25 Sarcastic Observations About Famous Movies

When we watch movies, there's a certain suspension of belief we apply so that we can enjoy the experience. However, many movie details can stand out as rather absurd. Even popular movies and TV series have these ridiculous moments and the folks at Letterboxd have taken it upon themselves to find all these terrible plot points and highlight them in memes and posts. We've gone through the list to find the most nonsensical observations and shared them in the gallery below.

#1 In Don't Look Up (2021), Meryl Streep Plays The President Of The Us

Image source: TTTRIOS This acts as a reminder to the viewer that this movie is a work of fiction, given that the US would apparently prefer letting a convicted felon be president before a letting a woman in office.

#2 In The Blues Brothers (1980) Jake And Elwood Claim They Hate Illinois N*zis And Proceed To Drive Them Off A Bridge

Image source: VladtheInhaler999 This is an example of a movie that couldn’t be made today because somehow, criticizing N*zis is controversial.

#3 In Harry Potter, Jk Rowling Repeatedly Had This Character Sexually Harass Boys In A Bathroom For S**ts And Giggles. Myrtle Is A Cis Girl Though, So It’s Fine

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#4 They Tried To Make A Breaking Bad Remake In Europe But Remembered That EU Has Public Health System So The Cancer Was Just Cured In The First Episode

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#5 The Film Alien (1979) Depicts The Nightmarish Horror Of Someone Becoming Important At Work

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#6 In The Trailer For Joker 2, Lady Gaga's Character Says "Let's Give The People What They Want". Todd Phillips Then Proceeded To Give The People Possibly The Worst Sequel Ever Made

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#7 In Tomb Raider: The Legend Of Lara Croft (2024), Lara Attempts To Steal A Historical Artifact From Chile. This Is A Subtle Hint That She Is British

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#8 In Gladiator 2 (2024), Pedro Pascal Wears A Black And Blue Outfit

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#9 In Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, There Is A Character That Is Half House Elf. This Implies That There Are Some Freak Nasty Things Going On In Wealthy Wizarding Households

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#10 In God's Not Dead (2014) Shane Harper's Character Attempts To Convince An Atheist That God Is Real

Image source: Sportacus-the-elf After watching this movie as an atheist, I immediately converted and prayed that this movie would never be made again. The fact that there are now 5 of these movies proves that God is actually dead.

#11 In The Batman (2021), The Riddler Systematically M**ders A Ring Of Powerful White Collar Criminals For Embezzling Money From An Orphanage

Image source: krabgirl Causing several children to freeze to death in an abandoned crackhouse. Allegedly, he is the villain of this movie.

#12 In Joker : Folie À Deux (2024) There Is A Sentence That Represent The Majority Of The Audience

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#13 In Captain America: Civil War, Vision Uses A “Pinch” Of Paprika To Make Paprikash. This Is Wrong Because Paprikash Requires A Metric C**p Ton Of Paprika

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#14 In Up (2009) It Is Implied In The Intro That Ellie Had A Miscarriage Or Is In Fertile

Image source: Veers_Memes As a result, she and Carl give up trying to start a family. This is a reference to the fact that there are on average 400,000 children in US foster care that nobody cares about.

#15 In Home Alone (1990) Kevin's Mom Goes On An Exhausting Journey To Get Back To Chicago

Image source: dieforestmusic Traveling on many flights and in a stranger's van. This turns out to be totally pointless when the rest of the family show up 30 seconds after she makes it home.

#16 In This Scene In Titanic You Can Clearly See That The Water Is Way Too Blue To Be Ocean Water

Image source: ItDoesDoBeLikeThat Making me to believe it was all one big conspiracy and that the Titanic never sank and Leonardo Dicaprio is still alive.

#17 In Dune (2021), Two Characters Get The Name Of The Planet Wrong And Nobody Corrects Them

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#18 In Despicable Me 3 (2017) After Loosing His Signature Freeze Gun, Gru Pulls Out A Water Pistol And Sprays Bratt In The Face

Image source: ironwolf6464 Only to realize his mistake seconds later, implying he fully intended to shoot a man with a actual pistol point-blank.

#19 In Lolita (1997), It Became Clear That In 42 Years People Still Didn't Realize That Wanting To Date Literal Children Is Very Freaking Creepy

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#20 In Deadpool 2 (2018), A Portrait Of Karl Marx Can Be Seen Hanging In The X Mansion. This Is Because X Marx The Spot

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#21 Upon A Closer Analysis Of First Class (2011), Is Safe To Say That After Transforming Into A Man And Later Reverting Back To A Woman, Mystique Is Indeed The First Ex-Man

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#22 In Yesterday (2019), The Main Character Awakens In A World Where The Beatles Never Formed And The World Is Completely Wiped Off Their Music

Image source: _JR28_ This is incredibly depressing world, because John Lennon is still alive.

#23 In The Bear, Jeremy Allen White Is Absolutely Jacked

Image source: broken_shins This is a reference that he is an actor, not an overworked chef who doesn’t go to the gym, smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and sleeps 3 hours a night.

#24 The Reason There's No Sequel To Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Is Not That The Movie Failed To Impress At The Box Office

Image source: freevo The cast liked making the first film, they all said they want to return for a sequel, but each time they agree upon a date someone ends up cancelling at the last minute.

#25 In Lightyear(2022), They Thought "A Sandwich With Bread Between Meat" Was Funny

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