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

Frickkkkkkk not another year

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You know, I never thought of it that way.

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I haven’t quite either. I’ve always thought what was going through that count’s head is “Well frick it, we need to check some boxes, and if he’s fortunately kidnapped or brutally murdered later, then we at least need to make that effort in order to avoid going to jail. Sure everyone will think we’re the Ramseys before the Ramseys were even a thing, but think of the incredible publicity!”

I have no idea how this thread got bumped here from 2011. But it's a crazy coincidence anyways. I just watched Home Alone 1 and 2 on Thanksgiving night. I haven't seen either of the movies in years. As a child, it was my favorite movies and I would watch it every year religiously.

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.

I’m not reading through this fricking entire thread, but I annoyed the hell out of my wife with the logistics of Mrs. Mccallisters drive home last night. This is what I laid out to her, and she didn’t want to hear it.

On Dec 24th the sun sets in Scranton, Pa at 4:38 pm. One shot shows the van well underway before dark, I’ll be generous and say it’s 4 pm.

The drive from the Scranton car rental to the actual address of the McCallister’s is listed at 10 hrs 45 mins. I’d give them 30 mins or so added for a gas stop, because that’s 715 miles in a van they’d have to get gas at least once. I’m not adding anymore time for traffic because it’s majority I-80 at night and honestly they may pickup time. We know Kate is psycho about getting there ASAP so they’re gonna drive straight through, no stops unless mandatory. That puts it at around 11 and a half hour drive.

Knowing that information, Mrs McCallister should’ve pulled up to the house at between 3- 4 am.

Sunrise on the 25th in Winnetka is at 7:18 am. She pulls up well after the sun has risen, at what looks to me to be between 8-9 am on a snowy day. But even if she pulled up directly at sunrise that means her and the polka band fricked around on the road for 3-4 hrs. That’s 3-4 hrs I would’ve never forgiven her for if I’m Kevin and analyzed it myself years later.

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I loved Daniel Stern in Breaking Away.

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Breaking Away is pretty high up in the list of underrated movies. Paul Dooley was great in that too. Stout cast for a low budget narrative movie.

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Did you account for the weather? All of that snow and ice could have easily accounted for the extra time

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Road coming out of Scranton in the shots looked fine. Maybe they hit the snow comin into the Chicago area, but being so early in the morning on Christmas I doubt there was any traffic to cost them another hour or two. Plus the upper Midwest has a fine plow system, I’m sure they would’ve been hitting it hard as soon as it started to come down.

I just learned they’re rebooting home alone for Disney+

Seems impossible with 2020 technology. We’ll see

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I just learned they’re rebooting home alone for Disney+

Seems impossible with 2020 technology. We’ll see

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in addition to the McAllisters not calling their own home to see if Kevin would answer

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The electrician told the mother that the power was back but the phone lines were a mess and it would likely take days to get them back working.

Don’t you so what me!!! I’m one of the OGs of this here thread. Just because you birthed it doesn’t mean you get to call into question my devotion!!!



The French are such pushovers.