Goofy Post: Home Alone

[Jalapeñomel]

this is is random, but we are watching this now, and it got me thinking…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If Home Alone was filmed now, how do you think it would go? (Yes I know this is utterly ridiculous but humor me)

Would they take Kevin to foster care? Would mom and dad be arrested? They would certainly have Ring doorbells and security cameras, yes?

There’d have to be a mass cellphone/power outage like an earthquake I guess.

[hermione]

It would be a drama.LOL

[mcmel]

[abs]

It would turn into a viral neighborhood FB post started by a nosy neighbor.

[cville]

The old man neighbor would be posting on Nextdoor and complaining about the boy who keeps bothering him. He'd probably also be a Trumper, which explains why his daughter doesn't speak to him.

The entire family wouldn't have stayed at Kevin's the night before the flight. They'd have gotten an AirBnB by the airport.

[Jalapeñomel]

I forgot about NextDoor!

DH said that Uncle Frank wouldn’t actually get on the plane, because he’d refuse to wear a mask.

[morecoffeeplease]

Dec 18, 2022 8:58:09 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I forgot about NextDoor!

DH said that Uncle Frank wouldn’t actually get on the plane, because he’d refuse to wear a mask.

Lol!! I agree.

We love home alone. It’s one of our favorite family movies.

[Roc A Bee]

They would have never made the flight due to added security.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

They would’ve never overslept, bc everyone’s alarms on their phones would’ve gone off!

[Jalapeñomel]

The improv scene between John Candy and Catherine O’Hara would be where JC is her Uber driver.

[mccallister84]

Dec 18, 2022 9:14:04 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

They would’ve have overslept, bc everyone’s alarms on their phones would’ve gone off!

Haha I swear as an adult, that’s the most unbelievable part to me now. They got picked up at 8 AM!!!!! Not a single person in that house was up already??? It’s not like it was a 4:30 am pick up. When we travel I’m so anxious about oversleeping that I wake up like every hour.

[polarbearfans]

My daughter and I were talking about this movie and how it could never happen today. Almost everyone has a cell phone. There would never be a situation that the family could not reach one person to go get this kid. A neighbor would notice this kid too and have called the cops knowing the family is out of town. A kid walking to the store alone?? Not really a thing where I live and he would have been stopped at least a dozen times asking where his parents were. Even standing a few feet from my daughter concerned people will check to make sure she has someone with her.

The sequel? I can go on my bank or credit card app and see that kid charged up my card at the plaza in NYC and get the local authorities involved. Not that he would have been able to check in himself anymore. It isn’t like the 80s/early 90s where there was little question about kids using mom and dads credit cards out shopping or in places alone.

The movies are still phone, but some parts are hard for kids who grew up super connected with tech to understand and for kids who are rarely unsupervised to understand. My daughter tries to pay at a store with her own money and cashiers are looking for parent. Just a different world now.

[thebreakfastclub]

The whole thing would have been on their Ring camera.

[livinitup]

I’ve been noticing for a few years (as have we all) that storylines where someone is ‘stranded and cannot contact anyone’ are getting harder and harder to pull off. What’s interesting (to me) is that “getting lost” used to be a common experience - if not universal. Now it’s rare. And that rarity, when I think about it hard enough, is really mind blowing.

As for Home Alone today - it would be really hard to pull off this story. I guess the kid’s cell phone would have to be broken and he would have to have zero skill/desire to double-check where his parents are and not simply ‘wished away’. As for his parents, yeah, there are lots of zany ways to reach him - how about sending a door dash guy to deliver food and report back?

[eb777888]

Not a chance one of them doesn't catch covid and they all have to stay home.

[isabel]

Dec 18, 2022 9:56:36 GMT -5 livinitup said:

As for Home Alone today - it would be really hard to pull off this story. I guess the kid’s cell phone would have to be broken and he would have to have zero skill/desire to double-check where his parents are and not simply ‘wished away’. As for his parents, yeah, there are lots of zany ways to reach him - how about sending a door dash guy to deliver food and report back?

That’s covered with the pizza guy in the movie. Kevin scares him off. The Door Dash guy would get on his cell and be like “lady, there’s Italian mobsters in your house. Kid’s a goner!”

[ZitchDog]

I don't know the best zinger to modernize the scene where to police officer goes to the house to check on Kevin, and LEAVES, but at the very least, there would be some social media hell to pay for that move.

[VillainV]

They did a modern version (Home Sweet Hone Alone) last year! It was super cute.

