The Worst Idea Of All Time - TWIOAT Emergency Season Ep01: Home Alone 3

Episode Date: April 29, 2020

Welcome to another ill-fated season of The Worst Idea of All Time. This time, Tim and Guy are watching Home Alone 3 every three days for as long as they're in lockdown. This is the first Home Alone movie not to star Macaulay Culkin and Tim is not happy about this.Theme music by Disasteradio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why don't you suck and fuck Home Alone's 1 and 2, dude? Why don't you just go into a hotel room with them and have your wicked way with them and then come back when you're ready to talk to me about the real deal? and then come back when you're ready to talk to me about the real deal. Hello and welcome everyone to the worst idea of all time, emergency season, with your friends and esteemed associates, Guy Montgomery and of course Tim Batt. Tim, how are you? Bad. We're in the middle of a global pandemic and I'm trapped inside my house. How are you?

Yeah, pretty good, thanks. Very, very honest answer of you and of me actually. So Tim and I have just sat down, not together, but we're not physically, but certainly in spirit, to embark on a little emergency season of the podcast. We've sworn off doing this so many times that it probably requires more than one hand to count. In actual fact, I just finished editing up the London live show. No, sorry, the Los Angeles one with Paul F. Tompkins, where PFT tells us to stop doing doing this and that was off the back of the season before when he also told us to never do this again and um here we are that's right a lesson we refuse to learn until it is beaten into us with a bludgeon um this is a season of the

podcast that will last for as long as the world is the way it is um we of course understand that many of you are trapped within your houses not unlike tim bett and myself and also not unlike one alex pruitt the star of home alone 3. If ever there was a sequel that begged the question, why did we make this? I think it's Home Alone 3, right? That's right. So yesterday I was online and a friend had sent me a message on social media

that said, if you guys aren't holed up watching Home Alone 3, I don't know what you're doing with yourselves. And I said, we're not, but we could be. I put it to Tim. Tim is an enthusiastic and intelligent guy who immediately embraced the idea with open arms, which brings us to this present moment.

We've both just watched Home Alone 3 for the first time. It's 3 o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday. Not that time, days, months, or the calendar year has any value to society at present. No. And, well, we've seen it once. days, months or the calendar year has any value to society at present? No. And, well, we've seen it once. Tim, I'd love to know your thoughts.

Well, it sucks. I hated it. I hate that we're back doing this, but I think that's as it should be. I think that's very in the spirit of the worst idea of all time, that a mate of yours just sent you a message, and here we are embarking on a huge commitment of um time and mental energy uh of a dumb whim a silly whim this movie surprisingly written by john hughes surprising for two reasons number one i thought he had nothing to do with home line three which was part of the reason why it was so bad because i i had never seen this movie before but i did know it was bad and also because i thought john hughes had

died before this movie came out i didn't know that john hughes wrote it even at the time that we're talking to each other until he just said as much but i do have a slightly contradictory opinion to yours on the film itself tim which is that it absolutely fucks it kicks us god i enjoyed that it was a it was a romp it was an enjoyable romp you call everything a romp every movie we've ever watched at some point you've called a romp because a romp works in any direction untrue uh well i don't want to call it a triumph but i think that this movie um is a success i don't know what it did at the box office i don't know what the critics said but from from woe to go it acknowledges its forebears in the home alone franchise and also boldly says hey but we're going in a slightly different direction we're

fusing two genres of movie uh still with the pratfalls the booby traps the laughs that we've not along the way without our iconic child star but introducing a new child star in the form of a boy whose name i do not know yeah me neither we'll probably learn it by the end of the season but man you couldn't be more wrong this movie sucks and it denigrates the franchise although i fell into some deep wiki holes after and i'll admit during watching this and found out that home alone 4 uh was a straight to tv movie and home alone 5 is something that exists oh my god i also found out, because I got real obsessed by how shit these bandits are as compared to the wet bandits, Harry and Marv from Home Alone 1 and 2,

