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It's that time of year-time to watch Home Alone again
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NealMcCauley
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My sister told me her husband is creeped out by her whenever they watch the movies because she's laughing so hard at the traps. Same thing happens with me and my friends.
Pesci and Stern are such a great team up.
"Where'd he go?"
"... Maybe he committed suicide."
Pesci and Stern are such a great team up.
"Where'd he go?"
"... Maybe he committed suicide."
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
A Christmas Story & The Nightmare Before Christmas are the only two I watch every year.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
LTTP already had this idea last weekend with the family
Based Kevin
Balls so hard mother fuckers wanna find him
Based Kevin
Balls so hard mother fuckers wanna find him
CopperPuppy
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A holiday staple as far as I'm concerned.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Snaku, you're such a disease.
Sir_Crocodile
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home alone, die hard, hot shots
these are the tree movies my fiancée and I watch during christmas time every year.
He's what the French call.... "Les Incompetent".
Not A Christmas Story? Come on, brah.
darkwing-buck
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TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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Awn man, I've been waiting all year for this!
I've always dreamed of a Home Alone movie where Kevin is an adult and we see him training a new group of kids.
Old Man Marley really was the South Bend Shovel Slayer.
Buzz excitedly tells a visiting cousin (and by extension, Kevin) that their neighbor is the South Bend Shovel Slayer, a man who several decades ago killed his entire family and half the people on the block using a snow shovel as his weapon. "Everybody" knows he did it, including the police, but he was released due to lack of evidence, namely that nobody ever found the bodies. People speculate that it was due to the salt, which he has an obsession with (seriously, who has a garbage can full of salt?). He somehow used salt-mummification of the bodies to evade the authorities. Or at least that's the theory
The movie wants you to believe this is false, because he tells Kevin "I know people are saying terrible things about me, but none of it's true, you have no reason to fear me." But... isn't that just confirmation of the story? Old Man Marley knows that people think he's the Shovel Slayer. Buzz didn't make the story up to scare Kevin. And yet, Marley still seems to display an obsession with his shovel.
But he's creeping on a young girl, you say. Yeah, that's not suspicious [/sarcasm]. And the end of the movie (long after the audience has been convinced of his goodness) confirms that he really does have a son, and the girl is his granddaughter. So that blows away the lie that he killed his entire family.
Or does it? Marley's son has been absent for longer than the McCallisters have lived in that neighborhood. If Buzz was warned that Marley killed his family, Buzz could very easily have taken that to mean that Marley killed his entire family. Marley's son could easily have survived and it wouldn't affect his status as a local legend.
When Marley's son became an adult, the two had words with each other that couldn't be taken back and which broke the family apart. What was said? Was it... that the son doesn't truly believe that his father is innocent?
Marley speaks to Kevin in the church about how the church is the place for damaged souls to go to find healing, and how the church's doors are never closed to anyone, no matter how far gone they might be. Marley was the Shovel Slayer, several decades ago. Now he's a born-again Christian. He also says to Kevin in the church that family can temporarily forget that they love each other, causing them to hurt each other. Yeah, that's not a creepy thing for an accused Shovel Slayer to say [/sarcasm].
Look at his obsession with his granddaughter. His reunion with a granddaughter he has never met is clearly more emotional for him than his reunion with his estranged son. Why is that? Does she remind him of someone? Maybe a dead wife? Nah, he might have a dead wife, but the granddaughter's too young to remind him of her. A dead daughter? There we go. His daughter died, probably at around her age, while his son survived.
Why does Marley keep giving Kevin death-stares, not helping his cause of not seeming like a creeper? It's because Kevin is roughly the same age as his granddaughter. Kevin reminds him of his son around that time. Especially once you factor in that Kevin has just lost his family. Marley is desperately trying to read and understand Kevin, so that he can try and understand his estranged son.
And here's the last stretch. When the Wet Bandits had captured Kevin and Joe Pesci was about to bite his fingers off (WTF man?), Marley swooped in and saved Kevin in Shovel Slayer fashion, although non-lethally. Was this a repeat of a key moment in Marley's life? Did someone threaten his son? Was Marley pushed over the edge by someone threatening to bite his son's fingers off? Did... did his wife and daughter do that? Is that why he snapped and killed them?
