Some movies are too complicated for their own good. Some others aren’t, but they still might leave some viewers puzzled or completely missing the point of the plot. (If a movie popped into your mind right now, I’m pretty sure you’re not the only one, if that’s any consolation.)
To show you that there is no shame in not getting the main idea of the plot and that quite a few people don’t, we want to shed light on this thread, started by the redditor ‘FinalDemise’, who asked fellow members of ‘Ask Reddit’ to describe the worst cases of people misunderstanding a movie they have ever seen. Scroll down to find the netizens’ stories on the list below and use this as a chance to expand your must-watch list – it’s always a good idea to have one on hand in case the mind goes blank when it’s time for a movie night.
Me and some friends were watching James Bond Spectre while extremely drunk and got really confused by the repeated and overlapping sections. We were talking about how great the Memento style use of non-linear time was a great addition to the Bond films only to realise I had been sitting on the remote and rewinding it all night. I think we were watching it for about 4 hours.
The BEST is the famous TV Guide plot synopsis in 1998 for “The Wizard of Oz”
# Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
It was me. I am not a fan of superhero movies but I liked the Xmen when I was younger. So I thought I would check one out. I downloaded one that featured one of my favorites. I started watching it, they messed his whole back story up, there weren’t any other mutants, basically no action. After about 30 minutes in I realized it wasn’t a superhero movie.
So anyways, Jake Gyllenhaal was really good in Nightcrawler.
My wife is a big history buff, especially US history. She also doesn’t like campy vampire/zombie/monster movies. I made her watch Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. 10 minutes into the movie she turned to me and said “I don’t think this actually happened”.
Watching Titanic in a cinema in the West End of Glasgow. Ship hits the iceberg, girl behind me says “Aw, it’s gonny sink.’
To which her date replied with absolute confidence ‘Na, it willnae’.
My FIL is a retired nuclear engineer and when he heard about the new show Big Bang Theory he literally canceled an appointment, prepared with snacks and drinks and sat down to watch “the science show.”
His face was indescribable. What was icing on the cake was that he and Sheldon share quite a few traits.
I remember someone once saying that “Scar from the Lion King isn’t evil because he is a lion. Wild animals can’t be evil, they’re just acting on their nature.” Bro kind of forgot the whole “anthropomorphic talking animals with human like thoughts and morals” part I guess.
My mom with every movie ever. It would drive me and my siblings nuts. 10 minutes into the movie she would say, “I know what they’re gonna do. This, this and this. I can read movies like a book.” She would be wrong 95% of the time and being wrong never stuck with her. Did it our entire lives. She was also the type that would ask us 20 questions about the movie we’re all watching for the first time. Mom has been gone for a year now and these little annoyances become things you miss about them.