Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
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Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
Home Alone - 2000: A Millennium Makeover for the Macaulay Culkin Christmas Classic
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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:
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Nick Growall (@nickgrowall)
Co-Hosts (Season 6):
Aly Dale (@alydale55)
Ash Hurry (@filmexplorationah)
Cass Elliott (@take5cass)
Terran Sherwood (@terransherwood)
Voice of the Time Machine:
Kristi Rothrock (@letzshake)
Editing by:
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Speaker 4God, 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.
Intro
Speaker 5Here 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 1It's less sleeps till Christmas, Corey. That's the mentality Ash should have right now.
Speaker 5That's true, Ash. You're just a day closer to Christmas. I remember like.
Speaker 1Kermit the Frog said there's only 26 more sleeps till Christmas and speaking of Christmas.
Speaker 5That's why we're here. Nick, it's your favorite season for the podcast.
Speaker 1We've made it after a long, long year.
Speaker 5You 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 2Take this kid.
Speaker 5So 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 1I 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 5Okay, got it, got it. Still, I feel like every movie should have had 2000.
Speaker 1It'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 5Well, 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 5I 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 1Stop trying to make X a thing.
Speaker 5Elon, so you like follow us on Twitter or X. So so yeah, we're on X still, right.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, we're totally on X right now.
Speaker 5I just know people are abandoning that burning shit pretty quick.
Speaker 4I don't know if we have Social media platform just to confirm.
Speaker 5Yes, 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 5Not 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 1Oh yeah, oh, eighties and seventies, oh, totally so.
Speaker 5He 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 1He did, he started all that.
Speaker 5And then he went Harry Potter adjacent to Percy Jackson in the Lightning Thief.
Speaker 1The franchise. You don't have to be good at developing a novel, corey, a children's novel. I know just the guy.
Speaker 5Christopher Columbus, so I saw that that franchise is coming back, apparently after.
Speaker 1Disney is doing a series now.
Speaker 5Failed 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 5This 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 1I'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?
Useless Critic Stats
Speaker 5you 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 1They're not real people.
Speaker 5I 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 1That's more than half. That's okay, it's more than half.
Speaker 2It's a stretch.
Speaker 1He 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 4Maybe I'd take a bad day it's when he reviews them later he's like he sees something again.
Speaker 5He'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 1Yeah, this random burglars showed up, I think, roger.
Speaker 4Ebert might have been a victim of burglary. Maybe he might have yo.
Speaker 1That's hitting a tender spot.
Speaker 5His house had just gotten robbed.
Speaker 3He just got PTSDGs.
Speaker 5And 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 3They literally go into the house. The pizza boy lets Harry in.
Speaker 4I know yeah he's in the first, the wet bandit.
Speaker 5Wait, it's not Harry, though Harry's the tall one.
Speaker 1Harry is the most tall one. Marv is the tall one.
Speaker 5Yeah, Harry's in the first scene as a cop.
Speaker 1Right Casing the place.
Speaker 5That's how Kevin sees his little.
Speaker 3Goal to.
Speaker 1Yeah Thing, see, we're setting things up for later, are you?
Speaker 5telling me that Joe Pesci made Goodfellas and Home Alone in the same year.
Speaker 4Yeah, 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 5So I'm just going to. Goodfellas is 90, right, yeah, it's 1990. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1And, 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 5Pesci'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 1I feel like Roger Ebert didn't watch this movie. I feel like he read something. This doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 5Also 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 1That'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 5Yeah, 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 1He doesn't want to be rescued. We're setting up the plot and the character. He wants to be alone.
Speaker 5And he is scared at first, but then he figures things out. He goes grocery shopping and learns to cook and things.
Speaker 1And he's not afraid of the oven stairs anymore.
Speaker 5And he essentially approves that he doesn't need his deadbeat family.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 5That's the lesson learned guys.
Speaker 1He's also eight.
Speaker 3He just also is not understanding what's happening either. So he's like no.
Speaker 5Let'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 1rest of his life. You offended me, went to another country, you went to.
Speaker 5Paris.
Speaker 1How's Paris? Was it nice? Was it Holly and Jolly?
Speaker 5I could have died.
Speaker 1We were robbed. I saved us oh my gosh.
Speaker 5I bet he yeah, you know.
Speaker 3Kevin 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 5He'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 2I know what I have Put the burglar.
