Films you've watched but have no idea what they're about

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DH has got Con Air on. This is one of these films that's always on TV...technically I must have watched it about 20 times but I still couldn't tell you what it's about other than a load of aggressive blokes on a plane

What films have you seen loads of times yet could not tell anyone the plot of?

Yes! Mind you I've only ever seen the directors cut. Watched it twice and no desire to try and figure it out again

The Matrix

The Big Short; stars big names, Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale. Ought to be great but the ins and outs of the american housing markets ,sub prime mortages etc, leaves me baffled.

I'm still trying to figure out The Matrix

Every single sci fi movie, ever.

Also I’m terrible for getting people confused. And names. So if a movie has, say, Amy Adams and Isla Fisher in it, I’m fucked. I’m that person asking “didn’t she just leave the room wearing green? Wtf?”

personally I find I understand plots a lot better if they have subtitles ( on tv)

Absolutely. I've had to give up on a few films on Amazon Prime because they didn't have subtitles and I could only catch about 50% of the dialogue - nothing wrong with my hearing either. 21 grams, I didn't make it through 21 minutes. I watched The Witcher with DH and struggled to follow parts (he's read the book and explained some of it). I suggested subtitles for the second series, and what a revelation, I realised just how much I'd missed of the first series.

Lost in Translation is such a wonderful film. Different lost souls finding an unexpected connection.
I couldn't follow the plot/characters in the Avengers films though. Might have been the wine didn't help.

Vanilla Sky
Mullholland Drive
Lost in Translation
Magnolia

I've watchedThe Matrix so many times over the last 20+ years but still can't fully understand it! Only recently did I finally watch the second and third films and they just confused me further.

What is it that you don’t understand, the general plot? Or specific bits

Haha same here! Although I love the film - I haven't a clue what's happening!

I finally figured out Twelve Monkeys on the umpteenth watch 🤣

Hitch Hiker's Guide.

Mind bogglingly dull with no plot whatsoever. It sent me to sleep and my then boyfriend said I'd done it on purpose, and sulked. 😃

Twelve Monkeys was an absolute mystery to me.

What the FUCK is Shutter Island about?!

Inception is a great film!

The Matrix is also sooo good

It's one of my favorite films ever!
But I did read the book it's based on and that is quite detailed on financial concepts but I got it generally. But I also loved "Margin Call", "The Smartest Guys in the Room" (about the Enron scandal), "Too Big to Fail", etc...

Inception

Lost in Translation is a great film

How can you not understand the matrix!? My fave film ever! I could understand if you had said matrix 3 as it gets a bit more confusing but the first one??

Citizen Kane, dreary nonsense.
Cloverfield, wtf is that all about?
Eraserhead. Bonkers.
Seven pounds. Urmmm.

Memento. Make my head swim and although I know what happened (sort of) I have no idea of how why or where it happened. It was really a 'choppy' film jumping from one viewpoint to another.

Swiss Army Man. What the fuck?

Inception for me. I've tried watching it 4 times and can't get past 30 mins. Interstellar I get it but if I was describe the ending to someone, I wouldn't be able to.

The Big Lebowski.

Something about bowling. And a rug. Fuck knows.

Cloud Atlas

Lost in Translation is such a wonderful film. Different lost souls finding an unexpected connection

It's a fabulous film; a masterpiece. It's sad that so many people seem not have liked it.

The one I didn't understand was The Usual Suspects.

Encanto.