Home Alone: C/D?

I didn't even know there were four of them.

I'm all for the "Die Alone" idea, though.

It was cartoonish violence, but the movie isn't a cartoon.

WOOOOOT

why did it not occur to me that this thread was about the movie, not the act of being

I like in the second movie when Daniel Stern keeps getting hit in the head with the brick and it stops being slapsticky and starts getting... ehhh... kind of sad really. At least that's how my ten-year-old self took it.

I watched this movie every day when I was a kid

the violence in HA 2 is pretty sadistic actually

not that i'm complaining

The best is when Daniel Stern gets electrocuted and you can see his skeleton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jokw-dCVKxk

^^Who woulda thought electricity could be so not-boring!

I like it when the kid stabs him with a machete and his naked ladyfriend runs screaming through the woods

wait i'm thinking of one of the Friday the 13ths

nm

"Marv, looks like we got outsmarted by a kindygardener!"

20th anniversary O_____O

of the first movie, otherwise i would celebrate with a gif of joe pesci lighting his head on fire while doing a headstand in a toilet bowl

This is the movie my parents took me to when I was eight to celebrate me being baptised. We saw it in June at the second run theater because my parents were either poor or cheap or both.

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/3sw4202905.gif

best movie

even the third one is pretty fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PDuqk_DSMw

gif w/ sound

this was the movie I watched obsessively as a kid, every day. man, I wish had a family like that.

There used to be a website or something where a real physician went through every injury and described what it would really do to a human body and what type of recovery it would take (for the non-fatal ones).

I like in the second movie when Daniel Stern keeps getting hit in the head with the brick and it stops being slapsticky and starts getting... ehhh... kind of

Brutal.

The 2nd one is somewhat redeemed by Tim Curry for me. The reading of the line "a limousine and a pizza" delights me

Pee-zcha.

great story, SG. liveblog's good too. i admit i spaced out and forgot Schneider snooping around. weird that i did, because that's even more bizarre than Curry's T-1000 moment.

I think I remember basically nothing about the second one beyond Pigeon Lady, as absolutely none of this is ringing a bell.

Nowadays Kevin would be on a watchlist for trying to board the wrong plane

Tho weirdly my brother did the exact sane thing like a decade ago and only realized his mistake when they announced where they were going. So he had to deplane and missed his real flight.

He still has no idea how he got on considering the boarding pass scan should have failed

"You are what the French call Lee Incompetents" is my favourite line from Home Alone. It's a perfect bit of throwaway dialogue

Mine is “I wouldn’t let you sleep in my room if you were growing on my ass”

I really love how when Kevin is remembering mean things his family have said to him they use a different and much more venomous line reading of “look what you did, you little jerk”

i have unfortunately seen the second one way more than the first because that’s the one i had on vhs. gonna revisit both this weekend though

i think it's a testament to how much home alone 2 repeats the first one beat for beat that i'm watching 1 now and finding i only remember most the slapstick gags as echoes through the distorted prism of 2

pretty good movie though! almost overdoes the gosh aren't i a stinker cute kid mugging for the camera thing but pulls back on it for the last 45 minutes or so. every scene with john candy is amazing

Every McCallister is kind of terrible. 2 opens with the family laughing at Kevin's high singing voice for fucksake. The pizza injustice in 1 is even more forgivable than the bullshit that happens in the beginning of 2. Fuck these people. Is Kevin even happy to be reunited with them in the end?

― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, December 18, 2020 12:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lmao yeah the mccallisters suck ass. kevin's right his family is a bunch of jerks

kevin is also very rude but consider his environment

Imagining Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose in this movie and she might never have come home

Find it very hard to watch HA1 now, the mcallister household is clearly wealthy and we cannot but presume that our enterprising criminals are of a much lower socioeconomic class therefore the entire premise is a sparsely-disguised metaphor for the privilege of even a child given the advantages of white moneyed america over those not thus gifted, the impunity and swiftness with which he employs violence against their persons once rhey do initiate redistributive action and to top it off the shallow happiness apparent in the reunion (without consequence for the neglect and lack of appropriate care, of course) of kevin with a family with whom he has a demonstrably dysfunctional relationship

i can see why it might have been a popular movie with boomers but tbh there is no excuse whatsoever in not dismissing it as crass propaganda today

Lol @ this page

https://www.moviemistakes.com/film622/corrections

ultimately home alone 1 is about defending property, an evil concept

otm

Look just gonna say it: barron in the white house

In Home Alone 2, Kevin boobytraps his Aunt and Uncle's Manhattan income property.

