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MariusLecter posted:Room Service can't be written off as a tax dodge. Isn't there some kind of fan theory that Kevin's dad is in the mob?
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Sand Monster posted:Isn't there some kind of fan theory that Kevin's dad is in the mob? "Could you stay out of this?" Edit: Peter, looking more serious than anything: "My new fish hooks?"
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freeedr posted:Haha, nah but Kevin’s dad spends tens of thousands of dollars on Christmas every year Not that they aren't clearly wealthy, but Uncle Rob paid for them to visit Paris, and that Florida motel didn't look like it set him back too much 
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Sand Monster posted:Isn't there some kind of fan theory that Kevin's dad is in the mob? This seems pretty far-fetched to me. Home Alone, having fans?
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Friend posted:Not that they aren't clearly wealthy, but Uncle Rob paid for them to visit Paris, and that Florida motel didn't look like it set him back too much I was gonna argue with you, but then I realized that I confused Uncle Rob with Uncle Frank, the "cool jerk".
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Kevin's dad obviously works directly for the Sackler family at Purdue Pharmaceutical. But that's none of my business.
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So there's this band Floater, most people haven't heard of but they wrote some cacthy songs with samples from movies. I can never watch Vertigo without hearing that sample of Kim Novak saying "Only one is a wanderer, two or more are always going somewhere" Which is a callback to Jimmy Stewart saying he was wandering. And then the most perfect line "it was only a moment for you, here I was born and here I died"
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Oh wow I forgot the entire 3rd reel of Vertigo. It gets so creepy and weird. The not very subtle thing is it's Hitchcock talking about psychology. But instead of being insightful he's a case study.
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I just can't believe the same family left the same kid twice
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Oh wow I forgot the entire 3rd reel of Vertigo. I finally watched Vertigo in 2018 or so and I had no idea what the story was really and this whole section absolutely blew me out of the water and rocketed it into my personal top 10
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Here is a lovely essay about Muppet Christmas Carol that I think fits the theme of the thread https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/...hristmas-carol/
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I just can't believe the same family left the same kid twice This post made me  being right after posts about the psychology of Hitchcock.
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Flint_Paper posted:Here is a lovely essay about Muppet Christmas Carol that I think fits the theme of the thread Paywalled hard, got past my antipaywall extension even. But just from the title, they are correct, it's the best Christmas Carol adaptation by far. I think Gonzo as Dickens really sells it - they can bring in a lot of the original language and it helps.
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HopperUK posted:Paywalled hard, got past my antipaywall extension even. But just from the title, they are correct, it's the best Christmas Carol adaptation by far. I think Gonzo as Dickens really sells it - they can bring in a lot of the original language and it helps. The CGI version with Jim Carrey as Scrooge is very seriously underrated.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Oh wow I forgot the entire 3rd reel of Vertigo. There's a pet theory that everything after he goes insane is a fantasy he's living to get over the guilt of Kim Novak dying.
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HopperUK posted:Paywalled hard, got past my antipaywall extension even. But just from the title, they are correct, it's the best Christmas Carol adaptation by far. I think Gonzo as Dickens really sells it - they can bring in a lot of the original language and it helps. I somehow managed to bypass the paywall by refreshing the page and then  the [esc] button right when the page finished loading but just before the paywall came down
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Baron von Eevl posted:There's a pet theory that everything after he goes insane is a fantasy he's living to get over the guilt of Kim Novak dying. So the act of beating the poo poo out of the 2 burglars with homemade booby traps offers him some catharsis?
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HopperUK posted:Paywalled hard, got past my antipaywall extension even. But just from the title, they are correct, it's the best Christmas Carol adaptation by far. I think Gonzo as Dickens really sells it - they can bring in a lot of the original language and it helps. That's so weird! I had the "please give me money" pop-up and just dismissed it. They absolutely talk about having Dickens as a character though, and how that reflects the original text.
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Yeah, having Gonzo as Dickens as the omniscient narrator and Rizzo as the kind of audience surrogate to play off of Dickens was an incredibly smart move as was hiring Paul Williams to do the songs.
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I guess I'm crazy because I always feel like Gonzo and Rizzo just break the momentum of the movie every time they show up.
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Friend posted:I guess I'm crazy because I always feel like Gonzo and Rizzo just break the momentum of the movie every time they show up. I thought so too when I was 8
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Belloq is wearing the priestly breastplate at the end of raiders. Pope Corky the IX posted:My favorite part of Series 7 is how often the narrator describes the events unfolding incorrectly to create more drama and we're all so used to reality television that we don't even notice it. Like when the guy is holding his kid in one hand and a gun in the other, and you hear "...contestant has exited the car holding a gun to his own child's head..." when that's not what's happening. That lovely police chase show with SHERRIFF JOHN BRUNELL did this sort of poo poo all the time. *fugitive swerves to avoid pedestrian* This methed out MANIAC swerves to hit a pedestrian, missing them by MERE INCHES
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Milo and POTUS posted:Belloq is wearing the priestly breastplate at the end of raiders. We're super proud of John Brunell. He did his best work in Bad Santa. Subtly shot the poo poo out of Billy Bob's liver.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Belloq is wearing the priestly breastplate at the end of raiders. Hell yeah, that guy's a lunatic and his insane delivery is real easy to make fun of. My wife and I were watching it like a decade ago and he said something about the suspect escaping in his HON-DUHH and we still say it that way whenever Honda's come up.
