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I guess the one thing that's fascinating me the most is seeing Home Alone referred to as a Christmas classic. I wonder if it's an age thing, or if maybe it's an effect of not having younger siblings, but of the contemporary Christmas hits of my youth, Scrooged, Home Alone, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and A Christmas Story (I think those are the four, with the last last one being more of a TV viewing. For some reason, I never saw Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, as far as I remember), Home Alone was the one I aged out the fastest, never felt any need to re-watch as a teenager, and when visiting family (again, no kids in the family), never felt the desire to revisit as part of a nostalgia watch.
Fwiw, I did see Home Alone in theaters and was probably close to the upper age range of its target demographic. I recall seeing Home Alone 2 in theaters and I think that's when I aged out of it (sequels help with that, I suppose).
Side note, as an adult, apparently I don't laugh at any of the National Lampoon movies anymore. Scrooged was... still passable (though nothing to the level that was the laugh riot when I was 8). And appropriately, A Christmas Story is still able to be a nostalgia-watch movie if someone else wants to put it on.
But Home Alone, a non-entity in my mind. I think I became aware a few years ago, apparently 90's kids really love it (I'd say people about 5 years younger than me).