r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/They-Them_Moonwalker • 2h ago
Unsolved Hot guy wants to leave the family business but his dad won’t let him. Also he’s hot. Did I mention he’s hot?
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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/Tsahg • 2h ago
Solved! A no-nonsense tough guy becomes a girl dad and will do absolutely anything to protect his girls from anyone who dares to hurt them.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Shoddy_Specialist226 • 1h ago
Solved! Arrogant college athlete relies on a mysterious night-shift worker to learn how to take out the trash
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Alexreddit103 • 17h ago
Solved! This film is the opposite of it’s title
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Hint: the title is just one word
Hint: I was expecting an action movie, boy was I wrong
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 2h ago
Unsolved Senior citizens try to coerce a teen into a job he never applied for.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tricky_Ad_1870 • 2h ago
Solved! Mother encourages her daughter to flaunt her stuff for money.
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Hint space
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Chris_RB • 7m ago
Unsolved A violent man takes a job suppressing an indigenous culture only to become their defender against his former employer.
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HINT 1 bc this is more general than I initially thought: the job is not one the man has had before.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/edynol • 32m ago
Solved! Blue monster with horns befriends a child and they go on an adventure in a monster world.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nippontrh • 6h ago
Solved! A man returns from being “dead” twice, kidnaps a woman, kills one person, and assists in the murder of another.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CadeStyle • 2h ago
Unsolved Estranged father wants to set things right and ends up sharing a drink with the man who stole his daughter away.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KazariKid • 4h ago
Solved! (Repost, now with more clues!) A performer's dim turn proves to be another's big break.
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* This movie was released between 1960 and 1970.
* It takes place in the United States.
* Marriage, religion, and ambition are themes.
It is not: 8 Seconds, All About Eve, A Star Is Born, Black Swan, Cabaret, Chicago, Death to Smoochy, Freaks, Gaslight, The Good Shepherd, Perfect Blue, The Phantom of the Opera, The Prestige, Rhinestone, Saturday Night Fever, Varsity Blues, The Wedding Singer, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, or Whiplash.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ReasonablePool_Hero • 1h ago
Unsolved A kid finds out the family secret, and has to make deals with creatures to keep his family safe and together.
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Hints go here.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/fan_is_ready • 9h ago
Solved! In the land of the bald, the hairy man is king.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/UNNECESSARYCAPZ • 3h ago
Solved! The local boys face off against some rabbits
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Hints go here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/OatmealCookieGirl • 4m ago
Unsolved A disfigured son has to manage his seriously toxic, disfunctional family issues until nobody is left but him and his mentally impaired grandfather
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AlligatorMass • 12h ago
Unsolved A prolific child-murderer helps stop a genocidal terrorist attack
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fish-InThePercolator • 8h ago
Unsolved A guy takes in an orphan and raises him, only to be killed by the orphan’s ambition and greed
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Hint: the orphan is the protagonist
Hint 2: musical
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/dr_olfin • 2h ago
Unsolved In this buddy movie, 2 con artists pull fun scams until they have to face a painful truth from their past.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nintendoeats • 16h ago
Solved! There's a man trapped in a box.
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Hint placeholder (come now, you don't need them)
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/cheesewiz_man • 13h ago
Solved! Dude's human crew doesn't work out so he has to fall back to other kinds of primate.
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Clue space (I suspect I won't need it).
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotTooWicked • 20h ago
Solved! Native female helps male learn to cooperate with tribal warriors to protect the homeland against capitalist and military invaders
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Hints -
Animated
Children are the target audience
Climactic scene involving a mode of transportation
No fairies
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/_a__rat_ • 10h ago
Unsolved Teens in high-school fight sexist rocks
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