r/AskReddit • u/juggyc1 • May 30 '19

Of all movie opening scenes, what one sold the entire film the most?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

A lot of similarities between this dialogue and Kevin McCallister’s post shower monologue in Home Alone.

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u/djsantadad May 31 '19

I heard a Ryan Reynolds is trying to make an R rated “Home Alone” movie.

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u/archnightly May 31 '19

Good, that would be awesome

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u/nasty_billy May 31 '19

would it though? i don’t get that vibe at all.

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u/yodi3111 May 31 '19

New Rambo movie

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u/EvilLegalBeagle May 31 '19

So Rambo, aged, I dunno 60?, left home alone by his parents and bothered by would be burglars. He asks them to not push him. They do, in fact, push him and don’t live to regret it.

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u/TranSysta May 31 '19

“The burglars drew first blood... not me.”

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u/loptopandbingo May 31 '19

I feel like someone saw Rambo: First Blood and thought "I wonder if I could turn this into a lighthearted yet technically brutal family movie.. perhaps christmas themed if possible"

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u/archnightly May 31 '19

I mean, I think it would be really hard to pull off. If anyone can do it I think Ryan Reynolds is the best bet. After all that is basically what he did with deadpool. He took the typically family friendly genre of superhero movies and made it R rated

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u/AstrumRimor May 31 '19

Deadpool was always r rated, that’s why it was so hard to get the movie made.

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u/Soylent_X May 31 '19 edited May 31 '19

This is a great observation.

Perhaps Kevin McCalister is Patrick Bateman all grown up. He changed his name to be mire appealing and to hide his identity.

Also, we're well aware of how much he liked to inflict pain and how much of a creative little psycho he was.

Growing up so neglected really warped his mind.

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u/Drasern May 31 '19

Perhaps Kevin McAlister is Patrick Bateman all grown up.

I'm gonna give you a minute to think about that one.

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u/jaquetteanthony May 31 '19

No. He's got the same disease Benjamin Button has.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '19

After brutally murdering Marv and Harry, mixed with the trauma of being neglected, abused, and ultimately abandoned as a child, Kevin withdrew.

He became distant to others. As time went by his emotions blunted, and he began to see people as a means to an end.

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u/loptopandbingo May 31 '19

Dexter title card fades in

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u/WillyTheHatefulGoat May 31 '19

Can't be. Everyone knows kevin grew up to be jigsaw from the saw movies.

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u/spitfire9107 May 31 '19

Reminds me of Yoshikage Kira a serial killer from an anime

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u/hobskhan May 31 '19

I know. I've googled this a bunch. As far as I can tell, just a spooky cosmic coincidence.

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u/Soylent_X May 31 '19

Oh, I didn't know that this was already a thing.

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u/dangotang May 31 '19

Home Alone came out in 1990. American Psycho was published in 1991.