What if Home Alone was recast in the year 2000?
We've taken a trip down memory lane, sprinkled with nostalgia, and examined this classic through a Y2K lens. Cory and Nick are joined by Cass and Ash, we've dissected the movie's intriguing characters, distinctive charm, and enduring impact. We've debated, argued, and finally selected our ideal cast - the results might surprise you!
Our love for Home Alone transcends just the movie, as we've also shared personal experiences and traditions surrounding this Christmas classic. We've also explored the technology's influence on the movie if it were set in 2000, and revealed surprising theories about Kevin's parents. So, are you ready for a nostalgic ride filled with films, Christmas, and a lot of merrymaking? If yes, then hit play!
TIMECODES:
(00:01:02) Intro
(00:05:52) Useless Critic Stats
(00:11:55) Why We Chose This Film
(00:17:33) Box Office Top Ten & Oscars - 2000
(00:22:47) What Changes About the Film?
(00:34:57) 30 Seconds or Less Casting
Main Cast
(00:44:21) Old Man Marley
(00:52:24) Kate McCallister
(01:01:04) Marv
(01:09:19) Harry
(01:20:25) Kevin McCallister
(01:33:46) Final Cast
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Hosts:
Cory Williams (@thelionfire)
Nick Growall (@nickgrowall)
Co-Hosts (Season 5):
Aly Dale (@alydale55)
Ash Hurry (@filmexplorationah)
Cass Elliott (@take5cass)
Voice of the Time Machine:
Kristi Rothrock (@letzshake)
Editing by:
Nick Growall
Featured Music:
"Quantum Recast Theme" - Cory Williams
"Charmer" - Coat
"Revival" - Daniele Musto
"Pukka" - Bellodrone
"Kings and Queens" - Wicked Cinema
"Kiss the Cat" - Al Town
"Birdcage" - Al Town
"Passenger" - Abloom
*Music and licenses through Soundstripe
What if Home Alone was recast in the year 2000?
We've taken a trip down memory lane, sprinkled with nostalgia, and examined this classic through a Y2K lens. Cory and Nick are joined by Cass and Ash, we've dissected the movie's intriguing characters, distinctive charm, and enduring impact. We've debated, argued, and finally selected our ideal cast - the results might surprise you!
Our love for Home Alone transcends just the movie, as we've also shared personal experiences and traditions surrounding this Christmas classic. We've also explored the technology's influence on the movie if it were set in 2000, and revealed surprising theories about Kevin's parents. So, are you ready for a nostalgic ride filled with films, Christmas, and a lot of merrymaking? If yes, then hit play!
TIMECODES:
(00:01:02) Intro
(00:05:52) Useless Critic Stats
(00:11:55) Why We Chose This Film
(00:17:33) Box Office Top Ten & Oscars - 2000
(00:22:47) What Changes About the Film?
(00:34:57) 30 Seconds or Less Casting
Main Cast
(00:44:21) Old Man Marley
(00:52:24) Kate McCallister
(01:01:04) Marv
(01:09:19) Harry
(01:20:25) Kevin McCallister
(01:33:46) Final Cast
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Hosts:
Cory Williams (@thelionfire)
Nick Growall (@nickgrowall)
Co-Hosts (Season 5):
Aly Dale (@alydale55)
Ash Hurry (@filmexplorationah)
Cass Elliott (@take5cass)
Voice of the Time Machine:
Kristi Rothrock (@letzshake)
Editing by:
Nick Growall
Featured Music:
"Quantum Recast Theme" - Cory Williams
"Charmer" - Coat
"Revival" - Daniele Musto
"Pukka" - Bellodrone
"Kings and Queens" - Wicked Cinema
"Kiss the Cat" - Al Town
"Birdcage" - Al Town
"Passenger" - Abloom
*Music and licenses through Soundstripe
1990. New Pa Ruski NIM NOGA. Pretty woman. Guy in the wrong place At the wrong time Exited at a divorce.
Speaker 4:God, I love being a skater as far back as I can remember. I always wanted to be a gangster. We're gonna make a play. When the McAllister family left on their Christmas vacation, they forgot one small thing, kevin.
Speaker 5:Here at Burglis. They were calling themselves the Wet Bandits. Donut your ring there. It's Santa Claus Home Alone, shit, don't get scared. Welcome to another episode of Quantum Recast. I'm your host, corey, and we have a full house today. We have all the co-hosts. We have Nick, cass and Ash Hello, and we apologize to Ash because it's probably like 3 am where he is across the pond.
Speaker 1:It's less sleeps till Christmas, Corey. That's the mentality Ash should have right now.
Speaker 5:That's true, Ash. You're just a day closer to Christmas. I remember like.
Speaker 1:Kermit the Frog said there's only 26 more sleeps till Christmas and speaking of Christmas.
Speaker 5:That's why we're here. Nick, it's your favorite season for the podcast.
Speaker 1:We've made it after a long, long year.
Speaker 5:You just endure a lot of hardship during the year than like endless horror movies. And then we let you have a Christmas episode. But here you go.
Speaker 2:Take this kid.
Speaker 5:So that's what we're doing. If you clicked on this, you've seen that we're taking what is it? 1990? 1990, that's correct. 1990 is Home Alone and we're taking it straight out of 1990, and we're dropping it in the year 2000. 10 years later. Every time we drop a movie here, I'm like would it be called Home Alone 2000?
Speaker 1:I feel like this one doesn't fit that, because it's not a franchise, it's not a franchise Halloween it's not a psycho remake, it's just Home Alone.
Speaker 5:Okay, got it, got it. Still, I feel like every movie should have had 2000.
Speaker 1:It's the same rules apply to the year 2000 as they do at Nintendo 64. You don't throw 64 on the end of your game title. It's a loss. Yeah, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 5:Well, so welcome to Home Alone 2000. So that's what we're doing we're gonna give Home Alone a fresh face with a 2000 cast. But before we do that, we gotta dive into some stuff. First of all, if you're on social media, so are we? Hey, Find us. We're on all of them. We're on the Tickie Talks and the Tweet X's and the I don't know Look.
Speaker 5:I am Goodness gracious, I don't even know what people. It's fun when you hear people on TV now like anything sports wrestling where they like say follow us on Twitter X. They say Twitter X it's cause. It's like no one's X is not caught on.
Speaker 1:Stop trying to make X a thing.
Speaker 5:Elon, so you like follow us on Twitter or X. So so yeah, we're on X still, right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we're totally on X right now.
Speaker 5:I just know people are abandoning that burning shit pretty quick.
Speaker 4:I don't know if we have Social media platform just to confirm.
Speaker 5:Yes, yes, yes, yes, no. Yeah, we haven't jumped into any sort of only fans type of situation yet. Not yet we're at the board. We're not far, it's getting desperate, all right. So before we cast this thing, before we take Home Alone to the year 2000 and see what that movie would have looked like in the year 2000,. We have to talk about Home Alone and we have to talk about the year 2000. So, first of all, home Alone, directed by Christopher Columbus, that's right.
Speaker 5:Not the explorer, not the explorer, chris Columbus, not the problematic genocide explorer, but I feel like when he was growing up, chris Columbus was still a hero.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh, eighties and seventies, oh, totally so.
Speaker 5:He got through most of his life before his name was a thing. But yeah, he's done a lot Adventures in babysitting, home Alone 2, as you know, he did this sequel to this, mrs Delfire, the first two Harry Potter's. I did not know that. I didn't know he dipped his ink in the old Harry Potter.
Speaker 1:He did, he started all that.
Speaker 5:And then he went Harry Potter adjacent to Percy Jackson in the Lightning Thief.
Speaker 1:The franchise. You don't have to be good at developing a novel, corey, a children's novel. I know just the guy.
Speaker 5:Christopher Columbus, so I saw that that franchise is coming back, apparently after.
Speaker 1:Disney is doing a series now.
Speaker 5:Failed attempt at that book series. Okay, little factoid here about Christopher Columbus, let's just call him Chris Columbus. I guess he just goes by Chris. Chris Columbus was previously hired by John Hughes to direct the National Lampoon Christmas Vacation movie, a holiday favorite. But after meeting Chevy Chase which seems to be a recurring theme with people who meet Chevy Chase it became clear to Columbus that the two of them would not get along. So he asked Hughes if there were any other projects and Home Alone was one of the options to us, to him. So it all worked out. Yeah, two classics got made Back to back. Just, you know, whatever, we got both vacation and Home Alone. So it just kind of worked out.
Speaker 5:This was written by John Hughes, which is interesting because it's not about angsty teenagers, exciting, but it is about kind of a dysfunctional family, which was John Hughes other niche, that's true. So budget of $15 million but made $285 million in the United States alone, the highest grossing movie of 1990. So wow, that's a lot, $15 to $285. Yeah, it's a big Movie was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest box office gross comedy, grossing $477 million worldwide. I'm guessing that's just at the time.
Speaker 1:I'm sure it's the current. Yeah, currently it's at $15, not counting inflation, but Barbie is currently the number one comedy of all time. Oh wow, oh wow. For those of you that want to listen to our last episode?
Speaker 5:you can check out Barbie there Currently since the 15th. Yep, okay, all right. Wow, all right. Well, let's see what the critics had to say about Home Alone. Nick, now I know you love this movie. Are you ready for this? My body is ready to hurt it. Are you ready to hear what people who are paid to have opinions?
Speaker 1:They're not real people.
Speaker 5:I don't see them, I'm just kidding, I'm DB which is generated by just general audience. 7.7 out of 10. Okay, respectable, Respectable Rotten Tomatoes, rotten Tomatoes, rotten Tomatoes. The critics gave it a 66 out of 100. Went down a little bit, but the audience 80 out of 10. Be nice, or 80 out of 100. I'm sorry, not 80 out of 10. Yeah, they just said this movie slaps. Metacritic gave it 63 out of 100, which again, is just critics and critics don't like to have fun. Better Boxed, which is also just user generated, is 3.8 out of five. Nice, yeah, also very solid. Roger Ebert had some things to say about this movie. He had a couple of things and, just keep in mind, he is a critic and critics apparently just didn't love this movie. He gave it 2.5 out of four.
Speaker 1:That's more than half. That's okay, it's more than half.
Speaker 2:It's a stretch.
Speaker 1:He blames it all on, but he saves himself by saying like, well, it might've just been an off day at the theater for me. That seems to how he always does it.
Speaker 4:Maybe I'd take a bad day it's when he reviews them later he's like he sees something again.
Speaker 5:He's like I was really into that movie back in the day. Maybe I was just mad. All right, he did say. If Home Alone had limited self to the things that might possibly happen to a forgotten eight year old, I think I would have liked it more. What I didn't enjoy was the subplot involving the burglars. You mean the plot, the plot, the plot, the plot. Roger, what are you talking about? They would just show up in the third act.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this random burglars showed up, I think, roger.
Speaker 4:Ebert might have been a victim of burglary. Maybe he might have yo.
Speaker 1:That's hitting a tender spot.
Speaker 5:His house had just gotten robbed.
Speaker 3:He just got PTSDGs.
Speaker 5:And so, oh my God, it's like seriously the subplot. We see the wet bandits like right out the gate. They're throughout the whole movie. They're casing the neighborhood.
Speaker 3:They literally go into the house. The pizza boy lets Harry in.
Speaker 4:I know yeah he's in the first, the wet bandit.
Speaker 5:Wait, it's not Harry, though Harry's the tall one.
Speaker 1:Harry is the most tall one. Marv is the tall one.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Harry's in the first scene as a cop.
Speaker 1:Right Casing the place.
Speaker 5:That's how Kevin sees his little.
Speaker 3:Goal to.
Speaker 1:Yeah Thing, see, we're setting things up for later, are you?
Speaker 5:telling me that Joe Pesci made Goodfellas and Home Alone in the same year.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's right. Yep, that is right, that's a great year. That's a great year for him and Lethal Weapon 2 very shortly after as well.
Speaker 5:So I'm just going to. Goodfellas is 90, right, yeah, it's 1990. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And, like Ash said, lethal Weapon 2 is the year after. Yeah, joe Pesci was off the run, see in that one are we talking about two Pants. No, Joe Pesci's in three, ok, ok, I think he's Lethal Weapon 3. I'm thinking of bad boys. That's what I'm thinking. You're thinking of bad boys. Lethal Weapon is better than you.
Speaker 5:Pesci's in one of them. I know that, ok, but wow, ok, goodfellas and Home Alone in the same year. Way to go, joe man, all right. And then the last thing that Ebert says, which is also infuriating, is a real kid would probably be more frightened than this movie character and would probably cry. You might also try calling someone or asking a neighbor for help, but in the contrived world of this movie the only neighbor is an old coot who is rumored to be the Snow Shovel Murderer, and the phone doesn't work.
