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

240 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 • • 4h ago

Solved! Town leader's existential crisis solved with cultural appropriation and kidnapping

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! A posh guy laying low in a foreign country gets a call from home base forcing him back. Queue suits, cocktails, lies and masquerading with the elite. Featuring an intense game of strategy and culminating with a narrow escape from a plane ready for takeoff.

19 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! Cross over between massive infestation, and Master Chef.

5 Upvotes

Should be very easy.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! Apparently being stabbed in the eye can give you a severe migraine.

8 Upvotes

Time for a hint...

Hint #1: It helps to have an understanding of human anatomy.

Will drop another hint shortly...

Hint #2: Size doesn't matter.

Another hint coming in a little while...


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Unsolved There is something amiss; I am being insincere. In fact I don’t mean any of this, still my discussion draws you near.

4 Upvotes

To confuse the issue I refer to familiar brands...


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 45m ago

Unsolved Three kids accidentally normalize racism. One of them has to DIE.

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1h ago

Solved! Teens in high school fight racism by singing

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Unsolved The fates — and perhaps even the devil himself — make it very difficult to complete the journey before Friday

3 Upvotes

Space for clues if needed


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 16h ago

Solved! Main Character who doesn't quite fit the mold attends Harvard Law. What, like it's hard?

40 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! Why won't they just die!?

5 Upvotes

Placeholder for hints.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1h ago

Solved! A woman looking for treasure tortures delinquents

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! A dude with a serious addiction ropes his community into his shenanigans and now everyone has to face the consequences. They hide out to evade the authorities and form a militia of sorts.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! Cop tries to intercept cash destined for a gang providing illegal immigration in a 92 minute long police chase. Somehow is still the bad guy.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 2h ago

Solved! Little girl must find a job, loses her means of transportation, and can't communicate with her best friend anymore.

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Unsolved A man kills the guy who killed his father right before his father is killed by the guy he just got revenge on.

4 Upvotes

Yes you that read correctly.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Solved! DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS?! YEP! I'll be your wingman, but I also gotta torture the hell out of you later, sorry. These two are steamy!

8 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! A star athlete jeopardizes his entire future because he accidentally held a microphone on New Year's Eve.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 8h ago

Solved! Unloved and unwanted girl lives in a haunted house with tragic and solitary strangers

6 Upvotes

Hint 1: no one really cares about the little girl, not even the audience

Hint 2: like Wuthering Heights, the angst in this film is turned up to eleven


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! Horny teenager struggles as his situationship tries to harvest one of his organs and does a teeny tiny mass murder.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! Guy does what he can to help the new owner of his uncle's business succeed.

4 Upvotes

Hints if needed


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! It seems like even the power of childhood unity wasn't enough to break a severe mental block.. at least not in time anyway.

3 Upvotes

Hint #1: It's just another brick in the wall.

Hint #2: Bright eyes.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 11h ago

Solved! On a side note, a teenager secures a date to the dance by buying a girl a costume, somehow creepily in her exact size, and roleplaying as a 400-year-old dead man.

7 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 8h ago

Solved! Widow goes abroad to get drunk & forget. One friend tries to save her, another does the opposite and the widow descends to whoring and gets murdered.

4 Upvotes

Hints if needed.

There are two versions of this film. Made 38 years apart.

Based on a good selling book at the time.

The widow isn't the MC, one of the friends is.

The original book's author is actually a character in the film. Not played by the author though. (In the first film anyway). The author is not the MC.

The first film was made in the 1940s.

The MC is invested with Uncle Sam.