#home alone alex

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[martyreddie]

actually it'd be awesome if eddie doesn't firefight in el paso. I'm thinking he could pick up a job mostly driven by desperation because he needs to pay for the house, but that one doesn't pay well enough, so he picks up another, and another, and soon he's working three jobs, trying to find time in between them to go see chris, and he's fighting with his parents the entire time because they think he's not doing what's right for his kid, and meanwhile his partner is in LA, and eddie doesn't know what to do, and he's miserable, and the longer it takes, the more it gets obvious he needs to make a choice here, he needs to find something steady, a job that pays well enough and doesn't make him want to die, a place for him and his kid, a home, and then. well. then. he begins again.

[mojaves]

ALEX SHEPHERD, THE BOY WHOSE SOUL IS BOUND TO EARTH AND HE CANNOT DIE. // a.k.a how one small mistake can make you wish you stayed dead

jenny holzer / saturniinne / sun bleached flies - ethel cain / orofeaiel / cecil castellucci / violetteforevernever / ojibwa / i know it's over - the smiths / tathève simonyan / stellernorth / robert bly

[charcubed]

can this PLEASE finally be the year I get all of you to watch Home Alone 3

it's not only my favorite one but I also genuinely think it's the BEST one and I'm willing to defend that view wholeheartedly

listen to me, okay

stop booing for 5 seconds and let me sell my case:

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH IT

• It's not connected to Home Alone 1 and 2 at all. It's a totally separate movie with a totally different kid, different bad guys, and a different premise.

• Meet 8-year-old Alex.

• Alex ends up home alone with the chicken pox. One of the many things I appreciate about this movie is that NO ONE FORGETS HIM! Dad's out of town, Mom is protective but is called into work and gets trapped in a storm, and he has siblings who tease him but aren't cruel. The family is very sweet but it's all just crazy circumstances aligning.

• So the thing about Alex is that he's a genius – which is good, because he ends up going up against 4 international criminals.

• That's these guys:

• They're after a missile chip for North Korean terrorists that Alex accidentally acquires (see above). They were smuggling the chip through an airport by hiding it in a toy car, but the luggage gets mixed up and that toy car ends up in Alex's hands later.

• These criminals are genuinely dangerous, and smart, and armed with the best that 90s tech has to offer. But they're also prime victims for being demolished by this brilliant kid because they're cockier than they should be and they all (hilariously) fucking hate working together.

• Alex figures out pretty quickly that the criminals are going house-to-house looking for the chip, but the police don't believe him. Likely thing for the police to do.

• So he basically says, "I guess I have to defend the neighborhood myself."

• Featuring Alex's pet rat Doris:

• Alex's older brother's talking parrot:

• Scarlett Johansson:

• And Mrs. Hess, the grouchy old lady who started it all by accident and who Alex is consistently sweet to:

PLEEAASSEE watch this fucking movie

I swear to God you guys, it's a blast and it's my absolute favorite!!!! Join my agenda!!!

(Currently streaming on Disney+)

[elitehanitje]

Angels with Even Filthier Souls

aka The Devil's usual suspects (whom Alex smooched)

[gregorygerwitz]

Moustead + Hollywood AU

Jay Halstead had lost count of the number of dangerous stunts he'd done. He'd actually lost count of the number of movies he'd worked on to begin with, and then multiplied by the number of stunts he'd done for each one... well, he hadn't gotten into the business because he was good at math, that was for sure. He did it because he was good at it. He did it because he enjoyed it. He did it because the rush of adrenaline that came with it was almost as good as the connections he made doing it.

He'd been working with Thelma Gerwitz and her productions company for years without a single bump in the road. He was in every standard contract that Elliot Knox's agent drew up after the actor's big break - the fastest growing name in Hollywood had to have the best stuntman in the business for every role, of course. It meant Jay had steady work for as long as Elliot did, and as each contract was signed, he learned more and more about the production company that seemed to be bankrolling the star's entire rise to fame.

"Halstead! Get over here!" "Is there something you need from me, Thelma?" "Show Greg around the set, will you?" "Aren't there PAs for that? They get paid to deal with visitors." "Don't be ridiculous, Halstead. Greg isn't a visitor. My son will be working with the director this week as the liaison with your stunt coordinator. You aren't too busy to give him a tour, are you?" "No, ma'am."

One set tour and one week of his performance being run by another set of eyes for approval is all he'd signed up for. When that turned into three movies in a row, and then a brief stint on some show marketed to teenagers, and half a dozen more movies... Jay saw more of Greg than he even saw of Elliot. That might have had something to do with how much time they spent in Jay's trailer. Liaising. About stunts. And definitely not making out against every surface they could find.

He was just getting tired of that - sneaking around, hiding under the bed or in the cramped trailer closet when someone needed Greg's attention - when it all went wrong.

Elliot was throwing one of his usual fits, something about Jay's jawline showing up too much in a shot and taking the attention away from him. He acted as if anyone even knew Jay was there, as if he didn't brag in every single interview about doing his own stunts. But that was just what the job was - doing the dangerous stuff that no one else wanted to do, and letting Elliot take the credit for it. That was what he expected to do on a daily basis. At least it was a good paycheck.

What he didn't expect was a miscalculation, a rig that wasn't checked thoroughly enough, a harness that wasn't quite up to holding his weight. He was supposed to be caught in the middle of the fall, stop in midair so that the footage could be cut in with a take of Elliot hitting an airbag and continuing with the scene. Instead, the rope just kept slipping through the rig, and it was Jay who was filmed at the end of the fall, but there was no bag to catch him. So, when he fell, he hit solid ground, and the crack that filled his ears at the impact was quickly replaced with the ringing coming from inside them.

