Post by horsemen4ever on Dec 24, 2023 16:57:12 GMT -5
So what are some of your favorite "parent trap" movies? I at a core, don't like these types of movies, what does a little twerp know about love among adults. I especially don't like parent trap movies that have the "other love interest" as a antagonist, first of all it takes the audience off the hook and doesn't challenge, no newonce, no shades of gray, just black and white, good guy and bad guy story telling. And second of all and most importantly for me, it makes the parent in question look like an idiot, that person is not going to pick on another person evilness, planning to sent their kid to a border school half way around the world, etc., which I like to call "Cinderella dad" syndrome.
That being said, I don't know really know, maybe Sleepless in Seattle, any movie that doesn't have a rival love interest villain. Just no, challenge the audience dammit. Let their conaiquences that innocent heart is going to be broken so some other people can be happy.
The only parent trap movie that has an evil "other love interest" character is Problem Child 2. And that works because of its audience, almost every person in that universe is an a-hole. So John Ritter not able to tell that Laraine Newman character is evil is understandable because almost every person he has meet in this entire life including his own father is a jerk. So he gets a pass.
That being said, I don't know really know, maybe Sleepless in Seattle, any movie that doesn't have a rival love interest villain. Just no, challenge the audience dammit. Let their conaiquences that innocent heart is going to be broken so some other people can be happy.
The only parent trap movie that has an evil "other love interest" character is Problem Child 2. And that works because of its audience, almost every person in that universe is an a-hole. So John Ritter not able to tell that Laraine Newman character is evil is understandable because almost every person he has meet in this entire life including his own father is a jerk. So he gets a pass.