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Big Big Big Mistake In The Movie!!!

posted 20 years ago by leogetz900
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Rachel (Linda Hamilton) Invites Harry (Pierce Brosnan) For Dinner, afterwards he plays games and does tricks to entertain the kids and after him and Rachel
go outside to talk. There is a very big mistake done in this film, and I mean big mistake. Rachel states: "I haven't seen him (my ex-husband) in quite a while, tri six years, that's quite a while." she continues by saying: "I don't think she'll admit it, but I know Ruth (her ex-mother in law) knows where he is". How is it possible for Rachel not to have see her ex-husband in 36 years, when her children (whom she procreated with her ex-husband) are only 8!!!!!.
You can't say she is talking about somebody else because Ruth (her ex-mother in law, obviously her ex-husband's mother) is the grandmother of her kids!!!
How could they have committed such a big mistake?????

[–] leogetz900 20 years ago

How????

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[–] rawkus1167 20 years ago

No kidding. Get the wax outta ya ears, Leogetz.

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[–] The_Beatles 20 years ago

She doesn't say "tri" she says "try"

[–] captain_ripfang 20 years ago

You weirdo she said "try 6 years"!Sheesh!

[–] spongebobsgirly 20 years ago

definitly a blonde
hardcore

[–] kaiser197 19 years ago

"tri six"?

Are you *beep* kidding me?

I'm not usually that mean to people on these message boards but that is perhaps one of the DUMBEST things I've ever *beep* heard. Are you serious?

[–] tbk1968 19 years ago

Keep in mind that these movies get put into various languages and not all of the translations are that good, it is very possible that in another countries version
may have translated it (or is the cultural way of talking about numbers) in such a way that is seems like 3 - 6 years...

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[–] smirre44 19 years ago

Haha, if she last saw her husband 36 years ago, she'd have to had married him when she was an infant :D

[–] orgeman 19 years ago

What makes it worse, 3 x 6 is 18, not 36, I couldn't make a mistake like that if I tried.

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[–] awdracer 19 years ago

lmfao.. that's just sad.. and i thought my math sucked....

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[–] varkatope 19 years ago

Tri 6. 3...6... 36? I'll never watch that scene again without laughing while pretending she's saying tri-6! Even if it was what she meant and her kids were 40, it's still hardcore-stupid. Oh yea, this is a great thread and I hope it goes on forever. I hope we all talk about the stupidest thing possible for all eternity now. Nevermind, I don't.

[–] DaADA1 19 years ago

IMDb need to start a hall of infamy where they post the best of the best of insane posts. This is in the top 10. Great film, by the way. Builds character interaction well before the disaster.

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[–] BSx27 19 years ago

I'm sorry, but I have to laugh my @$$ off!

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[–] triplea4-1 19 years ago

I think one of the big mistakes is when in the land rover i think it is they drive over the lava and then once over it the tyres are flat then they speed away from the cloud well if you have no tyres your not going to be moving fast also if you look the tyres are fine real lava would of burnt out al the axels on the truck aswell also another big one is at the end when the rescue people get they very easy out of that mine thing.

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[–] simon-dragon 19 years ago

Not if he's from the UK...you retard.

[–] Oliver_Biggs 19 years ago

American's spell tyres with an 'i', how very bizerre! most unusual indeed! why did no-one inform me of this sooner?

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[–] BSx27 19 years ago

we also spell bizarre with an "a" and not an "e"

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[–] Oliver_Biggs 19 years ago

Touché !!

"elephants are nice...but alpaccas are much fluffier"

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[–] markedjuan 17 years ago

The Brits also spell Chevy -- L-A-N-D -R-O-V-E-R.

[–] Imajicka1 17 years ago

If you want to be really realistic, they should've all been burned to cinder trying to drive over lava. The Land Rover would've combusted mere seconds upon contact with the lava flow.

[–] vestdennis 13 years ago

I think you guys have definitely shamed this person into never posting anything again!

[–] moviechatterer (15901) a year ago

" this is a great thread and I hope it goes on forever."

come back!
The threads still going on!

[–] The LA Baker (971) 5 years ago

I'm not sure which is dumber:
OP or the people who fail to comprehend OP.
This dingus from 14 years ago on IMDB's now defunct forums does not know that "tri" is a prefix meaning 3, not 3 times. Thus "tri 6" would be 36, not 3x6... Sheesh.
Worst of all, orgeman was not alone. Other idiots thought the same thing.
Between them and OP the future looks stupid.

[–] moviechatterer (15901) a year ago

interesting take looking at the "tri" as the common prefix rather than " 3x " ,

but the dumbasses are still correct , even looking at at it that way it sill means 3x and the answer is still 18
you dont just concatenate the strings.

trimaran - 3 x 1 hulls = 3 hulled boat , not 31
same goes for triplane

[–] The LA Baker (971) 6 months ago

The English prefix tri-, derived from both Greek and Latin, means “three.” Some common English vocabulary words that contain this prefix include triathlon, trio, and triangle.

How does three become x3?

Make it make sense.

[–] moviechatterer (15901) 6 months ago

i was just thinking last week we should resolve this 5 year old chat . not really :D

"How does three become x3?"
well because the word three means , well , 3!
and when the word three is ysed is usually means three of something

the sentence "here are three apples " could just as easily be
"here are 3x apples"

but I think we are on the same side of this discussion arnt we ?
you used , trialthlon as an example , i used triplane

[–] The LA Baker (971) 5 months ago

"Three six" does not equal "three times six".

Words matter.

[–] SamNoyoun (5917) 5 months ago

Ah, but that's where you're wrong...

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[–] piper_fan87 18 years ago

I actually thought that was a bit unclear too, and that she said "26" years, so I thought the same thing! It must be because I'm English. Thanks for clearing that one up for me.

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[–] kristynrussell 19 years ago

she says SIX years not thirty-six.. jeeeezz... and still the husband could have fled when he found out she was pregnant

[–] coastercrazy88 19 years ago

I think someone was smokin'the wacky tabbacky when they were watchin...

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[–] Dmagic5000 19 years ago

This has to be the funniest post i have ever read on this site!!!!! I was laughing for like 5 minutes

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[–] jrb986-1 19 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHah...durhhhh....

[–] cdcrulesleith 19 years ago

WAYYYYHAYHAYHAY

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