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“They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot
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.
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#1
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.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
One critic loved Donnie Darko and particularly praised the clever and skilled way the film showed its events out of order while still making sense. He later found out that the guy in the projector booth had just loaded the reels incorrectly.
Jessie 10 months ago
Some television remotes have a setting where you can skip a movie “chapter” (this can be 10-30 minutes) with one click on the remote
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#2
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.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
You have to know that was intentional. Like when Armed Forces Magazine listed the Star Trek Amok Time episode as "Spock gets the mating urge and attacks Captain Kirk".
Janissary35680 1 year ago
How about this for "War and Peace"? ""France annoys Europe, gets its butt kicked; Pierre gets the girl."
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Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
Not quite wrong. I never got how some Kansas girl can be so cruel to just take some sparkly shoes of a person she just kîlled with her house!
David 1 year ago
Koala, Because an influencer named Glinda told her how good she'd look in them and she better take them before that other mean girl gets them.
Load More Replies... David Martin 1 year ago
Wizard of Oz got way more interesting to me when someone pointed out Glinda is the secret villain, getting Dorothy to remove all the other magic users before saying "Oh, you wanna get home? You know those shoes you been wearing since like two minutes after you got here? Click that sh*t together...did I forget to mention that when we met? That's so weird"
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
A group of spineless, heartless and brainless strangers I would have added
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
I heard somewhere that the Wizard of Oz is an alegory for the then contemporary America: strawmen were farmers, who needed brains, the tin man is industry needing of a heart and the lion are the congressmen, who don't have courage.
Load More Replies... Serial pacifist 1 year ago
And then meets a dude who uses 3D animation to present himself as the big tamale
Vinnie 1 year ago
And folks still insist that killer shoes have to be stilettos!
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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.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Great movie and definitely some of Gyllenhaal's best work! He even lost a bunch of weight so he would look hungry and predatory.
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Hey I watched Righteous Kill as a full grown adult and kept getting DeNiro and Pacino confused. I can't even claim I was under the influence of anything. I just get them confused!
Upstaged75 1 year ago
The person was confused because they thought it was going to be a movie about the X-Men character Nightcrawler. They got it wrong.
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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”.
JL 1 year ago
Yeah, if he could take out vampires, no way he'd be picked off by an actor.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
True story, I once had my history students make a report on the movie Lincoln, with Daniel Day Lewis. One smartass kid asked me if he could watch Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter instead because he did not feel like watching a +2 hour movie, and I replied that he could, as long as he wrote a report contrasting it with actual history. Long story short, he accepted the challenge, got an -A and he ended an honors student. And I still have that paper.
glowworm2 1 year ago
I like that kid. Wound up getting to do something more creative with his essay and didn’t half-a*s it either.
Load More Replies... Chuck Freiman 1 year ago (edited)
No it actually happened. If she had read the book, your wife would have known it was based on Lincoln's diary. BTW. As bad as the movie sucked, the book was so, so much better.
Paulo Leitao 11 months ago
a big history buff about US history ? it took her something like 2 months to finish those studies.
#5
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'.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Funny story. I had to take my sister to see Titanic in 97 because she wasn't old enough to see a movie by herself. As we're exiting the theater, there was a 20-something couple behind us, talking about the film. Woman: "I hate endings like that". Guy: "Don't worry, they always makes sequels to these types of movies". Me (being the smart-a-s-s that I am): "This is actually a prequel to Raise The Titanic, which came out back in 1980. It explains what happened after the ship sank".
CP 1 year ago (edited)
A friend of my sister, who was really book smart, got upset when someone spoiled the ending for her... the Titanic sinking, not Jack dying. I will admit though, no matter how many times I watch the movie, that I think there is a chance it misses the iceberg when they stop the engines and turn.
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
Yes! I do the same thing. Every time I have this thought like this time it will be different. Ha!
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The Doom Song 1 year ago
I was in line at the cinema with my mum and I turned to her and said "Don't even know why we are going to see this we know the boat sinks" and this lady behind me was like "wait what the boat sinks?" Mum and I still don't know if she was for real or not
BookFanatic 1 year ago
First time I saw Titanic, as soon as Leo appeared on the screen my friend said "You know he dies at the end, right?" I was so mad. Ruined the whole thing for me.
#6
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.
Corvus 1 year ago
Some think it's a show about nerds and nerd culture, but it's actually about nerd stereotypes. Really stale nerd stereotypes. Also, unrealistic portrayals of autism.
Daniel Gómez 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, my brother has Aspergers and is actually even more of an @ssh0le than Sheldon is portrayed to be, and YES, he is aware of his diagnose. True story, by the way (I'm autistic myself, just in case).
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WindySwede 1 year ago
The cancellation note "I have an important educational series to watch instead, it's called BBT check it out!"
Kristal 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, it's like the show tried way too hard to be "nerdy". I didn't really like it either. Not to say people shouldn't like it, go ahead and enjoy, just not my cup of tea.
Libstak 1 year ago
It definitely Improved over time and it was meant to be too nerdy, I love it.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Loved the Stephen Hawking appearances on that show lol he had such a great sense of humor! The part where he's listening to Sheldon's drunk voicemails had me rofl 😂
#7
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.
glowworm2 1 year ago
And there are no other deaths besides the father and the evil uncle.
Load More Replies... CP 1 year ago
And still that someone was right. Humans are no different than wild animals. We are just more civilized.
Cara George 2 months ago
I had a friend in high school hate this movie because "animals can't talk".
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Spoiler alert - tried to kill Simba and then when that failed, killed his brother instead, brought the hyenas into the grassland. The epitome of a saint...
#8
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.
CP 1 year ago
My mom was the opposite. It would take longer than 10 minutes, but when my mom predicted the outcome of a movie 9 times out of 10 she was correct. Loved watching Whodunnits with her.
Cool crow 1 year ago
My d-i-l does the same. I love to watch movies with her.
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Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
My cousin is one of those with the questions or the criticisms like "now why would they do that? come on". She did it when I was showing her one of my favorite movies and I almost committed.....whatever the term is for cousin-cide.
Jenny 1 month ago
Patruelicide (for a paternal cousin) and (con)sobrinicide (for a maternal cousin). These are non-standard terms though.
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Lisbeth Guz 1 year ago (edited)
My dad does the same, but after 10 min he leaves, then returns 20 min later and starts asking questions about all the bits he missed and complains that he can't understand the plot
beccabootie 1 year ago
My mother would ask question after question about a program while watching. I would get so irritated and tell her to just listen. I felt terrible when she finally admitted a severe hearing loss.
Evelien Stijger Martens 11 months ago
I know people who live like this, always deside the worst thing and never learning to not de that.
#9
Somehow, my dad completely missed that The Princess Bride is a comedy.
