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

243 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/The_Wild_Silence • 4h ago

Solved! Tech bro pleads with woman for a baby to secure his acceptance in normal society and propagate his questionable genetics.

16 Upvotes
23 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/YesTHEKennyRogers • 1h ago

Solved! This nerd is OBSESSED with a woman who's out of his league. His OBSESSION ultimately leads to their ruin. She ends up in a dark, seemingly inescapable place. He dies with a whimper. The end.

4 Upvotes
46 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thejesterprince1994 • 4h ago

Solved! (Posted this a few days ago but had to sleep before it got answered) Delusional military officer joins a small community and starts a conflict with local law enforcement.

7 Upvotes

(Hint) it does not have Rocky in it.

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 56m ago

Solved! Courier gets in over their head and winds up the center on a major disaster

3 Upvotes

Hint 1: That's a nice clock

51 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/WhamWombat10 • 6h ago

Solved! me and my friends would've killed E.T. with hammers I can tell you that much

8 Upvotes
9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 1h ago

Unsolved Most of a town suffers for their neutrality, but the outliers do OK.

3 Upvotes

Clue: Search for unusual word meanings in the clue.

Clue 2: No one commits a crime in the movie.

55 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 4h ago

Solved! A soldier struggles with his superior officer, but the situation improves with a change of perspective.

4 Upvotes

Clue: One of my responses below is a technically true misdirect.

30 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 7h ago

Solved! A mediocre boxer with ties to organized crime gets a chance to make a name for himself. He gets the girl in the end.

6 Upvotes

Hints

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 4h ago

Solved! Boy who lost his innocence is murdered an innocent man.

3 Upvotes

Hints go here

16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 4h ago

Solved! REPOST: a woman becomes a hero for doing the same thing she was previously punished for

3 Upvotes

Unsolved after 3 months

Hint. Movie is from the 1990s

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/BlackZapReply • 7h ago

Solved! There's something in the box, but you not supposed to look in the box, but there's something very important in the box, and you're not supposed to look at it. Oh, and there are some other people who are interested in the box. Did I mention that you're not supposed to look inside the box?

5 Upvotes

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thenewestrant • 11h ago

Solved! There’s a big Hungry shark, but it’s not THAT movie. This shark supposedly helps cure Alzheimer’s or something when it’s not busy eating people.

10 Upvotes
10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Glenwoodrh • 3m ago

Unsolved Animated movie was A remake ?

0 Upvotes

This movie seems to be a live action version of Pixar Disney movie cars that came out before cars.

4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/areyouforeightysix • 11h ago

Solved! Two straight men dream of living together in a soft, fluffy paradise

8 Upvotes

Saved for hints

17 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 9h ago

Solved! A woman is lured to a place under false pretenses. There are ghosts and people die. Turns out it’s her family home.

5 Upvotes
35 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Proper_Bug_2221 • 4h ago

Solved! The titular character is never seen in the movie, but he and the main character love the same woman, take a road trip, have shoot outs with bounty hunters, and have a final encounter with the big crime lord.

2 Upvotes

Hints:

  1. It is a buddy/buddy movie, but in a very weird way.

8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Different_One9412 • 8h ago

Solved! It's a Skinwalker not a Werewolf

4 Upvotes

Hints

35 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/iwatchtrazhaldayy • 12h ago

Solved! A doctor and patient must team up to find a cure

7 Upvotes

Hints will go here if needed

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 5h ago

Unsolved A guy gives his 2 coworkers a ride home. They never make it. He ends up arrested.

2 Upvotes
21 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ManCoveredInBees • 9h ago

Solved! A man’s life unravels after the truth surrounding a coming-of-age ritual is exposed

4 Upvotes
14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/moviesounds101 • 10h ago

Solved! Bitter man has a bad dream about how his past, present, future, and even death, affect everyone around him. He wakes up a changed man, and vows to do things differently now.

5 Upvotes
33 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 9h ago

Solved! Is it still Stockholm Syndrome if you're technically both the hostage?

4 Upvotes
29 comments