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Can we decide which Home Alone is the best
- Thread starter Ryaaan14
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Wow, I think I found my favorite film review channel. The guy isn't a total shit-on-everything and appreciates people without being a total piece of shit.
Oh, absolutely.
Seriously McCallisters, losing your child twice should be grounds for Child Services taking him away. At least the first time he was safe at home, and not stranded in gross '90s NYC.
Ever since I was little (like 5 years old) I've always said 2 was my favorite (yes, my family got into this debate). I still stand by it 20 years later! I remember watching them on recorded VHS tapes with my family and the quality was horrible. Later got it on DVD and holy crap, it's like getting glasses, well, except I've never had glasses. Now I got 3 of the movies on Blu-Ray :D
1 is still really good though and I don't blame anyone for picking it as it's a pure classic. Tbh I hold both movies almost the same. 3 is a little further down as not as good, but still damn fun to watch. 4 was shit. 5 was better, but nowhere near even 3.
1 is still really good though and I don't blame anyone for picking it as it's a pure classic. Tbh I hold both movies almost the same. 3 is a little further down as not as good, but still damn fun to watch. 4 was shit. 5 was better, but nowhere near even 3.
Two made me laugh more. But the first one is a higher quality and better written movie with a more believable premise.
This, basically. I did not like the gross pigeon lady in the second one though. Shovel man was way better
2 also has Tim curry and the novel donald trump appearance.
Home Alone is the anti-Persona of movies; it stopped after 2 (and even 2 is tainted by the presence of that orange bigot).
The weird thing about my childhood was that my family mostly rented only sequels and not the first movie. So I only watched Home Alone 2, Aliens, Terminator 2 and Ghost Busters 2(among other films) and never watched their predecessors until I was a teenager or adult.
As far as "person turning into a skeleton" gags go, this one is only matched by the one in Planes, Trains, and AutomobilesBonus.
You have to look at it from another point of view: he had to put restrictions to the location in order to get into the movie, else not even Hollywood would have wanted him.
Every movie benefits from nostalgia.
My contention is Home Alone 1 is a very well made film and HA2 is a soulless, shitty re-hash.
2 has more memorable highs (Tim Curry, the brick and generally the more savage, sustained gauntlet of the new house, the nosy little pervert bit) but 1 is the better package deal. 2 has that tendency of 80s and 90s movie sequels to be "exactly the same but up to 11" so chunks of it feel forced, particularly pigeon woman after the delightfully touching old neighbor.
just classic stuff
the comedic timing on the tool chest bit is hilarious. the pause after the delivery and then they bring their arms up in unison to crack their noses back in place.
I like how in 2 his dad is still super pissed about the room service bill (despite being super rich anyway) even though at that point his kid had had to endure 2 separate times where he was left alone and had adults try to murder him
I get that it's supposed to be funny, but Kevin's parents are useless assholes
I get that it's supposed to be funny, but Kevin's parents are useless assholes
I mean Kevin picked the most expensive hotel in NYC. Sure he went through a lot and his dad has money but goddamn look at all the shit that kid ordered.
I love both, but 2 is ridiculous. The entire story with the bird lady is completely nonsensical.
"Hey, let's get out of this cold. I know! Let's somehow get into the roof of this famous building where we could stay warm and watch every amazing performer for free!"
"Hey, let's get out of this cold. I know! Let's somehow get into the roof of this famous building where we could stay warm and watch every amazing performer for free!"
They're both fucking great, and Part 2 has some of my favorite scenes in the series, but I gotta go with the first Home Alone.
You say this, but a friend showed her kids (who I think are 8 and 10) the original for the first time a few weeks back and they both loved it.
Piece of cake answer, Home Alone 3, has the fast start direct plot and closes out on a good note. Home alone 3.
what was that weird goo
you know, that monster goo kevin buys from the toy store
he uses it to slime the fire exit and a floor
it seems like its singular purpose is to make surfaces slippery
how is that a toy
its got a monster head on the can, tho
so thats cool
you know, that monster goo kevin buys from the toy store
he uses it to slime the fire exit and a floor
it seems like its singular purpose is to make surfaces slippery
how is that a toy
its got a monster head on the can, tho
so thats cool
Not gonna lie, seeing the Marv-electrocution scene made me nearly piss my pants as a kid. But 1 is still the best though.
