“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.

The BEST is the famous TV Guide plot synopsis in 1998 for "The Wizard of Oz"

# Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.

It was me. I am not a fan of superhero movies but I liked the Xmen when I was younger. So I thought I would check one out. I downloaded one that featured one of my favorites. I started watching it, they messed his whole back story up, there weren't any other mutants, basically no action. After about 30 minutes in I realized it wasn't a superhero movie.

So anyways, Jake Gyllenhaal was really good in Nightcrawler.

My wife is a big history buff, especially US history. She also doesn’t like campy vampire/zombie/monster movies. I made her watch Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. 10 minutes into the movie she turned to me and said “I don’t think this actually happened”.

Watching Titanic in a cinema in the West End of Glasgow. Ship hits the iceberg, girl behind me says "Aw, it's gonny sink.'

To which her date replied with absolute confidence 'Na, it willnae'.

My FIL is a retired nuclear engineer and when he heard about the new show Big Bang Theory he literally canceled an appointment, prepared with snacks and drinks and sat down to watch "the science show."
His face was indescribable. What was icing on the cake was that he and Sheldon share quite a few traits.

I remember someone once saying that "Scar from the Lion King isn't evil because he is a lion. Wild animals can't be evil, they're just acting on their nature." Bro kind of forgot the whole "anthropomorphic talking animals with human like thoughts and morals" part I guess.

My mom with every movie ever. It would drive me and my siblings nuts. 10 minutes into the movie she would say, "I know what they're gonna do. This, this and this. I can read movies like a book." She would be wrong 95% of the time and being wrong never stuck with her. Did it our entire lives. She was also the type that would ask us 20 questions about the movie we're all watching for the first time. Mom has been gone for a year now and these little annoyances become things you miss about them.

Somehow, my dad completely missed that The Princess Bride is a comedy.

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.

Watched Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with an uncle. Asked him what he thought afterwards.

“Seems kind of far fetched.”.

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

My mom thought *Rogue One* had a happy ending because “they were hugging in front of a sunset” at the end of the movie.

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.".

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.”.

Someone once told me they thought *The Matrix* was about a guy learning to code and getting really good at VR.

My sister in law asked if 'The Martian' is based on a true story...

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'.

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.

My friend being critical of Apollo 13 saying, "They just want their Hollywood ending with that finish"....WOOSH!!!!!!