Speaker 1:I feel like Roger Ebert didn't watch this movie. I feel like he read something. This doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5:Also I don't think he watched it who watches the movies to say let's see how something would really go. You're right, let's just see how something I want to see a kid cry.
Speaker 1:That's a whole other reality series where they go Home. Alone came out in 1990. But what if we threw a real child and made him think that his parents were gone? What would he do?
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's like. What in the world is he? He wanted to watch a movie where an eight-year-old just breaks down and cries OK, roger, chances are the parents will probably would have gotten all the way on a plane without noticing their kid, like if we're just going to poke holes in what people would actually do. But also, the reason I don't like this is because the whole first 20 minutes of the movie is Kevin wishes his family was gone.
Speaker 1:He doesn't want to be rescued. We're setting up the plot and the character. He wants to be alone.
Speaker 5:And he is scared at first, but then he figures things out. He goes grocery shopping and learns to cook and things.
Speaker 1:And he's not afraid of the oven stairs anymore.
Speaker 5:And he essentially approves that he doesn't need his deadbeat family.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 5:That's the lesson learned guys.
Speaker 1:He's also eight.
Speaker 3:He just also is not understanding what's happening either. So he's like no.
Speaker 5:Let's just say this though how long do you think Kevin McAllister just rode that like all with his parents, Like anytime he wanted anything for, like the?
Speaker 1:rest of his life. You offended me, went to another country, you went to.
Speaker 5:Paris.
Speaker 1:How's Paris? Was it nice? Was it Holly and Jolly?
Speaker 5:I could have died.
Speaker 1:We were robbed. I saved us oh my gosh.
Speaker 5:I bet he yeah, you know.
Speaker 3:Kevin was a manipulator. After that Like hey mom, can I get this? No, honey, not today, but you left me home alone. Oh god, here we go again, Let me get back that old chestnut again.
Speaker 5:He's like oh, that's fine, mom, I'll just bring it up in therapy. You know where I go every week now, every time you go to me.
Speaker 2:I know what I have Put the burglar.
Speaker 4:But he never mentions the robbery at any point, which is the weird thing about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, the cops call me you. The cops call me you, yeah.
Speaker 4:You're right, he has a lot of leverage that he never uses. That's true.
Speaker 3:I think he was also probably scared of getting in trouble with all the pranks and stuff that he pulled on the burglar yeah, so he's probably like he's eight.
Speaker 5:He doesn't know any better.
Speaker 3:So in his mind he's thinking I'm going to get in trouble for doing all this.
Speaker 1:I think the burglar story comes out after Buzz finds out what he did to his room. He's like listen, burglar's broken.
Speaker 5:I think nobody believes him. Yeah, yeah sure you did Whatever, Kevin, OK, Kev, it's like you know what we just figured out. He doesn't even get to manipulate the situation later because they're like you destroyed the house. It's almost just like a quid pro quo at that point. Ok, we left you. You destroyed the house. You're not trustworthy.
Speaker 3:It's like the burglars came in. No, no, no.
Speaker 4:Prove it, prove it.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 4:It's the neighborhood in the country.
Speaker 5:All right, nick, you chose. You're the Christmas guy on the podcast. You chose this. Why on earth did you bring us a movie that with a child star actor, knowing how much we hate casting children on the show?
Speaker 1:So this is one of my favorite movies. It's definitely one of my favorite Christmas movies and I've been wanting to do it for multiple years now and just haven't found the right place at the time. And, as we've learned over time, like you said, we hate casting children in these movies because it's hard. Especially the further you go back it's hard. So I tried to find just the nice sweet spot between now and then, where it seemed like there was. I was pretty much just throwing darts in the dark because I was like I think this generally has a lot of kids that we know of that were in Hollywood and TV and stuff. So I felt like this was the safest spot possible, because otherwise I would have probably just said went OK, take it to the spot.
Speaker 1:But I kind of already know who I'm picking for Macaulay Colgan, which isn't fair. So I've given Ash and Cass plenty of room to just pick who they please. Ok, so All right. But no, I mean I feel like it's just a classic that's been built in since I've been around, as I've been more. It's only two years older, younger than I am actually and so I just feel like it's become a holiday tradition to watch it. It's very quotable. It's very people are always referencing it. I don't feel like it's ever especially during the holidays has ever really escaped like the zeitgeist, by any means whatsoever.
Speaker 5:No, and they're still making good things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't talk about those, corey. There's two. There's only two. It's only two homologues. There's only two homologues. There's only two Adams family. There's only one Corey Williams, it's true, except for the one that they were looking for that one time. Except for that other Corey Williams.
Speaker 5:Apparently, every time I get pulled over, they think I'm him and they try to arrest me. Right, I wish that guy would go away. He needs to. What did the other guy do? Nobody's got quite a rap sheet. Every time I get pulled over to the cops, we're like we got him. I thought you could escape us. This time he's just Corey Wayne Williams, if you're out there listening to Corey Wayne Williams.
Speaker 5:Stop, just turn yourself in, and I have to point out every time to cops. Well, my middle name's Alan and they're like likely still.
Speaker 1:You probably made that up.
Speaker 5:right there they're also like this Corey Wayne guy. He's like in his 50s, he's like a lifetime criminal. It's just like guys, I get it, you've wanted this guy for a while. Maybe it's not me, so All right. Well, ok, I mean I'm excited to do this movie. I'm mainly just the host here today and I'm definitely excited to see how this goes down. Home Alone is a classic Christmas movie, it is for sure. You know. I mean like it just seems like that's rare air. Somehow Elf has crowbarred its way in, but I feel like that's the last Christmas classic.
Speaker 1:Like that's bonafide, so cold. Like no, conversation can be argument.
Speaker 5:I mean, it's just one of those movies that's going to be like it's almost just like. Is someone like lots of families are definitely going to watch it every single year.
Speaker 2:I hate Elf, I think it's an abysmal movie. I've never seen it.
Speaker 5:That's great hey keep going through life not seeing it. It's perfect.
Speaker 3:I love it. I want to keep doing that.
Speaker 4:I got a great feel I don't like it. It's not that great. I don't know why it's a classic.
Speaker 1:Maybe you have a soft spot. I don't have a problem with Elf like you guys do. Ok, well, it's horrible. Well definitely don't check out the 24 hour marathon.
Speaker 5:I hate that it has a twin. There are at least 100 Christmas movies deserving of a 24 hour slot before Elf. It's like first of all, get the, get the hell off of Christmas stories. Gimmick True, ok, but your own but my parents actually I won't say parents.
Speaker 3:My mother every Christmas day makes us watch a Christmas story on that marathon you know, you know I don't like it enough to watch it, that much it's not about liking it, it's about it's a tradition.
Speaker 5:I love that movie.
Speaker 3:It's not that I hate it.
Speaker 5:I like the movie I don't like. I don't like watching it over and over again but but I guess, like just to wrap this up, that's what I'm talking about. People have their slate of movies every Christmas. It's like you you make that slate of movies and it gets bigger, Like in my house. It's weird. We really start off with B tier stuff. I mean, obviously I start off with die hard and then. But my wife's two favorite Christmas movies are Jingle All the Way and Christmas with the Cranks.
Speaker 1:I don't see any problem, and those are like.
Speaker 5:But I mean, those are kind of like B tier, I guess it's not like.
Speaker 1:I feel like those are like kind of like the B side. You're hurting Ash's Christmas spirit, Corey and you just. I love those movies.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think that's. I think Corey makes a great point. Everyone has their own Christmas movies and the thing as well, elf is now a classic. Like, how do you define what a classic is Like? I thought Home Alone would be the last recent classic.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I think Elf is sort of slipped its way into that category now.
Speaker 1:I also think the live action Grinch has entered.
Speaker 5:Why live action? Grinch is a must in my house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes, that too.
Speaker 5:I will say this Ash just to make you feel better. We have like a stupid whiteboard on my floor at work and they put polls up every week. It's just just a vote on something, and this last week it was Elf versus live action. Grinch, elf got one vote, a huge area. Find them the youngest person on our floor.
Speaker 2:That's okay, it makes sense.
Speaker 3:OK, elf is like 20.
Speaker 5:And so Elf's a thing for him, and the rest of us are older and we're like idiot.
Speaker 2:So but I'm coming off, alright.
Speaker 5:And I think home alone makes that list for a lot of people. Yes, yeah, and my wife yeah, enjoys home alone, she, she really likes it.
Speaker 2:She likes of them.
Speaker 5:So she usually puts that. She makes us watch that, so I do. I think like that. I think it's absolutely a classic. I'm glad we're doing it. All right, we have to talk about the year 2000.
Speaker 1:We were all alive.
Speaker 5:Wait cast. Were you alive? Yes, okay, wait, you were like just alive, though, right, she's like two like you're one, okay, all right, I'm at your round, all right.
Speaker 3:The rest of us were older that was a bad.
Speaker 5:I was in high school so I I am very familiar with this year. All right, a lot going on puberty mostly it's because it's my freshman year that was a late bloomer. All right, let's go a year interview for 2000. We have to talk about the top 10 at the box office. What were the people watching In 2000 and coming in at number 10. Wow, already weird. What lies beneath?
Speaker 2:Yeah, number.
Speaker 5:Is this real?
Speaker 1:that's real.
Speaker 5:Okay, all right, it was higher in the US, all right. Number nine X -Men we very beginning stages of our of where we are now we live in. Now For eight, the perfect storm. Never seen it. Read the book Cluny and mark hampf. Very sad, the ending is they all die. Seven meet the parents. Number six how? The Grinch doll Christmas. So we're bringing competition double doubling up our Christmas, all right, okay, it's gonna be a busy December in 2000. Number five dinosaur, disappointing a lot of the Disney disappointments still made enough to be in the top 10.
Speaker 5:It's because people saw Disney and they went and watched it. We're like, oh, we weren't far enough removed from the Renaissance. Yeah, yeah, people still had hope. Number four what women want? Also never seen it. Oh, number three cast away. Number two this. These first two are not correct. Is this real? It's real? Number two gladiator. And number one John Woo's Mission Impossible 2. John Woo Really bad, mission impossible saw his oh. Instead of Ridley Scott's gladiator. Oh, that is why and Tom Hanks is cast away, john we slip right past two giants.
Speaker 4:So what about the dog? We?
Speaker 5:just have Tom Cruise hanging on the side of a mountain with long hair to Metallica. Okay, oh, so good. Oh man, wow, okay, that's what the people are watching. A Just wide birth of things. Um hey, it does feel good, though, to see one superhero movie in the top. Just one, just one just one instead of when we go into later years, and it's six of them but I'm simple times, all right.
Speaker 5:So what were the snooty critic cinephiles watching? Let's go to the Oscars, put on your tuxedos, bow ties, whatever, and let's see what was winning awards in 2000. That supporting actress went to Marsha Gay Harden for Pollock Uh, which is that? And Harris movie about a painter yeah, yeah, I think so. Supporting actor went to Benicio del Toro for traffic that avoid Benicio. Actress went to Julia Roberts for Aaron Brockovich and Actor at least these people cared went to Russell Crowe for gladiator. I'm not sure if Joaquin was up, but he should have won one should have won one so um.
Speaker 1:Benicio would have suffered.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's true, though I don't like Benicio not getting one. Um, all right, yeah, yeah, joaquin gets one later. That's fine, we'll keep it. Yeah, that picture. The nominees were chocolate Crushing tiger, a hidden dragon, aaron Brockovich, traffic, and the winner was Ridley Scott's gladiator. At no point is mission impossible to mentioned In these top times people just don't have taste.
Speaker 1:Corey, okay, I know about money.
Speaker 4:It's all about money.
Speaker 5:That, for it, is all about Um all right, and then that comes down to um what were we watching? Are there um any notable films that you guys just adore?
Speaker 2:I mean just to do.
Speaker 1:Just to do a quick rundown of it. I mean, you've got things that, like I think cast would fall in love with. Like scary movie, yes, got a better disney movie in the emperor's new groove. Another jim carry classic gave me myself an Irene. Remember the titans our anime fans get? Get him a pokemon. The movie 2000 gross, uh, you know you get. Final destination also is a big year for cast. Final destination rugrats in paris. Bring it on um Any that come to mind for you, corey.
Speaker 5:Um a lot, I mean there's a big list here.
Speaker 1:I'm just asking yeah, the replacements is a good one Um the patriot with mel Gibson.
Speaker 5:That's incredible.
Speaker 1:It's a solid year.
Speaker 5:Oh, ready to rumble? Yeah, the only pro wrestling movie we ever really got, true.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't call, I guess this Christmas. Yeah, I guess, so, I guess. So, yeah, no, I. There's also your battlefield earth for you.