portrayed by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. And I've been doing a lot of reading on Daniel Stern. Do you want to hear about him? Absolutely. So Daniel Stern is the taller of the two if you're familiar with uh home alone one and two but not who joe pesci is yeah a really useful way of doing it is he's the one who's not joe pesci um and so he didn't have the most fruitful career after home alone one and two he directed um a few episodes of the golden years and narrated

even more of the episodes of that show um but then went on and did a whole bunch of other stuff so he opened up a boys and girls club in i think miami where he lives maybe in the wake of the columbine shootings to kind of look after the community there and that has been a great uh mechanism for the community to send kids that wouldn't normally get the opportunity to go to college to be able to get a tertiary education uh he has pursued his love of bronze like statue making you know like and um all around is just a great guy also his, his son is, I assume, the youngest senator that is sitting at the moment. He's the first millennial to make it to the US Senate. Holy shit.

Macaulay Culkin really scared that guy straight. Way to pick up the broken pieces and put your life back together, right? It just goes to show that even the most buffoonish of hoodlums can uh straighten their course you know given the right encouragement yeah daniel stern rules and he was a great villain a great bandit a great fall guy a great idiot like movie idiot because he just threw everything into it in In fact, from both being a child and now later as being an adult who kind of sort of knows a little bit about the mechanics of film and television making,

that iconic scream he does when the tarantula is on his face in, I think it's the first one, and he peeks out the microphone, that is like seared into my memory. It's such a good scream. Daniel Stern rules, and he's not in this movie yeah you're using daniel stern as a conduit through which you can discuss your two favored

home alone films whereas i'd rather i get into the nuts and bolts the nitty-gritty of this home alone 3 tim seeing as you didn't like it why don't you describe the basic overall plot of the movie well in spite of the name it's about a kid who is home alone very little of the time who gets chicken pox for the first yeah i knew you i knew you'd level this criticism at the film and on one hand it's valid yes they have found a loophole through which the kid is technically home alone and that he does have the chicken pox and his mom begrudgingly goes to the office to neglect him even though he is wise beyond his years at eight years old but they they do get him in the house alone and when it all comes down to it you know in the sort of the the

pratfall segment of the movie the final sort of 30 to 40 minutes when the mom finally leaves like i feel like the movie gives a knowing wink to us the intelligent audience as his mom clears the house and we go well okay now the boy's finally home alone and you know what's around the corner man it's like villains it's like they forgot the first 20 minutes of this film they tried and failed to make a die-hard movie like the starting bit of a die-hard movie um which is just terrible you're following these four like cartoonish because it's a kid's film two-dimensional villains but they really like go to lengths to try and develop the the bond villain scheme of what they're there's like a computer chip and a missile

system they do a good job do you know how that do you know how the head honcho villain who they're securing the computer chip for describes it? Go on. He says, whoever possesses the chip could dominate the region. The region? We do not know where or how big the region is, but we know it's a powerful chip. Sorry, the entire region, no less. The whole region, folks.

Your whole region would be taken over by this one computer chip, region folks your whole region would be taken over by this one computer chip which has a serial number on it that suggests it was produced by the u.s air force but the scheme is later revealed to be a north korean scheme which is being implemented by russian operatives so i don't know what the fuck's going on these are guns for hire to i love that right out the gates, they say this is a different film. We've got the Home Alone title on it, but we're not afraid to go in a bold new direction with the film. And then they sort of, after that Die Hard intro,

as you accurately described it, it's right up there with Die Hard in terms of really groundbreaking, immersive stuff. Not what I said. They pivot hard back into Home Alone territory with this adorable young boy who we only grow to love and respect throughout the film what do you think of his performance by the way he's fine i don't know he's a fucking kid he was actually pretty good but there's

something about um kevin mcallister you know macaulay colkin's portrayal of the kid character that's that's even there's a special like i've never seen anything like uh macaulay colkin because he's got that precocious kid thing down so well and a lot of it is this is why i'm so confused that this was written by john hughes it's it's like these movies were written by different people because the first two movies are like they're just they're good like the lines that they give kevin mccallister to deliver are like why don't you suck and fuck Home Alone's one and two, dude? Why don't you just go into a hotel room with them and have your wicked way with them and then come back when you're ready to talk to me about the real deal?

