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Mecha
Join date: 2011-04-10
Location: New Marais
 |  Subject: I choose you TRF! Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:19 pm | |
| Home Alone is a great family Christmas movie. Y U NO LIKE?  |
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Lykos
Join date: 2010-12-29
Age: 19
Location: UK
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:48 am | |
| I agree. Well, not great but decent. |
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TheCinemaJack
Hall of Fame
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 17
Location: New York, United States
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:09 pm | |
| Home Alone sucks because it's a one-trick pony. Every joke is someone getting hit with something. There's no reason to care about the kid, especially because he keeps setting up traps for the burglars when he could easily call the police.
There's no substance or variety to it. It's just "hit someone in the head, hit someone in the nuts, push him down a flight of stairs, and impale him with something sharp." And then rinse and repeat for three more movies, all of which are terrible as well (although the second was better than the first).
And then the whole subplot with the shovel guy who turns out to be good. Who didn't see that one coming? ___________________________ Check out my blog, MAG Journal! |
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Teckno
Administrator
Join date: 2010-12-29
Location: Kroy Wen
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:25 pm | |
| | Lykos wrote: | | I agree. Well, not great but decent. |
Did you totally ignore the rules of this subsection.....
I'll leave this comment here to show what people are NOT supposed to do.
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Lykos
Join date: 2010-12-29
Age: 19
Location: UK
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:23 pm | |
| | Teckno wrote: | | Lykos wrote: | | I agree. Well, not great but decent. |
Did you totally ignore the rules of this subsection.....
I'll leave this comment here to show what people are NOT supposed to do. |
I'm not arguing though... All I am doing is showing what side I'm on. 
But okay feel free to delete. |
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Teckno
Administrator
Join date: 2010-12-29
Location: Kroy Wen
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 1:34 pm | |
| Well the section is gone now so no point. 
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Blixtstorm
Designers
Join date: 2011-01-01
Age: 22
Location: Sweden
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:54 pm | |
| Home alone is fun from the point of seeing people fall in to traps... lol  |
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Azazel
Join date: 2010-12-29
Location: Gensokyou
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:29 pm | |
| | TheCinemaJack wrote: | Home Alone sucks because it's a one-trick pony. Every joke is someone getting hit with something. There's no reason to care about the kid, especially because he keeps setting up traps for the burglars when he could easily call the police.
There's no substance or variety to it. It's just "hit someone in the head, hit someone in the nuts, push him down a flight of stairs, and impale him with something sharp." And then rinse and repeat for three more movies, all of which are terrible as well (although the second was better than the first).
And then the whole subplot with the shovel guy who turns out to be good. Who didn't see that one coming? |
I have not seen the movie, but in one like that I did not think I would have found it entertaining. My willing suspension of disbelief is somewhat broken in the whole "smart kid vs stupid bad guys" situation because it is cliche and overdone. Besides, as an article on cracked mentioned, that is a dangerous idea to give to kids, and cracked summed it up perfectly.
| Cracked wrote: | | You know what we call kids who try to trip the criminals with their matchbox cars? Missing and presumed dead. |
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TheCinemaJack
Hall of Fame
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 17
Location: New York, United States
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:48 pm | |
| | Azazel wrote: | | I have not seen the movie, but in one like that I did not think I would have found it entertaining. My willing suspension of disbelief is somewhat broken in the whole "smart kid vs stupid bad guys" situation because it is cliche and overdone. |
My issue isn't with suspension of disbelief, it's with the fact that the entire series relies on one type of gag.___________________________ Check out my blog, MAG Journal! |
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Stigma
Join date: 2011-01-03
Age: 18
Location: US
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:09 pm | |
| I agree with TRF Home Alone is pretty terrible. |
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TheCinemaJack
Hall of Fame
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 17
Location: New York, United States
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Sheogorath
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 21
Location: Shivering Isles
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:23 am | |
| I agree with TRF as well.
Home Alone was boring up until the traps. ___________________________ You don't like cheese? Then don't expect me to give you one!   |
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TheCinemaJack
Hall of Fame
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 17
Location: New York, United States
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:25 am | |
| | Sheogorath wrote: | I agree with TRF as well.
Home Alone was boring up until the traps. |
Nononononono.
It was boring up until the traps, at which point it became boring AND stupid AND annoying.___________________________ Check out my blog, MAG Journal! |
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Toxicmaniac
Join date: 2011-02-23
Age: 17
Location: Planet reach
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:55 am | |
| I don't like to jump into the bandwagon but TRF has a point. While i do think this cliché works enough for a family with kids to enjoy. The characters are just caricatures with one dimensional tropes and they really kinda overdo the whole traps thing. Like half the movie is based on that and you'd think those criminals would have atleast the intelligence higher than that of a cucumber. Hell this whole cliché is more overdone than that whole generic pocahontas story avatar used.
Overall the movie is pretty shallow, predictable, lazy and kind off boring. But it doesn't try to be any more than that in the first place. Its just a enjoyable movie for kids that don't know better than stupid comedy. ___________________________ "Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man" -Friederich Nietzsche  |
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TheCinemaJack
Hall of Fame
Join date: 2010-12-30
Age: 17
Location: New York, United States
| | Subject: Re: I choose you TRF! Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:35 am | |
| | Toxicmaniac wrote: | | Overall the movie is pretty shallow, predictable, lazy and kind off boring. But it doesn't try to be any more than that in the first place. Its just a enjoyable movie for kids that don't know better than stupid comedy. |
I'll be perfectly honest, I enjoyed it the first couple of times I watched it, because I was young and young kids laugh at poop, farts, and ballshots. But then I watched it again last year and it was really bad. It's an entertaining film if you're a small child, but that doesn't make it good. And most of us here aren't small children. I mean Franko is like 9½ years old but he's the youngest. So I don't fully understand why everyone here loves it so much, unless, and this is my guess, the people here who love it haven't seen it in a long time.___________________________ Check out my blog, MAG Journal! |
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