Speaker 5:Oh, battlefield earth is so good. I hate that people despise that movie. It's such a good watch.
Speaker 1:I would see that.
Speaker 5:We're gonna sit down and watch it together, Okay so. We're gonna do that, that's gonna happen soon?
Speaker 1:ash, do you have any notable films that haven't been spoken of, or maybe there?
Speaker 4:I thought it was one of those little popcorns I like. Perfect storm, vertical limit both came out that year so I really enjoyed those kind of like end of y2k hangover films and I'm right cool came out, which was probably his best movie and, like shamisen and I, enjoyed, bruce.
Speaker 1:What is that? Definitely up there, for sure.
Speaker 4:And I that was a superhero movie. That had a quite an interest of a grounded superhero movie.
Speaker 2:But yeah, there's some good films out there.
Speaker 5:Yeah, would we be remiss, not to mention requiem for a dream.
Speaker 3:I was about to say that. I was actually about to say it.
Speaker 5:That's horrible thing anyone's ever seen.
Speaker 1:So if we ever recast, it's just like what actors do we want to see go through a lot of horrible things yeah.
Speaker 5:Also almost famous this year.
Speaker 3:That's just one of my all time favorite movies. I love that movie. You gotta throw that one out there.
Speaker 2:That's a great one.
Speaker 5:I don't know if it's a good movie, but I watched the crap out of road trip when I was in high school.
Speaker 4:It's a fun movie. It's a fun movie.
Speaker 5:Breckenmeyer getting a little starring role there. I just supported that. I just want to break them already get over Right?
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh. Yeah, I remember that film.
Speaker 5:Well, that brings us to. How does the movie change? How does home alone change? Bring it to the year 2000.
Speaker 1:Technology is a big one. Thank you, ash. I think the biggest question, and the reason it's hard to bring most movies forward, corey, is this little invention called the cell phone. Now, doing some quick, half-assed internet research, uh, it turns out, and from our own personal experience, the cell phone did not become Super popular and super normalized until about the mid 2005.
Speaker 5:I got my first one. It was like my freshman year at college, that's they hand me the no key. A brick phone yeah.
Speaker 1:I had a. We had a phone passed around me and my siblings were like if you went on a school trip or went to a game and you got done with practice late and you're saying yeah, you called me. I'm home. I'm ready to come pick me up. If you couldn't get a ride, give Nick the phone now.
Speaker 5:But I'm still texting no, no, no text.
Speaker 1:We weren't there yet You're texting. That's a dollar per text, exactly. We're not rich.
Speaker 5:I love the idea of one cell phone for like five siblings. Um, that's great, okay, uh, but yeah, no, for real. Like I the, the cell phone would still, I don't think, be a problem.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, in 2018. A government survey found that 55% of households use cell phones exclusively in 2018, but back in 2005. It was just about 10% of people had cell phones. Yeah it was more of a. It was a wealthy person, yeah, still.
Speaker 3:I was having one and say by the bell it's like oh, it also comes down to kevin also being eight years old. Not a lot of eight year olds would have a phone.
Speaker 5:That's true. That became even more. That was like even later now she brings up.
Speaker 1:A good point, though, is that we're talking about middle class and down lower class people probably a majority of Americans probably did not Help cell phones, however. However, peter mccallister Owned a two-story house in suburbs of chicago and managed to take his whole family and his brother's family to visit their other brother and his family in Paris one year and then to florida the following year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what does this man do, and how much?
Speaker 1:money does he make? We can dive into the theory.
Speaker 5:What is the theory?
Speaker 4:There is a theory. There's so many theories. What is the one you've heard over there?
Speaker 5:My theory that I love and subscribe to and I believe is canon, is that this is 1990. Okay, kevin mccallister lives in chicago and he's a sports agent. He signed a little rookie from 1984, may, michael jordan and things cashed in. I buy it right there at the beginning of the 90s, I love it.
Speaker 3:So he probably inked that a little bit on that shoe deal probably so ash, what was your theory?
Speaker 4:Well, the theory over here goes that kate mccallister is the breadwinner of the family, not peter, because she's the one that pays for the pizza. She's the one that even asked us that he can get a private jet back as well. So, and she's the more dominant one, and she's the one we see more of, she's the one who's got the more successful job. I think peter also has a good job combined. That's how they've afforded the house, but I think there's a very big presumption that it's peter who has a big job. I think it's actually kate. She dresses well.
Speaker 1:We've been looking at this, you know she has a rope.
Speaker 4:She she has a potential Rolex watch that she sells off. She's got the earrings that a diamond. Yes, peter could have bought that for her, but I think she's the breadwinner in that family.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Cory. Yes, we're in nick. Women can be successful. I didn't say women can't be successful.
Speaker 5:I just know that Michael Jordan's agent is male. That's true. That's what I know.
Speaker 4:Also, I mean it's the right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:So I'm just saying but technically they can both be true. He could be Michael Jordan's agent and she's 90. He hasn't. He just won yes. He just won a championship Right, he's about to because this is. Christmas of 90.
Speaker 1:So he would have won right, or is this the Detroit's last? This is probably Detroit's last. His first was with the Bulls in 91.
Speaker 5:Okay, the Lakers, so previously was the Pistons that shoe money's coming in, so Kate could still be the breadwinner because, yeah, the George Money's coming in from the shoe deal. But it's about to get rocking and rolling for the next eight years. That's how he's able to go to Florida, then New York yes, yeah, the New York trip all of a sudden is like boy, we won that championship.
Speaker 1:Because it's not just mom that goes, it's not just Kate that goes, it's the whole family shows up at the end to go to New York and stay in the penthouse of that hotel.
Speaker 5:I think what Kate would do, it would just be bonkers money.
Speaker 1:That's ridiculous money.
Speaker 2:I don't know. A C19 or a.
Speaker 5:C19. Maybe what if Kate's family owns the Chicago Bulls and that's how it has?
Speaker 4:been got to job.
Speaker 5:I'm going with that. That's the thing.
Speaker 4:I mean we saw when I stepped backwards, because in Leafle Weapon and in Die Hard the woman is the breadwinner of the family. Bruce Orles' wife is the breadwinner. Leafle Weapon is the breadwinner.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but Peter McCallister is not going around being that cool car. It's true. Peter McCallister speaks to a burglar in his own home and doesn't even think anything about it.
Speaker 1:But speaking of homes, though, we're talking about the two-storey home. Is this the best movie house in film history? I'm trying to think of another one. The whole house itself is here. They filmed it, yes, at a location. It's a house in Winnectka, illinois I've probably been spenounced that, I'm sorry, illinois people and they sold it for like 2.4 million in 2011. But they rebuilt the entire house inside of a high school, inside of a sound studio, where they filmed in Chicago. So, but it's so built in because it's all about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, they infused it Like they were like we want this to be the most Christmas-y looking thing on earth. That's why the walls are green. There's red everywhere 100%.
Speaker 4:I think they've milked it a lot because we still see an adverts and they still do, you know, and there's tour guides around that house. It's definitely in the top 10 of like film houses, I mean.
Speaker 1:I guess the Christmas story house also.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Christmas story house probably gets some.
Speaker 1:Well, did you say the psycho house? Is that what you said?
Speaker 5:Yeah, the psycho house which I think I've worn a brother's lot, I think, yeah, it would seem that, but like the notebook house, the Beetlejuice house, the Adam Stanley house, the Home Alone house are usually at the top of lists, just from really quick.
Speaker 2:Those are the four that come up the most often.
Speaker 5:And Home Alone typically was one.
Speaker 1:So we've covered like half of the most popular houses on the show.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we just got to do the notebook next, which means you have to watch it at some point.
Speaker 4:Some day. Come on, you like Gosling.
Speaker 5:All right, well, so the movie. It updates, but technology happens. But again, unless Kevin's going to AOL message someone for help, I don't think it's nothing's really going to happen in 2000.
Speaker 1:You told me I couldn't get on the computer, mom.
Speaker 5:There's probably password protected.
Speaker 1:He's probably going to use the computer to set traps in 2000.
Speaker 4:That's what he's going to do. I mean, that is a legitimate. Clippy.
Speaker 5:He's going to ask the paperclip.
Speaker 4:Yeah, parents left me.
Speaker 1:What do I do? He might be able to ask Jeeves at this point.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, asked, jeeves would have been around. I just Jeeves would have said nothing. That's true. The paperclip would have just told him how to indent something so like it would not have. Ai was not a thing yet. It's like I'm not pre-programmed to deal with this. Alright, will we ready to cast this thing? I think so.
Speaker 2:The year 2000.
Speaker 1:What's up? Good morning Angel, good morning Charlie.
Speaker 4:My name is Gladiator Rosa.
Speaker 5:They called me Mr Glance. Ow Two off my groove.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, but you've thrown off the Emperor's groove.
Speaker 2:Charlie.
Speaker 1:You have arrived.
Speaker 5:Well, Nick, you chose this movie, which means you've put a beloved movie in the hands of Ash and Cass. I would never so. I would just never. There's a reason that Saint Helmholtz Fire was a mini-soad with just two people and not an official episode of any kind. Did not trust my favorite movie the Hands of Anyone. So, Nick, just get the band-aids, get the tissues. This could be, I'm ready, Could be ugly.
Speaker 1:We have cookies.
Speaker 5:But again, that's what we do here. We take a movie out of its original release year, we drop it in a new release year. In this case, we're taking Home Alone out of 1990. And we're dropping it in the year 2000,. Because we just want to know what that movie would have looked like in 2000. Primarily, what would the cast have been?
Speaker 5:Since Nick has chosen this, he's essentially created the cast list of characters he wants to see, sent them to Ash and cast and they've come up with a 2000s cast for Home Alone. However, they are bound by rules on these main episodes. Rule number one anyone you choose for Home Alone 2000 must be alive in 2000. Can not be dead. We have a time machine, but we don't use it for those kinds of purposes. Rule number two anyone you cast in Home Alone 2000 must be free to do so. They cannot be in prison or involved in any sort of military conflict and even presumably, cannot be pregnant, even though it happens, we can work around it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, listen, mary Wingham filmed all of St Louis Firewide, pregnant Exactly, and I didn't notice, and no one noticed so, other than her being overweight was a huge plot point in the movie. Maybe that got written in late so it showed up pregnant. Like I'm going to have to rewrite your character from the hot one to the pregnant one. The 80s Say whatever you want. Rule number three anyone you cast in Home Alone 2000 must they're going to wait. What's what's rule number three? Why did I forget it? I just almost jumped to rule number four.
Speaker 1:Well, it can't be dead, they can't be arrested or pregnant, yeah.
Speaker 3:Take them out of here.
Speaker 1:Notable. Rule number three is if you take them out.
Speaker 5:I thought there was four rules. Sure, oh, I mean, I thought there was a rule three that I just missed.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think you did All right?
Speaker 5:Well, as far as I know, rule number three is anyone you cast will lose all major film credits, or, and that's really it, we don't count TV.
Speaker 2:We don't count Broadway. No, no, if they do something they can still do.
Speaker 5:That voiceover they're fine, but any major role they did in movies they lose, true, so in 2000, I like that year, but I'm not. I'm not doing anything. Apparently, nick was more meh about 2000. So I might cry, I'm not meh, I just I might cry, I might destroy things I love. Okay, you know, I mean snow day came out this year and there's just a lot of kids running around that movie and I really hope we don't ruin it. Time will tell. Oh my gosh, oh, it's the little Pete from Pete and Pete snow day.
Speaker 1:No, okay, it's the girl.
Speaker 5:Okay yeah, michelle Trachtenberg.
Speaker 1:No, no Different girl. That's Harriet the spy, are you sure? No, it's Zena Gray is the girl, but she was kind of it was one of those kids.
Speaker 5:Okay, yeah, it's one of those. They said we need another Michelle. Yeah, and snow didn't take off, so neither did she. All right, I think this title is good. I don't know, she can do it, true, oh?
Speaker 2:sure.
Speaker 5:Because of this culture. Yeah, I agree with that. Probably just wonderful fashion. Unfortunately, it wasn't too successful.
Speaker 5:I thought so the aspect of double slit to fire, but you know it was good. Did it go away? Now 的時候 Wow, niq said yeah, you know, as she said Nasdaq did To out them everywhere came from Erstian Airhead, lui jumping, mungkin to be something like that. So you can't. You can't use it on Frank if we're doing Peter so, but you have to do it during that casting and you can only do it One time. But you can essentially tell cast ash f off. You got your own, got it. But your pick is also bound to the rules. Hey, just go willy-nilly, because this is a four-man episode. I have an override, that's right. I have the host override Means. At any point I can tell Nick he did bad but you chose wrong and I can choose the other persons. I can only do it once. I have to do it during the casting. Yeah, if I feel like Nick chose wrong, I can speak up and just fix that little mistake.