Speaker 4But he never mentions the robbery at any point, which is the weird thing about it.
Speaker 2Yeah, oh yeah, the cops call me you. The cops call me you, yeah.
Speaker 4You're right, he has a lot of leverage that he never uses. That's true.
Speaker 3I 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 5He doesn't know any better.
Speaker 3So in his mind he's thinking I'm going to get in trouble for doing all this.
Speaker 1I think the burglar story comes out after Buzz finds out what he did to his room. He's like listen, burglar's broken.
Speaker 5I 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 3It's like the burglars came in. No, no, no.
Speaker 4Prove it, prove it.
Speaker 5All right.
Speaker 4It's the neighborhood in the country.
Speaker 5All 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 1So 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 1But 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 5No, and they're still making good things.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 5Apparently, 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 5Stop, 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 1You probably made that up.
Speaker 5right 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 1Like that's bonafide, so cold. Like no, conversation can be argument.
Speaker 5I 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 2I hate Elf, I think it's an abysmal movie. I've never seen it.
Speaker 5That's great hey keep going through life not seeing it. It's perfect.
Speaker 3I love it. I want to keep doing that.
Speaker 4I got a great feel I don't like it. It's not that great. I don't know why it's a classic.
Speaker 1Maybe 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 5I 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 3My 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 5I love that movie.
Speaker 3It's not that I hate it.
Speaker 5I 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 1I don't see any problem, and those are like.
Speaker 5But I mean, those are kind of like B tier, I guess it's not like.
Speaker 1I 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 4Yeah, 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 3Yeah.
Speaker 4I think Elf is sort of slipped its way into that category now.
Speaker 1I also think the live action Grinch has entered.
Speaker 5Why live action? Grinch is a must in my house. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yes, that too.
Speaker 5I 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 2That's okay, it makes sense.
Speaker 3OK, elf is like 20.
Speaker 5And so Elf's a thing for him, and the rest of us are older and we're like idiot.
Speaker 2So but I'm coming off, alright.
Speaker 5And 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 2She likes of them.
Speaker 5So 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 1We were all alive.
Speaker 5Wait 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 3The rest of us were older that was a bad.
Box Office Top Ten & Oscars - 2000
Speaker 5I 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 2Yeah, number.
Speaker 5Is this real?
Speaker 1that's real.
Speaker 5Okay, 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 5It'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 4So what about the dog? We?
Speaker 5just 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 5So 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 1Benicio would have suffered.
Speaker 5Yeah, 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 1Corey, okay, I know about money.
Speaker 4It's all about money.
Speaker 5That, 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 2I mean just to do.
Speaker 1Just 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 5Um a lot, I mean there's a big list here.
Speaker 1I'm just asking yeah, the replacements is a good one Um the patriot with mel Gibson.
Speaker 5That's incredible.
Speaker 1It's a solid year.
Speaker 5Oh, ready to rumble? Yeah, the only pro wrestling movie we ever really got, true.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 5Oh, battlefield earth is so good. I hate that people despise that movie. It's such a good watch.
Speaker 1I would see that.
Speaker 5We're gonna sit down and watch it together, Okay so. We're gonna do that, that's gonna happen soon?
Speaker 1ash, do you have any notable films that haven't been spoken of, or maybe there?
Speaker 4I 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 1What is that? Definitely up there, for sure.
Speaker 4And I that was a superhero movie. That had a quite an interest of a grounded superhero movie.
Speaker 2But yeah, there's some good films out there.
Speaker 5Yeah, would we be remiss, not to mention requiem for a dream.
Speaker 3I was about to say that. I was actually about to say it.
Speaker 5That's horrible thing anyone's ever seen.
Speaker 1So if we ever recast, it's just like what actors do we want to see go through a lot of horrible things yeah.
Speaker 5Also almost famous this year.
Speaker 3That's just one of my all time favorite movies. I love that movie. You gotta throw that one out there.
Speaker 2That's a great one.
Speaker 5I 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 4It's a fun movie. It's a fun movie.
Speaker 5Breckenmeyer getting a little starring role there. I just supported that. I just want to break them already get over Right?
What Changes About This Movie?
Speaker 4Oh my gosh. Yeah, I remember that film.
Speaker 5Well, that brings us to. How does the movie change? How does home alone change? Bring it to the year 2000.
