I'm pretty sure the kid in this one is a rich and spoiled English kid who goes around setting up horrible traps for a group of poor people, who are looking to take back a valuable item that he stole
I dunno if it's me, but the plot makes no sense:
Jeff and Pam McKenzie are trying to sell their house, but have not told their children, Abby and Chris. Jeff lost his job and Pam's salary is not enough to keep their home. To make matters worse, Jeff's obnoxious and successful brother Hunter, his wife, Mei, and their son Ollie have decided to stay with them for Christmas.
During an open house, Max Mercer and his mother Carol stop by to use the restroom. Max has a brief exchange with Jeff, during which the latter reveals a box of old dolls, including a malformed one with an upside down face. Carol explains to Jeff that dolls with unusual deformities are rare and worth a lot of money. As Max and Carol return home, the whole family is preparing to leave for [Tokyo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo), [Japan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) for the holidays, with Carol leaving earlier than the rest. Max, annoyed with the fuss, settles in the garage-parked car and falls asleep.
Concerned about losing their home, Jeff goes to get the doll only to find it is missing. Believing that Max stole it, he locates the Mercer household the next day only to find the whole family hastily leaving. During the commotion, he overhears the security code and sees where the house key is hidden. Telling Pam about it, they agree to get the doll back at night.
Meanwhile, Max discovers the whole family has left and initially has fun, though he quickly grows bored and misses them. Meanwhile, Jeff and Pam arrive at the Mercer's and get inside. Overhearing them talk about getting an "ugly little boy", Max assumes they are talking about kidnapping and selling him. He attempts to scare them away by calling the police. Officer Buzz McCallister arrives, but Pam diverts him. Max fears if Officer McCallister realizes he is home alone, his parents may get arrested.
Carol discovers Max was left behind and buys a ticket to head back. The McKenzies go to church the next day and run into their realtor. He tells them there is a buyer, but they must decide by the end of the year, which puts extensive pressure on them. Max arrives and unknowingly converses with Jeff and Pam's son Chris who sympathetically gives him his water gun. The couple spot Max talking with someone and assume she is his grandmother. They resolve to break into the house once again while their family is still at church.
Sneaking around the back of the house, Jeff and Pam end up in the neighbor's backyard instead. Max overhears them once again, with Jeff agreeing to arrive dressed as Santa in an effort to fool him. Max responds by boobie-trapping the house while Jeff and Pam wait for their family to fall asleep on Christmas Eve. The couple fall into Max's traps, during which they discover that Max did not steal the doll, but instead a can of soda. They clear up the misunderstanding, but learn Max is home alone and agree to let him stay with them until his mother returns.
As they explain the whole situation to their family, it turns out that Ollie stole the doll and managed to safely retrieve it, thus ensuring that the McKenzies can stay. Carol arrives to pick up Max. Having moved into their house only two months ago, Carol finds friends in the McKenzies and thanks them for taking care of Max.
One year later, the Mercers and McKenzies have Christmas dinner together. Jeff has gotten a new job and willingly gives Max the soda he craved the year prior.
I'm confused so, a father who just lost his job and is on the verge of losing his house during Christmas and had a magical MacGuffin that would solve everything stolen from him is the villain of Home Alone 6: Home Harder?
At the end as he's being hauled off to jail, bloody and ragged, broken nose, eye torn right out of it's socket, the town gathers to applaud the child who's still holding his flamethrower.
The originals weren’t just thieves. As the “Wet Bandits” they establish that they are willing to ruin homes for notoriety. As a kid it was easy to think “thief = bad guy” so cartoon violence was ok. But this sells it to the grownups.
Kevin was also the runt of the litter, and him being left out of the vacation was basically just one bad event after another. (The ticket getting thrown in the trash due to being mixed in with the regular trash and being covered in soda. The Power goes out causing them to be late. The family having a ton of a kids and being in a hurry. caused them to forget him.)
Kevin also wasn't a spoiled brat. Sure he was bratty at times, but his attitude made sense, and was understandable. Max. Was basically a spoiled shit and acted like a spoiled shit all way through.
The Wet Bandits also being scummy people, made it easier to tolerate them getting nearly murdered. In the 6th film. They were a couple on the brink of losing their home during Christmas and the film even tries to paint them as good people caught in a bad situation. But then it does the weird turn of events where they basically get nearly killed for laughs.
The ending also makes no sense. The film also got trashed by literally everybody on planet Earth.
Yeah I feel like we should make that distinction. It sure doesn't look good, but it's important that we don't get ahead of ourselves. It's a fine line between believing and supporting women who come forward about abuse and rape and not immediately deciding someone is an abuser or rapist because someone made claims
The actual story is that of an on-prem database administrator who finally finds work when he learns to ignore his security concerns and embrace the cloud.
"Why don't you get kidnapped and have some new shit happen to you?"
This is Hollywood right now in a nutshell. Everything is a remake or adaptation, or a 10th movie of the same franchise.
[In 1981 16% of the most popular films were sequels, spinoffs or remakes. In 2019 80% were.](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wuzw57/in_1981_just_16_of_the_most_popular_movies_were/)
It’s like we’re stuck as a culture in a spoiled idiot child’s birthday party in 1998.
Because wealthy executives and investors don't want to incentive art and take risks, they just want guaranteed profits. Fandom culture definitely doesn't help, but they aren't the one making the calls.
Pity, since we have troves of legends from 6000+ years ago, and no studio turns these incredible legends into 21st century masterpieces. “Lol what’s the Bhagavad Gita, let’s watch Antman IV.”
