The burglars plan to rob Kevin's house at five o'clock. After he talks to the old man who lives next door, Kevin leaves the church and goes home to booby trap his house. The church bells ring eight o'clock. [They said nine o'clock not five o'clock.]
Home Alone (1990) - 29 corrections
Directed by Chris Columbus, starring Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Stern, Joe Pesci, John Heard, Macaulay Culkin (add more)
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The burglars plan to rob Kevin's house at five o'clock. After he talks to the old man who lives next door, Kevin leaves the church and goes home to booby trap his house. The church bells ring eight o'clock. [They said nine o'clock not five o'clock.]
The family checks in to a United Ticket Counter, yet they fly an American Airlines plane. [It's not uncommon (especially around the holidays) for airlines to share ticket counters.]
Kevin goes food shopping, He gets milk and detergent, obviously heavy items. Afterwards we see him walking home and the bags he is carrying break open. He is carrying them like they are light as a feather. Even when the milk falls, you can tell its an empty bottle. [Not true about the milk. Milk comes in a clear plastic bottle.
The bottle that falls is opaque, full of milk.]
To pay for his groceries, Kevin hands the cashier a folded-up bill, and the cashier takes it, still folded. When the scene immediately cuts to the cashier, she is holding an unfolded bill. [You can only see the top corner of the bill in that shot. You can't tell if it's folded or unfolded. In the next shot afterwards that you can see the bill, it is unfolded, but she would have had time to unfold it by then.]
In the scene at the end when Kevin runs down the stairs to meet his mom, his hair totally changes in the next shot. [The wind, as he runs down the stairs, pushed his hair up, but when he is stationary at the bottom of the stairs it returns to normal.]
In the scene where the robber steps on the ornaments as he comes through the window, as he stands up to walk, there are more ornaments than were in the previous scene. [No it's the same amount except that he has stepped on them breaking them into smaller pieces; hence it makes it look like there are more there.]
As Kevin is flying off the front porch on the toboggan, you can see the small wheels mounted on the bottom of the sled to aid in its "jump". [There is something under the sled which is visible but these are not wheels, they are fins (like on a surfboard, but smaller) If you look above the fins you will see that the sled is flat so there cannot possibly be a wheel there.]
When Harry and Marv are swinging on the clothes line they hit the brick wall and it moves. [I have watched this scene carefully, even pausing it, and I can't see the wall moving. They do however bounce off it due to the speed at which they hit it, which gives the illusion that its the wall moving, but it's actually their bodies that bounce.]
In the scene where Kevin is sentenced to the third floor, you can see that the roof joists of this house are open and un-insulated, making this attic way too cold for use as a spare bedroom - something a resident of "Shermer, Illinois" and not southern California would know. [We never saw the full room, there could be a heater somewhere in there keeping it warm. In my house there is no working furnace so it also gets very cold here, so we have heaters.]
When the Mom is in the airport trying to get a plane ticket, she offers an old couple her earrings and her rings and her watch, and they agree to take them for their ticket. At the end when she is hugging Kevin, she has her rings and her earrings on. [They never actually showed the mother giving up the earrings and the ring. It is possible that the old couple was just nice enough to take the money.]
When Kevin pushed Buzz and spills the milk, everyone rushed over to clean it up. Fuller runs over and gets stuck between the chair and the wall. Kevin's aunt runs over to Fuller, and she's maybe five feet away when the scene switches. It shows everyone cleaning up the mess. That lasts for about ten seconds then the scene switches back to Kevin's aunt and Fuller. She just got to him and takes him out from behind the chair. What was she doing for the past ten seconds? [Maybe the aunt was focusing on Buzz and Kevin and didn't notice that her son was behind the chair.]
In the scene where Kevin orders his own cheese pizza and it gets delivered Kevin has some fun with the delivery guy. He plays the video in which someone gets shot up and he places fire crackers in a pan and sets them off. The pizza guy is obviously scared when they go off, believing that he is being shot at. Surely someone who thinks they have just been shot at would either call the police or investigate farther? And if the police got a call of that nature they would definitely check it out. [He didn't place the fire crackers in the pan when the pizza guy came; he did that when Daniel Stern was at the door. Daniel Stern wouldn't have called the police since he would have been drawing attention to his own crimes.]
In the scene where Uncle Frank backs up into Fuller, you can see that Fuller braces for it. [That's because he saw the chair coming and was too startled to move out of the way.]
When Kevin plays the video when the guy comes to deliver the pizza, the guy on the video says "Hey. I'm gonna give you to the count of ten.". But when Kevin first saw the movie, the word "Hey." was never spoken. The line immediately before "I'm gonna give you to the count of ten." was "I'll tell you what I'm gonna give you, Snakes". [We can't see the movie when we hear the line "Hey" when the Pizza guy is outside. It's possible Kevin fast forwarded the movie to the next line, he had enough time.]
When the family comes home, Kevin says he went shopping and bought milk, eggs, and fabric softener. We never seen him unload the eggs onto the conveyer belt at the store nor did we see the check-out lady scan them. [Just because we didn't see him buy it doesn't mean that he didn't.]
Electrical irons are bottom heavy so that they stand up more sturdily. How would Marv be left with the imprint of the top part when the bottom of the iron falls first? [The entire iron would fall at the same time. The speed of gravity is not affected by the weight of the object. Both the heavy bottom and the lighter top would fall at the same rate, each having an equal chance of hitting him.]
There was a blackout before their trip, yet the automatic timer for the house lights went on as planned. [Electronic timers have a capacitor power back up, allowing them to retain their timing settings.]
When Kevin is running through the next-door neighbour's basement, there is a lot of water pouring down from the upper levels of the house into the basement (the burglar's had turned the taps on earlier on in the movie). Yet, when Kevin reaches the kitchen, the taps are turned off - where is the water supposed to be coming from? [When Kevin reaches the kitchen, he is confronted by Harry and Marv. The shot shows that the taps are turned on and water is leaking over the sides.]
When Kevin's mother realises she's forgotten her son and decides to return, she takes a plane, but the plane which she arrives in later is totally different. [She says to the person at the airline counter that she has flown on several different flights trying to get back to Chicago. She doesn't even know where she is at that moment (I think it is somewhere in New Hampshire).]
Kevin's dad calls the neighbour's house and leaves a message. How can he when he and the neighbors live on the same block and the phones are supposed to be out? [Since there are no guys fixing the phone lines, and Kevin called a pizza guy before this scene, that must mean that the phone lines have been fixed.]
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