History BetterThanItSounds / FilmS

* ''[[spoiler:TheShining]]'': A hotel near some of America's most popular ski resorts shuts down for the Winter and is left in the care of a hallucinating drunk and his insane family.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Spartacus}}]]'': A bunch of rebellious slaves impersonate their leader.

* ''[[spoiler:Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld]]'': An egotistical slacker cheats on his girlfriend and dies.

** Alternatively, something originally designed to be a marital aid, now equipped with a deadly laser, wanders away from the place it was created and only convinces it's designer to help after it laughs at one of it's designer's jokes.

** Or: Young [[JimCarrey Jim Carrey's]] faith is restored after a midget beats his mother to death with a bat.
* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheSimpsonsMovie]]'': [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job creating an ecological apocalypse, Homer Simpson.]]

** Also: A woman copes with her divorce by reading a story from the country her ex eloped to. Then, she turns both things into an animation. Nearly-{{Public Domain}} jazz ensues.

** Or: Woman ''[[SeriousBusiness has]]'' to drive bus really fast.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Film/Spider-Man}}]]'': Due to bug bite and money not paid, teenager loses his uncle. This causes him to later fight the father of a friend who dresses very oddly.

* ''[[spoiler:SSDoomtrooper]]'': [[{{StargateSG-1}} Jonas Quinn]] and his RagtagBunchOfMisfits blow up a factory and kill Hitler's radioactive mutant. ...Actually, that sounds pretty cool.

* [[spoiler:''Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning'']]: Feckless [[Franchise/StarTrek spacemen from the future]] get stuck in the present, rebuild their fleet through Russian manpower. They travel to another dimension and party with [[{{Babylon5}} some other spacemen]].

* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Steel}}]]'': Shaquille 'O Neal and friends in a junkyard try to stop EvilPlan of [[TheBreakfastClub John Bender]].

* ''[[spoiler:{{Film/Sunshine}}]]'': Bomb with eight people on board flies into sun. The people begin to die.

* [[spoiler: ''{{Signs}}'']]: A disenchanted preacher's faith in God is renewed by a terrifying alien invasion.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Slither}}]]'': [[Series/{{Firefly}} Mal]] and [[ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno Miri]] Fight Alien Zombies.

* [[spoiler: ''SimonBirch'']]: Young Jim Carrey and Catholic classmates befriend a murderous midget.

* [[spoiler: ''SimonBirch'']]: Jim Carrey and Catholic classmates befriend a midget murderer.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/SimonBirch]]'': Jim Carrey and Catholic classmates befriend a midget murderer.

** ''[[spoiler: Film/StarTrek]]'': Lots of LensFlare and a time-traveling miner press the ResetButton on over 40 years of media. They kept the [[LargeHam ham]]. However, some {{Nakama}}s are simply meant to be.

* ''[[spoiler:SesameStreet: Follow That Bird]]'': Citizens of an acid-tripped one-road town go on country-wide manhunt for a 10-foot tall adolescent who's run away from foster care.

** ''[[spoiler:SesameStreet: Please Don't Eat the Pictures]]'': Said 10-foot-tall adolescent gets locked in the Metropolitan Museum of Art overnight. While everyone goes on a manhunt for him (again), he tries to help conduct a lost soul to the afterlife.

* ''[[spoiler:{{Spaceballs}}]]'': Two guys in a Winnebago rescue a RebelliousPrincess and her maid. After visiting a midget who is trying to make some money with merchandising, they fight [[PlanetLooters air-stealing aliens]] who have a bunch of Assholes working for them.

* ''[[spoiler:[=~S.S. Doomtrooper~=]]]'': [[{{StargateSG-1}} Jonas Quinn]] and his RagtagBunchOfMisfits blow up a factory and kill Hitler's radioactive mutant. ...Actually, that sounds pretty cool.

* ''[[spoiler: SonOfRambow]]'': Two English boys in 1982 remake Sylvester Stallone's ''[[{{Rambo}} First Blood]]'' with a VCR Cam-corder.

** ''[[spoiler:StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan]]'': Captain and war criminal have a [[HamToHamCombat scenery-eating contest]]. The budget was cut to TV movie levels, and one of the cast agreed to get killed off because he was convinced the series was hitting a dead end.
** ''[[spoiler:StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock]]'': A big excuse to [[DisneyDeath bring back someone who died]] in the previous installment. It had to be done--that someone's spirit was driving his [[TheRival rival]] crazy. [[BrokenAesop Aesops are broken]] along the way.
** ''[[spoiler:StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome]]'': Seven military officers facing court martial look for whales so they can fly them into the sun. HilarityEnsues.
*** Or: ''BackToTheFuture'' in a star ship. And with whales.
** ''[[spoiler:StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier]]'': WilliamShatner fights God. [[WriterOnBoard Shatner wins]].
** ''[[spoiler:StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry]]'': The IronCurtain comes down [[RecycledInSPACE IN SPACE!]]

** ''[[spoiler: StarTrekGenerations]]'': WilliamShatner is rescued from Paradise by a Frenchman with a British accent. [[DroppedABridgeOnHim He dies shortly thereafter.]]
** ''[[spoiler: StarTrekFirstContact]]'': To prevent [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul parasitoid-like cyborgs]] from screwing up history, military officers help an alcoholic pilot a spaceship.
** ''[[spoiler: StarTrekInsurrection]]'': A LargeHam with a nice sofa attempts to quit his plastic surgery addiction. Our heroes must prevent this and save a planet sparsely populated with supermodels. An android starts shooting people because he's having a fit of ethics.
** ''[[spoiler: StarTrekNemesis]]'': The Frenchman with a British accent is cloned, but whoever did it forgot to fix the genetic problems that the original had already fixed. A "clone" of the android is also found. The original android jumps between two starships to fix everything for his captain.

