r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

174 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

239 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 • • 7h ago

Solved! Guy meets a girl totally out of his league. He thinks they're hitting it off, but she's just using him to score some green. They eventually promote much healthier choices.

13 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! A bunch of guys with accents run around shooting people and in the end everyone dies

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! These stoners will do anything to see painted faces.

5 Upvotes

Reserved for hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! Bitter asshole takes it out on everyone else because he suffers from ill-fitting clothing and chronic medical conditions.

15 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! Wait, did they just spoil the ending already? No, never mind. Theyre just playing basketball.

4 Upvotes

Hints here.

Hint 1: They have to do alot of fighting to get back to the game.

Hint 2: they meet a renowned magician and psychic (in universe) to help them.

Hint 3: the main villain is, strangely, just an eye


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! I see dead people.

20 Upvotes

Hint 1: the protagonist is helped by a guide with insight into their affliction

Hint 2: medical science is paired with the supernatural

Hint 3: the protagonist ends up right back where she started. Full circle


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 24m ago

Solved! Worst Family Vacation Ever

• Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! Office worker takes drugs and fights dudes in suits

6 Upvotes

Hint: Green


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! Fascism, but make it volumising

2 Upvotes

From the 00s

The story takes place in a futuristic world

MC belongs to a group of people feared by society because of a disease

It is not a musical

It stays on Earth

The MC is also an incredibly skilled fighter


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! Guy decides he's not ready for any of life's detours like butt stuff or brain damage, so he terrorizes a little girl.

15 Upvotes

Hint #1: sci-fi thriller


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! It's a dream inside a dream inside a dream inside a dream, and the ending will elaborate on nothing whatsoever.

3 Upvotes

Hints

This is a terribly obscure film. Arguably unfairly obscure.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 8h ago

Solved! Man returns home after years away. He becomes interested in and is spurned by a woman who isn’t yet related to him

6 Upvotes

Hint: we don’t find out about their relationship in this particular film


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! A star signals the birth of a special baby

12 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Unsolved Three bitter rivals with dubious reputations must work together to defeat a common enemy. The world grudgingly accepts the solution they offer, for the greater good.

3 Upvotes

Reserved for hints.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 8h ago

Solved! They try to inject some forced drama and heart into this film, but 90% of this movie is just guys beating off.

5 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 8h ago

Solved! Man peer pressures himself into doing every drug. He eventually even buys some!

6 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! A mangled police officer is reborn as a cybernetic supercop.

3 Upvotes

Hints.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! Milk truck driver takes a detour and gets lost. Almost everyone on board gets home safe.

3 Upvotes

Save for hints that you probably won't need.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Unsolved Like a TARDIS, it's a lot bigger on the inside.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! Sister steals younger sister’s chance for fame and wealth

3 Upvotes

Movie came out after 2010 lol.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! Girl shares her environmental science homework with her boyfriend and gets him and his bestfriend killed

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! This guy was either misunderstood or difficult to work with/deal with or both.

3 Upvotes

Hints:

1) He was a real person.

2) He was born in the 20th century. 3) He wasn't an office worker (at least not during the movie's timeframe)


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Unsolved Guy's friendly butler isn't as friendly as he watches the guy slowly die

2 Upvotes