Rent controlled neighbourhood?

On the other hand, the McCallisters can't even afford batteries for their alarm clock.

Kevin also very unfamiliar with back of his dad's head

Thats not lack of resources thats the learned helplessness of the upper middle

The post credits scene is them sacking their maid

a giant wood or coal burning furnace

In Home Alone 2, Kevin boobytraps his Aunt and Uncle's Manhattan income property.

― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, December 19, 2020 6:20 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's where they live, they're just in Europe for work plus it's being refurbished

can see why it might have been a popular movie with boomers

all those 9y/o boomers who fell in love with it

during both movies i feel like the wet bandits need to know when to give up

also spend both of these movies feeling a lot of vicarious back pain

2 is def worse bc it's the same formula but the stakes aren't the same, so stuff like the toy store/pigeon lady is just sort of boring filler meant to satisfy the stronger emotional connections in the first film. but crossfading the grinch's smile onto tim curry's face??? and then a lightbulb literally lights up over his head??? cinema

Lol, I would love to see a list of films that feature an actual lightbulb going off over someone’s head

all those 9y/o boomers who fell in love with it

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Sunday, 20 December 2020 03:19 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Its a state of mind

also maybe i'm inured to it because i watched it 10000000 times when i was a kid but i actually like that they went real ott with the looney tunes shit in the housetrap finale of 2

during both movies i feel like the wet bandits need to know when to give up

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 December 2020 03:21 (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Your lack of stomach for the just struggle is being noted

i bet they're non-voters too

Kevin also sexually assaults that woman standing on the crosswalk and falsely accuses the bandits

Not that I had any particular desire to revisit, but I doubt I could ever watch the second one again for perhaps the most obvious of post-2016 reasons.

― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Friday, December 18, 2020 7:38 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol, it took me precisely a week to do the thing I said I'd probably never do again (I was happy to simul-watch and razz on any old garbage with the sibs on our day-long Christmas video call).

So 2 is not actually all that bad. I mean, it's a bad movie, sure, but very watchable. I've been watching mostly '30s comedies for the last little while so its featherweight hijinks felt familiar.

The set design at points (the toy store, in particular) seemed like Columbus gearing up for his Harry Potter gigs. It's one of his stronger suits imo.

Watched the OG Home Alone with adult eyes for the first time and John Candy is just absolutely amazing in this

Also I can see why the under-45 set who grew up watching this movie might think it's cool/smart to defend property with deadly force

also, harry and marv steal worthless knickknack crap.

― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, December 18, 2020 8:35 PM (eleven months ago)

never thought about this before but it’s true! real burglars would steal valuable stuff to resell, but they’re going through the drawers grabbing random shit. it’s like a little kid’s idea of what a burglar would want to take.

the reboot with Ellie Kemper on Disney+ isn't terrible! most watchable entry since HA2, including some good jokes. plot emphasizes the "Home" part of the title, which makes sense given the times. the traditional "home alone" story isn't so important, though, and is more something that happens to the adult protagonists.

"When I grow up and get married I'm living alone!"

this movie is one big advertisement for Castle Doctrine

also Kevin 100% got lost on purpose in 2 so he could chill in NYC by hisself

the "this is my house and i have to protect it" line comes out of nowhere. after enduring this film many, many times, i think it indicates that kevin has a child's idea of family where the house = the family. in contrast to his mother's quest which is actually about the family. but it wasn't the writer's intent -- john hughes was just a right wing asshole.

Straw Dogs as a family film

Watched for what I think may have been my first time all the way through since seeing it in theatres opening weekend, 35 years ago (!), and it kinda holds up? Probably a lucky combo of a good cast, a decent (but no better) Hughes script, and actually good filmmaking--the film legitimately looks great, with some (80s-era) Coen-esque touches and some lovely tracking shots in the place of what today would non-stop swoopy camera movement and multiple-cuts-per-second editing. These days I'm more aligned with Siskel & Ebert (or Neanderthal, above) on the comic sadism than I was when I was 12--my husband and I both looked away during the nail-through-the-foot. Gross politics aside, it is easy to resent the original after Hollywood (including Hughes and Columbus) spent the rest of the 90s milking the shit out of this film, but I had a slightly better time revisiting this than I thought I would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug44G2FdWyU

Warning: Very Gruesome

my kids have just asked to watch this again (after last year)

A few years ago at a family Christmas gathering, Dad and I watched the whole first movie, just because it happened to be on, and had a blast. (I think we had more fun than when we saw it in a theater upon release.)