What up, bros?
This is the All Bros Podcast.
I'm Caleb and I'm Jonathan and we are a couple of aspiring filmmakers that love to watch
and critique movies but also enjoy a lot of bit of the nerd life.
This week on the podcast we got a few new figures to talk about, not a whole ton, just
a few different lines.
We got some, I don't even know, Transformers I'll say.
We got Transformers, we got Queen, and we got The Simpsons.
And Blu-rays, Rose is going to update us on the Blu-ray releases of the week.
Nothing in this week's sneak peeks unfortunately but that just makes us get to our main event
of the evening which will be our breakdown of Home Alone.
The OG.
Shit yeah.
So with that, let's say we get into it.
Let's do it.
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Alrighty, first up in Adventures in the Hunting.
Starting with pop figures.
The first figure that we're going to talk about is from Transformers and Rose.
I mean you know what these look like a little bit better than I do.
Yes.
So I didn't really watch the show growing up nor did I.
I've actually never seen the movie or like the original animated movie.
I've only seen the Michael Bay films so I don't know a lot about how their designs worked
in the original show.
But apparently I think this one actually already went live but it's still really cool to talk
about and it is the Target exclusive Starscream from the original Transformers series.
It's amazing looking at how many colors Starscream has and then looking how like basic he is in
the actual movies.
He's just like dude he's super basic.
He's just like plain gray.
And also okay maybe it's just me but is Starscream like a little bitch in the Transformers movies?
Dude he is hell of a bitch.
Like he like thinks he's all that when Megatron's not there and then when Megatron you know
comes back he's just like oh my gosh I'm so sorry Lord Megatron I didn't mean to not do
well while you were gone and he's just like dude you're such a little bitch.
That's what Starscream is.
Like Blackout or freaking Bonecrusher should have just overpowered him and they should
have been the leader of the Decepticons while Megatron was frozen in ice.
Yeah Starscream kind of sucks.
At least in the Michael Bay.
He does.
Who knows what he's like in the cartoon.
He was really fun to play though as in did you ever play the Transformers game from the
first movie?
Yes we played that a couple times together.
I freaking love that game.
Wait we did?
Oh that game was bitchin'.
Yeah he brought it over.
Oh yeah.
It was on the PS2.
Oh yeah.
Yeah dude that's one of the greatest movie based games I've ever played.
So much fun.
But I remember Starscream was actually pretty cool in that one.
Yeah I mean he's cool in the game but I think what threw me off like especially with the
Michael Bay designs all the Decepticons looked exactly the same I feel.
That's true and I feel like that's kind of like the point.
Just because they're the bad ones he wanted them to look basic as hell.
But I never really.
That's stupid.
It is.
But I never noticed this in the movies.
But if you play the Transformers game when you're fighting as the Decepticons and you
have to defeat Ironhide as Blackout I never realized how freaking ginormous Blackout is
compared to Ironhide.
Like here's I know like people can't see this okay but Caleb here's Ironhide.
Way up here is freaking Blackout.
Geez.
Towers Ironhide.
I was like holy shit.
Dude that's freaking nuts.
I'm like okay yeah no Ironhide didn't stand a chance against Blackout and the fact that
Blackout has Scorponox yeah he was screwed from the get-go.
Yeah but they had a I mean there's a few figures that we kind of like forgot but there's another
Transformers one and it looks like kind of like a dark Optimus Prime.
Oh shit really?
Did we ever talk about that one?
I don't think we did.
I don't know how we missed that.
Oh yeah shit there it is.
Someone's.
Oh that's bitchin'.
Yeah dude you missed a shit ton of figures.
Well I'm sorry.
Well I think I missed these because they were on the Funko shop and they're already sold
out.
Because you know everything sells out at the Funko shop.
Let's face it.
We're almost all of them.
Yeah so Starscream is okay.
I mean not my favorite Transformers figure.
No I mean I actually would not mind picking this one up just because I love I actually
love the classic design of Starscream.
Yeah I think I would have preferred the Soundwave figure.
Yes!
Oh yes!
Soundwave was the bomb.
Soundwave is so badass.
It's too bad he wasn't really put into that much effect in the movies.
I know right?
I feel like he was like super lame.
Yeah it made no sense considering he's honestly for many people he's their favorite Transformer.
Their favorite Decepticon.
Yeah so we got that figure we got a new figure from Queen.
So we actually have two figures from Queen.
So we have the classic Freddie Mercury in his white tank top blue jeans and I want to
say they're Adidas that he's wearing.
And you know his like classic like spiked armband.
You know like the classic Freddie Mercury from when he performed in that concert after
he told his bandmates that he did have AIDS.
And yeah I freaking love this figure.
It looks fantastic.
The mustache is on point because it freaking better be with Freddie.
And then the other one is kind of the same thing well not the same thing I'm sorry.
So this one is to where he has a King's crown.
He's wearing a King's cape.
I guess you could call it that.
And then he's wearing some white and yellow pants as well as the exact same Adidas that
he was wearing with the other outfit.
Yeah that one's super bitchin.
I don't is that one I'm not seeing any like special stickers on these so I'm assuming
these are both commons.
Which is good because I don't know I feel maybe even as a common that Freddie Mercury
that like classic one in his white tank top that might one might be hard to find like
out out and about just because that that is just classic Freddie Mercury right there.
Yeah that's way cool.
Yeah so we got those some or figure that we forgot to mention we got the Flintstones holding
their fruity pebbles and cocoa pebbles.
Which one's better between fruity pebbles and cocoa pebbles.
Yeah.
This is the ultimate question.
Freaking cocoa pebbles.
Good.
I was about to slap a bitch virtually.
Dude what.
I mean don't get me wrong fruity pebbles aren't like awful.
No they're not but I'm always going to go with cocoa pebbles though or fruity pebbles.
Yeah straight up.
We actually.
But yeah it's.
Oh sorry.
No I was just going to say so the first figure is Fred Flintstone holding fruity pebbles.
Of course Fred.
And then Barney Rebel.
Yep Barney Rebel.
Yes.
And yeah Barney Rebel is holding a bowl of cocoa pebbles.
I'm glad that my favorite character is holding the actual good cereal.
So Fred.
Dude what is it with you and your favorite characters.
Your characters are always the sidekick.
Yeah I don't know what it is I never picked the main character.
But Fred's just being a basic bitch right here.
Like honestly I feel like you don't have any reason not to have been player one in your
in your life.
Because all of my life I have always been the sidekick to someone.
I mean come on let's face it between us who's going to say who's the main one and who's
the sidekick.
You're like come on you're the main one I'm the sidekick.
I disagree I think we split that role pretty evenly.
OK.
But.
I don't know maybe that's just me.
But thank you.
No but I'm talking like in general in general like your sister like did you ever play Mario
with your sister or did you play by yourself.
See we actually didn't never had Nintendo growing up all we had was a PlayStation.
OK.
Whenever you played a game whenever you played a video game did you play by yourself or did
you play with your sister.
It's kind of an even split.
I kind of.
OK.
I don't want to bring it.
That kind of throws a wrench in the kind of that is because there was kind of like a.
Because I don't know if she's actually listening to this so like I don't want to talk about
it but you know there was just something that happened where.
I didn't get to see her a lot so we weren't able to play together.
So most of the time I was just playing by myself.
OK.
So you were playing by yourself most of the time.
Why did you feel the need to play as the sidekick.
Because the sidekick was always the coolest.
No that there's a reason they're the sidekick.
No F you.
Oh shit.
Like no joke it's like between the Mario Brothers who's your favorite Luigi.
Out of the like whatever whatever Wario and Waluigi are like your favorite out of them
is Waluigi.
Like.
And the top of the.
This actually doesn't.
It's not even like the sidekick is more down the line when it comes to Sonic characters
my favorite is Knuckles.
