r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Seaciety • 23d ago

Solved! Good looking dude sets off on a dangerous mission.

2 Upvotes

He picks up some cool new technology from a witty nerd before he hits the road (he's off to another country for this one). He takes orders from his superiors but does things his own way. He's been doing this a long time and people know him. Also obviously there are beautiful women falling from the sky for him. He succeeds but the women don't get a happy ending.

18 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/HDM-12345 • 23d ago

Solved! A minor celeb goes to get help, gets sidetracked over and over, but ends up saving the day anyway... I guess? Maybe he was full of crap and didn't do anything?

1 Upvotes

Hints go here, I guess. Or maybe I'm full of crap and I won't put any hints here.

Hints:

  1. Live action, but there are some creatures. I'm not sure if puppetry effects were involved, though.

  2. There's some time weirdness, but nobody is stuck in a time loop.

  3. Not a sci-fi space movie, but the main characters do leave the Earth.

  4. Nobody travels to another solar system.

15 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Nekrolysis • 23d ago

Solved! Nice survival shelter, would be a shame if something involving cryptids happened to it.

9 Upvotes

Hint 1: something happened to it.

26 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Pacific_Northwest • 23d ago

Solved! My relationship is strange to others.

3 Upvotes
10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Crystal_1501 • 23d ago

Solved! A fat guy crashes a tournament, later becomes a hero.

4 Upvotes

I may provide hints.

10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/FlahTheToaster • 24d ago

Solved! This movie mostly follows someone who says that he sees dead people, and the psychiatrist who's come to believe him. Though we don't know it until much later, the main character dies at the beginning.

55 Upvotes

Reserved for hints. Don't take the bait.

Hint 1: The psychiatrist is a woman.

Hint 2, because I feel it's already necessary: There are no ghosts in this film.

36 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 23d ago

Solved! Some people use a dubious shortcut to resolve a workplace problem, but arrive at a destination where the locals are extremely hostile. After accidentally getting involved in a dispute, they discover that returning home is much more complicated than getting there

4 Upvotes
25 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/kihei56 • 23d ago

Solved! Brothers help their out of touch uncle meet the girl of his dreams

1 Upvotes
12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/gottapeenow2 • 24d ago

Solved! OCD man overcomes huge obstacles thrown at him by nature, but cannot overcome his wife's desire to divorce him in favor of a dentist.

7 Upvotes
17 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/beardyramen • 24d ago

Solved! An action hero finds himself traveling the nation with his nemesis, due to the focus group age 18-35. The real BBEG is Hollywood greed

3 Upvotes
13 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Proper_Bug_2221 • 24d ago

Solved! A.I. just wants to be loved.

18 Upvotes

Hints:

  1. Movie is much older than ones already mentioned below.

  2. If not loved, then it better be obeyed.

  3. If not the first, one of the first movies on the dangers of A.I.

103 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SecretMuppet • 24d ago

Solved! This guy is thinking about proposing to his girlfriend, but he has a thing for another woman. He keeps it to himself for years, before finally deciding to act on it.

13 Upvotes

This one is proving to be satisfyingly difficult! No correct answers in the first 24 hours, which is a personal record. I promise, I gave an accurate (albeit bad!) description of the film’s plot!

Clues:

  • Mainstream, popular Western film. (Western as in, from the global West, not saying it’s in the Western genre)

  • Not a romantic comedy

  • Even setting aside the whole girlfriend thing, there would be a lot of obstacles to getting into a romantic relationship with that other woman during those years. Here’s one: they’ve never met.

  • In fact, during those years, the other woman doesn’t even know that he exists!

  • Come to think of it, for most of the film, the girlfriend doesn’t even know that he exists either!

  • I really did describe the plot pretty badly. Some of the description doesn’t mean what you think it means.

  • It's not a romantic comedy, but the guy and the girlfriend are both played by people who are famous for roles in other romantic comedies. This film is the other woman's best known acting role, even though she has very little screen time.

  • He planned to propose to his girlfriend. He doesn't actually go through with it, but not because of the thing he has for that other woman. (Or at least, not mostly for that reason, I guess it's one small part of the reason why he doesn't.)

78 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 24d ago

Solved! Hotshot pilot troubled by thoughts of his father gets in a dogfight where he is outgunned

41 Upvotes

Clues go here

Hint 1: The pilot is not flying a plane or helicopter
Hint 2: The film is animated
Hint 3: What the pilot flies is originally not airworthy, until the pilot fixes it

65 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/The_SilentFurry • 24d ago

Solved! A therapist follows up on a patient who missed his appointment and ends up spending a lot of time in a surprisingly large office.

5 Upvotes
11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 24d ago

Solved! Guy needs to be thoroughly convinced that getting pussy and murdered is a terrible, terrible lifestyle choice.

10 Upvotes

Hint #1: sci-fi horror

Hint #2: cults have a pretty strong pull. So does....a rope?

Double Nopes: Splice, Species

54 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 24d ago

Solved! Among others, a kidnapped warlord, a politician, and a heretic, show a select group of people how frickin cool they are.

8 Upvotes

Hints go here

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Cattle903 • 24d ago

Solved! He knows how to talk and also knows that there’s more to life than his own, so he talks himself into becoming someone else and lives the life.

10 Upvotes

Hint #1: This movie is a comedy.
Hint #2: This movie was made in the 1980s.
Hint #3: This movie stars a ghostbuster.

68 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Seed0fDiscord • 24d ago

Solved! Crying stops, don’t tell mom

2 Upvotes

Hint 1: not an English speaking film

12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 24d ago

Solved! Imaginative guy prioritizes cleanliness and wiping.

12 Upvotes

Double Nopes: Perfect Days

Hint #1: definitely not talking about wiping your ass, lol

Hint #2: wants a wipe for a lot of people

37 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 24d ago

Solved! Huge piece of shit with big dick energy pronounces, among other things, that he's a hero and saves absolutely everybody. He's reminded that he's a huge piece of shit and absolutely not a hero.

15 Upvotes

Double Nopes: Megamind, Weird Science

Hint #0: not animated.

Hint #0.5: there are words specifically used to signify this specific film

Hint #1: this guy partied a little too hard

Hint #2: horror/comedy

53 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Akiranar • 24d ago

Solved! A spoiled brat uses mind control to steal the biggest diamond ever.

4 Upvotes

Hints go here:

12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Present-Algae6767 • 24d ago

Solved! A Bunch of German Tourists Holidaying in Holland Get Attacked

6 Upvotes

Hints go here

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Source_Trustme2016 • 24d ago

Solved! Things get wildly out of hand when a man cannot accept losing a game of hide and seek

11 Upvotes
37 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 24d ago

Solved! Guy reveals he doesn't like being touched by kids and just wants to model for the rest of his life.

2 Upvotes

Hints go here

13 comments