Mark C 1 year ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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David 1 year ago
Herringbone, I agree, but it seems like it would be difficult to miss the fact Princess Bride is a comedy even if it wasn't your/my kind of humor. By which I mean we can usually recognize attempts at humor even if we don't personally find it funny. The Three Stooges do not make me laugh but I can recognize they were doing 'comedy'.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Of course your dad missed it. Someone killed your father, remember? Find that person and prepare him to die.
WindySwede 1 year ago
If it's an cheesy comedy with a bride, could you call it a Bri(d)e-Com then?
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#10
TV, but the people that watch antihero shows like Breaking Bad or the Sopranos and their only takeaway is "whoa! Walt/Tony is a badass!".
Walter White, Tony Soprano, and characters like them are pieces of s**t. The entire story is about how their being a piece of s**t causes them to lose everything.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
I've never watched The Boys, but I know there's a significant portion of the fanbase that idolizes a character who's supposed to be an embodiment of all the worst qualities of the USA.
kansasmagic 1 year ago
I'm decidedly in the minority, but I gave up on Mad Men because I just couldn't stand Don Draper.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Happened with The Wolf of Wall Street and American Psycho. People were saying "OMG, I can't wait to be just like _____". Idolizing them is missing the entire point!
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
I could not stand her in the first viewing. I loathed her. But as the show went on, that feeling lessened. And then when we watched it the second time and I knew who Walt was as a person, I suddenly understood Skylar so much better and had no hate for her at all. It's clear Walt was never a good guy, not even before his diagnosis.
Load More Replies... Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
"OMG Joe is so sexy" from YOU. *facepalm* He's a literal serial killer.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
The scary thing is that happens with irl serial killers too. Dahmer, ramirez, hell the columbine killers still have some demented women and girls stanning them.
Load More Replies... HurlWurk 1 year ago
I call these human misery shows. People love them. I can't stand them. Because they highlight how humans can work together for great gains, but our nature betrays us and someone always spoils it. But ultimately, these stories rely on making money off criminal activities which naturally breed animosity/enemies, so are doomed to strife. Meanwhile, their moderately successful cover businesses that are perfectly safe, are ignored.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I have a friend who won't watch Breaking Bad because she says it glorifies d***s. Honestly, there's so many facets to the show. Walter White becoming meaner and meaner while Jesse develops a conscience. How many innocent people got caught in the crossfire. How Walt acted every time he put on the hat and the last time the hat failed him. Every time Walt said nobody was going to get hurt and someone, usually Jesse, got hurt. You can watch the show and see the theme of it or you can watch the show and just enjoy it.
Roxy222uk 1 year ago (edited)
I watched the series after most people, and it was incredibly telling when I said to people that I didn't like how after Walter tried (very hard) to rape Skylar she didn't pack up and leave, with their son, immediately, and everyone's response was "What? When he did what? When was that?".This is because the scene (end of season 2 if you can't remember it either) was written to portray what was going on in **his** mind. She was just a prop for it to be done to and nothing was about what was going on in her mind. I'm so sick of that disgusting trope. What the viewers were supposed to take away from it was how conflicted Walter was, how he was suffering, what he needed. Find another way to show that!
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
Just sharing this to agree with the OP. WW tried to rape his wife. In no way is he any kind of hero
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#11
Watched Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with an uncle. Asked him what he thought afterwards.
“Seems kind of far fetched.”.
kansasmagic 1 year ago
I knew someone who refused to watch LOTR because "elves aren't that tall".
keyboardtek 1 year ago
My plan to cope with the next four years of Trump destroying the country is to hole up in my house and write a far fetched mythical tragedy, all based on the Trump dictatorship.
Ben Aziza 1 year ago (edited)
Yehh.. Trump seems more like a symptomatic thing and not the actual problem... Also you can worry about dictatorship when your neighbours snitches on you for this comment and yiu get beaten for 2 days in a prison cell... that is what a dictatorship actually is... I lived in one. Hearing first world ppl make that comparison is cringe as f**k... Fix your country and stop being overdramatic... you are not in a dictatorship. They send rooftop sniper to kill protesters... that is what dictators do... Do you really acutally think trump is a dictator and that he is the main problem? Really? Not the f****d up system but the TV personality abusing it? Ehhhh that not what a dictatorship is... this is a corruption system. When it is a rich backed 2 party system. When there 1800 lobbyists. When votes dont count the same? When the only other option was a committee candidate ppl did not vote for? When all that is true trump is the least of you problems. The political parties publishing actual propaganda on both sides is... Got yiu thinking you are in a dictatorship ahahah. It is f*****g insulting really... u don't know how awful that is... dont use it...
Load More Replies... David Martin 1 year ago
I was lucky enough to see an all day LotR marathon in the theatre once. When the credits for #3 start rolling...roughly 12ish hours of watching that series...these two older women in the row behind me get up to leave, saying "I don't think that was very realistic, did you?"
Francesca Annoni 1 year ago
my sister had not yet read "the lord of the rings", the first time she saw the trilogy, during the scene where aragorn falls into a cliff dragged by a wolf, she turned to her boyfriend and asked "is he dead?" "yes" .. I still don't know how her boyfriend managed to hold back his laughter and the secret until the next scene
#12
The people that think Blazing Saddles is "racist".
Honestly, these people are as dumb as a bag of rocks...
David 1 year ago
Blazing Saddles is a classic. Also a reminder of how it used to be okay to laugh at ourselves. But even Mel Brooks has said he could never make a movie like that today. Cancel culture wouldn't get that it was the racists being mocked, not the minorities.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
"Blazing Saddles" was a direct attack on racism. You can't attack something without describing it.
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Buddy of mine was having a discussion about movies with a group of coworkers. One of Mel's movies came up, and someone made a comment about "that well-known anti-semite, Mel Brooks". Turned out he was serious. He WOULD NOT be convinced that Mel Brooks A) is *JEWISH*, and B) spends a lot of effort in his comedies RIDICULING Nazis and anti-semites. Nope. This guy just was not going to hear it.
Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
I am so glad I grew up when Mel Brooks movies could still be appreciated for the humor and Satire (!!!) before everything got too "politically correct". I am the first to advocate learning from history, not repeating it; but comedy and satire can be great ways to learn about things as well as laugh about things. It can sometimes be a very fine line, but I am glad I can still see it
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
The same people thought Stephen Colbert was conservative in the Report.
#13
My mom thought *Rogue One* had a happy ending because “they were hugging in front of a sunset” at the end of the movie.
David Morgan 1 year ago
IMO, Rogue One is genuinely the best Star Wars movie in the last twenty years. Yes, it's the Death Star AGAIN, but thank God it doesn't involve a Skywalker/relative of a Skywalker/someone with a stupid name who once met a Skywalker. The ending is downbeat, but all the major characters have interesting and different motivations (they aren't all perfect Mary Sues) and THAT Darth Vader scene is worth the watchtime on it's own.