He's more of like a third like a kind of a second hand sidekick.
OK.
Kind of like.
Like if I'm comparing him like if.
He's more like Nightwing to me.
OK.
All right.
Like if Sonic is Batman Tails is Robin and Knuckles is is Nightwing.
OK.
I could see that.
OK.
Yeah.
But yeah like.
I'm trying to think of like other people like.
Well OK.
I got one.
I like boo boo over Yogi Bear.
So freaking weird.
I mean one of those reasons is I've been I feel boo boo's voice at least to me is a lot
easier to do than Yogi's.
OK.
That's a weird reason.
I know it is but no I still do like Yogi.
I still like boo boo more as a character.
Just because Yogi never listens to him and boo boo's the smarter one I feel.
But anyway.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see.
Moving on.
It's like I said Barney Rebel.
Those are the two Flintstone Pops that we got.
I think next up we got some.
I was going to say we missed two Marvel Pops.
My bad.
Two Marvel ones.
Yeah the Loki and the Groot.
Oh I'm on a different album.
Oh well anyway.
Well these.
So one is coming to the Funko Shop which is Loki and then Groot.
I believe this is Holiday Groot or another Holiday Groot and it's undecided.
It's Groot wrapped in Christmas lights baby Groot.
So kind of basic.
But the Loki one is the one where he is holding the Tesseract from Avengers Endgame.
Hell yeah.
We actually got a couple new Endgame figures.
Oh shit.
Well we'll page read it.
Yeah so we got that one and we have Avengers Endgame cameo of Stan Lee.
Oh yeah.
I forgot about that one.
Yeah that one's awesome.
Make love not war.
Is that what he said?
Yep.
Okay.
Rest in peace my good sir.
Rest in peace.
Hell yeah.
Great freaking figure.
Yes.
For all three of those.
Oh yeah absolutely.
I feel like they've done that Holiday Groot before.
Oh it's Glow in the Dark.
Never mind.
Seriously that's the only difference.
Yeah that is the only difference.
They could have just made that the chase of the other version.
Oh my goodness.
It's been a lazy ass chase but whatever.
That Loki is super cool.
I really like that this one's Glow in the Dark and I hope it's like nothing else on
Loki other than the Tesseract.
That would be stupid I feel.
It can only be the Tesseract that glows.
Yeah.
So I hope that's something that gets like hella bright too.
Yeah just sucks that it's a Funko Shop exclusive.
Yeah so probably never going to see that one.
Nope.
Next up getting into some Pokemon figures.
We have four new Pokemon figures coming out.
The first one is Ponyta.
The little fire horse or fire pony.
We have a metallic looking Pikachu.
I don't know if this is actually metallic but it's just kind of like that color.
Then we have Mew.
And this is a cute freaking figure.
That one is adorable.
Yeah I feel though that this one's going to be a bitch to find where the tail looks good.
Fair.
That, that is fair.
Yeah so for those of you that don't know Mew kind of has a tail that goes that's really
really long and thin and it kind of goes like up and around his body and over by his head.
So I know Funkos had issues with other small thin pieces.
So I feel like that's going to be a bitch.
So let's hope you don't want this one.
Or do you?
If I found it for cheap enough.
And then the last figure that we got is Raichu.
This one's pretty cool.
I never liked Raichu though.
I mean honestly I don't really know Raichu or the Pony one.
Raichu is just the evolved form of Pikachu.
Oh it is?
Okay.
I probably should know that.
And then Ponyta is just what he looks like is honestly everything you need to know.
Okay all right.
Fair enough.
Yeah and then the last figure that we're going to talk about is a Hot Topic exclusive Simpsons
figure.
And this is Ned Flanders.
Hattily doodly neighborino.
Oh my gosh.
I've gotten into watching Simpsons when I'm bored.
Hell yes.
Yeah and Ned Flanders is one of my favorite characters.
Flanders is just so great.
The shit that Homer puts him through.
Like I don't know I'm amazed that Ned hasn't tried to kill him yet.
Or I mean maybe he has.
Yeah right?
I don't know.
I've never seen every Simpsons episode.
Maybe there is one that or at least a Treehouse Horror episode where Ned actually does try
to kill Homer.
That'd be really funny.
I wouldn't be surprised but dude Ned is such a conundrum because he's like an annoying
ass neighbor but he's freaking yoke.
Yeah like Ned doesn't sin but he freaking uses steroids like a mofo.
Seriously.
Okay but is it just me?
Do you have the pot pulled up right now on your end?
Yeah I do.
Okay is it just me or does his shoes look like they're flippers?
A little bit.
I think they just look really shiny.
Okay that's what I'm thinking too but just the way that they angle it.
Yeah it looks like he has flippers and not dress shoes.
It's kind of funny.
Yeah I think the lighting on the shoes is just odd.
Them being black and everything I think it's just odd lighting.
I agree.
But really good figure.
I really dig this one.
No I do too.
I think one thing I probably would change about it if I could.
So you see like his little smile behind the mustache.
Oh yeah.
I probably would have put like a black outline.
Yeah because you have to look.
Like I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out.
Yeah and it's not like a big gripe.
I think it just adds to the cartoony look to Flanders.
Or just to the Simpsons characters in general.
So that's probably something I would have added just to give more of that animated drawn
look.
I like that.
That's a good idea actually.
So yeah that's everything that we got in Pop Figures.
Next up we got Blu-rays.
So Rose you want to take it away with those?
Yeah so we only have one Blu-ray release coming out this week and that is The War with Grandpa.
This movie was released I think like in August.
So like right when theaters were beginning to open back up.
Did not do so well in the box office.
But I mean is anyone really surprised?
Shocker.
I know right.
Because even now no one really feels still safe to go back to the movies.
But we'll see if maybe Wonder Woman 1984 changes that.
We'll see.
But yeah so that is the only release that is coming out this week.
And speaking of Wonder Woman I highly doubt that that one's going to do well in theaters.
Because they're releasing it on HBO Max.
So what I've actually heard is you know how Cinemarks doing those private bookings that
you can do?
Those are actually selling out.
Are they really?
A lot of people are getting those for Wonder Woman.
Okay well okay think about this though.
It's a private booking.
So who knows how many people are actually going to those.
Fair.
That's a good point.
So like you gotta think if you're talking like a middle class person or upper maybe
let's say upper class.
They're probably only inviting family.
That's true.
So you gotta think that's probably no more than 20 people in a theater that's meant for
I know it's private but you should not be bringing 20 people to the movie theater right
now.
No I absolutely agree but for private booking.
Yeah okay but still I mean even for a private booking isn't that like a little extensive
right now?
Okay I absolutely agree with that.
Absolutely agree with that.
But if you do compare that to a fully packed theater of like what a hundred hundred twenty
people.
Fair.
That's a good point.
Those margins are really low.
So if you're thinking like it's strictly family because this is a movie coming out on Christmas.
Yes that's true.
So this is a movie that people are going to book for Christmas so about 20 people you're
probably spending I would say maybe a hundred hundred seventy five maybe two hundred dollars
to rent this space out.
That's not bad.
I mean this is just what I would be estimating.
I don't know how much those private bookings would actually be.
See I know if you were just wanting to like do like an older movie or like bring your
own movie and even if you wanted to it was like a hundred bucks so I don't know how it
is with like new releases.
It's gotta be like two hundred.
Oh then it's probably even lower than that.
It's probably like a hundred and fifty if it's a new release.
Yeah so yeah that's probably a hundred and fifty.
They're not going to make their money back or they're not going to make the money back
if we were in a normal situation and people could go to the theaters.
Yeah that's true.
So I mean yes the private bookings are selling out but what does that actually mean?
But probably nothing.
The thing is though Wonder Woman 84 is only going to be on HVL Maxx for a short amount
of time.
