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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 29, 2021 21:19:56 GMT
So after seeing the newest Home Alone film a few days ago and revisiting the first one again lets share our thoughts with this series.
Best to Worst
1. Home Alone - 9/10 Seen this a bunch as a kid and watch it every Christmas time now. Its a classic.
2. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 9/10 This one gets mixed reactions but I think its almost as good as the original. The traps are more deadly this time. I remember Marv turning into the skeleton scarred me as a kid.
3. Home Alone 3 - 5/10 I liked this as a kid but did not sit well with me over time. The traps kinda fun but the first two acts are pretty dull and much of the humor misses the mark.
4. Home Alone: The Holiday Heist - 3/10 This one is pretty bad. Just a generic cash grab. Still its not the worst.
5. Home Sweet Home Alone - 2/10 Just saw this on Thanksgiving. The reason this one is so bad is that the ones who get brutalized are a couple trying to save their house. The mom is set on fire and gets pins in her face. Is this a Saw movie? Plus the kid is pretty unlikable.
6. Home Alone 4: Taking back the House - 1/10 Ouch. This one just sucks. There is nothing redeemable about this mess of a film.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 29, 2021 21:21:28 GMT
Home Alone - 7/10
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 6/10
I have no interest in watching the other movies in the franchise.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 29, 2021 21:21:58 GMT
Home Alone - 7/10 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 6/10 I have no interest in watching the other movies in the franchise. Understandable.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Nov 29, 2021 21:24:24 GMT
Daniel Stern's screams will never not be funny.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 29, 2021 21:31:18 GMT
For anybody who has Netflix, I highly recommend watching the Home Alone episode of The Movies That Made Us. The Die Hard episode is excellent as well. Die Hard was originally meant to be a sequel to The Detective (1968). Frank Sinatra asked the writer of that novel to write a sequel, but the movie adaptation was delayed and delayed and when they finally got around to it Frank Sinatra had lost interest. There were re-writes of the script and then it finally became the movie Die Hard.
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Post by ck100 on Nov 29, 2021 21:38:02 GMT
The first movie is fun. The second movie is largely a carbon copy of the first movie (though still entertains). Didn't see the other movies.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 29, 2021 21:44:40 GMT
The first movie is fun. The second movie is largely a carbon copy of the first movie (though still entertains). Didn't see the other movies. Glad you added that part. The movie works best when taking place at the hotel and the toy store, and the New York setting gives the movie a much different atmosphere than the first movie.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 29, 2021 21:56:53 GMT
As a kid I loved the first two, but watching them now I don’t find the booby traps funny anymore. Maybe I’m already getting to be a stick in the mud, but I now agree with Roger Ebert that, when Harry and Marv get hurt, “we can almost hear the bones crunch, and it isn’t funny.”
But—for the most part, I still like the movies outside of the booby-trap scenes. John Candy in the first one gets and makes the most of some great lines (“Kids are resilient”), and Tim Curry works wonders in the second one. Curry’s acting is a master class in line reading (“piz-za”). I also admire how the second one, while obviously a exact retread, knows it’s an exact retread and throws in tiny surprises to make up for it (Kevin in the van).
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Post by politicidal on Nov 29, 2021 22:05:28 GMT
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (8/10)
Home Alone (7/10)
Home Alone 3 (4/10)
Home Alone 4 (2/10)
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Post by James on Nov 29, 2021 22:27:35 GMT
Home Alone - 8/10 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 7/10 Home Alone 3 - 6/10 Home Alone: The Holiday Heist - 4.5/10 Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House - 3/10
Haven't seen the new one, yet(?).
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Post by Marv on Nov 29, 2021 22:30:17 GMT
Home Alone is classic! Home Alone 2 is a carbon copy but dare I say, a bit more fun? Home Alone 3 felt wrong without Culkin.
I haven’t seen any of the other ones.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 29, 2021 22:41:09 GMT
Probably 25 years since i watched Home Alone, but based on memory of them
Home Alone 7.5/10 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 7/10
I have not seen any of the other ones
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Nov 30, 2021 0:55:59 GMT
First two are great, I think I might've seen part of one of the later non-Culkin sequels and it was awful. No interest in the remake.
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Post by Lux on Nov 30, 2021 1:54:11 GMT
A movie about a kid creating all these tricks to trick stupid criminals with or without Culkin was always stupid to me. A fat American kid would've been more realistic in this new remake.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Nov 30, 2021 3:41:34 GMT
The first one is a 90's classic, yet for years now I skip over all the mother/family stuff overseas.
The second was far too copy-paste & frankly a headache.
I've not seen any others.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Nov 30, 2021 6:20:21 GMT
5. Home Sweet Home Alone - 2/10 Just saw this on Thanksgiving. The reason this one is so bad is that the ones who get brutalized are a couple trying to save their house. The mom is set on fire and gets pins in her face. Is this a Saw movie? Plus the kid is pretty unlikable. Saw a review where they talked about that point, that these aren't bad people. They're seemingly nice people who are in a dire financial predicament and who have reason to believe their property was stolen, and yet the audience is supposed to laugh at them having violence done on them by a kid.
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Post by Archelaus on Nov 30, 2021 17:12:47 GMT
Home Alone - 7/10. It's an enduring Christmas classic.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 6/10. It's largely the same movie as the first one, but with more deadlier booby traps.
Home Alone 3 - 4/10. I re-watched this last year, and it's better than what I remember. It departed from the formula, with an international espionage angle. It wasn't too holiday-oriented. The reason for why the kid is home alone is because of chicken pox, and not because how his family left him behind on their way to their airport. The traps were a little creative.
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House looks terrible based on a video review I saw. I haven't bothered watching Home Alone: The Holiday Heist and Home Sweet Home Alone.
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Post by ghostintheshell on Nov 30, 2021 17:53:43 GMT
Home Alone (1990) 9.5/10
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) 10/10
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012) 7/10
Home Alone 3 (1997) 6/10
Home Alone 4 (2002) 4/10
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) 1/10
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Post by Vits on Dec 1, 2021 12:05:14 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 moviebuffbrad on Dec 1, 2021 16:36:30 GMT
Home Alone -8/10 2 -6/10 3 -4/10 4 -1/10
The first still really holds up on my last rewatch, including the traps which had me laughing like a kid again. The second, on the other hand, gets rather horrifying. The hotel scenes, which bored me as a kid, are the best part of the movie. Tim Curry is the key ingredient that keeps the film above average rehash.
3 never really bothered me, perhaps because it's the first one I saw. Max Keeble is no Macaulay Culkin, and the espionage group are no Wet Bandits (though their scenes are still kind of amusing for out of tone with the rest of the movie they are). The worst thing about it is that it's less clever and more juvenile than the first two, especially the animal sidekicks.
I only saw 4 once as a kid but it peeved me as a Home Alone fan for getting basic continuity wrong, characters out of character, and having too few and extremely lame traps.
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