Two reasons: It was saccharine and Gen X was still too young to appreciate it. That being said as the son of a workaholic father I loved it. That scene where he realizes his son is his "happy thought" was amazing and makes me fricking cry every time.
Yet another example of how AI doesn't know jack shit because most of these actually are bad fricking movies and not comfy overly-maligned movies like Hook.
It was released before Disney utterly buckbroke audiences and people were still sceptical of sequels and remakes.
It's a brainrottingly kitschy movie.
I was a child when it came out. A remake or reinterpretation of a story was not all that common at the time...it happened but not as often as now. People didnt quite no what to make of the movie, so it got a bad reputation. In hindsight though, its pretty good. It is certainly orders of magnitude better than the slop they are putting out these days
>People didnt quite no what to make of the movie, so it got a bad reputation
I think people saw right to the core of the film, it was indulgent, saccharine slop with a set that was meant to be a beloved attraction at a studio's themepark. It's Spielberg trying to mix Indiana Jones and E.T. and ending up with an immature and overproduced mess with no authentic attachment or appeal. It has Robin Williams (who was considered a good actor at the time), Philip Seymour Hoffman and a score by John Williams and still failed.
Rufio seems like an affirmative action hire that would normally be marginalised and ignored, but somehow became the most pivotal and dynamic character of the film.
And that should be celebrated, but it isn't because white people who are the audience for these movies are racist.
If Peter Pan is about remembering what it meant to be a child but knowing you'll never truly remember or recapture that, Hook is about Spielberg deluding himself into thinking 'nuh uh you can look I'm a magician'.
Can't tell you how happy my family was Hook bombed and Spilelberg got fed a little humble pie. The film is a self-aggrandizing subversion of the novel.
Hook was a great film though. Your dad just needed to stop working so much and actually talk to you instead of projecting his concerns onto a Hollywood film.
I have never heard people shit on it. Is this another case of the internet polluting people's minds like how Ghostbusters 2, while inferior to the first was still a good and beloved movie but early eddy internet reviewers called it garbage so everyone parroted them?
Bullshit, just look up the numbers and audience reactions when it came out. It's a shit movie you can only like if you saw it as a kid and your reasoning capabilities haven't developed since.
Ghostbusters 2 fricking sucks and I say that as a lifelong Ghostbusters fan.
Although seeing the shit that comes out today, Ghostbusters 2 was a fricking masterpiece.
I have no hope for frozen empire.
I have never heard someone shit talk this movie in real life. Its a genuinely pleasant movie. It managed to take a simple children's tale and transform it into a lesson about family and how you approach life
I didn't care for it at all. I watched it as an adult and didn't see it as a kid growing up. My criticisms were: >Tinker Bell getting zero credit for being critical to success for several parts of the movie >Tinker Bell also being weird with Peter, who she knew was married with a family >Rufio also dying without concern for the Lost Boys >weird incestual undertones with Wendy and Peter with their relationship >pacing was too fast in some parts and too slow in others >why there is a play and fairy tale book about the story which happened yet is treated like a common fairy tale
Granted some of my complaints could be from the book plot lines, but I didn't read the book. I had only seen Disneys Peter Pan animsted before.
Set and costume design was great, and so was the acting. The story and way some characters are handled needed work.
Two reasons: It was saccharine and Gen X was still too young to appreciate it. That being said as the son of a workaholic father I loved it. That scene where he realizes his son is his "happy thought" was amazing and makes me fricking cry every time.
Bangarang
>Gen X was still too young to appreciate it
more like too old. but yeah as a millenial i never understood the hate.
bigotry towards the homosexual undertones of Hook & Smee's dynamic with each other.
it's my favourite childhood movie, but it's bittersweet because my dad took me to see it while my parents were in the process of separating
It's one of those movies that has a bad reputation solely because it has a bad reputation. It's the Nickelback/Justin Bieber of movies.
Super Mario Bros the movie is like that too
Howard the Duck is another one.
I asked Chat GPT to name some:
"Showgirls" (1995)
"Waterworld" (1995)
"Ishtar" (1987)
"Howard the Duck" (1986)
"Battlefield Earth" (2000)
"The Postman" (1997)
"Gigli" (2003)
"Catwoman" (2004)
"The Room" (2003)
"Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1957)
"Speed 2: Cruise Control" (1997)
"Super Mario Bros." (1993)
"Heaven's Gate" (1980)
"Green Lantern" (2011)
"The Lone Ranger" (2013)
"John Carter" (2012)
"Mars Needs Moms" (2011)
"Wild Wild West" (1999)
"Swept Away" (2002)
"Cutthroat Island" (1995)
how about you frick off robofricker
Green lantern was legit garbage tough
These are just bad movies, stupid robot didn't understand the assignment as always
Yet another example of how AI doesn't know jack shit because most of these actually are bad fricking movies and not comfy overly-maligned movies like Hook.