* [[spoiler:''Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning'']]: Feckless [[StarTrek spacemen from the future]] get stuck in the present, rebuild their fleet through Russian manpower. They travel to another dimension and party with [[{{Babylon5}} some other spacemen]].

* ''[[spoiler:Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld]]'': An egotistical slacker cheats on his girlfriend and dies. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]

** ''[[spoiler: SupermanReturns]]'': Man returns from extended fact-finding mission to return his ex-girlfriend is in a relationship with someone else and has a kid. This results in him following her and listening in to her conversations a lot. Meanwhile, an ex-convict plans another unscrupulous real-estate deal.

* ''[[spoiler:SavingPrivateRyan]]'': Pennsylvania teacher leads rescue team.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Scanners}}]]'': World is rocked by the mind-blowing effects of a tranquilizer prescribed to pregnant women. Got some really dumb sequels.
* ''[[spoiler: SchindlersList]]'': Factory owner has trouble in keeping his workforce.

* ''[[spoiler:ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld]]'': An egotistical slacker cheats on his girlfriend and dies. [[IGotBetter He gets better.]]

* ''[[spoiler: TheSecretOfNIMH]]'': A single mother uses her connections to a shady organization to move her house to a more convenient place.

* ''[[spoiler: TheSimpsonsMovie]]'': [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job creating an ecological apocalypse, Homer Simpson.]]

* ''[[spoiler: {{Slither}}]]'': [[{{Firefly}} Mal]] and [[ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno Miri]] Fight Alien Zombies.

** Or: A stuffy aristocrat marries a nun ReassignedToAntartica because she makes his kids dress up in drapes. Later the other nuns wreck a car because they would do anything to get rid of her.

* ''[[spoiler:SoylentGreen]]'': InAWorld destroyed by [[UnfortunateImplications our refusal to commit mass murder on an unprecedented scale]], everyone's a cannibal.

** ''[[spoiler: LooneyTunesBackInAction]]'': Actor gets fired, and decides to help a failed stuntman find his father.

*** Or: Alien turns hero into aggressive man, then takes control of [[That70sShow Eric Forman]]
* ''[[spoiler:SpiritedAway]]'': A girl rescues her parents from a greedy old woman with an over-sized head by working in a bath house.

* ''[[spoiler:StarTrekTheMotionPicture]]'': [[LeaveTheCameraRunning Over two hours of staring at model spaceships.]] New captain investigates mechanical space probe. He lets it absorb him to get rid of it. Meanwhile much HoYay is had.

* ''[[spoiler: StrawDogs]]'': DustinHoffman kills the guys who did his roofing.
* ''[[spoiler: AStreetcarNamedDesire]]'': A man with bad table manners screams his wife's name and rapes his crazy sister-in-law. It won a lot of Oscars.
* ''[[spoiler: StreetsOfFire]]'': Guy rescues his ex-girlfriend from bikers. Lots of music plays.

* ''[[spoiler: SuckerPunch]]'': Girl plots escape from mental asylum by fighting monsters in her dreams while dancing.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Super8}}]]'' Children make a movie, but things get worse. Problems are solved only when a spaceship destroys a water tower.

* ''[[spoiler:SynecdocheNewYork]]'': A director plays God on a soundstage and everybody dies, despite life being worse outside.

* ''[[spoiler:SpaceJam]]'': An athlete gets sucked through a golf hole in order to help TalkingAnimal play basketball.

** Could we please have a better description?
*** Something originally designed to be a marital aid, now equipped with a deadly laser, wanders away from the place it was created and only convinces it's designer to help after it laughs at one of it's designer's jokes.

* ''[[spoiler:SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and Uncut]]'': Owing to over-sensitivity about a movie with bad language, an interfering parent starts World War III. Meanwhile, {{Satan}} has boyfriend difficulties, and a young boy tries to discover what the clitoris is in order to impress his girlfriend.

* ''[[spoiler:StarTrekTheMotionPicture]]'': Over two hours of staring at model spaceships. New captain investigates mechanical space probe. He lets it absorb him to get rid of it. Meanwhile much HoYay is had.
** ''[[spoiler:StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan]]'': This sequel had its budget cut to TV movie levels, and one of the cast agreed to get killed off because he was convinced the series was hitting a dead end.

** ''[[spoiler:StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan]]'': An exiled former dictator helps a desk jockey overcome his midlife crisis. Lots of [[LargeHam hammy acting]] is involved.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Speed}}]]'': Police officer earns enmity of embittered retiree who forces him to use swift-moving public transportation.
** Or: Women ''[[SeriousBusiness has]]'' to drive bus really fast.

* ''[[spoiler:ShortCircuit]]'': A computer geek and his perpetually horny Indian friend try to rescue a peacenik Weapon of Mass Destruction from technophobic security guard for dissection. [[FriendToAllLivingThings Friend To All Animals]] tries to protect said [[WeaponOfMassDestruction WoMD]] from both of them.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Stargate}}]]'': Archaeologist shares candy with aliens. Then they rebel against GOD!

* ''[[spoiler:{{Scream}}]]'': A survival guide about slasher movies.