r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

172 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

245 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 • • 1h ago

Solved! A pair of twins travel internationally trying to catch a band of criminals. One of them falls in love with an all time beauty.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! They thought it would be easy like Sunday morning. It was anything but.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! Guy can't handle some porn, gets player on

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 20h ago

Solved! Young man misses out on his dream job due to eugenics, eventually gets the chance to join the crew and take off

92 Upvotes

Place for hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 37m ago

Solved! A church gives an old man the power of foreshadowing

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! A man conspires with a relative to sexually assault another relative while driving from time to time in the car of a drug trafficker.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! Loving fiancé tries to get disabled veteran a new lease on life.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 11m ago

Solved! Big Apple team finds success with their new signing from... the stands?

2 Upvotes

hints can go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Unsolved Turns out he had to murder someone to accept his true sexuality

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! Man just wants to watch a porno and causes havoc.

7 Upvotes

Hint: the porno is British


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! A man becomes less scary than he previously was after he's transformed into a monster

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 18h ago

Solved! Our heroes save the day with the aid of a colorful but dorky robot.

18 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 15h ago

Solved! Three generations and Blunt Testicular Trauma.

10 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 14h ago

Solved! Something stolen becomes lost. Benjamin Franklin plays a critical role in recovering this priceless treasure after Independence Day.

8 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! A saviour is summoned to another world and tries to avert the destructive war that appears in their prophetic visions.

2 Upvotes

Hint 1: The protagonist is female.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 17h ago

Solved! Retired pirate decides to fight for true love. It takes a miracle, but by the end he's saved the girl and named a successor

13 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Solved! Farmer hires mercenaries to protect his village's food from a bad dude.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13h ago

Solved! Little girl against a wolf serial killer

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Solved! (Repost) Someone must rise to the occasion after someone else fails to rise to the occasion

2 Upvotes

Hint: Nonconformity is punishable by death

Hint: MC gets so worked up all he sees is red


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Solved! A man gets defensive about his chocolate dish, and his ex wife tries to help build a financial plan for their son's college.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13h ago

Unsolved A man dreams of swooping in to save the babes. His brother just spins in his sleep.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 15h ago

Solved! Everyone’s trying to get their hands on some cold, hard cash*

4 Upvotes

(Yes I’m a dumdum and didn’t notice the autocorrect fail; it’s cash not crash.)

Hint 1: geocaching isn’t for suburbanites and baggage

Hint 2: ACAB but you don’t know that until the very end. They probably die trying too though.

Hint 3: there’s gold in them there hills

Hint 4: old money and a treasure map made of numbers