re: Let's Overanalyze "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2"

Ok I will try to remember most of what I had typed, but it was fairly long so I might forget some. Dammit.

Sticking with the overanalyzing theme here:

-How shitty of a job did the Chicago PD do at first? The parents call and are frantic that they left their son behind all alone in the big city. So some policeman saunters up to the door, knocks a few times, peers in the door window, then says “ah frick it. Nobody home”. Couldn’t they have called a locksmith or something to go with a police to the house and get access? They sure gave up REAL quick on him not being home.

-The burglars really were awful. When Marv creeps in the window and steps on the first ornament, you’d think he wouldn’t continue to step on about 9 more. Also the feather trap. I mean that would be a pretty good way to slow someone down, but if these burglars were worth a damn, they’d pause for about 1 second then run after Kevin. Instead he just stands there for his close up and spits out feathers.

-When he's in the store and runs out, why not just drop the toothbrush? I know fear does weird things and makes people clam up, but it seems like it would have the opposite affect in this example. Seems like kevin would drop everything and get the hell out. Instead, he takes off in a dead sprint will keeping his death grip on the toothbrush. Just seems unlikely.

-As mentioned, some of these traps would be instant death. They get hit in the face with a massive steel bar, directly in the face, then fall backwards straight onto their backs onto a concrete basement floor. Didn’t really seem to phase them.

-Also, how unrealistic is it that the burglars (and little nero’s pizza, and the hotel workers in HA2, etc) are so fooled by kevin’s VCR cue ups? This is a tiny 9” TV on the kitchen counter. Even if at full blast I don’t think someone outside the door would believe it was a real person speaking. And c’mon, the scenes are synched up perfectly to what people say. Not to mention Kevin is a maestro with the remote and fast forwards to the precise instant correctly every time. This also happens with the talkboy when booking the hotel in HA2. IRL that would go something like this:

“Hotel, how can I help you?”
"This is Peter Mcallister, the faaaather"
"Who's father?"
"I'd like to get a room with an extra large bed,
"Ok, what date are you-
[interrupts]”a TV..
"All of our rooms have a TV sir"
"..and one of those refrigerators you have to open with a key”
“1 bed or 2? Smoking or non?”
“Credit card? You got it”
“I didn’t say anything about..”
click