Better Than It Sounds/Film W


 *  : A pregnant diner worker cheats on her husband with her married OBGYN.
 *  : Talking Heads from the Uncanny Valley discuss philosophy.
 *  : Two elderly men mastermind a plot to defraud a major lottery company.
 *  : A trigger-happy botanist and an elderly sanitation worker fall in love. Then they rescue some fat people from a steering wheel.
 * Alternatively, a garbage worker goes on a mission to save his his trigger-happy girlfriend and saves the human race.
 * A garbage truck stalks a killer iPod. It's a romantic comedy!
 * Overfed layabouts colonize a wasteland using a pizza tree from a trash compactor.
 * : A bunch of weavers start a club with a loom as the boss. Years later, someone wants to stop listening to the loom. He must die.
 * : A group of teenagers go home after a pep rally. They seem to have difficulty taking the train and are thus forced to walk most of the way.
 * Or, nine wannabe Native Americans go to a park, only to see a wannabe religious cultist assassinated by some wannabe bikers. The faux Indians lose their chief and spend the rest of the night fleeing from homicidal bus drivers, amateur athletes who have taken a vow of silence, bisexual femme fatales, and wheel-footed hillbillies. Along the way, they kidnap a Puerto Rican and rip her skirt.
 * : A computer game nearly ends the world.
 * Alternately, the world's most technologically advanced computer is destroyed by a game of tic-tac-toe.
 * : Man tries to deal with his children, while Humongous Mecha rise from the underground and starts destroying everything.
 * : A group of heroes try to stop a supervillain from enacting his plan to save the world and fail.
 * A faceless detective, an overweight loser, a Smurf-colored bald guy, a chick with mommy issues and a former Hitler Youth mourn the loss of a Robert Downey Jr. lookalike and wonder if they'll get screwed because of it.
 * Two washed up, though attractive, second generation superheroes are united through the actions of a super-villain hellbent on matching or surpassing the accomplishments of Alexander the Great. He succeeds. It can arguably be seen as a happy ending for the couple, however.
 * : In a story praised for its uncompromising realism, vicious talking rabbits, some of whom have psychic powers, wage brutal warfare on an island. Based on a book of the same name.
 * : Part-fish guy fights redneck over little girl with map tattooed on her back.
 *  : '80s entertainer is ditched at altar, and gets over this by planning waitress' wedding.
 *  : Twenty-something actors play teenagers on the last day of summer camp in 1981.
 *  : Incoherent ramblings about quantum physics, funded by a woman who claims to be the reincarnation of 40000 year old warrior spirit. One of the few legitimate scientists who agreed to be interviewed for the movie claims that the filmmakers completely misrepresented his views. Possibly just as bad as it sounds.
 * : Freak accident leads man to steal his boss' ideas while seducing her.
 * : A schizophrenic child is sent to his room after biting his mom, but escapes from reality and he's crowned as king over a tribe of semi-feral monsters that represent parts of his emotions/personality.
 * : A grieving alcoholic and a nutty actor team up to solve a murder mystery. Said nutty actor belongs to a co-culture in which people have sex by actually playing patty-cake.
 * Or: alcoholic and eccentric actor versus a correcting fluid wielding, road-building advocate of private transportation.
 *  : Obnoxiously religious man meets people who are even more obnoxiously religious than he is.
 *  : Nick Cage ruins the memory of a good movie by punching women while dressed as a bear.
 *  : Guy quits his job to be able to score with the girl he stalked while on the job.
 *  : Soldier swears revenge on lawyer.
 *  : Two unemployable, alcoholic actors go to the country to try and escape their miserable lives but everything goes wrong.
 * Or alternately: two actors go on holiday by accident.
 * : A boy discovers his emotionally disturbed half-brother is quite good at video games and travels cross-country with him to California, bringing him to compete in a video game tournament. A lot of product placement ensues.
 * : 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 Ur Example.(More where that one came from)
 * The tale of a band of murderous thugs who are hired to kill a supposedly evil person in exchange for vital organs, abstract concepts, and a ride. After the assassination, it turns out they had the organs and abstract concept all along and the group's leader is allowed to flee.
 * : Robin Williams is a poetry teacher whose son dies of autoerotic asphyxiation, and Robin pretends it was a suicide to protect both their reputations. It's a comedy. And Robin is naked at the end.