Buzz excitedly tells a visiting cousin (and by extension, Kevin) that their neighbor is the South Bend Shovel Slayer, a man who several decades ago killed his entire family and half the people on the block using a snow shovel as his weapon. "Everybody" knows he did it, including the police, but he was released due to lack of evidence, namely that nobody ever found the bodies. People speculate that it was due to the salt, which he has an obsession with (seriously, who has a garbage can full of salt?). He somehow used salt-mummification of the bodies to evade the authorities. Or at least that's the theory
The movie wants you to believe this is false, because he tells Kevin "I know people are saying terrible things about me, but none of it's true, you have no reason to fear me." But... isn't that just confirmation of the story? Old Man Marley knows that people think he's the Shovel Slayer. Buzz didn't make the story up to scare Kevin. And yet, Marley still seems to display an obsession with his shovel.
But he's creeping on a young girl, you say. Yeah, that's not suspicious [/sarcasm]. And the end of the movie (long after the audience has been convinced of his goodness) confirms that he really does have a son, and the girl is his granddaughter. So that blows away the lie that he killed his entire family.
Or does it? Marley's son has been absent for longer than the McCallisters have lived in that neighborhood. If Buzz was warned that Marley killed his family, Buzz could very easily have taken that to mean that Marley killed his entire family. Marley's son could easily have survived and it wouldn't affect his status as a local legend.
When Marley's son became an adult, the two had words with each other that couldn't be taken back and which broke the family apart. What was said? Was it... that the son doesn't truly believe that his father is innocent?
Marley speaks to Kevin in the church about how the church is the place for damaged souls to go to find healing, and how the church's doors are never closed to anyone, no matter how far gone they might be. Marley was the Shovel Slayer, several decades ago. Now he's a born-again Christian. He also says to Kevin in the church that family can temporarily forget that they love each other, causing them to hurt each other. Yeah, that's not a creepy thing for an accused Shovel Slayer to say [/sarcasm].
Look at his obsession with his granddaughter. His reunion with a granddaughter he has never met is clearly more emotional for him than his reunion with his estranged son. Why is that? Does she remind him of someone? Maybe a dead wife? Nah, he might have a dead wife, but the granddaughter's too young to remind him of her. A dead daughter? There we go. His daughter died, probably at around her age, while his son survived.
Why does Marley keep giving Kevin death-stares, not helping his cause of not seeming like a creeper? It's because Kevin is roughly the same age as his granddaughter. Kevin reminds him of his son around that time. Especially once you factor in that Kevin has just lost his family. Marley is desperately trying to read and understand Kevin, so that he can try and understand his estranged son.
And here's the last stretch. When the Wet Bandits had captured Kevin and Joe Pesci was about to bite his fingers off (WTF man?), Marley swooped in and saved Kevin in Shovel Slayer fashion, although non-lethally. Was this a repeat of a key moment in Marley's life? Did someone threaten his son? Was Marley pushed over the edge by someone threatening to bite his son's fingers off? Did... did his wife and daughter do that? Is that why he snapped and killed them?
Replace Hot Shots with Bad Santa and you got my Christmas ritual.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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I hold myself off every year to watch Home Alone at christmas.
Correct. The only Christmas tradition I have is to watch Elf on the morning of Christmas eve.
Ninja Scooter
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man the series really scraped the bottom of the barrell
John Kowalski
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fixt
man the series really scraped the bottom of the barrell
What makes this worse is while that looks like Harry (the guy with the hat in the first two films). It's Marv.
Like what the fuck, seriously?
IdreamofHIME
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Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I never noticed before that Kevin's dad accidentally threw his ticket into the trash.
Yeah I think I noticed that in play through #20-30. Subtle.
GringoSuave89
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This and Die Hard are all you need
My favorite time of the year!
What movie is this (I forgot the name)?
My Girl.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
The Good Son
Thanks
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Home Alone isn't a good enough movie to warrant repeat views. I'd rather see something I haven't seen before.
My Girl would have been a lot better if Culkin was a little murderous sociopath.
I never noticed before that Kevin's dad accidentally threw his ticket into the trash.
Same here! I think it took two decades to notice this.
PhantomZone
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Yeah I watched Home Alone 1 & 2 so much growing up that I can act out and quote every line word for word. Good times.
Just two movies in a long winded Christmas marathon, I love watching movies that have Christmas as a backdrop this time of year (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon etc).
Where I live, decorations have been out since September.
Literally a week after Christmas hot cross buns will be out for sale in preparation for Easter.
Just two movies in a long winded Christmas marathon, I love watching movies that have Christmas as a backdrop this time of year (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon etc).
Where I live, decorations have been out since September.
Literally a week after Christmas hot cross buns will be out for sale in preparation for Easter.
Tevious
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Now I wish we could see a movie about Marley and what really happened to his family. And they should make the connection to Home Alone really subtle so people only theorize about it.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
impossible to read this without doing the voice, I can make it the first two responses but once i get to the faaather.. nope straight up slowmo talkboy (i had one)
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