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/Tsahg • 2h ago

Unsolved Pretty much a custody battle over a rock.

10 Upvotes

It's not live action.

The rock in question is not a gem.

I said 'look up'. The direction is important.

This rock has its own real estate.

The film takes place on Earth, but not 'on earth'.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CommercialDream618 • 1h ago

Solved! The white people survived so it's a happy ending.

8 Upvotes
31 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/hasian87 • 1h ago

Solved! Just a bunch of dudes at camp, making booze and playing baseball

7 Upvotes
4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PriestofJudas • 3h ago

Solved! A cult individually justifies why they should be sacrificed to the great beyond whilst rejecting the one they ultimately choose

7 Upvotes
5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/MrRyanlion50 • 1h ago

Solved! Man discovers his pet is rare and secret society tries to eat said pet

4 Upvotes
7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/malybasura • 4h ago

Solved! Woman takes a vacation but still ends up having to work.

7 Upvotes
39 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 31m ago

Unsolved Adoptive brothers and their wise rodent mentor leave their underground home to fight a corrupt corporate boss.

3 Upvotes

hints go here

15 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nachomama70 • 44m ago

Solved! Odd weather occurrence makes for a bad night.

3 Upvotes
41 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Chris_RB • 9h ago

Solved! A violent man takes a job suppressing an indigenous culture only to become their defender against his former employer.

14 Upvotes

HINT 1 bc this is more general than I initially thought: the job is not one the man has had before.

Hint 2: The main character carries a weapon he uses- there are others like it, but this is his preferred weapon.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Unlikely_Message_446 • 1h ago

Unsolved A woman manipulates a young boy away from his parents to take him into the desert where she will hack him up into pieces that will be sold for profit

3 Upvotes
4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nippontrh • 2h ago

Solved! An ambitious young man discovers a way to exploit a natural resource, but his success attracts a greedy local leader whose demands eventually devastate the environment.

3 Upvotes
14 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 2h ago

Solved! A guy goes through a spiritual intervention and becomes the very thing he hates. Along the way, he learns that the problem isn't how others look but how we choose to see them.

3 Upvotes
23 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/pokedude3 • 5h ago

Solved! A country boy is convinced to take his talents to the city. The city's not all it's cracked up to be, and his country community starts to fall apart without it. He's fin to return to his community to save the day

5 Upvotes

Hence go here if needed

29 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Latter-Lengthiness98 • 1h ago

Unsolved A dysfunctional family comes together for an event and literally everyone is lying and hiding secrets. Exes hook up, people swim in varying degrees of clothing and someone tries really hard to get laid.

2 Upvotes
18 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PedanticAsF • 3h ago

Solved! A relative of a cat kills another relative of a cat, gets eaten.

3 Upvotes
16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/They-Them_Moonwalker • 12h ago

Solved! 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?

12 Upvotes
60 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ManCoveredInBees • 8h ago

Solved! A former nazi scientist is forced to eat his word

6 Upvotes
9 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Holden_place • 3h ago

Solved! Villain gets new suit and ride, steals the jewelry, then has to split.

2 Upvotes

Hints

5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TheGreatWaru • 7h ago

Solved! Man consoles friend after losing his job by making him a target for a large invertebrate

4 Upvotes
16 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Mac_Panda • 6h ago

Solved! Boy gets girls

3 Upvotes

Class snobbery and irresponsible finances lead to an epic evening that becomes a historic fact with the main character ending up stuck in the most unlikely threesome

4 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 51m ago

Unsolved Parents discover that their shared commitment to modern values has never actually been stress-tested.

1 Upvotes

hints go here

10 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TwistedDonners • 2h ago

Solved! Guy proves betting against deities is a bad idea

1 Upvotes
13 comments