10 Movies You Only Like Because Everybody Else Does

3. Hook (1991)

Steven Spielberg thinks that Hook is his worst film. And he's probably right.

Is that not enough to convince you that this mind-numbingly awkward, sugar-coated mess is actually a terrible motion picture? And yet you won't be heard, will you? Because you saw Hook when you were just a kid and back then you were immune to "bad" movies. When you're a kid, every movie is either "great" or "boring." You don't discover that they can be horrible and painful and genuinely terrible until you get to your teens and it all clicks.

There a tons and tons of people who grew up with Hook, and so the collective fanbase is huge and sprawling and totally in denial. These people don't care about the naff script or the terrible scenery or the genuinely misguided direction; they just like Rufio and the scenes where The Lost Boys have a good ol' time. They don't want to be told that it's awful.

But imagine if you sat down and watched this film for the first time right now, free from the nostalgia grip. The experience would likely be akin to watching Joe Wright's new (and equally terrible) Pan movie, which - and excuse the pun - was "panned" by everyone.

It's time to come to terms with Hook; just as its titular character did, it's time to grow up.