It's not going to stay there.
Whereas it is actually going to stay in theaters for quite a while.
Yeah but you also but you got to think about it's not going to.
Oh shit what was I just going to say.
So yeah Wonder Woman's not going to be on for very long but you can't get HBO Maxx for
just a day.
You have to rent it for the month.
That's true.
That's a good point.
Like at minimum you have to rent it for the month.
If you unless you use your seven day free trial if you sign into it or create a new
account.
But me and my me and Brielle we just canceled Netflix to get HBO Maxx this month.
No that means you can't watch the prom.
So we're like we still have Netflix until the end of the month so I have time to watch
it.
Well even if you can't why.
Hold up hold up.
Ends today.
Oh never mind.
OK you're borrowing my account and you're watching the prom.
Dude I'm sorry you're watching this movie.
Now we could just we'll talk about it off.
But yeah so like from now on like because we're probably going to go through our catalog
of whatever we want to watch on HBO for a while.
And then just kind of bounce back and forth because they announced that they're doing
that with Wonder Woman.
Yeah obviously.
So I'm going to watch that probably the day it comes out.
Better not spoil it bitch.
Oh I won't.
And I think they announced that they were going to do that with Suicide Squad 2.
Yeah they are.
And Christopher Nolan and James Gunn are pissed and I can't blame them.
Dude like we are seriously experiencing the death of movie theaters right in front of
us.
And I feel there's nothing we can do.
It's true but think about it like for most people.
I mean obviously I don't have it set up right now but in an ideal situation for me and this
isn't even like a big like this isn't like something that's not set in reality.
I could easily have this set up.
I have a big ass TV.
55 inch for anyone that's wondering.
Hey say.
Yeah I have a 55 inch TV.
I have the capability to connect surround sound if I so wanted.
I mean I'm not going to right now because living with people but I have I have the surround
sound option and I know where I can buy some Orville Redenbacher popcorn.
Caleb no don't talk about just staying home.
I can you know I can create the movie theater going experience in my house.
No you can't.
It can't.
Yes I can.
I'm sorry to me it can't be replicated.
It can't.
Like there is something special.
We freaking had like a big ass discussion on our way to move me here.
That's true we did but I don't know.
I just feel like there's like like kind of talking about you know like musicals like
you know like most people you know like most Broadway musicals they'll adapt them to like
movie versions.
But at the same time it's like OK yeah you know like this is awesome that I get to experience
this musical because I couldn't afford to see it on Broadway.
But it's still not the exact same.
Because I mean come on I mean I understand that I understand that with musicals.
I absolutely understand that with musicals.
You lose a certain magic with musicals.
But with the normal movie theater going experience.
Yes you.
OK.
Think about this.
I want you to think about this.
Imagine you had like a big ass TV.
Yeah.
Like a like bigger like.
Or even like a projector.
OK.
That you could make your entire wall like a freaking movie screen.
If you had that and you had some killer ass surround sound.
You know what you don't have.
Freaking assholes that talk through the movie.
You have warm popcorn that you don't technically have to pay for or that you don't have to
pay up the ass for.
You can get a drink of whatever size you want.
Like you could you could set this whole thing up have a comfortable seat that you're not
afraid of getting freaking lice or covid in.
Like you could create a an amazing movie theater going experience in your household.
The only thing that you're lacking is the audience or is the rest of the audience.
And honestly I hate the rest of the audience.
Whenever I'm watching a comedy they laugh through they laugh through the next joke sometimes
or they laugh through.
That's true.
The next line is annoying.
I will get the guy that was like behind me when with Sonic that was just.
I wanted to kill him.
Oh shit.
I get where you're coming from.
I was trying to make a point.
I get where you're coming from.
I don't know like the movie theater has always been my favorite way to escape.
Just you know it's my favorite.
I don't want to say pastime but it's just my fair way to escape this world and just
go somewhere else.
I don't know.
To me there's nothing that can be replicated from the movie going theater experience.
And I get what you're coming from.
But I don't know to me it just can't be replicated inside a home.
I would much rather like you have no idea how much I miss going to the movies.
It's insane that I haven't gone to the movie theater since last March.
It's been almost a freaking year and I still don't feel yet there and I still don't feel
safe going to the movie theater because I mean yeah I know like Cinemark is taking all
of these precautions you know with spraying down and everything and you have to wear a
mask when you're watching a movie.
But I still don't feel the need to not feel the need.
I still don't want to take the chance to see a movie in the theater yet.
But when I do get to that point I know that it's going to feel like it's going to sound
cliche.
It's going to feel like coming home again because it's just going to be an amazing
experience and I seriously can't wait for it.
I'm willing to bet you I could top the movie theater experience.
When I move out of this place and get into my own place I'm going to try and find a place
where I can set up like a theater.
Like obviously it's probably going to be a playroom as well but I'm going to set something
up that is I can like have a space away and turn it into a theater experience and you're
going to come over and I'm going to prove to you.
I'm just going to fly out for the weekend just to see what you come up with.
Just to see a movie.
Worth it.
Yeah no it's not even like a full week.
It could be like a day trip where you fly in watch the movie and I freaking send your
ass back just to prove you wrong.
Totally worth three hundred bucks.
Totally worth that.
Dude I'll pay for it myself.
No you will not.
You already did that so no that is coming out of my own pocket.
No but to prove that point I absolutely would.
Oh my gosh.
Boom told you bitch.
Get your ass back on the plane.
I could just see you drive me to the airport and literally instead of just letting me out
of the car and grab my shit you're just kicking my ass out.
I got a tuck and roll.
I can see it.
I can see where the directors are coming from.
They expect their movie like directors plan for their movies to be played on the big screen.
And does it suck that that won't happen or that it's not going to be as big of a deal.
Yes it absolutely sucks because like as a like we said aspiring filmmakers that blows.
Like the thought of not seeing a movie on a big screen blows.
But when it comes to safety versus the theatrical experience I think I could replicate the theatrical
experience and even enhance it.
Like obviously I have to pay up the ass for like a surround sound that fricking vibrates
your whole fricking body.
You're just going to take out a credit card just for this reason alone.
Yeah so obviously it's not going to be that but I think that because I don't enjoy movies.
Well OK this is going to come out probably wrong.
I don't enjoy movies because I went to the theater.
I enjoy the movies for the movie.
Oh yeah I know that makes sense.
I don't think that sounds wrong.
I get what you're saying there.
No I was I was going to say it way different.
It came out a lot better than what I was thinking.
OK well that's good.
OK that's a positive.
Yeah I but yeah I I don't know.
I think I appreciate movies differently and yes I want to get the best experience that
I can and replicate the theatrical experience as best as I can.
But I think I could do that from the comfort of my own home.
The biggest part for me is not having to be with a shit ton of other people.
Maybe it's just because you know I'm I want to keep physical media live as much as I can
so like I refuse to buy anything on digital.
Yes I have streaming services but that's different.
I don't know if that is actually not different.
But anyway like I try to buy as many blu rays as I can because I love being able to say
that I own that movie that is my movie and they can't take that away from me.
And I feel it's kind of the same way with movie theaters now and it's just like I don't
want to see directors and studios be like well I wanted my movie to be experienced on
the big screen and now it can't.
And I feel bad for them and so I want to be able to push that and be able to kind of go
after what their intention was.
If they wanted this to be seen on the big screen well then I'm going to make sure that
I see it on the big screen.
Yeah I mean I understand that like absolutely and I do think that there is something to
watching it on such a big screen but for me it's not.
The reason that I enjoy going to theaters is because of the crisp projector.
I go there for the crazy sound system.
Like that's what I go to it for.
I don't go because of whatever reasons like oh this is better than anything I could create
at home.
Or I guess that is the reason.