Speaker 1Technology 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 5I 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 1I 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 5But I'm still texting no, no, no text.
Speaker 1We weren't there yet You're texting. That's a dollar per text, exactly. We're not rich.
Speaker 5I 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 1No, 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 3I 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 5That's true. That became even more. That was like even later now she brings up.
Speaker 1A 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 2Yeah, what does this man do, and how much?
Speaker 1money does he make? We can dive into the theory.
Speaker 5What is the theory?
Speaker 4There is a theory. There's so many theories. What is the one you've heard over there?
Speaker 5My 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 3So he probably inked that a little bit on that shoe deal probably so ash, what was your theory?
Speaker 4Well, 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 1We've been looking at this, you know she has a rope.
Speaker 4She 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 3Yeah, Cory. Yes, we're in nick. Women can be successful. I didn't say women can't be successful.
Speaker 5I just know that Michael Jordan's agent is male. That's true. That's what I know.
Speaker 4Also, I mean it's the right.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 5So 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 1So 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 5Okay, 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 1Because 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 5I think what Kate would do, it would just be bonkers money.
Speaker 1That's ridiculous money.
Speaker 2I don't know. A C19 or a.
Speaker 5C19. Maybe what if Kate's family owns the Chicago Bulls and that's how it has?
Speaker 4been got to job.
Speaker 5I'm going with that. That's the thing.
Speaker 4I 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 5Yeah, 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 1But 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 1Yeah, 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 4I 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 1I guess the Christmas story house also.
Speaker 2Yeah, the Christmas story house probably gets some.
Speaker 1Well, did you say the psycho house? Is that what you said?
Speaker 5Yeah, 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 2Those are the four that come up the most often.
Speaker 5And Home Alone typically was one.
Speaker 1So we've covered like half of the most popular houses on the show.
Speaker 5Yeah, we just got to do the notebook next, which means you have to watch it at some point.
Speaker 4Some day. Come on, you like Gosling.
Speaker 5All 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 1You told me I couldn't get on the computer, mom.
Speaker 5There's probably password protected.
Speaker 1He's probably going to use the computer to set traps in 2000.
Speaker 4That's what he's going to do. I mean, that is a legitimate. Clippy.
Speaker 5He's going to ask the paperclip.
Speaker 4Yeah, parents left me.
Speaker 1What do I do? He might be able to ask Jeeves at this point.
Speaker 5Oh 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 2The year 2000.
Speaker 1What's up? Good morning Angel, good morning Charlie.
Speaker 4My name is Gladiator Rosa.
Speaker 5They called me Mr Glance. Ow Two off my groove.
Speaker 3I'm sorry, but you've thrown off the Emperor's groove.
Speaker 2Charlie.
Speaker 1You have arrived.
Speaker 5Well, 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 1We have cookies.
Speaker 5But 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 5Since 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 5Yeah, 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 1Well, it can't be dead, they can't be arrested or pregnant, yeah.
Speaker 3Take them out of here.
Speaker 1Notable. Rule number three is if you take them out.
Speaker 5I thought there was four rules. Sure, oh, I mean, I thought there was a rule three that I just missed.
Speaker 1I don't know. I think you did All right?
Speaker 5Well, 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 2We don't count Broadway. No, no, if they do something they can still do.
Speaker 5That 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 1No, okay, it's the girl.
Speaker 5Okay yeah, michelle Trachtenberg.
Speaker 1No, 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 5Okay, 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 2sure.
Speaker 5Because of this culture. Yeah, I agree with that. Probably just wonderful fashion. Unfortunately, it wasn't too successful.
Speaker 5I 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 5Give 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 2Yeah, all right, cool, we're doing this.
30 Seconds or Less Casting
Speaker 5All 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 1I love that it's little Nero, sir. I have your pizza, leave it on a doorstep and get the hell out of here.
Speaker 5Played by Danny Warhol. He was only 19 at the time. Really, he was 30. Um, we're harsh, I guess, uncle Frank.
Speaker 1He knows, I saw shenan olives.
Speaker 5Look 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 1I think Gary brings a nice sleaze to the character.
Speaker 5He 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 5Let'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 1Um this is arrested in Oklahoma recently. Really, I saw that.
Speaker 5Is 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 1Yeah, really install the art director's son.
