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Put me in a ring with Frank

You just know Peter McAllister made his bank in the S&L crisis, then cranked out a bunch of kids whose names he can't be bothered to know

Maybe it’s an overreaction but I find it genuinely difficult to watch as an adult? If I were Catherine O’Hara at the end when she comes home and the house is all decorated, I’d be inconsolable.

Except for old man Marley bludgeoning fools with a snow shovel 😍

I avoid 2 because of the Donald Trump cameo, tbh.

jumpscare warning! trump appears in one of these i cant remember which but i def jumped back at the sight recently watching

Yeah like A "DULT"

Even in this scene?

Umm

Mostly agree, but I sympathized with the old dude (Robert Blossom) and rejoiced with him as the movie ended.

I *still* want a house with a laundry chute so I can drop action figures down it

The creepy old man neighbor has become my favorite character, but yeah.

So true

They did a headcount, Kevin’s ticket was thrown away…so many reasons he was easily not accounted for, but I won’t accept Mom taking the total blame when everyone knows damn well that she did pack his suitcase and thought more about every single thing he would need before getting to her own

it’s really good writing, you can tell they meticulously thought about how a family could accidentally leave their young kid at home and have it be believable enough to accept drink spill / passports, ice storm (power+phone), 2 vans, kevin sleeping upstairs, the neighbor kid, being super late

Being upset about having to risk sleeping in your cousin's piss is a legitimate complaint that should be heard out and addressed. The way they're all making Kevin seem whiny and difficult for not wanting to deal with that is boggling.

yes!

“It’s kinda becoming a McCallister Family travel tradition” 😂 If my single Mom w/ 2 boys needed a breather for a minute, she knew she could sit me & my brother in front of Home Alone 1 & 2 (or a Football game) and a box of Lego’s & we were good for a bit. Watched it so many times!

Great comment!

They sat in first class and stuck all the kids in coach!

Some things never changed. And I’m okay with that staying constant

Read “Tabula Smaragdina” once a year. 🙇 Thank me later. ⚜️

W h a t

What are you talking abt

It's the main thing Home Sweet Home Alone gets wrong. Not that any of the Home Alone knockoffs are very good to begin with.

Home Alone 2, though, more and more I find myself thinking that Tim Curry did absolutely nothing wrong.

Dad's def not going to let one lost kid ruin his vacation

Except for Marley. I’ve grown much more sympathetic to Marley.

I'm telling you, if someone dropped a 1 year old on my doorstep when I was 22 and I already had a toddler I would be just as grumpy as Uncle Vernon. Especially if that 1 year old had some of Voldemorts soul in them.

The shift in tone in the church, going from O Holy Night immediately to Carol of the Bells is such a perfect transition. Gives that montage such momentum.

this is the opposite of Almost Famous, where I can only sympathize with Frances McDormand’s character now

Lol that's true.

I feel like I just had an epiphany reading this!

There’s also Labyrinth. That stepmom literally thought teenaged girls should either be dating or providing free childcare every weekend.

That family was awful. Especially the adults.

Oh come on. That poor pizza guy.

This took years of watching before I noticed it about 5 or so years back. Genius scene.

Shit so even if they HAD brought Kevin he would have had to stay home

The opening scene of this movie gave me a lifelong fear of spilling my drink at the dinner table because they’re so mean about it

The first time I saw Home Alone I disliked it, but I sat through it it with my wife & children (who all loved it) to be a good sport. I've seen it 2+ times since then, in whole or in part, & disliked it more with each viewing. I shan't enumerate my reasons; I dislike everything about it.

The grown-ups are still just as clueless and frustrating.

The scene where they strongarm the French woman out of the payphone makes me irrationally upset. Also not a fan of the mom slapping Tim Curry for her negligence as a mother.

I mean, but have you ever been a working mom responsible for getting a whole family ready for an international flight? I’m not saying she was right, I’m just saying…that sounds hard

only twinge i get is, i have been the guy at the airline ticket counter going “I need one person to see admit this is fucked and act like they care” while the workers are all, “i’m sorry, it’s a firm policy of ours that our planes can only fly south on tuesdays, never north”

Marley? Gus? Sure they're imperfect but they're genuinely good people.

"Kevin, you're such a disease." He should have swung on them.

