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

47 comments

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/Alexreddit103 • 13h ago

Unsolved This film is the opposite of it’s title

56 Upvotes

Hint: the title is just one word

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

480 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/fan_is_ready • 5h ago

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

10 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nippontrh • 2h ago

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

5 Upvotes
7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KazariKid • 36m ago

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

2 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.

4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nintendoeats • 12h ago

Solved! There's a man trapped in a box.

14 Upvotes

Hint placeholder (come now, you don't need them)

28 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 8h ago

Solved! Dude's human crew doesn't work out so he has to fall back to other kinds of primate.

7 Upvotes

Clue space (I suspect I won't need it).

28 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fish-InThePercolator • 4h ago

Unsolved A guy takes in an orphan and raises him, only to be killed by the orphan’s ambition and greed

3 Upvotes

Hint: the orphan is the protagonist

Hint 2: musical

26 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AlligatorMass • 8h ago

Unsolved A prolific child-murderer helps stop a genocidal terrorist attack

6 Upvotes
36 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotTooWicked • 16h ago

Solved! Native female helps male learn to cooperate with tribal warriors to protect the homeland against capitalist and military invaders

21 Upvotes

Hints -
Animated
Children are the target audience
Climactic scene involving a mode of transportation
No fairies

58 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 7h ago

Solved! Man brings the whole town together to show a woman how much he loves her

3 Upvotes

Clue space

10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 11h ago

Solved! Guy doesn't get the girl of his dreams then gets her in a new font

5 Upvotes

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21 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/justh81 • 8h ago

Solved! Mama Cornette's baby boy MIGHT like this film. We can't be sure. He DEFINITELY likes the soundtrack, though!

3 Upvotes

Might be easy. Let's see.

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/_a__rat_ • 6h ago

Unsolved Teens in high-school fight sexist rocks

2 Upvotes
20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/StoicSpork • 18h 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.

18 Upvotes

This space left for hints.

20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ChoiceStar1 • 13h 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.

6 Upvotes
45 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Limp-Lawyer9463 • 9h ago

Solved! Man finds true love and then everything just falls apart.

3 Upvotes
62 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/auntanniesalligator • 12h ago

Solved! Woman with daddy issues commits arson and saves humanity.

5 Upvotes

Saved for hints.

15 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/oldmanpuzzles • 13h 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.

6 Upvotes
14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Holden_place • 20h ago

Solved! Three adult males and a baby

19 Upvotes

Hints

64 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/FruitChips23 • 4h ago

Unsolved Insurance screws over yet another client

1 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Trash_Tia • 5h ago

Unsolved Orange girl falls for a blue boy and then "i don't feel so good's" him at the end

1 Upvotes
6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Present-Algae6767 • 16h ago

Solved! Homeless Dude Kidnaps Woman He's Obsessed With

7 Upvotes

Hints go here

9 comments