Speaker 5Yeah, 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 1Oklahoma 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 5That 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 1Turns out, livery does pay oh yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 3Turns out the money that. That a Kate, isn't her name.
Speaker 5Kate, yeah, kate gave him was actually his pay. John Candy ever read where I went, what I?
Speaker 3I.
Speaker 4Think 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 5guys 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 2Or my get-best-out-was-much.
Speaker 5Yeah, they can choose who goes first. He has that power.
Speaker 1By the magical use of my imaginary coin. We're going to let Casco first.
Speaker 3So for Pete's a boy, Sean Ashmore.
Speaker 1Well, hold on, whoa. We have to say.
Speaker 5We never said go.
Speaker 1Wait, we're just getting there. There was a pause.
Speaker 3There was a pause.
Speaker 1I waited you needed the pause because you did not respond.
Speaker 4Wow, it gives me time to adjust my Alright.
Speaker 1so everyone ready and prepped.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 5Alright.
Speaker 1Okay, 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 3I can go now.
Speaker 1Yes, clock's on.
Speaker 3I picked Sean Ashmore.
Speaker 1Okay, x-men, x-men fame. Very good, all right, ash.
Speaker 4Uh, I went Macaulay Coken Time traveling.
Speaker 1He does kind of look like the pizza boy now.
Speaker 4He's the same age as well in 2000.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's good, let's go. Coli Coken is going in Moving on Uncle Frank Cas.
Speaker 3Uh David, uh Koshner.
Speaker 1Koshner from Anchorman fame. Okay, all right, champ, champ, kindly for most of you at home, yeah Ash.
Speaker 4I went with Nick Nolte, oh, okay.
Speaker 1Do we want mumbling grouchy, uncle Frank, or do we want over the top kind of food, uncle Frank? I see All right.
Speaker 4David.
Speaker 1David uh Karkner.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, that's just character acting, that's what he does All right.
Speaker 1Pete McAllister, or Peter by his mother, might call him Uh Cas.
Speaker 3Dennis Queen.
Speaker 1Okay, All right Ash.
Speaker 4Damn good looking. I went with William H Macy.
Speaker 1Macy Dennis Quaid feels a little on the nose. Corey, it feels safe.
Speaker 5It feels right. Willie Macy would never be Michael Jordan sports agent, allegedly his school agent.
Speaker 1Okay, legend sports agent. You tell me Dennis Quaid couldn't pull himself off a draft day rookie.
Speaker 5No, I'm saying Dennis Quaid, oh okay, well, that's him. Willie Macy would never.
Speaker 1All right, we got Dennis Quaid, dennis Quaid's on the board.
Speaker 5That's what we were, I just have to pull my.
Speaker 1You really think we see the right story? Huh, huh, prove it All right. Uh, gus Polinsky, ash, or sorry, cas.
Speaker 3I went Don Stark, who is um Donna's dad in that 70's show In that 70's show.
Speaker 1He's delightful. He is delightful. You could. I could spend 12 hours from New York to Chicago talking about music and stuff.
Speaker 5No, he's a good one.
Speaker 1He's a good one. Yeah, ash, who do you have? Who do you have?
Speaker 4I've gone for a very lovable on the nose guy. I've gone, john Goodman.
Speaker 1Hmm, oh, that's good, he's a good man.
Speaker 2I thought, I thought him he is a good man.
Speaker 1I 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 5I think so too. I'm gonna go with Don Stark. I buy Don Stark. Yeah, don Stark can afford it.
Speaker 1I'd like him, John Goodman's too good for a for a polka band.
Speaker 2That used to be bowling he's never too good.
Speaker 1Woo, 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 3I went Seth Rogen.
Speaker 1Seth, a young Seth Rogen.
Speaker 3A young Seth Rogen.
Speaker 2He's in. He's in Freaks and Geeks.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, ash, who do you have?
Speaker 4Well, the gloves are definitely off now, ashley Tisdale. I'm changing the gender, I'm changing the role. Ooh.
Speaker 1Same 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 2She's in multiple things Charpay.
Speaker 1Oh 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 4Seth Rogen is a bully.
Speaker 1It's a bully, it's true.
Speaker 4He'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 5Cass will blow this up top. This is going to happen.
Speaker 3I'm pretty impressed with my top list.
Speaker 4Well, your top list.
