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9	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FaceOff]]'': Hammy actor does a hammy impersonation of another hammy actor... leaving the other [[HamToHamCombat with no choice but to do a hammy impression of his adversary.]]
10	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheFaculty]]'': Creator/ElijahWood kills body-snatching aliens with [[WeaksauceWeakness cocaine]]. Creator/JonStewart has a {{beard\|OfEvil}}.
11	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FailSafe]]'': ''Film/DrStrangelove'' is presented more dramatically.
12	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheFall]]'': Paraplegic ex-stuntman tells a story to a little girl in a hospital while trying to trick her into stealing drugs for him so he can commit suicide.
13	** Or, [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh the touching story of a suicidally depressed actor and his drug mule]].
14	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FallingDown]]'': A man goes around shooting people who piss him off after his car's air conditioning breaks down.
15	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}]]'': Wacky music videos of classical music:
16	** ''[[spoiler:Toccata and Fugue in D Minor]]'': The orchestra wigs out while colors fly everywhere.
17	** ''[[spoiler:The Nutcracker Suite]]'': The seasons, represented by fantasy creatures.
18	** ''[[spoiler:The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'': A sorcerer does not approve of his apprentice's attempt to optimize labor.
19	** ''[[spoiler:Rite of Spring]]'': A science presentation.
20	** ''[[spoiler:Meet the Soundtrack]]'': A line wigs out while colors fly everywhere.
21	** ''[[spoiler:The Pastoral Symphony]]'': Pegasi and centaurs have fun, but Zeus is a dick.
22	** ''[[spoiler:Dance of the Hours]]'': A bunch of animals fight over who gets to dance.
23	** ''[[spoiler:Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria]]'': Satan throws a banging house party until the monk police have to break it up.
24	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000]]'': Wacky music videos of classical music, but for the turn of the millenium:
25	** ''[[spoiler:Symphony No. 5]]'': Butterflies fight over colors.
26	** ''[[spoiler:Pines of Rome]]'': A whale gets stuck in an iceberg.
27	** ''[[spoiler:Rhapsody in Blue]]'': People try to achieve their dreams during the Great Depression.
28	** ''[[spoiler:Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102]]'': Two toys fight for the affection of another toy.
29	** ''[[spoiler:The Carnival of the Animals]]'': A flamingo plays with yo-yos.
30	** ''[[spoiler:The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'': Again, a sorcerer does not approve of his apprentice's attempt to optimize labor.
31	** ''[[spoiler:Pomp and Circumstance]]'': Two birds somehow accidentally avoid each other for 40 days and nights on Noah's Ark.
32	** ''[[spoiler:Firebird Suite—1919 Version]]'': Things grow, and things die. It's all a part of life.
33	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FantasticFour2005]]'': Slimy CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to make the moves on his geeky college rival's ex-girlfriend, but everything he does just ends up pushing her back to him. Eventually, the executive puts on a mask and tries to freeze the college rival with liquid nitrogen.
34	** ''[[spoiler: Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer]]'': Giant cloud attacks Earth with help from a silver Academy Award statue.
35	** ''[[spoiler: Film/FantasticFour2015]]'': Geeks go on a trip that ends GoneHorriblyWrong. For most, as bad as it sounds.
36	* [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'']]: A father of 2 years to a BrattyHalfPint EmoTeen [[OffTheWagon falls off the wagon]] and begins indulging in an addiction that endangers the lives of hundreds of civilians, as well as the stability of his marriage.
37	* [[spoiler:''Animation/FantasticPlanet'']]: Man steals his adoptive family's headphones and runs away to become an astronaut. He travels to the moon, but it turns out his adoptive family regularly astral project to said moon to make giant statues dance.
38	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Fargo}}]]'': Car salesman can't convince his employer that his paperwork is finished, also fails to up-sell a promotional extra to his customers. GrumpyOldMan shits on everyone beneath him, refuses to help his daughter in an important financial transaction. A pregnant sheriff tries to work out who the main character is in the movie.
39	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FatalAttraction]]'': Man spends a whole weekend with a woman, gets her pregnant and then gets pissy when she tries to make him face up to it all. [[DoubleStandard He's the hero in this scenario.]]
40	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas]]'': A cynical, eccentric, hedonistic journalist and his half-crazed lawyer friend go on a road trip, get wicked high on every drug known to humankind, and piss off everyone they meet. The film is ''probably'' BasedOnATrueStory (but to what extent, if so, is unclear), and nobody really knows whether it's supposed to be comedic, serious, or a political satire.
