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[Dalek]

Time for the holidays and my favorite tradition: watching holiday movies including my favorite - Home Alone.

Watching it again with my daughter-The movie gives hints to Kevin's troubled mind. He steals a toothbrush from that nice lady and then never makes up for it. He has hallucinations that his furnace comes to life and speaks to him. Then he sets up a series of sadistic traps in his home to lure two unsuspecting vagrants in and then torture them.

Polka, Polka, Pol-ka...

 

[Snaku]

Wait, people watch Home Alone once a year? Every year?

 

[PillarEN]

I think I'll watch Home Alone 2 to pay tribute to the president-elect Trump.

 

[Dalek]

Wait, people watch Home Alone once a year? Every year?

We have a series of Christmas films we watch at least once a year. When my sister was a kid she watched Home Alone at least once a day.

 

[thekonamicode]

My favorite time of the year!

 

[Escape Goat]

Buzz's girlfriend! Woof!

 

[Samimista]

My mom and I watched 1 and 2 last week.

2 is the one I prefer due to Tim Curry.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Home Alone is one of those movies that I watched as a kid so many times that it is permanently imprinted into my brain. Every line, every scene.

And the video game was hard as fuck. I never figured it out as a kid. I remember staying home sick from school and switching back and forth between that and Madden.

 

[Amory]

Home Alone 1 is amazing. The other 2 are awful

Even as a 10 year old kid, watching Home Alone 2 I was like man, you are truly awful parents to have let this shit happen again. Also could you maybe help the homeless woman that protected your kid from a couple of murderers while you neglected him

 

[Anth0ny]

2 will never be the same. especially this year.

 

[Linkura]

We have a series of Christmas films we watch at least once a year. When my sister was a kid she watched Home Alone at least once a day.

In my family, it's A Christmas Story. Every fucking year at my great aunt's house on Christmas Eve. She doesn't do the parties at her house anymore and instead at a restaurant because she says she's too old to host them.

 

[vatstep]

Home Alone 1 is amazing. The other 2 are awful

Even as a 10 year old kid, watching Home Alone 2 I was like man, you are truly awful parents to have let this shit happen again. Also could you maybe help the homeless woman that protected your kid from a couple of murderers while you neglected him

Contrary to popular belief, there are only two Home Alone movies.

 

[Dalek]

Home Alone is one of those movies that I watched as a kid so many times that it is permanently imprinted into my brain. Every line, every scene.

And the video game was hard as fuck. I never figured it out as a kid. I remember staying home sick from school and switching back and forth between that and Madden.

I was making dinner for my kid while she was watching the opening-I was in there listening to it and I was responding to every line word for word. It's part of my DNA at this point.

 

[jroc74]

I for the life of me will never understand why Home Alone is considered a Thanksgiving movie. Its set during Christmas.

But with each passing year Christmas starts getting started earlier n earlier it kind of makes sense.

I saw Christmas decorations out before Halloween hit. Usually its sometime before Thanksgiving.

 

[Rellik]

Wait, people watch Home Alone once a year? Every year?

Pretty sure I've seen it almost ever year since I was a kid because it's on TV so much during Christmas season

 

[Mushroomer25]

Home Alone 2 is a better movie in every regard. It's the rare example of a sequel that just rehashes the original, and actually improves upon it in the process. I'll probably end up watching it no less than three times over the next month.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

They were playing this on tv a lot lately and I rewatched both. Still classic in all ways.

 

[TheMan]

Way too early still

 

[tsumineko]

I think you mean Die Hard, right?

 

[Maximo]

I think you mean Die Hard, right?

"But Die Hard is not a Christmas movie*

 

[jb1234]

I like to play the soundtrack on Christmas Day, some of John Williams' best work.

 

[jstripes]

Wait, people watch Home Alone once a year? Every year?

I remember seeing it in the theatre, then my parents buying it for us on VHS the next year, and maybe seeing it twice since then.

But since being on NeoGAF, I've learned that people have odd traditions with movies. Really obsessive traditions.

