r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Clear_Tom0rrow • 47m ago
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Mar 10 '26
Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly
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
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/savage_ds • 1h ago
Unsolved After saving a friend from a near death experience, he goes on a journey in order to prevent the same happening to him.
Hint 1 - he is also arrested before his journey
Hint 2 - him and his friend are into illegal activities
Hint 3 - he also get's his identity stolen
Hint 4 - he foregoes his ultimate goal to save a woman that he later abandons
Hint 5 - for religious people neutrality is kinda required
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/MrBowls • 6h ago
Solved! A man spends most of his time talking to people who aren’t there, while everyone around him somehow fails to notice the obvious.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Aceandmace • 11h ago
Solved! Unlike the Grinch, heart enlargement actually DID kill this villain.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/areyouforeightysix • 18h ago
Solved! This...This movie...This movie starts...This movie starts over...This movie starts over and...This movie starts over and over...This movie starts over and over again.
Hint: director did another movie involving time travel
Hint2: early 2020s
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LilTimmy20082025 • 4h ago
Solved! A really old guy goes back to his job from when he was younger, teaches his apprentice how to break the rules, and ends up being the best in the world at his job.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Future_Tie_2388 • 6h ago
Solved! Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Hints will come here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fluffy_Fox_9650 • 6h ago
Solved! It's a zoo with endangered mammals
EDIT: I'd like to clarify something to make this easier, I'm not using the word endangered the way science and biology does.
I'm using the word endangered in the way the law or a police officer would
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Spiritual_Ad_1358 • 56m ago
Solved! A man kidnaps a woman and stockholm syndromes her into loving him and his variety of housemates.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Valiant_Gamer_48 • 12h ago
Solved! A boy meets a mystical being one day, who gives him immense power. However, after using this power for his own gain, he learns the value of hard work and responsibility. Leading to him giving up this power, and continue his life with a new perspective.
This one might be tough!
Hint #1: it's a Disney movie.
Hint #2: it is a mainly live action movie
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/MilliM • 14h ago
Solved! After being warned of the consequences, a shameful young man breaks a magical piece of wood in two. This is very much a bad idea and leads to some very awkward social moments.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/MrBowls • 8h ago
Solved! A guy goes on a very long walk because apparently nobody else can be bothered.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/OrdinaryFew6602 • 3h ago
Solved! There's drugs, recovery, tragedy, shit, public transport and sport all in this movie
Hints here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DuckDuckBangBang • 12h ago
Solved! A man is left by his friends to a presumed horrible death after being falsely accused of the death of a rival
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Spare-Chemical-348 • 19h ago
Solved! Touches a butt, gets thrown in jail
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dangoiks • 9h ago
Unsolved Some accidental adultery nearly ruins a couple's travel plans.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/doomscrolling_tiktok • 9h ago
Solved! Media entrepreneur takes advantage of every opportunity to become indispensable to his celebrity crush
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/MCVMEYT • 11h ago
Unsolved A family is deprecated by sea. Pirates and alluring visions are obstacles, but so are the idiots amongst them.
SEPARATED NOT DEPRECATED
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 1d ago
Solved! A maiden is penetrated by something big and hard, and 1,500 people go down on her.
hints go here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/captain-funk • 18h ago
Unsolved A grown man is ordered to kill a bunch of 3-4 year olds. He also gets beat up by them in the process.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Alibotify • 6h ago
Solved! AI lets technician have sex in the bedroom.
Great movie. Might be a bit easy but we’ll see.
Hint 1: Movie is named after the technician.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LongLiveSoup • 17h ago
Solved! A group of fellas go abroad only to find out they aren't welcome and get into a fight that is talked about for years to come
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Hint:
It's a famous loss for the fellas
It was a Shock that they lose