TS: Home Alone vs. Home Alone II: Lost in New York

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I just finished watching the second movie and I would say that while the first one holds up better as a plausible narrative, invents the formula, and has John Candy, ultimately this one is more fulfilling for abandoning any pretense of believability in favor of having Kevin prank ppl in two arenas and get served pizza by Rob Schneider before being taken to a toy store in a limo. What do you have to say about this.

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 31 December 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

two for the young vito stuff in early 20th-century lower east side new york

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Sunday, 31 December 2006 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, victor buono as nuke-worshipping mutant hard to beat

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

shit these are like my favorite movies, I can't possibly choose. I think you're right about Lost in NY though. I totally wanted to steal my parents' credit card and live for two weeks in the lap of luxury after seeing that movie. (Unfortunately by the time my family decided to fly rather than drive for vacation I was old enough to face serious criminal charges for doing so)

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link

drool @ plaza hotel (RIP)

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the first one i ADORED when it came out. it probably holds up well enough as a kids' caper movie, tho i think i'd have trouble sitting through the last half-hour now (30 minutes of two guys getting tortured, then a sappy happy ending!). the second one i hated even at the time; even as an unreflective 10-year-old i could see there was something screwy about kevin being all sweet and philosophical with that pigeon lady and then going and dropping a brick on a guy's head.

remember that stupid "talkboy" thing they hawked through the whole second movie? i totally had one of those!

― j.d. (j.d.), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

haha according to imdb joe pesci's character's name is HARRY LIME!

― j.d. (j.d.), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, awesome.

they also did the purple and pink talkgirl, which, who would want that, kevin didn't book a hotel room and punk tim curry with
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― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

umm http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2875/pen4ha8.gif?

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I seriously can't decide. The first one is the original and everything, but Lost In New York totally went balls out.

Lost In New York had the better sync with the Johhny video ("I loooove you!"), the Talkboy ("Get outta here before I slap you silly!") and a more balls out booby trap scene.

But the original had a less excruciating Kevin-befriending-an-old-weirdo subplot (turtledoves, in-fucking-deed) and more impotantly, better quotes ("Keep the change you filthy animal", "Kevin, you're what the French call les incompetentents!"). And John Candy's polka band!

Home Alone wins!

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I just remembed that Donald Trump is in Home Alone 2. That changes everything!

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I choose My Girl.

― milo (milo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't decide whether the most unfuckwithable booby trap in II is Daniel Stern getting so electrocuted you can see his skeleton or Joe Pesci w/hair aflame doing a headstand into a toilet bowl full of gasoline. Actually now that I type it out it's clearly the latter.

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Definitely the latter.

My Girl was fucking awful, especially with the horrid morbid ending.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Richie Rich

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw HELL no.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I ever even saw My Girl, just heard about it at the lunch table, and even still reading the novelization of My Girl 2 I realized it was an insult to the poignant bee death of Macaulay Culkin in the first one.

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

spoilers, sorry

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 31 December 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

How about Getting Even With Dad, if nothing for Culkin perfecting the 11-year-old blonde boy's mullet.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The Bad Seed, where he menaces Frodo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The Good Son reached mythological proportions back in '93 (CULKIN AS A PSYCHOPATHIC KID??). When I finally got around to seeing it a decade latter, it was still badass.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link

party monster, duh

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

That one Sonic Youth video.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Uncle Buck

(actually I've never seen it)

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

That one Michael Jackson video.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

the SNL episode

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link

With Tin Machine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link

home alone 3 vs. next karate kid

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

home alone 3 has the kid being targeted by north korean spies (!!!) and does not take place at christmas so i'm going to cut out a little piece of paper and use it to cover up any mentions of it whenever i return to this thread.

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

but ebert loved it!

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Sunday, 31 December 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

hell yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoz0vbm3Vss

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 31 December 2006 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

home alone 2 turned the hijinx of the first into outright sadism

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Sunday, 31 December 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, The Good Son was pretty gonzo back then.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to side with the original Home Alone because my (deceased) ex-boyfriend's sister is in it. She had a small part; the clerk at a store that the little boy shops in. I don't ever expect to see her again, but that's my sentimental reason for liking the original best.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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