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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.

#1

“They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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".

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    #3

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    #4

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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”.

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    #5

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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'.

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    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #7

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    #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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #9

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot Somehow, my dad completely missed that The Princess Bride is a comedy.

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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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #11

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot Watched Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with an uncle. Asked him what he thought afterwards.

    “Seems kind of far fetched.”.

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    #12

    The people that think Blazing Saddles is "racist".
    Honestly, these people are as dumb as a bag of rocks...

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mel famously answered the question "do you think you could make the film today?" with "we couldn't make it then!". Every time period has idiots who only look at the surface - Mel was ripping racists a new one by showing them in all their 'glory'.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have to understand... these people are just simple farmers...

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Blazing Saddles" was a direct attack on racism. You can't attack something without describing it.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That camp-fire scene with the fried beans....every boys weekend camping trip ever

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bill - LOL That's pretty bad. Every time Nazis show up in his films, it is not in a flattering way. Like the movie The Producers had the subplot where the show they are producing is "Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden"

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same people thought Stephen Colbert was conservative in the Report.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It makes fun of how stupid racists are and how ridiculously dumb racism is itself. I love this movie!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was an Irish actor who complained to Mel that they were making fun of everyone else but no Irish jokes. Bam! Irish joke inserted.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "As mayor of Rock Ridge i extend a Laurel and hardy handshake to our new....."

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I generally think anyone that doesn't understand Mel Brooks movies has got something wrong with them!!!! It's called..... satire!!!!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ooh! Where's the panda with the username Texmaam so I can tell them to get their fwiggin' feet off the stage! 😂

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    #13

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot My mom thought *Rogue One* had a happy ending because “they were hugging in front of a sunset” at the end of the movie.

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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.".

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

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    #15

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.”.

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    #16

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot Someone once told me they thought *The Matrix* was about a guy learning to code and getting really good at VR.

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    #18

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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'.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My parents let me watch it once when I was young, thinking it's just another cartoon 😆

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    #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.

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    #20

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot My friend being critical of Apollo 13 saying, "They just want their Hollywood ending with that finish"....WOOSH!!!!!!

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is right up there with those people who didn't know Titanic was a true story (except the Jack and Rose stuff).

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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.

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    #22

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was hilarious. "Have you extracted the agent? Not yet, but the dentist is on standby!"

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    #23

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well to be fair, prisoner Valjean looks very different to bourgeois Valjean. One of my favourite musicals ❤️

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    #24

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess germans were aware of that problem, because the german title was "a dog called beethoven"

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    #25

    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. .

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had no idea what the matrix was about when I first watched it and I don't even remember how I came about watching it but I am forever grateful that I knew nothing going into it. It made for a very exciting movie.

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    #26

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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”.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #27

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    #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?".

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    #29

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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!” .

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Finally, I now know how it ended. Honestly, I couldn't get into that movie, I doubt I made it half way...

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    #30

    A friend of mine on watching Dracula: "What's the point, you know who the vampire is from the start".

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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. .

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    #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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's true of most movies. They are setting up the story at that point.

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    #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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Satire seems to fly over a lot of people's heads.....see the Blazing Saddles post.

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    #34

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    #35

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot My step-dad paid so little attention to Fight Club that he thought it was a murder mystery about who’d killed Robert Paulson.

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    #36

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    #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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Satires are always better if you are familiar with the source material they are satirizing.

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    #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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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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.

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    1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "While opinions can't necessarily be wrong..." What kind of post-modernist, post-truth bullshìt is this? Of course opinions can necessarily be wrong.

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    #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.

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    #41

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    #42

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot I knew someone that thought Thanos snapping his fingers just sent a bunch of people back to their home planet.

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    #43

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is especially weird because Daniel Radcliffe's eyes are not even green -???

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    #44

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You see, the Russian Admiral was defective, so the whole movie was about returning him to the store, to get a replacement.

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    #45

    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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….

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    #46

    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?”.

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    #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.

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    Ariom Dahl
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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This movie was based on a true story. I hope she managed to see the rest of it eventually.

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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.

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    Carl Roberts
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    1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "When I was a child I watched the first Spider-Man". You were child in 2002. Thanks for making me feel ancient.

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    “They Died?? I Thought They Fell Asleep!”: 50 Worst Cases Of People Misunderstanding The Plot 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.

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    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.

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