I can’t say for absolute certain whether Hook is Spielberg’s worst, as I haven’t seen Amistad, The Terminal, War Horse, or West Side Story. But I can confirm it’s pretty darn bad!

It picked up hate right away. I was 21 when it came out, the exact right age to hate it, and hate it I did; but so, it seemed, did everybody else.

Sort of a Townes Van Zandt-style singer-songwriter, was he?

And Ted Cruz is from Alberta.

“Watch out, there’s urine on the floor”

I don’t get it either, unless I missed the part where the people investigating this have shrugged and announced they’re hanging it up because there’s no possible way to find out the truth.

“Hey Brody!”

That was his nickname on set, apparently named after Spielberg’s lawyer. In the book and script, I believe the shark’s proper name is Jaws.

But the shark’s name was Jaws.

The actors who played Klinger and Radar are both still alive, and I don’t know why Verhoeven doesn’t use them for his new picture.

??? Which half of the horse does she typically wear? Or has there been some amazing revolution in horse costumery whereby a single person can impersonate an entire horse?

Nobody can say “Mister Anderson” like Weaving, though.

preCISELY.

I’m in just the same boat. Habit + unwillingness to find some new place + an appreciation of a generally intelligent commentariat are what keep me coming back. Also the occasional worthwhile long-form article, but there are precious few of those these days.

Another Texas Chainsaw picture? All these dog dicks should lick my plate.

exACTLY.

Interestingly, the lead actor’s surname is pronounced “El-guwAAa.”

The last man who tried was named Martin Scorsese, and we know what happened to him.

I own a zippo! Do I get to join the fun-gang?

You’ll not find a bigger champion of Tom Waits than me, but the stubborn reality remains. There’s no getting around the fact that Waits played the role in 1992, while Lange had already done his a full thirteen years earlier.