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27 Movies Where Everyone Missed The Point

By:: Brian C. Miller; Cracked Writers

November 01, 2021

27 Movies Where Everyone Missed The Point

Movies can be a life-changing cultural experience that you will remember for a long time or even a lifetime. They might also be total catastrophes that make you regret pressing play in the first place. In the middle, there are films that are just plumb boring. But the fact is, everyone’s reaction is different.

Converting a book to the screen can be tricky. The running multiple, the supporting cast, and the action scenes are just a few of the issues and hurdles to consider. In other circumstances, simply being practical keeps getting in the way, so movie makers are unable to adapt a novel satisfactorily due to budgetary and schedule constraints.

You're telling me that movies have a purpose other than to keep me entertained for 90 minutes to two hours? This truth seemed to astonish many individuals, even film critics. Here are a few films that everyone seems to have missed the purpose of.

Curious? Here are a few movies whose point everyone seems to have missed.

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P LP FICT N is a cool story about gangsters, drugs, and violence... but ultimately it's about redemption and second chances. In a 2013 interview about the film, The people Samuel L. Jackson who are summed it up... worth saving CRACKED.COM get saved. — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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Josie and The Pussycats was critically panned because of its blatant product placements. According to directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, that's the point. The film is intended to be a satire that mocks the culture of conformity and mindless consumerism. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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Audiences debated the ending of INCEPTION: -Did the top fall over? -Was the last scene real? -Did Cobb get his kids back? completely missing the point. CRACKED.COM Per director Christopher Nolan, those questions didn 't matter. Cobb was in his own subjective reality. Не didn't really care any more. — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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CRACKED COM NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Many people think Romero was making a statement about racism in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, but according to him, the movie is really about our inability to communicate, even when faced with a crisis. — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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THE WRESTLER CRACKED.COM The movie ends ambiguously, it's not clear if Randy The Ram Robinson survives the big leap off the ropes. Director Darren Aronofsky later explained that he does die from that. But he dies happy! — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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Darren Aronofsky's mother! sharply divided audiences with its odd and violent narrative. However, when you view the film knowing that Aronofsky intended for Jennifer Lawrence to represent the concept of Mother Nature, while the intruders represent man, it starts to make a LOT more sense! CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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GRACKED.COM The critically acclaimed It Comes at Night confused audiences, who wondered why adidas it never came. Director Trey Edward Shults explained that the film was inspired by the death ofhis father, and was based on the things he feared in life as he faced the idea of mortality. It isn't a creature or a monster. It is simply fear and the paranoia it creates. — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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CRACKED.COM Pokémon: The First Movie is widely criticized by critics as an incoherent movie marketed towards kids. However, according to producer Takeshi Shudo, the film explores a much deeper theme: existentialism, as shown by Mewtwo's quest to prove the true purpose of existence of all Pokémon. It is unfortunate that the English dub has simplified Mewtwo's motivation to revenge. — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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Director Dan Gilroy did not intend for NIGHTCRAWLER to be a movie about a psychopath who would do anything for a buck. Gilroy wanted people to come away from the show with a better understanding of what capitalism and today's economic expectations will do to a person. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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TAXI DRIVER People misinterpret the tonal shift at the end of the film and assume that it is a product of Travis Bickle's imagination. However, writer Paul Schrader has denied the theory that it was a dream sequence and remarked that the look on Travis at the end pretty much screams that he is about to 'explode' again. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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THE BABADOOK THE BABADOOK isn't a story about the boogeyman. Instead, it's about a mother's descent into madness after her inability to process the tragic death of her husband. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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Despite the fact that the main character shares many traits with the actor who starred it, Birdman isn't about Michael Keaton... It's about Director Alejandro Inárritu and his struggle with his own perfectionism. CRACKED.COM — Source: 12 Movies That Everyone Misunderstands (And What They Mean)

