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There's a new home alone coming out. They're rebooting, remaking, home alone. They're

doing it over again because this is what we're doing. I'm just taking every movie that

was in the 90s and redoing it, which is more evidence, of course, that Hollywood has

run out of ideas, which we already knew. But the bigger question for me, if you're doing

an updated version of home alone, how are you going to get around the fact that modern

technology exists, which was already sort of a problem for the first one. Even though,

yeah, cell phones, you didn't really have cell phones back in the early 90s, but you did

have phones. And my memory of that movie is for somehow the mother never thought to just

call the kid on the phone and talk to him. It's been a while since I've seen it, but she

never, she just never calls him. But then had, if you have cell phones now, how are you?

It seems like this would be a 12-minute movie that would end with Kevin wakes up. He realizes

that he's been left, calls his mom on the cell phone. She says, oh crap, we forgot you,

turning around now. They come back, credits roll, end of movie. And you know what? If that's

what they do, if it's a 12-minute movie, which ends with a cell phone call being made,

I would respect that because that's gritty, that's realistic. If you're going for gritty

realism, which is a thing nowadays, then I think why not really, why not really do it.

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