The highest grossing movie of all-time is about blue Ewoks fighting back against their human oppressors. The second highest grossing: A man teaches a woman how to spit. The third highest grossing: Tourists try to enjoy a drink, until prehistoric flying lizards kill everyone. Of course that’s not how we refer to Avatar, Titanic, and Jurassic World, unless you’re participating in the Explain a Film Plot Badly (#ExplainAFilmPlotBadly) hashtag.
The premise is comically simple. Take a famous movie, and reduce its plot to a single sentence. For instance, the Twilight franchise is “a love triangle between an 18-year-old girl, a hundred-year-old guy and a dog,” while The Dark Knight turns into, “Miserable billionaire terrorizes mentally ill man.” And Ratatouille: “Idiot ginger and mouse violate eight health code regulations.”
Here are some of the best examples.
A guy learns to love a girl without her Instagram filters. #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly pic.twitter.com/xM0k8LRXP8
— Khadi Don (@KhadiDon) December 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/jenorca/status/676138389536571392
She started wearing less and going out more #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly pic.twitter.com/AwNTNV0OkN
— V (@Valness_) December 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/MrBrandonStroud/status/676518145402662912
https://twitter.com/FCKHEMMXNGS/status/676383036561211393
https://twitter.com/_KirkSutherland/status/676064380316950528
https://twitter.com/Brian_O4E/status/676290535653511168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/YonKippur/status/676350876546670592
https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/676069792298704897
https://twitter.com/theta1138/status/676152440580894720
Story of a boy so annoying his parents abandon him every Xmas hoping somebody will kill him. #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly pic.twitter.com/ECc1lRGolB
— Πέτεμυ (@Mr_Petemy) December 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/JohnNoAthon/status/676321412441899008
idiot ginger and mouse violate 8 health code regulations #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly pic.twitter.com/sL7PMn7nr6
— malc (@malcsta) December 15, 2015
man child learns to be adult #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly pic.twitter.com/Rp9MgRmDPG
— MattG(124) ~ Listen to Grindhaus Movie Club (@MattG124) December 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/Lazyfist/status/676035753894391809
drunk guy keeps losing his transportation. #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly pic.twitter.com/kQXLD8L6m1
— hayley-jayne (@hayleyjaynecn) December 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/676066709275598848
https://twitter.com/FijiGoku/status/676050095985590272
https://twitter.com/MikeElChingon/status/676244337068412929
https://twitter.com/PulloutGameWeak/status/676228423744794624
#ExplainAFilmPlotBadly a beautiful princess gets catfished pic.twitter.com/4cnNn2OEcD
— zaym (@itszaym) December 13, 2015
#ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Alzheimer's fish befriends single father pic.twitter.com/4uZmgTnpD3
— kali ♡︎ (@ckaliforniia) December 14, 2015
If #ExplainATVPlotBadly ever takes off, dibs on “horny nerd eats cheese.”