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Watched this again recently
Here's why I don't trust you, pal
Leaving Alia out was a bad idea
I'm SO glad I never got truly invested in this show
Funniest death scene in the entire movie
All REAL Star Wars films ranked best to worst
Did anyone notice...
I can't believe my brother watches this
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Yes. I saw it happen with Ross Perot, though to be fair, looking back, Bob Dole was a monotone-talking moron. He probably would have made a terrible Republican president. Trouble was, many people were so angry at Clinton in the mid-90s for humiliating America on the international stage with lying about his stupid affair, and getting away with it when attempts to impeach him ended with a pardon. Many voters wanted to get rid of him using the next election, but the Democrats were ready with a trick they no doubt read about from when Roosevelt and Taft ran against each other in the late 1800s. It worked, and Slick Willy got a second term.
Yeah, mom told me years ago that before we had the Democrats and Republicans, we had two different political parties that started with the 13 original colonies (leftovers from the two major political parties over in England in the 1700s). One group was loyal to the king, the other wanted independence and self-sufficiency. I can't remember which party stood for what, but the whigs were one of the leftovers from the Revolutionary era.
I'll take a closer look, thanks :)
Well, I'm sorry he had that happen, but obviously he got treatment that stopped it, because he doesn't appear worse for wear. I mean, I've heard Dementia and Alzheimer's doing far worse to the brain than any old parasite, not that RFK is old enough to have either of those conditions yet. Everyone just always assumes it'll be like in sci-fi movies, cartoons, and comic books, but frankly, it can't be that bad if it's so rare and easily treatable.
Pardon me, I keep hearing about the worm/brain thing with this guy, but I don't know what everyone's talking about. What's the scoop on that?
Really? That's too bad. I keep wanting to blame both parties for this.
At least in other countries, political parties outside the larger ones sometimes have a chance at winning elections. However, as we saw with Seattle and Canada, that sort of "benefit" is a double-edge sword.
He has no chance at winning. The game is rigged so that nobody other than a Republican or a Democrat can win the Presidential elections. Either he is delusional in thinking he'll be the first Independent candidate to win, or his sole purpose is to steal votes from someone else. I've seen that trick before.
JFK wasn't a perfect man, but at least he pushed NASA to get us on the moon.
Don't you find it a tad suspicious that a guy who came from a family that's well known to firmly be in the Democrat camp to suddenly run on the Republican side?
I'm afraid most of the new "Republican" candidates they keep shelling out are stooges from Washington, or people who don't stand a chance in a national election like this. Washington is full of RINO's, fakers who are Republican In Name Only, and play along with Democrats to screw over America. Quite a few are World Economic Forum whores/puppets who do whatever <i>that</i> cabal tells them to, rather than working in the American Peoples' best interests.
I used to not understand why they would just stand by and let the Democrats do whatever they wanted...until I realized that they were in on the scam, reaping the same benefits as the "other side." Much of what you see over there is political theater. There technically are no "Republicans" or "Democrats." All we have over there is the Establishment, the Uniparty, that pretends to have two sides pitted against each other, when in fact, they're all on the same team and tricking voters in every election. It's one of many reasons our elections have never had someone from a third party ever win the presidency; because the Uniparty rigged the game a long time ago to only allow a Democrat or a Republican win, never an Independent.
Trump's only real "crime" was ripping the curtain away and revealing to the American People who the real liars and scammers are.
Oh, there was a trend that was actually going on in movies during the late 80s and all throughout the 90s where action films (or films with violence like this one) had stuff happening in them that were almost cartoony in nature, such as people getting hit or beaten on, and yet they didn't suffer nearly as many injuries as a real-life person would. If you look at other 90s action flicks, you can see the trend there too. "True Lies" is a good example. "The Rock" is another. It got even more noticeable if it was an action/comedy, like the first "Men in Black" film.
Some early 2000s films did this too, but eventually the nitty-gritty, gruesome action flicks took over with more realism involved with the violence vs. injury ratio.
It was something of an unwritten trend, kinda like how in the early 2010s, it was popular to have one-word movie titles, or shoot a lot of action flicks with turquoise skies and orange in the foreground.
After watching <i>both</i> "Home Alone" movies, fans often joke of how many times Harry and Marv got "killed" in the movie, considering many of those pranks and traps would have murdered a real person 10x over.
Let's see:
1.) Cute, if snarky lead kid who is the underdog that we can all root for. He's also highly intelligent and creative for his age, and has an interesting POV on certain subjects.
2.) The hilariously funny scenes where the burglars get their asses kicked, multiple times.
3.) Kevin reconciling with his family at the end, as well as showing that family is the most important thing to value at Christmas time.
4.) A very original story that had memorable moments.
5.) Well-developed characters.
6.) Memorable quotes and events in the story.
7.) Running gags, like knocking over the statue in front of the house, or the Noir film being used to trick people at least 2-3 times.
8.) The mom going on a crusade to get home to her son as fast as possible.
9.) John Candy providing some kindness to the mom as well as some useful advice.
10.) Kevin learning not to be afraid of things like the furnace in the basement, or the old man across the street.
11.) Fascinatingly silly personalities for Harry and Marv, how they seem almost cartoony as bad guys, in that they do reveal that they are dangerous after a fashion, but they still lose in the end.
12.) Story takes place in a snowy, perfectly cold climate for the setting, and in a place that resembles many areas of the US east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
13.) Gorgeous house with beautiful Christmas decorations (that still somehow manages to look pretty after the pranks pulled on the bad guys).
14.) Kevin being a kid that's doing all sorts of adult stuff you'd never expect a child his age to do, sometimes with hilarious results, such as the aftershave scene.
There's more, but that's what I can think of off the top of my head right now.
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