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Krispy Wafer posted:Perhaps we're supposed to be seeing this from Kevin's perspective as a put upon youngest child? Kind of like how the furnace growls at him; maybe reality isn't what it seems. Because otherwise the parents' behavior makes no sense. Santa's death was not an accident. He'd already killed Mrs. Claus and took his own life out of guilt. I assume the elves cleaned up the evidence
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When she realized the spell keeping her there had broken, she immediately ran out of the workshop and into the night. There's very little chance she would have survived the freezing polar cold, but either way she was free
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Friend posted:He gets the bill, smirks and says "oh daaaaad" and then you hear the dad scream off-screen lol I was watching Elf with some friends last night and a buddy was like, "does his nametag say Wanda?" We just chalked it up to the character being that "eh, gently caress it" type of worker who would just grab whatever nametag was closest when they clocked it
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Cleretic posted:I don't want a modern Home Alone focused on adult Kevin so I can see him do the same trap-based shenanigans. I want to see it so that I can find out Kevin got to move away from his neglectful and borderline-abusive family. Hmm, dealing with unwelcome evil visitors via a variety of painful and humiliating traps; that DOES seem rather cathartic for people dealing with toxic family. Maybe we've found the secret metaphor of the movie. SiKboy posted:Isnt a modern Home Alone with an adult Kevin basically Saw? Suddenly I have a new preferred origin story for that series.
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Marcade posted:Ah, the Im-ho-ho-ho-tep treatment. I greatly appreciated this joke.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I greatly appreciated this joke. 
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Very yes.
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christmas boots posted:Santa's death was not an accident. He'd already killed Mrs. Claus and took his own life out of guilt. I assume the elves cleaned up the evidence the reindeer are in the enclosed pool area
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titties posted:the reindeer are in the enclosed pool area 
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Cleretic posted:I don't want a modern Home Alone focused on adult Kevin so I can see him do the same trap-based shenanigans. I want to see it so that I can find out Kevin got to move away from his neglectful and borderline-abusive family. The burglars get out of prison and end up invited to a grown-up Kevin's Christmas party, who wants to spend time with the people who were actually keeping him company on Christmas.
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Marcade posted:Ah, the Im-ho-ho-ho-tep treatment. Perfetto.
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If we are still talking about Home Alone. The way that his parents baby Kevin at the beginning of the first film is criminal. It's actually a plot point how Kevin never learned how to do anything for himself, because his parents constantly baby him and treat him like a ... baby. Robbing a child of agency and creating a learned helplessness is a form of abuse. This is on top of the already discussed fact that everybody else in his family seems to hate him, bully him, and blame him for being abused/bullied. I guarantee grown up Kevin doesn't talk to anyone in his family anymore, and they don't understand why.
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I might be missing something incredibly obvious but idgi
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“The dogs are in the enclosed pool area” was one of the messages Chris Benoit sent out to a friend during the murder-suicide.
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Aphrodite posted:“The dogs are in the enclosed pool area” was one of the messages Chris Benoit sent out to a friend during the murder-suicide. Jesus christ
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Please, Chavo Guerrero would never be friends with Santa. Kerwin White, however...
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Aphrodite posted:“The dogs are in the enclosed pool area” was one of the messages Chris Benoit sent out to a friend during the murder-suicide. Wow. I was thinking it was a "dump the bodies in the hog pen to dispose of the evidence" sort of thing, but that's somehow even darker.
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PYF Subtle Movie Moments: The Im-ho-ho-ho-tep treatment
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titties posted:the reindeer are in the enclosed pool area Hot drat!
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BrigadierSensible posted:If we are still talking about Home Alone. Seems like some reality subtext here given the actor apparently had an awful stage dad who almost ruined his life and career until he got away. Chris Columbus even made sure to filter out any obvious stage parents when casting Harry Potter apparently.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Seems like some reality subtext here given the actor apparently had an awful stage dad who almost ruined his life and career until he got away. Chris Columbus even made sure to filter out any obvious stage parents when casting Harry Potter apparently.
