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Post by ck100 on Nov 16, 2020 13:20:56 GMT
Hard to believe it's been 30 years, but it has become a modern holiday classic. Sure, it has its flaws (90% of the traps would really kill a person), but Culkin is appealing and Stern and Pesci are fun together.
Leonard Maltin Movie Guide Review:
Home Alone (1990) - 2.5 out of 4 stars
"Wildly successful comedy about an eight-year-old boy whose family inadvertently leaves him behind when they go to Paris for Christmas vacation. The plucky kid then proceeds to fend off two bumbling burglars with a variety of elaborate booby-traps. Culkin is terrific, but the film has its ups and downs; the violence, even for a cartoonish farce, is a bit extreme. Climactic scene with forbidding neighbor Blossom is certainly the film's high point. Macaulay's brother Kiernan plays his cousin Fuller. Followed by two sequels and three made-for-TV movies."
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Post by James on Nov 16, 2020 13:25:01 GMT
Roger Ebert gave it a 2.5/4 too. If it were up to me, I’d give it a full 3.
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Post by kolchak92 on Nov 16, 2020 13:39:43 GMT
Jesus fucking Christ am I old now or what?
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 16, 2020 16:45:56 GMT
One of the best modern Christmas movies, still holds up... though I skip over all the mother & family stuff at the airports & hotel. Nitpick when she hangs up the phone on the lady - who's to say that woman wasn't on the phone with a cancer dying child? Oh she'll have to call you back. Annoying stuff - the uncle is insufferable & after 15 or so viewings I wanted no more.
What I like is it's still a casual viewing. Most Christmas classics I want to wait into December... Home Alone is doable in November no prob.
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Post by janntosh on Nov 16, 2020 16:57:16 GMT
this is an example of talented people elevating a concept. Here we have Chris Columbus (the writer of Gremlins and The Goonies) directing from a script by John Hughes with a soundtrack by John Williams. Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci actually make the villains memorable and the film has more heart than you would expect
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Post by politicidal on Nov 16, 2020 18:38:22 GMT
I enjoy it but I do like the second a lot more.
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Post by Vits on Dec 1, 2021 12:07:55 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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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2021 13:48:48 GMT
I normally can't stand child actors and think they have no business being in Hollywood but Culkin is just so good in this. Love this film!
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Post by mstreepsucks on Dec 1, 2021 21:14:02 GMT
They didn't seem like very good parents in home alone, cuz why did they have so many people at their house at one time?
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Post by Vits on Dec 1, 2021 22:34:16 GMT
They didn't seem like very good parents in home alone, cuz why did they have so many people at their house at one time? They were all going on a trip together and it seemed more practical to leave the same house instead of meeting at the airport.
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Post by ck100 on Dec 1, 2021 23:14:39 GMT
They didn't seem like very good parents in home alone, cuz why did they have so many people at their house at one time? Family reunion perhaps?
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Dec 3, 2021 9:11:03 GMT
Alongside The Santa Clause (1994), this is one of the definitive Christmas movies of the 90s. It's not Christmas if this flick isn't being broadcast on some station. It's a wee bid sadistic but practically perfect in every other way.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Dec 3, 2021 9:12:18 GMT
I enjoy it but I do like the second a lot more. I think the second is every bit the equal of the first up until the final act, when it starts to feel a tad contrived and ups the ante. Both are bone fide Christmas classics regardless.
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