Speaker 5:Give a nice to Kimbae Matambo finger wave, but I don't think you're gonna do it, I think you're gonna protect this movie. I, I will be harsh. Yeah, you will be harsh, maybe. Maybe ash will cry, maybe. So, all right, so that's it. That's all the. That's all the house cleaning right for casting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right, cool, we're doing this.
Speaker 5:All right, let me just move over to the cast here. All right, so we do have a 30 seconds or less, because this is this is a movie with a lot of little peripheral characters. Yeah, you know that are good but very marginal. But we want to, we want to give credit to those. So the 30 seconds or less cast is the pizza boy.
Speaker 1:I love that it's little Nero, sir. I have your pizza, leave it on a doorstep and get the hell out of here.
Speaker 5:Played by Danny Warhol. He was only 19 at the time. Really, he was 30. Um, we're harsh, I guess, uncle Frank.
Speaker 1:He knows, I saw shenan olives.
Speaker 5:Look what you did you, little jerk, a franchise favorite? True, only two movies in existence played by Gary Bamham, originally written for Kelsey grammar. That would have been better. That would have been. So I've been good. No offense to Gary, but man.
Speaker 1:I think Gary brings a nice sleaze to the character.
Speaker 5:He does, he does get Kelsey grammar would have been cranky. But yeah, gary's sleazy, yeah, you're right. You're right. Peter Macalester, played by the late great John Hurd. I am looking for my son. You know where he is known for Guardian big. He was in this one movie in the 70s about School newspaper that I love. Remember what it's called, though. Okay, um. And then John Candy playing Gus Polinsky of the polka band in Twin Lakes polka, I'm a woozie, polka, aka Kiss me polka. Polka twist it's traveling, which is a little little fun, john.
Speaker 5:Let's get John Candy in the movie. At John Candy's known for cool running, sunkelbuck, I mean everything John Candy's amazing. Only a person allowed to improvise in the movie. Which that's true? Sure, go for it, man. You won't get a pretty yeah so, and then, of course, buzz played by Devon Rattay I wouldn't let you sleep in my room if you were growing on my ass. Only 13 at the time. Also look 30. Also look 30 Was recently in Nebraska, was in a movie called masterminds.
Speaker 1:Um this is arrested in Oklahoma recently. Really, I saw that.
Speaker 5:Is he? Does he live here? Should we go find him? Okay, awesome, but his girlfriend was a picture of a boy dressed like a girl, so that way I think it's if you used a girl. It's like hey, your picture is gonna be ugly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, really install the art director's son.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so they come say hey, we're gonna throw a wig on it turns out, devon Rattay was arrested on domestic violence charges after girlfriend. Well, if it was a domestic violence, and he definitely.
Speaker 1:Oklahoma City Hotel after he gave two fans autographs. Oh, never mind, he was in a con. Okay, it's a con Oklahoma City for. Okay, see pop, christmas con Yep Yep.
Speaker 5:That is a very niche, that's very nice. I was gonna say he was probably the big thing he was. I'm sure he was all right. Oh, the other little fun fact was the piece of boy was paid more than John Candy. That's right for this.
Speaker 1:Turns out, livery does pay oh yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 3:Turns out the money that. That a Kate, isn't her name.
Speaker 5:Kate, yeah, kate gave him was actually his pay. John Candy ever read where I went, what I?
Speaker 3:I.
Speaker 4:Think he worked 23 hours and after a day he was I'll work for free for a day, but he ended up working for almost the whole day and I was like I need to get paid, all right, well, are you?
Speaker 5:guys ready to hit the 30 seconds or less. The way this is gonna work is I, I Nick's gonna yell out the roll and, essentially, cass you'll give your pick, then Ash will give your pick. I.
Speaker 2:Or my get-best-out-was-much.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they can choose who goes first. He has that power.
Speaker 1:By the magical use of my imaginary coin. We're going to let Casco first.
Speaker 3:So for Pete's a boy, Sean Ashmore.
Speaker 1:Well, hold on, whoa. We have to say.
Speaker 5:We never said go.
Speaker 1:Wait, we're just getting there. There was a pause.
Speaker 3:There was a pause.
Speaker 1:I waited you needed the pause because you did not respond.
Speaker 4:Wow, it gives me time to adjust my Alright.
Speaker 1:so everyone ready and prepped.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Alright.
Speaker 1:Okay, I am ready, nick. All right, nick, you grab the floor. All right, here we go. And Cas, who is your pick for pizza boy?
Speaker 3:I can go now.
Speaker 1:Yes, clock's on.
Speaker 3:I picked Sean Ashmore.
Speaker 1:Okay, x-men, x-men fame. Very good, all right, ash.
Speaker 4:Uh, I went Macaulay Coken Time traveling.
Speaker 1:He does kind of look like the pizza boy now.
Speaker 4:He's the same age as well in 2000.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good, let's go. Coli Coken is going in Moving on Uncle Frank Cas.
Speaker 3:Uh David, uh Koshner.
Speaker 1:Koshner from Anchorman fame. Okay, all right, champ, champ, kindly for most of you at home, yeah Ash.
Speaker 4:I went with Nick Nolte, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Do we want mumbling grouchy, uncle Frank, or do we want over the top kind of food, uncle Frank? I see All right.
Speaker 4:David.
Speaker 1:David uh Karkner.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, that's just character acting, that's what he does All right.
Speaker 1:Pete McAllister, or Peter by his mother, might call him Uh Cas.
Speaker 3:Dennis Queen.
Speaker 1:Okay, All right Ash.
Speaker 4:Damn good looking. I went with William H Macy.
Speaker 1:Macy Dennis Quaid feels a little on the nose. Corey, it feels safe.
Speaker 5:It feels right. Willie Macy would never be Michael Jordan sports agent, allegedly his school agent.
Speaker 1:Okay, legend sports agent. You tell me Dennis Quaid couldn't pull himself off a draft day rookie.
Speaker 5:No, I'm saying Dennis Quaid, oh okay, well, that's him. Willie Macy would never.
Speaker 1:All right, we got Dennis Quaid, dennis Quaid's on the board.
Speaker 5:That's what we were, I just have to pull my.
Speaker 1:You really think we see the right story? Huh, huh, prove it All right. Uh, gus Polinsky, ash, or sorry, cas.
Speaker 3:I went Don Stark, who is um Donna's dad in that 70's show In that 70's show.
Speaker 1:He's delightful. He is delightful. You could. I could spend 12 hours from New York to Chicago talking about music and stuff.
Speaker 5:No, he's a good one.
Speaker 1:He's a good one. Yeah, ash, who do you have? Who do you have?
Speaker 4:I've gone for a very lovable on the nose guy. I've gone, john Goodman.
Speaker 1:Hmm, oh, that's good, he's a good man.
Speaker 2:I thought, I thought him he is a good man.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's that she did it first, but Don Stark just kind of works there.
Speaker 5:I think so too. I'm gonna go with Don Stark. I buy Don Stark. Yeah, don Stark can afford it.
Speaker 1:I'd like him, John Goodman's too good for a for a polka band.
Speaker 2:That used to be bowling he's never too good.
Speaker 1:Woo, all right, and last but not least, buzz Buzz. Who do you have Now? This is not Buzz Lightyear, this is the bully older brother.
Speaker 3:I went Seth Rogen.
Speaker 1:Seth, a young Seth Rogen.
Speaker 3:A young Seth Rogen.
Speaker 2:He's in. He's in Freaks and Geeks.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, ash, who do you have?
Speaker 4:Well, the gloves are definitely off now, ashley Tisdale. I'm changing the gender, I'm changing the role. Ooh.
Speaker 1:Same age. Just a little gender bend for us here. 15 same age. Okay, generally, I mean, I could see it Ashley Tisdale's been a bully.
Speaker 2:She's in multiple things Charpay.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Call me call me, call me old school, but I'm gonna go Seth Rogen here. I like, I like the gamble. I like the gamble, ash, but I think it. Just I think Seth Rogen works here. It's more fun for him to be a bully at this point.
Speaker 4:Seth Rogen is a bully.
Speaker 1:It's a bully, it's true.
Speaker 4:He's a bully. All right, you heard him. All right, okay, see where we're going now. This is not going well. The other person 30 or less. The only person I got on my list is the person who was actually in the movie, so it's not going well, listen.
Speaker 5:Cass will blow this up top. This is going to happen.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty impressed with my top list.
Speaker 4:Well, your top list.
Speaker 1:You're just annoying me, though. Cass is getting cocky here, corey.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I've got to change up all my answers from now on, I I kind of like it. You know in most circumstances I'd be furious that Seth Rogen was cast in anything.
Speaker 1:But it works. But it works here Because he's a bully. Yeah, yeah, he's playing against tight.
Speaker 5:I like this arrow. Seth Rogen, I don't like the current arrow. Well, he's been.
Speaker 1:Rogen since 2005. Yeah, and I just don't like his attitude.
Speaker 5:I think it's just this whole, like he's just how would it be Donkey Kong? But like this is my voice.
Speaker 2:I don't do voice acting, it's like you're a flippin actor.
Speaker 5:What?
Speaker 1:the heck Corey. You hire Owen Wilson. You know what you're getting with Owen Wilson.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but Owen Wilson never explicitly comes out and says it All right, I don't like that. Seth Rogen essentially just said, like oh, all you people that want to be actors, it's not that hard, I'm just myself I got in which. I mean, he's a talented writer, it's true, but you know it's like, ok, well then, stop being in them, just write them.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:All right, I like it. I like it though, ok, is it?
Speaker 5:time for the main cast. It is time for the main cast, right, so just we'll dive a little bit more into these characters, but I am going to read them. We just have a five, a five person main cast. Ok, that will be Marley. I'm assuming that's the snow shovel murderer, murderer.
Speaker 2:Ok, all right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I knew that his name was Marley. Nice little knot.
Speaker 2:Right Christmas there. Yeah, all right, you know, you know.
Speaker 5:Marley's dead immediately and whatever. But OK, couldn't call him Ebenezer, that would have been too Two. On the next one. One of those, kate McAllister, the mom, will be doing Marve, the tall burglar, daniel Stern yeah, daniel Stern. Harry, joe Pesci, and then Kevin McAllister, played by Macaulay Culkin. We'll dive a little bit more into these roles because they obviously have a lot more meat to them, and so we're going to start with Marley. You live next to me, don't you?
Speaker 1:You can say hello when you see me. You don't have to be afraid.
Speaker 5:There's a lot of things going around about me, but none of it's true. Originally played by Roberts Blossom, he was 66 at the time. He was in Escape from Alcatraz. Close Encounters. The Quick and the Dead yeah, Quick and the Dead. Oh, he isn't. Quick and the Dead, because every time I've watched Quick and the Dead I'm like that's the guy from Home Alone, yeah all right, yeah nice has his fingers cut off in EFA.
Speaker 5:in this movie he saves Kevin from having his cut off. Wait, what is this? What is this? I don't know. Efa's done. Yeah, what is EFA sent for?
Speaker 4:Has to be in real life. Oh, hold on, I'm just going back on it. Escape from.
Speaker 5:Alcatraz. Okay, all right, I'm sorry. So in the movie he has his fingers cut off and we have a little nod to that in this one because he prevents the same fate from.
Speaker 2:Kevin.
Speaker 4:Nice, exactly right yeah.
Speaker 5:Though I think the movie should have gone hard and let him get one finger. You know, just to really show that the wet band has crashed.
Speaker 1:That'd be a PG-13. Yeah, listen, after that finale, they're not serious.
Speaker 5:Think about the moment, like. Think about, like the scene in the second movie where Kevin puts on his mitten and like the index finger is just loose and his mom has to tie it. And is this painful reminder of the first minute?
Speaker 1:Remember, don't get left behind. One for every movie.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Oh my gosh. I think it might happen in the 2000 versions.
Speaker 1:I mean that'll just help Cass and Ash's saw theories with the goulsters yes.
Speaker 4:I hate that you mentioned it, Nick. I mentioned it.
Speaker 5:We're moving forward. Save it for Kevin. Yes.
Speaker 2:No point for.
Speaker 5:Marley Even though I think it's more likely, marley grew up to be the Jigsaw murderer.
Speaker 1:But no, no, no Robert's blossoms. He really enjoyed playing the role and he enjoyed when people would kind of recognize him on the screen.
Speaker 5:Okay, but yeah, that's the character he's like the. He's the boogeyman of the neighborhood. Yeah, you know what we all want to be when we grow up. I cannot wait to be the old guy in the neighborhood that kids are afraid of. It'll just be fun.
Speaker 1:Just make up rumors, like walk around groups. You're like I heard you did this.
