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

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Or did Kevin put it up by himself after the fact? It's been a good while.

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Kevin cut down the top of a tree himself and decorated it. He's actually decorating it when he sees Harry in the reflection of the ornament.

As for the house being clean, I always assumed Kevin just cleaned up and forgot about Buzz's room, cause frick Buzz.

Finally, I think the whole family just leaving him alone 1 minute after getting home is the most funny part of the movie even if it is unintentional. I get they were trying to let Kevin have the moment looking out the window, but they did an awful job transitioning. They could have made it later in the day or something. Maybe have the family cooking breakfast and Kevin sneaks out to look out the window. Instead, they show his mobster dad having trouble deciding if he wants to give Kevin one last nudge but decides not to. Then, I guess he goes to take a shite or something.

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Kevin cut down the top of a tree himself and decorated it. He's actually decorating it when he sees Harry in the reflection of the ornament.

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Thanks... my wife was watching on Freeform last night so I caught part, but missed that scene. It's painful to watch a movie on TV with commercials.

Always thought that the sequels should have gone in the direction of a spinoff story where Old Man Marley and the Pigeon Lady get married as opposed to the garbage we received in HA3&4.

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It's painful to watch a movie on TV with commercials.

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I record these movies every December just to avoid the ridiculous commercials. With PSVue, you can fast forward a set amount of time. Every commercial during Home Alone 1 on my DVR was literally 6 minutes. That is ridiculous.

Thanks to the Nostalgia Critic's video, I just noticed something: The McCallister Family Photo is beating the shite out of Kevin.



He had to have eventually butchered them all.

He really underestimates how big of a bitch Linnie is in the movie.

But here’s the Home Alone 2 a-hole power rankings: LINK

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African Beed Vendor

Remember this dude? Sells Kevin those beads on the street. What a piece of shite these bootlegger assholes. Just peddle fricking garbage on the street corner. This doesn’t really have to do with Home Alone. I just hate these foreigners who stand there taking up space on the sidewalk selling fake shite for like 3 dollars.

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I’m betting he’s read if not directly contributed to this thread. If so, hello!

Old Man Marley sure doesn't help out his image of being a murdery old man. Dude grump stomps into the pharmacy, slams his hand down on the glass and then mean mugs Kevin.

no way I can do 45 minutes of his voice

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-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

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