Is Home Alone a Top 5 Christmas Movie? ft. Kylie Kelce | New Heights Film Club

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Speaker 2 The only way this would have made sense is if the plane crashed upon taking off something they never knew and everyone just died. That would have made sense that he was left alone for a little bit.

Speaker 2 But hell. It wouldn't have been as Christmassy.

Speaker 2 Welcome back to another edition of New Heights Film Club where you're, oh, some Travis Kelsey.

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Speaker 2 Jason, why don't you tell the people what exactly we have for this episode? Coming up on this film club, we are joined by Kylie Kelsey to revisit this 1990 Christmas classic, Home Alone.

Speaker 2 Ooh, it's a good one. It's a good one.
Let's check it out right now. Let's hear it.
That's right. We're going to do a little Christmas New Heights Film Club Edition.

Speaker 2 And the film that you guys chose for us to review is none other than the Christmas classic, Home Alone, 1990. This movie came out in 1990.
It was a 1990. I was surprised by that too.
Wow. It's old.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Older than I thought it was.

Speaker 2 I feel like I saw it when it was like brand new, but I was only three years old. I doubt I did.
I think it, no, I think Home Alone 2 was the one that we were like. In New York? Yeah.
When was that?

Speaker 2 You're looking it up? No, I'm not looking up anything. Home Alone 2 was...

Speaker 2 Nope, it was 92. So, no, we still were pretty young.

Speaker 2 Yeah, either way, definitely thought it was like more mid to late 90s because

Speaker 2 we were kids when we first were watching it. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 a still a classic, though. When did you see the movie? You weren't, I wasn't you weren't even born,

Speaker 1 yeah. Look at me, so young,

Speaker 2 so young.

Speaker 1 Um, I probably saw it. Uh, I saw it sometime in the 90s.

Speaker 2 I know that okay, okay. I mean, that narrows it down.

Speaker 1 So, before I was eight, it's a good one for the kids.

Speaker 2 Have the kids seen it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the kids have seen it. Ellie calls it home alone, very

Speaker 2 delcoe. Delcohere, love that.
Benny does not like the slipping sip.

Speaker 1 She does not. She freaks her out.
Thanks.

Speaker 2 I don't know why. Ellie freaks her out that much.

Speaker 1 Ellie was asking me about the zip line the other day.

Speaker 2 It took us a while to figure out what the hell she was talking about.

Speaker 1 And she was asking me whether or not you can zip line on the power line.

Speaker 2 But she didn't say the word zip line.

Speaker 1 No, she didn't. She said, on that rope.

Speaker 1 And then we had to get to, you know, the guy in Home Alone does it. I'm like.

Speaker 1 I'm going to need more context than that. And she's like, you've seen the movie, mom.
And I'm like, yeah, a couple times, but I still don't know what the the hell you're talking about.

Speaker 2 Still making no sense.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So we got to the bottom of it.
She meant zipline.

Speaker 2 I will say that when I was a kid, that was one of the parts of the movie where I was like, Dad, I want that. For sure.
You can zip line out of the house. That's what I want.
I wanted a dog.

Speaker 2 I think it was a lot. Out of my window.
I don't even need, they don't even need to see me downstairs. No.

Speaker 2 I can go right to my tree house. I wanted a tree house.
I mean,

Speaker 2 it was just.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I will say this.

Speaker 2 When the first scene hits after like the like

Speaker 2 when When that music starts cramping.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Yep.

Speaker 2 So you're talking about the classic. It's so magical.
It just like it like lifts me and I like start floating. Yeah.
The score is fantastic. It's a very well-made film.

Speaker 2 I'm glad it was the first Christmas movie I watched this year because it really did make me be like, oh, wow, it is. This is Christmas.
It is Christmas. Christmas is happening.
And we're here.

Speaker 2 We finally made it to December. And that is the magical season is upon us.
Well, let's start recapping the movie. Let's do this.
Okay. Oh, gosh.

Speaker 2 How does it hold up? Oh, it's still cracked. It's still incredible.
Still good. There's a few things that are starting to get dated.

