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Everything Action Commentary: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
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For the final Everything Action Commentary of 2025, Zach and Chris are joined by special guests Joe and Sam to finish the holiday tradition of watching every Home Alone movie with the 2012 TV movie, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist.
This time, instead of the McCallisters, the Baxter family moves from California to Maine shortly before Christmas. Unknown to the family, however, is that their new home hides a priceless painting in a hidden vault in the basement, which is the target of veteran thief Sinclair (Malcolm McDowell) and his accomplices Jessica (Debi Mazar) and Hughes (Eddie Steeples). When their parents go to attend a Christmas party, Finn (Christian Martyn) and his sister Alexis (Jodelle Ferland) are left Home Alone, and Finn has to devise the traps to stop the thieves when Alexis is locked in the basement. While watching the film, the guys discuss whether Malcolm McDowell breaks his foot off-screen, the fake video game played throughout, whether the movie is a pioneer in swatting someone, drunk Ed Asner, the movie's hint at a supernatural element, and more.
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Transcript
Intro
Introduction of Hosts and Guests
00:03:09
Zach Sheets
Hello and welcome to another EveryDaction Commentary. It's your commentary for December 2025. I'm your host, Zach.
00:03:14
Chris Prime
I'm your co-host, Chris.
00:03:16
Zach Sheets
And we've special guests, Joe Penta and Sam.
00:03:18
Penta
and
00:03:22
Sam
I'm too sober. Start this over.
Holiday Tradition: Home Alone Movies
00:03:24
Zach Sheets
but And we are finishing our holiday tradition that we've been doing for the last couple of years of watching every Home Alone movie. And we are down to Home Alone 5, the holiday heist.
00:03:37
Zach Sheets
from 2012, the ABC Family original movie.
00:03:42
Penta
last one until nine gets made.
00:03:45
Zach Sheets
Well, i think they're only up to because it was Hope See Hope Alone, but that one was so bad, I think they're probably just, like, abandoned the entire, like, franchise.
00:03:54
Penta
Six or seven?
00:03:58
Zach Sheets
They have to figure a way to, like, bring Macaulay Collab back as, like, an adult Kevin.
00:03:58
Penta
Let's move on.
00:03:59
Sam
Oh,
00:04:05
Penta
I mean, that was a plot in six, wasn't it? He has the security system.
00:04:07
Chris Prime
Heh.
00:04:09
Zach Sheets
but but yeah buzz Buzz works for like security. you know like yeah He has like a... What was it? Macalester Security was like in that movie?
Home Alone Franchise and Future Ideas
00:04:16
Sam
do we have to relive that?
00:04:18
Zach Sheets
let's no that's not. But yeah, ah so we're jumping into Holiday Heist. 2012, it was part of 25 Days of Christmas. It's one of the... so there's like There's like three Macalester ones, three non-Macalester ones. This is like a different family.
00:04:36
Zach Sheets
And um difference the criminals, you got Malcolm McDowell leaving the criminals, which is probably biggest name in this movie. i don't know what what he had to do look to be slumming it in an ABC Family Home Alone movie, but we'll find out.
00:04:51
Penta
It was a long time since Clockwork Orange.
00:04:57
Zach Sheets
He seems... but Malcolm McDowell just seems like he's like one of those guys where he'll just take anything.
00:04:57
Sam
Well, I heard he got the call after Caligula.
00:05:06
Sam
Oh, yeah, for sure.
00:05:06
Zach Sheets
Zajus is like, hey, I got this movie. It's like, sure.
00:05:10
Sam
I love the man, but yes, absolutely.
00:05:15
Zach Sheets
So you can watch it. It's on Disney Plus, as are all the other Home Alone movies. So we are all paused at zero. So as soon as you hit play, you should start seeing like the Home Alone holiday heist logo come up.
00:05:27
Zach Sheets
So I'll give a countdown. we'll get started here. So five, four, three, two, one, play.
00:05:55
Sam
This a car commercial?
00:06:04
Zach Sheets
Oh boy.
Home Alone 5: Games and Parodies
00:06:12
Chris Prime
Was that bootleg of of... like, Mass Effect?
00:06:20
Sam
I'm trying to figure out what the hell it was.
00:06:23
Zach Sheets
i mean, what what was going on in 2012 to like be like, for them to like, parodying or copying?
00:06:30
Chris Prime
No, it'd be like Mass Effect 2. two
00:06:32
Penta
No, that was that hidden Maverick Hunter Mega Man game that was was or was not released. No one can confirm.
00:06:49
Chris Prime
So Sam, I know you missed ah one of the other Home Alones, but would you believe that they filmed it ah a Home Alone in South America or a South Africa?
00:06:57
Zach Sheets
South Africa, yeah.
00:06:59
Sam
That? No. Wait, what?
00:07:02
Chris Prime
Yeah, Home Alone 4 took, they they like fake filmed Chicago in South Africa.
00:07:12
Sam
Okay. Why? What was the budget? A dollar?
00:07:17
Zach Sheets
I think that was like a like Wonderful World ABC original
00:07:17
Chris Prime
I guess
00:07:20
Zach Sheets
but like what disney abca home yeah abc original
00:07:21
Chris Prime
ABC original.
00:07:26
Chris Prime
But like. they They like try their hardest. On such a limited budget to fake. Like Chicago and stuff and that. This at least they blatantly say like. Hey we're not in Chicago. It's Maine.
00:07:40
Zach Sheets
Also, is this some of those movies where they bought a house without even seeing it?
Filming Locations and Budget Discussion
00:07:43
Zach Sheets
They're just like, yeah we'll buy the house.
00:07:45
Chris Prime
no Yeah, they they totally did like a horror like movie plot where it's like sight unseen, bought a house, never been inside of it.
00:07:57
Penta
So.
00:07:57
Sam
That's really what the franchise needs is a horror twist.
00:08:00
Penta
So you're saying next year going to do the Home Alone one edit where everything is like horror movie foley's and slasher music.
00:08:09
Zach Sheets
The saw edit.
00:08:10
Penta
Yeah.
00:08:19
Chris Prime
So um I think mine like skipped a little. Did your realtor to show up in your version?
00:08:26
Penta
ah Yeah, they're in May.
00:08:26
Chris Prime
Okay.
00:08:27
Penta
No, this is a whole this is a horror movie.
00:08:29
Chris Prime
Yeah, because she was waiting in the kitchen with the basket, like waiting for her like cue to come in, right? Like it's like she had to wait for like a silence.
00:08:35
Zach Sheets
yeah Is a Stephen King movie because they're in Maine?
00:08:39
Chris Prime
She's all now I got to run in because she's been there. She's there before them. She, you know, like she's just been hiding there.
00:08:50
Zach Sheets
they're living in Castle Rock?
00:08:50
Penta
Yeah.
00:08:54
Sam
Also, that basket does not have a lobster in it. I don't believe they're in it.
00:08:57
Penta
take Take away the Christmas music from that stair shot.
00:09:08
Chris Prime
So ah this movie is filmed in Canada. This is like Ontario. So
00:09:18
Chris Prime
let's just see if like you could say like how many local Canadian Etros they got for this movie.
00:09:40
Sam
It's always a gravano.
00:09:51
Penta
Crab Man crabman has fallen so far.
00:09:57
Chris Prime
get a raise like, you know a whole bunch of kids.
Character Analysis: Malcolm McDowell
00:10:10
Sam
I kind of just want to draw in the lines of McDowell's face.
00:10:16
Chris Prime
Like he's got wrinkles, but they're not defined.
00:10:16
Sam
So give me a call.
00:10:30
Sam
I guess he's in.
00:10:33
Chris Prime
So is Michael McDowell like Danny Ocean? But like in his last years where like it's just not going well at all for him?
00:10:41
Sam
That's kind of what it seems like.
00:10:42
Zach Sheets
He should have returned years ago.
00:10:45
Chris Prime
Yeah. It was like he's he went from like if you saw the if you listen to the history of all the failed like attempts like he's trying to break into this house in the hopes that it could be the final score maybe?
00:11:03
Penta
He's addicted to the thrill of the hunt.
00:11:08
Sam
The gambler mentality.
00:11:10
Chris Prime
Yeah, just keep doubling down.
00:11:14
Penta
Or that diamond mine meme.
00:11:33
Penta
Oh no, this is the talk boy.
00:11:37
Chris Prime
Oh god.
00:11:37
Zach Sheets
The karaoke machine.
00:11:39
Chris Prime
The talk box.
00:11:41
Zach Sheets
Are they going to use that to like trick the trick the thieves?
00:11:46
Sam
a hundred percent
00:11:50
Zach Sheets
I also got the like Simpsons vibes of like, hey, good looking. We'll be back for some dinner later.
00:11:56
Penta
Oh no, that one alien looked like he had something in his pants. He's just running away trying to get to the bathroom.
00:12:02
Sam
That is the fakest fucking game I've ever seen.
00:12:07
Zach Sheets
It's game the game.
00:12:14
Chris Prime
So, yeah, like, it's got the same UI as Mass Effect. It's just, like, not.
00:12:22
Sam
Well, from what I understand, games that are featured in movies are just like canceled prototypes, like usually.
00:12:29
Chris Prime
Oh, you could just, like, yeah, scoop them up because you won't get, like...
00:12:32
Sam
Yeah, because like they're not owned by anyone anymore.
00:12:36
Chris Prime
But this looks like some sort of, like, foreign attempt at, like, Mass Effect, and then... they, like, Disney was just like, oh, we'll just buy that. Like, it's weird because they can just not make the game the big focus because this is, like, even more confusing.
00:12:47
Sam
Yeah.
00:13:00
Chris Prime
Like, it you know, it's gonna because it's, like, by now the movie has shown you the game has, like, a couple of ways. Plus, like, it's a mobile game and it's a console game.
00:13:10
Penta
They predicted fortnight.
00:13:11
Sam
Yeah, the game is going to be playing a big part.
00:13:15
Zach Sheets
He's playing on the Ouya...
00:13:18
Sam
Yeah, he's playing a big part.
00:13:20
Chris Prime
and But Penta's right. This is like what Fortnite is. it's it's It should be more like that, but like no one figured out that mechanic yet in 2012.
00:13:29
Penta
Hey, now PS Vita was around in 2012.
00:13:36
Penta
I'm still mad about the switch.
00:13:40
Sam
It took me five Home Alone movies to like actually pay attention to everything that's potentially going to be a trap during the exposition.
00:13:49
Chris Prime
oh yeah. This garage of clues.
00:13:52
Sam
Like the fucking, well, the game for one, him putting away the those utensils in the drawer
Critique of Storytelling and Themes
00:13:57
Sam
like that, 100% going to come back to bite them in the ass. Somehow.