They couldn’t contact him because they didn’t have a landline, and he couldn’t call them because their Alexa wasn’t set up for international calling.

I definitely feel like CPS would be involved in this day and age.

The kid would be Door Dashing groceries or meals for contact-less drop off.

[macmars45]

Dec 18, 2022 9:21:47 GMT -5 mccallister84 said:

Dec 18, 2022 9:14:04 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

They would’ve have overslept, bc everyone’s alarms on their phones would’ve gone off!

Haha I swear as an adult, that’s the most unbelievable part to me now. They got picked up at 8 AM!!!!! Not a single person in that house was up already??? It’s not like it was a 4:30 am pick up. When we travel I’m so anxious about oversleeping that I wake up like every hour.

H and I just finished Home Alone last night. I told him there was 0 chance none of those kids were awake before 8am! And 0 chance they'd leave the adults to sleep that long too.

[tacokick]

I think they would have it be that there was a massive power outage and cell towers were down. They wake up late and get to the airport because they had prepaid the shuttle for the hour or two ride to the airport.

They are stuck at the airport, everyone suddenly has to pay in cash everywhere so they can’t go home but Kevin has a retro piggy bank filled with birthday money he hoards. He has to figure out how to navigate the house in the dark and protect it with no internet/power. So a little more apocalyptic and we will find out that his parents kept a lot of their old stuff in the attic that he has to use in some way like radios and walkie talkies.

The parents keep trying to get someone to drive them by promising they will pay when they get to the house but no one believes they’d have cash.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Dec 18, 2022 10:33:10 GMT -5 ZitchDog said:

I don't know the best zinger to modernize the scene where to police officer goes to the house to check on Kevin, and LEAVES, but at the very least, there would be some social media hell to pay for that move.

My super salty 14 year old was like “wow, a white male is afraid of the cops. Shocking”

[tacokick]

Dec 18, 2022 11:16:10 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

Dec 18, 2022 10:33:10 GMT -5 ZitchDog said:

I don't know the best zinger to modernize the scene where to police officer goes to the house to check on Kevin, and LEAVES, but at the very least, there would be some social media hell to pay for that move.

My super salty 14 year old was like “wow, a white male is afraid of the cops. Shocking”

I was thinking about how this movie was from a time when cops were depicted as bumbling and useless a lot more. The 2000s really went in the opposite direction. I’m not sure which way they’d play it now

[stemmie]

Dec 18, 2022 9:14:04 GMT -5 ProfessorArtNerd said:

They would’ve have overslept, bc everyone’s alarms on their phones would’ve gone off!

Or would they?

Flights to Europe from the East Coast and Midwest tend to leave late afternoon (assuming a connection) at the earliest. 

[shortstax]

Dec 18, 2022 9:56:36 GMT -5 livinitup said:

What’s interesting (to me) is that “getting lost” used to be a common experience - if not universal. Now it’s rare. And that rarity, when I think about it hard enough, is really mind blowing.

A few years back I took DS with me to a funeral in rural Alabama. It was a 8-9 hour drive, and I was so thankful for the ease app maps.  Until it was late, dark, and we turned down a county road still about an hour away from our destination, and all cell service dropped.

DS was so freaked out. He was all "what do you mean you think you should just drive further?  What do you mean you're going to ask a random at a gas station what direction to go?!?!"  It was kind of funny, but it was honestly like going back in time.

[loira]

The McAllisters would never have gotten to the point of booking the trip because of all the arguing about it in the family WhatsApp group.

[goldengirlz]

Dec 18, 2022 9:11:22 GMT -5 Roc A Bee said:

They would have never made the flight due to added security.

They also opened the door to the jetway after it was closed! That’s not allowed anymore.

[mcmel]

They would have arrived at the airport to find that the tickets that were purchased on Expedia don’t really exist.

[Jalapeñomel]

Dec 18, 2022 14:00:59 GMT -5 mcmel said:

They would have arrived at the airport to find that the tickets that were purchased on Expedia don’t really exist.

Ok this really made me chuckle.

[Jalapeñomel]

So say they manage to leave Kevin...how long would he make it until someone called the cops on the random 8 year old wandering the Chicago 'burbs?

[sent]

Dec 19, 2022 10:46:18 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

So say they manage to leave Kevin...how long would he make it until someone called the cops on the random 8 year old wandering the Chicago 'burbs?

I'd say an hour. No one would have to call because the cops themselves would have noticed this kid walking around alone going in and out of stores, followed him, and realized there were no adults in the picture. That police officer scene would have gone much differently.