[ SECRET POST #4605 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4605 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]


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[Avengers: Endgame]


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[The Parent Trap]


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Comments

[fscom]

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[The Parent Trap]

[philstar22]

I guess I'm the right age where I grew up on both versions. And I like both versions, for different reasons. But I actually like the plot. They were just fun movies.

[(Anonymous)]

I loved this movie, too. I used to watch it with my grandma all the time, so I'll always have a soft spot for it for that reason alone :). And my mom's first big crush she can remember having was on Brian Keith, so she likes watching the movie for that reason as well.

Never saw the Lohan version, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, I watched this movie on repeat as a kid, too.

I thought it was clear their parents' relationship, or any attempt at reconciliation, was doomed. They couldn't even make it through dinner without fighting. I always thought that's why the movie ended with the twins' dream. It left viewers on a positive note, but it's hard to believe it was anything but a dream.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting that you interpreted the ending as nothing but a dream -- and I don't mean that sarcastically, I really do think it's interesting -- because I always took it as a given that the ending really happened. I thought the twin started by describing her dream and then the scene cut to the near future to show that her dream had come true.

I wish I could believe your interpretation was the right one, but I think that would have been considered a not happy enough ending and the movie clearly wanted us to want the parents back together and think they were good for each other, so the implication was that it really happened.

Re: OP

[ceebeegee]

The thing is, I think you can believe that this time the parents would make it. That last dinner between the two of them, when he just blurts out "Oh Maggie, you're so beautiful..." you can see them tentatively reconnecting. One of the many reasons this version is so much better than the LL* one is that you can see how Mitch and Maggie couldn't make it when they were fifteen years younger. She was too much for him, they were too immature and didn't know how to give and take as much. But the very fact that he was able to laugh off Vicky's departure and be so philosophical about it means he knows who he really wants.

*The LL version is fine on its own merits, and she is quite good. It's just not as good, and far less sophisticated, than the original. And the relationship between the parents is so blandsauce. They're both so nice and bland, you can't imagine why they ever would've broken up.

[(Anonymous)]

I could've made this secret, OP! I loved this movie when I was a kid except for the whole getting the parents back together thing. Even back then I thought... they got divorced for a reason and were shitty enough parents that they didn't tell their kids they weren't only children??

[(Anonymous)]

I remember watching this movie a lot when I was a kid and I legit couldn’t remember that the parents got back together. Maybe I blocked it out. Never saw the Lohan version either.