Robots

[Brenna]

I like Hook too. It used to be one of my favorite movies, actually.

[Fellfrosch]

It's not as bad as I make it out to be, but it is bad--in my opinion, at least, which is the only perspective I can possibly speak from. It's episodic, poorly acted, overly melodramatic, and has more "meaningful moment" climaxes than any seventeen other movies combined. I'm not saying I'd sooner slam my hand in a door than watch it again, but...maybe a couple of fingers.

[JP Dogberry]

I liked Hook when I was about ten years old.

[Skar]

No one has mentioned TOYS.  Which totally overcomes all other "good" movies he's ever made.  What utter crap.

Serious films, I think he's been OK in some, Good Will Hunting being at the top of the list.  I liked Patch Adams as well.  And while Aladdin should count, TOYS still overshadows it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I didn't think toys was THAT bad. I mean, it's no Gigli. I kind of enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was a high point in film. Plus, it's surreal, but it's not funny. I don't think it was meant to be funny. It's a serious film if you have to pin it down between the two.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Ok, I never knew about it, but the TV ad for Toys which had Williams just making stuff up adendum was the greatest commercial ever and the best part about that movie. I'll have to rent it on DVD and see if it has the commercial on it.

Nanu nanu

[fuzzyoctopus]

overly melodramatic

Not possible.  But there's the problem right there, if you live in some bizzare world where there's such a thing as too much melodrama, no wonder we can't see eye to eye.

[Fellfrosch]

It all becomes clear.

As for Toys, I hardly consider it a good movie, but I enjoy the surrealism, and I especially enjoy LL Cool J. Of course I recognize that much of your hatred for it comes from its vitriolic anti-war message, but I always ignored that part--I just liked the idea of a guy who's gravestone was a giant elephant that blue bubbles from its trunk.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

that was a really hard sentence to read, what with the homophone and all.

[Skar]

It's been a while since I saw it, and I'll never watch it again, but I didn't object to the anti-war message.  I am very anti-war.  War is bad and to be avoided, always has been, always will be.  The message that bugged me so much was the idea that if all the soldiers would just die or get a lobotomy there would be no more war.  It was the anti-soldier message that bugged me.

[Archon]

Oh come on, I thought that Hook was a great movie. You have to love a movie in which the main message in it is to make sure to have fun and be a kid sometimes, to never grow up to where you dont know what it is like to be a kid anymore. There were a lot of other good messages in there if you look for them. Besides that, it had some pretty funny parts to it.

[EUOL]

I'm going to go with Skar about Toys.  Ouch.  I lasted about a half hour into that stinker.

As for Hook--it was an interesting idea with good directing, but somehow just a little too...Hollywood to be excellent.  Reading Terry Brook's thoughts on the movie (he wrote the novelization) doesn't help my opinion of it any.

[Fellfrosch]

I find it impossible to like or dislike a movie based on its message, Archon. You can't judge movies or books on what they are about, only on how they are about it. At least I can't.

And yes, Skar, I meant to say anti-military, not anti-war. I apologize for the slip.

[Spriggan]

Umm I think you're all forgetting about William's best movie, which was funny at many times, Good morning Vietnam.  If you haven't seen it, go rent it.

[Fellfrosch]

I actually mentioned Good Morning Vietnam in my list of good Williams movies. I counted it as a drama, but it does have very funny parts in it.