Escape from LA, is over the top campy nonsense. Go into it expecting nothing but a trip, and you will have a lot of fun. Go into it expecting Escape from NY, and you probably won't.
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I rewatched Hook yesterday, likely for the first time since the early '90s. On the whole it's not very good, but parts of it shine.
Dustin Hoffman’s Hook is amazing: a narcissistic, despairing villain who treats death as theatre. The humour that comes from his wounded grandiosity can be dark, and lines like “Death is the only great adventure I have left” work as both jokes and great philosophical chestnuts to chew on - I want that quote inscribed on my tombstone. I'm not being hyperbolic or anything, but he really should have been nominated for an Academy Award. Maybe with a better script he would have.
The lost boys, by contrast, basically sink the whole movie. Their neon skate-park hideout, sugary food-fight aesthetic, and slang like “bangarang” (never did figure out WTF that means) trap Neverland in a dated '90s kids fantasy that clashes with the darker psychology Hoffman is playing with. It's tonally inconsistent.
The first forty minutes in America and London--Peter with his children, Wendy, the fundraiser, the kidnapping--are some of the movie’s strongest material, and the pirate village largely works.
It's weird house Spielberg got some parts so right, yet some so wrong.
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^That's a spot on review. I also think Hoffman was a genius in that movie. So far departed from his normal performances as well. Not to say that Robin Williams wasn't also good in that, because he really was, but he does get weighed down by the lost boys stuff.
However, there's a moment where one of the youngest lost boys is looking at Peter saying "where are you", and then he pulls his face into a smile and says "oh, there you are!". I love that moment so much.
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Hook is amazing IMO. Even the lost boys centric parts.
Hoffman and Hoskin really steal the show, even though Williams is strong in his own right in going from the rigid and pessimistic dad to the carefree and exuberant Pan.
The imaginative parts appeal to kids and the darker/more mature themes to adults. It was working on entertain on a different levels.
And yeah, Roberts as Tink doesn't hurt at all.
It's ruined every other iteration of Pan for me. Given how much of it involved practical sets and effects, I'd go as far as to say there may never be anything quite like it again.
As an aside, I don't even know how Peter had a mobile phone that compact in a movie filmed in 1990. I thought they looked like brick sized sat radios around that time. It felt like they were imagining the future too.
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I watched Interstellar for the thousandth time. Of course I am bawling whe the wife come home. Thinks i am rididiculous. She would never make it through that slog. Great slog though.
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I watched Interstellar for the thousandth time. Of course I am bawling whe the wife come home. Thinks i am rididiculous. She would never make it through that slog. Great slog though.
Absolutley love that movie
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Was dragged to Wuthering Heights over the weekend. Didn't hate it as much as I was thinking I would, but still a waste of time. Dumb story. Dumb characters. Just...dumb.
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Saw Hamnet today, a great movie but in no way a feel good story, the acting is beyond great, the story strange and sad, I ended up trying to hold back my tears but I'd had overdose training in the morning and lost a kid a few years back to an OD so was in a fairly emotional place to start off with, maybe not the best day to watch a movie about a boy dying
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