30 People Point Out Things About Famous Movies That Might Make You View Them Differently (New Pics)

Avidmoviewatchers spend a lot of time analyzing and thinking about films. Often, this allows them to make connections that even filmmakers might have missed. That’s where many fan theories emerge, tying up plot lines that might not make much sense or adding a layer of deeper meaning to otherwise lackluster blockbusters.People in thisReddit communityhave been sharing speculations about their ownfavorite movieswith an unexpected, witty and sometimes fictional twist. Be ready to take these overlooked film details with a grain of salt, and upvote the ones that impressed you the most.This post may includeaffiliate links.

People in thisReddit communityhave been sharing speculations about their ownfavorite movieswith an unexpected, witty and sometimes fictional twist. Be ready to take these overlooked film details with a grain of salt, and upvote the ones that impressed you the most.

This post may includeaffiliate links.

It Is Often Mentioned That Actor Paul Rudd Has Barely Aged In Decades. I Raise You Maria De Medeiros, Who Plays A Grown Woman In Pulp Fiction (1994) And Was Still Casted To Play A 12-Year Old In Stranger Things (2016) Almost 22 Years Later

The Movie ‘Braveheart’ Features A Scene With A Car Barely Visible In The Background. Often Cited As An Error, Cars Were In-Fact Widely In Use At The Time Of Filming(1995)

In Children Of Men (2006), People Mostly Ignore The Impending Death Of All Humanity To Instead Freak Out About Immigration. This Is… Probably Exactly What Would Happen, Yeah

Entertainment journalist James Grebeydefinedfan theory as“ideas and speculation that audiences have about movies, shows, comics, or anything.” He believes they exist becausefansare passionate and creative about the things they love.

In Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971), The Children Get Punished For Their Sins: Augustus Gets Boiled For His Gluttony, Violet Gets Exploded For Her Pride, Verruca Gets Dirty For Her Greed, Mike Gets Shrunk For His Arrogance, And Charlie Gets Burdened By Taxes And Osha Fines For Being Poor

Fun Fact: In Terminator 2 (1991), They Cast Twin Actors In Some Roles To Save Money On Visual Effects

To Make Sure Their Accents Were Accurate, The Child Actors In The Harry Potter Movies Were Forced To Grow Up In England

Barbie (2023) Is Anti-Men, Or Something. Lots Of Men Seem To Be Upset. I Wouldn’t Know Because I Haven’t Watched Barbie, Because I Am A Man, And Men Don’t Like Barbie. Men Like Nuclear War, Radiation Poisoning And 200,000+ Civilian Casualties, Which Is Why I Watched Oppenheimer Instead

In Pulp Fiction (1994) If You Pause The Movie At This Exact Scene, It Won’t Keep Going Until You Hit Play Again

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Another type of theory is a predictive one that essentially poses the question, “What happens next?” Avid film viewers try to pick on various details and hints that allow them to speculate what may come next in the story. This is essentially called foreshadowing and generates quite elaborate and interesting theories.

In Vanilla Sky (2001), Tom Cruise Is Shown To Be 5’11”. This Is An Early Hint That The World Of The Film Isn’t Real

In Endgame (2019) Tony Stark Repeats The Line “No Amount Of Money Ever Bought A Second Of Time”, While Just Hours Beforehand He Used His Great Resources As A Bajillionaire (Bought With Money) To Time Travel And Eventually, Meet His Dad Again

In Shrek (2001), Fiona Finally Ends Up With Shrek, Only After Transforming Into A Green Ogre Permanently. This Is Because The Moral Of Shrek Is That Only People Who Are The Same Color Belong Together

In The Incredibles (2004), Syndrome Says That Bob And Helen “Got Busy” Upon Seeing Their Children Beside Them. This Is A Reference To Something Really Cool And Mysterious, But My Mom Won’t Tell Me What It Is

In “The Mitchells vs. The Machines” (2020), The Main Character Says To Her Mom: “Thanks For Being The Best Mom Ever”. This Is False As The Best Mom Ever Is My Mom

Your Mom Was Originally Offered The Lead Role In The Whale (2022), But She Couldn’t Commit To The Dramatic Weight Loss Required

The following two, retcon and head-canon theories, are already treading the absurd category. The former one tries to argue that what you saw on the screen didn’t actually happen, like Black Widow not actually dying in the Endgame. These speculations rarely make sense, as disproving something we can see is almost impossible.

In Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone(2001) Harry Discovers That Snakes Are Fully Sapient And Even Possess Their Own Language, Which He Uses To Converse With A Captive Snake In A Zoo. At No Point Does This Revelation Cause Him Or Anyone Else To Question The Ethics Of Human Treatment Of Animals

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The head-canon theory is fun, usually used to creatively engage fandoms. Just like the idea that Elsa and Anna from Frozen share the same parents with Tarzan. Such claims usually don’t have substantial reasoning behind them and often annoyingly spam movie watchers. However, it might be worth mentioning that the theory that Peter Parker made an appearance in Iron Man 2 was just a head-canon at first that Marvel made to come true.

In Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Buys Everything On The Trolley (He Literally Flashes Some Money And Says “We’ll Take The Lot”.) This Means That None Of The Other Children On The Train Got Any Sweets And Harry Is A Massive A*shole

In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise Explains G-Force To The Student Pilots (Best In The World) As If That Isnt Something All Fighter Pilots Know About

This Is An Actual Shot From A Movie Nominated For 11 Academy Awards

The final theory is a real-life one, and as the name suggests, it speculates about the real world. For instance, how Dsiney or Sony will handle licensing disputes. This, of course, can be a lot of fun for fandoms but the issue with them is that some reporters portray them as truth in their articles and deceive their readers.