Tango Wox 1 year ago
Well except it does involve a Skywalker, two really. Vader (aka Anakin Skywalker spoilers for Ep. IV) is a big player in a few bits and Leia shows up at the end to top it with some cheese. However I agree with your first sentence 100%.
Load More Replies... TCW Sam Vimes 1 year ago
Death Star superlaser kills everyone that survival the final battle
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#14
My brother's first in-theater movie was Disney's "Pocahontas" and he thought it was a story about the first Thanksgiving and completely missed the themes of racial tension and colonization. Part of the reason he thought it was about Thanksgiving was that there were lots of references to food, like "the song about sandwiches." The sandwiches song was his favorite and he sang it for weeks afterwards.
"Savages." The song is called "Savages.".
Janissary35680 1 year ago
What are these strange creations, stacked so high? / Bread and fillings—are they foe or ally? / Look at them, those who praise such snacks / Who needs lettuce or mayo packs? / They think they’re clever with their lunchtime twist / But this monstrosity should not exist!
T.M.P Janssen 1 year ago
"Sandwiches, Sandwiches, barely even human!" I hope no sandwiches are eaten by Bored Pandas that contain any kind of human inside
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Long pork sadly was already sold out when I got to Subway this morning 😐
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago (edited)
Pretty much every lyric in this song becomes hilarious when you'd sing it about sandwhiches: 🎶 They're sandwiches! Sandwiches! Barely even human... They're not like you and me which means they must be evil... What can you expect from filthy little heathens?... Destroy their evil race until there's not a trace left.... We must sound the drums of war! 🎶 (By the way, from now on I will refer to my sandwiches as filthy little heathens 😄)
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
It was his first in-theatre movie, so I’m assuming he was pretty young - how much did you expect him to appreciate themes of racial tension and colonization?
glowworm2 1 year ago
To be fair, I was also pretty young when this film came out and had no idea it was loosely based off a true historical event. I was very disappointed that Pocahontas and John Smith didn’t get married in the end like the other Disney Princess movies I had seen.
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I don’t know if this counts, but my sweet angle of an aunt rented (years ago) Silence of the Lambs thinking it was a *Christmas* movie. This remains one of my favorite family stories.
When asked when she realized when it wasn’t a Christmas film, she simply stated “towards the end.”.
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
MY ex was all excited because he thought "babes in toyland" was a porno and my evil a*s let him put it in the VCR and sat there quietly until he figured it out.
Libstak 1 year ago
Well, I was on holidays in Hawaii, hadn't come out in Australia and only just released there. Was invited on a date with a couple of navy guys, me and my travel buddy and I thought I was going to see a movie about the harsh life of sheep farmers......at least everybody got a good laugh at my expense.
#16
Someone once told me they thought *The Matrix* was about a guy learning to code and getting really good at VR.
David Morgan 1 year ago
I'm SO annoyed that I only got that joke THIS year, after countless rewatches.
Load More Replies... Seán Baron 1 year ago (edited)
They’re not exactly right, but they’re not exactly wrong either!
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Isnt it about the experience of being trans? (The makers of the film r 2 trans sisters)
WindySwede 1 year ago
Maybe it just was, the 3 prior movies was just a setup to the 4th. Or other take, there are jo 4th movie, maby not even 2nd 3dr?
Luís Rosário 11 months ago (edited)
If seen from back and forth it's a movie about a guy that quits toxic addiction and gets a job! So it's basically trainspotting with john wick and without obi wan kenobi
#17
My sister in law asked if 'The Martian' is based on a true story...
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
I was about to comment that I wonder if she voted Trump since she seems pretty gullible and ill informed......but I didnt'. I decided to be good. Look at you with your bad influence. (Whispers thank you under my breath ;) )
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
The plans to strand Elon Musk on Mars forever are still in the early stages but we're working on it.
#18
I'm reminded of that time Ricky Gervais said when he was in school they watched Animal Farm and were discussing fascism etc and one other guy said 'you lot are ridiculous overthinking it, it was just a nice story about some animals'.
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
My parents let me watch it once when I was young, thinking it's just another cartoon 😆
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I did once read that it was approved reading in the Soviet Union before they realised what it was about. NOTE TO POPULATION: Orwell's books are a warning, not a blueprint!
Janissary35680 1 year ago (edited)
Teaching high-school senior-year EFL in the early 70s, we teachers asked Admin if we could use the book "Animal Farm" as the last semester's novel. Admin checked the book, apparently decided it was about cute animals doing human-like things, and OK'd it. We did manage to get all the way through the book before the epic shitstorm that got the head teacher fired broke out.
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
Animal Farm was required reading for us below senior year. I’m intrigued that it caused such a hubbub.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Let's hope history class covered Stalin's rise to power next to provide context
Hollerfloozy 1 year ago
All they have to do now is look out the window and watch the news.. Boom. Live action, real time remake goin on right now...
Catharina Geerts 3 months ago
I didn't see the movie, but had the book on my literature list; on the cover was the explanation about the underlying meaning
#19
I saw the movie Outbreak at a dollar movie theater in my college town a few weeks after it came out.
The movie was entertaining but what I remember most is the woman sitting near me who couldn't bear to actually look at the screen when there was any tension at all in the scene.
Highlights were her buying her face in her hands and screaming, at different points:
"THAT MONKEY GONE EAT THAT LITTLE GIRL!"
And, later:
"OH MY GAWWD! THEY GONE KILL THAT MONKEY!"
I wish sitting near that lady was an option every time I go to the movies.
Bec 1 year ago
I grew up in rural Midwest, we didn't go to the movies too often, but when we did it was at a small town theater. Relatives took us to the movies with them in a visit to the D.C. area... Wow, people were really yelling things at the screen, throwing popcorn at the screen. I'd never seen anything like it. Cultural differences I guess
Jossh Nine 1 year ago
Sometimes half the fun of going to a movie theater is the reactions from other people. Especially if it's a horror movie!
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I was in a theater watching Back Draft. When the firemen had to break a guy's car window to get their hose to the hydrant, since the car was parked in front of the hydrant, the whole theater cheered.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 1 year ago
One of our college profs hosted movie night for our class. We'd just finished reading Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and were going to watch the film. One of the girls brought her BF along and I can still hear him "Hell naw! I KNOW they ain't gonna kill that baby!"
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Good movie and disturbing af! But now I'm gonna think of that lady when it's on TV and start laughing during the parts she freaked out at lol 😆
#20
My friend being critical of Apollo 13 saying, "They just want their Hollywood ending with that finish"....WOOSH!!!!!!
cogadh 1 year ago
This is right up there with those people who didn't know Titanic was a true story (except the Jack and Rose stuff).