41	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}]]'': A cat solves a murder mystery.
42	** Or: A film that shows cats having sex and brutally killing each other.
43	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff]]'': Kid neglects his education, shamelessly manipulates the sympathy of his parents and those around him and, for his own self-gratification, triggers a series of events that results in the destruction of his best friend's father's priceless car. Without remorse. Despite this, everyone loves him (a fact lampshaded by his sister, until she makes out with a drug dealer).
44	** Alternatively, a depressed high schooler is taken advantage of by his best friend, who wrecks the high-schooler's father's priceless car, somehow teaching him to stand up for himself.
45	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Fido}}]]'': The heartwarming story of a young boy and his pet zombie.
46	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FierceCreatures]]'': Multinational corporation acquires small English zoo and turns it into corporate nightmare.
47	** Alternatively: Creator/JohnCleese owns a zoo, shoots at a few trainers, drinks the blood of an old lady, and things happen.
48	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FieldOfDreams]]'': Undead sportspeople make a farmer destroy his crops and kidnap a writer so he can solve his daddy issues.
49	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheFifthElement]]'': The world will be saved by a hot girl with weird name. With the assistance of a cab driver and a cross-dressing radio disc jockey.
50	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FightClub]]'': A guy and his best friend bond over practical jokes and extreme sports. They conflict over a LoveTriangle. Girl uses cancer to get the attention of her {{Love Interest\|s}}.
51	** Insurance worker with multiple personality disorder takes up hypochondria and illegal bare-knuckle fighting in an attempt to cure insomnia. Unwittingly becomes founder of a nationwide anarchist paramilitary force which he subsequently defeats by blowing one side of his own face off.
52	** Middle-aged WASP finds meaning in life through "Murder, Mayhem, and Soap". Lots of soap.
53	* [[spoiler: ''Film/FinalDestination'' ]]: People avoid dying in an accident, [[NecroNonSequitur only to die more gruesomely later]].
54	** Alternately: Gruesome depictions of the consequences of home and workplace safety violations.
55	*** Also alternatively: Death is a dick.
56	** [[spoiler: ''Final Destination 2'' ]]: Ditto.
57	** [[spoiler: ''Final Destination 3'' ]]: Ditto... yet again.
58	** [[spoiler: ''[[TitleConfusion The Final Destination]]'' ]]: Ditto... [[RecycledINSPACE IN 3D]]!
59	** [[spoiler: ''Final Destination 5'' ]]: Ditto... IN 3D! Yet again.
60	* ''[[spoiler:Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren]]'': Lots of children get sick, and join a cat-eyed cult led by three brothers, whose mother is a head in a box. One brother eventually grows up to become their father, only to get beaten up in a ''[[RuleOfCool spectacular]]'' fashion. Meanwhile, a man sees dead people, [[ContemplateOurNavels thinks about deep things]], and fights ''lots'' (often doing all three at the same time). Also, much of what occurs during this movie is almost completely incomprehensible to anybody who either has not played the video game on which this movie is based or has a basic understanding of physics (particularly the effects of gravity).
61	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/FindingNemo]]'': A single father follows a Cloudcuckoolander to Australia to help him find his son.
62	** Alternatively: A man's wife is murdered by a serial killer and his son is left physically disabled. In a twisted turn of events the son is kidnapped and the man has to chase him thousands of miles with the help of a mentally challenged woman. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Intended for children.]][[note]]This description of the film was the subject of several humorous text messages posted on the Internet, and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/zk0uy/i_just_watched_a_film_where_a_mans_wife_is/ this Reddit post]] may have been the TropeMaker for the concept of "Better Than It Sounds".[[/note]]
63	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/FindingDory]]'': The Cloudcuckoolander decides to go on a quest to find her family with the help of Creator/SigourneyWeaver. It all culminates in the endangerment of several wildlife specimens while Louis Armstrong plays in the background.
64	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Firefox}}]]'': A man with PTSD from UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar is told to steal an airplane.
65	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FirstBlood]]'': Man tries to visit an old friend. Prejudiced lawmen don't let him do so, [[BullyingADragon and end up regretting this.]]
66	** ''[[spoiler: Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII]]'': Same man looks for prisoners. Meets a hot chick.
