# Poorly describe a movie plot as a Reddit AITA **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 1, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644 "2025-09-01T06:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/181 "2025-09-13T17:32:50Z")
Choose your next witticism carefully, it may be your last. (note to mods, I am not making a threat šŸ™‚ ) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/182 "2025-09-13T17:45:26Z")
Lol, so a couple of yokels came in, needing a ride. I mocked them a bit, made up some crappy ā€˜speed recordā€™ which didnā€™t even make sense (I told them, in your terms, that I made the trip from NYC to DC in 225 miles, and the idiots were impressed), then, after taking their contract, I shot my bosses underling because I didnā€™t like the look on his face. So what if I owed the boss money, you donā€™t look at me like that! Then these goofballs come to my ride. Big problem: theyā€™re wanted by the authorities (I should have guessed). I had to kill some more people as we escaped, and thenā€¦ as we were on our way to their destinationā€¦ I mocked the old manā€™s religion, told the kid that if he didnā€™t let my copilot win at chess, I wouldnā€™t stop my copilot from killing him, and generally showed my ass the entire way. Anyway, we finally arrive and holy hell are these guys HOT! The cops had laid waste to their destination, they then capture us (fortunately I dabble in large-scale, er, provisions of things illegal, so I was able to hide us while the cops searched my ride - I will say their training leaves a lot to be desired, thankfully). The old man goes off on his own, while the kid tells me thereā€™s a rich hostage deep in the jail that, if we can rescue her, I can get enough money to pay my boss off and have a lot left over. Whatā€™s a guy gonna do in that situation? We go get the girl. Anyway, the old man ends up getting himself killed, we fight our way out of the jail (and the woman we rescued tells me it was ā€˜too easyā€™. ā€˜Too easyā€™ my ass!), and the kid tries to recruit me to join his merry band of dipshits in attacking the very jail we just busted out of! Fuck that, Iā€™m loading my earnings (at least she was good for _that_) and getting the hell out of Dodge. But then, I donā€™t know. The thought occurred to me that if I waited until almost everyone else was killed, I could save the day. And, holy shit, it literally worked out like that! The kid was the last guy standing, he was going to take a one-in-a-million shot with three cops on his ass, and guess who rides in, looking like a hero when the main fighting is done? Damn right. Anyway, Iā€™m now thinking about this andā€¦ AITA? (At least I met a girl!) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/183 "2025-09-13T17:50:59Z")
Watch out - that girlā€™s dad is dangerous (and her brotherā€™s looking at her in a way thatā€™s a bit too intense, if you see what I mean) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/184 "2025-09-13T17:57:28Z")
Eh, I can take the heat. Itā€™s _cold_ which I really hate. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/185 "2025-09-13T18:02:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > AITA? Not an AH. A scoundrel, though, yeah. Have you ever had experience with husbandry of nerfs? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/186 "2025-09-13T18:20:48Z")
Can I tell you the odds that youā€™re TA or should I never do that? ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/187 "2025-09-13T18:49:41Z")
**AITA for clearing a ship of two-legged intruders to protect its true captain?** I recently hatched aboard a very roomy ship that, as far as I could tell, belonged to a magnificent four-pawed commander. Sleek fur, steady gaze, tail like a royal scepterā€”obvious top of the hierarchy. The head honcho. Soon I noticed these lanky, awkward creatures lurching around on only two extremities. They clanked and jabbered, fiddled with the shipā€™s controls, and kept slinking into the captainā€™s climate-controlled throne box, to do who knows what? Worse, they had the nerve to _pick him up_ and scratch his neck furā€”clearly a threat to His Majesty. Instinct kicked in: defend the monarch. Solution: remove the usurpers. So, yeah, I did someā€¦ enthusiastic tidying. One by one, the lanky noise-makers stopped being a problem. I figured I was doing stellar serviceā€”secure the ship, safeguard the sovereign, snack responsibly. But now Iā€™m getting weird side-eye from certain interstellar ethics committees, and whispers that maybe the ā€œcaptainā€ was just a pampered mascot, and the two-leggers actually _owned_ the place. If thatā€™s trueā€¦ oops? So, yā€™all, AITA for misinterpreting the chain of command and giving the two-leggers an early retirement planā€”inside me? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/188 "2025-09-13T19:16:19Z")
Yes, YTA, for not realizing the two-leggers were actually serving the true owner of the ship. If he had had his way, this would have been your fate: [![](https://i.gyazo.com/3664bb6696d4e4bf0b2d3ea68db03223.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/3664bb6696d4e4bf0b2d3ea68db03223.jpg) ((IIRC this image was made in AI by a doper šŸ™‚ )) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/189 "2025-09-14T01:46:17Z")
My dad is a shady businessman but a total fuckup. He canā€™t seem to do anything right, but is always blaming someone else. His best friend is a clueless oaf who doesnā€™t even speak in sentences, just grunts and growls. And donā€™t get me started on his hygiene! My mother was royalty. But she gave it all up to be with my dad. Totally crazy! Now she spends all her time teaching other people how to be soldiers. But not me. No, she sent me off to live with my uncle whoā€™s supposed to be some big war hero and religious leader. But then one night I wake up and heā€™s about to murder me in my sleep! I ran for it. I decided to take inspiration from my motherā€™s and uncleā€™s true father. Now there was a man who commanded respect! Even half crippled he could make generalā€™s shake in their boots. He really knew how to move people. He died saving my uncleā€™s life, but my uncle gets all the credit. I decided I admired him so much, I styled myself after him. I even copied his wardrobe. Now I just hope to one day get to face my uncle and show him what a true hero is. AITA? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/190 "2025-09-14T01:52:33Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > He died saving my uncleā€™s life, but my uncle gets all the credit. I decided I admired him so much, I styled myself after him. I even copied his wardrobe. Now I just hope to one day get to face my uncle and show him what a true hero is. AITA? Youā€™re just a whiny, tantrumy kid. Sorry. There may be a Rey of hope in your future, though ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/191 "2025-09-14T01:56:30Z")