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Funny story: There was an actual Jack Dawson aboard the Titanic. And he did not make it.
Load More Replies... Carilyn Beverly 1 year ago
My grandmother played a part in getting man to the moon (worked on the space shuttles and such); the day that mankind landed on the moon, she put a dent in the garage door coming home; she was so afraid she would miss it (before TV could be recorded or rewound) that in a hurry she didn't brake quite in time; but she did get to see the first man exit the shuttle she worked on and step foot on the moon :)
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
As I recall, Ron Howard went out of his way to make this as close to the actual event as possible, including the dialog in the beginning between Jim and Marilyn.
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Do you mean the movie or the book? The movie is ridiculous. The book is very good and might have happened (by Chris Hadfield).
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#21
Guy who said the hunger games series was about how evil liberals are because the people in the capitol have unnaturally colored hair.
Trillian 1 year ago (edited)
Funny because the maga women all seem to favor weird bottle blond
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Sigh. People like that are so easily triggered. Seriously. It's just hair, people.
Ben Aziza 1 year ago (edited)
Yeh it used to be punk or alt etc...just an expression. Now it legit become politically charged. Ppl claim blond = maga and blue = woke. Both ideas are prejudice and f suck... Let ppl dye thier hair the way they want man...
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Westy 1 year ago
If you wanna talk about 1984 - 'maga morons' had nothing to do with the Disinformation Governance Board - as close as the States has ever gotten to a Ministry of Truth. That was Joe Biden and the democrats (they were just 38 years behind schedule).
Load More Replies... Daniel Gómez 1 year ago
Right, because being a liberal is all about hair color, even if you do "unliberal" things...
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
Putting poor people in redline neighborhoods and giving them dangerous crappy jobs that don't pay a living wage...and then the pretty ones are sent to Hollywood and experience the casting couch and all manner of power tripping - with many get addicted or involved in prostitution -so essentially America today is very close to reality of the hunger games.
#22
My adult siblings were watching a movie at my mom's house. My mom falls asleep, always. In the move they were going extract a person from someplace. My young niece asks what extract means, my mom wakes up briefly at that time and says" they are going to pull all his teeth out". So from that point on, everyone was waiting for that to occur.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
That was hilarious. "Have you extracted the agent? Not yet, but the dentist is on standby!"
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago
Watched a movie with my husband. He told me the father will die (he was an important character and central to the main plot) ....rest of the movie during every action scene, I was ready to cry. Movie ended and it didn't happen.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Love how the mom wakes up just to answer that question in a sleepy haze 😂 like a cartoon
Charles Ersimoen 1 year ago
OMG my mom used to fall asleep like that and talk halfway asleep, but also at parties, she would seem to wake up wnd speak some nonsense vaguealy related to the topic of the conversation. Sometimes it was really bizarre but sadly I can't really remember any particular situation verbatim.
Antonio Deleo 1 year ago
This right here. At the 20th example is when these bp articles should end. Twenty is enough. I get it, people misunderstand movies, thats enough already. Its 8:30am on a weekday I have s**t to do. Plus the page is coming from facebook so it crashes 10/10 times after u pass the 20th example anyways.
#23
I watched Les Miserables in the theater with my parents. At the very end of the movie my dad whispered "wait, Hugh Jackman was the prisoner at the beginning?!"
He had no idea...the whole movie why Javert had beef with this apparent random character.
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
Well to be fair, prisoner Valjean looks very different to bourgeois Valjean. One of my favourite musicals ❤️
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Oh, I'd be hosed. I can't reliably recognize characters even when their appearance is consistent.
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Maureen Mitchell 2 months ago
I was at a live performance of Les Mis last year, and people were googling the plot at intermission. In my head I was like "the story is over 150 years old, the musical is over 40 years old, the Oscar-winning movie came out over a decade ago, you paid at least $100 to be here, and you aren't already slightly familiar with the storyline??"
Catharina Geerts 3 months ago
The book was on my French literature list (and also the second and third) and that's one reason I never watched the movie and could hardly imagine they turned it into a musical. Heavy reading stuff.
#24
My friend's grandad saw that Beethoven was playing in theaters whilst reading the newspaper. He thought it was a film about the composer. Well, he bought tickets to see it, and if you don't know, it's a movie about a dog. He was like the only adult there without a kid.
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
I guess germans were aware of that problem, because the german title was "a dog called beethoven"
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Although it can get ridiculous at times. "Airplane!" for example is called "The unbelievable journey in a crazy airplane"
Load More Replies... glowworm2 1 year ago
Amusingly enough, when those movies were out and popular, in first grade, the teacher told us we were going to see an special in the auditorium on Beethoven. She then had to add, that it wasn't about the dog. I don't think I knew about the composer until after seeing that special.
Karl 1 year ago
My dad went to see “Total Recall” as he thought Annie was a comedy actor. The only other Arnie film he’d see before that was “Twins”
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
To mash up this comment and the OP: they were making an action movie about the lives of the great composers. Stallone says "I'll be Mozart", Van Damme says "I'll be Beethoven"...and Arnie says "I'll be Bach".
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Back when the first The Matrix was new, a group of us watched it in one of the science rooms. A girl in my class after it was finished said “yeah it was good but a bit unrealistic”.
I still think about this about once a year and get annoyed. .
Kari Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Tbf, a story can be fantasy- or scifi-themed and still be unrealistic. LotR was realistic in its given framework. If Boromir had suddenly come back to life in The Return of the King through some "the power of friendship" magic, that would have been unrealistic. As for The Matrix, it would be interesting to know which part this girl found unrealistic.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
"Unrealistic" can mean that it's scenario is inconsistent, or that it relied on being more plausible than it was. The Matrix attempted to say, "for all you know, you could be in the Matrix right now." If she felt it failed to make its premise seem plausible, that is a flaw in the movie. I did have some problems with motivations that I understand the sequels dealt with.
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
An interesting thought experiment implies how likely it is we actually do live in the matrix. Think about it... Eventually we'll figure out how to upload ourselves into a computer. Then we'll make virtual realities (VRs) to live in. Network us and our VRs and there's the matrix. Now, if we can do it once, we can do it twice, hundreds or thousands of times. Eventually, we'll do the same *inside* those VRs - and eventually inside *those*, and on and on. So there could be millions of VRs people - we - live in; each one a Matrix. But there's only *one* *real* world. So the odds of us living in the real world are very, very tiny. Hence, it's very likely we *do* live in the matrix. Now if I can just figure out how to fly like Neo...
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#26
I watched the Fellowship of the Ring in the cinema when it first came out. As I got up to leave at the end, two teenage girls who had been sat behind me started talking to each other:
“So, did they get rid of the ring or not?”