Hey, Monty, don't get cross at me because I, like every other person on earth, is outraged by how bad Home Alone 3 is. Give me your three biggest problems with it. Number one, they feature a logo which i'm sure is a nod to the trilateral commission which is a nod itself to the new world order i don't fuck with that shit okay number two they couldn't source katherine o'hara so they got a look-alike who admittedly does a pretty admirable job but you can't go replicating people you can't cast in your movie with people who look like people who you should be casting in your movie and number three it's you can't pretend like the

first two movies didn't happen and just slap the title in there and call it a franchise okay we gotta have a little fucking continuity to this universe there's no erasure they don't pretend the first two movies don't exist they just know better than to dredge them up and hold them up in front of people who want an exciting new direction also to your second point havelin morris is a saint she turns in a performance for the ages okay when then guy then guy why is she working in real estate now why is she a registered real estate agent because even the best actors need a backup plan, all right? There needs to be a security net beneath a terrifying career in the arts. I didn't know she was a real estate agent. And I honestly feel like that's a decision she made separate from how well her career was going.

Not everyone wants to be in the public eye. She was on a rocket ship for the stars, baby. Yeah, but I don't think it was her choosing that she got let off the public eye. Are you insane? She was on a rocket ship for the stars, baby. Yeah, but I don't think it was her choosing that she got let off the rocket ship. I don't think the rocket ship was taking off and she opened the latch

and went, well, this is my stop while the rocket was going 250 miles an hour. You don't get on a rocket ship without a parachute, you dead shit. I think that

this is like, it's just, you've got to get those first two movies out of your head. All right? This is an hour 40 of a young boy up against it. It's got some of the fable of the boy who cried wolf sewn throughout it,

even though when this boy's crying wolf, he can see the wolf. It's just that everyone else is choosing to think he's a liar. All right? It's got a young Scarlett Johansson turning in a powerhouse performance. It's got your... scarlett johansson turning in a powerhouse performance it's got your your i hated her performance it's got your iconic older kid brother from that late 90s tv movie genre

it's it's kmart buzz just get buzz it is honestly the late 90s was such a tough time to be playing the older brother in movies this kid like his, his script, what he was given to do is just so bare bones. Cool guy. I took screenshots of him the whole way through the movie. I'm going to pump them out. It was a brutal era for kid actors. The older brother, that's one of the hardest roles to nail down. But for his look, because he's got quite a strong look to him,

I think those were the roles he was going to get. He looks like a pretty butty, red-headed kid actor. Those are the sorts of roles that you're going to get. He sort of looks like Rhys from Malcolm in the Middle, only someone put him in like you know photoshop and just stretched out the edges yeah and just made him a bit wider and broader yeah that's quite good yeah yeah um look the kid's good the kid is good uh and i'm not going to fully take on board your point about ignoring the first two movies from whence this

film got its title but i will say that whilst he might not be Macaulay Culkin, he is really good. I'd be keen to know how old the actor was because the character's eight years old. And so I know often with kid actors, they get like some 20-year-old who's got a hormone deficiency who looks eight because they can pull off the

script a lot better i wonder if that's what was going on here yeah he was born in 1989 the film came out in 87 so he would have actually been eight he was cast him to age he yeah he i thought he was fantastic and i think um i actually wrote down in my notes that there's a lot of Tim Yat about the young lad. He's tech savvy. He's self-determined. And in that world, I also cast myself as Doris the mouse. Sort of skeptical, incapable, but emotive and ultimately impressed. I think I saw a lot of us in this film tim and it might be part of why i

enjoyed it so much i am shook that you have cast yourself as the mouse in a film that is littered with humans there's too many people in the movie and instead of picking one of them you picked a an on-screen mouse and not a mouse like stewart little an actual mouse i wanted to hitch myself to the tim bat alex pruitt wagon and so help me i have i also thought that you would get a real kick out of all of the technology on display in the film i felt like they had a lot of fun speculating as to what sort of modern technologies would be available to high-end criminals in the late 90s what i did like is there is one point in the movie where his mom rattles off all of the ways that he can get in