But I don't go there for like the experience of going and getting my overpriced popcorn
and my overpriced drink.
It's praying that I don't get sick.
And then like going and sitting next to and just praying that I don't get sat next to
some asshole.
I guess that's kind of the perk right now with the social distancing.
There literally won't be someone within like a five seat radius of you.
Yeah like that's a big perk but I can get that at home too.
That's true.
And I think with the proper cheap setup I could recreate the theatrical experience and
enhance it.
That's what I'm basically getting at.
So once I move out and get this dream situation set up like yeah you're flying out for the
weekend and we're going to just binge movies.
Deal we'll binge the whole MCU Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I'll freaking take a week off of work to do that.
Dude I would too, it'd be worth it.
I feel like the best vacation ever.
So yes I do think that it is sad that the movie theater experience is dying but I think
this is going to just be the birth of a different era for movies where instead of it being what
we've known it to be today it's going to evolve into something a little bit more like an attraction
I feel where they're going to have to offer more premium things.
Like I know that there are some theaters that it's like Dine-In theater where you get sat
at a table and you can order food, you can order drinks and all this other stuff.
So I think it's going to end up being more like that.
I think that's what it's going to evolve into.
It's going to get maybe more expensive.
So it's more like oh instead of paying for a ticket and a seat you're paying for a ticket
and a table.
It's kind of like the dinner and a show kind of situation.
And then I think you're just going to get more of those premium options for seating.
It's not going to be what it is now.
I think any theater that thinks or is going to hold on to the idea that that's what it
is they're going to die out.
It's going to be the ma and pa shops that are going to stay open that evolve to the
needs of the customer or the desires of the customer or the client base.
I get what you're saying.
We could probably do a whole freaking episode on that alone.
Enough depressing talk.
But we are not about that.
So with that I don't think there's anything else left in Adventures in Hunting so we can
move on to our main event of the evening.
Time for the main event.
It's main event time.
Let's play a game.
Alrighty before we get into the main event of the evening we got some responses to our
question of the week this week.
So we posted the question like the wet bandits what would be your bandit calling card and
name and who's part of your crew.
And we got a couple different responses.
So the first one is over on Instagram.
We got a response from at Brooker Norse.
Brooker as you guys may or may not know is one of the hosts of Film on the Rocks.
And we were actually on their I don't want to say their latest episode.
We were on their Pirates of the Caribbean episode.
Two really fun guys that have a fun ass podcast.
Hell yeah that episode was an absolute blast.
So if you guys haven't checked out Film on the Rocks go check them out.
They're amazing.
Do it and you're cool.
Anyway getting back to it.
So he responded and said the slippery bandits we put butter on everything.
I love it.
I have to know though like what brand of butter like are you specific or just like you know
what I don't care.
We talk country croc can't believe it's not butter.
I need some answers Brooker come on buddy.
Dude I think there's something to this that's freaking evil.
Why do you say that?
Like okay with the wet bandits they turn on the sinks and they leave the water running
and so your house kind of floods.
Like yeah that's messed up but you're probably going to get insurance money for that.
You know what you're not going to get insurance money for someone putting butter on all of
your shit.
And you know that you're just you're going to you're going to clean the house as best
as you can but there you're still going to find butter some places.
Like you're going to go like try and pick up the phone.
You're going to go.
What?
Doesn't Allstate cover like everything?
They're not going to cover butter.
You never know.
Jake will hook it up.
Jake from State Farm.
Dude but could you imagine cleaning up everything thinking you're like done you get like a deep
clean up of your house and then you go and like like your foot slides too far under your
cabinets and you just get butter on your feet.
Or you like go and grab the remote and your your remote is covered in butter.
Like that's some freaking conniving shit and I want to I want brokker to get like a psych
profile because that is messed up.
Genius brokker genius.
Genius but freaking evil.
And I usually respond to everyone or I try to respond to those like that I can whenever
they answer.
I couldn't answer him and this is exactly why I just started thinking about that because
I'm like oh what's a good response and then I'm just started thinking about having butter
put on everything that I own.
And it like it filled me with like some rage.
I'm like I hate touching something and it's like slippery as it is.
And it was covered with butter.
I would I would go insane.
I would absolutely go and I would move.
Oh my goodness.
Anyway so thanks for that.
Moving on moving over to Twitter we got a response from the Royal mumble podcast at
mumble royal.
They said easy at K underscore van de Bogart or Vandy B and at plunge podcast and I would
be the sneaky roofie boys.
We're bringing roofies into this.
Okay.
Wow.
All right.
Yeah.
I mean I guess you know what.
I mean I don't know what else to say to that.
I like it but it's a creative name.
Yeah it is.
I like it.
Yeah I really like the sneaky roofie boys but he said he didn't spell roofie like the
drug.
He spelled it like R O O F Y.
Oh interesting.
Yeah so who knows what if that's actually what they mean.
Yeah you got me.
So I doubt it's like roofies but I'm also not 100 percent sure it's not.
So anyway thank you both for answering our question of the week.
We really appreciate hearing from you guys.
Yes thank you.
Enjoy hearing your answers.
Even the ones that aggravate the ever living shit out of us.
Okay Caleb I just thought of one that would probably irritate you even more.
I'm gonna call my group the Jelly Bandits.
We're gonna put petroleum jelly on everything.
That's a good way to get convicted of murder because someone's just gonna walk into their
house slip and snap their neck.
Exactly.
It's like you can't call the cops on someone who's dead.
Or you can't call the cops.
Nope I messed that up.
You can't call the cops if you're dead.
But is that worse than butter?
Is that worse than butter?
I'm gonna say no.
Really?
Wow okay.
Yeah I mean at least like that is slippery.
And so like you would grab a phone and like if you put like the jelly on your phone you'd
grab the phone but it would just like slip out of your hands.
Yeah.
Like yes is that annoying?
Absolutely.
But there's just something about butter that it's not like too slippery.
Like you'd still be able to grab your phone and be able to have like a grip on it.
It just leaves like this nasty greasy like residue on your hands and it's just.
I would explode.
I would absolutely explode and could you imagine if it started getting hot then something would
it would start smelling like popcorn.
And that's a bad thing?
Yes if it's like all the time.
Bullshit.
I love that.
Yeah I've been thinking about Brucker's response for way longer than I needed to.
Oh my goodness.
Dude I just read it once and I was like okay you know what I like that.
Yeah Caleb I think you pondered this way too much.
I ponder everyone's answer.
That's true you do.
Yeah.
So like I said thank you everyone for answering our question of the week.
We really enjoy hearing from you guys.
We enjoy the discussions that we have.
Alright so getting into this week's breakdown of Home Alone.
Sticking with our Christmassy theme.
If you are new to our breakdown system we have split movies into eight different categories
that we individually grade to come to a final All Bros score or letter grade.
The eight categories that we grade are story, writing, acting, character development, effects,
music, costumes and then at the end we give it our own personal grade.
And that gives us all of the information that we need to come to a letter grade.
So with that if you have not seen Home Alone this movie came out in 1990.
Let me see really quick.
Yeah 1990.
Hell yeah.
So yeah this movie came out in 1990.
If you have not seen it that's on you.
How have you not seen it in the 30 years that it's been out?
Yeah no shit.
Like this is a holiday classic guys come on.
So if we spoil it for you it's more on you than us.
So with that being said Rose is going to read us the full synopsis for the movie spoiling
the entire thing.
So you've had your warning.
And yeah so with that it is reading with Rose times.
Spoiler alert.
Home Alone if the title didn't give it away.
So the McAllister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, France gathering at Peter
and Kate's home in a Chicago suburb on the night before their departure.
Peter and Kate's youngest son Kevin is the subject of ridicule by his older siblings
Buzz, Jeff, Megan and Lenny.