Speaker 2 There's a few things that are starting to get dated, but because it's a nostalgic movie that takes place in a time, it's a period-specific film now. I think it's so old.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Teaches kids can't trust cops.

Speaker 2 Well, can't trust anybody. Crooked cops.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You can't trust cops, but you can trust the creepy man across the street.

Speaker 1 Man with the shovel.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 He just looks at you awkwardly. Yeah.
All right. Have you ever wished for your family to disappear? For sure.

Speaker 1 Who are you talking about when you were growing up or right now?

Speaker 2 All the above.

Speaker 2 That's crazy.

Speaker 2 Maybe not wish for it, but definitely like thought of a life where

Speaker 2 it wasn't the reality and then was like, all right, whatever. That's not ever going to happen.

Speaker 1 It's not even worth wishing.

Speaker 2 It's not even worth it. I only get a few wishes.
The ones that I really want to come true. Yeah.
Did you guys ever run away from home?

Speaker 2 No. I definitely did.
Yeah, me too. I definitely ran away.

Speaker 1 I might have packed a bag, but I was such a rule follower. I was like, I can't run away.

Speaker 2 I think I like grabbed a bag of chips and threw it in a backpack and like a few toys and then fucking got down the street and just like hid in the bushes.

Speaker 1 I do think that there should be a trend on social media of what was packed in a kid's runaway bag and not grown-ups recounting it. I'm talking about when a grown-up

Speaker 1 takes a picture of a kid's runaway bag. I think that that would be because you know it's going to be

Speaker 1 three Legos, right?

Speaker 1 Juice box, a stuffy, a single juice box, probably already drank, and maybe a half a snack.

Speaker 2 Don.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I didn't. You guys are ahead of me.
I never, I didn't even pack a bag. I just walked.

Speaker 2 Fuck you guys. And I walked out the door and I started walking.

Speaker 1 He ran away the same way he goes to Vegas.

Speaker 2 Just,

Speaker 2 I know where I'm going. It has everything I need.

Speaker 2 I got to the stop sign. I said, I don't know where I'm going.

Speaker 2 And I don't know what to do. Where am I going to go? Friends' house?

Speaker 1 He doesn't know how to get there, Trav.

Speaker 2 I was about to go to that. Aimless.
Jason. Yeah.
Everyone was terrified of Jason leaving.

Speaker 1 away because he'd never make it over

Speaker 2 we would really have to search for him all right i'll let you answer this trav who was the kevin and who was the buzz in the kelsey household i think it's i think it's going to stand true no matter what household it is the older siblings is buzz versus the younger siblings um

Speaker 2 because it's just i mean it is what it is the older siblings always you know

Speaker 2 have fun with picking on the younger ones and the younger ones always wish that they were older and

Speaker 2 like had more responsibility so they would stop getting treated like they were

Speaker 2 irresponsible.

Speaker 2 So you

Speaker 2 identified as Kevin.

Speaker 2 Yes, 100%. I always watched the movie thinking I was Kevin.
I never watched it and

Speaker 2 I like

Speaker 2 saw myself as Kevin. I liked Kevin.
I liked the movie, but I never was.

Speaker 2 Jay, I don't know that you're a planner like Kevin. the honesty the rube goldberg system that he implemented is

Speaker 2 the map the the entire map that he had that he

Speaker 2 was i mean he's like an offensive coordinator he should be an offensive coordinator who is brilliant i was like holy i didn't know i didn't i didn't even remember that from like the first like 30 times i watched the movie i saw that map and i was like whoa wow this kid kevin's gonna be something dialed yeah exactly

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Speaker 2 All right, well, let's recap the plot. For those of you that don't know, if you've...

Speaker 1 Are there people who haven't seen Home Alone?

Speaker 2 Living Under a Rock since the 90s? I don't think I've ever met anybody that hasn't seen Home Alone. I mean, there's some young young people that have probably not seen it, if we're being honest.