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Its a case of critics not knowing how good they had it, today it would be praised as the kino it was
Agreed. It’s just an opinion people regurgitate.
I was a child when it came out. A remake or reinterpretation of a story was not all that common at the time...it happened but not as often as now. People didnt quite no what to make of the movie, so it got a bad reputation. In hindsight though, its pretty good. It is certainly orders of magnitude better than the slop they are putting out these days
>People didnt quite no what to make of the movie, so it got a bad reputation
I think people saw right to the core of the film, it was indulgent, saccharine slop with a set that was meant to be a beloved attraction at a studio's themepark. It's Spielberg trying to mix Indiana Jones and E.T. and ending up with an immature and overproduced mess with no authentic attachment or appeal. It has Robin Williams (who was considered a good actor at the time), Philip Seymour Hoffman and a score by John Williams and still failed.
>ROOFIE-O!
never got that as a kid.
steven are you there? i could be peter pan
Rufio seems like an affirmative action hire that would normally be marginalised and ignored, but somehow became the most pivotal and dynamic character of the film.
And that should be celebrated, but it isn't because white people who are the audience for these movies are racist.
People dislike this? I always thought this movie just has a magical comfy feel that is one of the few films to ever capture it.
All the sets, very limited use of cg, the nolstagic longing for times past, memorable characters and some cool action scenes
I give this movie 8basedSMEES/10
If Peter Pan is about remembering what it meant to be a child but knowing you'll never truly remember or recapture that, Hook is about Spielberg deluding himself into thinking 'nuh uh you can look I'm a magician'.
Can't tell you how happy my family was Hook bombed and Spilelberg got fed a little humble pie. The film is a self-aggrandizing subversion of the novel.
Hook was a great film though. Your dad just needed to stop working so much and actually talk to you instead of projecting his concerns onto a Hollywood film.
>Can't tell you how happy my family was Hook bombed
pls tell
Ask me how i know your family is all liberals
homosexual
Because it's saccharine kitsch of the worst order. The most deplorable kind of a children's movie. And Robin Williams is neither funny nor touching.
>And Robin Williams is neither funny nor touching.
Go frick yourself. Wait, actually just fricking have a nice day.
Cope, moron. Robin Williams was an unfunny hack and the world is a better place because he an hero.
I have never heard people shit on it. Is this another case of the internet polluting people's minds like how Ghostbusters 2, while inferior to the first was still a good and beloved movie but early eddy internet reviewers called it garbage so everyone parroted them?
Bullshit, just look up the numbers and audience reactions when it came out. It's a shit movie you can only like if you saw it as a kid and your reasoning capabilities haven't developed since.
GB 2 cost 30 million and made 215 million and was a success.
Whats GB 2??
Im talking about Hook you fricking idiot.
You responded to a post about Ghostbusters 2 you fricking idiot.
>I have never heard people shit on it.
You are unintelligent.
Yea I said that moron.
Ghostbusters 2 fricking sucks and I say that as a lifelong Ghostbusters fan.
Although seeing the shit that comes out today, Ghostbusters 2 was a fricking masterpiece.
I have no hope for frozen empire.
I have never heard someone shit talk this movie in real life. Its a genuinely pleasant movie. It managed to take a simple children's tale and transform it into a lesson about family and how you approach life
I've never met a person who disliked this film.
when i was little I thought tinkerbell was a dude
It was released before Disney utterly buckbroke audiences and people were still sceptical of sequels and remakes.
It's a brainrottingly kitschy movie.
I didn't care for it at all. I watched it as an adult and didn't see it as a kid growing up. My criticisms were:
>Tinker Bell getting zero credit for being critical to success for several parts of the movie
>Tinker Bell also being weird with Peter, who she knew was married with a family
>Rufio also dying without concern for the Lost Boys
>weird incestual undertones with Wendy and Peter with their relationship
>pacing was too fast in some parts and too slow in others
>why there is a play and fairy tale book about the story which happened yet is treated like a common fairy tale
Granted some of my complaints could be from the book plot lines, but I didn't read the book. I had only seen Disneys Peter Pan animsted before.
Set and costume design was great, and so was the acting. The story and way some characters are handled needed work.