Is it time for a gritty R-rated "Home Alone." movie.

[Jayson1]

I was thinking about this if. If "Archie" comic's can get gritty and "Power Rangers" can get gritty this will also work. Here is how you do it. Kevin is now a adult and in prision because after the events of the first two films social services finally took him away from his parents. After years growing up in brutal foster homes he turned to crime and eventually landed in prision. Along the way he had child with a prositute.

After 5 years in prision he gets out and decides to look up the prositute because she also stole some money from him and he wants it back. Turns out she is living in a abanded crack house. He goes there to get it only to find out his son is there all by himself. The movie will be about the kid trying to keep him from breaking in, because he wants to find the money that was stolen, and the kid will use all sorts of funny over the top "Evil Dead " style violence to keep stoping him at ever turn.

Jason

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why the actual hell does everything have to be gritty these days?

Is happiness dead?

 

[Owain Taggart]

It was a family movie, so not very likely. You'd end up with a misguided attempt like the R-rated Dukes of Hazzard prequel that turned the IP into a raunchy teen comedy.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I kind of like the idea of just as a parody of gritty remakes. Shaky cam version of Home Alone. Movie opens. Happy family at home. Wet bandits break in heavily armed, rape and kill them and take all their stuff. Cut to the McAllister home. Father drinking, mother taking pills, so they all sleep past the alarm. They wake up with horrible headaches, and in the confusion to leave for vacation, Kevin is left at home. Anyway, when Kevin learns his home is going to be robbed he uses science to break into his father's gun safe and the rest plays out like a Tarantino movie.

Power Rangers is a gritty remake? The ads don't make it look that 'gritty', just way more expensive than the cheap ass original version that mostly reused the same stock footage in empty desertscapes for every fight. It doesn't seem any darker than the original.

@Mr. Laser Beam

Happiness isn't dead, it's just usually cinematically boring.

I like my real life happy, and my movies violent and depressing.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Yes. I need this now.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Wasn't that called, "Die Hard?"

 

[CorporalClegg]

I thought it was called Angels with Filthy Souls.

 

[Awesome Possum]

In a gritty realistic version, both burglars would be quickly killed. Kevin should get away without criminal charges depending on the state.

 

[RandyS]

It's time for "grittines" to die.

Forever.

And exactly when the hell did Archie comics get "gritty"??

 

[psCargile]

Only if there is copious amounts of gratuitous nudity.

Oh, shit, it would have to be male nudity wouldn't it?

Think I'll pass.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

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It's time for "grittines" to die.

Forever.

And exactly when the hell did Archie comics get "gritty"??

Grittiness in everything was a response to the sterility and campiness of the 90s. I wonder if there's a way we can settle in the middle without swinging back to sterile campiness.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I didn't see it but it sounds like that movie Don't Breathe.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Only if there is copious amounts of gratuitous nudity.

Oh, shit, it would have to be male nudity wouldn't it?

Think I'll pass.

Kevin could always pretend to be over 18 and order strippers.

Actually, that works out well. He has a heart to heart talk with one of the strippers about the value of family, then when it looks like he's won but the burglars catch him and are about to kill him, it's the stripper who saves him in the end. (By blowing their brains out).

 

[RandyS]

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Grittiness in everything was a response to the sterility and campiness of the 90s. I wonder if there's a way we can settle in the middle without swinging back to sterile campiness.

The 90s were hardly "Sterle" or "campy". Weren't you watching TV then? If anything, the 90s was the beginning of the "grim an gritty" era that finally exploded and got way out of line in the 2000's.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Ironically, a lot of what's gritty out there now feels very sterile.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And exactly when the hell did Archie comics get "gritty"??

IIRC, the parallel storylines - one where Archie marries Veronica, the other where he marries Betty - weren't exactly all shits and giggles.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Why the actual hell does everything have to be gritty these days?

Is happiness dead?

Happiness isn't dead, but it is at a very high premium. Disney has to recoup all the money it spent on the rights to Star Wars after all.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The 90s were hardly "Sterle" or "campy". Weren't you watching TV then? If anything, the 90s was the beginning of the "grim an gritty" era that finally exploded and got way out of line in the 2000's.

I remember 'grim and gritty' starting in 1999 and peaking in early 00s. What TV shows are you thinking of?

Early 90s were extremely campy. That's when we got the terribly cheesy third and fourth Batman films, that's when laugh track three camera sitcoms where people learn lessons dominated the Nielsen ratings. It was really Sopranos that opened the door for darker more ambitious TV storytelling. 1999 is technically the 90s but I was thinking more the decade as a whole.

 

[RandyS]

I remember 'grim and gritty' starting in 1999 and peaking in early 00s. What TV shows are you thinking of?

Early 90s were extremely campy. That's when we got the terribly cheesy third and fourth Batman films, that's when laugh track three camera sitcoms where people learn lessons dominated the Nielsen ratings. It was really Sopranos that opened the door for darker more ambitious TV storytelling. 1999 is technically the 90s but I was thinking more the decade as a whole.

I first started to notice elements of it in Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5. Niether series had much of an optimistic outlook, but both managed to remain entertaining in spite of that.

Batman Forever came out in 1995 (mid 90s) and Batman and Robin came out in 1997 (late 90s). Early 1990's was Batman Returns (1992). I wouldn't call that film campy. It was easily the darkest of the four. And while I'm willing to concede that Batman and Robin slid in the campy direction, I also would call Forever campy. Maybe parts o it but certainly not the whole thing.

 

[FormerLurker]

And exactly when the hell did Archie comics get "gritty"??

IIRC, the parallel storylines - one where Archie marries Veronica, the other where he marries Betty - weren't exactly all shits and giggles.

Especially when they both end with Archie getting shot to death while protecting Kevin Keller from the same fate.