Speaker 2 It is made in the 90s. There are people that surprisingly don't know anything about the 90s that I frequently encounter.

Speaker 2 So I think they're out there.

Speaker 1 That's sad for them.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 Recap of the movie. There is a family, the McAllisters, who are vacationing over the holidays to France.

Speaker 2 Not just mom, dad, and the kids, but going to visit. There's a big family over there.
Big family vacation, going over to France for Christmas. And as they are getting ready,

Speaker 2 there is also a group of burglars.

Speaker 2 This is a very well-off area who have decided to try and stake out a neighborhood to find out which families are leaving for the holidays and which homes might be good ones to rob.

Speaker 2 And when the family is getting ready to leave the night before,

Speaker 2 power outage, so their alarm clocks don't go off on time. The family has to rush out the door in the morning because they're running late

Speaker 2 to the airport. And in this rush, they forget one of their sons.
They forget Kevin McAllister. He's in home.

Speaker 2 Up in the attic, asleep.

Speaker 2 They get to the airport. They think they got everybody.
They take off for France. And mom doesn't realize till she's halfway over the ocean that poor old Kevin is still in the main streets of Chicago.

Speaker 2 Kevin wakes up. Where's my family? Has no idea.
All of a sudden. Well, he wished for his family to never.
Right. I didn't want to.
Yeah, I guess that is an important plot. He did wish.

Speaker 2 So at first, he thinks that he actually

Speaker 2 wished them away, and Santa Claus had granted him his Christmas wish. And then he realizes the predicament he's in and that he's a child and he can't fend for himself.
And he starts to panic.

Speaker 2 And all of these things happen where he's fearful and whatnot. And I guess, in order to say the plot, these burglars that have been casing out the neighborhood know that the McAllisters are leaving.

Speaker 2 So they go back to this neighborhood to burglarize a bunch of different homes. They call themselves the Wet bandits.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 that's our thing.

Speaker 2 In the process of burglarizing these homes, Kevin notices one of the burglars who is in his house.

Speaker 2 And perhaps the worst idea ever for a burglar to go expose your face to a bunch of people before you rob their home, before you've done it. It just seems like a very bad idea.

Speaker 2 The wet bandits were dealing with.

Speaker 2 Hey, let's go rob all these homes. Hey, first, let's go show up at their house and show our face.

Speaker 2 And then when they come back, like, hey, the cops were coming around the neighborhood earlier this week. No, we weren't.
We had a cop in our house.

Speaker 2 No cop was in that neighborhood that night. Yeah.
It's a cop with a gold tooth. Anyways, yeah.

Speaker 2 Anyways, Kevin notices this burglar and he realizes that he's in trouble.

Speaker 2 So instead of having a security system like you would expect a very wealthy family of the McAllisters. That's the 90s.
1990? Okay. They still had security systems in that country.
1,000% they did.

Speaker 2 1,000%. But nice neighborhoods, yeah.

Speaker 2 anyways mcalisters they're all gone kevin's by himself wet bandits are coming in kevin has to try and figure out a way to deter them he does a great job of utilizing light systems and all the typical things but eventually the wet bandits realize he's on his own he knows that they know that he's on his own so he's got to think smart so he decides to set up a series of Rube Goldberg events throughout his entire house to inflict damage, harm, and slow these burglars down.

Speaker 2 He's not calling the cops. What? Because the power line,

Speaker 2 the phone lines don't work in this ridiculous made-up scenario. Is that what's happening?

Speaker 2 I don't think he ever thought to call the cops. I think he just took it upon himself to defend himself.
This whole fucking thing.

Speaker 2 Okay, so yeah, I want to get to the end of this so we can get back to the absurdity of this plot.

Speaker 2 Anyways, in epic fashion, Kevin gets the better of the wet bandits time and time again. Joe Pesci and, God damn it, what's the other actor?

Speaker 2 I can't remember. It's not Randy Quaid.
What's the fucking. He's very good.
Daniel Stern. Daniel Stern.
What are their two names in the

Speaker 2 fuck? Harry and Marv? Harry and Marv. Thank you.
Marv is Daniel Stern. All right.
Anyways, Harry and Marv, they try to get into the McAllister's house.