67	** ''[[spoiler: Film/RamboIII]]'': Man from before fights evil with rebels. Over the top gunplay ensues.
68	** ''[[spoiler: Film/RamboIV]]'': The same man comes out of retirement. Everything dies.
69	*** Alternatively, The same man shows a bunch of pacifists the goods of mass murder, and how you should never trust yellow people.
70	** ''[[spoiler:Film/RamboLastBlood]]'': That man's adopted daughter has a cross-border trip that goes wrong. Everything dies again.
71	* ''[[spoiler: Film/AFishCalledWanda]]'': FemmeFatale bank robber falls in love with stuffy barrister whilst attempting to locate stolen diamonds. Her boyfriend is a psychopathic Buddhist hit-man who torments a stuttering animal lover who keeps killing dogs.
72	** Alternately: Two members of Creator/MontyPython pretend not to know each other. Americans act rudely, behave selfishly, speak in vulgarities, and eat fish.
73	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheFisherKing]]'': A red knight tries to kill a homeless person. A radio DJ tries to help the homeless man. And Creator/RobinWilliams gets naked.
74	* ''[[spoiler: Film/AFistfulOfDollars]]'': A mischievous troublemaker plays two rival families in order to get rich quick.
75	** ''[[spoiler: Film/ForAFewDollarsMore]]'': Mischievous troublemaker chases a guy obsessed with a music box.
76	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly]]'': Three men of varying levels of morality and attractiveness search for a graveyard.
77	*** Alternatively: Three guys have a staring competition with a cash prize.
78	*** Mischievous troublemaker has angry bromance with a stubborn bandito and they go treasure hunting.
79	* ''[[spoiler: Film/AFistfulOfDynamite]]'': A man wants to rob a bank, but the money has been moved.
80	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Fitzcarraldo}}]]'': An opera-loving rubber merchant goes on a boat trip. Through a jungle.
81	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Flash Gordon\|1980}}]]'': [[Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof Tevye]] and two Americans end up on another planet, where they meet Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/TimothyDalton, and Creator/MaxVonSydow dressed as Literature/FuManchu.
82	** Or: Someone that plays American football is captured, makes an ally of someone that he nearly fought to the death, and [[HarsherInHindsight crashes an airplane into a government building]]. This is treated as a good thing.
83	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Flatliners}}]]'': [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] decides to kill himself over and over. Creator/KevinBacon and Creator/JuliaRoberts think it's an awesome idea.
84	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Fletch}}]]'': A wise-ass is hired by a wealthy businessman for assisted suicide. The wise-ass decides that the best way to react to this is to dress up in a variety of weird costumes and sleep with the businessman's wife. The wise-ass is treated as the hero and as being completely in the right.
85	** ''[[spoiler: Fletch Lives]]'': Same wise-ass heads down south to hang out with stereotypes, sleep with a dead woman and sing Zippidy-do-da.
86	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheFlightBeforeChristmas]]'': A reindeer tries to find his famous flying father, and a wolf wants to eat Santa Claus so he can become the new Santa who eats children. Later, the reindeer realizes that his dad was a flying squirrel all along.
87	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons]]'': Bookstore owner gets pulled into fantasy world to SaveBothWorlds from mad sorcerer; he ends up destroying said fantasy world with grade school science. And this is supposed to be a good thing.
88	* ''[[spoiler:Film/Flightplan2005]]'': A widow boards a plane with her young daughter and promptly falls asleep. (This comes from an actual newspaper listing, submitted on BBC's News Quiz)
89	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Flubber}}]]'': Green goo dances.
90	* [[spoiler:''Film/{{Fluke}}'']]: A puppy has an identity and existential crisis.
91	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheFly1986]]'': A man's teeth fall out, his skin gets awful, and he starts to have trouble with his eyesight.
92	** ''[[spoiler: Film/TheFlyII]]'': The man's son is called in to finish his father's work. Grows up to not be as pathetic as his dad was.
93	* [[spoiler: ''Film/TheFog'']]: Weird atmospherical condition and past events ruin a town's 100th anniversary.
94	* [[spoiler: ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'']]: Creator/LeslieNielsen goes to space and reenacts Shakespeare. The movie's most iconic character is a robot.
95	* ''[[spoiler:Film/ForkliftDriverKlaus - The First Day on the Job]]'': Forklift safety film goes horribly awry. [[CrossesTheLineTwice This is played for laughs.]]
