full face front hit followed by long drop and landing on your back/back of the head.. just watched it a couple of nights ago and yelled ‘they’re dead!’
I think the subtext of this movie is that Kevin McCalister is a psychopath and is being groomed by a local serial killer.
If you look at the timing on the day of the wet bandits attempt to break into Kevin’s house, you’ll note that they plan on getting to the house at 9PM and it’s specifically shown as the time the heist begins.
* Kevin had visited Santa earlier in the day and the interaction is shown to be after dark, which would place it after 5pm in Chicago.
* Kevin then visits with his neighbor Marley in a church, discussing matters of importance and family.
* Kevin then “decides” to booby trap his home, shown by unfurling a plan with details on the traps.
* He is able to complete setting up the entire house, with time to spare to make a delicious Kraft dinner at 9pm.
* This means that he probably completed the entire task in only around ~1-2 hours.
So my supposition is that Kevin had this plan for awhile now. He had been planning on booby trapping his house, not for the Wet Bandits, but for when his family was with them. **He had been planning on killing his family.**
**Bonus theory:** At the end of the film, Kevin is saved by his neighbor Marley. Essentially his neighbor sees Kevin break into a house, which he then enters, bashing in the heads of men who he does not know, other than perhaps seeing one of them in a police uniform a week prior.
He then returns Kevin to his house, absent of parents, and flees the scene before the police arrive.
**Marley is in fact the serial killer that his brother makes him out to be.** He sees Kevin as a kindred spirit and wants to encourage his psychopathic behavior.
This movie is a moving meditation on pain. A truly amazing exposé on mind over matter! Harry and Marv were strong! They had a goal, they fought through adversity to get to it. Now they never really got to it, but I’m holding my breath for part 5.
Action movies do the same shit. I don’t care how big a bad ass you are, if some 6’2 250 terrorist slaps you in the side of the face with a fire extinguisher, you’re fucking dead.
Yeah the sequel goes full loony tunes logic and it’s really distracting when you watch it as an adult. The first one was at least grounded in some sort of reality.
I know Home Alone 2’s traps are far more lethal and therefore cartoony, but I really appreciate that the sequel knew the traps were the highlight of the movie.
It’s feels like the music stops and the whole act is a single take. It’s Harry and Marv getting full on murdered by these traps and the camera doesn’t cut away when they take a hit. The movie doesn’t rush through the traps and that to me makes Home Alone 2 worth it.
I want to call out Tim Curry breaking into a guest’s room, hearing said grown adult *singing in the shower*, then continuing to peep on said grown man anyways.
The worst though is Kevin’s fuck-o Dad cancelling his credit cards he knew Kevin had with him. A cop even says if Kevin uses the cards they’ll be able to trace where he is.
Everyone always brings up Home Alone to show how the traps would be far more severe in real life than the depiction in the movie; but some of the opposite is actually true 🙂 My favorite example of this is the scene where Marv is “electrocuted” by a welder in Home Alone 2 – in real life, welders such as that operate at very low voltage, and you wouldn’t even be able to feel a shock from one.
full face front hit followed by long drop and landing on your back/back of the head.. just watched it a couple of nights ago and yelled ‘they’re dead!’
Corridor Digital made a great “Realistic Home Alone” video
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https://youtu.be/8WKgNyvsNDM
More than half of the things that happened to them would definitely kill somebody. So glad my son is old enough to enjoy those now!!
You really dun goofed. The original scene is funny as hell. What is this garbage?
That movie is riddled will illegal booby traps.
Kids, dont try this at home.
**So hear me out.**
I think the subtext of this movie is that Kevin McCalister is a psychopath and is being groomed by a local serial killer.
If you look at the timing on the day of the wet bandits attempt to break into Kevin’s house, you’ll note that they plan on getting to the house at 9PM and it’s specifically shown as the time the heist begins.
* Kevin had visited Santa earlier in the day and the interaction is shown to be after dark, which would place it after 5pm in Chicago.
* Kevin then visits with his neighbor Marley in a church, discussing matters of importance and family.
* Kevin then “decides” to booby trap his home, shown by unfurling a plan with details on the traps.
* He is able to complete setting up the entire house, with time to spare to make a delicious Kraft dinner at 9pm.
* This means that he probably completed the entire task in only around ~1-2 hours.
So my supposition is that Kevin had this plan for awhile now. He had been planning on booby trapping his house, not for the Wet Bandits, but for when his family was with them. **He had been planning on killing his family.**
**Bonus theory:** At the end of the film, Kevin is saved by his neighbor Marley. Essentially his neighbor sees Kevin break into a house, which he then enters, bashing in the heads of men who he does not know, other than perhaps seeing one of them in a police uniform a week prior.
He then returns Kevin to his house, absent of parents, and flees the scene before the police arrive.
**Marley is in fact the serial killer that his brother makes him out to be.** He sees Kevin as a kindred spirit and wants to encourage his psychopathic behavior.
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This movie is a moving meditation on pain. A truly amazing exposé on mind over matter! Harry and Marv were strong! They had a goal, they fought through adversity to get to it. Now they never really got to it, but I’m holding my breath for part 5.
Honestly you can play those bagpipes after like 90% of the (sometimes literal) slapstick’s in those movies.
Kevin alone on deathrow
Daniel Stern is 6’4″
Joe Pesci is 5’4″
and yet I am asked to believe that pipe hit them both in the nose at the same time? SMDH.
Better Watch Out kid did the same thing and exploded the dudes skull.
Action movies do the same shit. I don’t care how big a bad ass you are, if some 6’2 250 terrorist slaps you in the side of the face with a fire extinguisher, you’re fucking dead.
what movie is this from?
LMAO, finally, the correct ending!
The Brick thrown at Merv’s face from the rooftop in Home Alone 2 always had me thinking this lol
The mfing Wet Bandits!
Yeah the sequel goes full loony tunes logic and it’s really distracting when you watch it as an adult. The first one was at least grounded in some sort of reality.
It’d be epic if Macaulay Culkin went to their funerals in real life
How was Kevin even able to lift it up in the first place.
Press F to pay respect
I know Home Alone 2’s traps are far more lethal and therefore cartoony, but I really appreciate that the sequel knew the traps were the highlight of the movie.
It’s feels like the music stops and the whole act is a single take. It’s Harry and Marv getting full on murdered by these traps and the camera doesn’t cut away when they take a hit. The movie doesn’t rush through the traps and that to me makes Home Alone 2 worth it.
I want to call out Tim Curry breaking into a guest’s room, hearing said grown adult *singing in the shower*, then continuing to peep on said grown man anyways.
The worst though is Kevin’s fuck-o Dad cancelling his credit cards he knew Kevin had with him. A cop even says if Kevin uses the cards they’ll be able to trace where he is.
“R.I.P” 🪦🪦
I watch both of these every year and ever year I think these guys must be mutants or super hero’s
Question, what traps would have killed them.
Skull fracture, with subdural hematoma. Marv is dead.
These guys should’ve been dead like fifteen times before
The way he thew that at his age and size it can’t be much more than 10kg! That ain’t killing them
Everyone always brings up Home Alone to show how the traps would be far more severe in real life than the depiction in the movie; but some of the opposite is actually true 🙂 My favorite example of this is the scene where Marv is “electrocuted” by a welder in Home Alone 2 – in real life, welders such as that operate at very low voltage, and you wouldn’t even be able to feel a shock from one.