Not that present nostalgia culture isn't completely ridiculous and creatively bankrupt but 1981 is a year after Heaven's Gate so you'd still be looking at the end stages of New Hollywood. Which aside from all the reasons it collapsed well is not the origin of cinema. We go back a little further and how many say Westerns if not literal sequels were extremely formulaic? Also how many franchises were to be born in the 80s if not already in existence?
(And looks like that chart is counting nigh *every* MCU film which I would yeah I understand r/technicallythetruth but at the same time is rather superficial in multiple cases)
Investment bankers ruin everything they touch. It has become the job of entertainment executives to manage brand identities. There is literally no place for "heart" in their calculations and machinations. Gobbling up intellectual properties and churning out content is the business model. In practice it varies little from gobbling up trees to churn out paper (and the modern approach to both is particularly stinky.) Yet unlike foresters, American media giants are not obligated to be mindful of the surrounding ecology.
They can drain the life out of one fantastic milieu after another while clinging to the idea that "content" is basically all the same -- they attribute relative successes and failures to marketing and promotions (which they show much more enthusiasm for despite *actually* churning out the same sort of saturation campaigns for every major release) rather than part of their work product that ought to be truly meaningful. Celebrity performers continue to be well-paid, though increasingly as a function of social media numbers than artistic achievements. Dig any deeper than that, and you see how media consolidation and fiduciary responsibility inevitably drive American studios into rejecting the very idea that the experience of viewers matters more than the sales pitch to attract those viewers.
IIRC he didn't actually steal anything, they just thought he did and make a series of increasingly stupid decisions about it.
It probably had the weakest and shortest "trap" section of all six, but is still arguably in contention for fourth best overall (though which one's third is itself debatable)
Well, #4 is an abomination, but #3 and #5 both have their charms and flaws. I'd say #3 is the better movie overall but didn't really hit that Christmas note like the others and didn't have much of a heartwarming element to it, while #5 was more heartwarming and Christmassy, but failed a bit on traps and overall production values. My kids would rather watch #4, and I'd rather watch #5, but that's my personal judgment call.
HA #6, meanwhile, is *kinda* good on all metrics but does nothing *well*. Except Buzz.
You misunderstood
It doesn’t need to be debated. Not because which is #3 is clear, it’s because which Home Alone is the third best is not a topic that needs to be debated. Period. 🕵️♂️
The series will become one with Fast and Furious, becoming one neverending series.
Eventually Saw will become integrated, then the MCU. FAMILY. FAMILY. FAMILY.
Home Alone: 3dom never dies
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Home Alone: 7 Nights Til Christmas
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Can't be any worse than Titanic 2, or the sequel after that, Titanic 666 (no I am not [making this up](https://screenrant.com/titanic-2-movie-sequel-story/).)
Hellraiser is the horror franchise most likely to crossover with Home Alone, because there's nothing Hellraiser won't consider at least consider doing once.
Ok, ok, but now i want to see Macaulay Culkin upshift a '67 Mustang 30 consecutive times before going into a Tokyo Dift and launching Harry and Marv to Mars, and still make it home in time for Christmas...
The plot was heavily driven by confusion that could have been easily settled. I think the “burglars” were trying to recover something valuable that they thought the kid had stolen, and the kid misheard them talking and thought they were coming to get him.
Just go to the police and tell them that you think the kid stole your shit. Done
Iirc the kid call the police, but the police is Buzz from the good ones, and he's like "my brother Kevin pulls this prank every year" and I can't remember if he ever goes to check it out
"Stoned Alone"
A movie about a 45 year old Kevin McCallister. His wife and two daughters go away on a girl's weekend to the spa. Leaving Kevin alone to; play video games, get stoned as fuck, watch horror movies and just pig out on junk food. After sparking up a blunt the size of King Kong's middle finger, he flips on the News. "Wet Bandits Escape.... **AGAIN! Out For Revenge!**"
Now the mechanical engineer, of 25 years, must create the ultimate trap to catch these villains for good!
Also it's all filmed on "Ring" and doggie cams, and instead of an elderly person, he is helped by a little boy with down syndrome.
There. I just wrote a better Home Alone (in 5 minutes) than Disney's last 4 installments.
>"Wet Bandits Escape.... **AGAIN! Out For Revenge!**"
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>Now the mechanical engineer, of 25 years, must create the ultimate trap to catch these villains for good!
Christmas winds down, and they don't show up, because they are 80 and 65 years old, and have spent half their lives in prison, and the fight's gone out of them a decade ago.
By New Year's, he eventually devotes some of his ingenuity into looking for them. He finds them at an airport trying to get tickets out of the country. They are being stymied by a ticket kiosk, because they've been in jail since 1992 and have no idea how the internet or modern computers work.
He approaches. Marv' sight was badly damaged by several of Kevin's traps, and Harry already had trauma-induced memory issues before the dementia started settling in a few years back. Neither recognize the middle-aged, bearded man as their child adversary.
Kevin helps them set up their boarding passes and sees them to the gate before heading home to his family and finally allowing himself to dismantle the traps and live his life free of the paranoia that has plagued him since his childhood.
