r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • 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

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Jun 20 '24

Meta [META] New Players Read Me First

241 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.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/doomscrolling_tiktok • 3h ago

Solved! At Halloween, a man stumbles into a serial killer competition and decides to commit his next of kin before committing to his wife

10 Upvotes
5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Latter-Lengthiness98 • 1h ago

Solved! An expat returns to the United States after a long time away and struggles to adjust

• Upvotes
58 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JayBrennan69 • 5h ago

Solved! Why is there a clown here?!

9 Upvotes

Hint 1- kids film

78 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/The_Windermere • 4h ago

Solved! Arrogant teens save the day by fighting a jingoistic toy company.

5 Upvotes
12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 6h ago

Solved! This family is absolutely goated

9 Upvotes

Hints go here, but I doubt it lol

17 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/mocklogic • 8h ago

Solved! Betrayed bride seeks revenge on her ex leaving a staggering trail of destruction before putting him where he deserves despite still having feelings for him.

7 Upvotes

Clues might go here.

8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TheLastTreeOctopus • 4h ago

Unsolved Little nephew seeks revenge after road trip and exhibits roid rage.

3 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/gottapeenow2 • 8h ago

Solved! Woman gets stuck working on a project with her ex-husband and very nearly drowns. He ends up saving their relationship (and the world) by going deeper than anyone has gone before.

5 Upvotes
8 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SuperRob3000 • 7h ago

Solved! An investigator uses unorthodox tactics to hunt down an elusive criminal who is terrorizing the region. In the end, the lawman bypasses the judicial system and uses his own rogue methods to kill the criminal. Then he throws his badge away like a badass.

3 Upvotes
11 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SourTD • 11h ago

Solved! Man is jumped by multiple people who beat him unconscious, one of them later kills his dog. He infiltrates the attackers' base and gets his revenge by shooting the leader dead. He also gets a new, bigger, and more aggressive dog.

9 Upvotes

Hint 1: the man was never an assassin.

Hint 2 (Added 40 minutes later): the main character only shoots the leader, but got his new dog to kill the member who killed his old dog.

22 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/LunaAmethyst824 • 8h ago

Solved! A true man never fumbles a big, beautiful woman, no matter what

4 Upvotes

Hints go here

7 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/eskimopoodle • 10h ago

Solved! An artificial life discovers love, although memory loss threatens to undue said love.

4 Upvotes

Hints for later.

EDIT: Stupid title should say "undo" not "undue". Sigh.

HINT 1- this movie is a sequel.

HINT 2- Neither this movie, its prequel, or its sequel, were ever released in theaters.

46 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fox_Hawk • 4h ago

Unsolved Rockets, computers, cute couples, and of course a bit with a dog!

3 Upvotes

Hints? Perhaps.

12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/mocklogic • 11h ago

Solved! Construction project threatens a community until an idiot gets in trouble and makes some new friends

7 Upvotes

My first Post.

Cars is the bait.

Hint 1: The construction project is not a building.

Hint 2: Oscar award winner has a brief surprising cameo as themselves.

Hint 3: The idiot is in an interracial relationship. (This is not why he’s an idiot.)

Hint 4: The Construction project is a freeway.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Tsahg • 1h ago

Unsolved A couple tries to navigate life with their children's split personalities

• Upvotes

Comedy

The couple are severely outnumbered

22 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 6h ago

Unsolved Man feels much better after not fulfilling his conspiratorial destiny.

2 Upvotes

Hint #1: memory can be pretty finicky

Hint #2: he can't stop seeing it

24 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/gamblorman • 2h ago

Solved! The worst person in the world gets everything he wants, strikes it rich, and goes on happily preying on women

1 Upvotes

Hint 1: strike is a key word

31 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JustThisGuyYouKnow42 • 3h ago

Solved! First year of college can be tough, then you join a fraternity...

0 Upvotes

Placeholder for hints.

22 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AdAccomplished6870 • 10h ago

Solved! A group of Ex presidents are on the run from a three letter agency because of their involvement in financial crimes

5 Upvotes

Hinty hinty hint hint

12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Ok_Cattle903 • 10h ago

Unsolved He quickly learns that having a libido in a foreign country may not be the smartest move.

2 Upvotes
64 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/JustThisGuyYouKnow42 • 3h ago

Solved! A machine hive mind poses a real threat to humanity.

1 Upvotes

Placeholder for hints.

12 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Interesting_State756 • 9h ago

Solved! Do not take shortcuts to your new house, or you'll end up as a slave to your boss while trying to help your friend who has lost his identity.

3 Upvotes

should be easy.

5 comments

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/beardyramen • 10h ago

Solved! So, being a loyal employee all your life suddenly makes you the bad guy when you take matters in your hands?

3 Upvotes
29 comments