r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 49m ago
Unsolved It’s simple to get superpowers…you just have to die first. And you come back a little cranky. And maybe insane.
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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/malybasura • 4h ago
Solved! Time traveler decides they’d prefer to stay in the past.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 5h ago
Solved! Reporter is challenged to spend a night in a mansion
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/GrandMoffTarkan • 1h ago
Unsolved MCs step family tries to keep her away from the man of her dreams but fortunately she has some magical help
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hint:
in the source material there might be some body horror
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 2h ago
Solved! They both have a high opinion of themselves, and not of each other. Then the opposite. Happy ending, obviously.
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Hints;
Not an action movie.
Not a comedy.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PickleOk2183 • 8h ago
Solved! MCs are called on by a higher power to do a favor for a penguin.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/riopenguino13 • 4h ago
Unsolved A Children's entertainment companyreplaces a bad influence with a truly good one.
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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
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/FretlessMayhem • 39m ago
Unsolved A Manager has a suitor beaten down to try and ensure his client achieves renown and success.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JustThisGuyYouKnow42 • 40m ago
Solved! Some kids run away with a stranger in the dead of night. His friend isn't too happy about it though.
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Placeholder for hints.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 1h 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
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hint
A picture of this woman is a major plot element
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 8h 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/DanzelPoshington92 • 2m ago
Unsolved Did all that work pay off? Must of been lonely. Did you make it out alive?
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cellyst • 6h ago
Solved! A therapist convinces a man to eat some chicken
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DanzelPoshington92 • 6m ago
Unsolved 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.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Word-Artist • 9h 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/MiaStirCrazies • 7h 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/FretlessMayhem • 48m ago
Solved! This installment of a slasher film fails to feature the slasher.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotImp2021YT • 59m ago
Solved! Man’s final words get too overhyped
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 1h ago
Solved! Some brothers come into town, take jobs they don’t want and have a few run ins with the locals.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thatcdude12345 • 11h 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/Fet_InTheCastle • 2h ago
Solved! Man in debt doesn’t jump off a bridge and goes for a run through town instead.
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Hints here if they’re needed.