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[J2 Cool]

Damn, this movie has been a favorite of mine since I was little but there's so many great performances in it that I never gave recognition to when younger. Particularly John Candy's character. On that bus on the way home where she asks him if he ever left his kid home alone.. He's like "No! no.. never." And then explains something a hundred times worse that he did and makes it like no biggie. Seriously, I just became an even bigger fan of that guy's work.

And the wet bandits. :lol I love this movie

Marv exits from the back of the house with a VCR under his arm and a sack
over his shoulder. He throws the objects into the van.
"What's so funny?" asks Harry. "What's so funny? What are you laughing at?
You did it again. You left the water running."
"Yep," says Marv.
"Why do you do that. I told you not to do it."
"Harry, it's our calling card. All the great one's leave their mark.
We're the Wet Bandits," says Marv.
"You're sick, you know that. Really sick."

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

John Candy

That movie was awesome. Gotta watch it this Christmas, it's been a few years.

 

[J2 Cool]

John Candy

That movie was awesome. Gotta watch it this Christmas, it's been a few years.

yeah, was for me too which is why that caught me incredibly off guard. He already had me rolling speaking about the other guys on the bus. He was just awesome. And this still rocks some of the best physical humor ever with the house raid and all the classic painful comedy. Pesci and Marv nailed it

 

[BigJonsson]

I watched Home Alone a few weeks ago...

I think it's funnier now that I understand the world better or something lol

 

[soundwave05]

Kevin, you're what the French refer to as "les incompetent"


:lol

 

[J2 Cool]

I watched Home Alone a few weeks ago...

I think it's funnier now that I understand the world better or something lol

and the thing was, it was my favorite holiday flick when younger and I like it even more for the nostlagia and intelligent humor. Definetly a great family flick.

 

[firex]

fuller! go easy on the pepsi!

 

[J2 Cool]

Here's the whole John Candy bit I'm talking about though I'm pretty sure he added his own subtlties and his timing is superb.

Inside the Budget rental truck Gus is sitting next to Kay.
"I'm a bad parent," says Kay.
"These things happen," says Gus. "Want to talk about bad parents, look at
us. On the road 48- 49 weeks out of the year. We hardly see our family. Joe
forgets his kids names half the time. Ziggy over there never even met his
kid. Eddie? Let's just hope none of them write a book about him."
"Tell me, have you ever gone on vacation and left your child home?"
"No, but I did leave one in I funeral pallor once. Distraught wife and I
left him there all day. All day alone with the corpse. he was okay. After
six-seven weeks, he came around, started talking again. But he's okav. They
get over it. Kids are resilient like that."
"Maybe we shouldn't talk about this," says Kay.
"You brought it up," says Gus.
"I'm sorry," responds Kay.

 

[firex]

hahaha, holy shit. i need to watch home alone again, i forgot like everything but the bit i quoted about that cousin of macaulay culkin who wets the bed.

 

[Ryo]

Watch it every christmas. Brings me memoris of how christmas felt like when I was younger. Too sad the magic of christmas disappears somewhat when you grow older.

btw.. saw the "les incompetents"-girl in a movie last night. She still looks exactly the same =)

 

[soundwave05]

:lol at the John Candy cameo.

Man, I just remember how *huge* Home Alone was when I was a kid.

It was like if you had hyper kids in the house, you just put on Home Alone and they'd sit down and shut up.

 

[OmniGamer]

I saw this in the theaters as a kid and I hated it....mainly because I hatedMacalay Culkin. Mac this, Mac that. I only laughed once throughout the whole movie but I don't remember which part it was. As of now, I can tolerate it, but mainly due to the other characters, not "Kevin".