r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

165 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

231 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 5h ago

Solved! The protagonist learns to accept the love of his life for who she is. But it turns out that it doesn't matter, because she was lying about who she was the entire time.

19 Upvotes

Hint: Protagonist is super happy that he was lied to.

Hint 2: Not animated.

Hint 3: If Austin Powers met the love interest and got to know her, he would likely utter a certain iconic line of his!

Hint 4: Movie was made in America and features American actors. Also, there is only one Wesley Snipes...and he is a pale Englishman.

Hint 5: The love interest is played by a cis-gender woman.

Hint 6: Movie came out in the (very) late 2000s.

Hint 7: The love interest in my movie is a living, breathing woman. Though the question remains: was she born that way?

Hint 8: Yes, yes she was.

Hint 9: The protagonist uses the love interest's name to make an extremely trans-phobic pun.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 9h ago

Solved! A kid accidentally gets himself abducted, but he and his abductor decide they like the arrangement and keep it that way.

20 Upvotes

Hint: Colored attire is important to the plot.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Solved! People get stoned because they don't know how to say no

4 Upvotes

[Space for hints]


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 36m ago

Unsolved Just an average day in the U.S.A.

Upvotes

At least from my point of view as an european

Main Actor is Bristish (and a millennial "icon"), while main character is unspecified


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 44m ago

Unsolved [Repost] Teenage boy sees tits, but they don't belong to the titular character

Upvotes

Previous hints:

  1. the titular character is not human
  2. Gun club

New hints:

  1. Released in the early 2000s
  2. the titular character is not so much a 'character' but an object

Link to previous thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly/comments/1taymtr/teenage_boy_sees_tits_but_they_dont_belong_to_the/


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 5h ago

Unsolved Rivals must work together to understand technology they have never seen before. If they can't, someone might get hurt.

7 Upvotes

The Hint Zone

  1. They find an expert, but he has a sketchy past.
  2. Based on a real historical event.

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Solved! Ultimately, the plot of this movie is to explain how a passenger plane safely landed without its pilot or first officer after much commotions in the cabin.

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 12h ago

Unsolved People guessing movie long after the prompt was solved?

18 Upvotes

Is this only happening on my posts or on others' as well? What gives?

If it was a recently-solved prompt ( a few minutes ago), I could understand it's probably not showing as such for others yet, but days afterwards?

Any explanations?


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 9h ago

Solved! Pro Al propaganda, which weirdly doesn't use a lot of Al in it

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 6h ago

Solved! In a future where rebellious factions fight powerful enterprises, our young MC finds himself in a new world and uses The Voice™ to manipulate others. As he rises in stature and power, a mysterious drug from this new world transforms him into something more.

4 Upvotes

Hints: This was the directors debut.

It came out in the last decade.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 2h ago

Unsolved a girl uses various methods to open, and then climb into, multiple drawers

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 7h ago

Solved! A man must save his home from being foreclosed.

4 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 7h ago

Solved! A group of students reapeat killing each other

4 Upvotes

Hint


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 5h ago

Solved! Worst game of football you’ll ever see. The golf and bowling’s pretty bad too.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 9h ago

Solved! He doesn’t realize he’s done this before.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 1h ago

Solved! [TV series] She doesn’t watch where she is going and ruins a mans snack. his employer is looking for her now but she is a master of disguise… as long as she doesn’t get too embarrassed.

Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11h ago

Solved! Poor health and safety leads a group of people to wish they'd taken more swimming lessons

5 Upvotes

.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 8h ago

Solved! An impromptu class excursion ends in bloodshed and property damage

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 13h ago

Solved! Slut shaming, but with exuberance

6 Upvotes

I don't know, I've honestly never seen it. I'm told I'm spot on though.

Hint 1: One of the actors won a Razzie for it.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Solved! Kid gains power from his hero tries to learn how to control it ends up hurting himself

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 3h ago

Unsolved A man accidentally kills a bunch of people trying to save his dad.

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 7h ago

Solved! Spectators discuss trans issues during a public execution

3 Upvotes

Hint: the title is devilishly hard, I'm probably going to hell for this one

List of guesses that are incorrect (including those deleted for some reason):

  • The Life of Brian
  • The Lion Ling
  • Scream 6
  • Robin Hood
  • A Million Ways to Die in the West
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Assassination Nation
  • Robin Hood Men In Tights
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 7h ago

Unsolved A man outwits his enemies and cements his family legacy only to be betrayed by Mother Nature

2 Upvotes