00:14:03
Sam
I know it's going to happen.
00:14:07
Chris Prime
I don't know. I feel like you're giving the movie a little too much cleverness where it's like they would show you that shot like, oh boy, I can't wait for that Chekhov's gun and it never happens.
00:14:15
Zach Sheets
Yes.
00:14:16
Chris Prime
Like, that was the previous Home Home movie.
00:14:16
Sam
You know what? i You know what? All I have to say to that is cheers.
00:14:24
Sam
My brain is still working too well for this movie.
00:14:27
Chris Prime
and But you have to give it a benefit of doubt. like you're You're like crediting it for like clever filmmaking, but I don't know. like am i i'm just I'm playing the safety odds.
00:14:35
Sam
But it's Home Alone 5. Yeah.
00:14:37
Chris Prime
yeah I've been hurt before.
00:14:39
Sam
i've I've been really hurt.
00:14:50
Chris Prime
Oh, man. You can hear this the like tuba music that they want to use, but they just can't.
00:14:55
Sam
Wait, so they just moved into this house.
00:14:57
Zach Sheets
Yep.
00:14:58
Penta
Yep.
00:14:58
Chris Prime
Yep.
00:14:58
Sam
Why are there pickled jars of foreign objects?
00:15:02
Zach Sheets
It's just like, yeah, last person just like left everything behind.
00:15:06
Sam
but Are they pickling peaches? Like, what like what's going on?
00:15:08
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:15:08
Penta
It's... Sam, please, it's fully furnished.
00:15:14
Sam
I didn't ask for that my Zillow listing.
00:15:19
Zach Sheets
Dead Lake is watching you.
00:15:23
Sam
Oh, hey, it's like you knew the movie.
00:15:25
Zach Sheets
ah
00:15:34
Sam
All right. So like that scream seems so 80 yard in like it did not.
00:15:35
Chris Prime
Dangling is watching you.
00:15:42
Sam
I don't know. Was that me?
00:15:55
Sam
Well, I'll ask him what video game he likes.
00:16:02
Chris Prime
So, was this supernatural now? I know we joked about the haunted house, but that light thing, yeah, that light thing really did happen.
00:16:07
Zach Sheets
Just pirate ghost.
00:16:10
Chris Prime
That's not, like, part of the escape.
00:16:11
Sam
Yeah, they're kind of pointing in that direction, and that's interesting if they go full steam ahead with that.
00:16:19
Penta
That's why they had to set it in Maine. Ghosts are afraid of Chicago.
00:16:23
Chris Prime
There's, like, so much ghost that it's just too cluttered.
00:16:34
Chris Prime
If you think about it, there's probably a lot of dead people in Chicago compared to Maine.
00:16:34
Penta
Okay.
00:16:41
Penta
when When that kid says ghost snow blah blah blah, does it sound like they're saying ghosting?
00:16:48
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:16:51
Chris Prime
See, the ghost mechanic works here because he's obsessed with ghosts and stuff. So it's like... There's no ghosts?
00:17:03
Sam
All right. He named dropped it. Robo infantry three.
00:17:24
Chris Prime
Okay, here comes the Pet Sematary part of the movie of just, explaining, like, the dead.
00:17:36
Zach Sheets
Well, back to games.
00:17:39
Sam
The fucking transition.
00:17:48
Zach Sheets
Is it multiplayer or single player? Because he's playing with online with people, but it's like one more level.
00:17:54
Chris Prime
Maybe ranking? like It's like Borderlands.
00:17:57
Sam
I don't know. When we see the same video clip in five minutes, but I'll let you know.
00:18:02
Zach Sheets
and this And then the sister's on Friendspaster.
00:18:09
Penta
But who's on her top eight?
00:18:10
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:18:28
Penta
Sorry, girl. You can't get a 32 gig nowadays either.
00:18:36
Sam
this This dad is so Nickelodeon.
00:18:40
Chris Prime
Oh yeah.
00:18:41
Sam
Or like he's trying to be and lead.
00:18:46
Chris Prime
ah He's way more in love with his family than like anyone else in this family Is
00:18:53
Zach Sheets
He doesn't he sayst have a Wikipedia page.
00:18:58
Chris Prime
he the ghost?
00:18:59
Zach Sheets
ah
00:19:00
Chris Prime
Is this one of those Nicholas Spark twists where like he's been dead and he brought the family here?
00:19:01
Zach Sheets
Is it?
00:19:06
Sam
Yes, the dad is dead.
00:19:08
Chris Prime
yeah just
00:19:09
Zach Sheets
This is literally his only movie he's ever been in.
00:19:11
Chris Prime
Yeah, he's a ghost. He's a ghost in real life. He's a ghost in this movie.
00:19:16
Sam
I think i think that would like that would give the movie five scores.
00:19:22
Chris Prime
See, you're never a home alone. but know, like Ghost Dad.
00:19:27
Sam
True.
00:19:35
Chris Prime
Also, you know, for a kid, he's not, like, doing drugs or anything. He's just playing games, and he just got to this neighborhood, and his only friend is the creepy neighbor kid.
00:19:44
Sam
and This is also like, this is 2012, which means they filmed in like 2011.
00:19:44
Zach Sheets
of this with snow
00:19:49
Sam
This is like the age of the next gen tech boom. Like, this is what kids were doing.
00:19:56
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:19:56
Sam
Like, you know?
00:19:58
Chris Prime
Having freak-out nightmares in bed?
00:19:58
Sam
I mean, kids have been doing it.
00:20:00
Chris Prime
His first anxiety attack?
00:20:24
Chris Prime
Listen, I think the reason why the parents moved here was so that they can finally like have space so they can bang. you know So they're just like, I will not be cockblocked by my own self. You get back in your room.
00:20:39
Sam
comes in room. I'm crying.
00:20:43
Zach Sheets
We got Chris in this bed.
00:20:46
Chris Prime
It's like the first night, right? like it's the They just got there.
00:20:52
Chris Prime
like Based on the timing, like he saw the safe, he ran out, he then played with the neighbor kid.
00:21:01
Sam
Yeah. Give them ah give him a little more credit, you know?
00:21:15
Chris Prime
Listen, we're not allowed to see any of his plans. We just have to assume that they worked.
00:21:18
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:21:33
Chris Prime
God, this movie's just filler. They could just shown the next night or something.
00:21:41
Penta
This is like somebody watched Home Alone, but they only watched the furnace scene. Is that an eye
00:21:49
Zach Sheets
Is he... wait, what?
00:21:51
Penta
He used like a PlayStation eye toy as a thermal camera.
00:21:54
Zach Sheets
ah Yeah.
00:21:56
Chris Prime
He made his own ghost hunting equipment.
00:22:00
Sam
But he has a fucking seashell lamp.
00:22:13
Penta
What? why
00:22:15
Zach Sheets
Why does he have a taser?
00:22:16
Sam
It's me! I'm sleepwalking! ah Dad?
00:22:24
Chris Prime
I think he becomes ghost dad.
00:22:26
Sam
Didn't you know that he sleepwalks, you fucking idiot?
00:22:30
Chris Prime
yeah
00:22:30
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:22:55
Sam
Now, son, we're going have to leave you home alone for that one.
00:22:58
Zach Sheets
ah
00:23:00
Penta
Is that the
Role of Elders in Home Alone Movies
00:23:01
Penta
premise of how he gets home alone?
00:23:02
Sam
Yeah, his dad just holds a grudge.
00:23:02
Penta
They have to go to the hospital?
00:23:06
Zach Sheets
We're going to your dad to the hospital for burns.
00:23:09
Chris Prime
Where'd you get him?
00:23:09
Penta
Maybe check his EKG.
00:23:10
Chris Prime
i got He got burned on his dick.
00:23:32
Chris Prime
Okay, so for ah Home Alone rules, don't you need like a wise elder? To kind of help you or guide you? and Is it just the dad?
00:23:41
Penta
Malcolm Motel is right there.
00:23:43
Chris Prime
But he's also... But I went down as the wise elder villain.
00:23:48
Chris Prime
It's just like...
00:23:48
Sam
the He's actually the anti-hero.
00:23:53
Chris Prime
I mean... i think we we did that with one through four. They they had like somebody. Three had the neighbor lady. Four had the...
00:24:04
Chris Prime
ah The like... made The maid?
00:24:06
Penta
The butler.
00:24:06
Chris Prime
maid? the butler of The butler. And then, like, I don't know who's five is right now.
00:24:12
Zach Sheets
I think I read that this one doesn't have an older person.
00:24:16
Chris Prime
Not even the realtor. Maybe it'll be, like, the weird, tacky realtor.
00:24:18
Zach Sheets
yeah Mm-hmm.
00:24:21
Sam
Yeah, the realtor becomes the mentor.
00:24:27
Chris Prime
I mean, again, this is why the Home Alone series has kind of lost the plot. it It literally forgot key moments and characters in this one. And then in 6, they're just like, we don't need any of that.
00:24:52
Chris Prime
You know what's funny? like This is actually like a real thing. You get a lot of Midwesterners you just don't who never use like a snowblower and they will like injure themselves.
00:25:05
Sam
Yeah, they they'll they'll Jeremy Renner themselves.
00:25:05
Penta
I prefer old reliable.
00:25:08
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:25:09
Zach Sheets
jesus
00:25:09
Penta
Jeez.
00:25:11
Sam
Honestly, all right, so, like, too soon? No, I'm kidding. No, I was really fucked up. I'm glad he fucking lived through that because that was terrible.
00:25:22
Chris Prime
Yeah, but that was such a rich man snowblower. It's like, of the versions you could have, it's not that. like he He had the one that you like you drove.
00:25:33
Sam
It just was out for blood that day, man.
00:25:52
Chris Prime
That's like raw wood, right? That's not, like, comfortable to sit on.
00:26:02
Chris Prime
Oh my god, when's he gonna get home alone? It's like he's you' just with his family.
00:26:08
Zach Sheets
We're celebrating Christmas.
00:26:09
Sam
if Yeah, this this is too happy. when we need the dread. Okay. we need the dread
00:26:14
Chris Prime
Yeah, you need the buildup of, like, the abandonment, and then sort of, like, the, um, the, like, I regret being mad at my family moment.
00:26:24
Zach Sheets
Yeah, he needs to be mad as family and be like, I wish you guys would disappear.
00:26:31
Penta
I think we're giving this movie too much credit.
00:27:01
Chris Prime
Man, someone thought, let's make Michael McDowell a child-friendly star.
00:27:08
Penta
I mean, his character was in Space Jam New Legacy, wasn't it?
00:27:23
Sam
Oh, they really should have them just fucking take the cookie, take a bite and just drink a glass of milk.
