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Politician's daughter asks former general to deliver blueprints to her colleagues.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Politician's daughter asks former general to deliver blueprints to her colleagues.

It’s either Star Wars or something ever so esoteric

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Politician's daughter asks former general to deliver blueprints to her colleagues.

Farmhand gets into altercation with local authorities over stolen property.

Kids go to a theme park, then have great difficulty in getting home afterwards.

Once a cop, always a cop.

 Flinty wrote:
Kids go to a theme park, then have great difficulty in getting home afterwards.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
Kids go to a theme park, then have great difficulty in getting home afterwards.

Spoiler:

"look its a Dungeons and Dragons ride"...that 80s D&D cartoon"

Wheeeeeee ding ding ding

 Duskweaver wrote:
A British man's American friend's wedding goes very badly, resulting in a serious fish-related incident. In attempting to put things right, the British man loses his professional certification.

I'm disappointed nobody has even tried to answer this one. Clue: it's from the late 1980s.

Here's another, from a few years earlier:

A former police officer reluctantly helps a group of squatters to move home from an old industrial site to some new beachfront property they have seen on a postcard. They are chased by a very large man who likes the popular music of 1950s America.

Sounds like a Timothy Dalton film.

The second one…no clue.

Second one has to be

and is the first one ?

 Flinty wrote:
Second one has to be

Spoiler:

Mad Max 2

and is the first one

Spoiler:

a Fish called wanda

?

That makes more sense

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Flipsiders, yes to both.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 krijthebold wrote:


For mine:

A not too bright young man is forced into increasingly difficult situations out of a sense of politeness and decorum.

Pretty sure you’re just describing real life here.

Oh no now I'm sad.

And also that's not it, even though it is. But it's a book

Flinty wrote:Second one has to be

Spoiler:

Mad Max 2

Correct...

Jadenim wrote:

Spoiler:

No, Licence to Kill

...and correct.

 krijthebold wrote:

 Olthannon wrote:

A tired sarcastic man has to solve a crime in his city and learns to play a boardgame for the first time in his life.

Spoiler:

Thud?

For mine:

A not too bright young man is forced into increasingly difficult situations out of a sense of politeness and decorum.

Forrest Gump?

Furore over the taxation of trade routes leads to a change of government.

A man inherits the spoils from his uncle's brief but successful career as a thief. Part of this inheritance causes him (and many others) quite a lot of trouble before he finally gets rid of it. Later, he writes a book about it.

Of prequels and Rings! A combined treatise on making oodles of cash out of multi-part film epics.

Filmmakers attempt to make the single most one-sided naval battle in history more dramatic.

Junior government employee attempts to foil a coup each book. Told through the eyes of his sarcastic and grotesquely underpaid PA.

An elderly investigator and his capable assistant wander randomly around China investigating a children's rhyme.

Man uses anti-virus software on his computer, while thinking about philosophy.

 Elemental wrote:
After reuniting with the son he never knew he had, a put-upon man gains the courage to stand up to his bullying boss.

A young girl stuck at home due to illness finds a way to express herself by becoming an amateur filmmaker.

Two men sit down together and talk about calligraphy.

A civil servant needs to get a plant identified.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I get the first two, but the second… no idea.

Thank you. I haven’t seen that third movie yet. The fourth…I don’t think he is a civil servant? Aren’t all the characters by and large from the private sector?

 JoshInJapan wrote:

Forrest Gump?

Nah, that's actually one of my least favorite movies.

I'm surprised no one has used the classic;

Young man leaves desert home to join terrorist organization.

Some others I've seen/thought of;
-Young man leaves home to return stolen jewelry.
-Stalhome Syndrome works.
-Kids come out of the closet.
-Paranoid billionaire is afraid of immigrants.
-Smartass janitor teaches highschool students to believe in their dreams.