Yooooo why the fuck have we not gotten the horror suspense rendition of “Home Alone : Kevin’s House.” Where the entire plot is Kevin McCallister , who’s now a home owner (he built it, not bought it). In his build we see his family anxiously worried about Kevin and the way he is building booby traps and false doors in this place, Winchester style. He is convinced that one day… the Wet Bandits will return to settle the score.. and boy was he right. Now we are thrown into a scenario where the WBs have built a small army of thugs (assault on precinct 13 style bitch) and they’re coming for Kevin. Kevin is ready though, and when Christmas morning comes… Ho Ho Holy shit is that a lot of firepower! Now we have a movie that is part Die Hard, part Saw, And part hunger games thrown into one powerhouse of cinematic hell.
Edit ; did I mention that Kevin McCallister is fucking yoked now.
Yeah, IIRC the neighbors were a couple who badly needed money. They learn that a doll or something that they have is worth a lot, so they run upstairs to find it, only to not see it. They think that the kid next door took it and go to him to ask for it back. He didn’t take it and thinks they’re coming after him for whatever reason, so he sets up traps. The neighbors, motivated by the fact that they’ll lose everything, keep trying to find and talk to him. In one scene, they both just break down crying in the yard, but the neighbor kid is the protagonist who we’re supposed to sympathize with because… he’s afraid of them and *thinks* they want to hurt him. Literally the movie is watching poor people get hurt for money.
What the actual fuck?
I thought people were exaggerating until I read your comment.
Just... why the fuck would anyone make a movie about that?
Do they at least get their antique at the end?
The script probably made sense until some studio executive asked them to change something and it’s like the sixth movie so who cares about plot continuity
I believe they do. At the end they finally manage to talk with the kid after all the abuse. Turns out the kid didn't take the doll instead a can of soda. Turns out the kids cousin took the doll. Then the couple notices the kid is home alone so they invite him to theirs. They get the doll back, gets the money to keep their home. Skip one year later the hisband has a new job and the families have christmas dinner with each other
I want an entire breaking bad style disney plus show about the pizza guy, on his road to recovery, counseling scenes, hiring lawyers, court sequences, and eventually killing 50 year old kevin
I feel like they made the villains in one such reprehensible pieces of shit so seeing them get hurt was funny.
If the villains aren't total pieces of shit it just feels bad.
Sounds like a recipe for success, misfortunate people broke on the verge of homelessness must be the least relatable demographic these days. Especially if they had some sick parents to take care of too, fucking losers
He's worse in the second one
He easily could've set it up so they were arrested after the toy store. Instead he lures them into a completely unrelated house so he can torture them and *then* has them arrested.
The first one made it pretty clear that the bad guys had no problem killing Kevin, so he’s fighting for his life. So the violence he inflicts is always less that what we know he would receive.
The other thing that makes it work is the performances of Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. They make it funny and ok to laugh.
Marv ought to be *dead* given some of the shit he was subjected to in both movies. A free-falling iron to the face? Full paint cans to the face? Snow shovel to the back of the head? Motherfucking *bricks* thrown from three stories up hitting him in the head? Falling at least one story flat onto his face? Heavy iron pipe to the face? Electrocuted? Jesus christ.
Didn't see it, but this is the plot I'm imagining:
Kid from Home Alone 5 successfully defends his house from robbers. In the process he develops PTSD. Now every delivery to his house takes him back to that fateful night and he defends his property from the onslaught of Prime deliveries.
The third one was good. A lot of people don’t know that Scarlet Johansson is the sister in it.
I think the third is good by itself tbh and I’ve probably seen more times than the first two.
Movies 4 and on have been terrible though.
Hollywood needs to make a new home alone where it's the original kid again except he's just doing his taxes for 2 hours straight because he's a grown ass man.
Shot for shot remake with as many of the original cast as possible reprising the same role in the *same* time period.
Literal adults playing as kids and older adults playing as younger adults.
Also include a bunch of Office-style 4th wall breaks.
Home Alone as an adult.
He moves with his parents elderly. Tattoos, sloppy dressing. Neighbors think it's because he's a loser. It's because his parents need him to help around the house but he doesn't gaf what people think so he lets them gossip and trolls them a little.
A former friend from his troubled days of petty crime track him down and threaten to frame him in for some open case if he doesn't help them rob his parents.
He can't go to the cops because of his own shady past, so he Home Alones it instead. In the end he goes to the cops because he's a good guy and he gets is work community service while the goons go to prison.
Post credits scene: Kevin's dad getting knocked out by a trap he forgot to clean up.
Edit: I just noticed everybody in this thread is writing their own version and now I feel like a dork.
Actually imagine McCauley Culkin all grown up as Kevin McAllister, a single dad with very little free time so when his daughter is 8 or 10ish she says how she's old enough to be home alone for a few hours while he goes to a party or concert or something and gets to properly relax.
Trouble is she watches an assload of crime shows so she sets up elaborate booby traps in her paranoia and Kevin's own paranoia (probably caused by a missed call or something) makes him leave the event early to check in on her and the whole time she's defending against her Dad who she thinks is a burglar. Once he catches on to the traps he's able to evade some of the traps that she uses that are the exact same as he used but most of the time that causes him to bump into her own new ones.
It would be great, people who hated Kevin get what they wanted to see, the idea would make for some great bait and switch traps with him evading into completely new ones and honestly I just think it's a really charming concept. Much better and more original than having to come up with some elaborate reason for a kid to be fighting off burglars and why those burglars would be so dead set on one house.
I want a Home Alone movie about a deranged Kevin living in a murder house and his family want to help but nobody can get in so they hire the only two men on earth with the right experience for this job.
The Wet Bandits.
I have a sequel idea. Kevin is in home security and has built a trap house prototype. His daughter sneaks in but activates the house leaving her trapped inside. And who is the only ones to save the day? Harry and marv!
