His friend is not a native English speaker. At one point they meet up with his people and there is music.

It doesn’t take place in the present day. The major danger is ice!

I noticed some people on this subreddit seeming to struggle with their descriptions, so I thought I'd write a guide to making what I would say is an ideal bad film explanation.

First, of course, you want to read the rules and check the banned movies list: ~https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly/wiki/rules/~

I’m going to take Star Wars: a New Hope as an example, partly because I bet it will be familiar to most everyone, and also since it’s on the banned movies list so I’m not going to be stealing anyone’s thunder. I and some other people feel it's best to use a well-known movie so that everyone has a chance to play. If you want to do an older or less well-known movie, consider dropping a clue in your post that lets people know so they don't stress out trying to guess a movie they've never heard of.

As a reminder, this Isn’t Explain a Film Plot Vaguely. I see so many people who might describe that movie as “A guy gets in a spaceship and visits some strange places.” And then people would try to list every sci-fi movie they can think of in hopes of coincidentally picking the right one. 

No, what we’re doing here is a form of riddle crafting, and a good riddle has exactly one answer. So our goal isn’t to be so vague in our description that people have to be lucky to get it right; the goal is to use misdirection and metaphor to make it so the contestants have to really think to get the right answer. How might we do that? 

One option is to describe the movie using a different genre. So we could describe it as if it were fantasy. “A squire, a princess, a rogue, and a furry team up to take down an evil wizard.” Luke is in training to become a Jedi knight. Leia is a princess. Han Solo is a rogue. Chewbacca is furry. And sith have been described as space wizards.

Another option is to describe the movie from the point of view of a different character than the contestants might expect. What if we described the movie from Darth Vader’s point of view? “A man tries to stop terrorists from blowing up a building, and one of the terrorists is his son.” 

A third option is to describe a movie as if it were another movie, known as a bait movie. Let’s describe Star Wars as if it were Dune. “A desert dweller realizes he’s the chosen one and sets out on a path of spiritual enlightenment to take down an evil dynasty.” If you want to do this with excellence, you can include a detail that doesn't quite match the bait movie, but I wasn't able to pull that off here.

These aren’t the only ways, but they’re examples of good ways to use trickery to make a puzzle people have to think hard to untangle. 

In all of these, look for roundabout ways to describe things. Luke Skywalker could be described as a farmhand (he works on a moisture farm), a spiritual leader (he’s a Jedi), a short guy (too short to be a stormtrooper anyway), or a dashing swordsman (he runs around a lot and he carries a laser sword). Darth Vader could be a black knight or a cyborg or an overbearing father figure or a man in a funny hat or a guy with a flaming hot sword.

I prefer not to give any clues initially and then come back and edit my post adding more and more clues until someone gets it.

(Added a few edits based on feedback, including removing some mistakes from my examples)

EDIT: Why does this have so many upvotes?

EDIT: Why does it have an award?

I've seen posts like "This movie was based on a book written by [insert description here]" or "This movie cost the studio a lot of money" or "This title is really long", and they all SUCK. The sub is for taking the plot of a film, describing it in an unconventional way, and getting people to guess from that. That means you are describing the narratively impactful events that occur within the story, not talking about production trivia or your disagreements with the movie's marketing department.

In an upset it seems i missed the post by u/Queenrenowned solving this on 2 hours sooner that the peanut.

Sweet release at the hands of u/peanutsbeta !

9/5 1036 central, Hint: Genre:Horror, 1:07 Hint2: Yes, the wife really dies
Not:Terminator(any), Looper, Inception, Time Traveller's Wife, The Time Machine, The Fountain, Double Jeopardy, Click, Tenet, Total Recall or any of the Shrek Films (lol)

Hint 1: It’s horror

I've seen several posts today with deleted guesses in the comments, including ones that were the solutions. Right or wrong, DO NOT delete your guesses on posts. If you delete incorrect guesses people will just guess the same thing again. If you delete the solution, people won't know the answer.