Speaker 1You're just annoying me, though. Cass is getting cocky here, corey.
Speaker 5Yeah. 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 1But it works. But it works here Because he's a bully. Yeah, yeah, he's playing against tight.
Speaker 5I like this arrow. Seth Rogen, I don't like the current arrow. Well, he's been.
Speaker 1Rogen since 2005. Yeah, and I just don't like his attitude.
Speaker 5I think it's just this whole, like he's just how would it be Donkey Kong? But like this is my voice.
Speaker 2I don't do voice acting, it's like you're a flippin actor.
Speaker 5What?
Speaker 1the heck Corey. You hire Owen Wilson. You know what you're getting with Owen Wilson.
Speaker 5Yeah, 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 2All right.
Speaker 1All right, I like it. I like it though, ok, is it?
Speaker 5time 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 2Ok, all right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5Yeah, I knew that his name was Marley. Nice little knot.
Speaker 2Right Christmas there. Yeah, all right, you know, you know.
Old Man Marley
Speaker 5Marley'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 1You can say hello when you see me. You don't have to be afraid.
Speaker 5There'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 5in 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 4Has to be in real life. Oh, hold on, I'm just going back on it. Escape from.
Speaker 5Alcatraz. 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 2Kevin.
Speaker 4Nice, exactly right yeah.
Speaker 5Though 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 1That'd be a PG-13. Yeah, listen, after that finale, they're not serious.
Speaker 5Think 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 1Remember, don't get left behind. One for every movie.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 5Oh my gosh. I think it might happen in the 2000 versions.
Speaker 1I mean that'll just help Cass and Ash's saw theories with the goulsters yes.
Speaker 4I hate that you mentioned it, Nick. I mentioned it.
Speaker 5We're moving forward. Save it for Kevin. Yes.
Speaker 2No point for.
Speaker 5Marley Even though I think it's more likely, marley grew up to be the Jigsaw murderer.
Speaker 1But 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 5Okay, 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 1Just make up rumors, like walk around groups. You're like I heard you did this.
Speaker 5It'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 1That's his son Son he says he's granddaughter at church. Yeah.
Speaker 5See his granddaughter has a falling out with the son in 90. I don't know politics. Maybe, who knows?
Speaker 1Reagan just left. Reagan just left, so you know.
Speaker 5That 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 1We 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 5Oh 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 1You just don't break it. You just keep doing the same thing over.
Speaker 5I'm going to put that together soon. As it's or woman, I immediately thought of the homeless woman.
Speaker 1I was like the bird lady, the first lady.
Speaker 5Oh, my gosh okay.
Speaker 1Yeah, she likes pigeons.
Speaker 5All right, nick, I'm handing it over to you.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 4Oh, 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 4So 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 1Okay, 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 2Shall, we say a million.
Speaker 1American 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 3Okay, 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 3I 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 4Yes, yeah, he's quite a bit of a role, but I know that he could play, like not just Creepy watching.
Speaker 3He 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 1most 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 5Yeah, that'll do, big that'll do.
Speaker 1Hmm, all right, well, both solid, solid picks here.
Speaker 1I 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 1And 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 5So sorry, but we're gonna.
Speaker 4Well, let's hope it starts the way I did in the last round.
Speaker 1Cassia, yeah, all right, we will see. We will see here. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 4I like to do it.
Speaker 5Okay 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 1Yeah, it's literally with a heart of gold at the end. It's kind of the same same.
Speaker 5Yeah 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 1Clint Eastwood would have been good to.
Speaker 5Christopher 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 1I'm glad to notice now, not the only one.
Kate McCallister
Speaker 5All 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 3I 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 5Played by Catherine O'Hara. Everyone Absolutely brilliant character actor. And Beetlejuice, a mighty wind. What's the shit's creed?
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, is the voice of Sally and my group were Christmas.
Speaker 5I 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 5Yeah 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 5Yeah, 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 1It'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 5Yeah, 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 1She'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 5So 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 1I.
Speaker 2Like what?
Speaker 5Okay, the got the one knows her, but okay, got it. Um, so yeah, yeah. So, nick, what are you looking for here?
Speaker 1I 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 5And, 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 1Well, 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 3So 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 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 3So 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 1That is important. You gotta have the L down.
Speaker 3Yeah, and I think she would have like fun with the role.
