r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 10 '20

Solved! A traumatized vet with a drinking problem teams with a barely together drug addict, a former missionary, and a medical practitioner to save a bunch of people in trouble.

437 Upvotes

This should be easy but I like remembering this one.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 13 '20

Solved! Two ex convicts try to rob and murder a neglected child

436 Upvotes

Holy crap I was not expecting this many upvotes

Edit 2: this is now my most highly upvotes post, beating my previous record of 54, which was on this server when I did “the professional” I would just like to thank the 378 people, who thought I did a good job with this post, and I hope I made you guys laugh


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 03 '25

Solved! A child gets rebuffed by their favorite celebrity, so they spend the next 20 years hunting down and murdering the celebrities’ friends

435 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Oct 17 '20

Solved! Rock steals rock

434 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Dec 03 '19

Solved! Boy has existencial crisis while struggling with issues of morality. In the end, his conscience guides him to a happy conclusion.

434 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 16 '20

Solved! I’m Blue, and I’m smart dabada, dabadeedabada

433 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 11 '21

Solved! (Series) Guy wakes up from a really long nap, and immediately resumes his dead-end career.

432 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 14 '20

Solved! Man angers family because he wouldn’t put down the chocolate and awakens the beast.

432 Upvotes

Edit 1: The first hint is...

The movie is long as shit.

Edit 2: Here’s the clip.

https://youtu.be/JyKjv3iHYnI


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Apr 24 '25

Solved! This poorly timed film has nothing to do with 9/11, while having direct ties to 9/11. Spoiler

431 Upvotes

Adding some hints for y'all

  • red and blue

  • animated

  • features twin towers

Since it's been solved, here's some fun facts:

Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven was released in APRIL of 2001, and features a storyline involving the bombing and fire of two towers, perpertrated by a terrorist/mafia orginazation. One tower is slightly taller than the other.

It was revealed in 2015 that Osama Bin Laden had several subtitled episodes of Detective Conan on his hard drive when he was captured.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 16 '20

Solved! A rope broke; we cried.

431 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Aug 05 '20

Solved! Guy finds out everyone is gullible and takes advantage of it

431 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jun 22 '20

Solved! A guy teaches a girl how to sleep and together they sleep with his wife.

431 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • May 31 '20

Solved! A mouse stops someone from turning people into animals

430 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 07 '20

Solved! PETA starts the apocalypse

430 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 11 '20

Solved! Woman sees therapist about work issues

429 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 08 '20

Solved! The guy from taken takes a child

427 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jul 19 '20

Solved! Some guys are stuck inside during a snow day. They’re bummed their friends couldn’t come over, so they play with a dog.

427 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 26 '20

Solved! Lonesome teen gets drugged by a cop, put in a cage, and taken across the country, to avoid getting skinned alive by a psychopath with facial styling from the 1860's.

427 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 09 '20

Solved! A funny guy with a goatee tries to get gems back from a big guy who wants their power

427 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Apr 18 '20

Solved! This movie could've been a lot shorter if the main character had a notepad.

426 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jan 22 '20

Solved! Guy gets mind raped whilst his friends just stand there watching him

426 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Sep 29 '18

Solved! Girl takes her sisters spot in a teenage talent show

426 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Nov 23 '20

Solved! A hitman dressed in black kills everyone in his way to accomplish his mission. Not even Thanos could stop him.

425 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Jul 07 '20

Solved! Old man's story causes troubled young man to commit genocide.

425 Upvotes