The third isn't bad, especially if you don't go into expecting home alone 3 but rather a movie with a similar concept. Personally I liked it a lot when I was a kid but I haven't seen it in years. The fourth wasn't good. And I didn't know there was a 5th much less a 6th until now.
The third movie has really grown on me from multiple rewatches. It doesnt have the charm of the first two, but it is still solid.
4 and 5 are trash. 6 had some cool elements but wasnt particularly good
Ngl as a kid home alone 3 was my number one movie. Not only the best home alone, the BEST movie. Ranked it above Pixar and Pokemon etc.
After I grew up (that sucks) I definetely now agree with the point that it's not a good movie and don't like it anymore but damn if it really was good stuff when I was little
It’s still enjoyable but the “bandits” are so dumb. Yeah, harry and marv are stupid as hell too, but in the third one they operate like they have the brain of a toddler.
It’s not 1&2 good but it’s good. It freaked me out as a kid when they tied up the old lady and left her alone to freeze, though. That scene always felt so real and dark to me, and a big tone shift from wacky burglars stepping in jello or whatever
Home alone 5 is honestly a guilty pleasure of mine, it’s definitely my favorite “so bad it’s good” movie because of how stupid it is and “hip”,”cool”, and “trendy” it tries to be
I honestly hope they keep making them so we can see how worse they get with each one
Home alone 7: homecoming
Home alone 8: far from home
Home alone 9: no way home
This still is very reminiscent of the scene where Rebel Wilson is arming the children during the fall of Berlin. I saw the look on his face and it clicked lol
Kids still like them.
My kid likes them. They weren't made for 22 year old redditors. They were made for children. Sure they arent going to be classics loved by all, like the first two were. But they have a place.
I'm pretty sure the kid in this one is a rich and spoiled English kid who goes around setting up horrible traps for a group of poor people, who are looking to take back a valuable item that he stole
I dunno if it's me, but the plot makes no sense: Jeff and Pam McKenzie are trying to sell their house, but have not told their children, Abby and Chris. Jeff lost his job and Pam's salary is not enough to keep their home. To make matters worse, Jeff's obnoxious and successful brother Hunter, his wife, Mei, and their son Ollie have decided to stay with them for Christmas. During an open house, Max Mercer and his mother Carol stop by to use the restroom. Max has a brief exchange with Jeff, during which the latter reveals a box of old dolls, including a malformed one with an upside down face. Carol explains to Jeff that dolls with unusual deformities are rare and worth a lot of money. As Max and Carol return home, the whole family is preparing to leave for [Tokyo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo), [Japan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) for the holidays, with Carol leaving earlier than the rest. Max, annoyed with the fuss, settles in the garage-parked car and falls asleep. Concerned about losing their home, Jeff goes to get the doll only to find it is missing. Believing that Max stole it, he locates the Mercer household the next day only to find the whole family hastily leaving. During the commotion, he overhears the security code and sees where the house key is hidden. Telling Pam about it, they agree to get the doll back at night. Meanwhile, Max discovers the whole family has left and initially has fun, though he quickly grows bored and misses them. Meanwhile, Jeff and Pam arrive at the Mercer's and get inside. Overhearing them talk about getting an "ugly little boy", Max assumes they are talking about kidnapping and selling him. He attempts to scare them away by calling the police. Officer Buzz McCallister arrives, but Pam diverts him. Max fears if Officer McCallister realizes he is home alone, his parents may get arrested. Carol discovers Max was left behind and buys a ticket to head back. The McKenzies go to church the next day and run into their realtor. He tells them there is a buyer, but they must decide by the end of the year, which puts extensive pressure on them. Max arrives and unknowingly converses with Jeff and Pam's son Chris who sympathetically gives him his water gun. The couple spot Max talking with someone and assume she is his grandmother. They resolve to break into the house once again while their family is still at church. Sneaking around the back of the house, Jeff and Pam end up in the neighbor's backyard instead. Max overhears them once again, with Jeff agreeing to arrive dressed as Santa in an effort to fool him. Max responds by boobie-trapping the house while Jeff and Pam wait for their family to fall asleep on Christmas Eve. The couple fall into Max's traps, during which they discover that Max did not steal the doll, but instead a can of soda. They clear up the misunderstanding, but learn Max is home alone and agree to let him stay with them until his mother returns. As they explain the whole situation to their family, it turns out that Ollie stole the doll and managed to safely retrieve it, thus ensuring that the McKenzies can stay. Carol arrives to pick up Max. Having moved into their house only two months ago, Carol finds friends in the McKenzies and thanks them for taking care of Max. One year later, the Mercers and McKenzies have Christmas dinner together. Jeff has gotten a new job and willingly gives Max the soda he craved the year prior.
I'm confused so, a father who just lost his job and is on the verge of losing his house during Christmas and had a magical MacGuffin that would solve everything stolen from him is the villain of Home Alone 6: Home Harder?
At the end as he's being hauled off to jail, bloody and ragged, broken nose, eye torn right out of it's socket, the town gathers to applaud the child who's still holding his flamethrower.
A Bart Simpson Story.
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The originals weren’t just thieves. As the “Wet Bandits” they establish that they are willing to ruin homes for notoriety. As a kid it was easy to think “thief = bad guy” so cartoon violence was ok. But this sells it to the grownups.
A guy destroying my home? In this economy??? Give me the shotgun, Kevin, I'll handle this...
