20 People Who Really Needed to Pay More Attention to Movies

Listen, movies can be hard. This is a safe space, and no one is going to make fun of you for being unsure at the time (or even still) what the hell happened at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. But sometimes, people get lost because they clearly just weren’t paying attention. Other times, they pull out an explanation so wild that you have to wonder if you even watched the same movie.

For example, “A couple of weeks ago, I watched Fallen with my parents, and my dad somehow came to the conclusion that Denzel’s character was a serial killer all along and had hallucinated like half of the movie,” user FinalDemise told r/AskReddit. “His evidence was that the wobbly/distorted filter during the demon POV cam was clearly supposed to be Denzel high/hallucinating, which is certainly... an interpretation.”

They then asked, “What’s the worst case of someone misunderstanding the plot of a movie you’ve ever seen?”