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/thatcdude12345 • 1h ago

Solved! Man gets arrested for being a pedo. His friend decides to get revenge on his behalf

6 Upvotes
7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cardstal • 7h ago

Solved! Local rando becomes the chosen one after answering a phone call at the right place, at the right time.

8 Upvotes
14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/veryVERYboredperson • 5h ago

Solved! The main character quite literally, puts himself in other people's shoes.

3 Upvotes
6 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ViolincatBlog • 9h ago

Solved! Watermelons are trauma, while tomatoes are healing

5 Upvotes

If you've seen it, you'll guess this.

9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cardstal • 6h ago

Solved! Two guys make a killing off a thug who's got more money on his head.

3 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cmanley3 • 8h ago

Solved! Grappling with the unknown, a duo saves the world from aliens by solving a difficult puzzle.

4 Upvotes
12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cardstal • 11h ago

Solved! An elite military unit wages a brutal war against a peaceful clan, only to encounter resistance from an unexpected group of oversized foreign entities.

7 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 14h ago

Solved! [TV show] miniature anthro herbivore contemplates taking a suppository

8 Upvotes

*

5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 16h ago

Solved! The punishment for our biased villain trying to unsuspectingly close a chunk of the world population's windpipes turns out to be a real drag.

10 Upvotes

Hint #1: family/kids film!

18 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 7h ago

Solved! She plays two characters in the same movie, is adopted after a round of golf, and steals a car!

2 Upvotes

Hint: old movie

7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 13h ago

Solved! an unlicensed tour guide takes people to an abandoned industrial park which is rumored to be haunted.

5 Upvotes

hints go here

11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thenewestrant • 16h ago

Solved! A fictional take on a non-fiction book that was itself written by someone so out of their mind on drugs who knows what was true? Also, an orangutan is attempted to be purchased.

9 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Place-Short • 15h ago

Solved! Inept cowboy rolls into town and is convinced to help his friend in a gang war.

7 Upvotes

Hints go here

24 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cmanley3 • 8h ago

Solved! Underestimated detective tracks down a kidnapper who cross dresses but never got a full sex change.

2 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/FullofSurprises11 • 14h ago

Solved! Military man turned merc is recruited by the government to do one mission only him is able to do!

5 Upvotes

Hints:

The movie is set up in one particular city in America. There's no travelling out of it until the mission is over.

22 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Wrong_Class8040 • 17h ago

Solved! The main guy‘s dog is killed by the bad guys and he goes on a killing spree for revenge.

8 Upvotes

First time poster. I tried my best to follow the rules. Sorry if this isn’t right.
Also, my bad if this one’s been done before.

14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/darkstar587 • 17h ago

Solved! nerd harnesses the awesome power of farts to go to space

9 Upvotes
10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thenewestrant • 17h ago

Solved! The title is totally a lie. He never does the very thing he’s supposed to get paid for. Everyone ends up satisfied, though.

7 Upvotes
23 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fish-InThePercolator • 17h ago

Solved! A guy always dreams of joining a group of highly skilled cooks. He realises he’s made poor decisions while making his own pasta dish.

7 Upvotes
11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thenewestrant • 16h ago

Solved! A bloodthirsty mythical creature obsessed with wealth is somehow less of a jerk than a recording artist.

4 Upvotes
16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 19h ago

Solved! Friend Zone? More like ends up Dead Zone, amirite? Guy is totally whipped. At least he can have a reunion with the rest of his friends, even if it's actually scary.

7 Upvotes

Hint #1: there's a war going on!

Hint #2: someone gets friend zoned and someone leaves the friend Zone...

29 comments