It’s Christmas time, and that means it’s time for “Elf” and “Home Alone” to come back on TV again! Oh, wait – HBO has been playing “Home Alone” all year long. Being such a classic of my childhood (and always fun to watch as it awakens your inner sadist), I can’t resist indulging myself time after time watching it.
Way back when in Random Factoid #26, I said that “The Little Rascals” was that movie that I know line for line. But watching “Home Alone” for the first time this holiday season reminded me of a different sort of feat I have achieved. While I may not know every line in the movie (thanks to the beginning section that I usually skip), I know just about every noise that Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) make when they move through Kevin McAllister’s death tap of a house. Every grunt, scream, and mutter – the length, the volume, the syllables. Everything. That’s impressive, if I do say so myself.
P.S. – Speaking of “Elf,” check out the Moviegoer’s Challenge I made back in 2003 when I was obsessed with the movie. I posted it on Random Factoid #126 to kick off December 2009, and it has since become my second most-viewed post of all-time (behind the review of “Paranormal Activity”). So I kindly invite you to take part in the holiday festivities that so many of my readers have engaged in. 300 people can’t be wrong.
I love Christmas, don’t get me wrong. I pull out the Christmas music at the beginning of November, and I even have a “Christmas in July” day where I pull it out just once to get me energized … six months in advance. So I’m hardly your Grinch type.
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