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CRACKED.COM Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata's powerful The film is often anti-war movie... hailed as one of -TotalFilm the greatest anti-war movies ...an important (anti-) war film. -Film4 ever made due to it's harsh depiction .one of the most profound of two children anti-war statements ever... -Movie Mezzanine living alone in Japan during WWII. However, director Isao Takahata has been very critical of this analysis. is not at all an anti-war anime and contains absolutely no such message. The actual message is that children need to learn to suck it up and deal with hard times — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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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 hotel ghosts giving him booze. Stephen King wrote the story during a time when he was struggling with alcoholism. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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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 is resurrected in the next 50 minutes, and then is like the supercop of the world. -Director Paul Verhoeven CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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The gave Lolita to an rise entire genre of child porn called Lolicon. Which is 180° from the point the author was trying to make. Nabokov made Humbert a pedophile as evidence that he was a completely reprehensible human being that no one would ever want to emulate. GRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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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 something about talking to her husband. Yeah, Bob loves Charlotte, but he wimps out and never tells her. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers intended to satirize the glamorization of violence and serial killers by the media and public. NATURAL BORN KILLERS Instead, people thought the movie itself glamorized violence and serial killers, and was even blamed for instigating several murders. Meanwhile, theaters found audiences rooting for the movie's murderous protagonists and cheering for them at all the wrong moments, thereby proving Oliver's point. GRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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Iron Man 2is a cinematic retelling of Ayn Rand's objectivist opus Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged's protagonist is playboy Hank Rearden, who got super-rich by inventing a valuable metal alloy whose formula he continues to keep secret. The government tries to forcibly take the rights to Rearden's alloy away from him. So, the plot of Iron Man 2. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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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 as the cause for the formation of many real-life fight clubs. Ironic, considering the film is a criticism of hyper-masculinity as Tyler Durden is not only the ideal masculine man, but also CLUB the film's antagonist and a psychopath that no one is supposed to relate to. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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CRACKED.COM Critics were outraged upon the release of 1978's I SPIT YOUR on GRAVE due to its graphic depiction of rape. This lead many to call it misogynist, pro-rape, and in the words of Roger Ebert, A vile bag of garbage. However, acording to Meir Zarchi, the film's director, the purpose of the movie was, To MAKE AUDIENCES REALISE HOW HORRIBLE RAPE IS AND TO LET THE JUSTICE SYSTEM KNOW HOW HORRIFIC THE EXPERIENCE IS AND IT SHOULD BE TAKEN EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY. Zarchi blames the distributor's decision to give the film an exploitive title as the reason for its harsh — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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INCEPTION is about filmmaking. SU NECTION WEST Ariadne is the screenwriter, Yusuf is Eames is the actor, because she the special because he can designs the effects literally change faces. dreams. guy. Cobb is the director, the Saito is the team leader studio executive, Arthur is the with vision. because he's producer, the guy paying for the who knows how it whole thing. all works. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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Drag Me to Hell is about eating disorders. PORK QUEEN FAIR - Farmer - C 1995 -The main character, Christine, was a chubby child -She lies about her eating habits -The demons vomit on her and force things down her throat -When she tries to eat, the food becomes horrifying -No one else can see what's happening to her CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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Horton Hears a Who has been widely praised by religious groups for its pro-life message. The problem is, it's not about abortion. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) disliked his work being co-opted for political purposes. An attorney for the family said that demonstrators at the film premiere didn't sit well with Geisel's widow, who was in attendance. She doesn't like people to hijack Dr. Seuss characters or material to front their own points of view, said the attorney. CRACKED.COM http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyld=88189147 — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CRACKED.COM M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN MARK WAHLBERG THE HAPPENING FROM ITS INCEPTION, 'THE HAPPENING WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY OR TO BE GOOD. IT WAS THE RESULT OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN WANTING TO CREATE A MODERN DAY B-MOVIE IN LINE WITH THE CHEESY HORROR/PARANOIA FILMS OF THE 50'S AND 60'S LIKE 'THE BIRDS' AND 'INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. - CRITICS AND MOVIEGOERS NEVER GOT THE MEMO - — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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The trippy finale of the ultimate trip 2001: A Space Odyssey left filmgoers feeling like they'd seen a psychedelic vision that could never be explained. 200l: A SPACE ODYSSEY IGH TO FINALLY It'll blow your mind, dude. But actually, the script included a voice-over that explained the ending, scene by scene.* Kubrick just decided to cut it during editing, turning the whole ending into a cryptic acid trip. *The monoliths were built by aliens to advance evolution; Dave got sucked in and turned into an advanced lifeform. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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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 a hellish against women. nightmare for the marketing team. Activist groups protested its filming. But what every critic Product companies apparently failed to didn't want to be understand was that: associated with anything so horrible. 'IT WAS A SATIRE OF THE VIOLENCE Described by critics as The most disgusting IT WAS CLEARLY INTENDED film of the year! or AS A CRITIQUE OF MALE a how-to manual on MISOGYNY, the torture and NOT AN ENDORSEMENT — Source: 20 Movies That Are Very Plainly Misunderstood

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