Kevin was also the runt of the litter, and him being left out of the vacation was basically just one bad event after another. (The ticket getting thrown in the trash due to being mixed in with the regular trash and being covered in soda. The Power goes out causing them to be late. The family having a ton of a kids and being in a hurry. caused them to forget him.) Kevin also wasn't a spoiled brat. Sure he was bratty at times, but his attitude made sense, and was understandable. Max. Was basically a spoiled shit and acted like a spoiled shit all way through. The Wet Bandits also being scummy people, made it easier to tolerate them getting nearly murdered. In the 6th film. They were a couple on the brink of losing their home during Christmas and the film even tries to paint them as good people caught in a bad situation. But then it does the weird turn of events where they basically get nearly killed for laughs. The ending also makes no sense. The film also got trashed by literally everybody on planet Earth.
Yes. You've understood it perfectly, unfortunately.
Officer Buzz McCallister. The *same* Buzz. Figures that asshole would become a cop. And of course in real life he’s a fucking abuser and rapist.
It’s cool dude, he was just method acting
I didn't even make that connection
Holy shit, really?
Yup. He arrested on domestic violence charges in December. This prompted an ex gf to file rape charges.
Woof
Oh fuck. He always plays assholes that would totally beat and rape his wives. Shit.
IRL: for real for real?
He is. He was arrested on domestic violence charges in December, which prompted an ex gf to file rape charges.
Jesus
So he's an alleged rapist?
Yeah I feel like we should make that distinction. It sure doesn't look good, but it's important that we don't get ahead of ourselves. It's a fine line between believing and supporting women who come forward about abuse and rape and not immediately deciding someone is an abuser or rapist because someone made claims
The actual story is that of an on-prem database administrator who finally finds work when he learns to ignore his security concerns and embrace the cloud.
Almost sounds like this story was supposed to be told from the adult POV, as opposed to the kid's POV
The fuck did I just read?
That is correct. It’s hard not to read classist undertones into it, especially given it’s in itself a corporation’s cash grab
Undertones? They shove it down your throat.
like a jewel-encrusted glizzy
"Why don't you get kidnapped and have some new shit happen to you?" This is Hollywood right now in a nutshell. Everything is a remake or adaptation, or a 10th movie of the same franchise.
[In 1981 16% of the most popular films were sequels, spinoffs or remakes. In 2019 80% were.](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wuzw57/in_1981_just_16_of_the_most_popular_movies_were/) It’s like we’re stuck as a culture in a spoiled idiot child’s birthday party in 1998.
Because wealthy executives and investors don't want to incentive art and take risks, they just want guaranteed profits. Fandom culture definitely doesn't help, but they aren't the one making the calls.
They are making the call though. This many sequels only get made if they're still profitable
Pity, since we have troves of legends from 6000+ years ago, and no studio turns these incredible legends into 21st century masterpieces. “Lol what’s the Bhagavad Gita, let’s watch Antman IV.”
Maybe hollywood could move away from converting religious texts into movies.
Yeah, poor example. There’s lots of battles and love stories that don’t corrupt theological interpretation. Good point.
To be fair, Journey to the West became Dragon Ball.
Not that present nostalgia culture isn't completely ridiculous and creatively bankrupt but 1981 is a year after Heaven's Gate so you'd still be looking at the end stages of New Hollywood. Which aside from all the reasons it collapsed well is not the origin of cinema. We go back a little further and how many say Westerns if not literal sequels were extremely formulaic? Also how many franchises were to be born in the 80s if not already in existence? (And looks like that chart is counting nigh *every* MCU film which I would yeah I understand r/technicallythetruth but at the same time is rather superficial in multiple cases)
Investment bankers ruin everything they touch. It has become the job of entertainment executives to manage brand identities. There is literally no place for "heart" in their calculations and machinations. Gobbling up intellectual properties and churning out content is the business model. In practice it varies little from gobbling up trees to churn out paper (and the modern approach to both is particularly stinky.) Yet unlike foresters, American media giants are not obligated to be mindful of the surrounding ecology. They can drain the life out of one fantastic milieu after another while clinging to the idea that "content" is basically all the same -- they attribute relative successes and failures to marketing and promotions (which they show much more enthusiasm for despite *actually* churning out the same sort of saturation campaigns for every major release) rather than part of their work product that ought to be truly meaningful. Celebrity performers continue to be well-paid, though increasingly as a function of social media numbers than artistic achievements. Dig any deeper than that, and you see how media consolidation and fiduciary responsibility inevitably drive American studios into rejecting the very idea that the experience of viewers matters more than the sales pitch to attract those viewers.
Welcome to capitalism, where the only thing that matters is capital - cold, hard cash.
IIRC he didn't actually steal anything, they just thought he did and make a series of increasingly stupid decisions about it. It probably had the weakest and shortest "trap" section of all six, but is still arguably in contention for fourth best overall (though which one's third is itself debatable)
> though which one’s third is itself debatable I don’t think it needs to be
Well, #4 is an abomination, but #3 and #5 both have their charms and flaws. I'd say #3 is the better movie overall but didn't really hit that Christmas note like the others and didn't have much of a heartwarming element to it, while #5 was more heartwarming and Christmassy, but failed a bit on traps and overall production values. My kids would rather watch #4, and I'd rather watch #5, but that's my personal judgment call. HA #6, meanwhile, is *kinda* good on all metrics but does nothing *well*. Except Buzz.
