Watched this movie the other day for the first time in forever.
When I was little, I thought Joe Pesci was the evil burglar. But holy cow, Daniel Stern is a monster. Joe Pesci steals a few things. Daniel Stern floods the houses and ruins lives for laughs.
Yeah, Harry just wanted to steal everything and vanish. His primary concern was simply getting away without any witnesses, so they could ghost with the money they had stolen. He wasn’t going to bother with petty theft, and was content to stay on the down low if it meant they’d be safe from the law.
Marv was portrayed as being the dumb one, but he was outright sociopathic in his actions, and had zero qualms about blatantly harming others if it meant he’d get famous. His primary concern was with garnering infamy and making a name for themselves as thieves. He wanted everyone to know that the Wet Bandits had stolen from them. And that is diametrically opposed to Harry’s goal of ghosting after their big score.
Wired’s YouTube channel has a fun video with a trauma surgeon discussing all of the injuries from the first 2 home alones.
The homage to this in Violent Night dials it up to 11.
I just saw that yesterday and I got very giddy as Home Alone was my favorite movie when I was younger. They even did the lines!
Just brutal.
I once saw a guy nail his hand to a wall with a big ol 16 penny ringshank l, they had to cut him loose with a sawzall. Hoo boy you heard him holler.
I always combined this scene, that memory, and the one time I stepped on a nail in Boy Scouts into one “respect the presence of pointy things” lesson/memory
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To serve as a lesson for all the other builders of course.
He doesn’t want us to saw through our chains…
I can still feel the spot on the bottom of my right foot. A spot where years prior one of those nails that you see on the back of some upholstery, the kind that looks like a large rounded button, had pierced my very sole.
I can still dimly remember the pain. The worst wasn’t stepping on it, the worst was getting the fucker back out.
I once got a fishing hook in the back of my calf. Since the hook was barbed we did not try pulling it back out, so my dad pushed it the rest of the way through then cut the end off. I’m not exactly signing up to do it again, but all things considered it wasn’t too bad.
Your dad knew his stuff. Fish hooks can be nasty if they’re not properly removed, because that barb will rip everything on the way out.
I still have to look away when this scene pops up 😭
Could have been worse, like lego bricks.
Lego bricks at night on a patterned carpet…
didn’t they do that too later in the movie?
Violent Night has a great homage to this scene. Turns out they CAN make it worse!
Damn I don’t even remember that in this movie.
I do cringe from the memory of it happening in “a quiet place” though.
Kinda wild what slipped through to kid-acceptable content lol. I still remember the cell saga of DBZ as particularly freaky to me when cell form 1 was going around stabbing regular people and sucking them into his tail. My sister had a similar moment with the thriller video because Jackson’s contacts were scary.
I’ve done this, but into my heel. The good news is that it didn’t go all the way through because of my heel bone. I’m lucky I wasn’t about 6 inches back.
I literally cannot watch that scene. When it comes on, I gotta look away or leave. But Saw? Sign me up!
Watched last night on Disney+. I could swear that the nail went all the way through his foot, but in the streaming version, he pulls back as soon as the pointy end hits his food. Don’t know if that was edited or if my memory is faulty.
I just looked it up, and you’re right! I would have swore the nail went all the way through.
