Friday, July 22, 2016

Retro fridays and home alone 2

I figure I post about the sequel since it's the one I have more nostalgia for because it was everywhere when it was released and frequently on tv(just like nowadays)

Home alone 2 just like it's name says, is the sequel to the jungle book ok I keed there. Similar to the 1st movie, young kevin is left alone only this time it's in new york and not at his family home. It happens in a funny way that would never happen in today's airports. There is a power outage so all the clocks get reset to 12:00 therefore everyone wakes up late and has to rush to the airport to avoid missing a flight

Here's where you can tell the age of this movie, the whole family runs straight to the departure gate with no security checkpoints and no one batting an eye. Try that nowadays and you would get tackled then arrested. What chaps me is that freeform and some other channels edited out the twin towers from the new york skyline when kevin is at the airport. Well they existed and it's awkward and weird to edit them out as someone will think they were built in 1995

Further more kevin goes to the twin towers and that isn't cut out and if you want to update the movie more then you might as well add tsa agents and security checkpoints and the family can't carry water in their overhead bag. The cars should be updated too as oldsmobile doesn't exist anymore. See how it can get overboard?

Anyways donald trump makes a cameo and this movie gives me strong nostalgia especially when kevin uses the vcr(which has crystal clear sound) and his talkboy(also crystal clear sound). Maybe it's the christmas atmosphere or that it was a simpler time or that kevin was a little kid but it reminds me a lot of the early 90's when things were better


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