“Yeah, they threw it in the fire right at the start”.
kansasmagic 1 year ago
I especially like the part at the end when Aragorn says "Welp, guess the fellowship is broken! So long everybody!" And then takes up distance running so he has something to do.
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
... I thought Aragorn ended up rescuing a military horse?
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
I remember watching this in the movie and hearing someone in the back: "Ugh! f*****g Peter Jackson guy just copied the trolls from Harry Potter."
Charles Ersimoen 1 year ago
When I attempted to watch the Lord of The Rings (only partially cause I'd always fall asleep) I was always wondering why they are sending children for such a dangerous mission! I once asked my dad about this and I was a little surprised with the answer. ;D
Ace 1 year ago
They did though. Well Gandalf did. Then he fished it out again.
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Cristi nah 1 year ago
Imagine throwing the ring and it melts, Gandalf saying "Well, its done", Frodo "What??" "No, nothing..."
#27
My ex girlfriend only realised halfway through Schindler's List that Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes were different people which I found so hilarious as the film must have seemed totally different in her mind. So yeah, the hero of a film about the Holocaust being an enthusiastic Nazi casually murdering people and being generally evil.
Anna Losonczy 1 year ago
Almost same, my colleague thought that Leo DiCaprio and Matt Damon are the same character in "The Departed", and didn't understand the whole plot. :D
RedMarbles 1 year ago
It seems like face blindness is more common than we thought.
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Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago (edited)
I do this too, but it is worse in books and movies when the characters names start with the same letter, I always get them confused. If you have more than 4 main characters, you should have a chart of characters appended, like Anne McCaffrey books.
BookFanatic 1 year ago
My mom was watching a movie--no idea what it was--and was very confused how quickly "the bald guy" could move and wanted to know why his shirt kept changing color. Vin Diesel and The Rock were costars. Lol
Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
they are in a scene together multiple times what did she think was happening
Martha Giles 1 year ago
I have moderate face blindness (Prosopagnosia) so this is how I experience most movies. I'm always whispering to my wife asking if we've seen this character before or if this is the guy that killed the woman at the beginning. Young people are the hardest to tell apart.
Suby 11 months ago
I hate it when characters look similar, like when all of the women are blonde, or all the guys have the same body type. I can't tell them apart. How hard is it to find people that have different hair, skin, shape, size, etc.?
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Luís Rosário 11 months ago
In her defense, they are handsome and a bit looked alike, I think..
Bryn 1 year ago
well.. hate to break it to OP but Oskar Schindler was a Nazi and regularly had parties with them. The heroes of his "story" are the secretaries who created and typed those lists.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
What would have happened if he hadn't? He'd have been watched closely, and wouldn't have been able to save so many lives.
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Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
Oh my, I'm not the only one. There was a four-part TV mini-series when I was a child, and I completely didn't see the difference between two actors. I didn't understand why did the village clerk dress as an outlaw and at the end I was genuinely surprised when the two characters met.
Woundwort42 1 year ago
I often struggle with this too. In Flash Gordon, I couldn't tell the difference between Flash and Barin for most of it
#28
Back in the '80s, a "big event" TV movie was "The Day After," a doomsday movie about the aftermath of a nuclear bomb being launched on the US. We were watching it with extended family. More than halfway through the movie, a relative suddenly said, "You mean there was radiation in that bomb?".
Sunny Day 1 year ago
There is a similar movie called "Threads" that was made in England around the same time. Possibly even more disturbing, because it goes further in the future, but worth the watch.
Nikole 1 year ago
YES! I was just about to mention it! I cried through like 75% of it because that is what would happen.
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago
"a movie about the aftermath of a nuclear bomb". No, it was a movie about a full scale, global nuclear war that completely destroyed civilization.
cogadh 1 year ago
But it did primarily deal with the aftermath of that war, hence the title "The Day After".
Load More Replies... Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
OMG I was literally just thinking about that movie maybe an hour ago. I was little when it came out and that scene where she's scraping the last tiny bit of peanut butter out of the jar has stayed with me all this time, for some reason.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
I wanna see this movie and Threads, yet I kinda don't 😳 I hear they're really good but they're also incredibly horrifying (obviously, considering the subject matter).
Kylie 1 year ago (edited)
As is SOP for British productions, Threads is a lot grittier and stark than The Day After. But they're both good.
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Bartlet for world domination 1 year ago
That is one movie I'm glad I didn't see at the time it came out, because at 22 I was still too young.
#29
In my high school history class we were talking about The Notebook one day. Someone mentioned the couple dying at the end and a girl started SOBBING. “They died?? I thought they fell asleep!” .
#30
A friend of mine on watching Dracula: "What's the point, you know who the vampire is from the start".
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
To be fair, lots of classical stories like Dracula feel troped, cliched and predictable to modern audiences because they predate these tropes...
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Actually if you bothered to watch the whole movie you'd know it turns out the real vampire is Fred the janitor. Dracula is just some guy who's really into cosplay.
Angela C 1 year ago
The real vampires were the friends we made along the way
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Watched Fried Green Tomatoes with my very conservative antiqued grandfather. He thought it was just a wholesome movie about friends. To be fair, the movie is pretty friendwashed, but I thiught it was funny how much the movie leans on your preconceived notions of what’s happening between the two mains. That I could watch a heartwarming/breaking movie about some lesbians, while he’s watching a movie about female friends empowering each other, and we’re watching the same movie. .
Michael Largey 1 year ago
A heartwarming/breaking movie about some lesbians, and a movie about female friends empowering each other could easily be the same movie if it was true to life.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
The book was very popular when it came out among my lesbian friends. However, I can see how Grandfather could be confused.
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
Watching it and reading the book at 15 vs watching it and reading the book now. Yeah, it infuriates me how friendwashed that movie is. I even had to point it out to multiple (usually woke) people who had first watched it when it was released and had seen it since but just naively continued with their initial contrived notions.
Lola July 1 year ago
I thought Ruth was in love with Idgies older brother who sadly died. Silly me I believed they were then deeply bonded. Ruth then married and yes Idgie and Sam? Rescued her as true friends would do. (I have done so) I never thought for one second there was sexual attraction, no not even in the food fight. Yes, I have had food fights with my girlfriends. Nope, no sex involved. I also didn't kill anyone or feed them to others. My belief was that this was a movie about deep and abiding friendship. The only thing I could find that Frannie commented was it was as I just mentioned.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Honestly the fact that this is common amuses me, r/sapphoandherfriend is all about it
Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago
I watched it several times before I was sure they were lesbian/bisexual relationship. The old lady was Izzy I think.
#32
I was once running late to see The Bourne Identity with friends. I came in about five or ten mins after it started.
