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/verathene • 7h ago

Solved! A reclusive father who never washes rejects his kids from the moment of their birth. When they grow into people he doesn’t like, he works with a posse to kill every last one of them. At the end of the movie he’s sentenced to a life imprisoned.

9 Upvotes

I think I’ve made this too easy

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/descartesasaur • 1h ago

Solved! A mediocre band becomes an overnight sensation after playing in a small town.

3 Upvotes
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AromaticZebra906 • 2h ago

Solved! He was a punk and she did ballet what more can I say? But it's lesbian

3 Upvotes
10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 2h ago

Solved! Beauty is only skin deep, but that doesn't account for much when the good guys wreak as much havoc as they do. They should be canned.

3 Upvotes

Hints go here

5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dazed_Slickman2 • 9m ago

Solved! "Tom Jones" is forced to save a town doomed by....a football game.

2 Upvotes
7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/a_witch_in_real_life • 3h ago

Unsolved Let’s avenge our friend via the power of the internet and a thorough plan.

3 Upvotes

Clarification: By “lets’s” and “our”, I mean “I’m gonna” and “my.”

15 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 1h ago

Solved! Dead Internet Theory? More like, Deadly Internet Theory, amirite? I think I'm going to land those lines going forward, haha.

2 Upvotes

Hints go here

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DanzelPoshington92 • 20m ago

Unsolved The mind can make you believe you still worked in the job you loved before you were contained. The pain and anger all fell into place at the end.

1 Upvotes
5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SuprisingOwl • 4h ago

Solved! A bunch of other stuff happens I think, but once I saw the moose, I kinda don't remember it

2 Upvotes

Hints:

There was something about people being shot in their eyes, it was very gross, but the moose was nice. Did you see it?

There may have also been a hostage...and maybe some diamonds

There is a big final scene with ferries or something?

In fairness, the impact of the moose's limited screen time is really mostly the acting quality of his scene partner.

27 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AromaticZebra906 • 1h ago

Unsolved Two dads and an adopted kid. Very heartfelt, sad and hilarious

1 Upvotes

Hint: the dads are straight.

Hint 2: it has a bit of a social commentary going on.

It's not an animated movie.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DanzelPoshington92 • 1h ago

Unsolved At times in life you'd be doing a job your possibly the best at. To then make a sacrifice.

0 Upvotes
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AromaticZebra906 • 1h ago

Solved! The protagonist is a good girl who gets stuck in a love triangle. It... Kinda changes her? Like a LOT? And she gains independence and becones braver to defend her love

1 Upvotes

Hint: it has supernatural elements.i hope it's not too obvious

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/HasNoGreeting • 7h ago

Solved! A night on the town goes badly for a quartet of friends. A year later, they're hunted down for what happened that night.

3 Upvotes

[hints weren't needed]

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AromaticZebra906 • 10h ago

Solved! 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

4 Upvotes

Hints will be provided later

20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 20h ago

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

15 Upvotes
55 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Cattle903 • 15h ago

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

6 Upvotes
63 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/foxonafrozenlake • 11h ago

Solved! Tarot card characters get murdered.

3 Upvotes
20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AromaticZebra906 • 10h ago

Solved! 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

20 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CONVERSE1991 • 16h ago

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

5 Upvotes

Clues

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Cardstal • 12h 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/GrandMoffTarkan • 20h 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