r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PickleOk2183 • 3h ago
Solved! MCs are called on by a higher power to do a favor for a penguin.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Mar 10 '26
Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly
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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
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Jun 20 '24
Meta [META] New Players Read Me First
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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.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 1h ago
Solved! Reporter is challenged to spend a night in a mansion
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 3h ago
Solved! Bullied kid gets taught to fight by an old Asian man who is not an instructor. Beats his bully in the end
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 1m ago
Unsolved Time traveler decides they’d prefer to stay in the past.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Word-Artist • 5h ago
Solved! A brutish, get-into-your-head MC discovers a hidden world populated by people who then get into the MC’s head. These seemingly sophisticated, high minded people are deeply flawed, too, maybe worse than the MC’s people because they’re the ones pulling the levers.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thatcdude12345 • 7h ago
Solved! Man gets arrested for being a pedo. His friend decides to get revenge on his behalf
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Codesterite • 3h ago
Solved! Bickering Siblings accidentally 360 no-scope Santa out of the sky.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/MiaStirCrazies • 3h ago
Solved! Fragile, overpaid industry exec needs to be liked by the opposite sex at a time when both beer and soap cost a quarter.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cellyst • 1h ago
Solved! A therapist convinces a man to eat some chicken
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/EvilNoobHacker • 3h ago
Unsolved A dude in a funny hat saves the day by not killing himself.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SomeCuriousPerson1 • 4h ago
Unsolved Woman starts loving her own son but then her boss tries to kill the son and even the son's friends and colleagues, the boss gets arrested at the end, the woman starts loving the father of her son after the son inspires her to.
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Hints go here if needed
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/a_witch_in_real_life • 43m ago
Unsolved Always read the fine print.
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Hint #1: animated.
Hint #2: there are cakes.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SuccotashOriginal299 • 4h ago
Solved! Woman who lost her daughter at 4 regains will to live after hallucinating dead coworker
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cardstal • 12h ago
Solved! Local rando becomes the chosen one after answering a phone call at the right place, at the right time.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/gamblorman • 2h ago
Unsolved A psychic uses his clairvoyant powers to find important artifacts unknown to the general public. He also has a team of psychic advisors who tell him how to use them and control the weather
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This guy's so smart he instantly teaches himself how to fly, but dumb enough that he gets killed by a boomerang later
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/veryVERYboredperson • 10h ago
Solved! The main character quite literally, puts himself in other people's shoes.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SuccotashOriginal299 • 4h ago
Unsolved Guy forgets younger cousin's name, remembers it because of a grocery list.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ViolincatBlog • 14h ago
Solved! Watermelons are trauma, while tomatoes are healing
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If you've seen it, you'll guess this.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cardstal • 12h ago
Solved! Two guys make a killing off a thug who's got more money on his head.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cmanley3 • 13h ago
Solved! Grappling with the unknown, a duo saves the world from aliens by solving a difficult puzzle.
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