I got most of the movie from context clues, but afterwards, I was completely confusing my friends with questions like, "Ok so why was he a hobo?" and "Why didn't he remember anything?" My friends were like, what are you on about? I just didn't realise that Bourne had been in the ocean in the first few mins, or that he'd been shot. I saw him first in Switzerland. He looked homeless. I just thought he was in a disguise, you know cos he's a spy. I went back and forth between thinking he had some sort of unexplained amnesia, to thinking maybe he was faking the amnesia to escape from the government for some reason? (fake amnesia made sense to me since how else did he know about the safe deposit code? But also if he was faking then why was he so shocked to see the contents of the safe deposit box??) Maybe the government had made him go on a mission as a hobo but then he really became a hobo and so he was mad at them? (and later in the movie) What's with the yacht, though? How do boats come into it? How did he get from being thrown off a yacht to being a hobo in Switzerland with amnesia?? It was very disorienting, and I spent most of the movie trying to puzzle through my lingering questions.
Lesson: If you ever think "surely the first five mins can't be that crucial to the plot", you might be wrong. Especially for The Bourne Identity.
Bill Underwood 1 year ago
I was late for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and it was a much BETTER movie without the intro of the future people explaining the problem. My story started with them being threatened with failing, and George Carlin landing in a phone booth to bail them out. That's how it should have been shot. When I saw it later with friends, I was disappointed the plot was given away at the start.
#33
My mom spent all of Edward Scissorhands pointing out all of the things that were not available in the 60’s.
She missed that it was a satire of suburbia in general.
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Satire seems to fly over a lot of people's heads.....see the Blazing Saddles post.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
Or just see any one one of my satirical comments. You can't miss them - they're the ones that have "This comment is hidden, click to view' where the comments should be 🫤
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Ctirad Macháček 1 year ago
We were watching it with my parents and my father said: I had seen the sequels and he was evil in those. He confused it with A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Phil Green 1 year ago
We were halfway into "Spinal Tap", when my first wife asked me "This isn't real, is it?"
Catharina Geerts 2 months ago
I did notice the suburbia atmosphere, but I was mostly pitying Edward Scissorhands
#34
When I was young I watched the first 15 minutes of Zoolander from the hallway when I was supposed to be in bed. For many years after, I thought people regularly died in freak gasoline accidents.
Serial pacifist 1 year ago
That and quicksand, serious issue humanity has with those two hazards.
Lorrie Rothstein 1 year ago
I watched this movie with someone and he laughed like crazy at the gasoline scene
#35
My step-dad paid so little attention to Fight Club that he thought it was a murder mystery about who’d killed Robert Paulson.
Luís Rosário 11 months ago
Most people don't picture that is a movie about coping with cancer and the role of gender in identity. Many people think lorna exists.
#36
Someone on here talked about his friend really hating on district 9. When he asked his friend why? His friend said they are just some disgusting bugs. Who cares if they die.
David Martin 1 year ago
In a way, he accidentally got the exact point of the movie by totally missing the message
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Knowing Heinlein (and why he wrote the book), I was kind of rooting for the bugs myself in that movie. Apparently so was the director, Verhoeven.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Agreed! And Sharlto Copley is such an underrated actor imo
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Otto Katz 1 year ago
Why is that alien insect wearing a bikini top? Does it have mammary glands?
David Morgan 1 year ago
It's an alien. It doesn't care about human ideas of clothing or morality. Neither do animals. WE care, and some people seem incapable of distinguishing between what they think and what others think (I'm not saying this applies to you necessarily).
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Really good movie with a really strong, important message. Unfortunately, I can't watch it too often cuz it gets pretty gross in some parts 😖 lots of black vomit
#37
I once watched Austin Powers with my much younger brother and at the end he said "This would be such a cool movie if they would just take things seriously." He had never seen James Bond and thought the movie was real but everyone was just bad at acting.
David 1 year ago
Satires are always better if you are familiar with the source material they are satirizing.
Ace 1 year ago
It wasn't satire, it was a spoof, not quite the same thing.
Load More Replies... Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago (edited)
I watched Evan Almighty with my nieces, 2 nephews. They did not get the point of the movie,and I realized after they did not know the story of Noah. They really liked the animals and the lost dog.
#38
My wife and I decided to watch The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019, Dev Patel), and about halfway though, she turned to me and asked, “so when does he start doing magic?”
She thought the movie, which takes place in the 1800’s, was about the magician, not based on the novel by Dickens.
We will never forget that movie night.
Edit: movie year.
Otto Katz 1 year ago
When I tell people they have to watch the movie "Tom Jones", I have to tell them it's the 1963 movie, not the singer from the 60's-70's. totally different thing.
Pollymere 1 year ago
I went to buy a copy from a bookstore and was steered towards autobiographies. They didn't have the novel (Big UK chain).
Load More Replies... Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Well, that was a reasonable mistake. I am not sure how many here would know the book.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Most Americans have no clue about the true history of their own country, let alone being educated to the point of knowing anything about classic literature.
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#39
I remember when Life of Pi came out, I was listening to an episode of Joe Rogan, and he was going off about how silly the movie was because there's no way some skinny kid would be able to fight off a tiger.
While opinions can't necessarily be wrong, having a strong opinion about something based on not understanding gets pretty close imo.
UKGrandad 1 year ago (edited)
"While opinions can't necessarily be wrong..." What kind of post-modernist, post-truth bullshìt is this? Of course opinions can necessarily be wrong.
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Opinions can be wrong if they are based on incorrect information. I think what they OP means is, you can't be wrong for saying "I like xyz". Unless you're saying, "I like Joe Rogan"....then you're always wrong I don't care what anyone says.
Luís Rosário 11 months ago
Some people have blue screen of death in their minds when have to deal with vulnerability in reality or fiction. Don't understand humor and can't deal with vulnerability are 2 great red flags!
#40
One time we were watching O Brother Where Art Thou and my weed guy said that he liked the tint they shot the movie in. About five minutes later I said “I can’t believe they shot this whole movie in a tent” 😭 i still think about this occasionally and snort.
eric p 1 year ago (edited)
I hate when weed dealers pick movies. Like when high I'd rather watch stupid comedy (pineapple express) or something with amazing visuals and killer soundtrack (Speed Racer) than some existential arthouse film. Like, you're not as insightful and transcendent as you think. I was once forced to watch Inland Empire in a hotbox. That's 2 hours of my life ill never get back...
#41
Lord of the Rings, the two towers. My dad forgot most of the first movie. He didn’t realize there were 4 hobbits. He thought it was the same 2 hobbits in every scene. We didn’t take him with us to see the 3rd film.
#42
I knew someone that thought Thanos snapping his fingers just sent a bunch of people back to their home planet.