00:27:32
Chris Prime
So this is another movie where he leads a gang of like criminals and then there's like...
00:27:41
Penta
special milk.
00:27:41
Sam
Yeah, there's parallels to be drawn, you know.
00:27:42
Chris Prime
Yeah.
00:27:50
Chris Prime
That's right. Discipline your crew, Michael McDowell.
00:27:52
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm. Yeah. yeah
00:28:00
Chris Prime
Well, there's DNA in this towel, and then...
00:28:12
Sam
a i choose to believe that was an intentional reference.
00:28:30
Chris Prime
I mean, Michael McDowell really is just an Indiana Jones of safes.
00:28:43
Chris Prime
I love to think of this as part of the Ocean's Eleven universe.
00:28:46
Zach Sheets
I love that shelf is not even lined up with the other shelves. It's not even hidden. Mm-hmm.
00:28:51
Chris Prime
Oh, it's like a completely different color, too. so it's just more obvious.
00:28:54
Sam
That's That's what they say.
00:29:04
Chris Prime
Wait, so that shelf's been there since like the nineteen twenty s
00:29:08
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:29:09
Penta
Yeah.
00:29:10
Chris Prime
And they never like done anything?
00:29:12
Zach Sheets
the real research The realtor didn't find out there's a... by the way, there's a giant safe downstairs, but we we can't open it, so whatever.
00:29:20
Chris Prime
I like it if she just said that. Like, if there was like a line where they mentioned the safe or something and then the family was like, whatever, we needed the house to get away from that allegation. like Whatever, they're out running.
00:29:36
Sam
What a sad looking picture.
00:29:38
Zach Sheets
but
00:29:47
Penta
Is the inciting incident going to be them getting stuck in?
00:29:52
Sam
Oh my god. Stop.
00:29:54
Chris Prime
You know, they got to the safe really fast for this movie.
00:29:57
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:29:57
Chris Prime
I thought this would be like the long arcing thing, but here we are.
00:30:01
Sam
Holy shit. what are yeah What if they're just home alone and they're stuck in the vault?
00:30:08
Chris Prime
be a difference. That's why this movie didn't sell well. It's like, no, no, we we like completely changed characters by the first act.
00:30:14
Sam
and The family's just out having a really good time and they're stuck in the you see my wife died and was frozen in the safe.
00:30:35
Sam
You're what?
00:30:36
Penta
Is this the lady from the previous one? She broke up with Marv?
00:30:42
Chris Prime
Oh, yeah.
00:30:42
Sam
yeah ki me
00:30:42
Chris Prime
So, Sam, in the previous Home Alone, ah Marv got married.
00:30:43
Sam
You give us over too much credit.
00:30:47
Sam
Oh, that's Really?
00:30:49
Chris Prime
He's played by French steward, so that was different.
00:30:54
Sam
Really?
00:30:58
Chris Prime
Yeah, actually, no, was it Harry or Marv?
00:31:02
Penta
Uh, Marv.
00:31:03
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:31:03
Penta
here Harry was nowhere to be found. I think.
00:31:06
Chris Prime
But, like, the Marv, he looked like Harry, though. he's ah He started dressing like Joe Pesci. So we made a joke that like it's the in-universe where like Marvin Harry went to jail, but then like Harry killed Marv and took his identity.
00:31:22
Zach Sheets
And it didn't it and it did take place between one and two.
00:31:26
Chris Prime
Yes. That's see, like that's where it gets even like more bizarre.
00:31:29
Sam
Wait, what?
00:31:29
Zach Sheets
And the Michaelis just got, like, the Michaelis like, they got, like, they were having a divorce, they're getting a divorce but they then they didn't get the divorce.
00:31:38
Sam
What is all this new lore development in my home of Rome?
00:31:38
Chris Prime
It's like, Yeah, it was weird. But, like, only one sibling didn't come back.
00:31:42
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:31:45
Chris Prime
Plus, like, it was not like, oh, the Kevin didn't have brothers and sisters. It's like some of his brothers and sisters came back.
00:31:53
Zach Sheets
He lost, like, two.
00:31:54
Chris Prime
Yeah, he had, like, five.
00:31:56
Sam
He lost two in the war.
00:31:58
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:32:39
Penta
Is it just me or is the dad trying to act like Jason Bateman?
00:32:48
Chris Prime
you know You know, when I close my eyes, I really hear it, you know? It's like his best Arrested Development like voice.
00:32:58
Sam
He looks like the 10th removed cousin of Steve Martin.
Acting and Comedy in Home Alone 5
00:33:03
Chris Prime
right? It's it's like but the eyes and nose.
00:33:05
Sam
It's the nose, it's the eyebrows. it's It's like there's a couple of facial features.
00:33:11
Chris Prime
Kind of the the gray hair.
00:33:15
Chris Prime
Really just the nose, man. I cannot stop staring at him now.
00:33:16
Sam
The fact that he's a comedic genius.
00:33:23
Sam
What the fuck?
00:33:27
Chris Prime
This is an aggressive lighting for what they're doing for a kid's movie. Wait, why did come like a David Lynch thing where they just like cut to this?
00:33:40
Chris Prime
Like it fades into the bed. Into the dad's paranoia.
00:33:46
Chris Prime
Also, why is the dad the freaked out one and like no one else is?
00:33:51
Sam
Yeah, that doesn't... This ain't making much, though.
00:33:55
Penta
you
00:33:56
Chris Prime
Wait, wait. The house got better looking. Did they repaint stuff?
00:34:04
Zach Sheets
yeah how many like how long has it been
00:34:06
Sam
This is like the third day they've been house.
00:34:17
Chris Prime
We are spending way too much time with this family.
00:34:33
Penta
It's mandatory fun time, child.
00:34:36
Chris Prime
Where is there a mountain in Maine?
00:34:40
Zach Sheets
I'm sure it's like a ski resort something.
00:34:41
Sam
Same fucking gameplay.
00:34:45
Chris Prime
Okay, because I just don't know what town they're like. I guess, like, I always think of Maine by the coast. So I don't know of, like, where they are. It's sort of like a Colorado type setting.
00:35:00
Penta
Where was the Shining Hotel?
00:35:01
Sam
Unless they're near like Acadia.
00:35:08
Chris Prime
Okay, yeah, kid, encourage the home alone.
00:35:12
Sam
Yeah, please. Let's get some Home Alone going.
00:35:22
Penta
Is that Deftones?
00:35:27
Sam
Hell yeah.
00:35:29
Zach Sheets
what the hell?
00:35:33
Sam
What is that in-found music?
00:35:38
Chris Prime
Did the dad discover rock like nu metal?
00:35:41
Sam
The overacting of the father is, this might make it five stars. but but
00:35:47
Zach Sheets
is a nu metal.
00:35:51
Sam
This isn't disturbed.
00:36:10
Sam
It's been three days.
00:36:12
Chris Prime
Yep.
00:36:14
Penta
That's just how quickly the ghosts have possessed the mother.
00:36:31
Sam
was just holding the controller. That's a real gamer right there.
00:36:48
Penta
That kid better learn mouse and keyboard real fast.
00:36:58
Chris Prime
Oh yeah, this is a Christmas movie.
00:37:00
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:37:02
Chris Prime
Because I felt like Christmas just happened already because they did that whole like tree shopping scene that went on forever. so
00:37:08
Sam
Oh, you will.
00:37:09
Chris Prime
I thought it was like New Year's by now.
00:37:12
Penta
Did they even put up the tree?
00:37:15
Chris Prime
No, they just played in that, like, yard. So, like, it's just been sitting there in their, like, house undecorated, I'm assuming.
00:37:27
Zach Sheets
She said it!
00:37:27
Sam
you said it.
00:37:27
Zach Sheets
She said it!
00:37:36
Chris Prime
man, like, you could hear almost the music tones that they couldn't use.
00:37:41
Zach Sheets
Yeah, I mean like that lot the use of John Williams.
00:37:41
Sam
Yeah, the half-baked motif.
00:38:20
Chris Prime
Michael McDow is like a rival drunk on set and then they let him get away with this or there's going to reason why he's like...
00:38:25
Sam
Oh, yeah, he he's 100% true, man. I
00:38:27
Zach Sheets
I was going to sell these hoses.
00:38:35
Sam
don't care how long he's been sober. That thing is fun.
00:38:39
Chris Prime
I mean, he can act. You know, like there's passion and there's emotion with him.
00:38:47
Sam
She took the fucking controller.
00:38:52
Penta
They say that again. Wait, he's not home alone. He's got his sister.
00:38:57
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
00:39:23
Chris Prime
Ah, man. Do you remember when you were a kid and Jessica just do all this?
00:39:30
Penta
Yeah, last week.
00:39:35
Chris Prime
But I get the callback. They're trying to like, show, like, the Home Alone 1 and 2. Well, especially the one thing.
00:39:45
Chris Prime
But for a kid who's, like, afraid of ghosts, he is not afraid of ghosts anymore.
00:39:50
Sam
Are they going to do the classic shape scene?
00:39:58
Sam
now...
00:39:58
Zach Sheets
Oh, this is for expectations.
00:40:01
Penta
Is this Home Alone or Dennis the Menace?
00:40:05
Chris Prime
He's like surprisingly good with that slingshot.
00:40:12
Chris Prime
Okay, again, his fear of the house is completely gone now. Like, it it's not cured. His ghost trap proved that there was someone in your house. And then like the cookies and all that.
00:40:25
Sam
you're gonna repress style.
00:40:28
Chris Prime
But like, maybe because it is he just he's moved on because it proves his suspicion.
00:40:36
Penta
Or he's just staying out of the basement like a smart horror movie protagonist.
00:40:40
Chris Prime
Not true. Also, what parent buys two controllers of the same type for their kid?
00:40:47
Penta
A parent with two kids.
00:40:49
Chris Prime
But the sister does not play games, so why would they need to buy, like, two big...
00:40:50
Sam
What a fake gamer.
00:40:53
Chris Prime
Yeah, like, the family doesn't look like they're gamers.
00:40:57
Penta
Oh, the dad totally plays games with him.
00:41:02
Penta
But he plays Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
00:41:06
Sam
Oh, fuck, is that Ed Asner?
00:41:09
Zach Sheets
I'm here for my one scene!
00:41:11
Sam
Oh, there's no way he's sober.
00:41:18
Chris Prime
Him I get. This is in acting. He's just a little drunk drunk on the set.
00:41:21
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:41:23
Sam
Yeah, he was on the adjacent lot and they just asked him to come over.
00:41:43
Sam
Asner's doing his best Ernest Borg 9 impression.
00:41:43
Penta
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:41:47
Chris Prime
Ooh, yeah, that's all like, this is not the same Ed Eisner I know. This isn't, but this is like... Are two years away from Up?
