tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post5272025175979077022..comments2023-11-05T02:01:53.847-06:00Comments on Antagony & Ecstasy: JOHN HUGHES, SCREENWRITER: HOME ALONE (1990)Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-63111846729998877352020-08-17T09:21:08.686-05:002020-08-17T09:21:08.686-05:00I lovI lovAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10960044834165044398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-51692437972618137882012-08-02T19:05:10.088-05:002012-08-02T19:05:10.088-05:00The soundtrack by John Williams for "Home Alo...The soundtrack by John Williams for "Home Alone", starring Macaulay Culkin, is excellent.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16648232113064769545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-4032085439545840202011-11-14T16:22:53.396-06:002011-11-14T16:22:53.396-06:00You're not alone, Tim. I hated it as a kid. I ...You're not alone, Tim. I hated it as a kid. I usually put that down to an underdeveloped sense of schadenfreude.Daniel Silberberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08685707813625269747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-33192851482985227642011-11-12T14:52:53.352-06:002011-11-12T14:52:53.352-06:00This movie gets a free pass as far as I'm conc...This movie gets a free pass as far as I'm concerned for being Christmassy. That score, the excellent selection of songs on the soundtrack and the plethora of Christmas trees and lights and snow is enough to make me a very happy movie-goer at a certain time of the year. Last Christmas my friends and I had a Christmas movie night and this was what we watched and everybody thought it was the best movie ever. We're all intelligent people but we're not very objective when we're in the Christmas spirit.<br /><br />I removed my comment above because for some reason I stopped mid-sentence and published it early. I might have been over-excited by the captcha.polynomialpalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18202324172573764841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-35771469936669054382011-11-11T12:36:46.789-06:002011-11-11T12:36:46.789-06:00The robbery may seem longer because they don't...The robbery may seem longer because they don't just magically show up at the end for no reason. They spend the whole movie trying to figure out if there are people there or not. There's the earlier bits with the Christmas party (Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree? Jingle Bell Rock? I don't remember) and also using the gangster movie as grownup voices. But I'll easily believe that the battle when they are in the house is 20 minutes. I actually thought it was shorter.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316541604903436175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-30831848019852565932011-11-10T20:26:28.516-06:002011-11-10T20:26:28.516-06:00Lucas- I made a point of timing it. Starts at the ...Lucas- I made a point of timing it. Starts at the 75 minute mark, and it's over by 95 minutes. I think it might partially be that those 20 minutes were heavily over-emphasised in the marketing, in 1990 and ever since.<br /><br />Trish- if you happen to know who that critic was, they are now my hero.<br /><br />Densua & Stephen- <i>De gustibus non est disputandum</i> and all that. I perhaps should have also pointed out that I generally dislike Tom & Jerry, almost as much as the Warner's Tweety Bird shorts. But by no means do I mean to invalidate anybody's childhood, the way I kind of actually did in my <i>Lion King</i> review.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-21998564357620653242011-11-10T18:25:42.702-06:002011-11-10T18:25:42.702-06:00Yeah, I always loved this movie--and its sequal, w...Yeah, I always loved this movie--and its sequal, which is basically the exact same movie but in New York and with Tim Curry--as a kid. I'm not gonna try to argue for it as a really good movie, but I'm not sure why imagining it as a Tom and Jerry-style cartoon is a bad thing. I always thought it was hilarious. And you've at least got to give props to the people who thought up all the traps for the robbers because those were ingenious.StephenMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588260639227694557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-14892898431630219292011-11-10T12:24:55.293-06:002011-11-10T12:24:55.293-06:00I don't care what you say, Big Internet Critic...I don't care what you say, Big Internet Critic! I treasure this movie. To deny it now just because I understand grown-up words like 'pandering' would be pretending it did not play an intrinsic part in creating the child-that-became-the-woman. I remember little of Home Alone's plot, but I remember laughing hard as hell. I've been in a fruitless search for that massive, paralysing belly-laugh ever since.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-4139425759203177382011-11-10T11:57:48.540-06:002011-11-10T11:57:48.540-06:00I recall one critic describing this film as a deep...I recall one critic describing this film as a deeply uncomfortable live-action remake of Tex Avery's "One Ham's Family" with weird sappy moments, and that just about nails it.Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-53762148871392965032011-11-10T01:19:35.793-06:002011-11-10T01:19:35.793-06:00The attempted robbery (or whatever) only lasts 20 ...The attempted robbery (or whatever) only lasts 20 minutes?? Damn, I haven't seen this for at least ten years but I would've sworn the central idea of this movie was "boy tortures robbers." I appear to have forgotten literally everything else that happened in it.Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17520552401498998458noreply@blogger.com