5 Great Movies That People Randomly Started Hating
5. Hook
We are going to start with a movie that I admit wasn't a critical favourite when it was first released, but still, the critics aren't always right. Hook is an excellent family movie full of imagination and wonderful images (though with now slightly dated effects) for kids and adults alike to immerse themselves in. It has a great plot which answers the age old question what if Peter Pan grew up? Combine that with performances from Robin Williams at his height and the double act of Hook and Smee, played by Dustin Hoffman and the movie's scene-stealer Bob Hoskins respectively, and you have a winning formula. As a child of the 90's perhaps my love of this movie is predominantly driven by nostalgia, but regardless of whether you liked Hook or not, I refuse to believe that anyone actually thinks it is as bad as modern critics make it out to be.
Though the audience and the critics often disagree about movies for example the Transformers franchise which despite bad reviews makes millions of dollars I struggle to remember another movie that is so beloved by a certain generation of people, and yet so detested by the critics. Though I do believe professional film criticism is important, I have always tried to follow the belief that a person should form their own opinions. As such I tend not to let what the critics think of a film bother me, but in the case of Hook I just can't let it go. Having watched the film again attempting to set any inkling of nostalgia aside, I of course did find some problems, the previously mentioned special effects and some of the child actors aren't great, but whoever said that they were?
Not long after completing and contemplating this more critical view of the movie, I realised what I had just done was inherently stupid. No right minded person has ever claimed that Hook is one of the great family films of our times or the 90's kids version of The Goonies. Simply put, Hook is a fun movie. When you have so many child actors of course some of them will suck and it is silly to hold something against the special effects a twenty year old movie. The critics got this one wrong back then and they are still getting it wrong now. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but sadly more and more of the public are beginning to fall in line with the critical opinion and the films reputation is suffering for it.