touch with her and it dates the movie to almost the month of when they shot it because she goes here's my uh beep here's my pager here's my office number here's my fax number and here's my cellular and that is the word she uses here is my cellular cellular. And when she pulls it out, when she's talking to him, it looks like she's talking into a scientific calculator. It's a rollicking good ride for people who are fond of retro tech. Also, I felt like her upright response earlier in the film, the first time that she leaves the house and we finally see Alex truly home alone, in quotations,

the house and we finally see alex truly home alone in quotations uh is when she sort of gets begged off by this quite domineering and annoying boss some faceless male voice down the phone who's pretty much putting a real time if you know your sex in the city too oh a big tom and he's saying if you don't come down the office and neglect your eight-year-old boy who has the chicken pox pretty much your job's going to be in jeopardy. And she sort of stares down the barrel of what's happening and says, okay, understood, I'm coming in, but I want you to know this. I fucking don't like what you're doing.

You're being a real menace. And in that respect, I think the film is almost a feminist text. 1997, you know, she's a regular Miranda. She's an absolute Cynthia Nixon standing up to Tom. Maybe not the public eye, but certainly showing a lot of spine, a lot of backbone that would not necessarily be bestowed upon a character who is essentially, you know,

reduced to a housewife in different movies of the same time. I guess in that moment, like if you take those few frames of that scene playing out, yep, you could construe that as a feminist portion of the text but katherine o'hara is so good in her role that she like just fuck man she is so uniquely good on screen and especially in i think the first two home alone's because i watched them so many times as a kid like even then i could recognize you know this woman is there's something so great about her i watched um waiting for

guffman two nights ago and she is just like nearly always the funniest thing about anything she's involved in i don't disagree crazy yeah but i i genuinely did i did have a soft spot hold on hold on sorry could i just ask you do you you, have you ever heard the conspiracy theory that Elvis Presley is in, I think it's the first time alone? No. So when John Candy comes to pick them up or meets Catherine O'Hara, I think, in the airport

and he's, fuck, does he have a band or something? There's some reason why he's driving a van like cross state lines and he ends up giving them a lift have a band or something? There's some reason why he's driving a van like cross state lines and he ends up giving them a lift. And I think during the exchange, if you look over the shoulder of John Candy, there's a guy and there was like this conspiracy theory online

that it is actually Elvis. And for some reason, because you know, Elvis isn't dead. And for some reason, Elvis was in the band. Well, that's what they want you to think. What do you mean? They want me to think he's alive? No, I mean, everyone wants you to think Elvis is dead, but we don't know that.

Oh, no, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not dead. He's alive. And he's in Home Alone. I want to say it's the first one that that happened. And he's living in Home Alone 1. Yeah, exactly.

He's trapped in there. Sorry, I interrupted your thought. No, no, it's okay ok I just wanted to say I understand it's very difficult not to get caught up on the brilliance of Catherine O'Hara but Haviland Morris does more than a serviceable job a good job and then by the same token I thought Kevin Kilner

who is like we're looking at Catherine O'Hara light and Phil Hartman light and he plays the dad I don't really know what else he's from but I thought Phil Hartman light And he plays the dad I don't really know what else he's from Phil Hartman's not in Home Alone? No I know

But they were casting to that type Yeah yeah yeah He's actually the only one who surpasses I think the original The dad in Home Alone I can't remember who that is But I think this dad does a better job But he's not on screen very much You'll drown in reminiscing about the home alone

If you're not careful Can I pick your brain on something Earlier you brought up the fact that he's 8 years old And gets left alone for ages Because his mum gets dragged into the office What's the legality around that in the US of A Do you know Super illegal

