10 Inevitable Movie Reboots And How To Make Them Not Suck

5. Home Alone

The Original: Legendary and improbable comedy featuring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who is accidentally left at home when his family goes on holiday. Two thieves (Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern) aim to rob the place, not counting on anyone still being in the house, causing Kevin to fight back against the two buffoons. This spawned a ridiculously cynical yet oddly enjoyable sequel, followed by three increasingly awful films that involved nobody from the first two, and as a result nobody really bothered watching. How To Make It Not Suck: Make it darker, much darker. A Home Alone reboot would need to be PG-13 or maybe even R-rated, with the kid perhaps being cast a little older for the sake of appropriateness. Make the war between the kid and the thieves more violent, milking dark comedy for all it's worth, ending with Kevin actually killing the thieves and having to explain it to his parents in the end. Too dark? Hell, I'd love to see it, though I can't say that the studios would say the same.