I just watched this movie again for the first time in probably twenty years. This movie really had a pretty big impact on my childhood, and it's funny because I can't really remember where I saw it, but I know it probably wasn't more than once, it might have been at the movies...but it might have been once or twice on VHS. A big part of the mystique of this movie is that it was released in the early 90's, but seemingly set in the 70's, and it's done so well you wouldn't even notice.
I had the biggest crush on the girl at the time (Chlumsky), and I totally identified with the kid (Culkin), especially because I had a very close brush with death and almost died after having an anaphylactic reaction to a bee sting a year or two before. So this movie really spoke to me as a kid. I really felt like I was the kid in the movie.. which was a weird feeling.
Watching it now twenty years later and it's quite a different perspective that you get. I identify much more with Aykroyd and Curtis. I suppose that's only natural. But the issues the movie deals with are timeless, and it does it with a respectability and competence that you don't see very often.
The last twenty minutes of this movie will have crying pretty much constantly.
It's a beautiful movie, and it's very rare that a movie can elicit such emotions across such a time span.
I had the biggest crush on the girl at the time (Chlumsky), and I totally identified with the kid (Culkin), especially because I had a very close brush with death and almost died after having an anaphylactic reaction to a bee sting a year or two before. So this movie really spoke to me as a kid. I really felt like I was the kid in the movie.. which was a weird feeling.
Watching it now twenty years later and it's quite a different perspective that you get. I identify much more with Aykroyd and Curtis. I suppose that's only natural. But the issues the movie deals with are timeless, and it does it with a respectability and competence that you don't see very often.
The last twenty minutes of this movie will have crying pretty much constantly.
It's a beautiful movie, and it's very rare that a movie can elicit such emotions across such a time span.