96	* ''[[spoiler: Film/ForrestGump]]'': A mentally retarded man is sent to war and becomes a ping-pong player, while his lifelong crush turns to a life of sex and drugs.
97	** Alternatively, man sits on bench and talks about a box of chocolates.
98	** A drug-addicted girl takes advantage of a mentally challenged guy for, like, three decades.
99	* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheFountain]]'': [[Film/XMenFilmSeries Wolverine]] is vehement that he prefers his wife alive.
100	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FourBrothers]]'': Three R&B artists and [[Film/{{Troy}} Achilles' cousin]] try to solve their mother's murder.
101	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FourLions]]'': Film/TheThreeStooges join Al-Qaeda.
102	* ''[[spoiler: Fracture]]'': A man confesses to murder. The prosecution still struggles to convict him.
103	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FrankensteinConquersTheWorld]]'': A really big kid that everyone calls by his creator's name fights a dinosaur and an octopus.
104	* ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}]]'': [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy and His]] CanineCompanion meddle in God's domain while homaging all the classic monster movies.
105	** Alternatively, a dog dies twice.
106	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Freaks}}]]'': A Russian woman marries a German dwarf for his money. His friends disapprove.
107	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Freaky}}]]'': Meek, bullied teen discovers her inner strength through the intervention of a serial killer.
108	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FreedomWriters]]'': A teacher connects with her students by getting them to write in notebooks.
109	* ''[[spoiler:Film/FreeGuy]]'': Guy follows girl in committing all possible crimes - because she's trying to prove someone else is a criminal!
110	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Frequency}}]]'': A son saves his father's life, and they talk about baseball.
111	* ''[[spoiler:Film/FrequentlyAskedQuestionsAboutTimeTravel]]'': A British nerd meets a weird American girl at a pub and goes to the restroom a lot.
112	* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Friday}}]]'': Young, unemployed blacks spend a day sitting around and smoking pot.
113	* ''[[spoiler: Franchise/FridayThe13th]]'': Group of people repeatedly fail to reopen a summer camp. A boy who never knew how to swim is usually to blame.
114	** Or, a disfigured boy goes to a lake-side summer camp in an attempt to make his beloved mother happy.
115	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FrightNight1985]]'': Old man tries to help teen overcome the fear of his new neighbor.
116	* ''[[spoiler: Film/FrightNight2011]]'': [[Film/{{Superbad}} McLovin]] suspects his ex-friend's new neighbor to be a vampire. [[spoiler: [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And then McLovin became a vampire.]]]]
117	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat]]'': A talking cat has lots of sex and does a lot of drugs. And he's voiced by a children's show actor. The creator of the character hated the film so much, he killed him off.
118	** ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat]]'': The talking cat, despite having an icepick put through his head a year earlier, is now married and has either hallucinations or flashbacks about being a Nazi and going into space. Satan is homosexual.
119	* ''[[spoiler:Film/FromDuskTillDawn]]'': Two brothers drive an RV to a strip club and encounter the supernatural.
120	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}]]'': A princess drags her friends up a mountain to find her sister after she reacted coldly to the princess' new boyfriend.
121	** Alternatively: An animated ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' on ice, with a talking snowman and singing trolls, where gloves are SeriousBusiness.
122	** Alternatively: A Disney movie in which a witch-queen places a curse on a beautiful princess and her entire realm, dooming both to destruction. A courageous and handsome prince storms the witch-queen's enchanted palace, battling his way past the terrifying monster that the queen created to guard it, in order to defeat the queen and lift the curse from the realm. The prince is the villain.
123	** Alternatively: PoorCommunicationKills: The Movie.
124	* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/FrozenII]]'': Young woman starts HearingVoices, ultimately leaving her house to join her mother's hippie commune.
125	** Alternatively: A dramatic, action-packed tale of complications arising from a bad case of tinnitus.
126	* ''[[spoiler:Film/TheFullMonty]]'': Unemployed men become strippers.
127	* ''[[spoiler:Film/FunnyGames]]'': Two men murder a family with the jagged shards of a broken 4th wall.
128	* ''[[spoiler:Film/{{Fury2014}}]]'': Five sociopaths drive around in a tank, have tea, then die.
129	** Alternatively: DeskJockey [[BreakTheCutie has painful maturity experience]].

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