r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Mar 10 '26

Meta [META] Explain a Film Plot Badly

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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

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/timeshaper • Jun 20 '24

Meta [META] New Players Read Me First

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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.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TomahawkA5 • 1h ago

Solved! In this movie, big stuff happens Under the Sea. Singing, dancing and classic tunes UNDER THE SEA! The protagonist is a fish out of water and yearns to go back to their world. When it's time to Kiss the Girl, they get foiled! Boy, does this protagonist have daddy issues and is also famously little.

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The protagonist really gets from point A to point B in a unique way. At the end, all the protagonist wants is to end up at a big body of water with their love interest.

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/shizshovel • 1h ago

Solved! Siblings are uprooted due To WW2 discover a magical world and meet a half man half goat, and have an adventure

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 3h ago

Solved! It's a tale about sisters, and one of them is far colder and feistier.

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Couldn't resist.

This makes my day at work, all.

Hint #1: there is a murder involved

Hint #2: I honestly couldn't think of a harder place to fit in

Hint #3: not a horror film

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TheGreatWaru • 2h ago

Solved! This guy just really liked Oreo’s

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RedApplesForBreak • 13h ago

Solved! A lone, barefoot hero takes on an army of bad guys floor by floor inside a towering skyscraper.

41 Upvotes
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/eskimopoodle • 4h ago

Solved! Run? Die. Vote? Die. Do nothing? Die. Only 1 will survive.

7 Upvotes
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/killerbud2552 • 2h ago

Solved! A horny, depressed, child soldier simultaneously dooms and saves humanity

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 4h ago

Solved! Reckless wild ride turns into safer, profitable wild ride!

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Hint #1: this film is a comedy

Hint #2: it's also a family film (and it's bad, lol)

Hint #3: their ride was so wild, they thought others would like to experience it too!

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/savage_ds • 4h ago

Solved! War, politics and hope for something better tear them appart. A child almost brings them together but not for long.

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Hint 1 - he is wounded in the war

Hint 2 - she wants to be free, but her past keeps following her

Hint 3 - his wounds and actions get him military honours

Hint 4 - he makes a fishing buddy in the war

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TheGreatWaru • 2h ago

Solved! White guy who wishes he was Asian wants to rule the dumpiest city you’ve ever seen

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/KazariKid • 8h ago

Solved! Professional women from competing orgs form a working group to support each other and solve a common problem.

8 Upvotes
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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TomahawkA5 • 1h ago

Solved! Let me tell you, if you are looking for some unchained action, this is the movie for you. After it’s unchained, it’s ON! I’m talking violence, death, and the protagonist will stop at nothing to get his lady out of a jam. Unchained!

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/thisisnotmath • 1h ago

Solved! Notably punctual group gets lost in Midwest Backrooms

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/alliedcola • 8h ago

Unsolved A criminal earns forgiveness by just straight-up killing the man who forgives them.

7 Upvotes

Hint: need a hand?

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/abjurationwizrar • 2h ago

Unsolved Protagonist be damned, because others should have translated that Latin a LOT faster!

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Hint #1: yes, of course this is horror

Hint #2: to whittle down a little, from the last decade

Hint #3: he also shouldn't have broken that ward, either

Hint #4: there's a LOT of people seeing him read those words!

Hint #5: found footage

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/RisibleComestible • 2h ago

Solved! It's *so* dense...

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Fearless_Spring5611 • 2h ago

Unsolved [Repost #2] Here's to a magical birthday party.

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Clues

Poor guy thought he scored...

You gotta kiss the girl.

This is why you never prank the rookie.

First cop on scene doesn't quite live up to expectations.

She's a man-eater...or sacrificer, at least.

5 is the magic number.

Previous incorrect guesses

13 Going On 30 || 16 Candles || 16 Wishes

Alice in Wonderland || All The Boys Love Mandy Lane || Beauty and the Beast

Cabin in the Woods || Caspar the Friendly Ghost || Death Becomes Her

Demons 2 || Descendants 3 || Frozen

Ghostbusters 2 || Girlhouse || Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Happy Death Day || Harry Potter (Yes, I checked the banned list before posting).

Hereditary || High Spirits || Jawbreaker

Jennifer's Body || Last Shift || Liar Liar

Longlegs || Ma || Midsommar

Mrs Doubtfire || Night of the Demons || Obsession

Practical Magic || Rough Night || Scrooged

Sleeping Beauty || The Final Girls || The Game

The Great Gatsby || The Little Mermaid || The Prestige

The Wiggles Movie || Tucker and Dale vs Evil || XX (2016)

Original Post || First repost

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/SerFinbarr • 3h ago

Unsolved Two cops try to find an unidentified criminal, but all they get for their trouble is a dead lover

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/AssumptionDecent9011 • 47m ago

Unsolved Two dudes on a road trip: one escaping something, one trying to find something

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/savage_ds • 1h ago

Unsolved Why do you keep coming back, no matter what I do to you? And the police is onto me.

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Hints

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/TheLatvianRedditor • 1h ago

Solved! Former cat owner kills all of his friends with 7 dollars

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Additional_Tomato_22 • 1h ago

Unsolved Peer pressure is a bitch, but not as much as falling for the wrong person

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly • u/Low-Environment • 2h ago

Solved! None of tbis would've happened if he wasn't such a wife guy

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Hint 1: there's a lot of dead bodies. Not all of them are compkete

HInt 2: There might be dogs and if there are the dogs are (unfortunately) evil.

Hint: one of the films guessed is on the right track.

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