Speaker 2 Kevin McAllister does a great job of setting up all these booby traps. They can't get in.
They're trying to get in. Eventually they get in.
Then they get up to the attic.

Speaker 2 Then he ziplines out of the attic. It's a whole thing.
At no point are they robbing them. They're just trying to apparently get Kevin and kidnap him or something like that.

Speaker 2 At some point, they just say, fuck this. This kid is ruining our day.
We're about to get after this motherfucker.

Speaker 2 And it all ends with the neighbor down the street saving the day and the wet bandits being caught and Kevin being reunited with his family safe and sound.

Speaker 2 Where do we want to start off with this?

Speaker 2 I want to start off with

Speaker 2 you. We kind of mentioned earlier that i always thought i was kevin do you guys now watch that movie as if you're the parents

Speaker 2 i don't like do you put yourself in

Speaker 2 this might be the most unrelatable parents i've ever seen in a christmas movie i mean it's just it's blatantly

Speaker 2 i mean listen everybody goes to the like

Speaker 2 you leave with one without one of your kids at some point i feel like that's like a very standard thing you should not feel shame for that necessarily Maybe you forget about it long enough to take off an airplane.

Speaker 2 Yeah, probably should feel some shame there.

Speaker 2 But who the fuck, like, I just don't understand how you can't call somebody to go get this fucking kid. Like, there's there wasn't cell phones back then, Jason.

Speaker 2 Ridiculous premise that this one neighborhood is out of phone activity. You could call the cops.
They have raises.

Speaker 2 They called the cops.

Speaker 1 No, she did call the cops.

Speaker 2 She called the cops in like that area.

Speaker 1 No, she called the cops in her neighborhood.

Speaker 2 Why are we calling if they aren't helping? I'm calling other cops. I'm calling family members that are still there.

Speaker 2 I'm calling friends. That would talk about the family.
We would ruin the plot of the movie.

Speaker 2 There is precisely 0% chance that I am just waiting a couple days before I can fly back to Chicago to see what happens with Kevin. This is the most ridiculous person.

Speaker 2 She got back in like a day and a half.

Speaker 2 There's no scenario where you wouldn't be able to get somebody.

Speaker 2 Like anybody who got that call. Anybody who got that call said, hey, I'm in the airport.
I'm on an airplane going to France. I'm in France.
I left my kid. Could you go do that?

Speaker 2 If it was like two hours away, I would drive to go get a kid out from being by them. So like, this is just

Speaker 2 the dumbest thing I've ever.

Speaker 2 You only get so many calls at the airport, Jason.

Speaker 1 It's like jail. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 2 That's the nostalgia of the 90s, though, is that there is like that.

Speaker 2 Like, it sounds so easy to just pick up your cell phone right now and just call everyone in that area and find it i'm not letting nobody

Speaker 2 act like it is not

Speaker 2 that easy it was that easy everybody had landlines and anybody in the 90s could have received a phone call this isn't the fucking 30s where you had to go to the operator and do what

Speaker 2 people knew people's numbers yeah i could have called aunt judy who would have drove 40 minutes across town

Speaker 2 everyone all their family all their family went with them to france i could have called steve bogus to come pick you up. I could have called fucking.

Speaker 2 I will say this. The dad in this movie

Speaker 2 was very disinterested in fucking Kevin. He was like, All right, sweetie, you're going to try me that says there's no flights for another three days.
Oh, you're going to keep

Speaker 2 fighting uphill battle right now, Johnny. He's lost.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 he's done. It's over with.
You figure it out. We got the whole other family to be

Speaker 2 influenced.

Speaker 2 It's so true. God damn, that's a great thing.
Forgot how easy it was to get on a plane with like

Speaker 2 a ticket. Like you didn't, like they, she just handed an entire pile of tickets to the flight attendant and was like, yeah, this is all of us.
She's like, all right, cool. Go on up.

