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?

I watched Nocturnal Animals and didn't realise until my husband told me at the end that the Amy and Isla characters weren't the same person! Highly confusing!

I see Inception mentioned a number of times. The best way to think about that film is if dreams were layered like a Russian doll, with the passage of time behaving differently as you go deeper into each dream state.

It was a very novel concept, Nolan excels at this kind of thing. I like pretty much all his films but Interstellar was a high point for me and remains on my top 5 films ever.

wandawaves · Today 00:06
I also couldn't tell you the storyline of Star Wars, despite watching them so many times.“

There’s a storyline? Who knew 🤣

DuncanBiscuits · Today 01:26
The Big Lebowski.

Something about bowling. And a rug. Fuck knows“

Sorry, have to disagree. Very, very funny.

Con Air is a fantastic film but the summation of it being shouty blokes on a plane is quite apt.

"On any other day, that would seem weird" 😁

I knew that. Still couldn't hold on to the 'thread' of the story.

Literally any film when everyone looks similar.
If they are all middle aged shaved white men not a clue.
Or 15 year old Asian girls with long hair etc.
Same with books when people have names beginning with the same letter. I am quite unobservant of detail I realise.

My first example covers 100s of films so quite an issue!

There’s a lot missing in the Harry Potter films so I can see it might be confusing if you’ve not read the books.

Whether Snape is a good guy or bad guy is a much debated question. It’s possible to be both.

Omg l love Con Air!!

Nope - wtf was that all about

Any James Bond. I tend to approach them all on the basis that it’s just running around.

Star Wars- no idea, despite having seen them all multiple times, including once while dressed as a pilot at an immersive showing. Now it’s this bit, now it’s that bit, but what links them I have no idea.

I love Inception though.

Oh yes me too. I liked the bit with the ape-humanoid throwing the tool in the air and it was a symbol for advanced technology. That's the only bit I understood.

Cloud Atlas. Or Atlas Cloud. Whatever it was called. Overhyped pile of w@nk.

Total Recall
Chronicles of Riddick

Anything by Marvel. No idea.

😁😆

Memento.

Apparently it's a great film but it goes back and forwards so much that I just lose interest and start messing on my phone instead.

A Lost Sark - that might have been a better film.

The Matrix ( not a fucking clue)

I am very slow with most films though … have the concentration span of an ant …

Time travellers wife with Nicholas Cage… no fucking scooby do there either!

Vanilla sky. Came out of the cinema, went with 3 other girls, we all said we had absolutely no idea what the story was.

Annihilation. I read the book and that's a bit different. I got totally lost in that scene at the lighthouse with Natalie Portman. Still don't know who actually survived. And that fucking bear gave me nightmares for weeks.

I was wondering if anyone would say this movie. I went to it with my DH and he only went and fell asleep during it, I was playing spot the locations in Dublin as I watched it so really wasn't paying close attention to the storyline

Usually espionage films, such as James Bond and the Mission Impossible franchise. As the plot thickens I lose the plot haha!
I sometimes don’t understand who spies /works for which government or agency, which spy is a double agent, why X wants to kill Y…then they throw some syndicate or secret society in the storyline for good measure, a villain with an appetite for world domination, and I’m just looking out of my head and think I must be stupid. I often think that the filmmakers don’t understand the story either, but put a lot of action scenes and good-looking people with witty, sarcastic one-liners in the film and it somehow turns out to be watchable/successful.

Donnie Darko

Eyes Wine Shut

Taxi Driver

the Terminator films