Speaker 5:It's like, oh, but she doesn't really drive I was kicked out by him as a kid he was. He's just going around salting the sidewalks with this scary shovel. It's terrifying, but then it turns out to be a good guy who's just, you know, too afraid to call his daughter.
Speaker 1:That's his son Son he says he's granddaughter at church. Yeah.
Speaker 5:See his granddaughter has a falling out with the son in 90. I don't know politics. Maybe, who knows?
Speaker 1:Reagan just left. Reagan just left, so you know.
Speaker 5:That was his boy, all right, all right, so there you go. That would be mar. We mainly just need what I guess, nick, what do we need here?
Speaker 1:We need a, a, a intimidating conceived man coe. And then turns out to be a havene До gold. You know, rough around the edges, maybe, perhaps.
Speaker 5:Oh my gosh, I'm just realizing we have this exact character in the second one. It's the homeless old one. Well, they just use the same character twice.
Speaker 1:You just don't break it. You just keep doing the same thing over.
Speaker 5:I'm going to put that together soon. As it's or woman, I immediately thought of the homeless woman.
Speaker 1:I was like the bird lady, the first lady.
Speaker 5:Oh, my gosh okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she likes pigeons.
Speaker 5:All right, nick, I'm handing it over to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, let's just dive right in cast. You went first. In 30 seconds or less I'm gonna change it up. Let's see if we can give ash some good luck here. So, ash, go first. Let us know who you picked for old man Marley.
Speaker 4:Oh, my god, okay. Well, this is gonna be a. That's a very similar round to the the previous, so I'm just gonna go for it. I wanted someone who looks threatening but has a heart of gold Once you get to know the person. I also want that voice as well as all. It's all about the voice. So I've gone for someone who is three years older than the actor who played him at the time. He is a free agent at the time and he is known for some voice acting, some very famous voice acting.
Speaker 4:So I've gone for the famous Mufasa himself, james L Jones, also dark Vader as well. He's a very threatening figure. He was in coming to America before that very big guy as well, and that voice I just thinking about that scene in church when they're having that chat, I think, with that voice echoing in in the church, and the scene at the end as well, where they share a look. I just can see the, the compassion there. So you can, you got someone who's menacing and also, you know, you fall in love with at the same time. So that's what I've gone for. I brought you Mufasa on the table. James L Jones.
Speaker 1:Okay, cool. Yeah, james throw Jones mean. A lot people probably are familiar with the name Mufasa, mainly Darth Vader. Probably a lot people will know him as one of those two people had a late. It didn't do a lot outside of those in Post 2000. I mean second-hand Lions is probably his biggest on-screen for presence since then yeah coming to America, he was the father to Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 2:Shall, we say a million.
Speaker 1:American dollars. So very cool, very good, I think a strong, strong, strong first entry here. All right, cass, what do you have to counter Darth Vader?
Speaker 3:Okay, I wanted to try to get the creepy like tall old man because like that was kind of like. When I rewatched this actually the other day when we Talked about doing home alone, I was like he, he's definitely giving like that creepy vibe Not serial killer vibe, but just kind of like I'm watching you walk by and it just gives off that bad feeling like I'm being followed. So yeah.
Speaker 3:I wanted some sort of vibe like that, like that. So I went with someone who is 60 at the time and I swear he still kind of looks the same now and I think he's in his 80s. Um, but I'm taking him out of space cowboys. So it is James Cromwell. And James Cromwell For some people that know I know him really well from American Horror Story. He was in asylum, played creepy in asylum. He's also in babe, the green mile, the longest yard really confidential.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, he's quite a bit of a role, but I know that he could play, like not just Creepy watching.
Speaker 3:He can just also like have that like nice little talk with Kevin, like in the church and talk about like his granddaughter and the whole, like Sending her a letter and yeah, yeah, okay, okay yeah.
Speaker 1:most people think you're gonna know him as the guy from babe or is from like LA confidential succession. He had a run in succession recently yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that'll do, big that'll do.
Speaker 1:Hmm, all right, well, both solid, solid picks here.
Speaker 1:I am going to go With cast here, I think, because you said the voice and and I get that logic there James Earl Jones very intimate, he's a tall man himself, but I think that the magic of this role is that it's all about aesthetic and like you make you make they made Robert Splossom just look old, crotchety and greasy as possible, like you don't want to walk towards him, and it's all about visual, like you don't hear him speak until this end of, like the second act, basically, when they have the real scene before the break-in.
Speaker 1:And I think that that speaks the most to me about it Is that once you sit him down, it's about how soft spoken he is and how like thoughtful he is towards Kevin's problems, like they're talking to each other as equals. It's not this man talking to a child like and that's kind of the magic of. Also, mcculloch Colkin is like, even as Joe Pesci says, like the dude's not a child, like he acts like he's an old man, so and that's probably what makes him such a great kid actor as well. But yeah, I'm gonna go James Cromwell here because I just I think it fits a little bit better both solid, but I think James Cromwell is gonna edge out right here.
Speaker 5:So sorry, but we're gonna.
Speaker 4:Well, let's hope it starts the way I did in the last round.
Speaker 1:Cassia, yeah, all right, we will see. We will see here. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 4:I like to do it.
Speaker 5:Okay with it, I would have gone the same route. Okay, the problem is is that James little Jones is just gonna come off Sandlot, where we just like he was scary dog owner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's literally with a heart of gold at the end. It's kind of the same same.
Speaker 5:Yeah yeah. I would have given you Christopher Lloyd, just buried in a beard, she said space cowboys and I got a little excited she's gonna pull Clint Eastwood in.
Speaker 1:Clint Eastwood would have been good to.
Speaker 5:Christopher Lloyd. If you buried him under some beard from afar, you wouldn't know until they sat down at the church like it's, christopher. Lloyd, yeah, I think it would be great. Did any of y'all have like the grandparents with the guy, the painting with the guy praying at the table? Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, that looks exactly like Marley in this movie. Every time I see it, I'm like yeah, praying at the tip cuz all of our grandparents had that painting.
Speaker 1:I'm glad to notice now, not the only one.
Speaker 5:All right, all right based on him. That brings us up to Kate McAllister. No, no, no way. This is Christmas, the season of perpetual hope. And I don't care if.
Speaker 3:I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike, if it cost me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son.
Speaker 5:Played by Catherine O'Hara. Everyone Absolutely brilliant character actor. And Beetlejuice, a mighty wind. What's the shit's creed?
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, is the voice of Sally and my group were Christmas.
Speaker 5:I wanted Tim Burton's go to yeah, here and there and so, and she does one. She does the Lockshocker barrel, whichever one's the way. Yes, she does that one as well. So, yeah, no, she's Catherine O'Hara. She's just amazing. Yeah, her and John Candy previously worked together on se TV and we're good friends. She gave a eulogy at John Candy's funeral and he died on her 40th birthday. Revealed in the 2014 that Macaulay Culkin still calls her. Mom, Twice, but yeah, twice. So yeah, kate Macalester it. Honestly, this is the subplot of the movie.
Speaker 5:Yeah yeah, not the burglars. So it's, it's the mom getting home because and that's I think that's why this movie works on so many levels I thought about at the top saying Christmas, christmas, classic for Millennials. Right, I thought, like for us. But honestly, my parents like this movie and it's because I think parents watch this and it's like they're watching the mom's up Like this is the worst thing that could ever happen. That's true.
Speaker 5:Yeah, like a my kid has this on me for the rest of my life and as I get, okay, like you know, it's just like that whole thing right.
Speaker 1:It's funny to watch friends with kids now because you send them a funny meme or something. If there's a child involved, instead of laughing They'll just generally cry.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, so it's just great. It's the great subplot. Yeah, does well, because all of her stuff is like just it's drama. It's not really comedy that much.
Speaker 1:She's just this is this? See, really get her home. This role is actually Against type. Strangely, she's putting like the straight edge, like straight yeah at heart.
Speaker 5:So it is against type. She does get a. There's a cameo with Ali Sheedy who plays the airport or bus Person. Yeah, John Hughes just litters this with people. But like Ali Sheedy's when she's begging like can you get me anything? Yeah that's Ali Sheedy at the ticket. What, yeah? So is it really? Yeah, it's Ali Sheedy.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:Like what?
Speaker 5:Okay, the got the one knows her, but okay, got it. Um, so yeah, yeah. So, nick, what are you looking for here?
Speaker 1:I mean kind of like what we said you know she's got to play mom, she's got to have mom energy, you know, and that means being, you know, the sensible one of the group. She's trying to keep all the T's crossed eyes dotted. But one one thing gets lost in the mix of this cross intercontinental trip, and so it's she's determined to get back home by any means necessary. She's willing to give up her watch everything, and so I think it just have to show, like that loyalty to your kids. Yeah.
Speaker 5:And, for the record, nick's mom is not eligible because rule number three is they have to have an IMDb credit. Oh, that's right, be eligible. Yeah, and Nick has no IMDb credit gonna erase my mom. Because of forgotten rule three there we go.
Speaker 1:Well, yep, yep have to be. That's what makes child acting, picking, picking child actors hard query. That's what. That's the one, that's the one, all right. So who made that? Casted? So cast you made it, so you take it Is your Kate McAllister.
Speaker 3:So I went with more of a like mom energy Cuz. Like Cory said, like Catherine O'Hara's like she is a comedian, she is like and she has her moments like, even in the movie. Even though she's being serious, I still feel like it's Catherine O'Hara. We're gonna hear something comedic come out.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:So I did kind of struggle to figure out who like. If I still wanted that vibe but I still went with someone that has red hair. I went with Julianne Moore and I'm taking her out of not I, which was a short film, and ladies man, she's 40 at the time. I feel like that's a good age for someone who has a bunch of good mom age yeah yeah, and I don't know I feel like she plays mom very, very well. I can see her doing like the screaming scenes, like yelling Kevin's name on the.
Speaker 1:That is important. You gotta have the L down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think she would have like fun with the role.
Speaker 1:True, true, true, true, true. Now listen, there's a very pivotal scene in ladies man Cassidy, where she's playing who, who he thinks is the love that he's trying to search for. And she turns out to come out and clown, make up to try and like have sex with him.
Speaker 5:Is this that Tim Meadows?
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, he thinks he's like his like soulmate that's been riding him or something and she's. And she comes out from getting dressed and she's a clown. It's like a cameo.
Speaker 5:Basically I've never seen ladies man.
Speaker 3:I've not either.
Speaker 5:Why Come on All? Right, okay, this is like a weird one to go like 30s what classics have I not seen listen?
Speaker 1:It's all 90s stuff. Yeah, it's worth one watch.
Speaker 5:All right, that's fair. So we're saying that she probably not even gonna lose, that it's more of a cameo, it's probably, I would argue, cameo.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, all right, so it's practically free agent practically free here, unless Ash has somebody in his pocket. Who do you have, ash?
Speaker 4:Well, cass seems to be quite invincible right now and I love Julianne Moore like absolutely massive On Julianne more. Unfortunately, she's a good pick. I like her. I haven't gone for a redhead, although she has played a redhead in a film, but I have gone for someone who is has done a Christmas movie, but not later in her career it's after 2000 but she does have that motherly charm to her. She has done the role before. In terms of comedy, she's got her. I'm looking for the Kevin bit where she just goes, kevin and I can see her do it because she does it in another film.
Speaker 4:Um, so I'm picking Jamie Lee Curtis. She is just coming off doing true lies in 96, obviously famous for playing Laurie and Halloween.
Speaker 5:Uh the scream.
Speaker 4:She knows, I know she can do to scream, because she does it and Halloween, yeah, you know, friday she does it in, and in Christmas of the cranks you do see her motherly figure as well, as in true lies as well. So, and I think she has that authority as well, she's, you know, she's, she's a very towering figure. She is the more dominant parent in the home alone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. The magic of Catherine O'Hara's performance and characterization is it's a slow burn, it's like her temper is just on the edge of going nuts and that you see that when she's At the airport trying to do that and she's like this is Christmas.
Speaker 2:And she's very pensive, ready to explode it in my mind.
Speaker 1:She's like do you need, do I need, to make it any clear that my son is home alone and we are in another country? So that's very important. Yes, the slow burns, popping of energy there is really important with that performance. I loved Julianne Moore. It's the same as you have heavy hitters. Yeah, two heavy hitters. Loves some Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 1:They're both perfect in their own way both perfect in their own way, cory, but what's gonna come down to and and this is the main one is is like we've done so many times, so you listen to them say the lines and the main line is in the airplane saying yelling Kevin and Jamie Lee Curtis's Is right there, just does it perfectly. And I think, as much as I love some Julianne Moore, I wanted to give her like a rub. I was like Jamie Lee Curtis kind of nails it, it's kind of like perfect, it's hard, hard to. They were both topped here. Just one edged again. We're doing really well here, guys.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that was like a perfectly well played round really, I didn't even consider to either of them and, honestly, when cast said Julianne Moore, I was like, well, I don't know who.