Not John Candy though

My wife absolutely despises Buzz whenever we watch the first two movies, the second one especially 🤣

I sympathize with both Marley and John Candy's character.

And of course old man Marley isn’t bad

I'm a Wet Bandit sympathizer for life. I agree that the McCallisters only get more awful every time you watch them, however.

His family deserved to be called out

I have annoying little cousins and stuff like that but the shit they said to Kevin in that movie was foul 😭

I have to admit it really comes off a little too mean spirited towards the beginning of the film towards Kevin.

So, you haven't lost a child yet?...lol. Lost mine at Disneyland once thanks to trusting a family member to take her to the bathroom...heh heh.

I like to call that the squidward effect

Nope

Not even Catherine O'Hara 😱

Nah Kevin is a hoot from the first minute. He voices his concerns in his honest self, its not his fault his family is toxic af

If anything I hate them all more

Especially the dad and uncle because they both suck.

That’s hilarious, I totally sympathize with them. Kevin is such a brat.

Every single adult in that movie sucks so fucking much. It's ironic that the rumoured axe murderer is the nicest person in the entire movie. I'm sure there's a lesson to be had here.

As I get older I actually think more and more how big of assholes the adults are. They get worse every Christmas. Except the old man. He gets better.

One of the most realistic parts of the movie

I watched it again last year. All I could wonder was what did the dad do for work to afford that mortgage and fly 9 people to Paris for Xmas.

🏊‍♂️ Swimmer of the Week 🏊‍♂️ Freshman Danny “Damp” Rodriguez from Kent State snagged Swimmer of the Week honors after somehow finishing the 200m IM in 2:04.01. “I just panicked and flailed enough to trick the clock into thinking I was winning.” His coach is still questioning the form.

His uncle is a huge piece of shit and I've never changed my opinion of that guy no matter how old I am when I watch that movie. I thought he was mean when I was a kid but as an adult he is just a shitty human being.

I watched Home Alone 2 with my kids for their first time this week, and Kevin catching shit for what Buzz did at the choir recital is bullshit. I paused the movie and went on a bit of a rant about it.

Great point.

Omg that's hilarious!

I love watching cruel and entitled people belittle each other for two hours with the occasional sprinkling of John Williams choral magic

Maybe Home Alone was a childless studio execs way of saying they reaaaaally wanted to hit a kid, and I mean smack em, a big ol wallop

I just know that Kevin would be low to no contact now.

What happened to your emotions?

I know, right?! What's shocking is that I didn't think they were when I was a kid. We were talked down by a lot of adults back then, so there was nothing unusual about how they spoke to the kids. I saw it for the first time in years recently and was shocked. I'm so glad that's not the norm now

I watched all the Home Alone movies in a row recently, and was reminded how much growth OG Kevin had even before the thieves break in. Compared to movie No. 4 where the kid was an unlikeable spoiled little shit who had his parents whipped.

Also Dennis the Menace!

oh my god AND when he steals the silverware from the plane lmao

poor pizza guy

here’s the problem with Marley: we could have avoided a good bit of trouble if he’d ponied up for the toothbrush that a kid ran away with after he seemingly intentionally terrified him

Bad dads that admit they're bad and try to do better are good dads.

Yes but self-awareness goes a long way.

bad dad

I have some sympathy for the mom, but not much, and would seriously love to B-slap Uncle Frank. The dad needs major work, and Kevin’s siblings are ALLL shitty to him. And fyi it is easy to forget a kid, even if you only have 2. 😬

I have—the robbers too!

Home Alone is like Die Hard for kids. No other opinions taken.

Excellent call!

Uncle Frank is a massive shit and the whole "look what you did you little jerk" should have had his ass outta the house, not Kevin getting sent to the 3rd floor.

Kevin was left behind because buzz wanted to be a dick with the pizza. In the second one, had that man not spoke French to Kevin on that flight, he would have heard he was on the wrong flight.

Goonies would be another great example of this phenomenon!

I especially love the comparison of forgetting your reading glasses > a young child.

There’s a very credible fan theory that Peter McCallister is in the mafia

Right!? I, for one, would never leave home without unplugging the coffeemaker.

I actually kind of sympathize with the dad. He's so distracted by planning that he at least had an excited. He's still not great but it's at least understandable.

Oh shit, I fucked that up. Although, he did leave a kid overnight at a funeral home.

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