Speaker 2 Good luck. Didn't even count how many tickets they had and how many people they had.
Yeah. I was like, oh, nice.
We were looking for you.

Speaker 1 It's not good.

Speaker 1 I do think they did their best to explain away as much as they possibly could by saying that.

Speaker 2 And a child would be home alone.

Speaker 1 No, by saying that all of their extended family,

Speaker 1 like every single person in their family, was going on the show.

Speaker 2 Why are we acting like we don't have phone numbers to people that aren't immediately our fans? This guy worked at some fucking business. Like you could have called a coworker.

Speaker 2 Like there's no way there's nobody.

Speaker 1 He actually didn't give a shit.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he really was like, well.

Speaker 1 that's that.

Speaker 1 He's like, are we getting Chris Sun?

Speaker 2 The only way this would have made sense

Speaker 2 is if the plane crashed upon taking off, something they never knew and everyone just died. That would have made sense that he was left alone for a little bit.

Speaker 2 What the hell? It wouldn't have been as Christmassy.

Speaker 1 That's so messed up.

Speaker 2 All right. So, yeah.

Speaker 2 Poor banditing to

Speaker 2 go and show your face to the place you're about to rob before you go in there. Just have like somebody else that's not going to rob it.
You just pay somebody else to go in there and scope it out. Yep.

Speaker 2 I guess then you're adding another person to the knowledge that you're doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 just wait till everybody leaves.

Speaker 1 You got to split it.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm not a professional bandit. I just felt like that wasn't the wisest of choices.

Speaker 2 What was your favorite? What was your guys' favorite part of the movie? I like the opening the most, to be honest with you. Watching Adams.
The chaos of the Christmas. And there's like so many people

Speaker 2 there. It feels very relatable.
Like running around, getting pissed off about really stupid things that only siblings would be pissed off about. Like the one

Speaker 2 family member that wets the bed.

Speaker 1 There's this. There's not being enough pizza.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It just felt, it's, and it also, like, the two-liter jug of soda and like the paper plate.
all of it is just like very reminiscent of my childhood, I feel like.

Speaker 2 Other than the enormously expensive house, yeah,

Speaker 2 and the big and the big family, the big family, but we we already we were around a lot of people around the holidays, even though it wasn't family, it was friends, and we'd go to holiday parties, yeah, yeah, the halls and uh their holiday party, their New Year's Eve party, was always so much fun.

Speaker 2 It was great, yep. Shout out to the halls.
What, uh,

Speaker 2 yeah, what was your favorite part?

Speaker 1 I just, I love the,

Speaker 1 I love the

Speaker 1 mayhem. I love the mayhem of him planning how to fuck with them.
Yeah. So good.

Speaker 2 So you're more about the planning than the action.

Speaker 1 No, I think the execution, but I do just

Speaker 1 you have to, you have to appreciate how much thought and effort went into it and the fact that it went off without a hitch.

Speaker 2 I mean, for things that happened precisely off of like a door opening. Very well orchestrated.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. Very well orchestrated.

Speaker 2 I like it.

Speaker 2 Trav, what about you? I'm going to go with the scene where he steals the toothbrush, then he runs away from the cops.

Speaker 2 It's an exciting scene. I think it was a very fun.
Yes, you flanked.

Speaker 2 And I think the funny part of that whole thing is that a scene right after that, he immediately feels terrible for...

Speaker 2 for stealing. And I'm pretty sure he goes to church.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 I thought he goes to the church to run away from the wet bandits.

Speaker 2 By the way, very perceptive by Kevin in that moment to see Harry and realize that's the cop that was in my house and that this is not an actual cop and to like start walking away and then he runs to the church.

Speaker 2 He goes into the church before that or after that?

Speaker 1 He's in the church twice, isn't he?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Well, he goes into the church the night before, but then there is a scene where he runs to the church.

Speaker 2 I just thought it was so funny that he stole something and then, like, as he's walking home, immediately tried to repeat it. He's immediately like, man, I didn't mean to steal this.

