HOOK HAPPY THOUGHTS MOVIE

Had Terminator 2: Judgment Day not become the first $100 million movie that summer, the focus may have been more on the cost of the film, which at that stage was one of the five most expensive of all time. That was a lot of money in the early ’90s, although so was Hook‘s $70 million budget. By the time the film had finished its theatrical run, the movie had taken over $300 million at the global box office. Not that Hookflopped (although the far cheaper The Addams Family did equivalent business in the US around the same time). TriStar Pictures gambled heavily on the film – not that it appeared much of a gamble on the surface – and the then-depressed film industry was looking to the star-laden blockbuster to inject fresh life into 1991’s box-office numbers. Hookwas something of a disappointment all around.

I’m hoping some day I’ll see it again and perhaps like some of it.” In an interview with the Kermode & Mayo radio show while promoting the film Lincoln, he was pretty candid. In fact, let’s leave the “apparently” out of it. Its director, Steven Spielberg, apparently isn’t much of a fan of it either. If you’ve never quite warmed to Hook, then you’re not alone.

Hook happy thoughts