21 of the Most Confusing Movies to Watch After Missing the First 10 Minutes

As that perpetually late friend is constantly reminding you, you don’t really need to see the beginnings of most movies. You can drop in on the middle and figure out that the hobbits are going on a jewelry adventure, a boy is attending wizard school, the brides are having wars, etc. The nerds will tell you that you’re missing important backstory details, but they’re not volunteering to get your popcorn for you, now, are they?

Sometimes, though, that setup actually is important. Some movies cram the first few minutes with so many details and then drop you headfirst into such a wild plot that if you got an important text message and weren’t paying attention, you’d have no idea what’s happening for the next 120 minutes. And so, when user AtomicFez asked r/AskReddit, “If you missed the first 10 minutes, what would be the most confusing movie?,” Reddit ran wild imagining such scenarios.