30 “I’m Sorry, What!?” Takes On Movies By People Who Missed The Point, As Shared Online

That Blazing Saddles was a racist movie when it infact condemns and makes fun of racists

I once saw someone comment they could not get into Ghostbusters because the CGI was so terrible.

The CGI

In Ghostbusters

That was made in 1984

Doesn't quite fit this thread, but, after leaving Avatar 3D in 2009, we overheard someone say "why was it so blurry", for them to be asked "didn't you wear the glasses"? Dude sat through 3 hours of blurred film lol

"It's ridiculous, gorillas don't get that big." My ex's father after watching King Kong.

I knew a woman who saw Schindler's List and said, "It was just a sad movie about people in jail. Why would they even have kids in jail?"

Legitimately, that was her take. Her mother asked her if she liked it and she said, "It was okay. It was really long and old."

This girl was around 24-25 years old at the time.

In an open class discussion about what movies we thought were best and worst a guy in my film studies class said he thought marvel movies were best because they have the biggest budgets, most effects, biggest stars, make the most money, etc and he thought Monty python movies were the worst because they were cheesy and not funny. He specifically cited the coconut horses as being stupid. I try to be open minded and not judgmental about people anyone and especially those who share my passions but I just couldn’t ignore how god awful of a take that was. He’s a studio execs favorite demographic I imagine

Every single critic in 1997 missed that Starship Troopers was satire. I think our timeline got mixed up with some Bizarro World timeline for a couple months.

Years ago, some Christian movie about the nativity story had just come out. I was listening to the radio and one guy complained about the movie being too predictable.

I went with my best friend in high school to see “Backdraft”. It was a populat movie about firefighters and she was really into whatever Baldwin brother was in that movie. It was a pretty good movie. Some major plot holes and unrealism set aside by good acting and great sets/special effects. I was especially surprised by a small role by Donald Surherland who did an amazing job with just a fee minutes.

Came out saying I was pleasently surprised and glad she dragged me along to go see it. She was silent. I asked what was wrong and she said she didn’t like it. Her reason?

“There was too much fire.”

In a movie about firefighters.

My co worker says she won't watch Star Wars due to the opening text scrolls. Says if she has to read to know the back story it's a bad movie

Gotta be “Animation is for kids”

A coworker went to watch Memoirs Of A Geisha thinking that Geishas were some sort of Ninja women. He had some very harsh criticism of the movie afterwards.

It's a heartwarming story, but it's just not believable. Which is why I give E.T one and a half stars. - Perd Hapley

My gf's brother-in-law said that Mad Max Fury Road was a bad film because it was implausible and made no sense how they all had so much gas to drive their cars in the dystopian wasteland.

But he loved Jurassic World. Guess that wasn't implausible.

When Prey came out last year there was an uptick of people complaining about the main character being a mary sue because she could fight the predator at the end of the movie. As if the entire movie… wasn’t about her journey to become a better hunter than the predator. Like that was the whole plot of the movie, she was as far away from a mary sue as you could get

Semi recently someone told me Back to the Future sucks because the incest is creepy.

Yeah. It's portrayed as creepy. Lorraine is being teased in-narrative for being such a prude as a mother when here she is going after her own son. And getting what she wants actually makes the creepiness dawn on her when she isn't even aware. Such a braindead take.

Someone on here criticized Jaws for not explaining in detail why Brody was afraid of water.

I once had someone tell me that they thought the message of American History X was "racism is correct" because at the end >!the brother gets shot by a black kid!<.

A lot of antipathy towards The Godfather from younger whippersnappers these days, but my brother's take has to be the worst I've heard. He couldn't get through the first half-hour because:

* Nobody had been shot yet
* There's too much talking
* Marlon Brando scratches his face in an odd way

"*Memento* was *so* repetitive. Like, he lost his memory, we got it."