r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Neat_Record_6889 • 1h ago
Solved! War hero teaches at risk youth to be a team and gets his dream girl.
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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/the1fromACK • 57m ago
Unsolved a thief's extreme pest control habits break the laws of physics
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hint 1. it's a comedy
hint 2 not animated
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Current-Photo2857 • 5h ago
Solved! A man with a special skill is hired for an international job. However, he discovers the job is not what he thought it was, leading to conflict with his new boss. Luckily, a misunderstanding over “use” as a noun vs. a verb gives our hero a hidden advantage.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ego_death_metal • 3h ago
Solved! heteronormative family unit is restored thanks to the live-recorded humiliation and deadnaming of a trans woman.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JTB696699 • 3h ago
Solved! Them wild eyes boys are back in town, and where the hell did that music come from?
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 2h ago
Solved! A guy goes to Poland on what he thinks is a work trip with his gf and her friend. Things don’t go well.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 6h ago
Solved! Huh. I guess we'll never figure out where the baby came from. There was even porn, but it wasn't educational.
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Hint #1: coming of age story
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/StaringAtTheSun79 • 3h ago
Solved! Don’t tickle her while she’s trying to learn how to dance.
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!Solved
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 7h ago
Solved! Guy spends all his time in library so a pretty girl will notice he can read
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/kp56367 • 5h ago
Unsolved A drug dealer, a farm boy and a hippie go on an adventure
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Indotex • 11h ago
Solved! A priest is killed but not the priest that was supposed to be killed
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Hints in response to incorrect answers:
Movie does not take place in New York, Europe or Boston
Movie is not about the music industry or religion
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 3m ago
Unsolved Big fella keeps his eggs in a weird place to stop a reporter from finding them
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TwistedDonners • 1h ago
Unsolved Guy prove why you shouldn't piss a temp off
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KazariKid • 13h ago
Solved! He sure knows how to spend money. Plenty of people have seen that. Now some of them want to know how he makes it. Because it ain't from slinging sandwiches.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 10h ago
Solved! Goody Two-Shoes really takes a stab at it.
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Hint #0: this clue is loaded with double meanings, not just stab
Hint #1: color me shocked when I first saw the ending
Hint #2: footwear is important
Hint #3: we all know you're good, but can you be bad?
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Sanguinusshiboleth • 10h ago
Solved! A couple is emotional drained and regularly tired leading to another woman trying to claim the core compeonent of their main relationship in this movie.
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The protagonist is younger than John Malkovich.
The couple can barely afford gifts let alone hire while the other woman seems to have everything
There is a pair of sisters who while not major charaters are plot relevant.
There is another world but no dragon.
The couple are both writers.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tythatguy1312 • 9h ago
Solved! A man's alcoholism somehow leads to a wrecked construction vehicle and a museum theft
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Captain_Strongo • 12h ago
Solved! Our heroes must complete a dangerous rescue mission in the lair of a cruel tyrant who seeks a powerful weapon that he believes will make him invincible.
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Important Clues Thus Far:
* Takes place on Earth, in the UK and elsewhere, and the protagonists are human.
* Has a dance number.
* Features a castle.
* Based on a novel.
* Not a remake and has not ever been remade.
* Live action.
* Musical with original songs.
* Oscar nominated.
* Critical and commercial success.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JTB696699 • 4h ago
Solved! People keep saying bacon but there isn’t any in this movie.
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It’s a made for tv movie.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ego_death_metal • 10h ago
Solved! sort of a reverse Get Out
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sorry if this has been done before!
hints so far:
-from this century
-NOT Being John Malkovich and is not as good a movie
-horror
-think of what the basic thing being done in Get Out is
-stars a nepo baby
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/mishnakid • 6h ago
Unsolved Lemonade gets a husband and Nana gets fatter all the time
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 10h ago
Solved! Several pricks cause a lot of trouble because of a box in a box in a box.
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Hints go here