have put [[BodyHorror a vagina in his stomach]].

* [[spoiler: ''{{TRON}}'']]: A guy goes through way, ''way'' too much effort to gather enough evidence to support a copyright dispute. Otherwise, a movie about a BASIC programming command.
* [[spoiler: TropicThunder]]: Closeted rapper, IronMan doing a SamuelLJackson impersonation, drug addict and nerd (who is [[OnlySaneMan the only reliable man in the group]]) try rescuing actor from his fans.