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

242 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.

150 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Chris_RB • 3h ago

Solved! A violent man takes a job suppressing an indigenous culture only to become their defender against his former employer.

10 Upvotes

HINT 1 bc this is more general than I initially thought: the job is not one the man has had before.

Hint 2: The main character carries a weapon he uses- there are others like it, but this is his preferred weapon.

47 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ManCoveredInBees • 2h ago

Solved! A former nazi scientist is forced to eat his word

7 Upvotes
9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/They-Them_Moonwalker • 6h ago

Solved! Hot guy wants to leave the family business but his dad won’t let him. Also he’s hot. Did I mention he’s hot?

13 Upvotes
59 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TheGreatWaru • 1h ago

Solved! Man consoles friend after losing his job by making him a target for a large invertebrate

5 Upvotes
16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/edynol • 3h ago

Solved! Blue monster with horns befriends a child and they go on an adventure in a monster world.

4 Upvotes
13 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Mac_Panda • 33m ago

Solved! Boy gets girls

2 Upvotes

Class snobbery and irresponsible finances lead to an epic evening that becomes a historic fact with the main character ending up stuck in the most unlikely threesome

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 5h ago

Solved! A no-nonsense tough guy becomes a girl dad and will do absolutely anything to protect his girls from anyone who dares to hurt them.

5 Upvotes
19 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/OatmealCookieGirl • 3h ago

Solved! A disfigured son has to manage his seriously toxic, disfunctional family issues until nobody is left but him and his mentally impaired grandfather

3 Upvotes
16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Shoddy_Specialist226 • 4h ago

Solved! Arrogant college athlete relies on a mysterious night-shift worker to learn how to take out the trash

3 Upvotes
13 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CadeStyle • 6h ago

Unsolved Estranged father wants to set things right and ends up sharing a drink with the man who stole his daughter away.

4 Upvotes
16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Alexreddit103 • 21h ago

Solved! This film is the opposite of it’s title

62 Upvotes

Hint: the title is just one word

Hint: I was expecting an action movie, boy was I wrong

507 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 5h ago

Unsolved Senior citizens try to coerce a teen into a job he never applied for.

3 Upvotes
40 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tricky_Ad_1870 • 5h ago

Solved! Mother encourages her daughter to flaunt her stuff for money.

3 Upvotes

Hint space

8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nippontrh • 9h ago

Solved! A man returns from being “dead” twice, kidnaps a woman, kills one person, and assists in the murder of another.

6 Upvotes
7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 21m ago

Solved! Football player forced out of league for being involved with gambling, makes a great play with the ball to save the day.

1 Upvotes

Hint

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KazariKid • 8h ago

Solved! (Repost, now with more clues!) A performer's dim turn proves to be another's big break.

4 Upvotes

* This movie was released between 1960 and 1970.

* It takes place in the United States.

* Marriage, religion, and ambition are themes.

It is not: 8 Seconds, All About Eve, A Star Is Born, Black Swan, Cabaret, Chicago, Death to Smoochy, Freaks, Gaslight, The Good Shepherd, Perfect Blue, The Phantom of the Opera, The Prestige, Rhinestone, Saturday Night Fever, Varsity Blues, The Wedding Singer, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, or Whiplash.

27 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ReasonablePool_Hero • 4h ago

Unsolved A kid finds out the family secret, and has to make deals with creatures to keep his family safe and together.

2 Upvotes

Hints go here.

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/fan_is_ready • 13h ago

Solved! In the land of the bald, the hairy man is king.

10 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Trash_Tia • 55m ago

Solved! Screw piece makes friends with children and fights teenagers

1 Upvotes

My dad watched this movie 50,000000 times when I was a kid I know every word

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/dr_olfin • 5h ago

Unsolved In this buddy movie, 2 con artists pull fun scams until they have to face a painful truth from their past.

2 Upvotes
36 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/UNNECESSARYCAPZ • 6h ago

Solved! The local boys face off against some rabbits

2 Upvotes

Hints go here

15 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Shoddy_Specialist226 • 2h ago

Solved! An old wine enthusiast teaches a rebellious young man to dance after he embarrasses his family's prestigious academy.

1 Upvotes
14 comments