This is Kevin now. Feel.old yet?
Didn’t the storm knock the phone lines out? That’s why Moira didn’t call the house and called the cops to try and get them to do a wellness check.
Yes.
This movie is nearly bulletproof. John Hughes thought of every plausible hole and plugged it. He was a genius.
He calls and orders a pizza
Because later the lines get fixed.
Kevin also didn’t want his parents to get in trouble so he didn’t call the cops
Wasn’t he under the impression his parents (and all of his family, really) had ceased to exist?
“I made my family disappear.” 😈
HA1 was in Chicago. CPD is half as corrupt as NYPD
HA2 was in New York. NYPD is half as corrupt as LAPD.
LAPD is corruption incarnate.
Kevin had no other choice. besides he was staying in a hotel with a human trafficker and pedophile, things were already dangerous enough as it was.
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Prepping for the Good Son movie role
Kevin went full ACAB.
deliberately props door open
Every white suburban man’s wet dream.
“You like The Wiggles? Their early music was a little too New Wave for my tastes…”
Kevin: Hello officer, I was left alone at home.
Officer: Sure kid, let me call for someone to pick you up… Zed? The spider just caught a little fly.
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If we’re gonna take shitposts seriously, then I’m also gonna inform you that I recently watched the movies, and a lot of the injuries depicted would be at least ER-worthy, with possible permanent crippling damage, and more than a few would easily kill a man. Especially in the second film.
There are also several YT videos with trauma surgeons and ER nurses rating the injuries sustained by Marv and Harry. Even the innocuous ones would leave them permanently scarred, most would cripple them for life, and a good couple of them would be instantly lethal.
One of them got electrocuted to the point you could see his skeleton. Kevin was facing off against a couple of immortals.
Oooh, now there’s a fun idea for a sequel/spin off.
Ah! Good old videos on ‘how realistic these films are’. I know at least three decent series of such vids, but forgot about them lately — need to get into them again, they provide nice mealtime entertainment.
I was going to say, he beans them in the head with bricks from a 3 or 4-story building in the second one, there’s no way they get out of that without out, at best, shattered skulls and massive brain trauma. The paint cans and giant tool chest down the stairs in the first one could easily kill a man too.
Are you referencing the sound of a tool chest falling down the stairs or the bricks to the face?
No, he could not call the police. A tree fell on his phone line and disconnected his house.
And his parents did notify the police, but the police were, A: completely incredulous, B: completely incompetent and uninterested. They came and knocked on the door, but Kevin was still scared and confused and was hiding under his parents bed the whole time. The cop just gave up and left.
Source: I watched the movie again… and I am going to do so this year along with a Die Hard trilogy (I never watched the third movie) marathon.
Also one of the robbers scoped out the place disguised as a cop and already spooked him.
Die Hard With a Vengeance isn’t a Christmas movie but IMHO it’s the best of the series
Little early in the day for blasphemy isn’t it?
Blas ph emy, blas for you, blas for everyone all around.
Seriously. Die hard is also a seemless, perfect movie. 80s sleeze, hard boiled cynic cop who has a heart of gold, “ho ho ho now I have a machine gun?”
Aint nothing that followed it up kept up.
Didn’t he not trust the cops because Pesci pretended to be a cop in the opening scene, in order to case the house?
He didnt call the police because the phone lines are being worked on in one of the opening scenes before we even see the McCallisters and presumably are down.
His parents couldn’t even call home to make sure he was okay.
Yeah I know that but he was able to leave. He went grocery shopping. Iirc the storm took out the lines just to his house, maybe the neighborhood.
Pretty sure only long distance lines were down. Local calls were still good which is how he ordered the Pizza.
There’s no difference between those lines at the local level. The only long distance lines would be the oceanic ones.
E: does nobody know how old lines worked? I can’t believe the number of people trying to force some twist to make their version work. The phone repair guy was right there on the residential street. If local lines were down, no in/out calls would work, yet Kevin ordered pizza and called the cops locally. It’s a huge leap to assume that this area would have had a side junction to separate international calls to a different system. Extremely unlikely, and that would probably be a feature reserved for businesses that needed to make such calls regularly. Old lines just weren’t run for international like that on analog runs for regular homes. His family were able to call friends and neighbors from overseas to see if they were home. So those lines weren’t down even if for some bizarre reason they were separate.
It’s just a plot hole. NBD. Enjoy the movie.
E2: digging around on the internet people have pointed out the plot hole. The only scenario where it would work is full of “ifs” that allow international calls in through a separate system, but nonetheless, it would basically only have to affect that one house getting perfectly hit to knock out international but not local by the tree branch yet nearby neighbors get calls on their answering machines from overseas.
I’m not pursuing this further, lol. It’s just entertainment. I’m not going to ruin the fun with over-analysis and bickering over “but if…”
Right, and the family was in France.
And the mom/fam was able to call from overseas to local PD, and leave various messages with friends or neighbors to check on Kevin.
The lines weren’t down. If local lines are non-functioning, all phone traffic is inoperative regardless if it’s long distance or not. Kevin also called for Pizza and the police himself.
Let’s face it, the phone is a plot hole.
And the mom/fam was able to call from overseas to local PD…
Yes, Ma Bell would prioritize getting the police phone lines working first
…and leave various messages with friends or neighbors to check on Kevin.
Family: they were all on the trip. Friends/neighbors: I don’t remember.
If local lines are non-functioning, all phone traffic is inoperative regardless if it’s long distance or not.
Back then it’d be easy to knock out long distance lines but keep the locals up; you just had to take down the right trunk. And in a city that big the trunks would have been split up into local and long distance.
That’s not how that works. There are no separate residential lines for police.
The rest, that’s not how that works, either.
I’m not sure that was true in 1990 in the United States. In the old analog networks, the central offices could route calls locally among phone numbers that shared the same central office, which was basically any number that had the same first 3 digits of the 7 digit number under the North American Numbering Plan. At least for the suburban neighborhood I grew up in, in the 80’s, the neighborhood pizza places had the same central office code as my home phone number.
It wasn’t until the rise of digital switching that the phone number itself got decoupled from the actual network topography, and things like number portability became possible. But in the analog systems they wanted to minimize switching where possible, so “local” calls weren’t all equally local.
one call [to the police] and he would have been safe
just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s fantasy
Well, he is a white kid in an affluent neighborhood (whole huge family affording vacation, large house), so he probably would have been treated better.
And also he couldn’t have called anyone, the phone line was out.
also, don’t call the cops unless you have literally no other options.
And he had plenty of other options.
Or he was just too afraid to contact the police. Remember, this took place in the USA, where people have reason to fear them.
He was white and from a wealthy family, he’d be fine.
His neighborhood was an upper-middle class family who were fucking loaded. Cops kiss up to the wealthy.
