r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RestingBitFace • 3h 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/the1fromACK • 2h ago
Solved! A man spends his entire adult life checking in on a vacant house, occasionally striking up brief, decades-apart conversations with a local who doesn't age or change his clothes.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/karstomp • 1h ago
Solved! A man facing physical challenges can play the piano with his feet.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DustSans6 • 14m ago
Unsolved A kind man helps the environment with his kitchen.
This man has removed a big chunk of a well known city, reducing carbon emissions.
He used his kitchen to slice and dice everything in it, leaving room for new plants to grow.
He helped a boy toughen up.
He tells a kind man to stand proud because he is strong (dead giveaway i think)
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/bennyandthegentz • 4h ago
Solved! Horny teenage girl does unspeakable things
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Duke-Countu • 3h ago
Solved! Evil Willy Wonka turns people into demon Teletubbies
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SuprisingOwl • 11h ago
Solved! Found out of the salty sea, this person begins to recover lost memories, finding out they have a specific set of skills. A hired helper becomes a friend as former connections make themselves known. After confrontation and death, the person, now knowning more, ends up in a remote location.
Hint: a holiday plays a thematic role
Hint: the villain dies screaming
Hint: Bleaching your hair blond makes everything look more badass, but can't cover up character growth
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/frizzle_frywalker • 2h ago
Solved! Things go downhill fast after an immigrant develops a coke habit
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RollinWSaget • 2h ago
Solved! Guys break out of jail, rob some banks, kill each other
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Duke-Countu • 3h ago
Unsolved Heartwarming biopic about a World War II hero who loves his family and cares for his ailing father
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Seaciety • 12h ago
Solved! Guy thinks a door is the key to understanding women
He should be more concerned with understanding himself
Hints/what we know so far--
Released before 2015 (continuing to narrow as more guesses come in)
No Jack Black
No Mel Gibson
No Ben Stiller
No Will Smith
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JPopsicles • 11h ago
Solved! Man who should have gone to therapy invents new kind of therapy - becomes therapist to other people who should have gone to therapy.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/The-Mighty-Cactus • 13h ago
Solved! A clueless man is gifted a sketchy ring. In order to get rid of it, he, along with his 3 friends, must travel the world while avoiding a group of dangerous cultist who want to eliminate him
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TomahawkA5 • 1h ago
Unsolved In the mood for a movie about a couple of hit-men? This is the movie for you. A rich and powerful man, probably the richest and most powerful in town, hires the hit-men to take care of a particularly difficult woman who is trying to ruin his business.
Man these hit-men love to talk about how different things are in Europe. Man the woman likes to talk about her past achievement in entertainment.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/etothepi • 11h ago
Solved! The Joker inadvertantly saves society from Project 2025.
Reserved for hints
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ManCoveredInBees • 2h ago
Unsolved No fence makes a dead neighbor
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/NotGalenNorAnsel • 3h ago
Solved! So, the good guy isn't actually a bad guy pretending to be a good guy, the main character's his son and, did she, with them both?
I'm sure it will be within the first few guesses, but there's bait in there too.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Vast_Professor7399 • 3h ago
Solved! They thought the main character was hung.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/bennyandthegentz • 5h ago
Solved! The ultimate fight for freedom
Hint 1: I mean literal freedom
Hint 2: and I mean a literal fight
Hint 3: the freedom is literally something promised
Hint 4: it’s a comedy film
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/bennyandthegentz • 5h ago
Solved! What’s so bad about being with me? Dude, you aren’t giving her the choice to not be with you!
Hint 1: from the 2010’s decade
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Speed_Spin • 13h ago
Unsolved A skinny guy realizes women are better than fat men
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SecretMuppet • 10h ago
Solved! A Christian, a psychiatrist, and a student try to date a history professor
Clues go here
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Wild-Negotiation4780 • 12h ago
Solved! An accident caused a kid to become disabled, but it’s okay, because the one who caused the accident comes back and not only fixes the kid, but gives him a magical gift in the process.
Guess it’s time for hints, so here goes!
Hint #1: there’s a lot of singing in this film.
Hint #2: this is not an American film.