Speaker 1True, 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 5Is this that Tim Meadows?
Speaker 1Oh 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 5Basically I've never seen ladies man.
Speaker 3I've not either.
Speaker 5Why Come on All? Right, okay, this is like a weird one to go like 30s what classics have I not seen listen?
Speaker 1It's all 90s stuff. Yeah, it's worth one watch.
Speaker 5All 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 1Okay, 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 4Well, 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 4Um, 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 5Uh the scream.
Speaker 4She 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 1Yeah, 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 2And she's very pensive, ready to explode it in my mind.
Speaker 1She'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 1They'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 5Yeah, 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 2I thought Ashley's gonna lose.
Speaker 5Here'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 5Yeah, 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 1I thought Nicole Kidman, but I Renee Russo, a Sharon Stone. Maybe Renee Russo would have been good. Yeah, carrie and Moss.
Speaker 3But how was Nicole?
Speaker 5Kidman, chris's mom, though as well and Jamie.
Speaker 4She was like in her 30s, I think.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 5No, I like it. Jamie Lee's good Jamie.
Speaker 1Lee's good, solid it's solid, strong.
Speaker 5What's next, corey? I could just use my override just to see if we can get Cass a perfect game on top.
Speaker 1You're just gaming for that? Yeah, you try it.
Speaker 5No, 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 1Phrasing, phrasing, phrasing. She's gonna ruin her pick for Kevin. She's just gonna absolutely destroy.
Speaker 5Kevin 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 1Second time was on purpose core. We know it.
Marv
Speaker 5All 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 2He doesn't.
Speaker 5I 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 1Well, most people know him from this, obviously, but then they also probably might know him from city slickers city slickers.
Speaker 5He he was in a movie, dennis quade, about bicycling, breaking, breaking away or something like that. He's so good.
Speaker 1Also diner, the narrator for the wonder years narrator for the wonder years.
Speaker 5Um, 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 5No 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 1It's so good I see a back-to-back daniel stern marathon yeah.
Speaker 5Yeah, 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 1Water damage, wet bandits. Huh, now we know. Every house you've knocked off.
Speaker 3Just running the water bill.
Speaker 5It'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 1Apparently 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 5And it's just lanky.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's the afro, it all works.
Speaker 5It's so good.
Speaker 1It'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 4I 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 5That's a little hero is bigger than I am now ash, so I'm on another. It's crazy.
Speaker 4Just so you know oh dear, oh dear, well, yeah, just throw it out there I'm almost looking young Ash.
Speaker 1We want pics not to feel bad.
Speaker 4Okay 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 1Yes, I was gonna point out along.
Speaker 4Yeah, exactly him, him. The only problem with him he is in almost famous this year, that's true.
Speaker 5Oh my gosh, he's playing lester bangs and almost famous Nick. Yeah, move on.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1That's the one hiccup there. That's a small hiccup.
Speaker 5In 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 1of film.
Speaker 5Yeah, Okay stern looks more like lester bangs than philip seamore hoffman, which is weird Okay.
Speaker 1Well, 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 3so you said he was 33, three at the time, right.
Speaker 1I believe so same as our award savior.
Speaker 3I 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 1I'm okay with losing Spanish judges. Oh, I didn't see that. Uh, three movies, wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 1No, I've never, I've never heard of any of those movies cast Big year.
Speaker 3It'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 3So 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 1It's a classic straight man goofball comedy guy combo duo. That's why it works so well.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Ash, I love, I love you went on a limb. I love the alternative thinking.
Speaker 5He's breaking up with you. It's not you.
Speaker 1It'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 5Got 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 5But 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 1Even 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 5I think yeah, I don't even think I had anyone. I think like, I think I wrote Vince Vaughn.
Speaker 1Well, 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 5What's Vince Vaughn doing in 2000? Oh besides, no 98 was psycho, so yes so.
Speaker 1He wouldn't have been a good.
Harry
Speaker 5He'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 2Kids are scared of the dark.
Speaker 5You'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 5He 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 1And that's what makes this work is he was known as the Scorsese guy.
Speaker 5He'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 1I'm just saying like no right now.
Speaker 5He would have been the mob guy. He would have been Scorsese's guy raging bull.
Speaker 1This 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 5Yeah, 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 1We just enjoyed.
Speaker 5This is our actually interest.