Speaker 2:I thought Ashley's gonna lose.
Speaker 5:Here's the. I don't think, julie. I know I used to say Julianne Moore was a strong pick, but I don't think she could do the first 15 minutes of the movie without it being too serious.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I can agree almost like I think she beats Kevin. She plays a lot of troubled characters. She nailed the next like into the movie, but I just I think she's too intense for that first, where we'd almost just be like, wow, she's mean, yeah for sure, whereas Jamie Lee would come off as just the overstressed workaholic mom. Yes, I, the names that came to mind were either Rita Wilson or Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 1:I thought Nicole Kidman, but I Renee Russo, a Sharon Stone. Maybe Renee Russo would have been good. Yeah, carrie and Moss.
Speaker 3:But how was Nicole?
Speaker 5:Kidman, chris's mom, though as well and Jamie.
Speaker 4:She was like in her 30s, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:No, I like it. Jamie Lee's good Jamie.
Speaker 1:Lee's good, solid it's solid, strong.
Speaker 5:What's next, corey? I could just use my override just to see if we can get Cass a perfect game on top.
Speaker 1:You're just gaming for that? Yeah, you try it.
Speaker 5:No, I don't know, I don't know, I don't want to go 3 for 3 up top. Okay, all right, especially with Kevin. She's gonna blow Kevin like so bad Phrasing.
Speaker 1:Phrasing, phrasing, phrasing. She's gonna ruin her pick for Kevin. She's just gonna absolutely destroy.
Speaker 5:Kevin Kevin Kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin, kevin Kevin Kevin so wow wow, everything sounds dirty.
Speaker 1:Second time was on purpose core. We know it.
Speaker 5:All right. Well, that brings us to Marv, my favorite part of this entire movie there was arguing, one of them blew the other one away, who I don't know. I thought I recognized one of their voices and I know I heard that name snakes before. He's my favorite character in this movie by far. He's my favorite of the wet bandits Daniel Stern, who is such a great actor. He's so good I don't think he gets his dude.
Speaker 2:He doesn't.
Speaker 5:I just I love Daniel Stern. I think he's awesome. I I'm gonna put him on a list of the cast of men. Things more on this podcast.
Speaker 1:Well, most people know him from this, obviously, but then they also probably might know him from city slickers city slickers.
Speaker 5:He he was in a movie, dennis quade, about bicycling, breaking, breaking away or something like that. He's so good.
Speaker 1:Also diner, the narrator for the wonder years narrator for the wonder years.
Speaker 5:Um, I Love Two movies he was in in the 90s. He got a starring role, oh, in a kid's film called bushwhacked, where he's like he's framed for something and he ends up taking a Boy scout troop, he that gets mistaken for their leader and taken into the woods while the cops and the mob are hunting him and it's. It's a great movie. I remember the trailer sounds insane. Yeah, I don't know if you've ever seen this, but we're gonna watch together if you haven't. Have you ever seen Celtic pride?
Speaker 5:No he plays him and dan acroyd, or obsessive boston Celtics fans. Don't tell me they're in the finals and they go to kidnap the utah jasstar player because he's gonna beat the Celtic played by damon wayan, by damon wayans.
Speaker 1:It's so good I see a back-to-back daniel stern marathon yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, oh, my god, I'm gonna make that happen. Daniel stern, in other words. He's incredible, but this is marv. He's not the brains of the wet bandits, he's the bumbling idiot. He's the one that's insistent that they have a name. He's a branding icon. Okay, he's the marketing criminal enterprise, the wet bandits. He wants to leave the faucets running because if robbing someone's not enough, thousands of dollars in damage.
Speaker 1:Water damage, wet bandits. Huh, now we know. Every house you've knocked off.
Speaker 3:Just running the water bill.
Speaker 5:It's like, oh yeah, no yeah, it backfires Um and so, but he's great. He's the comic relief to joepeshi, who's also funny, but apparently more the straight man.
Speaker 1:Apparently both of them went into this thing Not sure how the movie was gonna play, and so they just went over the top with it, which is why this works so well, because he is such an animated actor in this, especially in this role.
Speaker 5:And it's just lanky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the afro, it all works.
Speaker 5:It's so good.
Speaker 1:It's, it's good. Yeah, I mean, that's that. That's pretty much it to it, to a t is you, you want somebody that's can play a goofball, that can play the lovable idiot to, to the straight man of joepeshi's character, harry, and yeah, you want him to be able to be a physical comedy actor. You want to be able to kind of go over the top a bit. Yeah, that's what we're looking for. So, ash, you made it, so you're gonna take it. So who do you have for our first of the wet bandits?
Speaker 4:I will take this. Yeah, this is the hardest one to pick. Um, just to make you, I and cori, feel bad every time you watch home alone. Now, just know that daniel stern was younger than what we are now. Don't say stay for you. Oh, for 33 years old when we, when he filmed it.
Speaker 5:That's a little hero is bigger than I am now ash, so I'm on another. It's crazy.
Speaker 4:Just so you know oh dear, oh dear, well, yeah, just throw it out there I'm almost looking young Ash.
Speaker 1:We want pics not to feel bad.
Speaker 4:Okay okay, right, returning back. I'm so sorry. So, yeah, marv, yeah, I went for. I kind of changed the role a bit. I went for someone who can pull off physical comedy quite well and I wanted to change the sort of aesthetic of, you know, tall and lanky. I wanted him to be tall, but I kind of wanted to add a bit more weight into him, because I think this film's coming out in 2000s. I wanted to change a sort of slapstick style to it and I know he can do this as well because he's done it in a few films already. But then he does turn into a serious actor five years later, um, so I'm bringing you someone who actually ends up, um, he dies in 2014. I'm bringing you the great philip seamore hoffman. Um, you'll know him from the films before twister, magnolia, um, one, an Oscar for paying Truman Capote, yes, but you saw, you see that sort of slapstick style in the long cane, poly twister, in a sort of way, where he plays dusty. So he does have the comedic chops to do it.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was gonna point out along.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly him, him. The only problem with him he is in almost famous this year, that's true.
Speaker 5:Oh my gosh, he's playing lester bangs and almost famous Nick. Yeah, move on.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's the one hiccup there. That's a small hiccup.
Speaker 5:In all fairness, he looks. I'm not in love with that film as you guys are, but yeah, but yeah, I've really seen an awful lot
Speaker 1:of film.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Okay stern looks more like lester bangs than philip seamore hoffman, which is weird Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, it works. It worked. It's a good movie. Philip seamore hoffman on the board, but kory has his, his finger wagging ready. He might be ready to stuff it. We'll see. Cass, who do you have for marv?
Speaker 3:so you said he was 33, three at the time, right.
Speaker 1:I believe so same as our award savior.
Speaker 3:I wanted to try to. I wanted to try to get that same age range and I wanted someone like eccentric, because he did play like over the top. He did have like a lot of scenes where he was screaming right. Like just being very extra. So I wanted someone with that same vibe. So I went with matthew willard and I'm taking him out of love labors lost and dish dogs, which I don't know what either of those movies are.
Speaker 1:I'm okay with losing Spanish judges. Oh, I didn't see that. Uh, three movies, wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:No, I've never, I've never heard of any of those movies cast Big year.
Speaker 3:It's a big year for him, but on the table this is of course after, and uh, after scream, and then it's before scooby-doo.
Speaker 3:So I wanted to at least give him Something, and even I think it's a year before 13 ghosts, so I wanted to at least give him something like this, because it it's. It's very matthew willard, but I think he would just have fun with it and not. It would feel like stew, but not killer vibes, just more. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be the burglar, I'm gonna leave the sink running and just make a joke out of it. Where you have harry, who is the more serious one of Right, yeah, so it's a.
Speaker 1:It's a classic straight man goofball comedy guy combo duo. That's why it works so well.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Ash, I love, I love you went on a limb. I love the alternative thinking.
Speaker 5:He's breaking up with you. It's not you.
Speaker 1:It's me, and it's me. And the fact that almost famous is out this year and the fact that Matthew Lillard is up a solid, pretty, pretty, pretty great pick, I'm I'm not gonna lie like. Matthew Lillard is almost a modern daniel stern kind of.
Speaker 5:Got more shots, I think that, yeah, I would have seen daniel's burners Jaggy, oh, he would have been in the middle shaggy, yeah, he would have. Yeah, okay, this coming off the katharine harrah thing. This was not as well played in my opinion. Like, my thing is this I'm actually more drawn to ashes like left field choice other than like. Feel if anyone's every line he says, and almost famous, is crucial. Yeah it's all great he didn't write it, cory.
Speaker 5:But still, all every one of his lines is great and it's perfect and it's awesome Good he is. That's how good he is and I would have. I love it. It's just yeah, I I'm sorry, I need almost famous, so I can't use my thing.
Speaker 1:Even though I like no, no, I like where everybody went. I think I think it's it's good discussion. It's it's good to good. What ifs here? Great, what ifs here? But yeah, matthew Lillard, that's who we're gonna roll with. I think he's gonna do a great job. Both of them could nail the physical comedy. I think Matthew Lillard is gonna go to like the 11th level with it, but that's probably gonna be for the better.
Speaker 5:I think yeah, I don't even think I had anyone. I think like, I think I wrote Vince Vaughn.
Speaker 1:Well, adam Sandler's doing little, Nikki Hank Azira is Generally free, david R Kitson ready rumble can't touch that. And then you got like Orlando Jones, jeff Daniels, marla Wayans is in a scary movie and that's Chris Tucker's, a free agent.
Speaker 5:What's Vince Vaughn doing in 2000? Oh besides, no 98 was psycho, so yes so.
Speaker 1:He wouldn't have been a good.
Speaker 5:He's tall and he would have been the one obsessing over the wet bandits thing. Okay, I could see that. I could see, maybe not as goofy on the comic, but he would have just yelled a lot yeah, yeah, that's fair. Yeah for sure, all right let's move on to Harry, I was, since I laid eyes on that house, I wanted it. Let's take a one-step. We'll unload the van, we'll get a bite to eat. We'll come back about nine o'clock. This way, it's dark then.
Speaker 2:Kids are scared of the dark.
Speaker 5:You're afraid of the dark too much. You know you Played by Joe Pesci, 47 at the time. Um, I'm not close to that age. So, no, no, no, shame. You know, um, it's Joe Pesci, it's. You know, he's Hollywood royalty. He's doing good fellas this exact same year, back to back literally just stabbing people repeatedly in one movie and he gets a little good fellas at the end of this. When he tries to chop off an eight year old's fingers.
Speaker 5:He threatened to bite them off yeah yeah, and then, uh, you know he's in casino a couple years after this. Yeah, he just started his. Leave the weapon run as Joe Pesci. It's one of martin's corsets. He's boys. Um, he's a phenomenal.
Speaker 1:And that's what makes this work is he was known as the Scorsese guy.
Speaker 5:He's he was the tough guy character actor, mob guy, but does he does a lot of comedy? Does he does? My cousin Vinny, yeah, but that's this, predates that I know.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying like no right now.
Speaker 5:He would have been the mob guy. He would have been Scorsese's guy raging bull.
Speaker 1:This you know, right yeah and that's why I argue that this works so well, because Pesci's going against type as we know him.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's kind of like sad that as kids we didn't get to experience that Economy because we wouldn't have had the context of Joe Pesci is just being this violent Scorsese actor. That's true.
Speaker 1:We just enjoyed.
Speaker 5:This is our actually interest.
Speaker 1:This is our Joe Pesci. My Joe Pesci is trying to rob.
Speaker 5:Our introduction to Joe Pesci. Then we saw things later, oh.
Speaker 1:We'll violent there. Okay, okay, all right. Yeah, joe Pesci, tough guy brains. Quote unquote of the of the outfit of the wet bandits.
Speaker 5:Apparently he repeatedly cussed on set.
Speaker 1:He did, he had to, he had to start making up words.
Speaker 5:Apparently he had to say fridge in place of the f word, because he just kept swearing and he deliberately avoided my koli koko on set Because he wanted cold colkin to think he was mean method, acted, nailed it. Wow, that's kind of killed it.
Speaker 1:That's nice things to say about my koli koko. I'm sure he does.
Speaker 2:So all right, he's good, he's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's where we're. I mean that you, you want kind of the brains that, the tougher of the two, the one that's he's even kind of abusive towards To marv a bit as well. Yeah but he's. He's obviously the one that is the peer criminal for sure. Like sometimes you wonder if marv just got in the wrong place at the wrong time, but Harry's definitely the one made the wrong for it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Hey pressure.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Maybe they're, maybe their cousins, or something.
