If there’s anyone entitled to an opinion on Disney’s recent necromantic interest in the Home Alone franchise, it’s probably the person whose life was both defined, and also sort of destroyed, by its decades-long cultural dominance: Macaulay Culkin. (Or, as fans of stupid internet stunts know him, Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.) Unsurprisingly, given his feelings about spending the rest of his life basically doing whatever seems to amuse him at any given moment—hey there, Pizza Underground—Culkin had some thoughts about what a modern take on Kevin McCallister might look like.
First of all: What’cha doing with that N64 controller, Mac? (For the record, we very much enjoy the idea of Macaulay Culkin sitting down to a round of Perfect Dark.) Second, it’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time Culkin has poked fun at the idea of revisting Kevin of late; he showed up in character late last year for a weird Google Assistant ad.
So far, Home Alone 3, 4, and The Holiday Heist stars Alex D. Linz, Mike Weinberg, Christian Martyn, and Jodelle Ferland have yet to weigh in on this all-important topic.
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I like how Culkin is having a low-key comeback of sorts.His podcast is doing pretty well and he has been a throughly entertaining fixture on RedLetterMedia.
Probably the only thing to look forward to a Home Alone reboot is a RedLetterMedia episode review of it with Maculkin, as Rich would call him.
I am loving the little Culkin-sance of the past few years. His podcast is a lot of fun and his appearances on Red Letter Media videos are always a hoot. Good for him for cleaning up and finding his niche.
In a just world, Disney would give RLM $20 million and have them make a next Home Alone movie, just to see what would happen.
He was on at least one Angry Video Game Nerd as well.
And a couple Cinemassacre side things, where they basically sit around and talk about their favorite childhood movies.
What exactly does he talk about on his podcast?
Is his podcast worth listening to?
That picture pretty much summarizes how I feel by the news that there’s going to be another Home Alone because nothing may die anymore.
While I agree with you that there doesn’t need to be another movie/series/whatever, these ads by Culkin are fucking great, and for that one reason I’m glad it hasn’t died.
What about pizza related Velvet Underground cover bands? He also played an interesting character in that show Kings. I don’t know. You’d think he’d try to be in an indie or something. Use his clout to get one of his buddies movies made or something.
Some years ago there was a very entertaining piece in Entertainment Weekly (remember that?) where a doctor went through the film, estimating the bodily damage and cost of treatment and rehabilitation for the injuries and wounds sustained by Pesci and Stern’s characters. For quite a lot, such as falling down the stairs on your back, the injuries would be significant and hospital costs running into the thousands, but quite a number, such as a brick falling onto one’s bonce from second floor window, were simply classed as ‘instant death’. The Doc also went into some horrific detail in places, such as when Pesci’s head gets set on fire, explaining such things as ‘bone burning’. Still makes me shudder.
That doctor doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about. I’ve watched the movie and those dudes are basically fine at the end. Looks like it’s easier to graduate from doctor school than film script writing school.
i know a doctor. personally. like he’s my friend.i dont know how he made it.
Few years before the google ad Culkin appeared in a comedy sketch riffing off the sort of psychological damage it would have done to Kevin. Its not great but Culkin sells it.
Next you’ll tell me if that if a coyote falls from a giant cliff, it would kill him instead of popping up from the ground like an accordion.
So weird that life-threatening injuries can be talked about in terms of cost, because our society is so disfunctional it might not actually help an individual if they can’t pay.Err, anyways. Laughs! Haha!
The deleted scenes on the DVD show the pair’s back stories, how they only rob houses in order to pay the hospital bills accrued on their previous failed burglaries in their decades-long career of crime. It’s a terrible, tragic circle of pain and debt, with hilarious consequences!But yes, one can laugh but at the heart of it it’s an appaling situation.
thanks for the post. i found the article, ‘Home Alone 2’’’s hospital bill
P.S. here in the UK, their recovery would cost nothing.
Very true, for which I am truly grateful, having once had a truly spectacular accident with my foot and an axe, but as great as the NHS is, I don’t think they can do much about being beaned by a brick from the second floor.
There is also an episode of Sawbones where they talk about Home Alone and all the damage the burglars got handed to them. It’s a lot more lighthearted and jovial though.
I’m going to do the UK version of that.Okay, here it is – £0
I’m just happy that he is healthy now.
Going by the header photo Culkin needs to be cast as the lead in Jim Cornette: The Early Years
“What’s that I see in the distance…Dairy Queen? Shit, let’s stop there! Get some grub! What could go wrong?!”
Culkin is one of those examples of what a haircut can do – he looks much better without that mop he had on his head for years and years.
I like the idea of a new Home Alone being about some teens hearing that there’s a mansion that just sits empty all year because the millionaire who owns it lives somewhere else and just keeps it for show, so they decide they’ll break in and have an awesome party. Turns out, the millionaire, Kevin McAllister, does live there as a reclusive shut-in, and he decides to torture these kids with horrific traps scattered around the mansion. Who will survive?
Isn’t that basically Don’t Breathe?
yeah but better.
Well no one mentioned the syringe of semen. That might be a deal-breaker for Culkin.
Isn’t it obvious: McCulkin is now the adult. Possible plots include: Basic: He forgets the kid at home and fights his way home like his mom did.His kids go on vacation without him, too busy looking at their screens when the Uber picks them up. He tries to catch up. OR they venture back home while he’s oblivious (he thinks the vacation is NEXT week), thwarting the Wet Bandits without realizing it. When the kids finally get back home, he’s ready for vacation (again, wrong date).He would also play a really different take on Uncle Buck.
Where’s my Richie Rich reboot for the Trump era?
Easy to include him. Have him play the dad, he gets stuck at work all night and someone tries to break in. His kid finds his special ‘trap notebook’ and decides to utilize it to stop them.
Bring him back as the dad, rigorously and ruthlessly training the kid to be a home invasion nightmare.
I really like this Home Alone reboot idea I saw online:“The only new Home Alone I want: Kate McCallister, widowed, is about to spend her first Christmas alone. Her children have all moved across the country. Only Buzz stays in touch, and he’s going to Dollywood with his wife’s family for the holiday. No one has heard from Kevin since he moved to LA years ago.But when Kevin receives a Facebook message from the recently-released (and bent-on-revenge) Sticky Bandits that they’re coming for him… in Chicago… Kevin must race across the country to stop them from harming his mom.Along the way, he’ll reconnect with his nemesis brother, meet the daughter of The Polka King of the Midwest and discover that part of family is forgiveness. But mother Kate will discover something too: her son’s old booby trap plans. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.”