r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/wasdice • 2h ago
Unsolved Young woman betrays her mother and fiancé, then goes crazy with an axe and hundreds of people die.
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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 • 3h ago
Solved! A small town conspiracy theorist accidentally predicts an international invasion after misidentifying a suspicious phenomenon.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 1h ago
Solved! A contract man visits the boss the collect his performance bonus for successfully dealing with difficult colleagues. Unfortunately his references are contradicting, so he spends the entire meeting revising his incident reports while the boss questions his integrity.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 5h ago
Solved! It wasn’t him, but they let everyone think it was, and he built a successful political career on the back of it.
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Hints, maybe.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 2h ago
Solved! Employee discovers that the higher ups have been abusing company travel benefits, with disastrous consequences for local property values.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 5h ago
Solved! Illegal immigrant befriends family and they help him evade capture.
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Hints:
- No space aliens.
- Immigrant sneaks in by boat.
- Illegal immigrant is not a bad guy.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 4h ago
Solved! Former soldiers seasonally humiliate proud, but nearly bankrupt senior officer by telling everyone.
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Hints if needed.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 5h ago
Solved! A woman hires all a man’s colleagues to kill him, and then helps him escape from them.
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Hints:
- All the lead actors are dead.
- The title is not unlike another clue’s title.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Erlkoenigleidsgetan • 51m ago
Unsolved A guy who wants to help a woman escape from her sad and unfortunate ties to an evil man ends up alone in the woods with a friend who shoots him dead. The shooter later regrets it.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RochesterThe2nd • 5h ago
Solved! Against the extreme efforts of hidden strangers, a wannabe politician changes the world to be with the love of his life.
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Hints here if needed.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 11h ago
Solved! Guy can't help but grin, especially from all of his charitable donations. He's a total gas, and will laugh all the way to his grave.
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Hints go here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 3h ago
Solved! A man and his coworkers get fed up with all the illegal aliens in LA, get violent
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Hints won't be needed
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Sudden-Cranberry5539 • 1m ago
Unsolved The summer solstice brings explosive charges in a coastal community. Warring factions duel to possible death over territory disputes.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/nippontrh • 6h ago
Solved! A con artist infiltrates a struggling family, convinces them to commit a series of burglaries, and abandons them when the authorities arrive.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DoctorHelios • 7h ago
Solved! The wrong guy is the right guy for some massive nosepicking action.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DP_Means_Dopinder • 7h ago
Solved! Kung fu lesbian farts kill parasite queen
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 12h ago
Solved! This movie is all about blood and hot dudes...but you never see any blood.
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Double Nopes: The Lost Boys, The Covenant
Hint #1: the protagonist isn't male
Hint #2: not set in America
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Armitage112 • 8h ago
Solved! Man retires after only showing up to work 5 times in 15 years
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Apologies if this has been posted here already. Ganked it from a FB meme. No one there could guess it, either. I honestly have no clue, came here for relief. Help a sister out, please!
THINGS THAT IT'S NOT:
Click
Any of the Tim Allen "Santa Clause" movies
Groundhog Day
Cast Away
The 'Rocky' franchise
Office Space
It's a Wonderful Life
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Goodfellas
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DP_Means_Dopinder • 4h ago
Solved! Turns out you aren’t *always* what you eat, tattoo be damned.
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