History BetterThanItSounds / FilmT

* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheThing1982]]'': Large men and their dogs turn into aliens.
** Alternatively, An immigrant just wants to fit in, but gets burned by anyone he tries to get close with.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/TomYumGoong''/''The Protector]]'': Someone steals a village's elephants. One villager sets out to get them back.

** ''[[spoiler: Film/ThorRagnarok]]'': The above guy has to solve a family dispute with his sister while going on the most 80s adventure he ever has.
* ''[[spoiler:Film/ThreeAmigos!]]'': Washed-up actors discover that people they never expected to meet love their work a bit too much.

** ''[[spoiler: Film/ThorRagnarok]]'': Alien norse god has to resolve his family dispute with his sister while going on the most 80s adventure he ever has.

** ''[[spoiler: Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen]]'': Aliens search for the boy after he's possessed by a piece of metal. [[LoveItOrHateIt For many,]] [[{{Sequelitis}} about as bad as it sounds,]] [[UncleTomfoolery and a good deal more racist.]]

*** Or: A pussy must become a dick to fuck an asshole, and a bunch of othet pussies.

** Alternatively, An immigrant just wants to fit in but, gets burned by anyone he tries to get close with

* ''[[spoiler: Film/ThirteenAssassins]]'': Twelve samurai and a hobo buy a village, and two hundred other samurai and biggest asshole in Japan pay a visit. '''Everyone''' dies.
** Alternatively, Film/ThreeHundred if Leonidas was Japanese, even more understaffed, and had a ''slightly'' more reasonable target.
* [[spoiler:''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'']]: An exiled Middle Eastern diplomat is dragged into ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' and ends up [[BoxOfficeBomb not earning anything from it]].

* ''[[spoiler:Disney/TheThreeCaballeros]]'': DonaldDuck has a birthday party that eventually evolves into a fully-fledged [[DisneyAcidSequence acid trip]] in [[MushroomSamba Latin America]].

* ''[[spoiler:WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie]]'': TransformingMecha rip off Marvel Comics, kills off half its cast to hair metal music.

** ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Transformers}}]]'' [[spoiler: [[TransformersFilmSeries (2007, live-action)]]]]: A boy's car and its friends protect him from alien invaders who have arrived in search of eye-wear. Meanwhile, a part-time model declines to eat donuts.

** ''[[spoiler:Taken 2]]'': Relatives of above-mentioned minorities apparently never got the memo to ''not'' mess with Liam Neeson's family.
** ''[[spoiler:Taken 3]]'': Shady businessmen discover it's hard to get away with murder if Liam Neeson is involved.

* ''[[spoiler: Tom Yum Goong/The Protector]]'': Someone steals a village's elephants. One villager sets out to get them back.

* ''[[spoiler: Film/TheTrollHunter]]'': A bunch of university students make a documentary about the work of a Norwegian civil servant.

* [[spoiler:''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'']]: An exiled Middle Eastern diplomat re-enacts ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' and ends up [[BoxOfficeBomb not earning anything from it]].

* ''[[spoiler: Film/{{Titanic}}]]'': A period romance with a DownerEnding... from the guy who gave us the ''{{Terminator}}'' series. The film's male lead was earlier nominated for an Academy Award for playing a retarded teenager, and has gone on to call it the worst movie ever made.

** ''[[spoiler:Film/GalaxyQuest]]'': Washed-up actors discover that people they never expected to meet love their work a bit too much [-[[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]-]

** ''[[spoiler: Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction]]'': Failed inventor saves people who are being hunted by the government and aliens who created them. Also, dinosaurs are involved.

* ''[[spoiler:TaxiDriver]]'': An insomniac gets a firearms obsession and meets Jodie Foster.
* ''[[spoiler:TeamAmericaWorldPolice]]'': US special forces being dicks.

* ''[[spoiler: ThirteenAssassins]]'': Twelve samurai and a hobo buy a village, and two hundred other samurai and biggest asshole in Japan pay a visit. '''Everyone''' dies.
** Alternatively, ThreeHundred if Leonidas was Japanese, even more understaffed, and had a ''slightly'' more reasonable target.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Tootsie}}]]'': An actor becomes a popular soap opera star and develops the affection of his co-star - [[AttractiveBentGender to her disturbance]].
** ''[[spoiler: MrsDoubtfire]]'': A voice actor masquerades as a woman just so he can be with his family.

** ''[[spoiler: WesternAnimation/ToyStory2]]'': The cowboy is kidnapped by a man in a chicken suit and debates whether not to travel to Tokyo and seal himself in a glass box for all eternity. While searching for him, the astronaut tries to steal a belt from a younger version of himself. We learn that the astronaut's back-story is basically a spoof of ''Franchise/StarWars.'' Also, {{Frasier}} in a cardboard box.

* ''[[spoiler:TrainingDay]]'': A [[NaiveNewcomer cop fresh from the office]] gets trained by a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[FauxAffablyEvil rogue]] [[RogueCop of a cop.]] It slowly gets worse.
* ''[[spoiler:Literature/{{Trainspotting}}]]'': A man is subjected to hallucinations (he swims in a toilet, a baby's head turns all the way around). One of his friends is killed by cat shit, another is obsessed with Sean Connery. Later the man steals a few thousand dollars from his friends and leaves town.
* ''[[spoiler:TransformersTheMovie]]'': TransformingMecha rip off Marvel Comics, kills off half its cast to hair metal music.
** In the words of [[OrsonWelles one of the stars]] of said movie: "You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed."

* ''[[spoiler: {{Tremors}}]]'': Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, and Reba [=McEntire=] team up to stop a worm infestation.
** ''[[spoiler:Tremors 2: Aftershocks]]'': A handyman and his adoring fan get so angry with worms that they blow up an oil refinery.
*** ''[[spoiler:Tremors 3: Back to Perfection]]'': Now the worms can fly.

* ''[[spoiler: {{Troy}}]]'': Beautiful woman runs off with horny prince. Her husband and brother-in-law don't take it well.