šŸ˜‰ and some words ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/192 "2025-09-14T02:20:10Z")
I lead a large organization within the U.S. government; I was appointed to the position personally by the president. Recently, there was a mishap under my watch; there was apparent loss of life. It totally wasnā€™t my fault, really. I had to make a tough call that involved lying to some of my people affected strongly by the mishap. Well, I didnā€™t actually _lie_, I just withheld information that in fact, nobody died. Iā€™m sure theyā€™ll be relieved and want to celebrate when I finally tell them the good news, even though the survivor cursed everybody out in front of the media when he was told about my decision. AITA? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/193 "2025-09-14T14:32:46Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I took in my nephew when my wifeā€™s sister and brother-in-law died. Now some stranger is demanding that I let him take my son off to some boarding school Iā€™ve never heard of. AITA for wanting to put a stop to this? _Harry Potter and the Sorcererā€™s/Philosopherā€™s Stone_ > [@HeyHomie](#): > > My dad is an alcoholic, broke former golf pro. He wants to get back into the game so he can afford to send me to ballet school in Paris, but I know that golf is too painful for my dad because my mom died in a golf accident. AITA for wanting him to just go back to his job at the grocery store and forget about sending me to ballet school? _Happy Gilmore 2_ > [@HeyHomie](#): > > Back when I was a teenager I fooled around with an occult book and wound up with a trickster demon I couldnā€™t get rid of. Now Iā€™m an adult and heā€™s back. AITA for wanting to banish this guy back to Hell? _Beetlejuice Beetlejuice_ > [@HeyHomie](#): > > I got sent to Saturday detention because I skipped class to go shopping. Now these other geeks and weirdos want to talk about their lives and become my friend. AITA for wanting to just eat my sushi and get through the day? > [@HeyHomie](#): > > Some new prisoner to the prison where Iā€™m doing time, a lifer who killed his wife, wants me to smuggle in some sort of rock-carving tool. Iā€™m afraid heā€™ll use it to murder someone in the gang thatā€™s targeting him. AITI for being suspicious about this? _The Shawshank Redemption_ And the one about Saturday detention is _The Breakfast Club_. Weird how the software ate those pixels. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/194 "2025-09-14T16:07:01Z")
This girl Iā€™m crushing on asked me to babysit her little brother. I figured Iā€™d take him to an amusement park where he could have fun playing with others who are his size. All the kid did was cry. No wonder she wanted him taken away! I danced with him, I sang to him, I even offered to make him one of my gang. No dice. Just boo hoo all the time. Meanwhile, his sister was busy playing dress-up and hanging out with her friends. I told her to come get him and she got all, ā€œyou canā€™t tell me what to do. You have no power over me.ā€ Some people have no gratitude. AITA? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/195 "2025-09-14T21:22:19Z")
Recently my business partner was killed after foolishly putting himself in a compromising position. I didnā€™t really respect him and am just as glad to move the business forward without him, but I helped the cops catch his killer, because thatā€™s what you do. AITA for playing along with the killer just long enough to bang her a couple of times before watching her fall? Stupid bird. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/196 "2025-09-14T23:36:28Z")
I recently got lost in the woods, but for lucky and found a house. I went inside to see if anyone could help me, but nobody was home. I thought I might sit a moment and rest while I waited, but I had to try a few chairs because the some were uncomfortable. I was hungry from being lost overnight and wandering around alone, so I couldnā€™t help myself when smelled food in the kitchen. The owners had just left bowls of porridge lying out. Who does that? It must be for guests, so I sampled a couple before I found one I liked. Then my lack of sleep caught up with me and I just had to go lie down. There were three different beds, so I picked the one that was juuust right, and promptly fell right asleep. AITA for screaming when I woke up surrounded by bears? (No wonder the porridge was left out. The owners must have left in a hurry when the bears broke into their home.) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/197 "2025-09-14T23:46:59Z")
Iā€™m a creative businessman just trying to succeed in this crazy world. So I founded a business enterprise to network some previously related but independent fields under one brand name. But for some reason this interloper keeps intruding on every one of my ventures. He keeps poking around and giving my employees hell. Often I catch him, but somehow he keeps getting me to reveal my secret plans to him - I guess I just need to brag to _someone_. But then he uses that information to ensure my plans fail and Iā€™m left with a big mess and a hit to my brand reputation. AITA if I just want him to die in some horrible fashion? ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/198 "2025-09-15T01:55:28Z")
I became the leader of this oppressed religion, and then they started a huge war in my name. I probably couldā€™ve stopped them, but I didnā€™t. I did feel real bad about it, though. AITA for faking my death and letting my kids sort out the mess? I was on some pretty strong drugs the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/199 "2025-09-15T04:33:08Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > AITA if I just want him to die in some horrible fashion? Just make sure it isnā€™t easily-escapable or overly elaborate. Maybe you should just shoot him. > [@echoreply](#): > > AITA for faking my death and letting my kids sort out the mess? Yes, but donā€™t worry, Thereā€™s nothing anyone can do about it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644/200 "2025-09-15T04:34:33Z")
Youā€™re not the asshole, you were just a teenager when your father was murdered and you and your mother were left destitute in the desert expected to die. And no, you tried to prevent the war, but it was inevitable. Sometimes people just need a good war to mix up the gene pool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poorly-describe-a-movie-plot-as-a-reddit-aita/1022644.md?page=11)