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AmethystFae
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 Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:51 am Post subject: The Parent Trap and other remakes |
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I guess a few Disney movies, such as Escape to Witch Mountain (which I only saw the 1995 version of) have been remade.
I saw the 1998 version of The Parent Trap last night. Now, this was a movie I'd refused to see, because I thought it just couldn't be as good without Hayley Mills. But I saw it for the first time a couple of years ago, and the fact that the twins were red-haired got me interested. (I think redheads are awesome.)
I haven't ever seen the 1998 version from the beginning, but I saw it from the point where the one twin (they have different names in this version) was talking to her father's girlfriend. So, I at least saw half the movie. And, I must say, I like the way the newer movie ended better than the old. It seems like part of the story was missing at the end of the 1961 version.
What do y'all think? Also, was this movie a book? I know a lot of those movies like Old Yeller, Escape to Witch Mountain, The Swiss Family Robinson and Pollyanna were books, so since The Parent Trap (the first version) was made around the same time, and I have a certain promo memorized word for word, it makes sense that The Parent Trap might have been a book. But I could be wrong.
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AladdinsGenie
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: The Parent Trap and other remakes |
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You mean the one with Lindsay Lohan before she became this huge star and lost her mind like they all do? 
I have no idea if the Parent Trap in general was a book, though. |
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Ariellen
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: The Parent Trap and other remakes |
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| PrincessHikaru wrote: |
| Now, this was a movie I'd refused to see, because I thought it just couldn't be as good without Hayley Mills. |
I remember thinking the same way! I LOVED the original Parent Trap and didn't want to see it redone, but my family was on vacation at Disney's resort in Hilton Head Island, SC that summer and one of their activities for kids was taking them to go see the movie. I was curious enough and my parents had signed up my brothers, so I thought I'd go with them.
I was SO SURPRISED by how good it was! I liked that some of the dialogue was the same and some of it wasn't, and that Meredith (the dad's new fiancee) was the daughter of a woman named Vicky...the fiancee in the original! I still prefer the original version, but this was a very well done remake.
I thought Lindsay Lohan did a great job. Wish she hadn't gone skank...this one was a lot better than the Freaky Friday remake, in my opinion.
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What do y'all think? Also, was this movie a book? I know a lot of those movies like Old Yeller, Escape to Witch Mountain, The Swiss Family Robinson and Pollyanna were books, so since The Parent Trap (the first version) was made around the same time, and I have a certain promo memorized word for word, it makes sense that The Parent Trap might have been a book. But I could be wrong.
~Hikaru |
I think it was a book or a short story in Germany; I don't know if it's been made available in a translated form or not. |
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AladdinsGenie
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: The Parent Trap and other remakes |
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| Disney Princess wrote: |
| I thought Lindsay Lohan did a great job. Wish she hadn't gone skank...this one was a lot better than the Freaky Friday remake, in my opinion. |
Oh, don't even get me started on that remake . I LOVE that story and it was butchered  |
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Salukfan
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: The Parent Trap and other remakes |
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| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| Disney Princess wrote: |
| I thought Lindsay Lohan did a great job. Wish she hadn't gone skank...this one was a lot better than the Freaky Friday remake, in my opinion. |
Oh, don't even get me started on that remake . I LOVE that story and it was butchered |
I'm just the opposite--I never got into the Freaky Friday story until I saw the Lohan/Curtis remake.
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AladdinsGenie
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| I read it in the fourth grade and loved it partially because I think I would die if someone else was me. I'd lose the two cool points I have |
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zendora
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I'd love to have a twin, I would never get bored then  There are twins a couple of years below me and I still can't tell them apart.
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AmethystFae
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: The Parent Trap and other remakes |
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| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| Disney Princess wrote: |
| I thought Lindsay Lohan did a great job. Wish she hadn't gone skank...this one was a lot better than the Freaky Friday remake, in my opinion. |
Oh, don't even get me started on that remake . I LOVE that story and it was butchered |
Translated, does this mean, "Hikaru, if you see Freaky Friday, watch the original!"?
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AmethystFae
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| zendora wrote: |
| I'd love to have a twin, I would never get bored then There are twins a couple of years below me and I still can't tell them apart. |
I AM a twin.We have faught a lot, but probably love each other very much. (Catch anyone pick on me in front of her.) We do look alike, but our hair styles are a bit different, and I am going to dye my hair red soon.
But I was extremely pissed when I got my senior year yearbook. They switched our pictures, and even back then we weren't mirror images, because her hair was shorter.
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AladdinsGenie
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: The Parent Trap and other remakes |
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| PrincessHikaru wrote: |
Translated, does this mean, "Hikaru, if you see Freaky Friday, watch the original!"?
~Hikaru |
You know, I haven't even seen that one. I've just read the book. I know Disney did a original channel movie from it called "Wish Upon A Star" that I also loved, but it was two sisters switching and not a mom and daughter. But this new one made me want to barf |
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I loved the original parent trap and freaky friday and I loved their remakes as well!  |
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zendora
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| PrincessHikaru wrote: |
I AM a twin.We have faught a lot, but probably love each other very much. (Catch anyone pick on me in front of her.) We do look alike, but our hair styles are a bit different, and I am going to dye my hair red soon.
But I was extremely pissed when I got my senior year yearbook. They switched our pictures, and even back then we weren't mirror images, because her hair was shorter.
~Hikaru |
OK that is very cool but what is a senior year yearbook?
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| zendora wrote: |
| PrincessHikaru wrote: |
I AM a twin.We have faught a lot, but probably love each other very much. (Catch anyone pick on me in front of her.) We do look alike, but our hair styles are a bit different, and I am going to dye my hair red soon.
But I was extremely pissed when I got my senior year yearbook. They switched our pictures, and even back then we weren't mirror images, because her hair was shorter.
~Hikaru |
OK that is very cool but what is a senior year yearbook? |
Probably the yearbook from my senior year.
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zendora
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Very funny, I meant what is a yearbook? What's in it? You hear about these things over here but...
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AmethystFae
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| Very funny, I meant what is a yearbook? What's in it? You hear about these things over here but... |
Oh, my appologies.
A yearbook is a book you get every year at school. It displays photos of each individual student, as well as some candid shots of school-related activities. Their purpose is so that you can purchase them in high school, then go back yten years later and laugh at how dorky you might've looked.
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