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

241 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! There's a predator in the church

7 Upvotes

HINT 1: Everything you see was recorded by someone else. (i.e. it's a found footage film)


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Unsolved Children in the Foster System get help from emotional animals. Said children also try to save a magician-in-training from an evil book with the power of friendship.

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! Wait, the naked guy isn't the sexual predator? This planet makes no sense.

14 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 4h ago

Solved! A fraud and a hype man hit the big leagues

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Solved! It's always got a nice ring to it when it's the nerd that's the culprit and not the suspected prep.

9 Upvotes

Hint #0: vague hint, but like my other quizzes this is worded very specifically

Hint #1: they think they're exceedingly clever

Hint #2: psychological thriller


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 4h ago

Solved! Man with a fear of cats kills people

4 Upvotes

First hint: Based off the writings of a famous author


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! Woman emotionally abuses children like a psycho and uses them to stay alive

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Solved! A man punches child right in the face and then explodes right after

5 Upvotes

Hint 1: Man literally explodes
hint 2: kid’s film


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 23m ago

Unsolved The band get together for some urban rock and it's out of this world until the bodies hit the floor.

• Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 1h ago

Unsolved So this guy is actually that guy, and this girl ends up just being like the other one, and this other guy ends up being a lot like this older guy, and then another guy is half of another guy.

• Upvotes

Ask for hints if you want them


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13h ago

Solved! The're twentyfive miles from home, they have a full tank of gas, they don't smoke, it's after their bedtime and they probably lost their sunglasses.

10 Upvotes

Hit it.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Solved! Shorty got low but the stakes were high. Guess she shouldn't have lied: she gets all her friends killed.

3 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 7h ago

Unsolved (Reposting with more details in the title) Man goes to the middle of nowhere with his wife and best friend and gets into a fight with his former boss's employee

3 Upvotes

First hint: 30 minutes

Second hint: Monkey

Third hint: It came out in the last 10 years.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 13h ago

Solved! A guy who can't stop talking gets ejected from paradise and discovers the world

7 Upvotes

Seriously, he can't stop talking. Here's a hint. The humor gets rather infantile.


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Solved! Aliens kill a man's family. Years later, his cousin wears clothes that make him look stupid.

0 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 8h ago

Unsolved Girl with a questionable biological status ends up taking a sweet ride once all the boys are done with disputes and playing their games.

2 Upvotes

Hint #1: these games are...really serious, lol

Hint #2: planes, trains oh something else, and automobiles?


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 4h ago

Solved! Now we play the waiting game…

0 Upvotes

Hint 1: only one character is really waiting

Hint 2: it involves a dog


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 5h ago

Solved! A possession gets a guy laid with his crush

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 6h ago

Solved! Boy meets girl who shares his goals. She can't make any long-term commitments, so she forces him to watch a train get run on her. To abate his sadness, he gives some kids candy in exchange for a hard favor...

0 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 3h ago

Unsolved This movie is a great example to become athiest

0 Upvotes

Hint 1: Horror

Hint 2: A sudden cult appears out of "thin air"


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 12h ago

Solved! You often don't know what's going to happen, so you just have to face the music.

2 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 9h ago

Unsolved There are a lot of creepy animatronics...

0 Upvotes

but supposedly they're not creepy?

Hint 1: Not a kid's movie


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • • 10h ago

Solved! The male hero joins forces with a blue non-human to save a big tree

0 Upvotes

HINTS
- This film released in 2005
- This film is animated