There are Christmas movies, and then there are must-watch-every-year Christmas movies. For me, Home Alone is the latter, as is the sequel, which is how I found myself watching the 1990 Christmas movie recently. I can never notice enough details or learn enough about what went into the making of Home Alone, which is why I loved stumbling upon some comments Daniel Stern made about how they filmed certain hilarious scenes.
Marv really goes through it in the final act of Home Alone. And once I was old enough to appreciate the weight of adult responsibilities, I came to feel he deserved the karma that befell him courtesy of Kevin McCallister. I just think about what the Murphys and other victims of Marv's "wet bandit" drain-clogging shenanigans had to come home to and it's hard for me to feel bad for Marv by the end of the movie. But Daniel Stern's an actor who isn't flooding people's homes, so I do feel for what he literally faced during the filming of Home Alone, which apparently included a camera falling straight at him.
