r/shittymoviedetails

About r/shittymoviedetails

In its own words:

This subbie is for the greatest movie details ever.

The community was created on Jul 6, 2017, which makes it 9 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 2,098 subscribers (+0.14%). It sits just behind r/Dogtraining (#684) and ahead of r/headphones (#686) in our ranking.

What sets r/shittymoviedetails apart

Compared with other large communities, r/shittymoviedetails leans heavily on images (90% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 22%). For its size it is unusually busy: about 49.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 85% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.11% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 92% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (17:00 UTC) sees about 12.0× as many posts as the quietest (07:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/shittymoviedetails grew from 1,533,064 to 1,550,148 subscribers (+17.1K, +1.11%). That is about 335 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/shittymoviedetails this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 7, 2026).

1. Kung Fu Panda (2008) is now banned in the UKu/A-Capybara · Nov 6 · image
2. Let me get this straight. They built 3 custom race cars that can only be driven during a heist just to steal $1,200 worth of DVD players?u/Albino_rhin0 · Nov 3 · image
3. In X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Magneto and Jean rebuild the X-Mansion after it got destroyed. This was possible because their mutations had somehow also given them knowledge of architecture, civil engi…u/SaiyanofKonoha · Nov 7 · image
4. In Free Guy (2021), Taika Waititi took inspiration from his real life as a cringeworthy, obnoxious narcissist to bring the character to lifeu/TyLeRoux · Nov 1 · image
5. In Obsession (2026) How did they make this movie with a budget of $750,000 when Ian literally wished for $1 Billion???u/Qkwill · Nov 4 · image
6. In Freddy Got Fingered (2001), Tom Green whacks off a horse. No really, he actually did, in real life. He did this so he could get a 4.7/10 on IMDb, and a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.u/MonsieurMontreal · Nov 2 · image
7. Following the end of The Last Airbender (2005), future installments would streamline the story by having Avatars learn the elements fairly quickly. This had the unintended side effect of making Avata…u/DreadDiana · Nov 2 · image
8. To make the movie as relatable as possible, "Wildwood" (2026) gives us two parents who would absolutely take their child to the movies without checking the rating first.u/SpaceMyopia · Nov 6 · image
9. In Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), Black Widow V2 calls Spider-Man and says “I heard you caught leshy”. That’s because she actually knows Slavic mythology, unlike the writers of John Wick who calle…u/PIRATEOFBADIM · Nov 2 · image
10. In Ghost Rider (2007) Johnny Blaze has no nipples. This is because he is played by Nippless Cage.u/dieforestmusic · Nov 5 · image

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/shittymoviedetails, from 2019 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

1. Ellen Ripley in the movie Alien (1979) was originally written to be a man. Director Ridley Scott changed his mind when he watched The Hunger Games (2012) and realized that women can also be action mo…u/twoopaq · Dec 8, 2022 · 118,260 points · 1,321 comments · image
2. In Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Barry Allen breaks a Window by merely touching it. This is because Windows no longer supports Flash.u/Christopher-Nolan · Mar 18, 2021 · image
3. In Pixar’s Up (2009) Carl and Ellie break into their Paradise Falls savings jar in order to pay for Carl’s hospital bill, this is actually a clever reference to the fact that the American healthcare …u/ShaquilleOatmeal33 · May 19, 2020 · image
4. In Avengers: Endgame (2019), Scarlet Johansson throws herself off a cliff so she doesn’t have to be part of the girl power sceneJan 16, 2021 · image
5. In the Little Mermaid (1991), Ariel meets an African mermaid from the Ivory Coast. This is because mermaids are fictional and can be black.u/PeterPorky · Sep 14, 2022 · 110,787 points · 80 comments · image
6. In Star Wars Episode 9, Kylo Ren receives a trumpet from ...Black Widow? Wait what the fuck am I watchingu/DumplingBoiii · Jan 15, 2020 · 80,031 points · 771 comments · image
7. In Game of Thrones Season 8, Daenerys’ last words are “we break the wheel together” which spelled backwards says “rehtegot leehw eht kaerb ew” which doesn’t make sense just like the rest of season 8.u/ostlert · Jun 18, 2019 · 75,806 points · 873 comments · image
8. Actors in black and white movies were often putting their lives in danger during driving scenes, as they weren't able to tell if the traffic light was red or green.u/tommystjohnny · Sep 29, 2019 · 78,970 points · 412 comments · image
9. The movie Mobius (2022) led to so many people making "It's morbin time" jokes that the Reddit mods had to start banning people for it. That's a nod to the fact that it's more ban timeu/sudyfni3w8u4fy · Jul 2, 2022 · 92,930 points · 819 comments · image
10. In the movie Madagascar Jada Pinkett Smith plays a hippo, this is a refrence to the fact that WHAT THE HELL... WILL SMITH WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM... OWWW WHAT THE FUCK MAN WHY WOULD YOU SLAP MEu/Eli_tube · Mar 28, 2022 · 90,659 points · 812 comments · image

What r/shittymoviedetails talks about

Across 513 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “movie”, “reference”, “fact”, “actually” and “character”. Other frequent themes are film, scene, despite, avengers, man and instead. Recurring phrases include “patrick stewart”, “avengers doomsday”, “avengers endgame” and “subtle nod”. By format, 90% are images, 9% are galleries and 1% are links.

• movie 74
• reference 58
• fact 45
• actually 27
• character 26
• film 25
• scene 22
• despite 21
• avengers 20
• man 20
• instead 20
• show 19
• wildwood 18
• end 17
• scream 17
• work 17
• watch 15
• making 14

Popular post flairs: Turd (122), default (45).

Activity and best time to post

r/shittymoviedetails gets about 76 new posts a day. The public archive holds 183,859 posts and 3,845,757 comments in total, about 20.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (83 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (60). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.

Rules of r/shittymoviedetails

The moderators of r/shittymoviedetails list 6 rules. In short:

1. Direct image links only.
2. Be nice.
3. Brigading
4. No meta-reddit attack posts
5. Banned Topics
6. Shitty TV details are allowed here. Shitty game details are not.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/shittymoviedetails.