‘What’s the worst case of someone misunderstanding the plot of a movie you’ve ever seen?’ – 23 unbelievable cognitive fails
13.
‘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.’
–Such-Ad-5643
14.
‘I don’t know if this counts, but my sweet angle of an aunt rented (years ago) The Silence of the Lambs thinking it was a Christmas movie. This remains one of my favourite family stories. When asked when she realised when it wasn’t a Christmas film, she simply stated ‘towards the end’.’
–graytiger
15.
‘Watched Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with an uncle. Asked him what he thought afterwards.
‘Seems kind of far fetched.”
–truejs
16.
‘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.’
–Heroic-Forger
17.
‘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.’
–TheDadThatGrills
18.
‘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.’
–JimmDunn
19.
‘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.’
–Illustrous_potentate
20.
‘Somehow, my dad completely missed that The Princess Bride is a comedy.’
–Flashy_Watercress398
21.
‘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’.’
–hoginlly
22.
‘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!”
–girlwithdadjokes
Plenty of hilarious confusion there, and here’s a deliberate misunderstanding which is also very funny:
25.
‘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.’
–karatekate
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