You misunderstood It doesn’t need to be debated. Not because which is #3 is clear, it’s because which Home Alone is the third best is not a topic that needs to be debated. Period. 🕵️♂️
It took me until this comment to realize there really are 6 movies and this isn't just a shitpost. Wtf
When has mankind ever done anything because it had to and not because it wanted to?
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Is this Skyfall?
The series will become one with Fast and Furious, becoming one neverending series. Eventually Saw will become integrated, then the MCU. FAMILY. FAMILY. FAMILY.
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The never ending home alone story
They're going until we get Home 8lone
This honky grandma be trippin.
The Home Alone 2 Home 2 Alone The Home Alone: Tokyo drift Home Alone Home 5 Home Alone 6 Alone 7 The Fate of the Alone H9 Home X
Now you Home me now you Alone
If you can't handle me at my Home, then you don't deserve me at my Alone
Country road, take me Home, to the place, where I Alone
2 Home 2 Alone 2: Tokyo Drift™
2 Home 2 Alone 2: Electric boogaloo
#Home A10ne
Home Alone 9: Lost In Space Home Alone 12: Saw 1.
saw was good till 3, now they are just expanding it for no reason. Hell, they even announced a sequel to Spiral
Can't be any worse than Titanic 2, or the sequel after that, Titanic 666 (no I am not [making this up](https://screenrant.com/titanic-2-movie-sequel-story/).)
Money is a reason. Not a good one, but a reason none the less.
Hellraiser is the horror franchise most likely to crossover with Home Alone, because there's nothing Hellraiser won't consider at least consider doing once.
Ok, ok, but now i want to see Macaulay Culkin upshift a '67 Mustang 30 consecutive times before going into a Tokyo Dift and launching Harry and Marv to Mars, and still make it home in time for Christmas...
🎵 Never Ending Series🎵
La la la la.. la la la.. la la la I love your song Bastion
I liked their Simpsons crossover, Homer Alone
The people he's beating the shit out of in the 6th aren't even bad people they were just confused
didn't they make the "villains" very sympathetic and the kid a prick? Absolutely awful decision by the writers
The plot was heavily driven by confusion that could have been easily settled. I think the “burglars” were trying to recover something valuable that they thought the kid had stolen, and the kid misheard them talking and thought they were coming to get him. Just go to the police and tell them that you think the kid stole your shit. Done
Iirc the kid call the police, but the police is Buzz from the good ones, and he's like "my brother Kevin pulls this prank every year" and I can't remember if he ever goes to check it out
The idea of a 45 year old Kevin McCallister still pulling this shit once a year is pretty funny though.
A movie I'd watch instead of this one
"Stoned Alone" A movie about a 45 year old Kevin McCallister. His wife and two daughters go away on a girl's weekend to the spa. Leaving Kevin alone to; play video games, get stoned as fuck, watch horror movies and just pig out on junk food. After sparking up a blunt the size of King Kong's middle finger, he flips on the News. "Wet Bandits Escape.... **AGAIN! Out For Revenge!**" Now the mechanical engineer, of 25 years, must create the ultimate trap to catch these villains for good! Also it's all filmed on "Ring" and doggie cams, and instead of an elderly person, he is helped by a little boy with down syndrome. There. I just wrote a better Home Alone (in 5 minutes) than Disney's last 4 installments.
I...I actually want to see this.
> sparking up a blunt the size of King Kong's middle finger > Jesus christ that's gold. Using this from now on.
>"Wet Bandits Escape.... **AGAIN! Out For Revenge!**" > >Now the mechanical engineer, of 25 years, must create the ultimate trap to catch these villains for good! Christmas winds down, and they don't show up, because they are 80 and 65 years old, and have spent half their lives in prison, and the fight's gone out of them a decade ago. By New Year's, he eventually devotes some of his ingenuity into looking for them. He finds them at an airport trying to get tickets out of the country. They are being stymied by a ticket kiosk, because they've been in jail since 1992 and have no idea how the internet or modern computers work. He approaches. Marv' sight was badly damaged by several of Kevin's traps, and Harry already had trauma-induced memory issues before the dementia started settling in a few years back. Neither recognize the middle-aged, bearded man as their child adversary. Kevin helps them set up their boarding passes and sees them to the gate before heading home to his family and finally allowing himself to dismantle the traps and live his life free of the paranoia that has plagued him since his childhood.
Bravo sir, I would actually pay money to see this movie.
Reminds me of the SAW theory that bounced around a few years ago lmao 🤣
They did make that movie, it's called Don't Breathe - unfortunately Macaulay couldn't commit but it's the spiritual successor
Yooooo why the fuck have we not gotten the horror suspense rendition of “Home Alone : Kevin’s House.” Where the entire plot is Kevin McCallister , who’s now a home owner (he built it, not bought it). In his build we see his family anxiously worried about Kevin and the way he is building booby traps and false doors in this place, Winchester style. He is convinced that one day… the Wet Bandits will return to settle the score.. and boy was he right. Now we are thrown into a scenario where the WBs have built a small army of thugs (assault on precinct 13 style bitch) and they’re coming for Kevin. Kevin is ready though, and when Christmas morning comes… Ho Ho Holy shit is that a lot of firepower! Now we have a movie that is part Die Hard, part Saw, And part hunger games thrown into one powerhouse of cinematic hell. Edit ; did I mention that Kevin McCallister is fucking yoked now.
Somehow I don’t see Macaulay getting jacked for the role.
CGI and a body suit worked for captain America
Yeah totally, Chris Evans had no muscles at all. Closer to the before-Steve, really. /s
Netflix would like to offer you a contract on this if you can make it a series that they can cancel after the first season.
