To think Parent Trap is the strangest film

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Sat my DD to watch it with me on Disney. The Lindsay Logan version. Boy, had forgotten the core story and how cruel it is.

Splitting twins up, deliberately not telling them about each other or the other parent, no grandparents either communicating.

It's utterly bizarre.

But oddly still hugely enjoyable

Any other films you think WTAF?

Actually, my other one is Breakfast at Tiffany's. She's in prostitution and was abused by an odd older guy and forced to be a child bride to give her brother a home.

Its soooo dark but people think it's this cute, kookie film.

Yes, ignore the plot - DENNIS QUAID 😍

For me, it's any film with a comedy whole body plaster cast. Like when someone injures themselves and their whole body is in plaster. Ridiculous. I know it's comedy but FFS 😂

Face off. Because if could definitely cut the skin off someone's face and then I'd look just like them, including the bone structure 🤔

Saturday Night Fever. More for how it's perceived as this fun and cheesy film about New Yorkers going out doing some disco dancing. When actually it's bleak as fuck.

Mrs Doubtfire - wife dumps deadbeat husband then starts romance with nice decent man. Ex is insanely jealous and obsessively stalk her tricking his way into her home. Potentially traumatised children by peeing as a man, then poisons love rival! How we laughed.

Totally agree OP. As a kid I loved it. Rewatching now with my 11yo dd who loves it, I just cannot get over the batshittery of a pair of adults who met and got married on a two week cruise, birthed a set of twins then decided to keep one each when they split.....

I mentioned this once on a thread of like ‘movies that have weird plots.’

So a couple break up, and their custody arrangement is ‘choose your fave twin.’ A mother chooses one twin and fucks off across the world leaving the other twin behind 😂 plus she then sends the chosen twin back to America for summer camp! Is that common for British people to do? I don’t know anyone who’s done that. Plus why did they have the matching necklaces? And why was the housekeeper the only person in the movie who recognised that the child who came back from camp was not the one that they’d raised for all those years?

But a movie that I rewatched recently with my kids (we loved Cobra Kai during lockdown) was Karate Kid 3. So Kreese has lost everything including his dojo because of Daniel winning the tournament in the first one. He goes to his rich and powerful friend for help. Does the rich and powerful friend buy a new state of the art dojo? Help him run an amazing marketing campaign? Help him canvas new students? No, they pay another teenager to force Daniel to enter the competition again so the teenager can attack him over and over in the tournament after Silver pretends to train him for the tournament.

Why? It makes no sense! Why would the dojo lose everything when they had several of their students in the finals, including the first runner up being from Cobra Kai? Why wouldn’t Kreese and Silver just gang up and attack Daniel if they wanted to attack him? The whole movie just makes like no sense whatsoever.

It's mad but very enjoyable.

I look like Lindsay Lohan and started school just after the film was released. On day 1 a classmate was convinced I was the actress and I remember thinking 'this girl is so stupid'. So sassy 😃

"And why was the housekeeper the only person in the movie who recognised that the child who came back from camp was not the one that they’d raised for all those years?"

This bit makes perfect sense when you think of a stereotype of wealthy parents who leave the 'help' go do the actual raising of children.

And the dogs clicks.

I suppose so. I just thought it was fucked up that it took the parents so long. Especially when you know your child has an identical twin in the country you’ve just sent them to! Like I’d be anxious about it anyway. But they just don’t even consider it for ages.

Although I do wonder if you’d maybe just think ‘oh well kids change.’ But surely you’d notice at some point.

Another thing about this movie - why does it take them so long to figure out they’re identical twins? They have the exact same face 😂 and yet nobody immediately says ‘oh you two are obviously twins.’ The whole movie should play out like Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ because if I saw someone with my face I’d be terrified.

To be fair I knew a girl whose parents divorced in the 70s and the parents took a daughter each. Absolutely disastrous for her mental health as an adult poor girl was one of the most messed up people I’ve ever met.

So a couple break up, and their custody arrangement is ‘choose your fave twin.’ A mother chooses one twin and fucks off across the world leaving the other twin behind 😂 plus she then sends the chosen twin back to America for summer camp! Is that common for British people to do?

In the original story, the characters weren't British or American. It was originally a book, Lisa and Lottie, by German author Erich Kastner. The girls lived in Munich and Vienna.

His behaviour in the book is much worse, IIRC.

I was thinking about Saturday Night Fever!

its a brilliant film but it’s not a fun film it’s actually quite depressing.

The film Fame is another example. Nothing like the tv series. It's really bleak and has sexual assault and exploitation in it.

Grease - woman totally changes her style to get a guy who is too embarrassed to date her in front of his friends, although he was quite happy to do so for a whole summer. He's a weak man dominated by other's opinions, the Pink Ladies are obsessed about being popular with boys regardless of being treated like shit, and Sandy breaks every rule is the strong women handbook to get 'her man'.

And don't get me started on 70s and 80s James Bond movies and women not meaning no and being overwhelmed by lust when Mr Bond sexually assaults them!