Speaker 1 He didn't have any other choice.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I do got to say, I think it's probably.
I didn't want to run from the cops.

Speaker 2 I think it's got to be the best cast Christmas movie of all time.

Speaker 2 Like, could you think of anybody other than Macaulay Colcom being Kevin? Like, the facial expressions. It's...
Yeah, he crushes it. He just did such a great job.

Speaker 2 Like, I don't know, like, the way he talks, he like feels more grown-up than what his age is, but he still looks like a child and innocent, but he's got like this great dry sense of humor.

Speaker 2 The only one

Speaker 2 that I know that talked to grown-ups at that age, like, as if they were a grown-up, was Patrick Bacon.

Speaker 1 Why would you guys say that? The exact same thing.

Speaker 2 Because we've talked about this before.

Speaker 2 He has literally had the same demeanor and

Speaker 2 ability to have conversations with grown-ups since we were like fucking three. He would like bargain with our

Speaker 2 Eastside Kickers coach on how many laps. Like it was like a discussion.
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And like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 What do you think about three?

Speaker 2 Three is good enough, right? I'm running. I mean, we're getting it.
We're getting it done, right?

Speaker 2 We're going to be running during practice, too, so we might as well, you know.

Speaker 1 That's an interesting skill to have.

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It's time to thank our partner. Who's that? Reese's.

Speaker 2 Or Reese's, however you like to call it. I'm pretty sure they would like us to say Reese's.
So we're going to say Reese's and their perfect holiday companion. They're Reese's trees.

Speaker 2 Ooh, they are so good. Nothing says the holiday.
Like Reese's perfect peanut butter stuffed chocolate trees. They might be the best holiday candy ever.

Speaker 2 It's up for debate. Every holiday tradition is better when you add Reese's trees.
Holiday movies? Yeah, I mean, those go definitely better with Reese's trees. Ugly sweater parties.

Speaker 2 I mean, who doesn't like chocolate stains all over their ugly sweater?

Speaker 2 I do. Skipping the ugly sweater party to watch football in your sweats instead? I mean, that's a no-brainer.
Of course. I mean, you throw on that ugly sweater anyways.
Yeah.

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Speaker 2 Literally. You can find it everywhere.

Speaker 2 I think I called you Jason.

Speaker 2 Jason. Jason.

Speaker 2 Thank you to our partner, Gillette. All right, now, Jason, you've been retired for a full year.
Let's talk pregame rituals. Do you miss them? Still have them?

Speaker 2 I kind of have one, I guess, for Monday Night Countdown. Like I kind of go do the production meeting, then I kind of iron out what's happening in the rundown.

Speaker 2 Then I go to the makeup lady, then I go to the hair, and then I go on set. I was just curious to see if you were putting that same game day energy into your new broadcasting routine.
That's all.

Speaker 2 Well, first and foremost, it includes making sure that this beard is looking real nice, which is finally starting to show some of my grays again. After dying it, I'm getting those natural colors back.

Speaker 2 Thank you. Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I have

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Speaker 2 But I think that the cast, just because Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and

Speaker 2 what is it again? Daniel Stern, Marvin Harry, Catherine O'Hara's the mom, John Candy. Yeah,

Speaker 1 leaving it. Yeah, leaving out the band.

Speaker 2 He was more invested than her own husband was in finding that.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Who is better, Marv or Harry? When you brought up best scenes, my favorite scene is really any scene where Marv is screaming. He is

Speaker 2 fucking fantastic.

Speaker 2 Like his just.

Speaker 2 He has an electric scream. That scene where his head's on fire is one of the greatest looking scenes.

Speaker 1 Set off the baby monitor.

Speaker 2 Or I guess

Speaker 2 he gets electrocuted. Harry's the one that has the head on fire.
When he's getting electrocuted and the whole like,

Speaker 2 so good.

Speaker 1 He also steps on the ornaments. I do think that.

Speaker 2 Well, they both do, right?

Speaker 1 Or is it just him? I think it's him. Because I think Harry's at the door handle.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 The burning door handle?

