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This Movie is Sadistic

posted 18 years ago by TGR10
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A barbell falling from a two-story house? A chair attached to electrodes? A *beep* lawnmower falling on some guy's head (while it's on)?? Dear God, I love this movie. I wonder if Alex would have had deep psychological problems if he actually killed one of these guys (which...really, he should have. I mean, it's a lawnmower...on a guy's head). Or would he just go on with his life in a constant fog of schadenfreude and sadistic tendencies, finally culminating in his twenties when he locks some guy in his basement and slowly tortures him (or slowly gives him a sex change operation like that Almodovar movie that never got made). It's a bit exaggerated, but when you initiated and are exposed to something like Jernigan's head exploding like a watermelon thrown at a ceiling fan, at the ripe age of 9 even, you're going to grow into a pretty *beep* up person. Also probably had a bit of an oedipus complex--his mom was so hot.

When did children's films lose their edge?

[–] bvandevoorde 18 years ago

People have been saying the same thing about the first two (and better) Home Alone movies as well. They're only movies, it's not like any of this stuff ever happened in real life.

[–] TGR10 18 years ago

With all due respect, bvandevoorde, the first two "Home Alone" movies did not feature a guy getting hit in the head with a LAWNMOWER. While it's on. Spinning, razor sharp blades.

[–] MoviesFilmsCinema 18 years ago

I'm glad they had all those creative traps. smart kid. I saw this in theaters when I was a kid.

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[–] dalbrech 18 years ago

With all due respect, bvandevoorde, the first two "Home Alone" movies did not feature a guy getting hit in the head with a LAWNMOWER. While it's on. Spinning, razor sharp blades.

No worse then Joe Pesci's sticking his flaming hair into a toliet filled with kerosene in "Home ALone 2" or Daniel Stern's taking god knows how many volts of electricity in the same film.
Hey,it's like the Three Stooges or A Road Runner Cartoon.The violence is so unrealistic that it does not offend.

[–] sss_808 18 years ago

You people are discussing this as if it actually happened!! It's a cute kids movie! It's not as if someone actually did this, or that an 8 or 9 year old, or however old he was, is actually capable of doing all that! It's just a movie. It's not real.

[–] TGR10 18 years ago

We can't have that kind of thinking 'round here.

[–] digitalboy72 17 years ago

It's kids like Alex who grow up into Jigsaw from the SAW films lol.

[–] BulletHeadedSaxonMothersSon 17 years ago

It's kids like Alex who grow up into Jigsaw from the SAW films

Word up.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

That IDK. And the house is a three-story house, with a basement.