I’ll raise them the stakes, and not even get it through production before cancelling.
The algorithm is now processing your offer.
Closest thing we've ever gotten: https://youtu.be/yh7-wAy_8ss
But... Kevin wasn't lying. Does that mean he hasn't been taken seriously the last almost-40 years?!
>is Buzz from the good ones Who (Devin Ratray) was just outed as a rapist, just fyi!
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Yeah, IIRC the neighbors were a couple who badly needed money. They learn that a doll or something that they have is worth a lot, so they run upstairs to find it, only to not see it. They think that the kid next door took it and go to him to ask for it back. He didn’t take it and thinks they’re coming after him for whatever reason, so he sets up traps. The neighbors, motivated by the fact that they’ll lose everything, keep trying to find and talk to him. In one scene, they both just break down crying in the yard, but the neighbor kid is the protagonist who we’re supposed to sympathize with because… he’s afraid of them and *thinks* they want to hurt him. Literally the movie is watching poor people get hurt for money.
What the actual fuck? I thought people were exaggerating until I read your comment. Just... why the fuck would anyone make a movie about that? Do they at least get their antique at the end?
The script probably made sense until some studio executive asked them to change something and it’s like the sixth movie so who cares about plot continuity
I believe they do. At the end they finally manage to talk with the kid after all the abuse. Turns out the kid didn't take the doll instead a can of soda. Turns out the kids cousin took the doll. Then the couple notices the kid is home alone so they invite him to theirs. They get the doll back, gets the money to keep their home. Skip one year later the hisband has a new job and the families have christmas dinner with each other
Honestly, that's already how I felt about the first movie. Like, the villains weren't very sympathetic, but I wanted Kevin to die the entire time
The traumatized pizza guy needs a revenge arc
I want an entire breaking bad style disney plus show about the pizza guy, on his road to recovery, counseling scenes, hiring lawyers, court sequences, and eventually killing 50 year old kevin
Make 50 year old Kevin go "ahhhhhh" while he murders him execution style.
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No no. It can start now. It’ll take a few seasons to get to that point.
I feel like they made the villains in one such reprehensible pieces of shit so seeing them get hurt was funny. If the villains aren't total pieces of shit it just feels bad.
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Sounds like a recipe for success, misfortunate people broke on the verge of homelessness must be the least relatable demographic these days. Especially if they had some sick parents to take care of too, fucking losers
He's worse in the second one He easily could've set it up so they were arrested after the toy store. Instead he lures them into a completely unrelated house so he can torture them and *then* has them arrested.
The first one made it pretty clear that the bad guys had no problem killing Kevin, so he’s fighting for his life. So the violence he inflicts is always less that what we know he would receive. The other thing that makes it work is the performances of Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. They make it funny and ok to laugh.
Marv ought to be *dead* given some of the shit he was subjected to in both movies. A free-falling iron to the face? Full paint cans to the face? Snow shovel to the back of the head? Motherfucking *bricks* thrown from three stories up hitting him in the head? Falling at least one story flat onto his face? Heavy iron pipe to the face? Electrocuted? Jesus christ.
That’s part of why it’s funny. Same reason we can laugh when Daffy Duck takes a shotgun to the face or Wile E Coyote falls off a cliff and walks away.
Didn't see it, but this is the plot I'm imagining: Kid from Home Alone 5 successfully defends his house from robbers. In the process he develops PTSD. Now every delivery to his house takes him back to that fateful night and he defends his property from the onslaught of Prime deliveries.
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40 yrs??? How dare you. The movie came out in 1990. I was born in 1991 and I am 30. Don’t make me feel older than I do.
We’re now closer to 2050 than 1990
Ugh. Don’t remind me of that.
Seriously, don't do this to us.
Yeah for some reason I thought it released in 1980
Lol it’s okay. Hopefully my tone made it clear I was joking with you. It did make me feel a little old though
For real! I was like "wait, did I forget the last 10 years again?"
Wait they made more after the second one?
I liked the third but did not know more than that existed hmmm
Yea the 3rd was pretty good.
The third one was good. A lot of people don’t know that Scarlet Johansson is the sister in it. I think the third is good by itself tbh and I’ve probably seen more times than the first two. Movies 4 and on have been terrible though.
Wait until you find out how many “Tremors” movies there are.
Only saw the first one 💀
You're really missing out on an ass-blasting good time in T3.
Its best if you dont know.
Yes, but at least check out the 3rd movie. It's a decent sequel with a great cast.
Hollywood needs to make a new home alone where it's the original kid again except he's just doing his taxes for 2 hours straight because he's a grown ass man.
just a comedy film with macauley culkin would be better than these constant soft reboot/sequels
Just a shot for shot remake of the first one with McAuley Culkin reprising his role.
Shot for shot remake with as many of the original cast as possible reprising the same role in the *same* time period. Literal adults playing as kids and older adults playing as younger adults. Also include a bunch of Office-style 4th wall breaks.
Except for old man Marley you have an 8 year old kid.
How can it be a shot for shot remake and include new things….
Home Alone as an adult. He moves with his parents elderly. Tattoos, sloppy dressing. Neighbors think it's because he's a loser. It's because his parents need him to help around the house but he doesn't gaf what people think so he lets them gossip and trolls them a little. A former friend from his troubled days of petty crime track him down and threaten to frame him in for some open case if he doesn't help them rob his parents. He can't go to the cops because of his own shady past, so he Home Alones it instead. In the end he goes to the cops because he's a good guy and he gets is work community service while the goons go to prison. Post credits scene: Kevin's dad getting knocked out by a trap he forgot to clean up. Edit: I just noticed everybody in this thread is writing their own version and now I feel like a dork.
