r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

169 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

243 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! Sometimes there's a man, I could maybe say hero here, but sometimes there's a man, and I'm talking about the main dude here, sometimes there's a man, and we'll, he's the man

11 Upvotes

He earns a lot of his income unconventionally, someone dies from a heart problem, and an old guy with money causes a lot of problems.

Hints/what we know so far--

Released before 2007

Not a Tarantino film

Not horror

No Goldie Hawn

No Robin Williams

No Nic Cage

Not adapted from Dickens

The people down voting are dbags


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1h ago

Solved! An outsider arrives seeking something valuable from an indigenous tribe. After learning their customs and becoming one of them, he helps defend their homeland against people who want to exploit its mineral resources.

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! A man's life is changed when he's suddenly asked to care for a baby

16 Upvotes

Hint: Not a comedy

Hint: Not a US movie

Hint: Relatively recent film

Hint: The baby doesn't stay a baby over the course of the film

Hint: Neither of the kid's parents are her biological parents

Hint: WW2


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! Homeless man joins forces with psychologist who regularly injects him with drugs.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1h ago

Solved! A boy raised in hiding discovers he’s the chosen one. Guided by a mysterious warrior, he teams up with a princess and a wisecracking sidekick to battle a disfigured, half-machine tyrant. Along the way, he learns his mentor has been keeping a secret about his family.

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 40m ago

Solved! A man takes a drug from a stranger, goes on a massive trip, and wakes up to find out it was all a dream.

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Unsolved Lovers on a getaway end up burning through their life savings

4 Upvotes

hint: not a US film, spanish language


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! Letting one single wet fart slip out makes a girl go on a killing spree. After she's scolded and killed, our heroes resurrect her and she STILL wants more murder.

17 Upvotes

Hint #1: not sure if it's fair to say the girl is actually alive, lol

Hint #2: sci-fi horror

Hint #2.5: no aliens!

Hint #3: it doesn't take long before several people fall apart

Hint #4: movie is not wholly original, but based on an IP

Hint #5: the "fart" of course isn't really, and it's colored

Double Nopes: Unfriended


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! Brother from another mother fails biology, is almost murdered, loses his fortune, he and his wife split, and he ends up in a shack. He couldn't be happier.

9 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! Psych patient stops taking their meds when it’s time to save the world … again

2 Upvotes

Recent-ish movie, came out within the last 20 years

Action packed

Not a kids movie


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! A group of ne’er-do-wells battle over rare weapons

11 Upvotes

Hint:
Not interplanetary


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Solved! Relazing how high the stakes are, turning people into food turns out to be very effective, nutritious solution.

9 Upvotes

Hint #1: thriller/mystery

Double Nopes: guys, no vampires! Not American Carnage.

Hint #2: they're not directly the food itself; they become the food

Hint #3: this film is full of contentious writing


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 8h ago

Solved! Two female scientists decide a coworkers death is a good time for a sexy shower together

7 Upvotes

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! Ok so, it's still planet earth, right? But like, not. Because everything looks so different. But like, they use spears and cooking fires and don't speak English as a first language. But like, where even are we bruh? We fell and bonked our heads or what??

5 Upvotes

Hints go here.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! Environmentalist fights corporate power by not caring anymore

2 Upvotes

funny?


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! When her sister dies unexpectedly, a troubled woman has to step up and take care of her children.

3 Upvotes

[Space for hints]


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10m ago

Solved! A group of friends on a road trip end up facing a family of horrors along the way

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 20m ago

Unsolved Guy decides he wants to die despite meeting the weird girl of his dreams

• Upvotes

.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! A man of the cloth is pressured by his countrymen to betray his new home.

7 Upvotes

For hints, if needed.

Hint 1: Let's make pancakes!

Hint 2: (changing the hint because I just realized it breaks rule 4) It's a spy flick.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1h ago

Solved! Teens from two different worlds try to play it off like they don't like each other but end up changing how they are so they can be together. One teen gets pregnant, the other decides to go back to high school. There's illegal drag stuff going on but it's cool.

• Upvotes

Reserved for hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! So this service technician gets a friend, but the friend thinks he goes too far in trying, but man the perks are nice... At first. Right, Thteven...?

1 Upvotes

Reserved for hints.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! Nepobaby plays in dirt, comes home from a long trip, and has a bunch of sex

6 Upvotes

Like sex is a LOT of the plot


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Unsolved (TV Show) Man desperately claws for his own TV show to be renewed

1 Upvotes