In “The Breakfast Club” (1985), No One Wants To Date The Sassy Goth Girl Until She Is Made Over Into A “Pink Princess.” This Is The Most Unrealistic Detail In Any Work Of Fiction Ever Written

In Lucy (2014), Lucy Forces Groups Of Villians To Sleep When Threatened With Guns. Later, And With Higher Brain Function, Lucy Forgets About This Power And Is Stuck In A Gunfight. This Is A Throwback To Reality, Where The Writers Are Only Capable Of Using 10% Of Their Brain

In Man Of Steel (2013) Superman’s Father Suggests That His Son Should Have Let A Bus Full Of Children Drown. This Is An Early Hint That Zack Snyder Is An Absolute Psychopath Who Should Not Be Making Superman Movies

In Monsters University, We Saw A Picture Showing Mr. Waternoose Used To Have An Afro, Which Confirms He Is Black. Which Made Me Realize I Always Think Of He As A White Man. But He Is A Large, Obese Gray Crab Like Monster, So He Has No Race, Which Leads To The Fact, That I Am Racist

In The New Fallout Show A Kid Survives A Nuke In A Fridge, Proving Once And For All That Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull Was Factually Accurate

In Harry Potter, Truth Potions Are Known To Exist, Yet Are Never Used In Court. This Is Because JK Rowling Is A S**t Writer

In The Second Episode Of The Last Of Us (2023), Joel Shoots Wildly And Does Little Damage To A Clicker. This Is An Example Of HBO Faithfully Adapting My Own Gameplay

In Beetlejuice (2024) Jenna Ortega’s Character Calls Marie Curie A French Physicist. This Is A Reference To The Fact That Americans Cannot Tell The Difference Between European Countries

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In Dune: Part Two (2024) When The Sandworms Come Through The Storm The Movie Doesn’t Use Slow Motion, This Is A Nod To The Fact That It Wasn’t Directed By Zach Snyder

In A Quiet Place (2018), A Child Refuses To Obey Their Parents, Steals A Loud Toy And Turns It On When The Family Is Having A Quiet Time Hiking. The Child Is Immediately Killed. This Major Motif, That Children Are Stupid And Annoying, Is Introduced To The Audience In The Very First Act

In Inside Out 2, Riley, A Hockey Player, Enters High School And Immediately Becomes An A**hole And Makes Hockey Her Entire Personality. This Is A Reference To Hockey Players IRL

In Oppenheimer (2023) The Prop Guy Was Probably Fired For Using 50-Star Flags For A Movie Set In 1945

In Spider-Man 2 (2004), When Peter Takes A Bite Of His Hot Dog, It’s Plain As Day That There’s No Wiener In That Bun By How Easily It Folds. That’s Because 1.) Tobey Maguire Is Vegetarian Irl And 2.) Peter Parker Is F**king Broke

In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) The Protagonist’s Wife Is Dead This Is A Reference To Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) Where The Protagonist’s Wife Is Dead Which In Itself Is A Reference To Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige (2006)& Memento (2000) Where The Protagonist’s Wife Is Dead

In The World Of Fast And Furious, This Is What A 17-Year Old Boy Looks Like

In The Upcoming Live Action Reboot Of The Beloved Classic Snow White (2025), Disney Decided To Create Ugly Cgi Monstrosities Instead Of Cast Actual Dwarf Actors To Play The Seven Dwarves

Ellen Ripley In The Movie Alien (1979) Was Originally Written To Be A Man. Director Ridley Scott Changed His Mind When He Watched The Hunger Games (2012) And Realized That Women Can Also Be Action Movie Leads

Kirsten Dunst Got Paid Less Than Tobey Maguire In Spider-Man (2002) Despite Having More Scream-Time Than Him

“Bumblebee” (2018) Could Have Served As A Great Reboot, Then They Made “Rise Of The Beasts” (2023) As If Bumblebee Never Happened, And Now They Went Back To Animation With “Transformers: One” (2024). This Is A Reference To Paramount Not Knowing What The F**k To Do With Transformers

In Ant-Man (2015), It Was Stated That Your Mass Wouldn’t Change After Shrinking. The Movie Proceeded To Ignore That By Making An Ant Carry The Weight Of A Grown A*s Man

J.J. Abrams Made A Star Trek Movie That Made People Think “This Man Should Make A Star Wars Movie.” Then He Made A Star Wars Movie That Made People Think “This Man Should Never Make A Movie Again.”

In The Man Who Lied (2012), Robert Downey Jr. Has A Very Subtle Eye Twitch In His Left Eye Every Time He Lies. The Twitch Is Never Mentioned In The Movie, But It Gives Him Away To Attentive Viewers

An Exhaustive Display Of Zendaya’s Acting Range

These 3 Actors Have Each Portrayed A Young Harrison Ford Onscreen

James Cameron Trying To Make His Leading Actors Understand That There Is Not Enough Room For Both Of Them And That They Should Shut The F**k Up During Filming Of Titanic (1997)

Thanos Wins 14000605 Times, The One Time He Loses, They Make A Movie About It

In The Emoji Movie (2017), A Boy Manages To Score A Date With A Girl By Sending Her A “Super Cool Emoji”. Yes, This Really Happened. I’m Not Joking. It’s The Emotional Climax Of The Story

Goof: This Scene In Season 2 Of “The Wire” Ended Up Being False