64.6 miles in 7 days complete. The leash really kicked up the mileage. The mane problem vexing lions is attaining the multiple 20+ mile efforts required to prepare for another marathon+ race.
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One can't screencap Planes Trains without screencapping the Home Alone house again. The trick with colonials is they're really cramped inside. They might be cozy if they're shared with a large Indian family & everyone gets along. All the houses of lion childhood had large 2 story living rooms. This seemed to be an old man preference right until his last house.
The zillows say the Home Alone house was built in 1920, undoubtedly from the car manufacturing boom. It escaped 100 years of property tax inflation & was still being assessed at $200k. No mention of its value in 1989. It's within walking distance of a town of sorts, but a toothbrush for under $10 like the one depicted would have entailed a 7 mile run to Target.
The real wall paper is absolutely horrid.
It's generally accepted that the father was a businessman & the mother was a fashion designer. Perceptions of the family's wealth have changed in the last 30 years. In 1990's Calif*, we thought it represented a typical midwest family with large houses being under $200k & affordable by anyone. Millennials after 2010 consider it a very wealthy family which must have been tied to drug dealing.
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Replaying the soundtrack enough times, lions have noted how general purpose it is. It's a very conventional movie soundtrack formula applied to what became a very unconventional movie.
Home alone has eclipsed XMas story in the last 20 years. Part of the magic is how unattainable a house like that became since 1990. It was actually a pretty normal house for someone in the midwest, 50 years ago.
Funny that lions fear hot water heaters & feedlines as much as the kid feared furnaces. Wonder what a wheelchair was doing there. Maybe it was from a deceased grandparent.
It was briefly mentioned that the uncle & not the father paid for the trip to Paris in 1st class. The father wasn't rich enough, which further supports the memory of that not being a particularly expensive house in 1989.
Hanging cookware became a popular theme in affluent late 80's houses. Millennials kept none of it. Millennials lived larger than generation X, but they didn't keep any of the boomer decorations.
It came to pass that even rich 43 year old Peter McCallister was just a kid. Helas, he died at only 71.
The lion kingdom's favorite visuals came to be his 3 commutes into town. Many of the locations were on a real path he could have taken. No-one has re-enacted the trips he took. The church was far away.
As cold & dreary as it always was, it somehow looked cozier than reality. Of course, the snow was artificially whitened & dressed.
The fact that the kid's entire vacation had to be spent fending off Joe Pesci was the ultimate downer. It makes lions wonder what if it or 1 of the sequels was structured like Ferris Bueller & the kid had an easier time against Joe Pesci. The battles were the worst parts of the movie.
He cleaned up the house in the same night after the final battle. He decorated it in the day before the battle.
Noted how all the interior shots are under exposed & only a few of the exterior shots are properly exposed.
The cop chase scene looked hazy in 1 of the syndicated versions. In HD, we see some fragments looking diffused but not all.
The toothbrush scene definitely had diffusion. It reminded lions of 3 years ago, the impossibility of asking a confuser in natural language if a toothbrush was ADA approved.
Diffusion was used in many other scenes. It seems to be a memory of seasonal movies.
The 80's theme of necessity of family is all but gone from the internets, nowadays. The modern trend is very much the necessity of making it on your own.
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