00:42:00
Chris Prime
Right?
00:42:01
Zach Sheets
Maybe.
00:42:01
Sam
Yeah, what did up the wall?
00:42:06
Penta
This is three years after Up.
00:42:08
Chris Prime
Oh, After. After.
00:42:10
Sam
Yeah, this is after. all he really hit the pile, huh?
00:42:18
Sam
He's, like, actually shit-based.
00:42:20
Chris Prime
yeah One eyes open and...
00:42:22
Sam
He's, like, unapologetically fucked up.
00:42:26
Zach Sheets
I've been drinking so much eggnog.
00:42:31
Chris Prime
That's amazing. I want more of that. I want to see drunk Ed Hester in a Home Alone movie.
00:42:35
Sam
can we just get 20 minutes of that?
00:42:38
Penta
Imagine Ed Asner is the old wise sage. And he's like, oh, I'll go check on your kids. You enjoy the party.
00:42:46
Sam
Oh, man, that would
00:42:47
Chris Prime
he just Gets in his rich person car and drives.
00:42:48
Zach Sheets
Thank you.
00:42:51
Sam
be great.
00:42:53
Chris Prime
Wait. Oh my. All that text on it was new batteries affects your low gameplay.
00:43:09
Penta
There's only one place to find batteries. The cellar.
00:43:16
Penta
Oh, never mind.
00:43:22
Penta
Oh. Oh, no! I was right!
00:43:30
Zach Sheets
Oh no.
00:43:31
Chris Prime
Wow, they they really want to emphasize the basement. Like, they didn't have to do the battery goes down into this it a s slow-mo shot.
00:43:43
Penta
Whoa, that's wide enough for him to fit his hand underneath.
00:43:50
Chris Prime
I feel like that's not a standard door, right? Like, you just, you shouldn't be able to do that.
00:43:53
Penta
No.
00:43:55
Zach Sheets
Yeah, that's like someone fucked fucked up like the length of the door.
00:43:55
Penta
that's all That's also very poor insulation. They're losing thousands on heating.
00:44:01
Sam
right, Tim, we need to make it look like a door.
00:44:03
Chris Prime
yeah It's like,
00:44:08
Chris Prime
do they not like that default door? And they're like, all right, we got like a prop.
00:44:25
Penta
What is this shot?
00:44:29
Zach Sheets
Finn just like lurking in the background. Do they
House Geography and Gamer Stereotypes
00:44:54
Zach Sheets
they have another car?
00:45:35
Sam
they get locked.
00:45:35
Zach Sheets
Lock her in
00:45:36
Chris Prime
Yeah, you know you want to.
00:45:37
Penta
Don't do it.
00:45:39
Chris Prime
Wait, I forgot what is this kid's name?
00:45:43
Zach Sheets
Finn.
00:45:43
Penta
He's Finn.
00:45:44
Chris Prime
Okay.
00:45:44
Penta
She's unnamed sister.
00:45:45
Zach Sheets
Alexis.
00:45:46
Chris Prime
Okay, yeah.
00:45:46
Zach Sheets
She's Alexis.
00:45:47
Chris Prime
Alexis and Finn. Alright.
00:45:56
Penta
Screw them all.
00:45:56
Zach Sheets
Oh my god, so much booze!
00:45:58
Chris Prime
What part of the house is this built under?
00:46:09
Chris Prime
Like, they're in their backyard. If you're if you're trying to understand the geography of the this, like, bunker...
00:46:11
Zach Sheets
yeah
00:46:18
Zach Sheets
Wait, is that the painting?
00:46:20
Penta
It's got to be.
00:46:21
Zach Sheets
oh my god.
00:46:22
Penta
It's definitely haunted.
00:46:31
Zach Sheets
definitely worth $85 million for whatever Mugman said.
00:46:52
Sam
Lock her in, lock her
00:47:02
Chris Prime
That was like a I think you should leave now like edit, right? Like all the rooms he runs through.
00:47:06
Sam
in. Yeah.
00:47:09
Sam
Yeah.
00:47:14
Chris Prime
Tim Robertson work on this?
00:47:18
Sam
You may have...
00:47:26
Penta
Of course she picks the one that's
00:47:28
Zach Sheets
she- Booby Trapped?
00:47:42
Sam
fun ghoul
00:47:54
Zach Sheets
Well, she's dead.
00:47:55
Chris Prime
The house has claimed another soul.
00:47:57
Zach Sheets
yeah she ends She ends up in the painting.
00:48:03
Penta
Yeah, there were like other people in that painting besides the lady.
00:48:09
Zach Sheets
many Santas are there? There's like two Santas right around.
00:48:25
Chris Prime
Here you garbage lady. Bye.
00:48:30
Chris Prime
All right.
00:48:30
Sam
I was in a movie called Up.
00:48:30
Chris Prime
More drunk.
00:48:33
Chris Prime
ah
00:48:51
Zach Sheets
Ednazer is in full like Frank Reynolds mode.
00:48:54
Penta
Mm-hmm.
00:48:56
Sam
yeah
00:49:25
Zach Sheets
Oh my god. want
00:49:27
Sam
This is, this saved the movie.
00:49:31
Zach Sheets
to go to an answer party.
00:49:34
Sam
Man, RIP the legend.
00:49:39
Chris Prime
This is like s slept on of like Ed Esner scenes, you know, just him pushing it, like drinking and throwing like a baller has Christmas party.
00:49:48
Sam
Yeah.
00:49:50
Zach Sheets
i got like, there's like five Santas walking around right now.
00:50:02
Chris Prime
Like, I know this is still, like, 2012 when they filmed this, but, like, anyone taking a photo of this and just posting it online, like, my boss is hammered at our holiday party.
00:50:09
Zach Sheets
laughs
00:50:24
Chris Prime
their iPhone needs an update. Look at all the graphics on the thing.
00:50:46
Zach Sheets
Oh, no.
00:50:47
Sam
Oh my god.
00:51:03
Chris Prime
Oh my god, this is uncomfortable, right? Like, i don't like this.
00:51:17
Chris Prime
ah no, no, no, this is, oh my god.
00:51:19
Penta
that Ed Sheeran?
00:51:19
Zach Sheets
ah
00:51:24
Chris Prime
Okay, so, you know I mentioned the wise elder, the the sage?
00:51:30
Chris Prime
Is this it? Is this our sage?
00:51:34
Sam
I think he's gonna be the fucking sage.
00:51:48
Chris Prime
Wait, this guy's in college?
00:51:50
Zach Sheets
No, he's not. No, he's not.
00:51:52
Chris Prime
He's like...
00:51:53
Zach Sheets
This guy's like 30. 30.
00:52:13
Sam
You're right, kid. What's your address?
00:52:18
Chris Prime
What time has your parents come out? You
00:52:22
Sam
Also, I like the the guy's fucking room. Chinese food takeout and then a single empty margarita glass.
00:52:33
Chris Prime
you know, for a a slob gamer they're trying portray, he's actually pretty clean. You know, it's like he's got this one area that's like dirty, but...
00:52:39
Sam
He's a pretty clean guy.
00:52:42
Zach Sheets
Yeah, they could have leaned really hard into like the stereotype.
00:52:45
Chris Prime
Yep, he's like not wearing pants. He's just a dirty shirt. You know, like the typical what you think in the Hollywood.
00:52:49
Sam
Thank
00:53:06
Penta
Wait, how did Malcolm McDowell break his leg before? Because he was talking about that in the hardware store.
00:53:15
Chris Prime
He didn't mention that at all.
00:53:16
Zach Sheets
Yeah, what happens?
00:53:18
Chris Prime
There's like another part of this movie that got edited out.
00:53:58
Penta
I thought Scary Movie was only PG-13.
00:54:00
Chris Prime
Heh.
00:54:12
Sam
So why are you doing that?
00:55:02
Chris Prime
This is still like the most random crew of thieves.
00:55:06
Sam
Yeah, whoever the fucking casting agent was for this movie, bravo.
00:55:26
Chris Prime
So you think this movie takes place over like one night? Or it's like day two and like... you know, like, the sisters have been in the basement for, like, another night.
00:55:37
Zach Sheets
I feel like to me it's going to be the entire time the parents are gone at the party...
00:55:41
Chris Prime
But it'd be a twist, like, another plot point we didn't see coming was that, like, the first night he defends the house, just like in the first movie, but then the next night, like, they know he's in it, so they come back.
00:55:56
Chris Prime
Ah, boo, he's gonna find his sisters already.
00:56:07
Penta
How did she end up in the bathroom?
00:56:09
Zach Sheets
sorry.
00:56:10
Chris Prime
It's the air vent system.
00:56:15
Sam
Oh no, she's a ghost?
00:56:53
Chris Prime
You know, thankfully they introduced the vent, so it's not like she's locked in like a sealed room with like no air or whatever.
00:57:00
Zach Sheets
like di yeah
00:57:00
Penta
I'm just gonna suffocate.
00:57:02
Sam
Well, that would have made the movie more fun, I think.
Iconic Outfits and Movie Traps
00:57:10
Penta
Is this kid a ghost? They're just outside all the time.
00:57:14
Zach Sheets
The cold doesn't affect me
00:57:20
Penta
What does he mean by supplies? Call the police.
00:57:26
Chris Prime
Is he wearing the Kevin McAllister, like, outdoor clothes?
00:57:30
Penta
Yes.
00:57:30
Zach Sheets
I think he is.
00:57:30
Chris Prime
Like, it's the same colors and scheme.
00:57:31
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
00:57:33
Sam
I gotta buy a toothbrush.
00:57:37
Chris Prime
so say It's either that or, like, Stan Marsh.
00:57:41
Sam
Yeah.
00:57:41
Zach Sheets
Also, how is he affording this?
00:57:46
Sam
Credit card.
00:57:51
Chris Prime
Uh...
00:57:52
Sam
I'm sorry, did he just buy a chainsaw? Did
00:57:55
Chris Prime
Yeah. This town is just like, whatever, it's not a gun. You can have all this, kid.
00:57:59
Sam
he...
00:58:02
Sam
Ilegally by song?
00:58:06
Chris Prime
yeah You don't need a license to buy a hammer.
00:58:16
Sam
Jesus, man.
00:58:19
Sam
What? What's the economy now?
00:58:21
Penta
A toothbrush. Oh, yarn.
00:58:32
Chris Prime
ooh In this inflation, you wouldn't even get that much.
00:58:34
Zach Sheets
Yeah. got a whole spool of twine.
00:58:35
Sam
Yeah.
00:58:38
Sam
the the sport The school itself would be that much money.
00:58:54
Sam
Definitely.
