Fan theories made because people wouldn't take a movie at face value.

These are generally made because fans want to make sense out of something they don't like about the movie or understand. So they surmise that the movie was lying to you or withholding information that would have resolved their issues. Since most of these are incorrect information I assume spoiler tags within the topic are not needed.

Examples:

-The last act of Taxi Driver was Travis Bickle's dream (be it a dying dream or normal one) because they don't like this extremely unwell individual channeling his issues into doing something kind-of-sort-of heroic.

-Tom Hardy was actually the Feral Kid from the Road Warrior in Fury Road, not Max Rockatansky. This was floated about because the first Mad Max movie depicted a still functional society on the verge of collapse, whereas Fury Road took place decades later, with only elderly characters remembering the old world, with Max having aged very little.

-The Joker in Suicide Squad was actually whichever Robin whose damaged suit (with Joker graffiti spray painted on it) we saw in BvS. This was done to explain away a largely unpopular design by saying this was not the real Joker, just a Robin who the Joker drove insane, so we still have a chance of getting a comic book accurate Joker.

As you can see, none of these movies are ones that played with dreams or altered reality or perceptions of it. These all came about because fans did not like what they were given and refused to accept the choices the filmmakers made, and tried to prove they were smarter than the movie or justify what they didn't like.

Submitted June 29, 2023 at 04:56AM by DustiinMC https://ift.tt/mjKHMx0