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

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Now, after watching the movie as a grown person, it just made me irrationally mad to the point that I had to vent to my wife . Now I have to read through every page of this just to see if I'm tripping or not.

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Trust me, everyone in this thread has approached the movies with absolute love. My parents and I watched Home Alone again last night, and I would not shut the frick up during the movie. They asked “why do you hate these movies so much?” My answer was I love these movies. Critiquing them shows they’re actually perfect movies when you realize who the McCallisters are. Very rarely as much of a nitpicky bastard as I am will I say I wouldn’t change something about a movie. Interstellar is in my Top 10 movies of all time, and I constantly bitch that they should have had a better excuse to go to the water planet and that Brian Cranston or someone in his mold should have been cast as Dr Mann, but not in this movie.

The flaws are all deliberate which makes a much more interesting, dynamic, and perfect movie. I rant about these movies because I love them. I love a film that wears its flaws so confidently on its sleeves like the Home Alone movies (first two at least). There’s no question I’ll be in a nursing home one day bitching with my grandkids on how Uncle Frank is actually a mobster pedophile while not being able to recognize their own faces.