I found it an amusingly violent whodunnit.  Channing Tatum popping up to come to his sister’s rescue and immediately getting the top of his head blown off was a particular favorite.

I’d argue that Shyamalan’s career is mostly misses, with a few hits. Personally, when the aliens invading earth (a planet 75+% water) were allergic to water, he completely lost his ‘auteur’ cred. When your big trick is the ‘shocking twist’ and that twist is, well, just so stupid...

Hook is a fun movie with a ton of great bits and fun performances. Everything with Hoffman’s borderline-suicidal Captain Hook was great, and somehow sneaking in a Glenn Close cameo as a bearded pirate is one of those weird details I love.

It’s the perfect movie for people to be fond about because they watched it on VHS a ton as a kid - sentimental, ridiculous, but also fun.

Pretty much the only reason I clicked on this article. I was like “Hook can’t possibly be on this list, right? Right?!?”

*barfs*

Yeah, this one surprised me. Hook is magical. It’s not aiming to be high cinema, and it doesn’t achieve that. But it is a wonderful kids’ movie that is not physically painful for adults to sit through. If you were young when it came out, you most likely loved it and still have a lot of nostalgic warmth for it. And…

Y’all really love to clickbate with Hook. Clearly you all have never watched or just ignore The Terminal and 1941.

Hook’s a great movie. How dare you.

I came on just to make a similar comment. There’s a ton of internet hate for Hook, but I really enjoy them movie. As a dad, I tear up every time I watch it at the part where Peter realizes his happy thought is his kids and he’s able to fly again. Certainly oversentimental, but I have a real soft spot for this movie

I’m in my 40s, I love Hook, it was released at the right time for me.

As an actual kid at the time of release, Hook was easily in my top 5. You don’t know what your talking about.

Hook was brimming with child like wonder for me. The imaginary food fight? I’m sorry I unabashedly love Hook.

Robin Williams death fucked me up as a kid but this movie is definitely part of that. I remember…

Wait people didn’t like Hook? I’m 31 so sometimes I’m surprised by the cultural conversation surrounding things that were released when I was a kid but my gosh I have so much Hook nostalgia. RUFIO RUFIO!

“There you are Peter” *stretches smile on Robin Williams face*

It’s a friggin classic.

Spielberg is interesting in that a bunch of his flawed films that people have decided were terrible are actually pretty good. I’ll stick up for Hook and The Terminal. 

This. I’m appalled by people who think she’s equivalent to Bernie Madoff just because her conviction was securities fraud. Bernie stole a fuckload of money from people who could afford to lose it; he’s not Robin Hood, but I don’t think he’s pure evil either. Holmes is a goddamn sociopath.

Nothing like knowing the motivation for your existence was essentially a Monopoly “Get out of jail free” card to give you a complex for life. But then again, she’s an expert gaslighter, so I’m sure she’ll find a way to lie to them convincingly.

Holmes’ rise to prominence in the early 2010s—dubbing her the original “girlboss”

A couple things:

Or, another thought is that she got pregnant and had babies knowing there was a 99% probability she was going to jail. What a pig.

Maybe she should have thought about her family and community before she decided to commit fraud. I realize her children were not born yet at the time of the crime, but the other family members being referenced were alive.