Current Events > Huh. TIL Hook was a failure of a movie (from Reddit).

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ExtremeLuchador
09/30/23 1:30:55 AM
#51:


Hook was in development hell since like 1981. We are lucky it came out at all.

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Tora_Sami
09/30/23 1:36:00 AM
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thekosmicfool posted...
Hook kicks ass. Whoever says otherwise is a crude, rude bag of pre-chewed food, dude.


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Glob
09/30/23 1:36:12 AM
#53:


trivialbeing posted...
no because that movie is legitimately trash

So is Hook.
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invertedlegdrop
09/30/23 1:36:15 AM
#54:


Funny enough it was Robin Williams who took over for Dustin Hoffman in another sea movie: Popeye...

Hoffman was gonna be Popeye but backed out and Williams took over...

You want to read up on another weird movie production look up the story on the making of Popeye...its even weirder than Hook but admittedly it came out a better movie...

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Tora_Sami
09/30/23 1:42:05 AM
#55:


Garabandal posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBGmBOhQEE

Is....is that really in the movie?

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yusiko
09/30/23 2:03:54 AM
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I've never heard of Julia Robert's sleeping her way through the cast and I find it very hard to believe

But she was very much a diva on set and everyone involved hated working with her and Spielberg vowed to never work with her again.

Other actors in the studio would come by the set to get a glimpse of her to see if the stories they were hearing about her bad behavior were true.

She has admitted herself she was just awful during that film shoot and had matured over the years

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InTheEyesOfFire
09/30/23 2:13:45 AM
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Hoffman and Hoskins what a duo. Great movie.

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Foppe
09/30/23 2:17:55 AM
#58:


invertedlegdrop posted...
Funny enough it was Robin Williams who took over for Dustin Hoffman in another sea movie: Popeye...

Hoffman was gonna be Popeye but backed out and Williams took over...

You want to read up on another weird movie production look up the story on the making of Popeye...its even weirder than Hook but admittedly it came out a better movie...
The European cut is bad.
The whole subplot of Popeye looking for his father is cut, he pretty much only appears at the end for a one minute rant about supporting your child.

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Letron_James
09/30/23 2:32:39 AM
#59:


I never cared for Hook as a child, and even less so as an adult

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ROBANN_88
09/30/23 2:49:43 AM
#60:


Foppe posted...
The European cut is bad.
The whole subplot of Popeye looking for his father is cut, he pretty much only appears at the end for a one minute rant about supporting your child.

Never seen that movie
But why is there a "European cut" that leaves out a whole subplot?

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Foppe
09/30/23 2:54:53 AM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
Never seen that movie
But why is there a "European cut" that leaves out a whole subplot?
They thought Europe didnt need it for some reason *shruggs*

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Kradek
09/30/23 4:49:43 AM
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Touch posted...
Julia Roberts apparently slept her way through the cast members causing rifts.

I can't find any of this. Just the "TinkerHell" stuff because she dumped Sutherland for cheating on her days before their wedding and she was understandably not pleasant to work with on set.

Garabandal posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBGmBOhQEE

Haven't seen Pan, however I enjoyed this more than I anticipated off the title

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Kitt
09/30/23 10:41:30 AM
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Garabandal posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBGmBOhQEE
There's a scene where they're singing the Blitzkrieg Bop too. I don't use the word "Cringe" to describe things but this film is a very rare exception.

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Touch
09/30/23 10:47:07 AM
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Yeah the whole sleeping around the crew I saw on Reddit and no one seemed to dispute it. Doing my own research now I'm with y'all about not really finding anything about it. My apologies on that one

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chukklez17dc
09/30/23 10:53:36 AM
#65:


Not surprised, Hook is a bad movie

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LincolnDuncan
09/30/23 11:02:05 AM
#66:


The acting is brilliant:

the insults at dinner scene is an all time great scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_kbRaQP2pA

and this little gem is also so good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnh6ZDKOVOI


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Torgo
09/30/23 11:03:58 AM
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Snatch

Was a good movie.

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CARRRNE_ASADA
09/30/23 11:08:10 AM
#68:


Garabandal posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBGmBOhQEE


Not sure if to thank you or hate you for making me aware this exists

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Kaldrenthebold
09/30/23 11:08:28 AM
#69:


Glob posted...
So is Hook.

No

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Revisited
09/30/23 11:12:46 AM
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I mean... of course it was, and just look at the movie, it's so obvious that it was plagued by problems. It definitely shows in the finished product.

Also lol at Julia Roberts sleeping her way through the cast that is hilarious and awesome I hope it's true. So accurate to tinkerbell, the real tink not the girl-next-door sweetheart version Julia was portraying.
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ExtremeLuchador
09/30/23 11:17:54 AM
#71:


I doubt the Julia Roberts story. Supposedly it was hard enough just to get her to show up to work. She was close to being fired.