Kevin eventually ruins dinner by fighting with Buzz and is forced to sleep in the attic
as punishment.
But before he goes he tells Kate he wishes he had no family.
During the night the power is knocked out in the neighborhood which results in all of
the alarm clocks resetting.
Realizing they overslept the McAllisters rush out the door to get to the airport.
In the confusion Kevin is left behind and he wakes to find the house empty thinking
that his wish has come true.
Kevin relishes his new found freedom.
However things turn when Kevin has an encounter with old man Marley a neighborhood man who
is rumored to be a serial killer which scares him.
Meanwhile a pair of burglars named Harry and Marv nicknamed the Wet Bandits have been
casing the neighborhood looking for potential targets with Harry having particular designs
on the McAllister house.
The duo has a specific calling card.
Marv has a tendency to clog sinks and turn on the faucets before he leaves which causes
the house to be flooded out.
While in flight Kate realizes that Kevin was left behind and once the plane lands in Paris
she immediately begins to try and get back to Chicago but discovers that the earliest
flight home they can get is two days away.
She eventually gets on a flight back to the United States while the family goes to Peters
brother Rob's apartment in Paris but gets stranded in Scranton Pennsylvania on Christmas
Eve.
A fellow stranded traveler, polka band leader Gus Polinsky is on his way to Milwaukee with
his band and asks Kate if she would like a ride home with them in a rental truck since
they are passing through Chicago anyway.
Kate gratefully accepts.
On Christmas Eve Kevin makes a visit to the local Santa Claus portrayer and wishes for
his family to come home.
He later discovers Harry and Marv plotting to rob his home later that night and eventually
ends up in the local church where he again meets old man Marley.
Marley is very cordial to him and tells Kevin none of the rumors about him are true.
He points out to Kevin that his granddaughter is singing in the choir telling him that this
is one of the only times he gets to see her because of an estrangement between his son
and himself.
Kevin suggests he try to contact him and Marley agrees.
Kevin returns home and rigs the house with booby traps to take on the burglars.
Harry and Marv break in, spring the traps and suffer various injuries.
While the duo pursues Kevin around the house he calls the police and flees, then lures
Harry and Marv into a neighboring home which they previously broke into and which Marv
also left the water running at.
They ambush him and prepare to get their revenge but Marley intervenes and knocks them unconscious
with his snow shovel.
The police arrive and arrest the wet bandits telling them that Marv's trademark move got
them busted for multiple robberies.
On Christmas Day Kevin wakes up to find out his wish appears to not have come true.
However Kate pulls up in the rental truck moments later and has an emotional reconcil-
reconcil- reconciliation.
Oh my gosh.
Reconciliation.
Yes, thank you.
With Kevin.
To their surprise.
Meeting with Rose.
Shut up.
I need a theme song for you dude.
Yeah we do.
I still gotta get the design together for this.
I need shirts.
To their surprise the rest of the family arrive shortly thereafter having returned on the
aforementioned flight from earlier.
As everybody gets settled back in Kevin looks out the window to see that old man Marley
and his son have indeed patched things up for the holidays and the two wave to each
other.
Hell yeah.
So.
I always seem to forget how fun this movie is.
Oh this movie is just a blast from start to finish.
I love this movie.
Absolutely.
It is so good.
I mean this being- like that being said the story is not an A plus story at all.
This is a movie that's like that's very average in like in pretty much everything but it works
out in its favor.
Yes.
Like nothing in this movie felt like super aged other than like maybe the alarm clocks
and the phone.
But those are such a small and insignificant part in this movie.
So I mean there was a lot of shit in this movie that pissed me off.
Like what?
Like when Kevin's dad's brother or so when Kevin's uncle.
Oh so Uncle Frank?
After yeah when he spills like everything and like madness kind of happens.
It's not his fault.
Kevin should definitely have gotten in trouble for the milk.
Not everyone's reaction that caused all the freaking chaos.
And then when Frank calls or goes to or basically makes a big old scene he's like look what
you did you little jerk.
I would have knocked the ever living shit out of my brother.
I will freaking destroy you if you call my kid a jerk.
And you're a full grown adult.
I seriously forgot how much of a cheapskate he is in this movie.
Like I totally forgot about the scene on the plane when he he notices the silverware and
he's just like stuff it in your purse stuff in your purse as the flight attendant is walking
up to talk to them.
Yeah.
I'm just like oh my goodness.
Seriously Uncle Frank?
Yeah he's a freaking cheap ass.
And also on the plane when he like their first getting on he's just like oh champagne.
It's free right?
Or when he he's the one that grabs the pizzas and the pizza guy's like that's one hundred
and twenty two fifty and he's just like it's my brother's house he'll pay for it.
Yeah it's like it's the least you can do buddy.
Prick.
Seriously.
Duh.
Anyway.
Yeah.
Uncle Frank pisses me off.
Also this is one of my favorite parts in the movie is when Kevin goes to the grocery store
and the lady ringing him out yeah just keeps asking him the questions and final question
is where do you live?
I can't tell you that.
Why?
Because you're a stranger.
Just the way that Kevin says that I just love it.
Every single time I watch it.
Yeah dude like what the hell was up with that lady?
Freaking hounding of an eight year old?
Also or how old was he?
Was he eight or nine?
Yeah he was eight.
And also I want your opinion.
Okay so when he first goes to I forget what store he goes to but he goes to buy that toothbrush
and you know like he asks like if this is approved from the dental national dental association
or whatever and you know like he gets scared because of what's his name?
Marley.
Old man Marley.
Yeah old man Marley and he runs out and the worker is just like he points to the coffee
he's like shoplifter.
If you were a cop would you run after an eight year old that had stolen a toothbrush?
Is it worth that?
Especially in the snow running across an ice rink.
Is it worth the chase?
Once he got to I would have stopped at the ice rink.
Okay.
But.
It's like no I'm not busting my ass for this.
Like think about this from the cop's perspective.
He doesn't know what the kid stole.
That's a good point.
That's a very good point.
He just knows that the kid's a shoplifter.
That's a good point.
I just can imagine.
And let's talk about this for a second.
I would have put forth a little bit more effort if I were that worker.
Seriously he could have caught up to him.
Yeah.
He was like a kid.
He looked like he was like 16, 17 years old.
He could have caught up to him.
Easily.
But no he ran out the door and then yelled at a cop.
Like you couldn't keep chasing him.
Like I would have been like running and then when the cop looked I'd be like freaking shoplifter.
And then try and catch him myself.
I don't know maybe it was against the company guidelines.
I don't know.
Yeah.
So.
Because I mean that is how some companies are.
That's fair.
But still a freaking toothbrush.
I mean come on.
Yeah.
I really liked everything about this movie.
Like it does feel though like everything before Harry and Marv get to the before they get
into the house or start to try and break in everything before that it feels like very
slow.
That's fair.
And then when everyone or when all the craziness starts happening and they're like dealing
with the the break in stuff and the freaking booby traps.
That's when I feel the movie picks up the pace a lot better.
I don't know what it was but maybe it's just because I haven't seen this movie in a couple
years like I don't usually watch this movie every Christmas.
But it felt like the like the wet bandits going through all the traps went by a lot
faster than I remember it going.
Yeah same here.
So and this is something that I'll get we'll get to an effect.
Well I'll just touch them on it.
I feel like in the past it feels like the hits landed a bit harder.
Yeah.
I mean there's a lot of stuff that you point you can point out in this movie that you're
just like how the hell did you not notice that.
Like with Harry how did he not notice that the door knob was glowing red.
Shouldn't that be a sign that maybe I shouldn't touch that.
Yeah I feel like you could feel the heat radiating from that.
Yeah exactly.
Have you seen the episode of Family Guy where they make fun of this movie.
No.