In New Zealand you've got to be 12 or 13 13 seems right. Like you would choose a teen year, right? Now that you say 12, that sounds right to me though. It's one of those two. Either way, eight. And I think that's more or less across the board,

as I understand it. How old was your older sister Alice when she started looking after you without any parents around? I couldn't tell you, but it was the 90s, and I was in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was not relaxed, but certainly I feel like, well, actually, no, because I remember I was old enough at one point. I mean, don't Google Christchurch in the 90s if you want to have a clean picture

of what a city was free of any crimes involving children. Yeah, yeah. Well, no, no no don't do any research i i'm just saying i don't remember how old i was and i think it feels like that 12 13 area was when it was like okay well we can leave you for an hour a couple of hours and and not get too worried obviously this guy is i mean he essentially brings down a network of criminals criminals that the FBI have been chasing for seven years just with stuff that was lying around their house. The guy's obviously well ahead of his years in terms of what he's capable of. And so I think in knowing that you can give him a little bit of a longer rope. But my first thought when she goes to work and he's home alone, he spots the crooks scouting out one of the other neighborhood houses calls the cops the cops arrive that you know the crooks have cleared

out there's no evidence that what he's reported is true and the mum's racing home and she's like oh the cops are there my first thought was on her behalf being like oh shit the cop's gonna ask me why the hell i left my eight-year-old boy at home. It feels illegal. It has to be illegal. And it crossed my mind. And then it's actually the scene where she knocked Catherine O'Hara. What's her name again? Haviland Morris is on the phone to her boss. This is the kid's mom.

And she gets off the phone and he says, what's the bit of legislation that he quotes what about like oh i can't really family something act protection or something like that yeah um which just drives home the fact that this is a movie in which laws exist you know and people pay attention to them yeah i i had no i, obviously it exists in a heightened reality and we don't need to examine the internal logic of some parts of the criminal enterprises or the actual physical functionality of some of the booby traps. And I was totally immersed in the world of the film all the way until the first sound effect when the two of the crooks bang their heads together over a hedge and it's like they've used to sort of hollowed out coconut against coconut sound from the looney tunes universe yeah and this is a decision that they decide to stick with

for the rest of the film i mean for the entire film and at first when i heard it i was like oh that's a bit of a disappointment like i was really in it and it pulled me out of it but then once i saw what they were doing with it i i came around to it and i thought because these are really violent and this is true of the entire franchise the punishment that he's doling out to these guys is so violent like it would be fatal in any normal world absolutely he kills four adults yes twice each at least yeah and so the cartoonish sound effects sort of at least couch it in a lighter more pg realm yeah and they're always i was never like because i hate seeing people get injured on screen real life i fucking love it I actually go and seek it out.

Um, sometimes I instigate it, but on screen, I can't really handle it. And they, or the bit that stays in my mind from, uh, I think it's number one home alone.

One is when, um, Harry steps on a nail and it goes through his foot on the stairs. I fucking hate that. That's the, that's the thing is the, the ones that make you squeamish, uh, and they're more visceral.

Those are the ones that... Do you know what one did it for me in this one, though? A guy pulls a fucking operating petrol-powered lawnmower onto himself from a height. And it's horrific. Because you see it coming towards the camera. And it's got the rotating blades. Fuck, man. I hated that. Absolutely hated it. Yeah. towards the camera and you're like and it's got the rotisserie the rotating blades fuck man i hated that absolutely hated it yeah what were um can i ask you actually at this point because

we seem to be at uh different stages of our relationship to home alone 3 already and that you really didn't like it and i will never truly love this movie this is trying to be an ex-partner that will always have my heart it's trying to be a copy of that well with that in mind could i ask you for your shining light please um oh oh no it's not a shining light um oh okay this bit i enjoy you're gonna hate this i enjoyed this because it's a reference to um the first film when alice who is the one female villain of the four and one of the other villains um has the scene where the guy has a mouse located in his crotch yeah and his burnt out crotch because he's already been electrified in a chair and the mouse crawls into sort of the cavity and is hanging out and alice gets really freaked out about this and grabs i

think it's a hockey stick from memory and fucking slams him in the nuts which is um they kind of follow beat for beat the the scene that harry and marv engage in with that where um i think i think it's the buzz's tarantula um that that marv is trying to smash off harry's uh face maybe his nuts as well i can't remember but yeah so i like that a little bit of um homage to the og actually thought the camera like as as the um the character they're also the villains names i thought was so funny they gave them such good fake names they were peter peter bopera alice ribbons burton jernigan and earl unger like those are fantastic names burton don't sound Russian, though. Burton Jernigan is, like, just a perfect...