A fall like that was more than enough to end any stuntman's career, no matter how much of a recovery he would make. That was a fact that Greg had known before he knew he wanted to work on movies at all. He followed his mother to sets through his childhood, watched movies get made, watched stunts performed by professionals to make for perfect shots. When he brought up the idea of directing a movie of his own, she encouraged that dream, with the stipulation that he learned the ins and outs of it all before he did it on his own.

Greg liked working with the stunt teams almost more than he liked working with the stars. He knew what to ask them to get just the right shot for the final product, knew how Erin, the stunt coordinator on most of his mother's films, liked to communicate with her team. He fit in better with the nobodies, as Elliot liked to call them, than the people who had cameras pointed at them beyond their ten hour filming days.

Specifically, he really liked Jay.

He really liked the privacy of trailers, and getting time alone with someone who didn't want his attention just to get on his mother's good side. He really liked talking about his work, and the directorial decisions he helped make on set every day, even if his name was what had gotten him in that position in the first place. He really liked kissing the man who cared about his input where they couldn't be interrupted or judged by anyone who wanted to insert themselves into his life.

Watching the fall that ended his boyf- best friend's career was a moment he would never forget. It had felt like slow motion, like a bad dream that he was going to wake up from at any moment. But he never did.

Instead, Greg pushed through the worst of his fears and anxiety and stopped by the hospital once a week. He never made it past the elevator, sometimes staring at the hallway that led to where he knew Jay was, but never stepping out of the protective cage. If he did, he might get the ground ripped out from under him, as if he was the one who had fallen, not wanting that feeling back of his stomach in his throat. Maybe he was. Maybe he had fallen even before the malfunctioning rig had taken so much from him.

He got glimpses of Will, the brother he'd seen pictures of but never met. He got quiet updates during lunch breaks on set from Erin. Jay was going to be fine. He was expected to make a full recovery, after more time than anyone would like him to spend in a hospital and a strict physical therapy schedule. But he had his family to get him through that, and Greg knew from the start that he'd never had a chance at being part of that inner circle.

He let himself be swayed by his mother, pushed his focus back to his career and the stunts that had to be filmed for each project. After two years, he could forget about Jay when he was awake, put all of his attention to what needed to be done in a work day, and those eyes would only haunt him in his dreams. It was good for him, or so his mother liked to tell him, not letting himself worry about something he couldn't change. He could gain his own reputation in the industry, start signing onto his own projects, and take on the task of directing a movie from the start of the process to the end.

It was long enough after the incident that he didn't think about it when he was planning a scene with Erin. He didn't even think about it when the new stunt guy on his set took a turn on the track too fast and ruined the shot by bumping into the camera. He didn't think about it while he marched across the set to give the apparent rookie a piece of his mind. He didn't think about it while the car's door was pushed off and landed on the ground - the model was completely totaled, so he was quietly glad that the rest of the run went flawlessly, even the way the vehicle flipped across the tarmac, and the VFX team could fix the botched angle.

He didn't think about it until the familiar body straightened up, and for the first time in years, he was looking at Jay Halstead again.

"I thought you always said you were going to leave it to Elliot to make the dramatic entrances." "This entrance wasn't dramatic." "You showed up on my set, Jay. Two years of radio silence and then you just showed up without so much as a hello before you busted a camera." "I told Erin that the track was-" "I don't care. Last I checked, you were out of the stunt game completely. Get off my set and leave it to my real crew." "Your real crew? Sorry, I was under the impression that you asked for me specifically." "After you never texted me back or returned my calls? Why would I ever want to see you again?"

[thena0315]

Scarlet Johansson in Home Alone 3 (1997)

[koskela-knights]

AW2 sketch dump

[megahorous]

Who would win

[yilingbee]

firstprince hunger games au where henry is a career tribute that comes from a family line of victors (most notably his brother and grandmother), he volunteers bc that's what's expected of him and tbh he thinks dying in the arena might be the only way to escape his grandmother and alex is a tribute from district 12 who's mother is the mayor from the merchant class and dad is a miner from the seam (who died trying to start a revolution after ellen divorced him when alex was 11 and who alex blames for abandoning them bc why would you be a rebel when you have kids? don't you know what happens to rebels?) they meet in the arena by accident, all throughout the training period henry never shows up and it gives him a reputation that he thinks he's better than everyone and doesn't need to show off - a true asshole that even the other careers don't want to align themselves with, so when they bump into each other in the arena alex thinks this is the way he's going to die, but henry doesn't do anything and alex is so confused and doesn't know if he should try killing henry or run but something in henry's eyes stops him from doing either and they become reluctant allies bc both refuse to kill the other and throughout the games they grow closer and eventually fall for one another, but only one can live or can they find a way to be together beyond the arena?

[foundfamilyhq]

[lucy-shining-star]

Traps made by Finn from Home Alone:The Holiday Heist are much more tame than traps made by other protagonists

Possible doylist reason: Maybe they wanted to make it more kid-friendly some parents complained? Although 6th turned up danger of traps again so dunno how possible that is

Possible watsonian reason: While other protagonists if not aiming to kill criminals (I mean Kevin in New York definitely did aim for that) didn't mind if they did die Finn actively tried to avoid them dying cause he just discovered his house he thought is haunted isn't he is not gonna make it haunted himself

[pastacurls]

Watching home alone 3 bc hyperfixation™️ and honestly this not as bad as some critics make it out to be. Also there’s a rat in it so that automatically makes the movie amazing I love pet rats <333

[part-time-deranged]

Keep forgetting what a Milf Kevin McCalisters mom is

[cuntycassandra]

Can’t get over the fact that my two faves at the min are both blonde haired blue eyed boys from the 80s and THEY LOOK LIKE THIS RESPECTFULLY

[elitehanitje]

Angels With Even Filthier Souls