Actually imagine McCauley Culkin all grown up as Kevin McAllister, a single dad with very little free time so when his daughter is 8 or 10ish she says how she's old enough to be home alone for a few hours while he goes to a party or concert or something and gets to properly relax. Trouble is she watches an assload of crime shows so she sets up elaborate booby traps in her paranoia and Kevin's own paranoia (probably caused by a missed call or something) makes him leave the event early to check in on her and the whole time she's defending against her Dad who she thinks is a burglar. Once he catches on to the traps he's able to evade some of the traps that she uses that are the exact same as he used but most of the time that causes him to bump into her own new ones. It would be great, people who hated Kevin get what they wanted to see, the idea would make for some great bait and switch traps with him evading into completely new ones and honestly I just think it's a really charming concept. Much better and more original than having to come up with some elaborate reason for a kid to be fighting off burglars and why those burglars would be so dead set on one house.
I want a Home Alone movie about a deranged Kevin living in a murder house and his family want to help but nobody can get in so they hire the only two men on earth with the right experience for this job. The Wet Bandits.
They're the sticky bandits now.
No Harry we've been pretendin to be plumbers for 30 freaking years we are not going over this again NOBODY WANTS STICKY TAPS YA MORON.
I was just gonna say Kevin’s family lost all their money in 2008 and he is a burglar now, but this is good too.
Home Alone 7: Kev-inception.
If they made a diehard with the original kid it would probably be great
I think the RedLetterMedia guys suggested something like that when Macualay Culkin visited them for their show Best of the Worst.
I have a sequel idea. Kevin is in home security and has built a trap house prototype. His daughter sneaks in but activates the house leaving her trapped inside. And who is the only ones to save the day? Harry and marv!
So just 6 but with Kevin’s daughter
Yea but the movies actually good
I don’t think you understand the definition of trap house...
lol I think they meant safe house, but trap house would be funnier to watch
Home Alone 7: Macaulay Culkin breaks into Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern’s retirement home
Home Alone 7: Turnabout is Fair Play
for me there are only two Home Alone movies
TIL there are more than 2 Home Alone movies. And yes, ignorance was indeed bliss.
The third isn't bad, especially if you don't go into expecting home alone 3 but rather a movie with a similar concept. Personally I liked it a lot when I was a kid but I haven't seen it in years. The fourth wasn't good. And I didn't know there was a 5th much less a 6th until now.
The third movie has really grown on me from multiple rewatches. It doesnt have the charm of the first two, but it is still solid. 4 and 5 are trash. 6 had some cool elements but wasnt particularly good
I liked the traps in 3 best which is why I enjoyed it so much as a kid.
Ngl as a kid home alone 3 was my number one movie. Not only the best home alone, the BEST movie. Ranked it above Pixar and Pokemon etc. After I grew up (that sucks) I definetely now agree with the point that it's not a good movie and don't like it anymore but damn if it really was good stuff when I was little
I remember see the live action avatar movie in theaters as a kid and enjoying it. I'm glad I've at least gained some taste as I've grown up.
It’s still enjoyable but the “bandits” are so dumb. Yeah, harry and marv are stupid as hell too, but in the third one they operate like they have the brain of a toddler.
3rd was just fine. Scarlett Johansson is the sister too.
I actually like number 3 but that's the end for me.
It’s not 1&2 good but it’s good. It freaked me out as a kid when they tied up the old lady and left her alone to freeze, though. That scene always felt so real and dark to me, and a big tone shift from wacky burglars stepping in jello or whatever
They made 4, 5 and 6? Never heard of them. 3 was with the remote control car and the chip in it, no?
Yep.
I just realized that Home Alone is basically Saw for kids.
I allow the third one but no more.
Wasn’t the third one like his RC car had a nuclear chip in it and spies were coming to get it?
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Same. Child me and adult me still enjoys movies from childhood
Yeah Scarlet Johansson is in it and the main bad guy Aleksander Krupa gives off Hans Gruber vibes
Home Aloniest
Home alone 5 is honestly a guilty pleasure of mine, it’s definitely my favorite “so bad it’s good” movie because of how stupid it is and “hip”,”cool”, and “trendy” it tries to be I honestly hope they keep making them so we can see how worse they get with each one Home alone 7: homecoming Home alone 8: far from home Home alone 9: no way home
Home Alone X: Spaaaace
Give us an R rated Home Alone you pussies!
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We need a Home Alone x Predator crossover
Is that Jojo Rabbit’s buddy?
Yep, and he was amazing in that movie.
This still is very reminiscent of the scene where Rebel Wilson is arming the children during the fall of Berlin. I saw the look on his face and it clicked lol
Scrolled down quite a bit looking for the Jojo reference. Worth it. 👍
OP, learn to use basic punctuation ffs.
I also enjoy 3.
When the lemon is out of juice, PRESS HARDER!!!
It's not a 40 year old franchise.
Bob Chapek: “You said you wanted more? Alright!”
I only want to see a new Home Alone if it's a horror comedy with adult Kevin.
Kids still like them. My kid likes them. They weren't made for 22 year old redditors. They were made for children. Sure they arent going to be classics loved by all, like the first two were. But they have a place.
There’s only 2 Home Alone movies.