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freeedr posted:Another subtle thing in this film: the burglars are immortal but yet have an unlimited capacity to feel pain. It's because, for some reason, his entire family hate Kevin and constantly treat him like poo poo, they'll blame him for being bullied, let the rear end in a top hat uncle be lovely to him around everyone all the time, and they only care about when it could effect their lives. Of course the Dad finds something to moan about.
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BooDooBoo posted:It's because, for some reason, his entire family hate Kevin and constantly treat him like poo poo, they'll blame him for being bullied, let the rear end in a top hat uncle be lovely to him around everyone all the time, and they only care about when it could effect their lives. Of course the Dad finds something to moan about. Wasn't it Buzz that yelled, since he was the one that answered the door for the bill?
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Eldritch BiLast posted:Wasn't it Buzz that yelled, since he was the one that answered the door for the bill? He gets the bill, smirks and says "oh daaaaad" and then you hear the dad scream off-screen For content (not sure if this really counts), Wanda Sykes was supposed to play the manager in Elf, but couldn't for whatever reason so Faizon Love took the role. His name tag still says Wanda. 
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BooDooBoo posted:It's because, for some reason, his entire family hate Kevin and constantly treat him like poo poo, they'll blame him for being bullied, let the rear end in a top hat uncle be lovely to him around everyone all the time, and they only care about when it could effect their lives. Of course the Dad finds something to moan about.  Kevin was right all along for sure and I’m glad he pulled some king poo poo just to enjoy his own pizza to himself in the quiet for once
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Friend posted:He gets the bill, smirks and says "oh daaaaad" and then you hear the dad scream off-screen Faizon Love has definitely worked jobs with name tags before because you know he saw that Wanda tag sitting there and thought, "poo poo yeah, I'm Wanda today."
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freeedr posted:
I never understood why my dad laughed so much at two scoops of ice cream because kevin wasn't driving
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Milo and POTUS posted:I never understood why my dad laughed so much at two scoops of ice cream because kevin wasn't driving I still don't understand the overly hostile attitude that Hector (yes, Tim Curry's character had a name) had towards him. Ok, so you're getting scammed by a 10 year old. Way to handle it properly there, bucko.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I still don't understand the overly hostile attitude that Hector (yes, Tim Curry's character had a name) had towards him. Ok, so you're getting scammed by a 10 year old. Way to handle it properly there, bucko. It was a Trump hotel, so this tracks.
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youknowthatoneguy posted:It was a Trump hotel, so this tracks. Oh my god, completely forgot about that.
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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. ...poo poo, I've always wanted the anti-Christmas movie about someone who learns that they don't have to deal with all the ceremony and visiting family if they don't want to. Maybe that's just about Kevin McAllister.
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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. Isnt a modern Home Alone with an adult Kevin basically Saw?
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BooDooBoo posted:It's because, for some reason, his entire family hate Kevin and constantly treat him like poo poo, they'll blame him for being bullied, let the rear end in a top hat uncle be lovely to him around everyone all the time, and they only care about when it could effect their lives. Of course the Dad finds something to moan about. That opening scene (don't remember if it is 1 or 2) always bothered me. Here's little Kevin in the school X-mas Choir and he has a solo in front of everyone. His family, his school friends, and 100 strangers. And there's his idiot, meathead older brother, drumming on his head/teasing him. Kevin, maybe overreacts, but it's either shove the big oaf, or break down crying in the middle of a show. He shoves, the kids fall over, and a tree falls on top of the piano lady. When they get back to the house (which is overstuffed with lovely people), Buzz turns things into a parlor scene, and just dumps it all on Kevin again. And the entire family saw what was going on. They were pointing and laughing at Buzz's antics, they know he started it. But Buzz looks like a loving hero, because he bullied his little brother. What the poo poo? It must be like this all the time at the McAllister house. Unless Kevin is actually McCauley's character from The Good Son, and somehow the rest of the family is immortal to his constant attempts at murder and they know he's the devil incarnate. Then their treatment makes a little more sense.
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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. Especially considering the filmmakers were empathetic enough to hire one of their own sons to dress up as Buzz's girlfriend rather than go WOOF at a real teenage girl's picture. Then again they probably just didn't consider how toxic the family was to Kevin. It wouldn't be the first weird omission in a Christmas movie. Like in the Santa Clause, when original Santa dies what the gently caress happens to HIS Mrs. Claus, who he is contractually obligated to have. Did the elves kill her? Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 18:28 on Dec 22, 2021 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:Like in the Santa Clause, when original Santa dies what the gently caress happens to HIS Mrs. Claus, who he is contractually obligated to have. Did the elves kill her? She was thrown into the sarcophagus with him. I thought this was obvious. Next question.
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