10 Confusing Movie Moments: Scenes, Plots that Confused Me

1. Pretty in Pink - In the scene at the prom towards the end of the movie, Andrew Mc Carthy's character sees Molly Ringwald's character with Ducky (Jon Cryer's character) and says to her "I always believed in you. You just didn't believe in me." This line makes no sense to me. It was Molly Ringwald's character that tried to get out of him that the socio-economic status divide between them was the reason he was avoiding her. But he lied anyway even though she knew the truth. Rumor has it that the script was originally going to end with Molly Ringwald's character ending up with Ducky which would have made more sense to me. Apparently, Molly didn't want the movie to end that way and preferred that her character end up with Andrew Mc Carthy's character. So maybe they had to change the script at the last minute and came up with that nonsensical line.

2. Gremlins - There is a scene in Gremlins that makes no sense to me, even given the suspension of disbelief required to view the movie in the first place. It is the scene where Phoebe Cates tells the main character that she doesn't like Christmas because her dad got stuck in the chimney trying to be Santa Claus. Does that make any sense? I'm sure I could've come up with a better idea than that for why someone doesn't like Christmas. I mean, is it even possible to climb down a chimney or climb up a chimney? Who does that?

3. Jaws 4 - Too bad Steven Spielberg only directed the first movie. By the time Jaws 4 came around, the sequels had really gotten out of hand. Besides the movie just being bad in general, I'm sure Steven would have at least gotten some technical advice that sharks don't roar.

4. Armageddon - OK, I have to admit: the whole movie is pretty bad but what doesn't make sense to me is why any government and space program would send a bunch of stupid oil drillers to space to drill some asteroid by teaching them how to be astronauts instead of teaching a group of astronauts how to drill. Doesn't it take more smarts to learn how to be in space than to learn how to drill? I don't get it. Somebody please explain it to me. I mean, who wrote this horrible screenplay? Did they get any technical advice at all?

5. Hard to Kill - I was watching this movie recently when I was bored one night. Yes, the whole movie is pretty much bad but the most idiotic part of the movie is when a trained assassin is about to kill Steven Seagal's character who, at that point in the movie, had just woken up from a coma of several years to find himself in a paraplegic state. Somehow Steven Seagal's character gets away which suggests that this trained assassin is one of the most incompetent people on the face of the earth.

6. Deathproof - You can tell that a guy wrote this script because all the women characters talk and act like they are men with male motivations (except for the girl who likes the movie Pretty in Pink) even though they are not written to be lesbians. Not only that, but you can tell that Quentin Tarantino wrote the script because of how annoyingly dialogue heavy it is. Does every character have to be so verbose? Few people are really that verbose. I'd love to see Quentin try to create a strong character who is of few words or actually dumb all together. That would truly be a challenge for him.

7. Failure to Launch - There is a scene in this movie where one of Matthew McConaughey's pals says something like: "I think you crazy kids might have a chance". It is in this moment that you can tell that a female wrote the script because I don't a guy would ever say that to another guy, especially given the way the male characters are written in the movie otherwise.

8. True Romance - I just don't get how Patricia Arquette's character falls in love with Christian Slater's character so fast. She's supposed to betray him. This is her purpose in the movie but because she fell in love with him after only one night with him, she decides to tell him everything, betraying the people who hired her in the first place. It just makes no sense in the script or in the movie. It's not like they had great chemistry on screen. Otherwise, I might believe it.

9. The Specialist - My confusion with this movie was why someone would cast Sharon Stone opposite Sylvester Stallone when the two of them have no chemistry. I hear that they absolutely hated each other on the set and it really shows in every scene between them.

10. Made of Honor - This is a really bad romantic comedy and I love romantic comedies. There are so many things wrong with this movie that I don't even know where to begin. The jokes about the fat bridesmaid aren't even funny. I don't see how girl could choose a male whore, like Patrick Dempsey's character, over a decent guy like the Scottish guy appeared to be. I mean, what does it say about you to choose a guy like that? But the two most confusing parts of the movie were (1) when all of the friends of Patrick Dempsey's character were helping him put together bridal shower baskets and (2) when they used their gym/male bonding time to quiz him on the characteristics of a good maid of honor. I really don't think a group of men would ever come together and collectively focus their attention on such feminine things. The suspension of this disbelief required for this movie was so great that it ruined the movie.