The suspension of disbelief needed for this 'christmas movie' makes it completely unwatchable.
The suspension of disbelief needed for this 'christmas movie' makes it completely unwatchable.
The suspension of disbelief needed for this 'christmas movie' makes it completely unwatchable.
suspend deez nuts in your mouth
>suspension of disbelief
it's a movie none of its real lol ur dumb
I liked it as a kid but:
1. Why does Kevin not go to the police?
2. Why does he not go to a relative?
3. Why doesn’t his family just call the house?
he stole a tooth brush running away in fear from the old man that salts the sidewalks
they are in france
the phone lines were damaged by the power company and would take at least two days to repair.
I watched it recently.
1. He didn't think they'd believe him. the mom called the police dept and sent them to check on him, he got scared and hid from them.
2. There were a million relatives in the house and they all went to france. The whole neighborhood was out of town, that's why the bandits targeted it.
3. The phone lines got knocked out in the middle of the night.
>1. He didn't think they'd believe him. the mom called the police dept and sent them to check on him, he got scared and hid from them.
An unaccounted child is a serious investigation and police won’t leave until the child is found. They would break a window and check the place. If not found they would call it in and it becomes a missing person’s case.
>phone lines
For an emergency they would call someone and then check in on kevin. There is no way literally everyone they know went. How about a neighbor?
it's Chicago police.
>How about a neighbor?
Most of their neighbours are also on vacation: that's why the Wet Bandits are hitting that block. She has her sister in law call the neighbours they're friendly with and they were on vacation.
>They would break a window and check the place
they aren't allowed to do this, especially with a non credible report
Yes the police in this movie is incredibly incompetent. Do you hate Die Hard too? Or the million other movies where that is the case?
The unbelievable part isn't what happens once Kevin's home alone
but the fact his mom and dad wouldn't even notice him missing from the home car ride all the way to France.
>initial car ride to airport
Sorta believable, especially back when people rented vans and if there is more than one van like in the movie.
>checking in to the airport and getting on plane
Sorta believable back when you didn't need to check-in one by one and one person holds multiple boarding passes for a group, and since Kevin's boarding pass was accidentally trashed and the task of handing out passes was delegated like in the movie, sort of believable. And since they were late and had to rush onto the plane it's also sort of believable.
>on the plane
If the parents had headaches and were sleeping, maybe they wouldn't have bothered to check.
Actually come to think of it the scenario is very well conceived. It's a string of unlikely but possible scenarios that have happened before, like forgetting grandpa at the gas station sort of things. I can see how it would be more unlikely for people who never experienced the '90s or earlier decades though. Things used to be way more lax and laid back.
>Things used to be way more lax and laid back.
tfw old enough to remember air travel before 9/11
th-thanks my greatest ally
Same, I'm extremely lucky to have been able to fly fairly frequently as a kid in the '90s.
To Disneyland/Universal Studios to boot.
What airlines/approx how old were you when you flew? Depending on your answer I may have some nostalgic stuff you may remember.
>What airlines/approx
Qantas and Ansett (which no longer exists).
>how old were you when you flew?
Was various times across years but Between 5 - 16
Ah ok Australian. I flew in North America. Was gonna reminisce on some content specifically made for kids.
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In the film the kids are in economy while the adults ride first class. Kevin's mum even asks her husband if they're forgetting anything. The only issue is that none of the kids pick up the Kevin is missing when they get on the plane.
Yea I remember now. Been like 15+ years since I watched them even though I've seen both a dozen times.
>but the fact his mom and dad wouldn't even notice him missing from the home car ride all the way to France
They notice whilst on the plane
Truth is that if you wanted to tell a story about a kid home alone, then you need to make up a load of concurrent events that allow it to happen, and they did
1. so the movie could happen
2. so the movie could happen
3. so the movie could happen
>Why does Kevin not go to the police?
he believes that he wished away his family. he attempts to carry on his life as usual
>Why doesn’t his family just call the house?
it's established at the start that the phone lines are down because of a storm
>Unable to pack suitcase and dreads the prospect of doing so like it's the end of the world
>Easily turns entire giant house into a death trap emporium
>he's too stupid to realize that kevin going from a worthless kid to somebody who's responsible and capable is the point of the movie
That and he learns that he actually does love his family.
there's just too many things that are wildly unbelievable in the movie:
1. Kevin's parents are have 10 kids (?) and they all live in a mansion. Mom's a housewife. Surely the dad is a drug dealer or a mafia or something to be able to afford that lifestyle.
