“Unbelievable Misinterpretations: 60 Movie Moments Where Viewers Totally Missed the Mark!”
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?”.
The people that think Blazing Saddles is “racist”.
Honestly, these people are as dumb as a bag of rocks…
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. .
People were throwing elaborate “Gatsby parties” after the release of The Great Gatsby. I’m sure they were fun but they were also the opposite of the point of the movie and book.
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.