So they're sitting down watching TV and they're like now back to home alone with competent
robbers.
And he like so it's these two guys and like they're walking in and there's a like all
the cars in front of the staircase.
Yeah.
And he like steps on one and he's like oh almost slipped there.
He's just like yeah and he's like what's up with all these cars that are here to make
us look like we're or that are trying to attempt to make us fall.
And then you see like that little kid up at the top and he's just like like you hungry
for more.
Oh my goodness.
Like this random ass kid.
And then like one of the robbers pulls out a gun shoots the kid.
He's just like can't leave witnesses.
Damn.
Like I'm totally butchering that whole bit.
But yeah like I'll probably I'll send you a link when we're done.
It's freaking hilarious.
So so is that the exact line they said or did he say it how he does in the movie.
Do you guys give up or are you thirsty for more.
I think he just says like are you thirsty for more.
Like you guys you guys had enough.
Yeah or something along those lines.
OK.
And then they just pull out a gun shoot him.
They're like this kid could have ratted us out.
Damn.
They did like an adult swim thing where it was a spoof on Halloween and Home Alone 2018
Halloween and they did it to where Michael Myers goes to Kevin's house instead of Laurie's.
And so Kevin's like putting him through all these booby traps and then eventually Michael
Myers kills him and it's freaking hilarious.
Oh that'd be great.
I recommend I'll send you the link.
It's freaking funny.
Yeah.
But overall I think the story flowed pretty well.
It got a little slow in the middle.
That's fair.
So I'm I'm at a pretty average score.
I'm probably sitting 80 81.
I think solid 80 is a great score for the story.
Yeah I mean it works really well.
Like we said it's not an A plus movie by any means of the word or yeah by any meaning.
But it's good.
It's a good fun Christmas movie.
Yeah.
And if you're going in for a good time and kind of want to just shut your brain off a
little bit this is definitely the Christmas movie to do it with this.
And I'm going to say it but I enjoy the second one just as much as the first one.
I do too.
I think that's not a hard thing.
I think Home Alone 2 Lost in New York is a great sequel.
Yeah and we should do that one next year.
Dude I'm down.
Absolutely.
Let's do it.
Hell yeah.
All right.
So 84 story.
Next up let's talk about the writing.
Writing is pretty good.
I mean it's amazing how much of dicks Kevin's siblings are to him.
Just the fact that he's they're just like Kevin you're such a disease or Kevin you're
yeah what the French call.
What does that even mean?
Yeah or the one sister that's like Kevin you're what the French call.
What is it?
The lazy compadre or some shit like that.
Yeah basically calling him incompetent.
Yeah and then and then freaking buzz.
Oh my gosh.
Buzz is such an ass to him.
Yeah dude it's it's so weird like the you're definitely getting like cheesy 80s writing
I feel.
You are.
And who's this?
Is it John Hughes directed this movie?
Yeah it's a John Hughes movie.
Yeah and yeah like you said you're definitely getting 90s style writing but I don't know
I'm nostalgic for that kind of shit.
I'm saying like late 80s.
Okay late okay yeah.
That's like what it feels like because when I first was thinking about this movie I'm
like this feels like an 80s movie and then I realized oh it's just because John Hughes
directed it.
And yeah but the writing is is very cheesy.
It is at times and a little bit over the top.
There is definitely some like amazing dialogue but I think there's just too much.
Sometimes the mom's dialogue was a little too over the top.
I get where I can understand where she was coming from but like especially like some
scenes at the airport I'm just like okay lady let's take it down a notch here.
Just like just a bit I would say yeah.
I would definitely put the writing below the story.
Yeah I can definitely grow with that.
But overall it was fairly good.
It really was.
Like a lot of Kevin's dialogue was amazing.
Like what you were saying with the cashier and saying like you're a stranger.
Like that stuff I freaking love.
Like his little retorts when he had his star act in like a grown up.
Like that was fantastic.
I love the parts when he would be like say when he's watching the movie he's just like
hey guys I'm eating rubbish or no I'm eating junk and watching rubbish you better come
down and stop me.
Shit like that I loved.
Yeah that stuff was perfect.
Like I said it's everyone else's dialogue around them that sucked.
I feel Kevin and not Kevin sorry.
Harry and Marv's dialogue was really good.
Yeah theirs was super solid.
Like everything that they said I don't think they had any wasted lines.
No they didn't.
I love when Marv first gets back into the van and Harry's just like what are you smiling
at?
No what are you smiling at?
You did it didn't you?
Seriously why you gotta flood every single house?
It's our staple Harry we're the wet bandits.
Yeah I really dug that.
Like all of everything that they did.
Every bit all the lines that they had were perfectly well crafted and same with most
of Kevin's.
I'd say when he's with the family that's like ehh but when he's by himself that's when
it's like damn near flawless.
If he wasn't with okay still like the best part is when Kevin's just like can I sleep
in your room buzz you know I don't want to sleep with I forget the kid's name but with
the bed.
Oh Fuller.
Yeah Fuller and he's just like I wouldn't let you sleep in my room if you were growing
on my ass.
I don't care what anyone says that line will always be freaking hilarious to me.
Yeah I'm like I said I'm lower than story but I'm still actually no.
How are you sitting at?
I'm at like a solid 75.
Yeah I'm at like a 73 so I'll meet you in the middle 74.
Yeah no sounds good to me.
Alright next up we got acting so I think we definitely need to do McCauley Culkin.
Oh yeah and then.
Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci.
Yes okay.
Alright do we want to start with Joe Pesci or Daniel Stern?
Let's start with Daniel Stern.
Okay.
I think Joe Pesci had a little bit more dialogue and more to do.
Yeah I loved Daniel Stern in this film.
I feel I don't know I haven't seen Daniel Stern in a lot because honestly the only things
I remember seeing him in are this and Home Alone 2 and A Christmas Story 2 and a lot
of people don't like to talk about that movie.
So but no I love his performance as Marv.
He's freaking hilarious just his the way he overreacts is amazing like when he steps on
that nail when Kevin puts the tarantula on his face.
That is my favorite scene.
Dude excellent choice that is such a fantastic scene.
Yeah whenever like yeah when during the struggle with the freaking tarantula that is by far
my favorite scene and he has both of my favorite scenes in both movies.
Okay what's your favorite scene in Home Alone 2?
So in the yeah in the first one tarantula in the second one it's when the pigeons are
like pecking at his nuts.
Like his screaming that is flawless.
And then my runner up scene my runner up scene with him is when he gets electrocuted in the
second one.
Oh yeah that's a great one.
I think this is in the second one.
And he turns into the skeleton and it's like.
I think this is the second one too but it's when he's just like Harry I've reached the
top and yeah that's the second one.
Okay I love that scene so much.
Or okay sorry last thing about talking about the second one but when Kevin's like throwing
those bricks down and he just keeps getting hit and he's just like Harry's just like come
on Mark get up he's like Harry Harry.
I die every time.
Okay enough about Home Alone 2 that's for next year Home Alone.
Yeah we'll talk yeah we'll definitely be talking about that one next year.
His performance is amazing in this movie.
None of his screen time is wasted.
He's hilarious.
And I feel him and Joe Pesci really compliment each other.
I feel you wouldn't think that these two would work well off of each other but they do.
They really do.
Yeah it's so so good and I think honestly him and Joe Pesci are on the same level for
me.
No I can absolutely agree.
Joe Pesci is maybe like a little like a point or two higher but not by much.
I can give you that so I say whatever we give Daniel Stern we give Joe Pesci just like a
one up.
Okay.
So yeah so I mean if we're going to be talking about both of them I think Joe Pesci did a
really good job at not playing it over the top.
I think he did a really good job at grounding Daniel Stern.
I think Daniel Stern was just like really high in his level and cheesiness and Joe Pesci
was really low.
