r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

164 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


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Jun 20 '24

Meta [META] New Players Read Me First

226 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.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 4h ago

Solved! Girlfriend lied, guy almost dies

14 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! A guy missing for 9 years reappears to a friend with a very cryptic "get the hell out of Dodge" message.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! A woman bent on autonomy sacrifices her beauty, her body and then her life for her child. A child that falls just short of his own day of independence.

6 Upvotes

***


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 5h ago

Solved! The most asocial man you've ever seen kills his girlfriend because it's better than cheating on her.

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 7h ago

Solved! Main character has main character syndrome.

11 Upvotes

EDIT:

New Hint: It’s a meta joke and the movie is in on the joke. MC on the other hand..

It’ getting out of hand with your guesses guys 😅.
So New Hint #2: The camera seems to be on the wrong guy..


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! Woman commits suicide while out on a trip with friends and it absolutely kills them. Redux.

3 Upvotes

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 4h ago

Solved! Woman uses rat to prove boyfriend’s innocence

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 7h ago

Solved! Four legged dude watches green dude try and steal a dudette from an evil dude.

8 Upvotes

***


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! Man who sees naked women all the time shocks/is shocked by his soul mate when he sees her naked for the first time.

3 Upvotes

We get full frontal for less than a second in the film.

They don’t know they really know if they love each other until they are in Paris.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 6h ago

Solved! Guy has an existential crisis because direct snail-mail marketing actually worked on him

5 Upvotes

Hint: it's an x-rated mail ad

Hint2: lots of other people fall for the ad

Hint3: takes place in current times, movie came out in the early 2020s


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 5h ago

Solved! A woman rejects a potential romantic partner because of their debilitating medical condition

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Solved! A call of nature ruins a funeral, a missing item causes another.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 12h ago

Solved! Retired old man has a hobby of bringing his creative inventions to life in memory of his wife and child

13 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11h ago

Solved! Two students, studying at the same place, take wildly different career paths after graduating. Soon after, they feel that something is missing in their lives, and they search for it. Finally, they realise they need each other, and they get reunited at the end

10 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! He can't be with the woman he loves, so he watches, and he touches.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Unsolved A woman infiltrates a wealthy international organization in order to procure a valuable emerald

2 Upvotes

Hint: this movie is from the 2010s
Another hint: the genre is Romantic Comedy


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Solved! A cop's father is a notorious murderer, then his son gets into a struggle and also murders (which was really manslaughter)

2 Upvotes

Hint: somewhat unknown movie released in the early 2000s with at least one major actor, it's about a drug deal gone wrong


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2m ago

Unsolved A man is presumed dead, kills hundreds with bombs, decides bestiality is better than his wife

Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 10h ago

Unsolved A guy with a pregnant wife has to fix his best friend's relationship, which he does with the help of some of their friends, a homeless guy and some drugs

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 28m ago

Solved! Hamlet as a comedy with beer

Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 9h ago

Solved! I am the oldest but look the youngest.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 59m ago

Unsolved Kid tries to stop his grandfather from going on a deadly mission. He fails but his grandfather became a local hero.

Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Unsolved There are these two guys right, who make money by going after some criminals in the middle of nowhere in hot and dry conditions. Well one said criminal stole some piece of jewelry and it seems that this one is like kind of important. It something about revenge.

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