Speaker 2 Joe Pesci kills it too. They're both so good.
They're good in different ways.

Speaker 1 It's a great movie.

Speaker 2 It's got a whole like Lenny and

Speaker 2 like of Mice and Menfield with like Marv being the dummy and Joe Pesci being the witty one, but he's really not that smart.

Speaker 2 Where are you guys ranking Home Alone as a Christmas movie? Well, we're doing PFF grades, right?

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 where does Home Alone rank? Wait,

Speaker 1 why does no one want to ask who would nail this?

Speaker 2 Who would nail what?

Speaker 1 Who would handle a Home Alone scenario the best out of all of us?

Speaker 2 Travis. Not even a question.
Are you kidding me? I would fucking thrive. I've always thought Kevin McAllister was in Travis Gills.

Speaker 1 You don't even think I have a shot?

Speaker 2 I mean, it just.

Speaker 2 wow. No.

Speaker 2 You would have been more planned out

Speaker 2 for sure. My instincts would have been fantastic in situations like this.

Speaker 1 Guys, they fucked around.

Speaker 1 I really think I could help them find out.

Speaker 2 Nice. Nice.

Speaker 2 Well done. Yeah.
All right. Where's the ranking in everybody's rankings? I'll go top five.

Speaker 2 I can't rank

Speaker 2 like

Speaker 2 it's hard to go like one, two, three.

Speaker 2 Exactly. And I actually, I think I like Home Alone 2 more.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 2 I don't.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have to go back and watch Home Alone 2 now.

Speaker 2 I like Home Alone 1 definitely the most. Home Alone 2 is good, though.

Speaker 2 Still has the great same cast. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I like The Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2. Yeah.

Speaker 2 She was great.

Speaker 1 Top five. I was just trying to think.
I like.

Speaker 2 Okay, which movies do I like more than Home Alone? Love, actually. Christmas Vacation.

Speaker 2 Christmas Story,

Speaker 1 The Santa Claus, The Grinch.

Speaker 2 Oof, great one. I am not putting the Santa Claus in boat, but I do like the Santa Claus.
It's a good movie. I just think I like Home Alone more than that.

Speaker 2 You know which one I really like, which is a newer one, but I watch it every Christmas now is Claus. You do love it.
Clause from

Speaker 2 Netflix. Yeah.
Great Christmas movie. I'm kind of like a sucker for the Claymation, Rudolph.
Oof.

Speaker 1 OG.

Speaker 2 I think I like Elf better than Home Alone.

Speaker 2 So not top five.

Speaker 2 I think it's just out of the top five for me.

Speaker 2 I'm putting it in the top five with Grinch, Home Alone 2, and

Speaker 2 Elf. I'll probably say those three are probably the only ones I'm taking over it.

Speaker 1 I think it's either top five.

Speaker 1 Maybe it's six, but I'm saying like the Santa Claus is up there, the original Grinch, not the original, I'm sorry, the Jim Carrey Grinch.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, love actually. That's not a surprise to anyone.

Speaker 1 Don't say anything. Nobody was asking.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'd say it's probably top five, but I think it's like the number five slot.

Speaker 2 All right, PFF grades.

Speaker 2 Christmasness.

Speaker 2 I think this is high in Christmasness. So all throughout the film, the whole reason this is happening is Christmas.

Speaker 2 It also has

Speaker 2 the soundtrack,

Speaker 2 the setting, all of it. It's just very Christmassy.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 10. I don't know if it can get more Christmassy other than the Grinch.
Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 2 it doesn't have like Santa Claus, I guess.

Speaker 2 Or like the

Speaker 1 record to him.

Speaker 2 It does. It does.
I don't know about that. It literally has him going to the church.

Speaker 2 It has like the Jesus, like, what what is it called? In front of the church. Every scene.

Speaker 2 Nativity scene. Yes.
Yes. It's not, but it's not like the Grinch or Rudolph or Frosty.
Like, it's not like a story that

Speaker 1 is directly associated with the concept of Christmas.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm trying to think of it. It's not like 10 out of 10 to me, but it's definitely very Christmassy.

