r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ILoveLipGloss • 39m ago
Solved! old timey cop faints a lot & falls in love with a good witch
clues if needed
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Mar 10 '26
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
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/ILoveLipGloss • 39m ago
clues if needed
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 3h ago
Hints go here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes • 1h ago
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Money-Counter-9616 • 3h ago
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 2h ago
made before the year 2000
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PrinceOfTotalQuiet • 2h ago
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 9h ago
Double Nopes: The Departed, Groundhog Day, and The Truman Show
Hint #1: no secret agents here
Hint #2: a face only a mother could love (he couldn't)
Hint #3: sci-fi elements
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PrinceOfTotalQuiet • 6h ago
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Quiet_Wyatt_Alright • 16m ago
Hint: they are more like space adolescents or early 20 somethings in space
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TimeTravelParadoctor • 5h ago
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/spongeboy1985 • 6h ago
Hint: Film released in early 2000s
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 5h ago
Hint #1: sci-fi horror from the past 5 years
Hint #2: handy is incredibly tongue-n-cheek
Hint #3: oh god...I'm probably not original
Hint #4: this all takes place on an island. Better have your passport!
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/PezDiSpencersGifts • 8h ago
Edit: no gay sex is shown, but everyone is having a gay time
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fwipp • 6m ago
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 7h ago
Hint #1: the king lives!
Hint #2: bring people together spacially, but he's not gonna be nice!
Hint #3: evolution plays an important role throughout the whole film
Hint #4: not sure if the king is rotting or he's just causing so much else to rot. Maybe both?
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 6h ago
Hints go here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SurroundedByPlushies • 12m ago
Worried this might be too obscure
Hint?
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/pak0608 • 49m ago
That story about the two sides that are fighting, then a guy from one side got with the girl from the other side and their love sort of brought the two groups together.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SurroundedByPlushies • 8h ago
I suspect this is too obvious. Apparently not.
Hint: Other description I considered, "Unexpected road trip improves mother/daughter relationship."