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Kevin’s traps in Home Alone 2 are straight up diabolical
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Get out of here you nosy little pervert before I slap you silly!
Brick to the head is so strange. A real brick thrown from that up high would straight up crack the head open spill blood everywhere and most definitely kill the person instantly.
I don't remember laughing at this as a kid but watching it recently made me crack up. Tim Curry's great. lol
It's supposed to be a live action cartoon. They just took Tom and Jerry antics and put people in the roles.
The Wet (Sticky?) Bandits are style icons
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Celebrating the unusually stylish villains of the 'Home Alone' franchise.
There's actually a good theory about that on youtube.
He's got the puppet in the basement and the furnace
I remember distinctly disliking Home Alone 2 as a kid seeing it in the theaters...couldn't stand Kevin, largely because if I even attempted a fraction of the disrespect he dishes out I'd have the black beaten off of me. The beat-for-beat rehash feel didn't help, despite taking place in my hometown.
At least in The Good Son, Macaulay's character was a bit more mask-off and leaned into the crazy.
And shout out to the guy in this thread from Chile, that was a cool perspective. As someone who grew up in NY, loves Christmas and (for me) the cold weather associated with it...it's tough for me having to spend it sometimes in tropical Puerto Rico(as I am right now)...I try to make the best of it...but the "magic" is never replicated :-(
At least in The Good Son, Macaulay's character was a bit more mask-off and leaned into the crazy.
And shout out to the guy in this thread from Chile, that was a cool perspective. As someone who grew up in NY, loves Christmas and (for me) the cold weather associated with it...it's tough for me having to spend it sometimes in tropical Puerto Rico(as I am right now)...I try to make the best of it...but the "magic" is never replicated :-(
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It's my favorite part of the movie. I can buy all these crazy coincidences, near death experiences, a kid getting a suite at the plaza hotel, etc. but the first time I saw Joe Pesci do a handstand on a toilet my eyes popped out.
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The best is when Marv is screaming and in total pain it just cuts to Kevin calmly and emotionless-cranking up the voltage.
I fucking love the brick joke. My wife can't stand it but it makes me laugh my ass off every time.
Ya'll are a bunch of miserable fucks. This movie slayed ass as a little kid when it came out. Making elaborate maps with silly yet painful traps set up with friends and fantasy booking how the robbers would get fucked up was amazing.
and like others said: that brick throw is life.
and like others said: that brick throw is life.
You can argue this in HA 1, but in HA 2 it's crystal clear that the Wet Bandits would straight up torture Kevin before they killed him. Wet Bandit defence force... fuck sake, Era.
Exactly this. Its like a live action take of the Wylie coyote and the roadrunner. Except his traps are not made by ACME and thus work all the time.
I get that it's slapstick, it's meant to be unrealistic for the sake of comedy, all that stuff but the second movie isn't very fun to watch. Just kind of a meaner retread.... except for the brick scene. Which is hilarious comedic timing.
when you see him with a literal bow and arror, running from stalking zone to stalking zone waiting for his prey to engage his traps, yeah....
this ain't no kid, this here's a killer in sheep's clothing.
This isn't true. Tim Curry's character suspects Kevin from the very beginning and treats him as a criminal (he isn't a criminal, he's a child using his father's credit card). He then pretends to be housekeeping (he's not, he's concierge) and uses a key when he thinks no one is there to enter Kevin's (or Mr. McAllister's, as far as Tim Curry's character knows) room and start snooping around. He then accesses the financial records (!) of the hotel (he doesn't own the hotel, remember-- he is concierge) finds out Kevin's card has been reported stolen (so his parents can find him, not because he's a criminal) and when Kevin pleads for help after Harry and Marv begin chasing him, instead of listening Tim Curry threatens Kevin with the police. He goes way beyond what is his job. Entering rooms while unattended is not his job (the police, if they have a valid reason to evict), accessing financial records isn't his job (concierge), chasing a child into his room isn't his job (again, the police). Chasing someone you suspect to be a thief is grounds for termination in nearly any service-level job.
The concierge actually invades his room, however, without a courtesy call, or knocking, hoping to find a naked kid all alone in the bath. Seems pretty invasive to me.
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It absolutely wouldn't in Home Alone 2. He deliberately lures them to his uncle's place that he's rigged with traps.
Dont try to fuckin rob people. There is nothing worse than a theif breaking into someones house.
Ill do anything to someone who does this to.me.
I dont have a gun but have knives and a bat.
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I love how he tries to keep his mouth closed so he doesn't start sobbing.
Indeed, Marv's pitiful protests while Harry keeps inviting more bricks to be thrown kill me.
"Harry....nooooo..."
Did Joe Pesci really retire from acting, or was it really that he made so much money from these movies he never needed to act again