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

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Buzz getting a pass compared to the trout sniffer

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This is a common theme that almost every move has when they do conflict. It pisses me off when people don’t explain why another character sucks.

Boyfriend sees another character do something shitty and then they turn it around on boyfriend. Girlfriend gets pissed and blames boyfriend who instead of explaining it, just sighs as she walks out.

Peter has all that money and only 4 bedrooms? He's got 5 kids, and we know Buzz has his own room. So, Kevin must be sharing a room with kid from Pete and Pete?

Watching HA2 tonight. The part that always gets me is the level of condescension and self righteousness the McCallister parents drop on the hotel staff at the Plaza


"Why did you let him leave? It's Christmas eve and because of you, our child is lost in one of the biggest cities in the World."


Bitch. He's lost because you can't be bothered to count your children in an airport.

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Peter has all that money and only 4 bedrooms? He's got 5 kids, and we know Buzz has his own room. So, Kevin must be sharing a room with kid from Pete and Pete?

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These aren't the floorplans for the actual house, but what a builder drew up to sell.

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There isn’t a bathroom on the first floor?

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There's a half bath by the laundry room

It's an interesting concept, nostalgia-based floorplans. I could see the same thing working for the Christmas Vacation house and some others.

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It's an interesting concept, nostalgia-based floorplans. I could see the same thing working for the Christmas Vacation house and some others.

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Friends and Seinfeld inspired condos could make a killing in the right area.

It’s actually a pretty good floor plan, with a few modifications I’d consider it for a possible future home.

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I think, this toy store is where FAO Schwartz was which was on 58th and 5th. That's 2 miles and no way is Joe P. running that far

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Watched it last night, and realized that the chase back to the Plaza from Duncan's was along 57th Street, so a very short limo drive.

Watched part of 2 last night, and I had totally forgotten how awful the mom is in 2.

I mentioned how terrible she is on page four of the thread:

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Another thing I noticed was once the McAllister family gets to NYC, the mom goes to the hotel and has the fricking nerve to tell the lady at the front desk "Because of you, my son is lost and alone in NYC." Um, no, you fricking count...your son is lost because you are a horrible mother and lost him at the airport. Not to mention that this is the second time this has happened in a year. And you have the nerve to try to pass the blame onto someone else? frick you and your disrespectful bullshite.

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And nevermind that she and her husband are joking with the cops about losing their kid twice but not their luggage (which is honestly a great scene watching now as an adult ).

But I had completely forgotten how much of an a-hole she is to the NYPD cop near the end. (Note: This scene's dialogue is changed at the end [blowjob joke], but there is enough true dialogue to see what I am talking about)

"I'm looking for my son...he's been missing for two days."

Did you file a report?

Yes, of course we did. (very condescending)

Then trust us. We'll handle it. (trying to be reassuring to a worried mother)

But I'm his mother. (again, condescending)

I realize that, ma'am, but you're looking for a needle in a haystack. (less reassuring since this lady is basically blaming him for her child being missing)

Do you have kids? (most condescending thing she's said so far...she's getting worse)

Yes, ma'am.

And what would you do if one of them was missing?

I'd probably be doing the same thing you're doing..."



It's just so ridiculous to walk up to a random cop in fricking New York City and ask him if he's seen your kid and have the audacity to actually GET MAD at him when he hasn't. He even tried to reassure you to trust them that they will find your kid. Nevermind the fact that this cop literally had no idea this lady or her kid existed until she knocks on his window. But just the way she talks down to that cop is completely disrespectful. And honestly, he handles it pretty well.

It's not even Thanksgiving yet.