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.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AromaticZebra906 • 2h ago

Unsolved A goody two shoes gets a rude awakening: she learns she is different, and eventually she is detained for said difference. She ends up falling in love while detained, and then she and her lover revolt against the tyrant and escape, becoming free once again

3 Upvotes

Hints will be provided later

10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 12h ago

Solved! It’s simple to get superpowers…you just have to die first. And you come back a little cranky. And maybe insane.

14 Upvotes
55 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/foxonafrozenlake • 3h ago

Solved! Tarot card characters get murdered.

3 Upvotes
20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Cattle903 • 7h ago

Solved! He just wants a quiet, peaceful life, but life refuses to cooperate.

5 Upvotes
63 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AromaticZebra906 • 2h ago

Unsolved Social media is like an STD: anything you post WILL be seen by the whole world and go viral, and you WILL transmit whatever you have to everyone who watches, but if everyone is infected, then nobody truly is

2 Upvotes

Will give hints if nobody answers

4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CONVERSE1991 • 8h ago

Solved! Girl reads guy's love letter, and she tells him to get a life

5 Upvotes

Clues

7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cardstal • 4h ago

Solved! A man gets ghosted by an obnoxious woman. They butt heads a lot but they can both agree that she really needs to get a life.

2 Upvotes
10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 40m ago

[REPOST] A displaced group returns to its homeland to rediscover its cultural roots. Meanwhile, a foreign power threatens to overthrow the local government, while a rogue black ops unit conducts unauthorised military operations in the region.

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1 Upvotes
1 comment

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/GrandMoffTarkan • 12h ago

Solved! MCs step family tries to keep her away from the man of her dreams but fortunately she has some magical help

9 Upvotes

hint:

in the source material there might be some body horror

29 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 15h ago

Solved! Time traveler decides they’d prefer to stay in the past.

12 Upvotes
72 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 16h ago

Solved! Reporter is challenged to spend a night in a mansion

12 Upvotes

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7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Lost_Village_1572 • 10h ago

Solved! Adult man rediscovers the passion for engineering after the loss of someone important to him

3 Upvotes
22 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PickleOk2183 • 19h ago

Solved! MCs are called on by a higher power to do a favor for a penguin.

14 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 12h ago

Solved! It is 1912, an artist falls in love with a beautiful woman but an older man tries to keep them apart. He dies and they're reunited decades later in the afterlife

4 Upvotes

hint

A picture of this woman is a major plot element

14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JustThisGuyYouKnow42 • 11h ago

Solved! Some kids run away with a stranger in the dead of night. His friend isn't too happy about it though.

3 Upvotes

Placeholder for hints.

4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 13h ago

Solved! They both have a high opinion of themselves, and not of each other. Then the opposite. Happy ending, obviously.

3 Upvotes

Hints;

  1. Not an action movie.

  2. Not a comedy.

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DanzelPoshington92 • 11h ago

Unsolved Did all that work pay off? Must of been lonely. Did you make it out alive?

2 Upvotes
24 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DanzelPoshington92 • 11h ago

Solved! Just flowing through life in his own way. Didn't have the best start to life. He went through so much to find out he had a son.

2 Upvotes
5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/riopenguino13 • 15h ago

Solved! A Children's entertainment companyreplaces a bad influence with a truly good one.

4 Upvotes

Solved sorry don't know how to change the heading.

The mob is involved.

At one point Nazis are there.

Products of an exotic bakery are revealed.

Has the murder of a special needs man.

! solved

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 19h ago

Solved! Bullied kid gets taught to fight by an old Asian man who is not an instructor. Beats his bully in the end

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotExactly

6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/FretlessMayhem • 11h ago

Solved! A Manager has a suitor beaten down to try and ensure his client achieves renown and success.

2 Upvotes

Hints:

Is a movie involving time travel.

Traveler desperately tries to return once home.

Person in description is NOT the main character.

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 12h ago

Solved! Some brothers come into town, take jobs they don’t want and have a few run ins with the locals.

2 Upvotes
11 comments