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09/30/23 11:18:41 AM
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LincolnDuncan posted...
The acting is brilliant:
and this little gem is also so good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnh6ZDKOVOI
Fucking love that scene never get tired of it. And this is a kids movie.

A lot of this movie is overall cringe to remember but I still look back on it fondly. And conceptually I still absolutely love the idea.

Also a young hot Gwyneth Paltrow plays Wendy in a brief scene and she's really hot like damn.
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Southernfatman
09/30/23 11:19:59 AM
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Hook was a childhood favorite and I rewatched it as an adult a few years ago and while some parts were a slog, I still loved it overall. The story of Peter Pan growing up to be a stuffy corporate lawyer and having to go back is interesting. The cast is (mostly) brilliant. Williams is great at being serious when he needs to be in it while also having that child like presence like how Peter Pan would have. Hoffman as Hook is an awesome performance and Hook's quasi-old married couple relationship with Smee is also neat. Hook's ultimate revenge in making Pan's children love him is pretty interesting too.

Around the latter third until the big battle it sort of drags a bit and the Tinkerbell scene just comes off as awkward. The big battle is fun, although for a "last epic battle" as the movie implied it to be, it didn't seem that way, but then again you can't have kids going around murdering pirates. The Croc-clock thing is still a bit weird, but I do like how Hook is shown to be a pathetic old man looking for some sort of glory in the end. Still, "What would the world be like without Captain Hook?"

invertedlegdrop posted...
I really liked the SNES Hook game, has a pretty underrated soundtrack...

Me too. I rented it all the time. I always try to mention the soundtrack when "Under rated game soundtracks" topics come up.

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ROBANN_88
09/30/23 11:34:00 AM
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i could never watch Hook as a kid, not after seeing the Scorpion in a box scene

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10/01/23 12:58:50 AM
#75:


invertedlegdrop posted...
Tristone wanted a ET level success and it didn't happen, The Addams Family movie did about the same money at the time but was cheaper to make, hence why it got a sequel and Hook didn't...
Oh thank the lord in heaven, if I had to choose between the Addams family sequel, one of the greatest movies of all time, and frigging hook, I'd choose Addams family values every time.

But also holy fuck at how much ET made. Half a billion dollars back in the early 80s? Is that accurate? That's insane and I'm trying to wrap my head around why.
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haloiscoolisbak
10/01/23 1:12:38 AM
#76:


Touch posted...
Yeah the whole sleeping around the crew I saw on Reddit and no one seemed to dispute it. Doing my own research now I'm with y'all about not really finding anything about it. My apologies on that one

Yeah I mean half the cast are literal kids and the adults are like Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins... it's an interesting theory to say the least

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MrToothHasYou
10/01/23 1:27:02 AM
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Revisited posted...
Oh thank the lord in heaven, if I had to choose between the Addams family sequel, one of the greatest movies of all time, and frigging hook, I'd choose Addams family values every time.

But also holy fuck at how much ET made. Half a billion dollars back in the early 80s? Is that accurate? That's insane and I'm trying to wrap my head around why.
It was the highest grossing film ever, at the time, beating the record previously set by Star Wars.

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St0rmFury
10/01/23 1:32:15 AM
#78:


ExtremeLuchador posted...
Anyone remember the arcade game based off this movie?
Is that the one where Peter for some reason has some kind of energy pillar super attack?

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mercurydude
10/01/23 1:40:48 AM
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Revisited posted...
Oh thank the lord in heaven, if I had to choose between the Addams family sequel, one of the greatest movies of all time, and frigging hook, I'd choose Addams family values every time.

As someone who loved Hook as a kid, I would have as well. What does he do, claw his way out of the crocodile and then try to do the same thing over again? I don't think a sequel could have gone anywhere good, but I would have even liked a third Addams movie if Raul Julia hadn't died, he was just that good... the whole cast was.

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10/01/23 2:25:35 AM
#80:


Garabandal posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBGmBOhQEE
The scene is dumb as hell not to mention super cringe as is Jackman's getup, but I have to say the tune is kinda catchy.
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Dark_Arbron
10/01/23 2:38:42 AM
#81:


ROBANN_88 posted...
i could never watch Hook as a kid, not after seeing the Scorpion in a box scene

The Boo Box.

I will never forget the way he says that.

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Foppe
10/01/23 2:49:50 AM
#82:


mercurydude posted...
As someone who loved Hook as a kid, I would have as well. What does he do, claw his way out of the crocodile and then try to do the same thing over again? I don't think a sequel could have gone anywhere good, but I would have even liked a third Addams movie if Raul Julia hadn't died, he was just that good... the whole cast was.
Mermaid witch is angry that Pan left Neverland to die, uses magic to revive a Crocodile Hook that haunts Pan in the real world.

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