I forgot about that. Monster Sap, apparently they made a soap based on it
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-12/business/fi-433_1_merchandising-empire
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/monster-sap-foam-soap-movie-home-1797571996
Kevin saved their house from being flooded by the wet bandits the year before so I think he earned some goddamn cake and ice cream. His parents are still way ahead.
Also always pissed me off that all the old homeless lady got out of saving his life was a Christmas ornament for a tree she doesn't have
One is much better than two. The problem with two is that it doesn't tap into the same vein of fun as the first one did, and it doesn't have the same stakes.
One of the pleasures of the first movie is that it does a really good job of capturing how a young kid would feel about being home alone. They'd watch adult movies and binge on junk food, they'd mess the house up, raid their siblings bedrooms, jump on the bed and generally have a ball until they realised, eventually, that they missed having structure and parents. So the first movie has a nice arc to it where Kevin demonstrates emotional growth and maturity as the movie progresses.
The problem with the second movie is that it is founded on a flawed premise - no kid wants to be left alone in a big scary city with no parents. What wish fulfillment is there for a kid in that situation? Shopping? Museums? Snore. They try to make the best of it with the toy shop and ice skating I guess, but it all rings hollow. Any normal kid would be bored after a few hours alone in the city, and that's if they weren't terrified first. They even end up repeating the whole junk food/adult movie situation but in a hotel room instead just so they can not make being holed up in a hotel seem utterly boring.
So that's one major problem. The second is the stakes involved. The first movie has Kevin's home as the battleground so it makes sense he wants to protect it. He has to protect it, he has no choice. And because he knows it so well, he can use his existing knowledge to his advantage which is another great little bit of wish fulfillment.
In the second movie Kevin is defending...well initially a toy store and then I dunno... some empty run down apartment owned by some family? I dunno, I've seen the movie tons of times and Kevin's motivations always seemed really weak and flimsy. Watching the wet bandits get hurt in a dark empty random apartment is just way less fun than seeing it happen in Kevin's own warm, decorated family home, and there's always the overriding sense that Kevin really doesn't need to get involved with this.
Add in that the second movie has a much weaker underlying sentiment (the importance of families being home together at Christmas is largely lost in the second movie) and it's ultimately just a half-baked, ill-conceived drab rehash without the heart or fun.
One of the pleasures of the first movie is that it does a really good job of capturing how a young kid would feel about being home alone. They'd watch adult movies and binge on junk food, they'd mess the house up, raid their siblings bedrooms, jump on the bed and generally have a ball until they realised, eventually, that they missed having structure and parents. So the first movie has a nice arc to it where Kevin demonstrates emotional growth and maturity as the movie progresses.
The problem with the second movie is that it is founded on a flawed premise - no kid wants to be left alone in a big scary city with no parents. What wish fulfillment is there for a kid in that situation? Shopping? Museums? Snore. They try to make the best of it with the toy shop and ice skating I guess, but it all rings hollow. Any normal kid would be bored after a few hours alone in the city, and that's if they weren't terrified first. They even end up repeating the whole junk food/adult movie situation but in a hotel room instead just so they can not make being holed up in a hotel seem utterly boring.
So that's one major problem. The second is the stakes involved. The first movie has Kevin's home as the battleground so it makes sense he wants to protect it. He has to protect it, he has no choice. And because he knows it so well, he can use his existing knowledge to his advantage which is another great little bit of wish fulfillment.
In the second movie Kevin is defending...well initially a toy store and then I dunno... some empty run down apartment owned by some family? I dunno, I've seen the movie tons of times and Kevin's motivations always seemed really weak and flimsy. Watching the wet bandits get hurt in a dark empty random apartment is just way less fun than seeing it happen in Kevin's own warm, decorated family home, and there's always the overriding sense that Kevin really doesn't need to get involved with this.
Add in that the second movie has a much weaker underlying sentiment (the importance of families being home together at Christmas is largely lost in the second movie) and it's ultimately just a half-baked, ill-conceived drab rehash without the heart or fun.
My sister got me two plastic turtle dove ornaments for Christmas last year with that man's face on the package. I damn near died.
