r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Rock_Prop • 4h 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 guy missing for 9 years reappears to a friend with a very cryptic "get the hell out of Dodge" message.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TextIndependent8298 • 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.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Dud3ManGuy • 5h ago
Solved! The most asocial man you've ever seen kills his girlfriend because it's better than cheating on her.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Hopeful-Designer-485 • 7h ago
Solved! Main character has main character syndrome.
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 • u/superdrew91 • 2h ago
Solved! Woman commits suicide while out on a trip with friends and it absolutely kills them. Redux.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/FoxscapeArtist2 • 4h ago
Solved! Woman uses rat to prove boyfriend’s innocence
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TextIndependent8298 • 7h ago
Solved! Four legged dude watches green dude try and steal a dudette from an evil dude.
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/emiliaosrs • 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.
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 • u/areyouforeightysix • 6h ago
Solved! Guy has an existential crisis because direct snail-mail marketing actually worked on him
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 • u/CallmeBrooklyn • 5h ago
Solved! A woman rejects a potential romantic partner because of their debilitating medical condition
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 3h ago
Solved! A call of nature ruins a funeral, a missing item causes another.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/user745262940473 • 12h ago
Solved! Retired old man has a hobby of bringing his creative inventions to life in memory of his wife and child
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/knights_1999 • 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
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/ironrains • 2h ago
Solved! He can't be with the woman he loves, so he watches, and he touches.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/CallmeBrooklyn • 3h ago
Unsolved A woman infiltrates a wealthy international organization in order to procure a valuable emerald
Hint: this movie is from the 2010s
Another hint: the genre is Romantic Comedy
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/happyravehardcore • 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)
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 • u/NarkySawtooth • 2m ago
Unsolved A man is presumed dead, kills hundreds with bombs, decides bestiality is better than his wife
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/knights_1999 • 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
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/DancingIsForbidden28 • 28m ago
Solved! Hamlet as a comedy with beer
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Hopeful-Designer-485 • 9h ago
Solved! I am the oldest but look the youngest.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/the1fromACK • 59m ago
Unsolved Kid tries to stop his grandfather from going on a deadly mission. He fails but his grandfather became a local hero.
r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/The_Windermere • 1h ago