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Ravenfood posted:Seems like it worked since by all accounts the leads at least all seem like fairly non-hosed-up people compared to most child stars. Well he had that stage where he looked like he was riding the dragon every day, but maybe he was just playing a lot of WoW. In other Home Alone news, the actor that played Buzz is just as bad in real life: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/23/actor-who-played-home-alone-brother-arrested-in-oklahoma/
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I think they meant Chris Columbus' policy of screening out stage parents for the HP kids, not Culkin.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Well he had that stage where he looked like he was riding the dragon every day, but maybe he was just playing a lot of WoW. Buzz, your girlfriend? Woof
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I don't know if it was subtle or intentional but I'm watching "It Follows" and the opening 10 or 15 minutes feels like a really clever callback to "Halloween". The way the camera tracks backwards as people walk and talk using really wide revealing shots of the suburbs that make you scan the background, the creepy set up of the two kids watching the girl in the swimming pool (that invoke Michael Myers) and then culminating with the old school station wagon (that Myers used for his escape) being washed in the driveway. Except in Halloween the car was tan, not blue. I don't know if the director was paying homage to Carpenter, flat out ripping him off or if it was just a coincidence but I got strong Jamie Lynn Curtis/PJ Soles vibes from the way it was shot and I think it was deliberate. One character was even worried that her mom would smell smoke on her. That recalls a scene from Halloween where one girl is scared her dad will smell weed after they smoke up.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Well he had that stage where he looked like he was riding the dragon every day, but maybe he was just playing a lot of WoW. I meant the Harry Potter kids. Also that might just be his facial structure since Kieran Culkin also looks like that.
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My kids recently watched the most recent Home Sweet Home Alone movie on Disney plus. Spoilers in case In the canon universe, Kevin regularly prank calls his brother Buzz, who is now a police officer, from his implied job as owner of McAllister security. It's a pretty bad film.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Oh my god, completely forgot about that. Watch it again, the Trump cameo is chilling. It's like seeing Thatcher show up on the Flumps.
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Bogmonster posted:My kids recently watched the most recent Home Sweet Home Alone movie on Disney plus. Spoilers in case In the canon universe, Kevin regularly prank calls his brother Buzz, who is now a police officer, from his implied job as owner of McAllister security. I'm sure that movie sucks, but Kevin getting into home security at least makes a lot of sense.
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Ravenfood posted:I meant the Harry Potter kids. Ratcliffe is sober now, but was in full swing alcoholism for a while. Good for him getting dried out.
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Cleretic posted:I'm sure that movie sucks, but Kevin getting into home security at least makes a lot of sense. So does Buzz becoming a fuckin cop
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Escobarbarian posted:So does Buzz becoming a fuckin cop Beat that guy, you little trout sniffer.
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deoju posted:Ratcliffe is sober now, but was in full swing alcoholism for a while. Oof, that adds a different layer to A Young Doctor's Notebook
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In the Sam Raimi movies, Spiderman is from a working class family and his enemies are heads of giant corporations; they are also using cutting edge tech while Spidey is "all natural". All his adventures are set in or around his neighbourhood. In the MCU movies, Spiderman is pupil to the head of a giant tech corp, uses Stark's cutting edge tech and his first enemy is a blue collar small businessman bullied out of business by Stark. His introduction to the MCU (the airport fight in Civil War) happens not only outside of NY, but outside of the US; and most of his adventures are also far away from NY, from Europe to another planet.
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Yeah I'm not a fan of MCU Spider-Man being tech'ed up but at least in Spider-Man: Homecoming there was the plot line of him having to be a hero without the Stark technology.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Yeah I'm not a fan of MCU Spider-Man being tech'ed up but at least in Spider-Man: Homecoming there was the plot line of him having to be a hero without the Stark technology. Edit: ah yeah he gets "depowered" when Stark decides he's hosed up with the boat.
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That Italian Guy posted:In the Sam Raimi movies, Spiderman is from a working class family and his enemies are heads of giant corporations; they are also using cutting edge tech while Spidey is "all natural". All his adventures are set in or around his neighbourhood. Reminding me that I watched Ghostbusters (1984) the other day and the EPA is the secondary villain interfering with the chutzpah and go-get-‘em attitude of a bunch of plucky small businessmen who need to store unregulated waste and nuclear technology in the centre of Manhattan.
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Torquemada posted:Reminding me that I watched Ghostbusters (1984) the other day and the EPA is the secondary villain interfering with the chutzpah and go-get-‘em attitude of a bunch of plucky small businessmen who need to store unregulated waste and nuclear technology in the centre of Manhattan.
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