Speaker 1This is our Joe Pesci. My Joe Pesci is trying to rob.
Speaker 5Our introduction to Joe Pesci. Then we saw things later, oh.
Speaker 1We'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 5Apparently he repeatedly cussed on set.
Speaker 1He did, he had to, he had to start making up words.
Speaker 5Apparently 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 1That's nice things to say about my koli koko. I'm sure he does.
Speaker 2So all right, he's good, he's good.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 4Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1Hey pressure.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Maybe they're, maybe their cousins, or something.
Speaker 1What 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 3So 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 2Okay.
Speaker 3This time it's what nick likes, not cori likes.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3But 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 1Robert deniro cori.
Speaker 5Okay she's going out with the others. Yeah, I did I did I?
Speaker 3did 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 5Wait, is she pulling him out of meet the parents?
Speaker 1She's trying to oh gosh Okay ash, who do you have? Ash, who do you have to counter?
Speaker 4If 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 2He was a show. Yes, we show.
Speaker 1You try to pull him out of all brother world.
Speaker 4Is 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 1He's also the guy in the transformers movies. For people that don't know, yeah that's it.
Speaker 4He 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 1Okay, 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 3That 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 1And 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 3I've not seen it, I don't care about it.
Speaker 1But 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 5It'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 3Yeah, yeah, no you don't know, here it could be a dad. He's just stealing to buy for his children.
Speaker 5Don't make you sad and fight for it back.
Speaker 4Fight for it, okay, ask for.
Speaker 1Ash. 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 1It'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 5Corey upset. No one picks that green.
Speaker 1Corey this is probably where I'm going to be forced to use my override, which terrifies me because we still have left over.
Speaker 5Oh, you're going to go into Macaulay Culkin blind yeah.
Speaker 1I 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 3Oh, I thought about ice cube.
Speaker 1I actually did worry that he doesn't fit with Matthew Lillard.
Speaker 5No, that's going to be, it's it. I think it would be I think it'd be fun.
Speaker 4I think it'd be like this he never plays anyone that completely my logic here?
Speaker 1Oh, 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 5Right there, I got to stop you. Next Friday is this year, so just I love next.
Speaker 1Friday.
Speaker 5So it's just as good as Friday.
Speaker 2It's all three.
Speaker 5Friday 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 1You need, you need a solid. Mike Epps would have been a great bar. He would have been great.
Speaker 3We're being so hearing. Corey is going to override your over. He's threatening to know.
Speaker 5No, no, I'm saying I wouldn't pull Ice Cube out of next Friday at all.
Speaker 1But my pick is going to be John Liguizamo.
Speaker 5That's pretty good.
Speaker 1I 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 5this year Not Mario.
Speaker 1this year he's he's doing an Arabian Nights TV mini series.
Speaker 4He's voicing in, he's in executive decision here, is it no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1The 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 5Yeah, 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 1Well, yeah, yeah, I would have gone with Mark. That's funny, Ash. What did you say? I'm sorry.
Speaker 4Oh no. My second option, by the way, was Tim Roth, but it was two on the nose.
Speaker 2They're going to be interested on a bit.
Speaker 4OK, 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 1I kind of thought that, as I was like oh, that's right, like it's bigger here probably so.
Speaker 4yeah, 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 1Really.
Speaker 4It 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 1Well, ash, be careful when you come to Oklahoma, because that is beloved.
Speaker 4I 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 5I 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 4see Mark Wahlberg there. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
Kevin McCallister
Speaker 5All right, that brings us to Kevin McAllister.
Speaker 1Bless his highly nutritious Michael Wavre Macaroni and cheese dinner that people sold in on sale. Amen.
Speaker 5Played 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 5Culkin 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 1Yeah, that was a highlight of his life.
Speaker 5Now he's. He's married to a very, very famous friend of song.
Speaker 5Yeah, 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 5Macaulay Culkin's stunt double was a very short 30 year old man.
Speaker 1I 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 5Macaulay 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 1more minutes. Keep back in there.
Speaker 5So 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 1Yeah, we had a natural ability about him.
Speaker 1Like he came off very genuine, like a lot of kid actors they're reading lines, yeah, like we.
Speaker 1As 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 5Very, 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 5He 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 1Yeah 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 5I mean it's possible yeah, you know, or it's not, he doesn't get burned out probably.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's kind of come back, he's doing like American Horror Story and stuff yeah, come back.
