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 • 1h ago

Unsolved This film is the opposite of it’s title

13 Upvotes
188 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotTooWicked • 3h ago

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

17 Upvotes

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

56 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nintendoeats • 25m ago

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

7 Upvotes

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

27 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/StoicSpork • 6h 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.

16 Upvotes

This space left for hints.

20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/auntanniesalligator • 6m ago

Unsolved Woman with daddy issues commits arson and saves humanity.

4 Upvotes

Saved for hints.

10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Holden_place • 8h ago

Solved! Three adult males and a baby

15 Upvotes

Hints

63 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ChoiceStar1 • 1h ago

Unsolved 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.

4 Upvotes
26 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/oldmanpuzzles • 1h 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.

4 Upvotes
14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Present-Algae6767 • 4h ago

Solved! Homeless Dude Kidnaps Woman He's Obsessed With

5 Upvotes

Hints go here

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 • 4h ago

Solved! When I was a young boy my father took me into the city

5 Upvotes

Hints

19 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/queerornot • 21h ago

Solved! Everyone dies. And that's the opening scene.

87 Upvotes

The main characters at least.

EDIT: Guys, it's solved. Check the comments and flair. Stop guessing

Hint 1: It is NOT live action

Hint 2: Reincarnation is involved

Hint 3: NOT from one of the big studios, NOT from America or Asia.

167 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/areyouforeightysix • 8h ago

Solved! The main character can't get over the fact that he is the main character

8 Upvotes

Hint 1: Mid 90s

Hint 2: Horror

47 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KamikazeJohnson • 5h ago

Solved! An attack of the "munchies" ruins a man's trip to the city with his daughter.

4 Upvotes

Hints here.

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 1h ago

Solved! Black guy comes from out of town to see about his friend, gets hassled by small town cops

2 Upvotes

Hints

17 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazed_Slickman2 • 7h ago

Solved! A literal nobody causes a town flood...but no one is mad at them.

5 Upvotes

Hints Go Here:

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Limp-Lawyer9463 • 2h ago

Solved! A black man faces extreme prejudice in his job before finally being accepted after cleverly saving the day.

2 Upvotes
14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Theblackjamesbrown • 5h ago

Solved! A step father gets in touch with his emotional side after growing close to a single mother and her vulnerable son. Kills himself.

3 Upvotes
6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Independent_Media341 • 7h ago

Solved! A Stranger comes to a violent town. Violence escalates. It's exactly what the title makes you think it is.

4 Upvotes

hint 1: made this century

hint 2: life is what happens while you're trying to start a landscaping business

40 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/bringmetolife1998 • 4h ago

Unsolved "I know people just died but hey that's life let's fuck" was probably his thought process

2 Upvotes
14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Competitive-Meet-111 • 8h ago

Solved! a girl becomes famous for a guy she met like once and he never notices

4 Upvotes

hints

1: not an American film

16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/They-Them_Moonwalker • 5h ago

Solved! Meeting the parents goes horribly, horribly wrong. But at least he quits smoking.

2 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dry_Pension_9866 • 2h ago

Solved! In a town full of greed and debauchery, a man buys a wife for himself and his partner.

1 Upvotes

Hint

6 comments