And so I think they evened themselves out really well and it felt realistic their portrayal.
Would you have believed the whole cop situation that cops were coming around just making sure
that everyone was keeping up to date on their locks making sure that they were taking the
right precautions and shit like that.
Would you believe that?
I would have fallen for it.
Yeah I would have too.
Yeah I would have hell of fallen for that.
I probably wouldn't have gone into as much detail and being like oh we did this this
and this this is our security system blah blah blah blah blah.
I probably wouldn't have gone that far in explaining it.
Yeah our security system is fine.
Like and if the cop pushed it too hard I'd be like why?
Yeah exactly.
It's like do you have a search warrant?
I don't know if I'd go that far but it's just like do you really need to know that?
Yeah I'm like yeah I'm fine.
My house is gonna be safe.
I think that's really all you need to know officer.
So I think Joe Pesci pulled that off so well and I remember watching that for the first
time and it took me a second to realize that those were the same people.
Same dude I was the exact same.
And the first time I watched this I was about seven or eight.
So yeah like I watched it I'm just like I remember thinking like that kind of looks
like the cop and then when he smiles and like the saying I'm like it is the cop.
I love the banter that he has with a couple of kids.
He's just like are your parents at home?
Do they live there?
No no of course not.
No no no no parents just kids.
Makes sense to me.
Oh but so good so freaking good.
Love them.
So what are you thinking with these two?
For Daniel Stern I would give probably like an 88 so Joe Pesci an 89.
I can absolutely agree with that.
He did they were both freaking amazing.
Just shy of perfection I feel.
Absolutely.
So I think that's definitely a fair score for them.
Next up with McCauley Culkin as Kevin McAllister.
He was fantastic.
I feel it's hard to for being a child actor to pull off a role like this because I feel
it's asking a lot of a kid and I think McCauley Culkin nailed it.
I love him in this movie.
I have very little problems with his performance.
For how young he was he did an amazing job.
I think he did too.
I think he has a little bit of that child actor syndrome though where it comes off a
little dry.
That's fair.
But I mean child actor like what are you going to do?
So I'm not going to dock him too much but honestly you might be higher than me.
I'm going to assume.
So I'm putting him on the same level as Joe Pesci at 89.
Just because I'm trying to give him some bonus points because this is one of his earliest
roles.
I don't think this is his first role though.
I don't think it is either.
I mean this is definitely his most well known role.
Yeah definitely.
I think he was younger in that Uncle Buck movie.
I think he was too.
So yeah I doubt this is his first role.
But no I can definitely agree with an 89.
Are you boosting?
Yeah I'll stick with an 89.
I was going to go a little bit lower just because not his first role but still with
how young he is.
But I feel like when it comes to the emotional parts he nails everything I feel.
Even like this is kind of more effects wise but I feel they asked a lot of him with setting
all those traps up and shit.
Like he pulls it off.
Macaulay did a fantastic job in this film.
So averaging that out that comes to an 88.6%.
Not bad.
Yeah not bad at all.
Next up we got character development.
So I think we can definitely do this off of Kevin.
Yes.
Oliver I feel he had a pretty good character development.
You know he goes from a kid that basically doesn't want a family at all.
He feels he's the odd one out.
Nobody honestly he feels nobody cares about him.
He's the one that's always getting antagonized.
He's the odd one out.
To a kid that loses his family and is like hell yeah I'm going to party this shit up
and have a blast.
And then he finally realizes well you know actually maybe I actually do miss my family.
Maybe not so much Uncle Frank.
But it is cool seeing his character arc and when he is finally reunited with his family
it does feel genuine that he actually did miss them.
He loves them.
And he's grateful that he does have them in his life.
I agree.
This is definitely one of the better arcs that we've had.
I think he definitely goes from a kid that wants to be independent or thinks he can be
independent and can handle it and kind of having to prove it.
And then he kind of realizes how hard it is and how scary the real world can be.
And kind of has a moment of like things aren't necessarily how they appear.
Like with his neighbor Old Man Marley thinking that he's a serial killer and taking that
time to get to know who he is as a person and just kind of having that little bit of
an arc.
That whole scene in the church is just such a sweet moment.
I love that scene.
It is.
It is a really heartfelt scene.
And I think that's the most Christmassy scene.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And it gives you those Christmas feels.
And honestly I think the whole, like if you were to cut out the robber, like the wet bandits
all together from this movie, you would have a pretty decent and emotional movie.
It's true, you would.
And like because if you think about it, if you cut that out, he still has to go through
and kind of become the man of the house or handle his shit.
Like yeah, he freaking goofs off and does all this stuff, but he's working towards an
appreciation for his family.
And then if you cut out the wet bandits, then he kind of has a moment of growth where he's
like okay, things aren't necessarily all that they seem to be with old man Marley.
You take the time to know him and he's something completely different than what I think he
is.
And maybe that's how it is with my family, kind of has that realization and then is reunited
with his family.
And then it kind of has a better love for them or stronger love for them.
And I think the wet bandit stuff is just cherry on top.
Yeah, I absolutely agree.
So I actually really dug this, the character development from him.
I think it did a really good job at appreciating.
And honestly, I think the character development next year is going to suffer because it's
basically the same freaking story.
So well, I mean, okay, yeah, I mean, at least this time he doesn't necessarily wish that
his family was gone.
It just, yeah, you know, like he actually does go with his family.
It just, you know, same shit happens.
Yeah.
So with the character development, just with how solid the story was, I'm in the high 80s.
Not quite sure where I'm at, but what are you thinking?
I think maybe like 87, 88.
I can give you an 87.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
I think it was a fairly good arc.
It was.
All right.
Next up, we got effects.
So this is practical effects, stunt work.
Obviously, there wasn't much computer animated anything back in the 90s.
I feel the biggest thing you really want to point out with this effects wise is the whole
traps situation with Harry and Marv.
And I feel today, even today, that definitely holds up very well, including the whole paint
can scenario.
That scene is still really funny, even though better watch out, turned it into a very dark
scenario.
Yeah, no shit.
But yeah, just the whole like Harry like burning his hand on the doorknob, the whole nail through
the foot for Harry, Caleb's favorite, the tarantula.
This is not really stunt work, but the tarantula on the face.
I feel I think the stunt work with that is when which one's Daniel Stern?
Is he Harry?
No, not Harry.
He's Marv.
Yeah.
No, he's Harry.
No, he's Marv.
I promise you.
That's right.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I swear he is.
I kind of get them confused sometimes.
You're good, man.
You're good.
No, but I think this the scene that I'm thinking of where it's more stunt work is when Marv
hits Harry with the crowbar.
Oh, yeah.
I think I remember that stuff feeling like it landed a lot harder, but you could kind
of feel that or you could kind of see that he was holding back.
It's true.
I think they could have gotten away with using like a soft rubber crowbar if they didn't
already use that.
Yeah.
I think they could have gotten away with using one of those and having Daniel Stern just
go crazy.
That would have been awesome.
I think it would have made it feel like it had more weight behind the hits.
Yeah.
That would have been awesome.
Yeah.
I mean, that's not like a huge gripe.
It's more of a minor one.
I get you.
One scene that stands out to me is the zip line when they crawl across on the rope and
Kevin cuts the rope and they swing.
You can tell that that's Stuntman.
Oh, you can?
At least for a couple quick shots.
I know how I didn't pick up on that.
You can definitely tell that's Stuntwork or Stuntman, not Stuntwork.
Everything in this freaking scene was Stuntwork.
So, I mean, that doesn't take it down a whole bunch for me.
I still think that everything else was perfect.
I thought the slipping looked really good.
The paint can thing looked really good.
All of the freaking stuff with the feet and burning looked amazing.
I still freaking cringe when I see Marv step on the nail.
Yeah.
