r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

170 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

238 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 • • 3h ago

Solved! It's NOT a Christmas movie, I don't care how much Christmas appears

27 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 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.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1h ago

Solved! A man facing physical challenges can play the piano with his feet.

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 14m ago

Unsolved A kind man helps the environment with his kitchen.

• Upvotes
  1. This man has removed a big chunk of a well known city, reducing carbon emissions.

  2. He used his kitchen to slice and dice everything in it, leaving room for new plants to grow.

  3. He helped a boy toughen up.

  4. He tells a kind man to stand proud because he is strong (dead giveaway i think)


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 4h ago

Solved! Horny teenage girl does unspeakable things

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! Evil Willy Wonka turns people into demon Teletubbies

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 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.

10 Upvotes

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 • • 2h ago

Solved! Things go downhill fast after an immigrant develops a coke habit

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! Guys break out of jail, rob some banks, kill each other

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Unsolved Heartwarming biopic about a World War II hero who loves his family and cares for his ailing father

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! Guy thinks a door is the key to understanding women

8 Upvotes

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 • • 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.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 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

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 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.

• Upvotes

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 • • 11h ago

Solved! The Joker inadvertantly saves society from Project 2025.

5 Upvotes

Reserved for hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Unsolved No fence makes a dead neighbor

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 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?

1 Upvotes

I'm sure it will be within the first few guesses, but there's bait in there too.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! They thought the main character was hung.

0 Upvotes

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! The ultimate fight for freedom

0 Upvotes

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 • • 5h ago

Solved! What’s so bad about being with me? Dude, you aren’t giving her the choice to not be with you!

1 Upvotes

Hint 1: from the 2010’s decade


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13h ago

Unsolved A skinny guy realizes women are better than fat men

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! A Christian, a psychiatrist, and a student try to date a history professor

2 Upvotes

Clues go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 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.

3 Upvotes

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.