I have an issue with Fatal Attraction (Film)

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I rewatched this the other night.

There are so many things I could take issue with but the one I have a real problem with is the dog, Quincy!

Michael Douglas and his family live in an apartment building with the dog~and his wife and child are away for the weekend. He then takes Glenn Close out for the evening and stays in her apartment for the night

THE POOR DOG IS LEFT LOCKED IN AN APARTMENT ON HIS OWN

Dan strolls back the next morning to take him out but by then he should be greeted by lots of piss and shit anywhere

So forget that 'Dan' has an affair and is a terrible man, I take issue with his treatment of Quincy

Does anyone else have weird issues with films or tv shows that are completely irrelevant to the plot?

Lol. Shocking hair cut. I’ve always thought that

I didn't watch any further than series 2 of Grey's Anatomy because they rehomed the dog.
Re-watching Friends this year, keeping a monkey, duck and chick in extremely cruel environments and getting a cat just to dump her the next day .
Any film or tv series where completely empty boxes are moved about, quite obviously empty coffee mugs being drunk.
Oh and people paying for an expensive alcoholic drink and then having two sips and leaving it.

It was perfectly normal to leave dogs alone in the 80s
It is only recently the surge of 'anxious' dogs have been created

OP your post made me laugh because I saw it a few years ago and said exactly the same thing to DH.

herringboneparquet · Today 10:11

In the new series version of this he comes home and the dog has destroyed the house. He has to get professional cleaners in.

Took the words out of my mouth!
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Shirley Valentine! She flew to Mykonos and then took a ferry to the same island! She sorted it out when she went back to the airport though and realised she didn't need the ferry! 😂

I watched Mary Poppins and the Sound of music recently with my kids. Both involved a Dad who basically ignored his children and dismissed them like his staff, he was cold, unaffectionate and often nasty. Yet everyone adores him and desperately wants his love and attention. He spends 10 mins flying a f**ing kite and all is forgiven. He sings Edelweiss and is forgiven. I felt like shouting at the screen.

I do now realise these are plot issues and I may have missed the point of the thread....

@toadasoda My main issue with The Sound of Music is that you're not going to be escaping over the mountains into Switzerland from Salzburg.

Just spent the last few mins on Google maps and yes you are absolutely right! 😃

Another question - I'd like to know Maria's back story, she says she has no where else to go but the convent. When she got married there was no one there for her. I wonder was she an orphan, was she raised by the nuns?

And needless to say why were they speaking English?!

Agree the little lass looked boyish. Anne Archer such a feminine lady yet the daughter looked like a boy

You need to train your dogs better and maybe provide a litter box for emergencies.

Yes, she was an orphan and had a difficult childhood. Her book is a good read.

Did they dump the cat?! I always assumed that Julie kept the cat and when she got together with Russ (not Ross) they lived happily ever after and with the cat too 😁

I watched this recently too and had exactly the same thought. Thankfully it’s not real.

Agree about the little girls short hairstyle in Fatal Attraction - I thought it was awful! It always bothered me that when Alex was shot and killed she was supposedly pregnant with his child. That is kind of forgotten about and never mentioned. I know she was a nut job but it was doubly sad she was carrying a baby.

Iirc, apart from the dramatic ending it made for the film, irl they used the excuse of going on a mountain-climbing family holiday to cover their flight to Italy; then they went onwards through Europe to the US. So, a tiny link to reality :)

It’s not real life….

is it called fatal attraction? Based on the same lines? I can’t find it.

I totally understand what you are saying but children sometimes stick to one language even if they are bilingual.

A friend's father married a woman from Cuba and she came to England with her children, one stipulation of the children leaving Cuba was that they would visit their father annually.

Every year they arrived in Cuba speaking English and refusing to speak Spanish, by the time the summer was over (friend's father was a uni lecturer) they were speaking only Spanish and refusing to use English.

My dog always goes from 7pm to next morning as I go to bed early (and get up early, first walk 6.30ish). Most dogs can hold it. He isn’t left overnight alone but think he would be absolutely fine and just sleep.

May not still be on there - I posted this in 2023!!

Why would the dog do that? Mine would be fine.