I know the scene's coming every time and I'm just like, oh.
And then when it comes, I'm just like, no.
So I think with everything that I'm going to dock with the effects, I'm going to put
them at like 87.
I agree with that.
Yeah?
Yeah.
All right, next up we got music.
I freaking love the music in this movie.
I feel whenever someone thinks of the Run, Run, Rudolph song, the airport scene, I don't
know about anybody else, but that is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of that
song.
Same here.
It's hard to argue with how amazing this soundtrack was.
Obviously, they're throwing in Christmas songs.
Yeah, but.
But all of the Christmas songs freaking work.
Yeah, they really do.
So good.
And who can freaking not think of this movie with that score?
Yeah, exactly.
Like, oh, so good.
I think my favorite song, the one that stands out the most to me is when is right before
he starts to set up the traps at his house.
Okay.
When it's like that rock and roll or when it switches from the like the Christmas carol
of the bells to like a full rock and roll.
Yes.
Or like epic like orchestra.
I mean, you can't forget the classic Home Alone theme at the beginning.
Yeah, yeah.
So this movie, this music was really good.
What are you thinking?
I'm thinking a solid eight.
An eight?
Yeah.
Damn, I was sitting at a nine.
I can give you a nine.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
I can absolutely give you a nine.
Yeah.
But it's so good.
It's so good.
And I think that had the score not been as memorable as it was, I probably would have
leaned more towards an eight.
That's fair.
Like I think because we just do solid like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine.
Yeah.
We don't do like nine and a half for anything like that.
I was seriously like at an eight and a half.
I was like at an eight point five three.
Like barely leaning towards a nine.
But I think it earned a nine.
All right.
And next up we got costumes.
I mean it's nothing special.
It's you know like classic winter clothes in the 90s.
But like I feel the wet bandits, Harry and Marv looked great in their bandit attire.
I don't know if you want to call it that.
Yeah.
It's kind of lots of I don't even know what kind of fabric that was.
I want to say wool but I know that's not right.
No I don't think it is.
I don't know actually.
Yeah.
It's like all the I think the costumes are honestly what age this movie the most.
True dat.
True that.
I mean that being said it's it doesn't age it that bad.
No it just like noticeable is how I would say it.
Yeah.
I agree with that.
So other than like that it's just nothing stood out a whole ton.
No.
So I'm like six or seven.
I can go either way.
So whichever you go with.
I will fully support.
I'm going to say six.
Well.
Okay.
No I okay I talked myself up and the reason I talk myself up is Kevin's winter gear and
it's kind of his beanie.
His beanie is very memorable.
Oh yeah it is.
Yeah that thing is kind of staple.
And this is like a very stand out.
Yeah very stand out.
So I'll give some bonus points for that because everyone else kind of eh.
Yeah okay so seven.
Yeah.
Alright fair enough.
Alright and then lastly our own personal grade.
Alright who's going first?
I'll let you go first.
Alright okay so overall watching this movie again fell in love with it all over again.
This is one of my favorite Christmas movies.
The cast is amazing.
The story is kind of it's kind of basic but it works in its favor in a way just because
like I said again the cast the music the writing is just so good.
I can't say enough good things about this movie.
So I am sitting at a solid 85.
That's not bad.
I'm a little bit lower.
Okay.
Than you.
I'm probably sitting in like I'm probably sitting at like a solid 80.
Okay not bad.
It is like I said it is lower but it's a good movie.
It's a really really fun movie.
It's very enjoyable to watch.
It's just I caught myself a few times before the break in happened.
Like going and like messing with my phone.
Oh really?
And kind of having to be like oh shit like I need to put it down and pay attention.
But yeah once the break in happened and all that was going on I was just like freaking
game on.
Like I put my phone down and watched it very intently.
It's just everything before it was just kind of like it lulled a little bit.
No I get you.
Like I probably honestly could have skipped to that part in the movie and been fine.
Okay.
But I mean that's not how we freaking do this.
We watch the entire movie.
So that's why it's sitting at an 80 for me.
Okay.
It's still very good.
I could probably yeah like and it's just because Christmas is like if it were any other month
that we were doing this I'd probably be like 78, 79.
Which doesn't seem like a huge difference to or I don't think would sound like a huge
difference to most people.
But it's a big enough one for me.
So averaging out our personal grades that brings us to a personal grade score of 82.5.
Not bad.
Man not bad at all.
And with that being put in that brings us to our final score for Home Alone and the
final letter grade for this movie is a B.
Not bad.
Solid B. I like it.
Yeah it's actually on the softer side for our B. Yeah so the cutoff for a B is 83%.
This is 83.6%.
So it's 0.6% away from being a B minus.
And I think this is a pretty good score for this movie.
Yeah I agree.
That's actually really good.
Yeah so I'm going to compare this to other movies that we've broken down or graded.
And so every movie that I'm about to list is all B movies.
Like not B plus not B minus just flat B.
So first one we got is so this movie is two points below the oath.
Okay.
We don't have a whole lot of freaking B movies.
It is one point below Solo.
Also one point below Christopher Robin.
It is 0.6% higher than Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle.
And Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle is seriously the closest to a B minus.
Really?
Yeah so like I said the cutoff for a B minus is 83%.
Welcome to the Jungle is 83.06%.
Damn.
Yeah.
Alright let's see.
So Home Alone is 0.3% lower than Thor Ragnarok.
Okay.
It is 0.2% lower than Sonic the Hedgehog.
Alright.
Not bad.
2% lower than Onward.
Blasphemy.
Just kidding.
What?
I'm kidding.
Onward was a good movie.
I know I'm kidding.
I loved Onward.
I'm kidding.
Yeah it is actually right in line with Lady and the Tramp 2019.
Really?
Yeah.
And I don't disagree with that.
Yeah I don't either.
Yeah 1% lower than Age of Ultron.
Okay.
2% lower than The Lion King.
Damn.
0.2% higher than Toy Story 4.
Damn.
Oh shit.
And same with Child's Play 2019.
Okay.
Yeah that's not bad.
And then the last one I'm going to do it is 0.4% higher than Shazam.
Alright.
Yeah.
That's not bad.
Which I would almost disagree with but looking back at our scores.
Yeah.
The old Shazam was the effects.
Yeah I remember that.
And kind of hard to agree with that.
Yeah.
Or kind of hard to disagree with that.
Yeah.
Sorry.
But yeah that's kind of where it's sitting in our rating system.
That's not bad.
Yeah not bad at all.
I think that's a very good home for this movie.
So with that I think that concludes this week's breakdown.
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So next week will be our 150th episode of the podcast.
And every 50 episodes, Rose and I like to break down a video game.
And this milestone's video game will be Marvel's Avengers.
Definitely got a lot to say about this one.
Oh yeah, this is going to be a fun breakdown.
Yeah, can't wait.
But also with this being Christmas and obviously we want to stay in the Christmas spirit as much as we can.
And Avengers is not a Christmas game.
So we are going to release a bonus episode on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
I'd say Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve?
Yeah.
Alright, we will be releasing a special bonus episode on Christmas Eve.
Which will be in All Bros. breakdown of Elf.
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I'm Caleb.
And I'm Jonathan.
And we'll catch you guys next...
We'll catch you guys on Christmas?
Yeah.
Wow, you butchered that.
Yeah, I did.
Because I was going to say next week but we're going to see them before that.
Or we're going to talk to them before that.
Technically we'll still be seeing them next week.
True.
So we'll see you on Christmas and we'll see you on...
When we do plan on recording this next episode it is the next week.
Fair.
Okay, that works.
So we'll see you guys next week.
Deuces.
So, since you screwed it up I'm going to screw mine up too.
What?
Yeah.
I didn't screw up on purpose, asshole.
I'm just going to do it out of envy.
Alright, whatever.