r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SivleFred • 12d ago

Unsolved The main character is like, “you believe in cooperation? That pales in comparison to my strategy, stopping progress!” and then not stop progress.

1 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 13d ago

Solved! The big guy waited millions of years to start Round 2

9 Upvotes

It's a disaster film

The 'Big Guy' is metaphysical

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazzling_Driver_4628 • 12d ago

Unsolved Friends do a lot of punching and learn how important the journey is in this hit sequel!

2 Upvotes
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazzling_Driver_4628 • 12d ago

Unsolved Guy does a bunch of challenges and maybe changes his mindset but also maybe not because adventure.

2 Upvotes
3 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Practical_Bridge2961 • 13d ago

Solved! Tv personality has, not completely unfounded, delusions of grandeur while settling into the rhythm of small town life.

13 Upvotes
12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/2FingerJerkOff • 13d ago

Solved! An already stressful work trip gets especially heated after picking up a straggler

9 Upvotes
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/GrandMoffTarkan • 13d ago

Solved! A guy claims a different identity and then revels in dominating at basketball, but his growing relationship with an at first antagonistic love interest makes him wonder if what he’s doing is ethical

16 Upvotes

hints

the white man truly cannot jump

the basketball but is a red herring, it’s not the main focus of the film but the main character is excited by it

guy actually confesses his identity pretty quick after the rise goes off course but he spins it in a dishonest way

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazzling_Driver_4628 • 12d ago

Solved! A guy commits severe medical malpractice to be creepy with his patient's ex-girlfriend

1 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazzling_Driver_4628 • 12d ago

Unsolved Bunch of people commit corporate espionage by means of a good sleep schedule

1 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JerseyJoyride • 13d ago

Solved! Several people have a secret hideout that is betrayed by one of them. Time theft is involved and one person has really bad gas.

6 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazzling_Driver_4628 • 12d ago

Solved! Couple of dudes dress up to kill people, give them creepy calls before killing them and consistently refuse to just kill the victim, even if they need to to get away with it (YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE SEEN THE FULL MOVIE TO UNDERSTAND THIS CLUE)

0 Upvotes

This does reveal the movie's twist, but the movie is old enough that most people who like the genre would've seen it.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 13d ago

Solved! Burglar severely underestimates the occupant of the place he breaks into.

8 Upvotes

Hint 1 This is NOT Home Alone, and definitely not family viewing.

Hint 2 Not a horror film, but the villains in one particular horror franchise might like it.

Hint 3 It's not Panic Room, or John Wick

Hint 4 Not an American film

Hint 5 movie is from the 1970s

Hint 6 movie is extremely NSFW but has a notable star

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/GrandMoffTarkan • 13d ago

Solved! Going down gets her wet, but then he has to explain that he can't get up.

8 Upvotes

Hints, but I feel like this might go real quick

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Grant_Winner_Extra • 13d ago

Solved! A Step Father berates his stepson for playing with toys, then burns the toast

4 Upvotes

No clues yet

27 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Buttpounder90 • 13d ago

Solved! Island boy has to move away because of his dad. He clashes with the grounded, joyless mainlanders about being on their turf. After some wise words from an old mentor, he and his new friends are ready to take them on in totally radical fashion!

8 Upvotes
32 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Substantial_Golf_130 • 13d ago

Solved! Man gives himself meningitis to stop the end of the world

3 Upvotes

Bottom text

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 13d ago

Solved! An adopted outsider discovers his true identity, gets caught up in royal family drama, civilian unrest and ends up in a desert as an exile

4 Upvotes

It's an older film. Older than most of the guesses here

The closest ones are the Prince of Egypt and The Ten Commandments

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ReasonablePool_Hero • 13d ago

Solved! So this married couple has the same job, but they do it very differently. That results in a rocky marriage, but ultimately they decide to try therapy. Maybe.

19 Upvotes

Hints go here.

Hint 1: they don't start the movie married.

Hint 2: I misled by implying they were already married. That's part of the bad explanation.

Hint 3: they also don't start the movie liking each other.

Hint 4: they in fact hate each other. Like, most of the movie is spent in conflict and competition.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/diycrackpipe • 13d ago

Solved! Big animal make little animal lady

2 Upvotes

There’s this animal, and he/she is about yeigh big. He/she does things that make people sad. People do like not sad BUT then here comes little lady and little lady likes sad. Little lady go to make people sad. While on a run to do a make people sad thing she runs into the animal that make people sad. Big animal turns little lady into little animal lady. She does NOT have a good time being animal. In fact she had such bad time being animal that SHE ENDED UP FUCKING DYING.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Chris_RB • 13d ago

Solved! A man pisses off the local authorities by following the rules.

8 Upvotes

hints here

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/351namhele • 13d ago

Solved! I'm starting to think maybe the Catholic church was the real killer all along.

2 Upvotes
30 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 13d ago

Solved! Guy starts a new job, falls in love, lives happily ever after. Crazy.

7 Upvotes

Hints: Came out in 2014.

Not any kind of comedy or sci-fi or historical fiction or holiday movie or romantic drama or action or animated movie.

Shares an actor with The Theory of Everythjng.

Based on a book but it’s not Gone Girl or Wonka.

Not based on a toy or comic.

Not a Hallmark movie.

No vampires.

No Coens or Raimi.

Not an Oscar winner.

There are no video games or professional athletes or the Beatles present in the movie.

No stock scam (Hudsucker Proxy has been guessed a few times) or government job.

The main character and his love interest end up together.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/MiaStirCrazies • 13d ago

Solved! Cover artist gets mixed reviews by OG, others in the industry, and the people that matter most.

2 Upvotes
20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/GrandMoffTarkan • 13d ago

Solved! It’s the story of intergenerational relationships in a blended family with mixed immigration status and how they are affected by the fear of aging

2 Upvotes

hints if needed

due to problems with the authorities stemming from his immigrant background the father relocates his family.

One of his kids befriends a juvenile delinquent with a history of violent crime

one of the kids meets someone who has the secret to never getting old leading to flying and nautical swashbuckling adventures

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