00:59:01
Chris Prime
Oh, I didn't realize that, like... Okay, did Michael Bedell break his leg and that's why he needs the boot? Or did his foot get stuck in some weird boot because it's also made out of garbage?
00:59:12
Penta
No, he he broke his leg sometime when they were in the basement, but I don't remember that. And then he was buying the boots at the same hardware store earlier in the movie.
00:59:19
Sam
Yeah, they didn't.
00:59:20
Zach Sheets
they they
00:59:22
Sam
Yeah, they call attention to it.
00:59:22
Chris Prime
Oh.
00:59:27
Chris Prime
But like, they could have just went to like another store to just buy like a real medical boot. They they legit like made a a crap boot.
00:59:36
Penta
Yeah.
01:00:03
Sam
Yeah, math works.
01:00:20
Sam
know what's really funny too is both Michael McDowell and Debbie Mazur both appeared in Entourage in the current role.
01:00:28
Penta
Bye.
01:00:34
Sam
So they they just knew how to work with each other.
01:00:44
Zach Sheets
Well, might as well get drunk.
01:00:49
Sam
While I read War and Peace.
01:01:16
Sam
It goes back to the Yup.
01:01:32
Chris Prime
Wait, is that also part of the game they're playing?
01:01:36
Zach Sheets
it's a tower defense game
01:01:40
Chris Prime
my god, this is the sage. Ew.
01:01:44
Sam
help
01:01:45
Chris Prime
Like, as nerds ourselves, all of us, but it's just, we're not talking to 10 year olds over, like, Xbox Live.
01:01:53
Sam
Oh, he's got one those handheld massager thingy.
01:01:57
Zach Sheets
Finn have you seen this movie called home alone
01:02:36
Sam
Yeah, what does he know?
01:02:41
Sam
He's real gamer.
01:02:44
Chris Prime
I mean, the dad also dresses like the rich guy's butler, so... Yeah,
01:02:48
Zach Sheets
no
01:02:53
Sam
Wow, they actually spend a little time and money on the editing, huh?
01:02:58
Zach Sheets
Yeah, is this is actually kind of clever.
01:03:00
Chris Prime
yeah it's competent, and it speeds it up without trying to show you all the tiny details. See, I thought the basement was going to be like, or or like the garage was going to be the telling sign, not like everything in the house how we've we've not explored before.
01:03:25
Sam
flipping the slide and cookies, right?
01:03:31
Sam
Holy shit.
01:03:33
Chris Prime
making his own like bear mace?
01:03:36
Zach Sheets
He's making like booby-trap cookies.
01:03:37
Sam
What is going on?
01:03:43
Sam
Is the idea he thinks that they're going to come in and eat the cookies and get horribly...
01:03:48
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:03:49
Chris Prime
Yeah, I.
01:03:49
Zach Sheets
it's It's got like it's like Tabasco, so it's like, oh no!
01:03:51
Sam
Yeah, which is definitely going to happen, 100%. under to prevent
01:03:54
Chris Prime
Yeah, I got to make this montage is pretty clever. It's like soup up everything.
01:03:57
Sam
Oh shit, glue?
01:03:57
Zach Sheets
Oh, glue glue is instead of milk? Okay, that's pretty good.
01:04:00
Sam
Glue?
01:04:04
Chris Prime
He's going to just food poison these people.
01:04:07
Sam
Yeah, I mean, more power to them.
01:04:09
Chris Prime
This is way more food pranks than I like thought from a home alone.
01:04:18
Sam
like the i just the glue in the glass. Which is smart. that's That's how food photographers stage milk anyway.
01:04:26
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:04:27
Chris Prime
But then, wouldn't they, like, by the time they get there, the glue would just harden. there'd be like a skim, like a skin hub and it, right? Hmm.
01:04:34
Sam
ah You're giving this movie too much credit. I think that glue milk is just the way of the future, you know?
01:04:45
Chris Prime
Also, did they ever get back to that draw full of sporks?
01:05:21
Penta
How did he lift that to set that trap?
01:05:23
Zach Sheets
ah
01:05:48
Chris Prime
It like it doesn't take a lot of pressure to just like break your like your shin, you know?
01:05:53
Zach Sheets
Jekyll, yeah.
01:05:55
Sam
Yeah.
01:06:01
Sam
So what you know is, what is it, like five pounds, four pounds?
01:06:04
Chris Prime
Something like that like five like four like
01:06:05
Sam
Four pounds of pressure, I think?
01:06:09
Chris Prime
four pounds, five pounds of pressure at the right spot, like right at that like weak point.
01:06:13
Sam
Yeah.
01:06:13
Chris Prime
You know, it's not a muscle, it's not a bone muscle you hit a lot, so.
01:06:17
Sam
Right.
01:06:19
Chris Prime
Even a slight banger annoyed. Now take like, what, like 125 pounds rolling down at you?
01:06:27
Sam
Yeah.
01:06:34
Chris Prime
Like, realistically, these two, they got hit, they'd be like, I'm done. Like, we cannot. We're not doing this tonight. That was a, that's not an accident. That was planned. That was a rigged trap.
01:06:55
Sam
There's no way those scissors would do that.
01:07:00
Chris Prime
Those are the, like, twining.
01:07:00
Zach Sheets
Like cut a string without closing.
01:07:02
Sam
Yeah, like, it's the world's sharpest fucking scissors.
01:07:28
Chris Prime
Uh-oh, the Jeremy Renner.
01:07:29
Zach Sheets
oh no
01:07:30
Chris Prime
It's the Jeremy Renner.
01:07:31
Sam
Oh no!
01:07:40
Zach Sheets
I like how he's saying it's all CG, so he's not even getting hit by them. He's not reacting to getting hit by them.
01:07:45
Sam
He's clearly not gonna do it.
01:07:51
Sam
Oh my god.
01:08:11
Chris Prime
Is it weird that like this part of the movie is actually pretty good? like It kind of makes up for other parts.
01:08:17
Sam
Well, this is the home alone part.
01:08:17
Penta
it's like
01:08:19
Sam
So now now I'm fine. Now vibing.
01:08:23
Chris Prime
Yeah, now we're like we're invested in
01:08:26
Zach Sheets
This part's way better than the like Home Alone trap part. It barely had anything going on with it.
01:08:34
Penta
I only remember like the remote airplane in 4.
01:08:37
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:08:38
Penta
And that's because that was just a cool thing.
01:08:39
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:09:01
Penta
Oh no, Big Bandit, I'm stuck.
01:09:23
Chris Prime
I like that he knew his plans always have like a little bit of like fake hope. Like, oh, hey, I'm in luck. I'll get this. And then like it activates like a fail safe to the plan.
01:09:35
Zach Sheets
Yeah, he'd anticipate what they're going
01:09:39
Penta
There's no, and there's no upper limits to the sadistic nature of children.
01:09:45
Chris Prime
Yeah, because it's not even like, okay, I did the trap and that's like a deterrent or like this trap should stop them. It's like he plants like another like step to it or like, okay, soon as they think like their guards down and they think they got away with it, then like I crush that their spirit again.
01:10:10
Chris Prime
Okay, here's the part one of the trap. And then the part two is probably like a rag to like clean his face.
01:10:19
Sam
And then part three is the grizzly bear that walks from the kitchen.
01:10:24
Penta
Oh, wait. That wasn't... the The glue was in a...
01:10:27
Chris Prime
No, that was eggnog. That legit was just a bowl of eggnog.
01:10:30
Sam
Yeah, that was just like, no.
01:10:31
Penta
ah thought that was going to be, like, glue, and then he wipes his face, and then it's, like, glued face stuck to the whatever shirt he pulled, but no. There's still the eggnog... There's still the glue truck.
01:10:42
Chris Prime
The glue, the glue milk.
01:11:09
Penta
why doesn't he call the cops
01:11:14
Sam
Like Jack Bauer.
01:11:28
Sam
Kids, you're home alone.
01:11:32
Chris Prime
I didn't realize how much they're going name drop home alone in this movie.
01:11:38
Sam
Well, I would have been totally lost if not...
01:11:42
Zach Sheets
Well, he just said you're home all by yourself. so it's
01:11:53
Zach Sheets
Oh, no. They don't have a like a landline.
01:12:01
Penta
Nah, it's 2012.
01:12:01
Chris Prime
I think they just moved there.
01:12:01
Penta
Everybody has cell phones.
01:12:11
Chris Prime
I mean, granted, I don't have a landline.
01:12:23
Chris Prime
So these days, you have a landline, you're just getting spam called by, like, anything.
01:12:30
Chris Prime
At least a cell phone you can, like, block spam calls, but i don't think you can block a spam call on a landline.
01:12:48
Chris Prime
Yeah! See? This would have been the movie, and he's like, more eggnog! More booze!
01:12:53
Sam
I'm thoroughly convinced the roads are fine and he just wants to keep them there for an eternal party.
01:12:53
Zach Sheets
it she
01:13:02
Chris Prime
This is the party from The Shining.
01:13:05
Sam
this is literally the signing.
01:13:09
Zach Sheets
You're all trapped here.
01:13:11
Chris Prime
You're in my cabin. You all work for me.
01:13:15
Penta
is just Jack Torrance all grown up.
01:13:32
Zach Sheets
You don't want to party? Get out of here.
01:13:40
Penta
Are his good chums the animals from Up?
01:13:51
Sam
But first, more eggnog.
01:13:54
Zach Sheets
out here. Get out of here.
01:13:58
Sam
He just gets drunk for another 10 hours.
01:14:03
Chris Prime
See, I would like the plot where they're home alone instead of like the one, night you know, like in the first movie, it's at least like a week he's home alone.
01:14:09
Sam
Yeah.
01:14:10
Zach Sheets
Thanks.
01:14:11
Chris Prime
This is like, oh, they went to a party, but the party never ends because the boss is just like constantly making excuses that they can't leave.
01:14:36
Penta
How do they not see the balls bouncing off her butt?
01:14:39
Chris Prime
They're like staring right at her, right?
01:14:44
Sam
Yeah, like Happy Fifth, dude.
01:14:52
Sam
The classic 5-5-5 in a movie.
01:15:00
Zach Sheets
How did he get their number?
01:15:07
Chris Prime
Oh, no.
01:15:08
Sam
Sir, you may want to rephrase that.
01:15:34
Penta
This movie just bumped up.
01:15:34
Chris Prime
This is taking was such a weird turn and I love it.
01:15:38
Sam
Alright, yeah, this actually made the movie kind of good.
Unexpected Twists and Engagement
01:15:42
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:15:46
Chris Prime
Again, first act. I would never ah predict it that this would just be like a radically different movie by the end.
01:15:56
Chris Prime
It's like there's just jokes about like internet kidnapping and then like fake video gamer things and then like a freaked out parent, a drunk Ed Esner, like what?
