Barstool Sports sparked a fun little debate on Twitter yesterday when they posted their Top 10 Christmas Movies Of All Time list on their official page. The list, I would assume, was created to purposely generate a visceral reaction, but it did lead to the third installment of a popular Christmas movie franchise trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons.
1997’s Home Alone 3 made Barstool’s Top 10 Christmas Movies list at number six. Making the choice even more alarming and hilarious was that they placed the more universally loved, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, at number nine. Barstool is known for doing stuff like this as they just recently did a Top 10 Best Pop Singers List and put Ashlee Simpson on it. It’s done to get the list to trend, that much is certain, but that doesn’t mean reactions to it weren’t real. Users felt some kind of way about Home Alone 3 making the list, especially above Home Alone 2. You can check out their initial post below followed by reactions from Twitter users (BTW, the film even has some defenders that will be included as well).
Home Alone 3 was released in 1997 and was actually written and produced by John Hughes, writer of the first two Home Alone films. The film is the first to not feature Macaulay Culkin and the cast from the previous films, nor director Chris Columbus and composer John Williams. Instead, we get star Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old child prodigy who defends his some from a dangerous band of criminals working for an infamous terrorist organization. Directed by Raja Gosnell, also known for Never Been Kissed, Big Momma’s House, Scooby-Doo, and The Smurfs, the film is also known for featuring a young Scarlett Johansson as Molly Pruitt, Alex’s older sister.
Home Alone 3 was destroyed by critics, generating a 29% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes and it’s the last Home Alone film to be released theatrically after grossing $30.8 million domestically on a $32 million budget, a far cry from the final grosses of the first film ($285.7 million) and the second entry ($173.5 million). The film was followed up by a made-for-television sequel, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, in 2002 and this year’s Home Sweet Home Alone. I’d have to imagine that Home Alone 3 is at least better than those films, right?
Are YOU a fan of Home Alone 3?