Speaker 5But also his family produced two of the like two more incredible actors. That did wait till later, right?
Speaker 2right, you know, I mean Kiran.
Speaker 5Kiran 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 1Yeah, 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 3okay, 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 3Oh, 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 3He 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 5Sprouse twins Corey. Yeah, is there a reason she's shitting on Dylan Sprouse?
Speaker 1I don't know why she's being particular with this process. Ash, did you pick Dylan Sprouse? I cannot differentiate.
Speaker 5I could tell the Alsons apart, but one of them is married to Barbara.
Speaker 1Palvin okay, dylan's a lot more. I want to laugh, that's why cast didn't go with him because he's taken.
Speaker 3He'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 5I didn't know that. No, I, but why would I normally prefer?
Speaker 1to the Olsen twins.
Speaker 5Yeah, because Mary Kate preferred the dramatic stuff, ashley preferred the comedy. Yeah, it worked. Yeah.
Speaker 3And it's same with Ashmore twins Sean does his stuff, aaron does its fine, but anyway, anyway.
Speaker 1Cole Sprouse yeah.
Speaker 3I 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 5But yeah, all right, cole Sprouse.
Speaker 1Cole Sprouse is on the right reserved to the right to also bring Dylan Sprouse, so we get double the child labor hours.
Speaker 5That's true. Yeah, that's true, that's good. That's good All right. Ash, the Sprouses are on the board.
Speaker 4The 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 4You'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 4So 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 2Cole.
Speaker 4Sprouse or Dylan Sprouse. I think that's also a very good pick, but I do like Freddie Heimor.
Speaker 3I do think of.
Speaker 3Charlie 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 4No, 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 1Yeah 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 2Yep.
Speaker 1You'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 1Zena 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 1Let 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 4Can I fight dirty here now? Am I allowed to fight a little dirty?
Speaker 1I mean my hands off the chess piece. I mean I've got a I don't know Is it, is it?
Speaker 5It'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 4They'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 5He'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 3No, but Cole did Big Daddy, which was 1999. Okay, and then he was doing friends.
Speaker 1Two Sprouses equal one, in my opinion, guys.
Speaker 5Ash, I appreciate the attempt.
Speaker 1Listen, you tried to lawyer up and I appreciate what you did.
Speaker 3I did do my research on.
Speaker 4Doug, before I wanted the establishment of this film will be a twins movie, not a.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 5The 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 2I would have had.
Speaker 5Miranda Cosgrove in a second.
Speaker 3I thought about no, I appreciate it 100%. I wanted her. I wanted her, but I saw her acting credit.
Speaker 5She was 2001, for Smallville Was her first acting credit that would have been good, alison Stoner from the.
Speaker 1She was by the dozen would have been good.
Speaker 5She would have also been really good.
Speaker 2Didn't have a credit yet, so she was in Missy Elliott's rap video. Was it before or after? No, no, no.
Speaker 3When Eminem's Just Lose. It came out because I know Alison's.
Speaker 1Just Lose. It's Further Down, further Down the Line. Yeah, it's a bit too down.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 5Alright Well.
Speaker 4I'll pass. I'll shake your hand. Cole Sprouse is good.
Speaker 3Thank you.
Speaker 5Would you like to read us the final cast for Home Alone 2000? In the year 2000.
Speaker 1All 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 4Yeah, I think it works. I like it. I do like it.
Speaker 5I 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 3Literally. 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 5Dad 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 1You don't have what it takes, you don't have the balls, you don't have the balls.
Speaker 5That'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 1I think Ryan's also his mom, right? Yes, there's just a lot of money around here.
Speaker 5He'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 1I 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 5Good job, guys, all right.
Speaker 1Well, and that's the end of the year for us. Basically, we have a couple of Little mini-soads coming out.
Speaker 5Yeah, we have one or two things we'll throw at you. Yeah, we'll spoil it.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's fair. That's fair, Okay, I was about to oh are you going to spoil it?
Speaker 5No, we don't have to spoil it.
Speaker 1Okay, 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 5Or 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 2We 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 5I 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 1Merry Christmas Nick.
Speaker 5Should I just say it.
Speaker 4Aw, you love Christmas, nick. Good night Nick.