01:16:01
Zach Sheets
a
01:16:23
Chris Prime
Have they been doing it backwards? Like he was pulling, ah he was pushing and he was pulling?
01:16:29
Zach Sheets
Maybe.
01:16:29
Penta
I think that's what was happening.
01:16:29
Zach Sheets
Okay.
01:16:42
Sam
What fashion statement.
01:16:45
Chris Prime
She looks like a character from Dr. Seuss.
01:16:49
Sam
She is a who.
01:17:22
Penta
If he's got his foot in a boot with a broken ankle, why would he try to get to the second floor?
01:17:28
Chris Prime
Also, Mike Maddow at this point is like 70, so...
01:17:49
Chris Prime
Maybe like 60-something in this.
01:17:52
Penta
If this came out in 2012, he was the ripe old age of 69. sixty nine
01:17:57
Chris Prime
Ooh.
01:17:59
Sam
Nice.
01:18:25
Zach Sheets
How did Finn rework the pipes?
01:18:27
Sam
Yeah, how did he rig the plumbing to do that?
01:18:36
Chris Prime
Did it just blow air?
01:18:39
Zach Sheets
Those cotton balls?
01:18:42
Chris Prime
Yeah.
01:18:42
Penta
He did have that in the montage before.
01:18:47
Sam
It did, but I'm just questioning the logistics of it.
01:18:59
Penta
so no.
01:19:12
Penta
That wasn't one Finn's traps.
01:19:17
Chris Prime
Do you believe in nu metal?
01:19:19
Penta
was
01:19:19
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:19:23
Sam
Welcome back to MTV. The Wizard.
01:19:25
Zach Sheets
Thank you.
01:19:44
Sam
The Wizard.
01:19:50
Penta
right He's got like the puppet setup like in Home Alone 2.
01:20:04
Chris Prime
Does this predate, like, live streaming like this? And then...
01:20:07
Zach Sheets
Peace.
01:20:10
Chris Prime
Like, because...
01:20:11
Sam
Yeah, because this was still the time of ah Justin TV.
01:20:16
Chris Prime
Yeah.
01:20:17
Sam
This was before Twitch became Twitch.
01:20:20
Chris Prime
He pretty much did his first Twitch broadcast from his closet.
01:20:24
Sam
Oh, hey, it's the Disney Plus stuff now. Not sponsored.
01:20:29
Chris Prime
Crazy. Crazy, it's come full circle.
01:20:32
Sam
Whee!
01:20:38
Chris Prime
You know we're only a few, like, weird changes in history where, like, we could watch someone do, like, a real home loan through Twitch. Just like, hey, guys, like, my name's Kevin.
01:20:47
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:20:48
Chris Prime
I'm streaming my home break-in. Burglars are outside my house.
01:20:52
Penta
Oh this guy's about to get swatted.
01:20:53
Sam
Hey guys, I just got swatted. um
01:20:55
Chris Prime
yeah
01:21:00
Chris Prime
Yeah, this predates a whole lot about streaming, like, things.
01:21:07
Sam
What is... Is he just eating jerky? What is he eating?
01:21:14
Chris Prime
Wait, how did the parents able to call in like a SWAT call before they get made it home?
01:21:21
Zach Sheets
And like know where he lives.
01:21:25
Chris Prime
That's actually pretty funny that they like team maced them. That's really PG of like a Disney movie to show anything.
01:21:32
Penta
I'm sure the mom had the phone number ah that called her. So he's already a bad hacker. He didn't use a proxy VPN or nothing.
01:21:41
Sam
Yeah, he wasn't he didn't have NordVPN.
01:21:45
Sam
Not sponsored.
01:22:25
Chris Prime
Wait, did did the guy know that he was a gamer or just assume that by the headset?
01:22:31
Penta
Probably about a headset.
01:22:33
Sam
I guess he just assumed.
01:22:36
Chris Prime
Because it wasn't like he caught him playing a game. It's not like he was in his bedroom and analyzed that the kid was a gamer.
01:22:45
Sam
He just knows an epic gamer when he sees one.
01:22:51
Chris Prime
I mean, Finn is just a casual, you know, filthy mobile gamer. So...
01:22:57
Sam
Yeah, he's playing Honkai Star Rail.
01:23:00
Chris Prime
Yeah, I mean, I'm not to say that, like, some kid playing, like, ah a mobile game like that like, oh, man, you're real gamer. but How much, like, Apple credit did you get from your parents?
01:23:18
Sam
It's the.
01:23:27
Penta
That kid has an arm.
01:23:32
Chris Prime
That was like like a huge pitch from there.
01:23:49
Zach Sheets
Oh my God.
01:24:04
Penta
Oh.
01:24:21
Chris Prime
He gave her a concussion, right? Like...
01:24:22
Zach Sheets
yeah like a pure ice ball
01:24:28
Sam
Steve was left on the ice. HT.
01:24:51
Sam
he
01:25:06
Sam
Why you have camera set up?
01:25:12
Chris Prime
Yeah, like, they're live streaming this crime...............................
01:25:15
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:25:17
Penta
Wait, yeah, how does how does the guy have access to the live stream of the cameras that the kid set up?
01:25:23
Zach Sheets
Well, he acts like Finn's gamertag, but then he act like their whole like network.
01:25:30
Penta
Well, he said that he got the gamer tag from the credit card statement, or the phone number from the credit card statement.
01:25:35
Chris Prime
i don't know. don't... I don't know how easily hacked their internet to live stream from the basement. Because Finn set up the cam somehow from his bedroom from a not Xbox 360.
01:25:51
Penta
Are we going to have some sort of ah product placement from like one of those VPN services?
01:25:59
Chris Prime
I feel like this is like a cautionary tale about not having a VPN for like
01:26:05
Sam
Yeah, it's less a matter of sponsorship and more just a message.
01:26:15
Chris Prime
you know what's funny? It's like you can put like a VPN ad here right now where it's like, does this seem like a future you you want for your daughter? if you had NordVPN. Like, you won't.
Monetary Rewards and Legalities
01:26:54
Chris Prime
she's She's not making it, right? Like, it's what?
01:26:56
Zach Sheets
No, yeah, yeah.
01:26:56
Sam
and well Ain't no way you had an overtime.
01:26:58
Chris Prime
What?
01:27:01
Sam
You're fucking eating steakhead. that
01:27:04
Chris Prime
What?
01:27:24
Chris Prime
Like, it took her longer to get up the stairs outside the safe than it is to get through that bar through the door.
01:27:37
Zach Sheets
paralyzed. The ice broke my back.
01:27:40
Chris Prime
I can't feel my feet. I can't feel my hands.
01:27:42
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:27:43
Penta
Oh god.
01:27:44
Sam
and obviously Yeah, that'll work.
01:27:50
Chris Prime
Wait, was that plan B door the highlight of the movie? Like, was that was the the climax?
01:27:56
Zach Sheets
Seems like it.
01:27:57
Sam
Not again. Oh my god. they pulled up finally.
01:28:02
Penta
How many home alones happen in this town?
01:28:04
Chris Prime
it's
01:28:07
Sam
Just a few.
01:28:11
Chris Prime
Every Christmas, another Home Alone incident.
01:28:19
Chris Prime
I would love in-universe thing where they show statistically like how often this happens of kids getting home alone and burglars are trying to get in.
01:28:26
Zach Sheets
Thank you.
01:28:29
Chris Prime
Like in the like, just have that be a statistic that exists. So like the FBI sort of just like once a year, it's like, hey, it's getting close to Christmas. Don't leave your kid home alone.
01:28:41
Sam
Yeah, like they run statistics on them.
01:28:41
Chris Prime
The kid's stress is enough.
01:28:43
Penta
Or if you do teach them to call the police first and not random people on the internet or random
01:28:49
Chris Prime
Yep.
01:28:50
Penta
random
01:28:51
Chris Prime
Or like the neighbor.
01:28:51
Penta
old men random old ladies
01:28:59
Chris Prime
Just just sort of like have that be like a thing that kind of like, OK, like at the end of the movie, just like, what did we say? Don't do that again. Didn't we mention it?
01:29:10
Chris Prime
It'd be like the purge, but like, but more funnier than.
01:29:19
Sam
It's fine. I'm divorcing you guys. It's
01:29:48
Sam
little...
01:30:01
Sam
Ah, I see what they're
01:30:02
Zach Sheets
Remember for the first movie?
01:30:02
Chris Prime
Oh, what a weird callback.
01:30:04
Sam
I what they're doing.
01:30:22
Sam
Give me a gift card to Olive Garden.
01:30:27
Sam
It's definitely like a gift card to a local restaurant.
01:30:29
Chris Prime
probably like tickets to the museum.
01:30:32
Sam
yeah yeah he called him
01:30:34
Chris Prime
Wow.
01:30:39
Chris Prime
I was joking.
01:30:43
Penta
That's
01:30:43
Sam
yeah that's and that's so fucking real too like that's not even like uh just a dumb written joke for the end of the movie like that that's what they would do
01:30:54
Chris Prime
No, actually, I think you get charged taxes if you try to, like, claim any kind of, like, hey, we found this. And, like, cool, so you are secretly rich? Well, you move up a tax bracket now.
01:31:04
Sam
Oh, I believe that 100%. Oh,
01:31:13
Chris Prime
30 grand is not a lot in 2012.
01:31:15
Sam
It's not, but hey, at least they gave something.
01:31:19
Chris Prime
Compared to 85 million?
01:31:22
Sam
Oh, I know, but this is the system. Also, oh, how nice this is. I'm to call the cops again.
01:31:30
Chris Prime
the... How are they doing the streaming from his Xbox 360? Because he's using his controller!
01:31:42
Penta
They predicted Discord integration.
01:31:52
Chris Prime
Wait, is Finn's big thing is he's just poor?
01:31:59
Chris Prime
you lives in like such a night... like For somebody who's trying to save money, he lives alone. like No roommates, no living with anyone.
01:32:08
Chris Prime
Why?
01:32:11
Chris Prime
What made him be like, oh, I had to move out of my like family area. like Why? Oh, you know, like...
01:32:17
Zach Sheets
Wait, the the the game has like an official like snowboard?
01:32:22
Sam
Yeah, I was wondering that myself. like What is going on?
01:32:35
Sam
The main camping and fishing.
01:33:01
Chris Prime
Mason him, like...
01:33:01
Zach Sheets
Where are they going? We're
01:33:05
Penta
Yeah, weren't they supposed to go snowboarding? How are they going get there?
01:33:08
Chris Prime
Like on a hitchhike?
01:33:09
Zach Sheets
just going to walk through the mountain.
01:33:13
Sam
Oh great, Snow Alone.
