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Post by deembastille on Jun 23, 2018 16:41:57 GMT
4/10
while this movie has a nice message about embracing the homeless as people too, they completely lost it with throwing bricks off a brownstone in nyc.
the difference between this movie and the first is that with the first movie, violence against anyone is far fetched [not unheard of but far fetched] in a quiet, suburban neighborhood [however, i must say that even before this movie came out there WAS such a thing called HOUSE ALARMS.] it is NOT far fetched to find that violence in an inner city. even nice ares of nyc are not immune to assaults and violence of any and all kinds.
regarding house alarms: some of them back then could be directly connected to your nearest police station-- even back then. these parents in this movie who could afford all these plane tickets for all those family members [like uncle frank paid for shit!] could afford a house alarm for that place. along with all their neighbors.
and when the parents were laughing about doing this again and 'knocking on wood' it is hard NOT TO QUESTION their mental capacities and their ethics. once could be considered an accident but twice???? time to call cps.
the poster above who made a list of all the things wrong with this movie was dead accurate.
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Post by deembastille on Jun 23, 2018 16:43:19 GMT
I don't think I can overly critique a movie like this. It is what it is, a silly movie made for a young audience so I gave it 8/10. a young audience who now thinks its okay to throw bricks off a brownstone in manhattan. great. thanks.
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Post by ck100 on Jun 23, 2018 20:35:18 GMT
A carbon copy of the first film, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't entertained by it.
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Post by ck100 on Jun 23, 2018 20:37:37 GMT
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jun 24, 2018 1:31:11 GMT
Love it. 8/10
They turned it into a cartoon, and included one genuine cartoon character, Donald Trump.
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Post by chalk2 on Jun 25, 2018 4:34:59 GMT
I don't think I can overly critique a movie like this. It is what it is, a silly movie made for a young audience so I gave it 8/10. a young audience who now thinks its okay to throw bricks off a brownstone in manhattan. great. thanks. Well I hope they didn't hit your Mini or steal Teddy. lol.
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Post by Vits on Dec 1, 2021 12:11:02 GMT
HOME ALONE 7/10 HOME ALONE PART 2: LOST IN NEW YORK 4/10 HOME ALONE PART 3 1/10 HOME ALONE PART 4: TAKING BACK THE HOUSE 3/10 HOME ALONE PART 5: THE HOLIDAY HEIST 3/10 Ever since HOME ALONE was released, people have made jokes about how the traps set up by Kevin McCallister made him look like a sadist. That's why HOME SWEET HOME ALONE had a lot of potential: The characters who break and enter the house aren't 2 greedy bandits; they're 2 in debt parents (Pam & Jeff McKenzie). And the little boy (Max Mercer) comes off as a little shit from the beginning. What a great idea! I mean, how often do we see a remake that makes the protagonist the antagonist and vice-versa (at least in a way that makes sense)? Unfortunately, the movie doesn't commit to the idea. You see, even though this is revealed to be a sequel (the events from the first 2 installment are acknowledged), it follows a lot of the same story beats like it was a remake (the late John Hughes even gets a "story by" credit, because so much of his script is used here). It gets to the point where Jeff behaves like an idiot during the climax (in order to emulate Marv Murchins), even though his personality was quite different in previous scenes. After he gets knocked out, Max puts V.R. headsets on him. When he wakes up, Jeff thinks that what he's seeing is real. I'm sure the image quality is very realistic, but how can't he feel that device on his head? Now, are there any changes? Actually, there are plenty... but none of them are improvements. A couple of them actually make everything worse. The McKenzies think that Max stole a valuable heirloom from them, so they're trying to get it back in order to sell it, but Max thinks that they want to kidnap him. Also, Max is a mischievous yet likable pre-teen (at least that's how the audience is supposed to see him). That's right: These 3 characters maintain the same roles as their 1990 counterparts, but the situation is a misunderstanding, so there's no villain. Are you kidding me?! The slapstick in the original made us laugh because we were seeing evil people get their comeuppance! Even though HOME ALONE PARTS 2-5 had a lot of problems, at least their makers understood this principle. It's not fun to watch the McKenzies suffer, because they don't deserve it. 1/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog.
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