Silvia John 9 months ago (edited)
And I still wonder to this day how Thanos was able to ensure that the "right" people were wiped out and not himself. Because when Tony Stark snapped his fingers, Thanos and the bad guys were gone. So was it possible to influence which part of the people disappeared? Thanos wasn't even human. I still ask myself that question to this day.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Now Drumpf is gonna try to collect the Infinity Stones to have the fastest deportation tool
Nikole 1 year ago
Nah, let’s spend hundreds of million dollars and involve the military instead before he realizes how completely unfeasible it is.
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#43
It’s not the entire plot, but when we watched the last Harry Potter movie a friend thought Snape wanted to see Harry’s green eyes again as he died because they were the color of Slytherin house.
Jeolas1 1 year ago
This is especially weird because Daniel Radcliffe's eyes are not even green -???
Verena 1 year ago
Yes, it is very weird, because Lilys (and his) green eyes are mentioned quite a lot in the books and the movie. Harry having his mothers eyes is a minor, but huge, item in the series
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
That awkward moment where he doesn't have his mother's eyes in the movie cuz the actors don't match lol
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago (edited)
To see the color of Slytherin would be a strange reason imo. I was surprised at Snapes request, but thought immediately about the resemblance with Lilys eyes
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Don't even get me GOING on how the movies romanticized Snape from the bully he was in the books OR the disservice they did poor Ginny WEasley.
#44
when i was a kid and i saw Hunt for Red October and i didn't know the definition of "defect" ... i had no idea what was going on the entire time.
David Morgan 1 year ago
MOST of the plot makes sense even to modern audiences, but the political background that contemporary audiences would have known well, is fairly important. If you don't understand how entrenched and dangerous the rivalry between Communist Russia and America was, and how it manifested, some of the character decisions seem weird (like Ramius killing the Political Officer - a man whose sole job was to spy on his own crewmates and inform on them if they didn't appear to be totally in line at all times).
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
You should've asked "extraction mom" a few posts above, she would've helped you out. ;)
BookFanatic 1 year ago
I thought it was a movie about finding a red calendar. In my defense, I was six. Also, I wasn't watching it I just heard my dad talking about it. lol
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
When my kids were young and I needed some space, I would put this movie on and tell them they could either go play upstairs or quietly watch this with me. It's perfect because there's nothing in the movie that might traumatize a preschooler, and a middle schooler would find it deeply boring.
#45
A girl I used to know went to see The Village and thought she figured out M. Night’s twist when she leaned over halfway through the movie and whispered to her friends “*I think she’s blind!*” about Bryce Dallas Howard’s character. She thought it was a secret because she wasn’t wearing sunglasses.
Meanwhile, she figured out the ACTUAL twist and thought it was “common sense”. People on the spectrum will always surprise and amaze me….
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
They kinda had too otherwise it would not make sense why they sent a blind girl out in the first place.
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Lupita Nyong'heaux 1 year ago
if it's been out long enough that it won't risk spoiling it, can somebody tell me please what this movie was about and what the twist was? i don't watch horror/scary movies cuz i'm scary af, but i love READING horror and am always fascinated by twists. thanks in advance.
UKGrandad 1 year ago
There's a plot outline on Wiki, and yes, the movie really is as silly as it sounds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(2004_film)
Load More Replies... Woundwort42 1 year ago
We don't always perceive the world the same way. A weird example would be describing a soccer ball. One person might say it's round, about a foot across and black and white hexagons, whereas another might describe the stitching, pressure of the interior, manufacturing process and both would think their view is complete. Person 3 just hoofed a squished can into the net
Load More Replies... Evelien Stijger Martens 11 months ago
O am on the spectrum and much quiker than most, at least often.
Tesla Sulu 1 year ago
I had that experience with The 6th Sense. Everyone said it had a great twist. I thought that I was an idiot because I didn't even see a twist.
David Jeffery 1 year ago
My sister was the same. She said, when Bruce Willis got shot, well he's obviously a ghost - he's dead. The movie would make no sense for the rest of it. I usually pick up the twists but I completely missed this one
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Nikole 1 year ago
I think they all tie for that honor (*maybe* not 6th sense though).
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Years ago I took my nana to see “Failure to Launch” about a grown man (Matthew McCaughnehy) who still lives at home with his parents. So they hire this woman (Sarah Jessica Parker) who gets man babies to move out. For a living. My nana had a small drinking problem. And I’d come pick her up for the movies and she would be tipsy. Then she would always sober up halfway through the movie and be confused about the plot. This particular movie only had like 4 or 5 people in the theater. Including us. So when she sobered up and started asking questions, everyone could hear. This time she said.
“Oh I get it. She’s like a hooker?”.
#47
On the Podcast This American Life, they told this story of a woman whose favourite movie was Sound of Music. Her family watched the VHS tape at a cabin that was left behind. Later as an adult, some friends were talking about Nazis in the movie and she replied, “what Nazis?” She had only seen the first half of the movie, up until the wedding. The second VHS tape was missing from the cabin. It was just a lovely romance to her.
Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
This movie was based on a true story. I hope she managed to see the rest of it eventually.
Verena 1 year ago
They fled to Switzerland - which is stretching European geography quite a lot. Go to Google Maps or an old fashioned atlas and look up Salzburg and Switzerland. On top Hitlers favourite place was in close vicinity to Salzburg, so the area was packed with Nazis at any given time. In the true story they went via Italy to the USA.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
A lot of German refugees did go to Switzerland tho, at least until Switzerland closed the borders. That's why Anne Frank and her family didn't get out anymore, their escape route had been barred.
Load More Replies... Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
"What nazis?" is our new slogan, here in the US. (Also I cannot STAND the Sound of Music....sorry)
tarryn norwich 1 year ago
The Sound of Music is my fav movie, and this just made me laugh so hard.
Sarah Tennant 11 months ago
Almost the same thing happened to me! My sister taped over the end of the VHS. It ended at the wedding... a perfectly normal place for a movie to end, you'd think.... and it was many years before I saw the whole thing and realized the Nazi foreshadowing wasn't just... shadowing.
Shelby Moonheart 1 year ago
My parents took all of us kids to see the movie in the theatre when it came out. We didn't got to movies often.
Kelly Scott 1 year ago (edited)
She should read the book. Edit to add: No, don't read the book. It's too depressing.
Bryn 1 year ago
Which book? Maria von Trapp wrote two autobiographies (and 5 other books)
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When I was a child I watched the first tobey maguire spiderman and there's a scene where after he gets his powers he has his shirt off for the first time and is muscular. My mum was like "I don't think that's his real body" and I thought that meant he wore another human's skin over his so that he could have muscles for that scene. I thought it was literally a dead person's preserved skin.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
"When I was a child I watched the first Spider-Man". You were child in 2002. Thanks for making me feel ancient.
