OldBoy

I swear to god I saw The Duff. And thought I remembered liking it, but as I saw it just a bit ago and thoroughly enjoyed, I realized I have never seen this movie. I have it on Blu-ray and digitally and know I saw it, but don’t remember a single thing about it. Not the dialogue, the story, actors, nothing. Such a bizarre feeling.

So, ever think you saw one, but actually didn’t?

GoldenJCJ

There’s a whole slate of fairly recent Liam Neeson movies out. I was looking through them the other day trying to find something to watch and came across Non-Stop. I’m positive I’ve seen it but nothing in the description or the trailer looks familiar. I’m positive I’ve seen it though.

Of course, I could swear I’ve seen most of his movies when I don’t think I have.

MLBFan24

This only happens to me for the "Conjuring" and "Insidious" franchises. I can't remember if I watched all the sequels or not. I know I've seen both of the first movies.

Patrick Wilson stars in both films, and it's so confusing!

Kurt D

on the flip side, over a period of a few years in the early-mid-90s I rented Love & Human Remains 3 or 4 times, each time thinking I HADN'T seen it, only to gradually realize I had. I plead the 5th as to why this happened.

TGM

I've seen two of the Paranormal Activity movies, but fuck if I know which ones.

Crocker Jarmen

That happens to me more often than the situation the OP is asking about.

This may not count, but when I went to the theatre to see Dark City, I'd smoked a certain herb that clearly had been laced with something nasty, because I hallucinated all through the movie. I didn't realize it until the next year when I rented Dark City on tape, and not only didn't remember most of it, but didn't see any of the scenes I remembered from the theatre experience (like the part where the characters turned into stop-motion puppets and flew up into outer space for a big Transformers-like battle.)

JeffTheAlpaca

Yes though I watched a movie and found it I saw it in 2014 when I checked rotten tomatoes this week.

tanman

This happens to me a LOT more. Thank god I started rating all the movies that I had seen on IMDB almost 25 years ago. There have been a 1-2 times that I watched an entire movie and went to go rate it on IMDB only to see that I had already seen it and rated it.

One recent example is we just showed our kids Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I mentioned how I wonder how the Johnny Depp version compared to which my wife informed me that we already watched it. I insisted I hadn't watched it but apparently we did and I just blocked it out of my memory.

dork

This is a pretty common trick of memory. The best explanation is given in the famous scene from Inception, when DiCaprio explains to Sam Jackson how our minds take visual cues and connect them to form false memories (at which point Jackson pushes him off the boat! )

Dan

I was sure I saw Incendies at a film fest many years back, but having watched the first ~20 min, there's just no way I had actually seen it.
Yes, I still need to finish watching it. Yes, I know. I KNOW.

Hokeyboy

When you see a topic and you don't have to guess who the OP is...

dino88

I clicked on this to say the same thing.

tanman

It also doesn't help that, like all of us here, I am a general fan of movies. I watch trailers, read reviews, keep up with entertainment news and the box office. So even if I haven't watched a movie I'll probably be at least somewhat familiar with it.

rw2516

If I haven't seen all the movies in a franchise I sometimes can't tell which ones I've seen and which I haven't. The Purge movies for example. I know I haven't seen them all but not sure which I haven't.