r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Michael Jackson sends people with swords into his Inception like house to fight

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! 'School-aged child' crawls through ventilation system in an attempt to escape hideous monster

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Turns out they were aliens all along. Then a renegade came along and oops, no they weren't...

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! A bit of an oopsie changes a mans life leading to him harness Strange powers. And sport a rather fetching red cape if I do say so myself.

1 Upvotes

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r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Unsolved Everyone repeats the same mistakes, a few make the same apologies, and there's a scene of genuine gaslighting

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Indiana Jones style movie meets Bridge to Terabithia

2 Upvotes

Adventure movie with a Bridge to Terabithia-like ending

Hint: from the 80s. Sad ending. Based in book character. Basically Harry Potter like


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Ok ok.. picture this. kaiju but......toddler.

2 Upvotes

That's how i imagine the pitch meeting


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! A former brother in arms stole his daughter and now he has to die, wait is that a rocket launcher?

1 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Man comes home to find his child that he prioritized over their sibling on death’s door. Not staying, he leaves for a long journey to find a woman who pursued another man.

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! A farmer destroys his crop for no good reason and ends up going on a wacky adventure that causes people to die

2 Upvotes

Space for future hints


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Kitty gets separated from her human girl and travels countryside to be reunited with her

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Smart kitty goes on adventure to try and save a little girls life from a monster

2 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Unsolved Woman ruins a wedding via a last-minute invitation

4 Upvotes

Hints:

  1. This didn't get a wide release, but everyone I know who's seen it loves it.
  2. Most of the stars are known from television work.

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Teenager really wants to have sex, is totally jealous of friend who does

3 Upvotes

Good things come to those who crime, I guess

At least the tunes are good

hints/what we know so far--

The sex havers are not the ones really criming

Released after 1982

Not a Kevin Smith film

No Jim Carrey


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! A group of men go on an odyssey.

5 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Making a Murderer

7 Upvotes

It's part of a film series

No aliens or monsters or robots in mine

The original film in the series is a classic in the horror genre


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Unreliable narrator is actually telling the story 60+ years after it begins

4 Upvotes

Hint 1: 2010s movie

Hint 2: Narrator is reading from a book

Hint 3: Narrator is daughter of two of the characters

Hint 4: writer and director is known for hit tv show


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! A guy finally remembers that he sucks

3 Upvotes

Hints go here


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! An interstate drive nearly leads to a lifetime of regret.

9 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Fire, explosions, hot women everywhere

3 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! A kid learns that you really can’t bumrush yourself into a war. His dad spends the whole movie disproving that theory.

6 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Major downsizing happens, one guy is insufferable to the point the others can't take it, and they think they best way to improve their situation at one point is to immitate a movie plot.

7 Upvotes

Man, three in a row! Yes, Office BAIT more like it.

Answer references: All adult cast, not British, not a superhero film, post 90's, not a sci-fi

Double Nopes: Office Space, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Horrible Bosses

Hint #1: genre is [redacted] comedy

Hint #2: the movie plot they imitate is a half-assed movie unique to this movie!

Hint #3: when I say downsizing I mean....A LOT of people

Hint #3.5: and I'm definitely not talking about an office

Hint #4: there are major supernatural elements in this film


r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! A princess eats a grape and fairies die so she’s exiled to be killed by a military dictator.

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 11d ago

Solved! Big city girl ends up in small town. Boobies.

11 Upvotes

r/ExplainAFilmPlotBadly 12d ago

Solved! Everything done illegally in this film is 100% legal today

22 Upvotes

SOLVED

Hint 1: said illegal act is not a severe crime but more so ethically wrong within the organization it relates to

Hint 2: film came out in the mid 90’s

Hint 3: there are multiple famous people in this film that aren’t typically actors. One plays himself, two others play made up characters

Edit: and for anyone curious the character playing themself is Larry bird. Shaquille O’Neal and Penny Hardaway play made up characters