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
I'll make you feel young. I was excited to see '2001: A Space Odyssey' in the theater when it first came out in 1968.
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#49
My mom watched Breaking Bad and then promptly forgot most of it, then watched El Camino. She thought Todd was a cop and Jesse was being imprisoned for selling meth, but didn't understand why his cell was a hole in the ground instead of an actual prison.
#50
My father-in-law fell asleep while we were all watching Groundhog Day. Woke up at the end and said, "So the whole thing was a dream."
Yes and no, I guess.
What do you think ?
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
I was embarrassingly far into the movie Memento before I realised it was being told backwards.
Nikole 1 year ago
My roommate in college (Northwestern University and she was studying to be an industrial engineer, which she now is) NEVER got movies. At the end my then boyfriend and I were talking about it and she said, “Oh, it was backwards?”
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
When I watched War of the Worlds (the one with Tom Cruise), I kept thinking "When is that radio show gonna start that will make people panic?" Lol. It probably took me half an hour to realize that the movie is about the original story itself and not about the radio event 😄
Faminerst Anstemal 1 year ago
Tangentially relevant: I really wanted to watch the Last Airbender when it came out. I didn't know about how bad the movie was yet, and neither did I know anything about the anime - I only saw the trailer and thought it looked cool. Avatar was in the theaters around the same time. My friends and I got the tickets to Avatar, started watching the movie, and about an hour in, I'm asking them, when is that kid with the arrow on his head going to show up?
Siobhan Gournay 1 year ago
Below is a copy of my favourite movie synopsis ever!! This ALIEN synopsis from a Hong Kong bootleg DVD needs to be in a museum and guarded as a cultural treasure. "Space ship people get up from sleeping coffin and have eat. Computer woman find strange noisings on planet and astronauts go to seeing. Astronauts find big elephant man who dead then find too many egg. Astronaut is possess by egg demon and new egg demon is come when eat bad noodle. Seven friends and cat all try to find egg demon before space ship go home but is hard working. Who will life to escaping? Who is bad milk blood robot? Scream not working because space make deaf."
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
When in space, stay away from bad noodle.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I did see an Agatha Christie play - now renamed to the doubly ungrammatical And Then There Were None - and wasted the whole of the first half wondering when Poirot was going to appear. It's not a Poirot story, although it my defence, it did say on the bill that it was set on the same island as Evil Under the Sun.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
I've got partial face blindness to the point I can walk past just about anyone I don't know extremely well and not notice them unless I hear their voice, but thank God it's not as bad as some of the people in this list.
David Morgan 1 year ago (edited)
I didn't misunderstand it, but having only seen the first half of 'The Sixth Sense' as a teenager, I was fairly patronising when correcting someone else about plot details - turns out they'd seen the whole thing. They were a lot kinder than they needed to be...
Lou Cam 1 year ago
I embarrassingly called out the plot twist in The Sixth Sense during the first scene because it was obvious to me...I was a bit tipsy and forgot I was in the cinema. Sorry to everyone there!
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zerofoxgiven 1 year ago
We watched "Theory of everything" (movie about Stephen Hawking's life) with our class in school (adult school so everyone was over 18). This was the time the movie came out, so Hawking was still alive. When his condition started getting very bad, one of the girls gasped loudly and asked: "Oh no, he's not going to die, right?" One guy told her, "No, he's alive." Girl: "What, you've seen the movie before?" Guy: "No, but he's a real life person, you know." Girl: "I'm not talking about the actor, but the guy he plays, Stephen!" Everyone just stared at her. She was 20, and never heard about Stephen Hawking. So sad.
Emma S 1 year ago (edited)
I was embarrassingly far into the movie Memento before I realised it was being told backwards.
Nikole 1 year ago
My roommate in college (Northwestern University and she was studying to be an industrial engineer, which she now is) NEVER got movies. At the end my then boyfriend and I were talking about it and she said, “Oh, it was backwards?”
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
When I watched War of the Worlds (the one with Tom Cruise), I kept thinking "When is that radio show gonna start that will make people panic?" Lol. It probably took me half an hour to realize that the movie is about the original story itself and not about the radio event 😄
Faminerst Anstemal 1 year ago
Tangentially relevant: I really wanted to watch the Last Airbender when it came out. I didn't know about how bad the movie was yet, and neither did I know anything about the anime - I only saw the trailer and thought it looked cool. Avatar was in the theaters around the same time. My friends and I got the tickets to Avatar, started watching the movie, and about an hour in, I'm asking them, when is that kid with the arrow on his head going to show up?
Siobhan Gournay 1 year ago
Below is a copy of my favourite movie synopsis ever!! This ALIEN synopsis from a Hong Kong bootleg DVD needs to be in a museum and guarded as a cultural treasure. "Space ship people get up from sleeping coffin and have eat. Computer woman find strange noisings on planet and astronauts go to seeing. Astronauts find big elephant man who dead then find too many egg. Astronaut is possess by egg demon and new egg demon is come when eat bad noodle. Seven friends and cat all try to find egg demon before space ship go home but is hard working. Who will life to escaping? Who is bad milk blood robot? Scream not working because space make deaf."
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
When in space, stay away from bad noodle.
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I did see an Agatha Christie play - now renamed to the doubly ungrammatical And Then There Were None - and wasted the whole of the first half wondering when Poirot was going to appear. It's not a Poirot story, although it my defence, it did say on the bill that it was set on the same island as Evil Under the Sun.
WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago
I've got partial face blindness to the point I can walk past just about anyone I don't know extremely well and not notice them unless I hear their voice, but thank God it's not as bad as some of the people in this list.
David Morgan 1 year ago (edited)
I didn't misunderstand it, but having only seen the first half of 'The Sixth Sense' as a teenager, I was fairly patronising when correcting someone else about plot details - turns out they'd seen the whole thing. They were a lot kinder than they needed to be...
Lou Cam 1 year ago
I embarrassingly called out the plot twist in The Sixth Sense during the first scene because it was obvious to me...I was a bit tipsy and forgot I was in the cinema. Sorry to everyone there!
Load More Replies... zerofoxgiven 1 year ago
We watched "Theory of everything" (movie about Stephen Hawking's life) with our class in school (adult school so everyone was over 18). This was the time the movie came out, so Hawking was still alive. When his condition started getting very bad, one of the girls gasped loudly and asked: "Oh no, he's not going to die, right?" One guy told her, "No, he's alive." Girl: "What, you've seen the movie before?" Guy: "No, but he's a real life person, you know." Girl: "I'm not talking about the actor, but the guy he plays, Stephen!" Everyone just stared at her. She was 20, and never heard about Stephen Hawking. So sad.
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