Speaker 1:What are the lore? Is there? I wonder what the lore is. Well, walk, or is looking that up? Uh, cass, you made it, so tell us who your pick for harry is.
Speaker 3:So I did struggle with harry because I wanted, I wanted someone tough, I wanted someone on his level, like on joe joe peshe's level, but I so I ended up going a little older and I'm about to be like ash and kind of Take this person out of a movie that I know.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:This time it's what nick likes, not cori likes.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:But I went with 57 year old robert deniro, who was in meet the parents, which did very well, but he was also in the rocky and bullwingful movie.
Speaker 1:Robert deniro cori.
Speaker 5:Okay she's going out with the others. Yeah, I did I did I?
Speaker 3:did I just because I felt like robert deniro gives, gives the friendly vibe because he does. He has played like the nicer role, but it does. It can be intimidating and I could see him being mean to marve and I don't know. I just feel like deniro would have fun with it. I'm not seeing meet the parents.
Speaker 5:Wait, is she pulling him out of meet the parents?
Speaker 1:She's trying to oh gosh Okay ash, who do you have? Ash, who do you have to counter?
Speaker 4:If I just say Bruce, will it, you'll give it to me, right, okay, no, yeah, so I, you know, I love, I love, meet the parents, I love robert deniro. Robert deniro could easily do the role. Um, I've gone for someone a little less known and I wanted someone a bit, you know, under the radar at the time. But he is being in a lot of films. He's very well established in hollywood and I'm just picturing him going against Matthew Lillard and it does work. They're about the same height as well and he does have this explorative figure. Um, I'm pulling him out of five films this year, but he's in five films every year. He's that kind of actor. The only one that is any good is a co-embrothers film which he has done loads of by. And bringing you also Italian of decency, I'm bringing you john to toro. Um, you will know him from most of the Most of the co-embrothers films, but, um, you might probably know him from Barton's thing, big labowski, which, um he was recently.
Speaker 2:He was a show. Yes, we show.
Speaker 1:You try to pull him out of all brother world.
Speaker 4:Is the film that you we pull him out of. He's another film called Defense and the man who cried out this star power. So those films were less known, but oh, brother were out there. It was probably the most. It's probably not the greatest co-embrothers film, I would say, considering he's done barton spink and big labowski. So, and I can see him in that role, he's got that voice. He did go on and play um quite a few Authoritative roles past 2000 as well. I think you got tight cast, has that, so.
Speaker 1:He's also the guy in the transformers movies. For people that don't know, yeah that's it.
Speaker 4:He in a more commercial role. He's the guy who sort of chasing shyla, buffs character and saying, oh, you need to be doing this and that, but Um, yeah, so, john, tutorial.
Speaker 1:Okay, guys, let me just. I said I was going to be really honest at points and this might be a moment Get him, nick, get him. So, cass, you screwed up twice. First off, you tried to take him out of Rocky and Boo and Cole, which I'm the one casting, in case you weren't familiar, and Cass knows that I it's one of my guilty pleasures.
Speaker 3:That means nothing to me, that means nothing to Cory the way that I've watched it with Nick and he has a pop figure that I bought.
Speaker 1:And you still decided to try and ruin it. He played anyway, but the other strike you had was that you tried to take him out of Meet the Parents.
Speaker 3:I've not seen it, I don't care about it.
Speaker 1:But here's where your logic is good, cass, and sound is that this is the point where DeNiro starts to steer away from hip smob like tendencies and starts to go into the comedy world. But Meet the Parents is shift, yeah.
Speaker 5:It's the shift and it's a perfect shift. It's the right shift at the right time. You're easing them into it by making him play a criminal. But that's funny, it's not Meet the Parents, he plays a dad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no you don't know, here it could be a dad. He's just stealing to buy for his children.
Speaker 5:Don't make you sad and fight for it back.
Speaker 4:Fight for it, okay, ask for.
Speaker 1:Ash. Ash you light up for your King. Yeah, so John Turturro also great pick. In any other year I probably could do that, because here down in, let me, let me do a little American explaining to you. Ash, I apologize, but Oprah, there are those kind of a big deal around here, and John Turturro is really is.
Speaker 1:It's a big. When that movie came out, every but my grandparents bought the album. That's how good it was. So he's he's a big part of why that movie works along with George Clooney. Listen, those, the trio. They do so well working off each other and I would be terribly remiss to remove them from each other. What's the third man's name? He's. He's the one that's the lead in the most recently Blake Nelson. Thank you. Tim Blake Nelson also could have been great as a Marv here, but less.
Speaker 5:Corey upset. No one picks that green.
Speaker 1:Corey this is probably where I'm going to be forced to use my override, which terrifies me because we still have left over.
Speaker 5:Oh, you're going to go into Macaulay Culkin blind yeah.
Speaker 1:I listen, there's two. There's two legitimate options here for me, for me to pull. Okay I feel. One I really want, but the other I think fits better with Matthew Lillard. I really want ice cube.
Speaker 3:Oh, I thought about ice cube.
Speaker 1:I actually did worry that he doesn't fit with Matthew Lillard.
Speaker 5:No, that's going to be, it's it. I think it would be I think it'd be fun.
Speaker 4:I think it'd be like this he never plays anyone that completely my logic here?
Speaker 1:Oh, no Logic. I did say that's who I'm going with. Okay, I think it was that it was Pesci. It was tough guy. Has reputation playing comedic, transitioning into comedy. Ice Cube has not transitioned into dad comedy yet. That's 2005 with Arbiteria. He's still three Kings. He's this year is next Friday, but it is a sequel.
Speaker 5:Right there, I got to stop you. Next Friday is this year, so just I love next.
Speaker 1:Friday.
Speaker 5:So it's just as good as Friday.
Speaker 2:It's all three.
Speaker 5:Friday movies are great. Okay, I stand by that. All three are great Okay. And also only works if you pull Mike Epps with him, he's the only person that's ever been able to collaborate with Ice Cube.
Speaker 1:You need, you need a solid. Mike Epps would have been a great bar. He would have been great.
Speaker 3:We're being so hearing. Corey is going to override your over. He's threatening to know.
Speaker 5:No, no, I'm saying I wouldn't pull Ice Cube out of next Friday at all.
Speaker 1:But my pick is going to be John Liguizamo.
Speaker 5:That's pretty good.
Speaker 1:I think he has the right. He's also a character actor. He's been in several mob movies himself as well, and I think that he has a general temperament that will go well with the Harry character, I think, when he's also he's. Yeah, we're putting Luigi in here, corey, but he's, he's going to be the lead. Are you pulling him out of Mario?
Speaker 5:this year Not Mario.
Speaker 1:this year he's he's doing an Arabian Nights TV mini series.
Speaker 4:He's voicing in, he's in executive decision here, is it no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1:The only movie movie is. King of the Jungle and I it's. It's not on my radar at all, so that's why I think I think he's the right blend. I think he has that temperament. That's right, that he'll be the straight man with an attitude. He'll be able to play the cop at the beginning. That's very calm and reassuring to the family, and then, at the same time, he's trying to not curse as he's doing to murder.
Speaker 5:Yeah, he'll do. Well, he's got that in. Actually he's going to play like the leader that's pigeoned with the the buffoon real well. And he's always, him and Lillard are going to play off each other.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, yeah, I would have gone with Mark. That's funny, Ash. What did you say? I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:Oh no. My second option, by the way, was Tim Roth, but it was two on the nose.
Speaker 2:They're going to be interested on a bit.
Speaker 4:OK, but no, I'm out there. It's really interesting to know the cultural difference between those two films is what they're saying yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1:I kind of thought that, as I was like oh, that's right, like it's bigger here probably so.
Speaker 4:yeah, I'll give you an example. Oh brother, we're out there. It's basically what Batman and Robin is over there. It's just laugh that here.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 4:It is like a spoof over here. Oh, it's a satirical movie here because of the Coen brothers filmography, that's just like well they've done a movie like this.
Speaker 1:Well, ash, be careful when you come to Oklahoma, because that is beloved.
Speaker 4:I won't mention it at all now. I'm going to be on my best behavior. In fact, I'm going to have to watch it again.
Speaker 5:I like what Nick picked, so our wet bandits will be Matthew Lillard and John Lillard's Alma. I like it, you know what it's appearing yeah. I think, there's one left, corey. Who is it Still thinking about whether or not I'd rather?
Speaker 4:see Mark Wahlberg there. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 5:All right, that brings us to Kevin McAllister.
Speaker 1:Bless his highly nutritious Michael Wavre Macaroni and cheese dinner that people sold in on sale. Amen.
Speaker 5:Played by Macaulay Culkin, who is just everything in the early 90s greatest child actor of all time, or does that come? Down to him, or Feldman, or or Phoenix, river Phoenix, river Phoenix, he it's. River Phoenix has the Kurt Cobain aspect where if he had kept living, we would just only know him for his adult crap. That's true, that had a good run. It's too small of a sample size. It's just an incredible sample size yeah, yeah, feldman, and.
Speaker 5:Culkin nailed it, nailed it nice. Macaulay Culkin. He's known for Home Alone, home Alone 2, richie Rich. He, it's speculated he had a drug problem. But he's pretty much about said he never had a drug problem. He just kind of like played up to it. He just kind of said like when people started very much elating that he was on heroin. He's just like I'm just gonna stop shaving and I'm just gonna whatever it's a very Macaulay Culkin thing to do yeah, he dated Mila Kunis before she was Cutchard that's a highlight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a highlight of his life.
Speaker 5:Now he's. He's married to a very, very famous friend of song.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, that's right to a very famous person. They have a child yeah, nine years old at the time of filming, but plays an eight-year-old. Macaulay Culkin drew the map that his character used to set up traps also kind of a method thing. He's like okay, I'm gonna draw this. Okay, you know, maybe the shots that focus on Kevin at the beginning of the movie are filmed from above his head, making him seem small and helpless. At the end of the movie, kevin is mostly shot from below, making him seem taller and more confident there you go, there you go, solid directing.
Speaker 5:Macaulay Culkin's stunt double was a very short 30 year old man.
Speaker 1:I just think of the clip of the dude bowing from the from the shelves. Yeah, it's just, I'm like that's a man, that's a 30 year old man that was Seth Green.
Speaker 5:Macaulay Culkin was only allowed to work on set five hours a day because of child labor laws. I bet that was so annoying. That's perfect. Can you work 30?
Speaker 1:more minutes. Keep back in there.
Speaker 5:So yeah, it's Macaulay Culkin. I mean you're looking I don't even know how what you're looking for, nick, because he's kind of unprecedented in terms of like it was him. I guess you'd also have to throw the Olsens in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we had a natural ability about him.
Speaker 1:Like he came off very genuine, like a lot of kid actors they're reading lines, yeah, like we.
Speaker 1:As we talked about Christina Richie in the first Adam's Family, like she's a child actor, and the second one it's like oh, she's learning how to act. This is great but that. But like he, even when he first this whole movie was built off the idea of him in Uncle Buck, where he's sitting there grilling the person through the door, and then also John Candy later, so like, and even then he already had like this natural charisma to him and I think that's the thing is like he in this movie it's a lot of Bugs Bunny, it's a lot of just, yeah, a lot of lovable, manipulative kind of terror, terror of sorts, you will. But like he has a heart of gold too, with the character Kevin does mean well, he has a great character because he's very self-centered at the beginning and him being alone makes him realize, like just how important his family is to him, but also like it forces him to look outward, and that's when we see him dealing with old man Marley, among other people, and such.
Speaker 5:Very, very talented kid obviously. Yeah, I think at the time it was him and the Olsens were everything, and then you know. But I think McCulloch is really interesting because people know him for this, they know him for Richie Richie, they know him for these kids movies. But he also did Nutcracker Broadway, which is not really a movie but he did a Broadway production type of thing and he was in like one of those schools that was very song and dance.
Speaker 5:He kind of was like you know. And then he did a movie, 1993, called the Good Son, when she plays a psychopathic kid. It's a horror movie, yeah, opposite of. Elijah it's probably two of the best performances by child actors in the same movie, you know, and so it's like you can tell as a kid he was trying to take it seriously. It's just. At some point, I think his parents ruined him on acting.
Speaker 1:Yeah you know, he was going places and then he just said screw this so by not having home alone be a thing, do you think he takes off later and has a more teenage adult acting?
Speaker 5:I mean it's possible yeah, you know, or it's not, he doesn't get burned out probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's kind of come back, he's doing like American Horror Story and stuff yeah, come back.
Speaker 5:But also his family produced two of the like two more incredible actors. That did wait till later, right?
Speaker 2:right, you know, I mean Kiran.
