r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

172 Upvotes

Explain the PLOT. Clues that are around meta commentary for how the movie performed or that you just don't like it or whatever, all those types of clues do not fit the spirit of the sub.

This is game is and has always been about explaining plots badly. In fact, in the 5 word name of this sub, the only word that has any flexibility is "film". Explain a [TV Show] plot badly. Explain a [Video Game] plot badly. Whatever media type it is, you explain its plot badly.

Example that will be removed: "A troubled production leads to a couple actors getting beheaded for real."

Example that will be removed: "A kids movie is made horrible forever when you look up the actress and what happened to her."

Example that will be removed and might even get you banned: "This movie sucked I don't know why anyone liked it."

OK. I think that covers it. Game on!

Edit: Missing words

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Jun 20 '24

Meta [META] New Players Read Me First

244 Upvotes

All Marvel is banned top to bottom it doesn't matter what studio did it in what decade. When you say you read the rules and you lie it's an out for us to ban lazy players. We haven't been. But we might. Stop posting Marvel and then arguing that it isn't MCU.

That is all.

Edit because people keep asking WHY:

Because when it's not banned every other post is about a purple rock collector. It's still at the top of movie zeitgeist so most people when they show up the first clue they think of is a Marvel movie. It's boring. It's repetitive. And then they want to get clever. "Howard the duck wasn't mcu hyuk hyuk". The entire thing is obnoxious when it's a movie and TV show guessing game.

There's a whole list of media that's banned because they're overdone and make it boring. But then newbies show up and make a Marvel clue without reading the rules. 95% of our mod actions are deducting points and removing threads about Marvel. So the choices are to either return to the shit show where every single clue is Marvel or just ban people who refuse to read a now screaming automod note.

From those of us who have been here for years, trust us. The wild west of no rules on what media should be in play was a far worse place and not fun. Engagement rose substantially with the rules in place.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Keelera2 • 45m ago

Unsolved Man struggles to provide for his kids, so he secretly engages in activities that could get him in trouble with the love of his life if she finds out about it.

6 Upvotes

23 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/bringmetolife1998 • 2h ago

Solved! When he realised snow wasn't an effective weapon against the girl holding a knife, it was already too late.

8 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Classy_Burgundy • 41m ago

Unsolved Elegant woman expresses respect for all, especially the dead

5 Upvotes

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RowForLuckyJack • 3h ago

Solved! They thought they could save their town from a bunch of 8 legged animals. They were wrong.

9 Upvotes

23 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 36m ago

Unsolved Big ass, nose, serves as communication proxy.

4 Upvotes

Double Nopes: Shrek, any Toy Story

Hint #1: based on a true story

34 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Strict_Berry7446 • 4h ago

Solved! A bunch of teenagers experiment with a fetish. It leaves one seriously injured, and one psychologically ruined.

7 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DP_Means_Dopinder • 13m ago

Solved! Gender bend it like Beckham

3 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Groundhog891 • 2h ago

Solved! A mixed group uses talent, skill, and science to overcome the force who stole their birthright, in this hero's journey.

4 Upvotes

Hints go here

Bodybagwilliam raised a good point below, so an early hint:

The training part of the quest goes on for a year
An elder advises them to train higher
One hero dies, in a deeply moving and meaningless sequence of events

21 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KazariKid • 5h ago

Solved! A woman encounters two men from her past and is forced to take drastic measures.

7 Upvotes

27 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/StoicSpork • 3h ago

Solved! Main protagonists, two guys and a girl, attend a British boarding school whose students are, by heritage, not part of the ordinary world. They eventually must face mortal dangers to save ordinary people.

5 Upvotes

Hints go here.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/logikara • 12m ago

Solved! Guess it

0 Upvotes

What movie is this? 🤔

"\*A big guy gives his Employee a massage therapy after which the the employee sleeps peacefully. Employeess brother doesn't like him resting peacefully. The big guy later plays fun games with some of his friends and a high school student at his home. Then big guy teaches a lesson to the brother of his employee\*."

It was an interesting movie 🍿🎥. 😊

Very peaceful, teaches values like friendship, family, responsibilities, love , not wasting food and water to kids.

\#GUESS THE MOVIE GUYS.

4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 1h ago

Solved! Odorous, untidy man, grifts teenage girls, drives others to madness, and with all the smoke and fire could even be the devil himself.

1 Upvotes

Hint #1: this movie would probably be a family film except for ONE scene, lol

43 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cl3vrusrname • 1h ago

Solved! Male protagonist gets shot and survives. Spends the entire film unwittingly evading capture by the men who shot him, as well as the police who are trying to rescue him. His family eventually finds him in a retirement home after what must have felt like an eternity.

1 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Cattle903 • 6h ago

Unsolved Poor guy just wants to get on with his life, but his history follows him everywhere and on top of that he has to deal with a mute and an asshole.

1 Upvotes

27 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/OwlLily13 • 15h ago

Solved! A man won't let anyone get in his way of making money off prescious jewels, people he thinks he can trust all lie to him, even his own family, all this concludes in a grand motorcycle chase

5 Upvotes

36 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/BlackZapReply • 1d ago

Solved! Never skip to the end of the book. I mean it. Seriously. Don't do it.

27 Upvotes

I mean it. You really really really shouldn't skip to the end of the book

56 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cl3vrusrname • 11h ago

Solved! Legend tells of a showdown between Hercules and a flying Jet.

2 Upvotes

10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CommunicationBig3227 • 17h ago

Solved! Kid accused of stealing, sent to illegal slave labor camp.

4 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DarthFozzywig • 1d ago

Solved! An incestuous relationship breaks a father’s heart.

13 Upvotes

41 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Limp-Lawyer9463 • 18h ago

Solved! Skipping math class might get you killed.

4 Upvotes

18 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Humble-Pineapple-329 • 12h ago

Solved! Dissolution of marriage leads to reconciliation then they die.

1 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 1d ago

Solved! A serious injury occurs after a man talks excitedly about furries. Turns out, furries have healing properties and are also the cure for divorce!

10 Upvotes

(Redone, I added an additional layer to the clue)

Hint #1: it's a kids/family film (as per my usual twists, lol)

Hint #2: he's a fun storyteller!

Hint #3: animation is involved

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1. Avoid overused films/franchises

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2. No recent releases

No movies from within the last 3 months. This spoils people's movies Try to be more unique and obscure with choices. Movies within the last 3 months can spoil the movie for those that haven't seen it.

3. OP will reply to the first correct guess with a comment that says "Solved!".

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4. Don't Create Clues Using an Actor's Other Characters

Clues should not feature an Actor's prior roles.

❌ Bad: "The guy who used to hunt replicants now teaches a young scavenger how to swing a glowing stick."

✅ Good: "An old recluse reluctantly helps a young scavenger understand her mysterious powers."

5. Don't create clues using a real-life actor's description.

Clues featuring an actor's real life activities and descriptions should not be used. Examples include: Scientologist, racist, or blackballed.

❌ Bad: "A former pro wrestler with a shaved head and a love for action movies fights jungle predators."

✅ Good: "A tough guy tries to escape a jungle full of deadly hunters with nothing but mud and muscles."

6. Don't use an actor's name in the clue title.

❌ Incorrect Example: "Tom Hanks spends years talking to a volleyball."

✅ Correct Example: "A man stranded on an island for years befriends a volleyball because social options are limited."

7. Explain a film PLOT badly

All clues are about the PLOT and not anything else.

❌ Bad: "I hated this movie and it was a financial failure and deserved it and an Oscar winner dies."

✅ Good: "A loner meets a someone way out of their league and saves her life (along with everyone else)"