 

[RedSwirl]

Wait, people watch Home Alone once a year? Every year?

Apparently it's a thing in Poland.

 

[backflip10019]

Wait, people watch Home Alone once a year? Every year?

Hell yeah. Every Christmas season, I make sure to watch Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story and Jingle All the Way. Might as well be tradition at this point.

 

[DrSlek]

I think you mean Die Hard, right?

Both Die Hard movies....while wearing the traditional attire.

 

[d00d3n]

Home Alone is pointless after its nostalgia inducing soundtrack was used in the superior Harry Potter movies.

 

[Pakkidis]

The sequel was good but completely unnecessary. They rehashed so many of the same things from the first movie.

 

[redmetal86]

Yep.Time to watch the timeless classic, Home Alone 4. Who needs Daniel Stern when you have French Stewart?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

But since being on NeoGAF, I've learned that people have odd traditions with movies. Really obsessive traditions.

Watching the same Christmas/Holiday movies every single year isn't odd at all, nor is it exclusive to NeoGAF. Tons of people do it.

 

[E92 M3]

Annual Home Alone 2 viewing.

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Home Alone is one of those movies that I watched as a kid so many times that it is permanently imprinted into my brain. Every line, every scene.

And the video game was hard as fuck. I never figured it out as a kid. I remember staying home sick from school and switching back and forth between that and Madden.

Damn straight it was, I had the Dos version and could never get enough traps ready in time. Shit still seemed compelling as hell to my then kid self, access to the whole house with all the interlocking parts seemed really cool at the time. Wouldn't mind more trap oriented games.

 

[Dishwalla]

Watched it on HBO a couple weeks ago.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Home Alone 1 is amazing. The other 2 are awful

Even as a 10 year old kid, watching Home Alone 2 I was like man, you are truly awful parents to have let this shit happen again. Also could you maybe help the homeless woman that protected your kid from a couple of murderers while you neglected him

whats wrong with 2? also I never got to see part 3.

 

[d00d3n]

whats wrong with 2? also I never got to see part 3.

This:

2 will never be the same. especially this year.

 

[MrToughPants]

I try to watch Mickey's Christmas Carol every Christmas.

 

[Roubjon]

2 will never be the same. especially this year.

Where's a staple gun to the dick when you need one.

 

[Hale-XF11]

More like, time for Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

 

[RubberLuffy]

Gremlins is my go-to Christmas movie. Watched it a few days ago, I've definitely seen it more than 20 times and I still love it.

 

[Bgamer90]

Home Alone 2 is a better movie in every regard. It's the rare example of a sequel that just rehashes the original, and actually improves upon it in the process. I'll probably end up watching it no less than three times over the next month.

Disagree. Home Alone 2 has better traps but the first movie is far more entertaining.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

Way too early still

only 33 days until christmas. no difference from watching a halloween movie sept 28th

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Batman Returns gets a yearly watch from me.

 

[Dead]

Keep the change...ya filthy animal.

 

[Savitar]

Christmas is for Die Hard.

And Scrooged.

 

[MrToughPants]

My guilty Christmas pleasure is The Family Man

 

[darkwing-buck]

Also Die-Hard and Lethal Weapon.

 

[jobrro]

Seems a little early. I don't think I have seen HA3 ever, and only saw HA1 and HA2 a couple times within years of their release.

Usually watch Elf though.

 

[AP90]

And the Santa Claus, elf and Die Hard Obviously...

Yippie-kai-yay M********* Amirite?

Edit: Lethal weapon as well!

 

[DrForester]

Home Alone is my Christmas Eve movie.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Home Alone
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
A Muppet Christmas Carol
White Christmas
The Holiday
Elf
Earnest Saves Christmas
Die Hard

I Amays watch these every year in December

 

[Baron Von Beans]

All he wanted was a dam cheese pizza. The movie is the end result of a yourh's fragile mind that has reached his breaking point. Will wait for the R rated directors cut.