Movie Debate #116: Hook

[Reed Rothchild | 9,514]

[CodysGameRoom | 2,008]

I mean it's just wonderful. If you are my age and grew up in the 90's, I don't know how you could not like this movie. It's just pure nostalgic fun. 

[RH | 4,898]

This is the rare kid film I liked more as an adult than as a kid, or at least, respected it.

The 90s was the era of latch-key kids and driven fathers (and some times mothers).  Very poingent.

I'm not who thought this up, and what executive thought it sounded like a good idea, but I'm glad this got green-lit.  Robin Williams was perfect, and so was everyone else in the start studded cast.

A vote of 9 does feel rather high, but I voted off of the descriptions for the votes.  Yes, I feel like this is a movie "everyone should watch".  I mean, you might want to do it with your kids just to have a reason, or if you grew up back then but missed it in the early 90s.

It's not the best film world.  Not by a long shot.  But it is a really great film.

[guitarzombie | 924]

Here's a fact for ya, the guy that played the original Michael Myers in Halloween directed this, as well as Major Payne. 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,514]

14 minutes ago, guitarzombie said:

Here's a fact for ya, the guy that played the original Michael Myers in Halloween directed this, as well as Major Payne. 

Huh?

[TDIRunner | 2,731]

I watched this once as a kid.  I remember being excited to see it and enjoying it for the most part, but I remember absolutely nothing else about it.  Not really sure how to rate it.

[Brickman | 3,983]

9. Loved it as a kid and love it now. Great cast and just an all around fun movie with some great themes and messages. Spielberg always has a magic touch with these kinds of movies. 

2 hours ago, guitarzombie said:

Here's a fact for ya, the guy that played the original Michael Myers in Halloween directed this, as well as Major Payne. 

He directed major Payne but this one is done by Spielberg. I think he helped write the screenplay, so that might be what you’re thinking of.

[guitarzombie | 924]

3 hours ago, Brickman said:

9. Loved it as a kid and love it now. Great cast and just an all around fun movie with some great themes and messages. Spielberg always has a magic touch with these kinds of movies. 

He directed major Payne but this one is done by Spielberg. I think he helped write the screenplay, so that might be what you’re thinking of.

Oh my apologies!  Yeah I must have confused it then.  I know he's a director and worked on it in some capacity.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0145309/

[Tulpa | 3,490]

Weird movie when you get down to it, but everything about the Peter Pan mythos is weird, so it fits right in.

[MrWunderful | 2,927]

Cool movie and adaptation. Great performances by the headliners, at the time I  thought the lost boys and Rufio were super rad. The imaginary food wish scene always stuck with me. 
 

All that weird colored shit looked f’in delicious. 

[fox | 1,665]

Kinda boring

Feels like a movie more for adults who had a nostalgia boner for Peter Pan

[Hammerfestus | 3,832]

Bangarang

[The Count | 526]

Poor, Rufio. I did enjoy the Boo Box though. 7/10.

[nrslam | 474]

Meh. If I'm going to watch Peter Pan, it'll be this one.

 

[Andy_Bogomil | 815]

All I remember is the crock clock and the kid rolling down the plank as a ball and knocking a bunch a people over. On those two events which may or may not be real I give it a 6. 

[YOURTURN | 1,256]

As both cheesy and bad as it is by modern standards, it is my favorite Robin Williams films. And how I want to remember him, alongside his 3DS commercials he did with his daughter.

It's an 8/10 for me.

[fox | 1,665]

19 hours ago, The Count said:

Poor, Rufio. I did enjoy the Boo Box though. 7/10.

https://notthat.ytmnd.com

[docile tapeworm | 4,198]

On 3/24/2023 at 6:36 PM, Tulpa said:

Weird movie when you get down to it, but everything about the Peter Pan mythos is weird, so it fits right in.

I think the original play was about a mother who lost her son and always imagined him as a boy who never grew up and was always with her somehow….. I think.

[docile tapeworm | 4,198]

I got pans sword I’m the pan now! You think he gonna take it from me? Rufio.

[Hammerfestus | 3,832]

2 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

I think the original play was about a mother who lost her son and always imagined him as a boy who never grew up and was always with her somehow….. I think.

Jesus.  Looked it up.  It was his mother and dead brother.  Well, that’s depressing as fuck.

[docile tapeworm | 4,198]

43 minutes ago, Hammerfestus said:

Jesus.  Looked it up.  It was his mother and dead brother.  Well, that’s depressing as fuck.

Ya. I’m a big Peter Pan fan…sad story though.

[PII | 1,884]

4 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

I think the original play was about a mother who lost her son and always imagined him as a boy who never grew up and was always with her somehow….. I think.

There you have it folks - Wormy, On Hook -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...I just couldn't resist. 

[RH | 4,898]

5 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

I think the original play was about a mother who lost her son and always imagined him as a boy who never grew up and was always with her somehow….. I think.

You got a link to the synopsis or a title (if it’s not Hook)? I can’t find anything.

[Hammerfestus | 3,832]

10 minutes ago, RH said:

You got a link to the synopsis or a title (if it’s not Hook)? I can’t find anything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy

[G-type | 2,479]

On 3/24/2023 at 1:31 PM, guitarzombie said:

Here's a fact for ya, the guy that played the original Michael Myers in Halloween directed this, as well as Major Payne. 

You're thinking of Nick Castle, director of the Last Starfighter and The Boy Who Could Fly.