“Unbelievable Misinterpretations: 60 Movie Moments Where Viewers Totally Missed the Mark!”
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.
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.
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.
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.”.
