Why didn't this work?
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ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch — 12 years ago(October 16, 2013 03:58 PM)
The John Williams score was great, however there should never be a story concerning Peter Pan where he's an adult. Ever.
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ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch — 12 years ago(November 29, 2013 10:16 PM)
Flash Fact: Its NOT a 'classic'. Its also one of Spielberg's lesser regarded films. Despite decent box office most of the marketing material (toys) languished in bargain bins of toy stores unsold years after the film's release, meaning none of that crap did well either.
Oh yeah, STFU. Your opinion dosent override anyone else's. If you like the film, good for you. Getting all Stan about it just makes you look like an even bigger moron.
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sugarfreesweetie0367 — 12 years ago(February 23, 2014 08:17 PM)
This is a comment section. Everything is an opinion on here so there is no need to put IMO. You sound so idiotic and confrontational that it is hard to take anything you say seriously. Someone can have a different opinion, you know. And by admitting earlier that someone wrote something so long you didn't read it allreally? Do you still read books with pictures?
You cannot debate if you don't read someone's whole post.
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DiamondDonnieAzoff — 12 years ago(October 25, 2013 04:29 AM)
One of my all time favorite movies but I agree 100% with you about the sets, it looks VERY fake and Broadway-ish. Always bothered me, always will, but I still love the movie regardless. It seemed as if we never got to see how big Neverland was, it looked just like a few blocks of some small village.
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kwokfan007 — 12 years ago(October 31, 2013 01:08 AM)
The film workedto a degree. I think what bugged me the most was the bad acting done by the younger actors. Lost Boys anyone? You got excellent, top notch actors(sans Julia Roberts) in a film with the Ginger from Rod Stewart's Forever Young video. I mean Come On! That's bull crap! Chucky was better at playing a little boy than these kids!
Some areas of the film were pretty hokey especially the end when Hook gets eaten by the supposedly dead crocodile. Right there you could tell Spielberg and his writers had no idea how to end the conflict between Pan and Hook. Might as well have a Trex pop into the shot and save the day. Oh wait, they did! That's the problem with most of Spielberg's films. His endings are usually a hit or a miss.
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metalvain — 12 years ago(October 31, 2013 02:58 PM)
I think the film was just bogged down by relying too heavily on scenes that just seem to be there to show the art direction and elaborate stages. I feel there is that magic everyone seems to go for and I have a fond memory of the film when I was a kid. In fact, I'm watching it again right now and I think I can actually appreciate how dark in tone it can be even more so. The scene where Peter and Moria come home to find that their kids have been kidnapped is one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever.
I will say that the film is awkward in it's pacing and at some parts it doesn't really seem like the movie knows what it wants to be. Nevertheless I still feel the good moments are good enough to appreciate it even if the movie is overall flawed and isn't exactly a masterpiece. -
ComicNerd — 12 years ago(November 04, 2013 04:48 PM)
The scene where Peter and Moria come home to find that their kids have been kidnapped is one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever.
That is the best part of the movie IMO, if the rest of the movie had been up to that standard it would be have been great.
I do enjoy watching it when it's on TV. I saw it in theater Christmas 91. I remember the poster with just the Hook on it. I actually think the build up to Peter's return to Neverland is the best part of the movie, however it never really settles on a tone. It's not really an adventure film , it's not a comedy. Neverland never really works as a magical place and takes you out of the movie because of it's stageness. -
darkowl13 — 12 years ago(December 12, 2013 02:19 PM)
This movie worked incredibly well, and has a huge cult following. I've never met anyone who didn't enjoy this movie (not to say that everyone did enjoy it). It has a very original and heartfelt story, the acting is great (Dustin Hoffman was the best Hook I've ever seen), and the John Williams score only enhances the visual experience. This movie just has too many good things going for it to say that it didn't work.
I agree with you though, it does have a stagey feel to it, but it was probably done intentionally. Keep in mind that Peter Pan has been done numerous times as a play, so it actually makes sense for this movie to have that feel to it. -
drose-412-868637 — 12 years ago(December 15, 2013 10:09 PM)
Now, I love this movie but I see what you're saying about how everything looks like a set. But I don't see how that could be such a big problem. Let's remember the origin of the Peter Pan story. It was originally written as a play. And one of the more defining adaptations of the story was the 1960 Mary Martin live broadcast of the 1954 Broadway play. So, Peter Pan is much at home in a "staged" environment. Hook feels very much like Spielberg's tribute to classic swashbuckling adventure films where everything had to be filmed on sets as opposed to on location and maybe it's Spielberg paying tribute to the original stage versions of Peter Pan. I love the fabricated stagey look to Neverland in Hook, and combine that with the great acting from the leads, the amazing score, and clever story, I'd hardly call it a misfire, but that's just me.
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coex — 12 years ago(December 18, 2013 06:09 AM)
The Lost Boys' sets were unbearable. Absolutely ridiculous. Dare we get into some incredibly dated (even at that time) "new wave" hairstyles? Jeez, and they haven't aged well at all
Too bad, as Hoffman's Hook was a class act!
And, as someone else pointed out, Pan as an adult was a bad move storywise.
The film remains cringeworthy today; and if it has a cult-following, it's because it's "cheesy" in that Plan 9 sort of way.