Speaker 2 All right. One to 100.

Speaker 2 I'd say like 98. I'll go 90.
You go 98. You go 100.
You want to go 98? Boom. 98.
Acting.

Speaker 2 Acting. I'll go 100 on this.
I don't think there's one piece of bad acting in the whole film. Directing.

Speaker 2 Ooh.

Speaker 2 I'm going to go another 100.

Speaker 1 Wow, just giving hundreds away.

Speaker 2 Just giving hundreds out?

Speaker 2 I'm waiting for you. Listen, I dude, you

Speaker 2 said myself that this movie wasn't.

Speaker 2 Does that more plot? I like it. It's a.
Yeah, I think that's more plot.

Speaker 1 I think that's more plot. He's going to have a lot of questions.
He's going to take the, it's going to take the hit on the plot.

Speaker 2 We can go. Okay.

Speaker 2 If, yeah, 100, fine. Plot.
Where are we going?

Speaker 2 Plot, I will go.

Speaker 2 It's not a believable plot, but is it a fun plot? It's a fun plot. It's not believable.
It's not based on a true story. So I guess it doesn't have to be that believable.
but it does have some holes.

Speaker 2 So I'll go 70.

Speaker 2 I'll go 65.

Speaker 1 I was going to say 80 or 85. I think the plot is so 90s.

Speaker 2 It's so 90s.

Speaker 1 It's so 90s, and it's delightful that way. What do you mean that's 90? It's delightful in that way that it's so 90s.

Speaker 2 Just making it. But it's landlines.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 Like, yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm going Trav. What's your number?

Speaker 2 So 80. 85.
Nice.

Speaker 2 violence uh

Speaker 2 violence what

Speaker 2 why is it

Speaker 2 do you guys really enjoy violence that much needed we needed a bot we needed a fair category of decent amount of why is the other category when it's usually not violence what is it we don't do christmas action what is it acting directing plot all right it has it has i

Speaker 2 i mean the violence is high it's not violent it's not violent

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 physical harm.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But it's not like a violent. It's like a jokey.
It's like a three-seat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but like,

Speaker 1 I mean, everybody knows the iron print on the forehead.

Speaker 2 I'm going to go.

Speaker 2 I mean, I just don't know. It's low in violence.
High in violence for a Christmas movie, but low in violence. This is going to ruin his PFF grade.

Speaker 1 It really is.

Speaker 2 What do we, I don't, yeah. Can we do a different category than violence? You should do you should do it.

Speaker 1 you should do, if you're leaning towards like the action part of it,

Speaker 1 you should do more of like the finding out

Speaker 1 action, yeah, like the action of it. Like when they, what the action, like the meat of it.
It's a high is him doing the, right?

Speaker 2 Entertainment, entertainingness. The action in it is, is, I give it a 90.
Yeah, sounds good.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that feels good. There you go.

Speaker 1 Who's doing the math? Brandon?

Speaker 2 Yeah, they do the math for us. Okay.

Speaker 2 They put it in Excel. It's going to be somewhere.
Yeah, 95.

Speaker 2 Great.

Speaker 2 It's a rounding here. It's a little bit more.
Yeah, they definitely rounded that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No chance we got an 80.

Speaker 2 Look at me.

Speaker 1 He's going to type more. Look at him.
Yep. There we go.
94.6.

Speaker 2 That was one of my favorite radio stations growing up. All right now.

Speaker 2 Well, that does it for our Home Alone New Heights Holiday Film Club.

Speaker 2 Recap right there. Jason, you did a great job on recapping the movie.

Speaker 2 As always. Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

Speaker 2 That was great.

Speaker 2 You guys go and have the creepiest Christmas ever.

Speaker 2 Oh, God.

Speaker 2 And that wraps up another episode of New Heights Film Club. Thank you to Kylie for joining us.
Thank you so much. We know that that is a lot for you sometimes.

Speaker 2 We've also got a full holiday episode with Kylie dropping on Christmas Eve.

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