01:33:18
Chris Prime
Don't mess with a kid who knows how to make like an ice-like ball and just consciously knows that he's going to knock out some lady.
01:33:29
Sam
i want that to be his IMDb picture.
01:33:32
Zach Sheets
ah
01:33:32
Penta
so
01:33:33
Sam
Actually, I want all these to be their IMDb picture.
01:33:40
Zach Sheets
I was like, how did I end up this movie?
01:33:45
Zach Sheets
Wow. And this is like, that's it. Go home.
01:33:48
Sam
And that's it. That's all she wrote.
01:33:56
Chris Prime
Oh, it's bloopers.
01:33:57
Zach Sheets
Now it's just like highlights. It's
01:34:09
Zach Sheets
It's not any bloopers. It's just like, remember these scenes? What?
01:34:13
Sam
Do you recall?
01:34:24
Chris Prime
Okay, it's replaying the movie again. It's playing all the parts we liked, and that's it.
01:34:37
Sam
me me me
01:34:44
Sam
you miss the trap
01:34:51
Zach Sheets
We better have like one more scene Drunk Ed Asner.
01:34:54
Sam
yeah please
01:34:59
Sam
was that really worth showing again
01:35:03
Chris Prime
We could have had more Ed Asner just like, more adult eggnog.
01:35:14
Chris Prime
I did like that scene.
01:35:21
Chris Prime
But you know those are Canadian cops because they they mace first.
01:35:27
Chris Prime
Instead of like the machine guns that they all had.
01:35:36
Penta
first I thought it was like, oh, are they super soaker guns?
01:35:58
Sam
Alright, so like, I'll say this. That was at least more fun than Home Sweet Home Alone.
01:36:09
Chris Prime
Oh yeah. Hands down.
01:36:10
Zach Sheets
I would put that above 4 6.
01:36:13
Sam
Yeah, like that, you know, obviously there are parts where you're just like, okay, let out long sigh. But as far as the Home Alone movies go, it really could have been worse.
01:36:28
Chris Prime
I was expecting so much like not payoffs and, and like, just Just like we would hate the kid, but you end up like sympathizing with Finn for like a bit, and then there's nothing to hate.
01:36:40
Sam
Yes. like Like in Home Sweet Home Alone, where I fucking hated the kid.
01:36:47
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:36:47
Chris Prime
Yeah. Like, off the bat,
01:36:48
Sam
i rooted him i rooted for the robbers, who were good people, who were, well, basically, normal people. Right.
01:36:57
Chris Prime
And like, because we're we're like, they were in an economic strain. It was like a rock and a hard place.
01:37:03
Sam
Right.
01:37:04
Chris Prime
So it's really hard to root for them where it's like their only option was to get this doll. and And then this was like, you just get like incompetent crooks.
01:37:11
Sam
Yeah.
01:37:14
Chris Prime
But honestly, it's like, I think Michael McDowell had a point. Because he's like, oh, it's my family. He's like painting, you know, like his reminder.
01:37:27
Chris Prime
At least that's how i interpret it. i might have missed it where like. he Maybe he isn't a good guy, but he honestly was just like, he just wanted to put that kid in timeout. Like that's all he wanted to do.
01:37:40
Zach Sheets
yeah he probably He probably could have hired a lawyer and but like if he had like any sort of proof that the that his family owned that painting. He'd just be like i own like, there's a painting in this basement that like ah my family owns.
01:37:51
Zach Sheets
it's like It got stolen from our family.
01:37:54
Penta
Yeah, because it wasn't the museum they were staying
01:37:54
Sam
Yeah, where' where's the Home Alone where they go through the bureaucratic process of proving the painting?
01:37:58
Zach Sheets
Yeah.
01:38:01
Chris Prime
Oh, man, I've got like a sadder version where like the burglars, instead of like breaking into the home, like either claim squatters rights or like some sort of like land baron ownership so they can just like reclaim like the house, like almost ah like a bank like takes back a house.
01:38:21
Sam
that's Home Alone 9.
01:38:23
Chris Prime
I know it's like now you're a no home alone.
01:38:27
Sam
No home alone, yeah.
01:38:32
Zach Sheets
What if his family owned, like, because they bought, they to if you buy the house, you're don't you own everything in the house if you buy it?
01:38:38
Zach Sheets
If it's left behind?
01:38:38
Chris Prime
no No, I think you have to legally know that you bought it.
01:38:43
Chris Prime
If not, I think you could just be like an accessory to a crime.
01:38:46
Penta
Yeah, because then it's like, oh, it's a stolen painting or something.
01:38:50
Chris Prime
Yeah, because they have to like claim like knowingly owe and ownership that it's theirs. Oh,
01:38:56
Zach Sheets
They probably could sell all that like ah old like liquor. It's probably pretty valuable.
01:39:02
Chris Prime
oh they could even just like...
01:39:03
Sam
Yeah, it be but one thing you're you're forgetting to mention is all of them are actually trap levers.
01:39:10
Penta
Yeah.
01:39:11
Sam
Every single bottle is a lever.
01:39:14
Zach Sheets
it's There's no real liquor in your but like your room
01:39:16
Sam
Yeah.
01:39:18
Sam
Like, I kind of... One thing I actually... Like, from an actual critical standpoint, is I wish they, like, elaborated more on the legend of the bootlegger. Like...
01:39:31
Sam
the Deadline guy like I feel like i feel like for such a focal point of the film they kind of just like glossed over it
01:39:33
Chris Prime
Yeah, no.
01:39:40
Chris Prime
If you think about it, it was just to build up the legend of the sound of the, like, stomping.
01:39:48
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:39:48
Chris Prime
Just so that they could Michael McDowell a boot.
01:39:52
Sam
yeah im pretty much
01:39:53
Chris Prime
Like, that is the only reason... they wanted that was either make Michael McDowell in real life broke his foot and they're like, how do we film around this?
01:40:05
Chris Prime
So let's build up a legend of a guy that like you could hear the noise at night and all shit. like That was it.
01:40:13
Sam
Yeah, no, I, and now that you say that, like, I 100% agree.
01:40:16
Penta
Did he break his foot on set?
01:40:18
Chris Prime
Yeah.
01:40:18
Sam
Like, he probably, yeah, he probably did something to his leg.
01:40:18
Penta
Something to look up.
01:40:21
Chris Prime
They probably filmed like...
01:40:22
Sam
And they fucking eroded it.
01:40:23
Chris Prime
Yeah, they had to write it in. They're like, ah, shit, we got Michael McDowell for like two months. His foot's not going heal for another three months. So let's just film this in like certain sequences. And because you remember, it like it it he's never standing for long. And if he is, it's like not you don't see his feet a lot.
01:40:43
Chris Prime
Like, that's why we notice him the warehouse, like walking. we're like, why is he limping? And then he sits down and we're like, oh, he's drunk. But like, do you think they just filmed this out of order? So the last thing they filmed was like them sitting in the car.
01:40:56
Chris Prime
well
01:40:59
Sam
Yeah, I don't know. guess. Yeah, I guess he had something going on. Like, I get I get the point is like to, you know, to the exposition of be like, OK, no, he's actually dead leg and like, but it's like.
01:41:12
Sam
Give me something a little more, you know?
01:41:14
Chris Prime
Oh, yeah. Oh, the. It should have been like they solved Dead Legs mystery and then the clue was like family or some bullshit. It should have paid off that way. Usually if you have a ah like a legend, the legend also has to like tie in to ah the like the like the protagonist or sort of the message of the movie.
01:41:37
Chris Prime
ah If anything, it should have been like Finn looks at the dead leg thing goes like, I beat you, dead leg.
01:41:38
Sam
Yeah.
01:41:48
Chris Prime
You wanted to hoard countless like price priceless art and wine and like tricks, but like family is the real trick or something.
01:41:57
Zach Sheets
They should have found skeleton in the safe, like, one-eyed Willy-style.
01:41:57
Sam
Yeah.
01:42:00
Chris Prime
Like the Goody style?
01:42:01
Zach Sheets
Yep.
01:42:02
Sam
Yeah. Ugh.
01:42:05
Chris Prime
There should have been a secret room in the back of that other secret room.
01:42:05
Zach Sheets
It's like, look at...
01:42:08
Chris Prime
Just like the dead mobster.
01:42:11
Zach Sheets
It's like, see what happens to Fandom if you, like, lock yourself in your room and never leave?.........
01:42:15
Chris Prime
Oh my god. That makes sense. It's like he meets... You know, Finn sees a potential future. It's him, the nerd that's in that Chinese restaurant, which is... We're not going to go into that part of the movie. they're just We're just going to mention that he lives in the Chinese restaurant. Yeah.
01:42:30
Chris Prime
and then And then it's like a mobster got paranoid. He he like built himself a fake bar. like And then he built traps and never leave his home or be kidnapped. it But he died there. no one found him.
01:42:44
Chris Prime
Because he lived home alone. like
01:42:47
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:42:47
Chris Prime
That's how you make that theme.
01:42:50
Sam
I say we just rewrite the movie.
01:42:53
Chris Prime
Yeah, man. but We had hopes it'd be supernatural, too.
01:42:57
Sam
Yeah, I mean, they were like alluding to it. and And that's kind of to go back to the whole dead leg thing. Like I wish that's like the biggest reason I wish they actually like kept with the continuity of that plot line. Like I get it was a plot device to like get it to explain why he's like that. But it just it just fell flat.
01:43:17
Sam
You know, like it was it was nothing more than just like ah a simple utterance for the sake of just progressing the story. But, you know, still, I'll give you this, still better than Malcolm McDowell in Rob Zombie's second Halloween movie.
01:43:35
Chris Prime
Ooh.
01:43:37
Sam
I prefer this over that portrayal of Loomis, which is not his fault. Fucking Rob Zombie. But anyway, I digress. um If I'm ever home alone, I know to contact my friend over Xbox 360 live chat um and get me out of that situation.
01:43:54
Zach Sheets
Yes. but what what Whatever random strangers you're playing with, just like tell them, like help, robbers are breaking to my house.
01:44:03
Penta
And I will be sure to be 3,000 miles away, Sam.
01:44:03
Sam
Yeah, I think, you know, yeah, I'm actually going to downgrade all my equipment. I'm going delete my Discord account and I'm just going to exclusively talk to people on Xbox 360 party chat.
01:44:16
Chris Prime
I bet you there still is like a hipster community that's like, you know, we don't like how connected to all our chat devices are, but we love talking to chat like Xbox 360 chat.
01:44:25
Sam
Oh, 100%.
01:44:26
Zach Sheets
And make sure you're live streaming it all too.
01:44:29
Sam
Yeah, I've Oh, proud I believe it.
