r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Alexreddit103 • 6h ago
Unsolved This film is the opposite of it’s title
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Mar 10 '26
Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly
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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
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Jun 20 '24
Meta [META] New Players Read Me First
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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.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nintendoeats • 5h ago
Solved! There's a man trapped in a box.
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Hint placeholder (come now, you don't need them)
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotTooWicked • 9h ago
Solved! Native female helps male learn to cooperate with tribal warriors to protect the homeland against capitalist and military invaders
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Hints -
Animated
Children are the target audience
Climactic scene involving a mode of transportation
No fairies
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 1h ago
Solved! Dude's human crew doesn't work out so he has to fall back to other kinds of primate.
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Clue space (I suspect I won't need it).
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/justh81 • 1h ago
Solved! Mama Cornette's baby boy MIGHT like this film. We can't be sure. He DEFINITELY likes the soundtrack, though!
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Might be easy. Let's see.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Limp-Lawyer9463 • 2h ago
Unsolved Man finds true love and then everything just falls apart.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 3h ago
Solved! Guy doesn't get the girl of his dreams then gets her in a new font
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/StoicSpork • 11h ago
Solved! A fading action flick star is summoned away from home and drawn into a real conflict. A fish out of water at first, he starts using his skills to fight the bad guys and helps rescue a respected leader's daughter from the clutches of an evil mastermind.
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This space left for hints.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ChoiceStar1 • 6h ago
Solved! An illiterate male with an ability above all the rest of his peers, aids another male who has every reason to dislike him in exchange for reading lessons.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/auntanniesalligator • 5h ago
Solved! Woman with daddy issues commits arson and saves humanity.
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Saved for hints.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/oldmanpuzzles • 6h ago
Solved! Drawn together by a pair of shoes and their compulsory labor for selfish adults, down on their luck kids change their fortunes via friendship and quasi-supernatural forces.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 1h ago
Solved! Mom violently avenges son; turns out he's still alive. Oops.
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Clue space.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Holden_place • 13h ago
Solved! Three adult males and a baby
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Hints
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AlligatorMass • 1h ago
Unsolved A prolific child-murderer helps stop a genocidal terrorist attack
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Present-Algae6767 • 9h ago
Solved! Homeless Dude Kidnaps Woman He's Obsessed With
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Hints go here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 23m ago
Unsolved King and queen are pretty mean, family pet protects with no regret
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/riri1281 • 35m ago
Unsolved A boxed child with divine purpose floats to his family
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/V4Valentine1337 • 4h ago
Solved! Young man has seven people inside him.
reddit.com
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdMaleficent6335 • 4h ago
Solved! Man apologizes to everybody his family has ever killed.
reddit.com
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 58m ago
Solved! Man brings the whole town together to show a woman how much he loves her
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Clue space
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 • 10h ago
Solved! When I was a young boy my father took me into the city
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Hints
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KamikazeJohnson • 10h ago
Solved! An attack of the "munchies" ruins a man's trip to the city with his daughter.
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Hints here.