That's the chef from Muppets, isn't it? That is a perfect assembly of syllables. But the guy you were talking about is Earl Unger. And all the villains, like, to imbue them with a seriousness, they all refer to one another as Mr. or Miss. Like, it's always Mr. S mr surname um it's so funny you like this because i i wrote down like i took very few notes but i i just wrote down this movie is so unfun because like in the first two movies there's extended sequences where kevin mccallister enjoys

his absence from adults it's kind of what is so integral to the enjoyment of home alone is it's about a dream realize that you're a kid you've suddenly you're awash with capital you've got your dad's credit cards the world is your oyster you can eat as many pizzas as you want you can order adult films from the hotel uh you can go on a spending spree at the toy store um you can get the we get an apartment in trump tower but none of that exists in this movie it's just about an upper middle class eight-year-old kid who's already kind of got all the toys and he's very rarely left alone until 40 minutes into the film they've they remembered the name of the movie as home alone 3 so they have to like quickly instigate those circumstances i feel like that's fair like the the fun and games of this movie aren't the same as the initial home alone's like you you are just dealing with a kid

who is at home with the chicken pox by the way this guy's got one of the most mild cases he's aesthetically he looks like he's got a pretty serious case of the chicken pox, but in terms of symptoms, I mean, he's barely itching himself at all. If you're young, though, chicken pox don't mess you up too bad, do they? No, they're fucking scratchy, man. Not like as an adult. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's very clearly a mechanism to keep them at home

and that is then abandoned. And fair enough. what am i getting bogged down in the nitty-gritty about it i do agree they abandoned the fun and games but i just thought well they do what they do is i think they treat the violence as the fun and games because they stay in that for ages and they're just like we're gonna have more bandits and we're gonna spend most of the film fucking them up and it's like that's not my idea of a fun movie to be honest that's just america's funniest home videos on steroids yeah that's fair enough i felt like i could see the fun they were having in the writer's room like it was so inventive with the ways that they could get

this boy to kill these grown-ups yeah um what are you what were your faves what were your top uh traps i just like i liked and this is by design within the film the first like the first wave of booby traps because it's like that's the sort of that's the come on of hallucinogens that's that ticklish moment in your life when you're thinking things are about to get really good for the people who haven't seen it come on give it a chance to say we're talking here we're talking about uh the the the character who eventually gets his nuts cracked by a hockey stick, Earl Unger. Mr. Unger, he approaches the perimeter of the house,

and young Alex has set up this sort of very primitive-looking electric fence with a sort of kid handwritten sign saying, Danger, electric currents, or whatever. And he's like, Oh, I remember. It seems so long ago i was a kid and i really loved the nostalgia of that line i i genuinely did i really felt it it says i remember when i was a kid you almost forget how stupid they are while he is taking her as leatherman pliers and advancing towards this electric current like it's so insane and this is a character who

is my favorite of all of them, by the way. He had my shining light right out of the gates when they were scouting the airport. So the jeopardy of this movie is set up because they have secured this U.S. Air Force chip that helps people control the entire region, and they've hidden it inside of a remote-control toy car that's bought from a popular toy store, not FAO Schwartz, but was it parisian

was that the name of the store i i thought it started with a p because when i read it real quick i was like it looks like the word parisian yeah i think it's something parisian or parisian i don't know what the pronunciation is but anyway the to check it through airport security they put the chip inside of a toy car and they check it through security and then it gets picked up by the wrong person who eventually leads them back to the suburban street in Chicago. But after it first gets picked up and they realize they're in this very busy airport

and they need to find the mistaken bag, everyone's sort of looking and it's quite a frantic scene. And then this guy, Mr. Unger, they're like, well, I checked all of the premium lounges and the bars, he wasn't there. And they're like, well, I checked all of the premium lounges and the bars. He wasn't there. And they're like, well, I checked all of the departure gates and he wasn't there.

