Description
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he’s not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin’s rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!Amazon.com
Now and forever a favorite among kids, this 1990 comed… More >>
5 Responses to “Home Alone”
I had a better time watching “Home Alone” in the theater way back when than just about any movie since. Not that I LIKED the movies, heavens no. No, see, I went to see this movie wih a lady friend and I thought it was totally awful. Culkin was insufferable, Pesci and Stern so annoying that I wanted to call and fire their agents, and John Hughes so…John Hughesian. Of course the movie made like $200 million and spawned two sequels I wouldn’t watch unless you duct-taped me to a chair.
No, what made it so fun was going to see it a SECOND time. I told 2 friends how incredibly awful this movie was and, insulting my fine-tuned sense of humor, said they wanted to see it right away ’cause if I didn’t like it, it was probably hilarious. So I dared them and they double dared me and off we went to the SuperSaver theaters (I wasn’t giving Hughes any more of my cash than I had to).
It only took 5 minutes for my buddies to realize that this movie was really a horror show. Once that happened we were all able to enjoy ourselves. All through the movie we made loud and pointed comments to the screen, making up dialogue and begging Pesci to smack Culkin over the head with something heavy and be done with him. The best part was, no one in the theater found us annoying or told us to shut the (deleted) up. Instead, everyone (well, 15 folks or so) laughed with us and joined in the fun. And that’s why, I think, that the movie was such a huge hit– people hated it so much, it was so nauseating, that people went to see it again just to insult everyone and everything about it. It’s just a theory, but I think there’s some evidence.
But life is short and one extra viewing of “Home Alone” was enough for me. I’ve never seen it since and never will again unless someone does the duct-tape thing to me. But for two blissful hours I had a grand time hating this godawful movie. Definitely worth my two bucks.
Rating: 1 / 5
Home Alone is a really cute movie that the little kids will love. I loved it when I was 8, 9, but now? I’m wiser and a lot more aware. This movie is another scam, throw in a cute little boy, give a ridiculous plot and grown men burglars for him to overcome, and you’ve got the little kids prasing. That’s fine. But once you’re older, no.
First off, this movie is so unrealistic that it’s annoying. Give me all of the unhelpful votes you want…I really don’t care.
1) McCallister’s (Mccauley Caulken)parents forget him? How can you forget him on a vacation? Sure, there are lots of people but how could someone forget their own son? Talk about a dysfunctional family. WOW
2) McCallister is 8yrs old. Yet somehow, he is smarter than a professional scientist. He can outsmart 2 grown men? How is he so smart? He makes an idiot out of them using his super smart techniques. I mean, seriously, rewatch the movie and look at EVERYTHING HE DOES! Wow, I’m a real idiot compared to this genius kid. His parents should enroll him in college. He looks ready.
3) I know that this happens in the 2nd one but I’m not going to waste my time writing a review for this. McCallister drops a brick off a huge building on one of the burglar’s heads. WOW. The burglar falls over and gets right up while McCallister is giggling like a moron. He would be dead! This is idiotic stuff that makes little kids think that they could do that in real life. Oh, and little McCallister wouldn’t be giggling, he’d be facing some serious charges, I don’t care how old he is.
Yet somehow, this idiotic movie is one of the highest grossing movies of all time. And we’ve got grownups on this site prasing it. Should have this movie won 200+ million dollars? Should have Hosue of Sand and Fog have won 17 million? This is absolutely ridiculous but this shows how America works. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The War of the Worlds and other movies like this are the ones that make these insanely high numbers.
Rating: 1 / 5
Sent as a gift. Althought I thought I had type in a message to go with it they didn’t even know who sent it!!! Thanks
Rating: 1 / 5
If that kid screamed one more time, I really might have had to hurt him. I truly didn’t like this movie – but it’s just me. I don’t care for The Three Stooges, either, and this was just like one of their skits: gag after gag after gag. But that’s not all that bugged me. I like Robin Williams and his gags, but there’s a message behind his films. A point. A moral. Home Alone was just plain stupid. Kids, yeah, kids would like it, but I can’t imagine a thinking, intelligent adult deigning to spend an evening watching this hogwash.
Rating: 2 / 5
I could tell as soon as I picked this dvd up that something was broken inside. When I opened it I found that the little piece that holds the dvd in place was broken and the dvd was just sliding all around in the case. The dvd is scratched up pretty bad but I have not tried playing it yet. Anyone else that handled that dvd would have heard that something was moving around inside the case and that is not a good sign.
Rating: 2 / 5