01:44:29
Penta
Wasn't there something like, like there was like a military group that was communicating over like PlayStation or Xbox like a couple years ago because it was the most encrypted because Discord is like being subpoenaed now?
01:44:42
Chris Prime
Damn.
01:44:44
Sam
I didn't hear about that, though.
01:44:47
Penta
Or who plays War Thunder? The military documents leaked on that.
01:44:51
Chris Prime
Oh, yeah, yeah, that was like another hilarious thing about like talking to internet strangers and then just sort of like putting like associating your your white work email or like play email your worth on your account.
01:44:57
Sam
Thank you.
Nostalgia and Future Traditions
01:45:08
Chris Prime
Oh, man.
01:45:08
Zach Sheets
Well, Derry dove into like top secret technology and like Home Alone 3, whatever that chip was.
01:45:17
Chris Prime
Oh, the one that like the Chinese or North Koreans want it.
01:45:17
Penta
Oh yeah. The super microchip that could hide easily in the ah re remotet control car.
01:45:20
Zach Sheets
yes r c car, yeah.
01:45:25
Chris Prime
Yeah, they kind of like jump the shark on that one because it escalates that escalated too quick for like third movie where then the fourth and fifth one is just like money and a painting, you know, like it.
01:45:37
Chris Prime
This is like the sixth movie would have been the chip if you're going to go by like kind of like the what's at stake.
01:45:47
Zach Sheets
yeah it was like it it was like it It was like international terrorist criminals like wanting this like weapons chip.
01:45:55
Chris Prime
To, like, just Michael McDowell and, like, a Craigslist people of, like, thieves.
01:45:55
Penta
Yeah.
01:46:01
Penta
Yeah, even Fast and Furious waited until Fast Five to bust out the big stunts.
01:46:07
Zach Sheets
its
01:46:07
Sam
Yeah, when they fucking drag a safe all across a the road.
01:46:08
Chris Prime
Yeah.
01:46:13
Chris Prime
Like, the Mexican bridge.
01:46:18
Chris Prime
Ugh. But, you know, again, this was better than we thought. I think everyone here kind of like enjoyed third third act
01:46:27
Sam
Yeah, once it got going, it was it was mostly enjoyable. Like...
01:46:32
Zach Sheets
What's Ed Ezra showed up?
01:46:32
Sam
give it
01:46:35
Penta
yeah
01:46:35
Sam
Dude, what... Ed Asner stole the show. Like, honestly.
01:46:40
Penta
See, I know people complain about all the spinoffs with Star Wars and Marvel getting all these TV shows.
01:46:41
Sam
That was wonderful. Well...
01:46:48
Penta
We need the Home Alone side TV show of Ed Asner's party.
01:46:52
Zach Sheets
yeah
01:46:55
Penta
Each episode is it just a perspective of a different coworker.
01:46:59
Sam
Well, it's almost, you know, in a way, seeing Ed Asner presented in the way he is in that movie is is a sad reminder that the the golden age of Hollywood is totally done. Like, it used to be it used to be such a thrill, like like we just witnessed watching this movie, used to be such a thrill seeing, like, a prolific actor or or comic from the 20th century appear in a role like this. And now it's like...
01:47:29
Sam
You're not really going to see that anymore. who Who's around, you know?
01:47:32
Penta
Oh, yeah. We saw three. Because there's the Ed Asner, Malcolm McDowell, and the Crab Man.
01:47:44
Sam
yeah
01:47:45
Penta
And this was relegated to a made-for-TV movie.
01:47:45
Sam
So...
01:47:45
Zach Sheets
Mm-hmm.
01:47:48
Sam
So, so true. So true. But I mean, like, all those fucking legends and stars are so far past deceased now. It's like, it was nice seeing Ed Asner in a role like that.
01:48:02
Sam
Like, I can't, it was just a fun little note I had on that.
01:48:06
Penta
Sir, Malcolm McDowell is still going strong at a lovable 82, but rest in peace Ed Asner.
01:48:07
Sam
But.
01:48:10
Zach Sheets
who
01:48:11
Penta
That was.
01:48:12
Sam
Yeah, I mean, well, sure. But, like, Malcolm McDowell, I would expect in certain roles like this. Like, Ed Asner, I almost was like, oh, that's just fucking rich.
01:48:25
Sam
Like, let's go. um
01:48:27
Penta
And funny, funny thing. I don't know. Do we want to date this recording? ah The. popping up on my feed because I'm searching Malcolm Dow like five times as a minute.
01:48:42
Penta
Today's the anniversary that a Clockwork Orange premiered in the US.
01:48:48
Sam
Wow.
01:48:49
Chris Prime
Wow. We timed that like perfectly from our date of recording.
01:48:53
Zach Sheets
the the the best way to celebrate his career is watch Home Alone 5.
01:48:56
Penta
Yeah.
01:48:58
Sam
Yeah, basically the takeaway is watch Home Alone 5 if you support Malcolm McDowell.
01:49:03
Chris Prime
Don't see Clockwork Orange or read the book. Come watch Home Alone 5.
01:49:07
Penta
stay Stay away from milk.
01:49:07
Zach Sheets
and
01:49:10
Penta
It could be glue.
01:49:11
Sam
Yeah, if you see milk on your counter, don't drink it.
01:49:18
Zach Sheets
But yeah, we've we've we've we've done it, guys. We've watched every Home Alone movie.
01:49:22
Penta
You put your tongue. You don't want them to put any more of it.
01:49:25
Sam
I can't believe this is the end. I'm gonna cry.
01:49:30
Chris Prime
ah Well, we'll come up with more weird holiday traditions. Uh...
01:49:35
Sam
No, no, it's totally fine. i wouldn't want to put you out.
01:49:38
Penta
We make our own Home home Alone.
01:49:39
Sam
yeah
01:49:41
Zach Sheets
Well, I got um ah Christmas in Connecticut, the only movie that Arnold Schwarzenegger directed in the in the chamber. So but that might we have to be at an option next year.
01:49:51
Sam
Oh, God. Let's go.
01:49:53
Penta
We just have to find a Christmas movie for every state. The Home Alones were in Chicago. i think there was one in Colorado.
01:49:58
Zach Sheets
Maine.
01:49:59
Penta
This one was in Maine.
01:50:04
Chris Prime
New York.
01:50:07
Penta
Oh yeah, the number two was in New York.
01:50:08
Chris Prime
i Is there a Home Alone type movie that takes place in Jersey? Probably.
01:50:15
Penta
oh Oh, yeah. um Probably one of the like the indie ones that like became Judd Apatow Kevin Smith.
01:50:24
Sam
Yeah, there's one called Homadol.
01:50:28
Zach Sheets
Did Troma make like a homo knockoff?
01:50:32
Penta
Oh yeah, the the Christmas Avenger.
01:50:32
Sam
Yeah, fuck fucking, you know Lloyd Kaufman would eat that up.
01:50:32
Chris Prime
probably
01:50:42
Chris Prime
Alright, so, uh... Oh, so, I guess we'll plug in what, uh, where people could see more of you guys, Sam and Joe.
01:50:54
Sam
You don't really want to see me.
01:50:55
Penta
Oh, finally, Sam is here to plug him. I've been plugging Sam since he's been gone. So he could plug himself now.
01:51:01
Sam
Well, you might you might need to rephrase that, partner.
01:51:02
Zach Sheets
Every year.
01:51:07
Sam
Well, yes, i suppose I suppose I can let the good people know what I'm up to. Unfortunately, in years past, I would plug my podcast, Silver Screen Fiends. Unfortunately, we're on an indefinite hiatus.
01:51:21
Sam
However, I still stream video games from retro to modern with my good friends, Justin and Anthony over at Retro Roulette. We have a Twitch and a YouTube. That would be retro underscore underscore roulette for the Twitch channel and then just Retro Roulette for the YouTube. I upload like probably once every four months. I'm very on top of things.
01:51:41
Sam
But more importantly, because fuck my friends and their involvement in projects, I'm just kidding. We are building a little ah music trilogy around a concept I had. i am a hip hop artist and I go by the name Samuel Vincent.
01:52:00
Sam
And you can find me on pretty much all platforms, Spotify, Apple socials, officially Samuel Vincent, S-A-M-U-E-L-V-I-N-C-E-N-T.
01:52:12
Sam
And don't try to look me up legally because that'd be weird. But um I got a new album coming out and I like to describe my style as um dark fantasy meets horrorcore.
01:52:24
Sam
So if you're into hip hop and playing Elden Ring at two in the morning, well, being drunk off your gourd, then I'm probably the artist for you. So that's a that's pretty much all I got going on.
01:52:39
Chris Prime
What about you, Joe?
01:52:40
Penta
Oh, it's my turn. Well, ah I have my same old, same old Instagram where I report the weather poorly in the mornings on weekdays. You can also find me if I am not on the Retro Roulette server. I might be on the, should we plug friends?
01:52:59
Penta
Well, we got the Super Bunny Hop Super Fun Time server for Patreons, and he streams on Monday and Friday, ah where you can see me being wrong about video games.
01:52:59
Sam
Absolutely.
01:53:10
Penta
He is one of the MagFest friends. Would we say that? No. We don't want push our boundaries. We have a parasocial communication communication But he streams on Mondays and Wednesdays and he is still alive, despite what some people have said.
01:53:27
Penta
So he's on the big research and on that. And speaking of being still alive and the themes of Home Alone dig into lots of ah bootlegging and financial hardship.
01:53:41
Penta
But if you think that you couldn't do anything to do that, there is the nerds vote, which we have met people representing that at conventions. so We want to plug that.
01:53:53
Chris Prime
Sure.
01:53:54
Penta
Nerds Vote, where you can learn all about your local and maybe federal elections. I have actually have a card on my desk, which reminds me about that.
01:54:04
Penta
ah You can go and help you do some research and just get out and vote because sometimes there are votes that do sort of go out. maybe Maybe five or ten votes are the difference.
01:54:19
Penta
But It's always good to you do research. I know it's like December now, but there are going to be primaries for certain states in April, May, June.
01:54:31
Penta
So always good to be on the up and up because you don't want to be left home alone or on top of a Chinese food restaurant.
01:54:40
Chris Prime
I love how you tie that all together, man.
01:54:42
Sam
Beautiful.
01:54:47
Zach Sheets
and then obviously for us everything.com all of our usual stuff up there we got reviews trailers the regular podcast and everyone check all that stuff out yeah hopefully everyone had a ah or is having a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and we'll be back in the new year with new commentaries so yeah so for Chris and Joe and Sam I'm Zach and we will see you next time
01:55:12
Sam
Make sure to tip your server.
01:55:14
Chris Prime
Hmm.
01:55:14
Sam
It's me. I'm your server.