And then Mr. Unger says, when I was in the john, I didn't see anything in there. And I'm like, this guy is going against the grain. The others are these sort of heels. They do exactly as they're told by their superior. And this guy is somehow talked his way into this group. But he is very much his own man. is the daniel stern of this film and he has the exact same comic beat later when they're all rummaging around the house i think trying to find the chip when they finally infiltrate and he and they they're all like completely fucked up from all the traps and they meet in the kitchen

with the living room or something and they're like it's you know it's not upstairs it's not in the bedroom and then he emerges with like some potato chips he says yeah it's not the pantry either yeah that's good that's great like he's an idiot and so when we first see him trying to penetrate the perimeter of the house and he he puts his pliers into the electric current and gets absolutely blasted and then at the same time on the other end we've got this this guy had phenomenal eyes the actor who plays mr burton jernigan a guy called lenny von dolan uh lenny von dolan is almost as good as burton jernigan what the fuck where did they find these guys burton jernigan is just i can't get past it um anyway is that the ultimate comedy name i think it is so he's simultaneously getting

electrocuted by different means around the back and they've got this jewel like from every angle northeast uh south and west this kid's got the the house set up and it just it is like it is unrelenting and they could have cut i would say 10 to 15 minutes of this part of the movie yeah to to their own advantage. But you do get the feeling that everything that comes before is in service of like, I feel like they could, they would,

the, what the weight of the home alone franchise that they were carrying was entirely distilled into this part of the movie. Of the villains getting real injured. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right. Um, I don't want to talk too long.

I want to keep these episodes snappy because we're going to be watching this film so much. Absolutely. But here's something. Raja Rosnell, who's the director, he was the editor under Chris Columbus in Home Alone 1 and 2. And same for Mrs. Dours doubtfire they were the editor

director team there man i'm telling you the dna lives on in this movie they did not abandon the franchise they took i was literally angry that they used the same theme song at the same original soundtracking um because i as i said haven't seen this movie but i know by reputation that everyone was outraged about how much they dropped the ball i understand at the time i understand in the in the vacuum of 1997 i understand the outrage but in the modern day it's a romp you heard it here first something to look out for in your second watch monty um the villain who gets the lawnmower dropped on him um and do you mean do you mean burton jernigan tim oh is that burton jernigan i don't know which one's a witch here so when burton jernigan gets the lawnmower on him uh when he pops up after the

injury for which he looks very unscathed which i was very relieved for I'm glad they didn't like put lacerations on his face to show me the blades are gone he's visibly wearing a lapel microphone with the wire like just front and center in the shot so they've got like just a total mid shot of him and you can see they've miked him up for some reason which is weird because it's quite a tight shot and they easily I would have thought

could put like a boom above his head. No, but I feel like that would be because they're using a lot of very futuristic technology. Like they're communicating through Bluetooth and walking. Like I feel like that would have been part of, because they're all on very small radio mics to communicate with one another when they're inside of the house. You've got more faith in this movie than I do, bud. I've got faith coming out of the wazoo. Something for you to look out for, Tim.

A cameo by Jamie Foxx. Tell me where. Oh, no, I saw that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The music video that's on TV. Now, mate, I watched the film. I was there. Yeah, I don't doubt it.

Well, we'll see you guys soon for episode two of this emergency season. We hope you're all staying safe out there. Something I tried yesterday. One out of five. One out of five one out of fucking five for this yesterday was uh washing my hands pretty good fun worth looking into give it a rating guy home alone three yes two thumbs up five out of five a perfect film see ya

in home alone three the stakes are Alex, who's eight, has to protect a proprietary microchip from terrorists who would use it in a missile to evade radar detection, presumably to be able to kill a lot of people without an anti-aircraft ammunition system being able to take it down. What the fuck?