I ran across this brilliant and hilarious post, titled, "Uncomfortable Plot Summaries." It's exactly what it sounds like. The Titanic one is especially apt. A sampling:
Batman: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Deranged pedophile big-business industrialist tortures and mutilates young children.
Ghostbusters: Unemployed college professors destroy hotel with nuclear weapons.
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Dangerous insurgent invades neighboring country.
The Passion of the Christ: Mel Gibson fulfills fantasy of showing a Jew beaten to a bloody pulp and killed on-screen.
And, if I may add my own two cents:
Calvin and Hobbes: Paranoid schizophrenic child experiences vivid and dangerous hallucinations.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Depressed monster projects own depression on clinically oblivious town by breaking and entering into their homes with the purpose of committing grand larceny and animal abuse.
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RISKY BUSINESS: Privileged rich kid gets everything he wants with no consequences.
MARY POPPINS: Vagabond homeless woman drugs children, makes them clean, sing, and dance for her, abducts them, and subjects them to other crazies.
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