2. Burglars are both white. highly unlikely.
3. Burglars don't have guns. again highly unlikely
aunts and uncles in the house with their own kids. uncle frank was a fricking butthole.
and a cheapskate that stole airplane silverware.
The Cia believes that Uncle frank was somehow involved in 9/11, 11 years after this movie.
1) it was much cheaper back then.
2) I agree with this.
3) It’s actually smart to not bring a gun. If they got caught with a gun while breaking and entering and stealing, it would escalate the charges much more. Not to mention they tend to drum up a lot of charges for things like he gun being unregistered, not having a license, and all things that would be restrictions in a Democratic state.
>Mom's a housewife.
She works in fashion. Did you not notice all the mannequins, fabric and assorted fashion shit around the house? His father presumably works in finance.
>Kevin's parents are have 10 kids
I think Kevin's extended family was staying the night before they all went to the airport together. His aunt and uncle were there, so I assume some of the kids were Kevin's cousins.
It's explained at the start of the film most of the kids are cousins when the fake cop and pizza delivery guy are looking for whoever owns the house.
Harry and Marv are thieves at one point when Kevin uses the gangster movie to scare them off Harry get worried that the cops will try and pin a murder on them.
>Kevin uses the gangster movie to scare them off
literally the most unbelievable part of the movie, and they already used that bullshit gag as well as knocking over the statue. I turned it off right then and there.
Why did the wet bandits become sticky?
watched it last year and realized kevin really was an annoying little shit and not a likeable character
>my favourite horror flick? the saw prequel
There's a movie called "Better Watch Out" which is basically horror Home Alone.
that a brat from a wealthy family being clever and intelligent is believable, but Marv being as incompetent and moronic as he is is unbelievable because he would have already been murdered, killed himself on accident, or would have suffocated by forgetting to breath.
But why a skeleton?
Why not?
Columbus really wanted to fry a israelite.
This whole scenario makes a lot more sense if you look at it as a retelling by a israelite.
>and then the 10 year old set us on fire with an improvised flamethrower, as g-d is my witness, and then he tricked us into using the light switches that turned us into skeletons
They probably just broke in and stood on a plug or something.
>They called us The Wet Bandits mockingly, because we would piss ourselves in fear!
It's an old gag that used to be popular. Character gets electrocuted and you see their skeleton.
You are now aware that if Home Alone is a Christmas movie you cannot argue that Die Hard is not.
Home alone is less of a Christmas movie than die hard. You could set home alone at spring break or thanksgiving and the plot still works.
It wouldn't work. Everyone and the neighbours would be home on Thanksgiving, there'd be no snowed in power outages etc.
I'm wondering to what degree Home Alone wasn't actually a '90s film. And I don't mean that in saying it's an '80s film either.
Yes, there are recognizable trappings and elements only available in the '80s and '90s, but I get the feeling that people like John Hughes were writing from experiences of their own childhoods, which would have been the '60s/'70s.
Same with John William's song Somewhere in my Memory. That memory HE was referring to must have been even earlier, in the '40s and '50s since he was born in 1932.
I am thinking about this because so many of my memories of the '90s were shaped by movies like Home Alone, but I don't think the '90s were actually like this for the vast majority of people, wealth aside.
I don't think it's an accurate portrayal for even most rich families at the time.
arent a lot of (possibly a lot not sure) christmas movies suppose to be whimsical and such?
Your parents never ever left you at home alone huh?
why are people posting in this thread about the story when they clearly haven't seen the movie in 20 years?
if a 5 year old boy can bring a gun to school and shoot his kindergarten teacher, a 7-8 year old upper class white kid can menace two greaseballs