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The parents in “The Parent Trap” are some of the worst parents ever

Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:07 pm
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:07 pm
I have to say thinking it through, the parents from The Parent Trap are some of the worst parents in film history. Sure they each coddle the twin they currently have, but the twins are far more cool with the situation than they should have been.

These mutually monstrous parents not only decided to lie to these girls that one of their parents were dead, but also don't tell them that they have a twin sister. It's a plot straight out of a Stanley Kubrick film when you think about it.

On top of that, it seems that both of them are entirely comfortable with never seeing one of their children again and abusing the other by saying one of their parents is dead. I have come to the conclusion that these two people were actually a bunch of psychopaths who deliberately separated because they had twins, and then when 10 years passed, they'd perform the psychological experiment from hell and send these girls to the same camp just to see what would happen. It's really as if Josef Mengle had twins and decided to frick with them.

This movie is presented quirky as shite when it is truly horrifying when you sit down and think about it for a moment. Seriously look at this scene. In that scene Hallie should have slapped the shite out of her mother repeatedly instead of saying "This arrangement sucks", and then the mother says "I agree it totally sucks" with a wink to the camera. It's not as if she and her daughter lived in a North Korean prison camp. She was rich as frick and her ex-husband was rich as frick. Their parents are monsters and I guess this makes sense of how Lindsay Lohan turned out. Wonder where her twin is these days.
This post was edited on 4/28/20 at 10:17 pm
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:27 pm to
The arrangement never made much sense, but Lindsay Lohan was relatively sane in those days so we looked past it.
Posted by Corso
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2020
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:47 pm to
Why does everybody always refer to the Lindsey Lohan version of The Parent Trap? It's also the only one they show on TV. The original with Haley Mills was so much better and Maureen O'Hara was hot as shite
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:49 pm to
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Why does everybody always refer to the Lindsey Lohan version of The Parent Trap?


Because it’s the version I grew up with and I frequently jerked off to the thought of Lindsay Lohan growing up.

EDIT: And yes this is a Crackpot thread.
This post was edited on 4/28/20 at 10:52 pm
Posted by arcalades
USA
Member since Feb 2014
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:52 pm to
I would think that parents who murdered their kids in moves would be worse but I don't know why it matters since we're talking about fiction.
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
119977 posts
Posted on 4/28/20 at 10:54 pm to
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I would think that parents who murdered their kids in moves would be worse but I don't know why it matters since we're talking about fiction.



Well yeah, but they’re painted appropriately. I try to shed a light on parents painted as good or sympathetic by the filmmakers, like the McAllisters. These parents are evil child abusers as well even if they aren’t open about it or don’t believe themselves to be such.
This post was edited on 4/28/20 at 10:56 pm
Posted by Big_Slim
Mogadishu
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:03 pm to
This thread was done a couple months ago. Quit stealing from Reddit.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:07 pm to
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The parents in “The Parent Trap” are some of the worst parents ever
Obviously. They were:

1) White

2) Cis-gendered

3) Hetero-normative
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
119977 posts
Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:08 pm to
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This thread was done a couple months ago. Quit stealing from Reddit.



I'm actually revamping a thread I did like 5 years ago. Almost entirely copy and paste. Just wanted to start it up again, so maybe Reddit ripped it off from me. I love the daily poster that says "Reddit did it! Reddit did it!!"

This post was edited on 4/28/20 at 11:11 pm
Posted by Big_Slim
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:20 pm to
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I'm actually revamping a thread I did like 5 years ago. Almost entirely copy and paste.


Gotcha. So in other words, you didn’t want to present a new original idea, you just wanted attention?
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
119977 posts
Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:25 pm to
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Gotcha. So in other words, you didn’t want to present a new original idea, you just wanted attention?



You haven't brought up something you've talked about before to a new or also the same audience over years? 5 years is a lot of new posters, and old posters could have a new perspective on an issue. So no, it's not attention whoring. It's bringing a new crackpot thread. shite, we bump Home Alone every fricking year and come up with something new. I think we can do the same with the Parent Trap.
Posted by Big_Slim
Mogadishu
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Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:28 pm to
Fair enough.

Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
119977 posts
Posted on 4/28/20 at 11:29 pm to
Literal out of me.
Posted by Midnight Tragedies
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Posted on 4/29/20 at 1:40 am to
Also “Nicky” had a step down IMO


The chick he was going to marry was a smokeshow
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
127733 posts
Posted on 4/29/20 at 6:17 am to
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Their parents are monsters and I guess this makes sense of how Lindsay Lohan


Wtf

You’re talking about the Lohan version?? Not the real one? What
Posted by CP3forMVP
Member since Nov 2010
15761 posts
Posted on 4/29/20 at 6:50 am to
Anyone thought Lindsay Lohan had an actual twin like I did?
Posted by prplhze2000
Parts Unknown
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Posted on 4/29/20 at 7:00 am to
Haley Mills version better.

People handled divorce much differently 60 years ago.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
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Posted on 4/29/20 at 7:06 am to
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and abusing the other by saying one of their parents is dead.


Did they actually do this? I thought they were just kind of silent about the other parent.
Posted by LSUDonMCO
Orlando
Member since Dec 2003
8135 posts
Posted on 4/29/20 at 7:54 am to
I'm sure it was things like "She's not with us anymore" "He's gone" and the kid eventually figures the parent is dead and stops asking.
Posted by LSUDonMCO
Orlando
Member since Dec 2003
8135 posts
Posted on 4/29/20 at 7:56 am to
Don't forget Bobby Boucher's mama told him that his daddy had died rather than admit he had changed his name to Roberto and moved in with a voodoo woman named Phyliss!
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