Speaker 5:Kiran did 90s yeah, he is a fuller, he's the kid. That what's the bed. If he drinks Pepsi after eight or whatever, sleep with him, he, what's the bed? And so that's a Culkin, I think. I think there is a girl Culkin and she's in Good Son, she's the sister, but that's all she ever did. But then Rory Culkin is also a big deal, yeah, so yeah but he can just come off a massive run doing succession obviously yeah yeah, the Culkins man. So yeah, the Colic paved way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for other Culkins so that's what we're looking for. And before we get started, I want to be clear. No, culkins are allowed in the spot. If you pick another Culkin, it will automatically go to someone else. If you both pick Culkins, corey and I will discuss who will play Kevin McAllister. So I hope you did some homework and you didn't do the lazy thing. Who made it last? I made it last, who made it before that it was cast? So cast pressures on. Who's your McClellan, I'm sorry, who's your Kevin McAllister?
Speaker 3:okay, so this is the one that I casted first. But I like had to write out a list of kid actors from that time because, again, I was one at the time but I did watch a lot of stuff in like the early 2000s, cool. So there were some options I wanted, but they were too old. So I remember at one point I saw Franky Munez pop up and I was like that would actually be a fun pick.
Speaker 3:Oh, he's 15 yeah so I had a worry there, even though he was small and welcome in the middle. He was tiny, so could have worked. I thought it'd be funny to have Daniel Radcliffe at some point. He would have been nine, but I don't think he would have had the McCulley Culkin vibe. I just think he would have just been too hairy hotter. But I went with Cole Sprouse, who is eight at the time and he had just gotten off of Big Daddy right it was the year before Frankenstein and he.
Speaker 3:He was a free agent. He was only doing friends episodes. Okay, because he has been in friends. And yes, for those that don't know who Cole Sprouse is, he was in the sweet life of Zack and Cody.
Speaker 5:Sprouse twins Corey. Yeah, is there a reason she's shitting on Dylan Sprouse?
Speaker 1:I don't know why she's being particular with this process. Ash, did you pick Dylan Sprouse? I cannot differentiate.
Speaker 5:I could tell the Alsons apart, but one of them is married to Barbara.
Speaker 1:Palvin okay, dylan's a lot more. I want to laugh, that's why cast didn't go with him because he's taken.
Speaker 3:He's not single shame anyway, cole is the one that did the more acting. I think Dylan at that time was just his like backup, almost like the Ashmore twins, like both Sean and air. I hope I didn't just teach you guys that Sean Ashmore has a twin.
Speaker 5:I didn't know that. No, I, but why would I normally prefer?
Speaker 1:to the Olsen twins.
Speaker 5:Yeah, because Mary Kate preferred the dramatic stuff, ashley preferred the comedy. Yeah, it worked. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And it's same with Ashmore twins Sean does his stuff, aaron does its fine, but anyway, anyway.
Speaker 1:Cole Sprouse yeah.
Speaker 3:I only went with Cole because Cole was doing more acting at that time. Dylan would be there like every now and then because I feel like friends. That was only Cole it Dylan was not actually the one doing it, big Daddy, I think I remember reading that Dylan was in it. But I just went with Cole just because I know Cole was doing a little bit more of the acting and doing more of those like rascal sort of OK, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 5:But yeah, all right, cole Sprouse.
Speaker 1:Cole Sprouse is on the right reserved to the right to also bring Dylan Sprouse, so we get double the child labor hours.
Speaker 5:That's true. Yeah, that's true, that's good. That's good All right. Ash, the Sprouses are on the board.
Speaker 4:The Sprouses are on the board. Yeah, you know what I like Cole Sprouse? Because they have a lot of charisma, they've got a personality and they had it in friends at such a young age. I'm not going to play dirty just yet. I'm going to let Nick Ponder and then I'm going to fight dirty, ok, ok. But I have because I actually I think Cole Sprouse is better than my pick. I do, but on a technicality actually you have to sell me.
Speaker 4:You're not selling me, I know, I know, but I'm doing a sort of double bluff here. So my person is actually he's a fantastic actor. He's really well established. He has done film. He did a film in 1999. He's also eight years old, exactly the same height. He would later go on to play Charlie Bucket and Norman Bates in a very established role.
Speaker 4:So I'm giving you Freddie Heimor. You might know him from Finding Neverland, the little boy who's crying of Johnny Depp. He has he's a fantastic actor so much range he can do the American accent. He proved that in the younger versions of Finding Neverland and in Norman Bates and he's got that really creepy vibe about him as well. But then he's also got that child persona and he's definitely got that, really that funness about him as well that he uses in a lot of his movies. The only thing I would say and I'm not trying to sabotage mine on purpose that innocent sort of thing he gets typecast in. I think he turns that on his head a lot because when he does play a charisma actor he does it really well. But yeah, I've got Freddie Heimor to the table. Very established in the in the naughties with Charlie Buckets, finding Neverland but yeah, I have no issue with.
Speaker 2:Cole.
Speaker 4:Sprouse or Dylan Sprouse. I think that's also a very good pick, but I do like Freddie Heimor.
Speaker 3:I do think of.
Speaker 3:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with him. Because Freddie Heimor did a good job as, like this young kid who is, you know, with his grandfather going to the Chocolate Factory, I think and I because I considered him so when I heard you say Bates Motel, I instantly was like damn it. That's exactly who I was thinking of when I was like doing the cast, but I just I think my only thing with Freddie Heimor is that he's like. I think my only thing with Freddie is can he do what McCauley did? And that's not even me fighting for Cole Sprouse.
Speaker 4:No, but that's exactly because yeah, no, and I think what Nick was saying as well like the way he delivers the lines, like are you thirsty for more? Like any child actor would just say the line, but you could tell McCauley Corkin was delivering that line, and it's very hard to have that level of acting at that age as well. So, yeah, I completely agree with you, Katia.
Speaker 1:Yeah that line, corey, was improved. Which one thirsty for more. So yeah exactly, really quick. Before I make my pick. Here are a list of child actors from this that I was just pulling. You've got Tyler James Williams, who's got a start in Sesame Street but then went on to start in Everybody Hates Chris.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:You've got Justin Pierre Edmund. Not many people will probably know him, but he's great in the Preacher's Wife starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston. That's all you need to know. You need to go watch it right now. It is a holiday movie.
Speaker 1:Zena Gray from Snow Day thought about doing a little switcheroo there, and Haley Joel Osmond could have been. Could have been okay, could have been all right. He's 12. At this point, though, and I did half for a second. Think about Jake Lloyd Corey. I felt bad for him and thought about it, but I went. He's had a Christmas movie and he was in Star Wars. He's fine. Yeah, he's fine, he's fine. All that to say.
Speaker 1:Let me put this into perspective this way If you're giving me Kevin McAllister and Charlie Bucket in a fisticuffs fight, kevin McAllister is going to kick Charlie Bucket's ass, and what I mean by that is that Charlie Bucket and Freddie Heimour. He's a really sweet kid, he's really nice, and that's the vibe that he gives off in a lot of those early childhood performances. I don't think he has the snarkiness that you get from a McCulloch-Hulkin, but I do think it's there with the Cole and Dylan Sprouse unit because and which we saw a few years prior in Big Daddy. So I think so that was also probably my final pick at the end was a Cole-Dylan Sprouse combo. So great discussion. Love it Cole, and Dylan Sprouse is our Kevin McAllister.
Speaker 4:Can I fight dirty here now? Am I allowed to fight a little dirty?
Speaker 1:I mean my hands off the chess piece. I mean I've got a I don't know Is it, is it?
Speaker 5:It's the Pinkies. I still got a host over over. Corey has a host override. I'll hear you out. But I don't like Freddie and Heimor. For the same reason I wouldn't like Hailey Jolosman. They're phenomenal dramatic kid actors.
Speaker 4:They're just the only yeah, that's fair, absolutely yeah. Okay, I'm just going to take down Cass with me then, I guess, does half a TV credit constitute as a film credit? Half? How do you go half? Because he wasn't playing the role. It was him and Dylan.
Speaker 5:He's saying that Cass is like Cole's. Only credit to this point was he only played half a character, because Dylan played the other half, that's a technique.
Speaker 3:No, but Cole did Big Daddy, which was 1999. Okay, and then he was doing friends.
Speaker 1:Two Sprouses equal one, in my opinion, guys.
Speaker 5:Ash, I appreciate the attempt.
Speaker 1:Listen, you tried to lawyer up and I appreciate what you did.
Speaker 3:I did do my research on.
Speaker 4:Doug, before I wanted the establishment of this film will be a twins movie, not a.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:The only person I thought of for this role from that age didn't get their first acting credit until 2001. So I just I didn't even try after that.
Speaker 2:I would have had.
Speaker 5:Miranda Cosgrove in a second.
Speaker 3:I thought about no, I appreciate it 100%. I wanted her. I wanted her, but I saw her acting credit.
Speaker 5:She was 2001, for Smallville Was her first acting credit that would have been good, alison Stoner from the.
Speaker 1:She was by the dozen would have been good.
Speaker 5:She would have also been really good.
Speaker 2:Didn't have a credit yet, so she was in Missy Elliott's rap video. Was it before or after? No, no, no.
Speaker 3:When Eminem's Just Lose. It came out because I know Alison's.
Speaker 1:Just Lose. It's Further Down, further Down the Line. Yeah, it's a bit too down.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Alright Well.
Speaker 4:I'll pass. I'll shake your hand. Cole Sprouse is good.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 5:Would you like to read us the final cast for Home Alone 2000? In the year 2000.
Speaker 1:All right From the bottom to the top. Pizza Boy will be played by McCulloch and himself. Uncle Frank will be played by David Kirkner I can't ever say his name right, but a champ kind from Anchorman Peter McAllister. The dad will be played by the eternal dad, dennis Quaid. Gus Polinsky, the polka king, will be played by Don Stark of that 70s show fame. Old man Mar oh, excuse me, buzz, the older brother, will be played by Seth Rogen. Old man Marley will be played by That'll do Pig, that'll do James Cromwell. Kate McAllister will be brought to the screen by Jamie Lee Curtis. Marv of the Wet Bandits will be played by Matthew Luller. Harry, his de facto leader, will be played by Joe Pesci's inherent actor, john Liguizamo. And of course at the top, kevin McAllister, played by the duo known as Cole and Dylan Sprouse. And that is Home Alone in 2000. Woo, it wasit does work. I like it. It's fun.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think it works. I like it. I do like it.
Speaker 5:I blame Dennis, but Because Jack Quaid never stepped foot on a movie screen. Yeah, but Jack Quaid. I wonder if he would have been a great child actor. He's a great actor now.
Speaker 3:Literally. When I put Dennis Quaid in, I said, oh, what was Jack doing? Oh, he didn't start doing something too close to him.
Speaker 5:Dad didn't let him do anything, nick sees it and he was a lazy actor kid. I saw it as like dad's, like you're not acting until you're 20.
Speaker 1:You don't have what it takes, you don't have the balls, you don't have the balls.
Speaker 5:That's probably a little bit of a Dad protecting him from childhood stardom and also Jack, probably being like, hey, there's a lot of money around here.
Speaker 1:I think Ryan's also his mom, right? Yes, there's just a lot of money around here.
Speaker 5:He's just like he had fun stuff there. He had a PlayStation and Nintendo 64, so he was busy, lucky, all right. Well, that is Home Alone 2000. Nick, are you satisfied?
Speaker 1:I think, so I feel good. I feel good about what we've got here. I feel like Christmas isn't ruined guys, so you've done it Congrats.
Speaker 5:Good job, guys, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, and that's the end of the year for us. Basically, we have a couple of Little mini-soads coming out.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we have one or two things we'll throw at you. Yeah, we'll spoil it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's fair. That's fair, Okay, I was about to oh are you going to spoil it?
Speaker 5:No, we don't have to spoil it.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're going to do a defensive of the sequel Home Alone 2, next. Yeah, and that'll be our little wrap up. If you haven't already, make sure you listen to Krampus. That me and Cass take back to the 90s to recast, yeah, but be sure to listen to that, this one in the next one, for all your Christmas festivities.
Speaker 5:Or you know, if you just don't want to listen to anybody, yeah, that's fine. Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoyed this episode. We now can take Home Alone off the board.
Speaker 2:We don't have to do this unless child actor we have to deal with, we have to rewrap the rules here. Oh my gosh, we will never.
Speaker 5:I will never do that we got to rethink the rules here, but we appreciate you listening. Find us on social media. We'll see you next time. Say goodnight, nick.
Speaker 1:Merry Christmas Nick.
Speaker 5:Should I just say it.
Speaker 4:Aw, you love Christmas, nick. Good night Nick.