18 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

Between the pretty faces and hard bodies and big explosions and compelling fart jokes, it's easy to lose sight of a movie's meaning.
18 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

It's pretty easy to miss a movie's meaning. While we're being dazzled by pretty faces, hard bodies, big explosions, and compelling fart jokes, it can be a little difficult to discern what a movie is supposed to be telling us. Sometimes filmmakers want to make us think, and we're not sure exactly what we're supposed to be thinking about. Or, a film can have multiple interpretations based on our varied life experiences. Not every scene is going to hit the same for everybody, and some of us hone in on things we think are important, and end up missing the point entirely. 

Thankfully, our readers never shy away from an opportunity to speak their mind, and they've stepped up to teach us all stern lesson in movie meaning-ology (or whatever).

A few of these are absolutely mind-boggling, and surely will have you going back to rewatch a movie you thought you understood perfectly well. 

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THE SHINING was not SO much about ghosts as it was about the destructive nature of ALCOHOL Jack Torrance's spiral into the crazy was caused by the hot
Think Robocop is a fun sci-fi cop flick? It's actually a Christian allegory. It is about a guy who gets crucified in the first 50 minutes, and then i
The film Lolita gave rise to an entire genre of child porn called Lolicon. Which is 180 from the point the author was trying to make. Nabokov made H
Bill Murray's whisper to Scarlett Johannson at the end of Lost in Translation isn't romantic. It wasn't scripted to be, either. Murray adlibbed someth
Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers intended to satirize the glamorization of violence and serial killers by the media and public. NATURAL BORN KILLER
18 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood
When it was first released, Fight Club became one of the most controversial films of its time. It was condemned for glorifying violence and was cited
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18 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood
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Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship. It was about television destroying people's interest in reading books. Television gives you the dates of Napo
Horton Hears a Who has been widely praised by religious groups for its pro-life message. The problem is, itis not about abortion. Dr. Seuss (Theodor G
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The trippy finale of theultimate trip 2001: A Space Odyssey left filmgoers feeling like they'd seen a psychedelic vision that could never be explained
One of the most hated AMERICAN PSYCHO movie (and book) by was definitely a feminists everywhere difficult movie to be because of its violence made and
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