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Hudson Hawk ain't that bad. it's a fun little thing. it's basically a live action Lupin III movie, and the antagonists are all delightfully insane. it has some great well choreographed action. Hudson Hawk is a solid 3.5/5 Fight me.
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Sorry op, but I'm not gonna watch it - on account of a lot of ppl with good opinions having said it's bad, and all the good movies that I haven't seen yet. Glad u enjoyed it tho 
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Dec 10, 2015 07:34
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Hat Thoughts posted:Sorry op, but I'm not gonna watch it - on account of a lot of ppl with good opinions having said it's bad, and all the good movies that I haven't seen yet. Glad u enjoyed it tho It is t a very long film. It is amusing. I just do t get why it's a benchmark for poo poo. I I realize I'm not coming g across as the greatest defender it could have, but I firmly believe that watching Hudson Hawk is not a total waste of time.
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Dec 10, 2015 07:41
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Daniel Waters' screenwriting trajectory is one of the most spectacular Crash and Burns I've ever seen. It's like Alex Proyas-level poo poo.
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Dec 10, 2015 08:43
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Loved this movie as a kid. Thought the singing while stealing was cool.
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Dec 10, 2015 10:02
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Robotnik Nudes, how drunk are you? Cuz I am also pretty drunk and am ready to chainsmoke and agree.
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Dec 10, 2015 10:13
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I love Castle of Cagliostro a lot so I'll just watch that once a year or so instead of ever watching Hudson Hawk.
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Dec 10, 2015 10:21
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It starts supid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uZK7vrgz4Q and stays supid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZzhBShKkw and is stupid.
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Dec 10, 2015 11:21
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Ah, man, it's defending Hudson Hawk gonna be the most controversial CineD opinion yet? 'Cause I'm loving in. It's a pretty fun movie that I did not have high hopes for. My roommate showed it to me, and I thought it had some real fun gags and performances. I know it won't be accepted as great without a big effort-post-y essay, but I'm too tired for that right now.
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Dec 10, 2015 12:16
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Hudson Hawk infamously went over budget so badly and did such bad business at the box office that it was the final nail in TriStar's coffin and Sony absorbed them into Columbia Pictures as a result. Richard E Grant spent an entire chapter in his autobiography 'With Nails' writing about how crazy poo poo got behind the scenes. There's a rumour that one of the contributing factors to the film blowing out its budget so much was that Bruce Willis insisted they spend four million on CGI-ing his receding hairline. 
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Dec 10, 2015 12:50
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Robotnik Nudes posted:I realize I'm not coming g across as the greatest defender it could have, but I firmly believe that watching Hudson Hawk is not a total waste of time. It already has a greatest defender. Here's Bruce Willis himself defending the film for 29 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEylLXFdcck
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Dec 10, 2015 12:58
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Robotnik Nudes posted:a total waste of time.
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Dec 10, 2015 13:00
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bunch of sissies itt who didnt like hudson hawk
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Dec 10, 2015 13:41
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Hudson Hawk is like one of the most misunderstood movies out there. It's this goofy R-rated action comedy that was horridly mismarketed. tl;dr - Hudson Hawk is awesome. 
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Dec 10, 2015 14:26
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DarkSol posted:It's this goofy R-rated action comedy that was horridly mismarketed. TriStar got real scared and tried to ride Die Hard 2's coattails
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Dec 10, 2015 14:54
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:TriStar got real scared and tried to ride Die Hard 2's coattails I think if they had marketed it properly, it would have done better. That said, I'm not sure how much better. I can't think of any slapstick action movies that were R around that time period. The movie is clearly not meant to be taken seriously. I mean, there's a guy getting stoned off his rear end within the first five minutes of the movie! Literally, but come on!!
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Dec 10, 2015 14:59
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If you're picking between this and Die Hard 2, Die Hard 2 is the safer bet but I'll ride for it. Hudson Hawk is insanely annoying.
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Dec 10, 2015 15:29
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I don't think the problem with HUDSON HAWK was the marketing, I think it was everything else. It's like Bruno's OCEAN'S 12 except that exactly one person is having fun.
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Dec 10, 2015 15:54
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One of my friends in college was head over heels for this movie and he reintroduced it to me. At the time I remembered it as some nearly anonymous movie from my youth that spawned one of those NES games that seemingly only existed so that clueless grandmothers could buy it for soon to be disappointed children at Christmastime. It was... I dunno. It felt like an egotistic star wanted to create a wacky out there adventure, like Buckaroo Bonzai, but couldn't resist the urge to make it a charmless vanity piece. I didn't hate it though. Well, I sort of hated it. I hated it in a way that made me happy. I guess that also describes how I feel about Bruce Willis in general.
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Dec 10, 2015 17:03
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Look movies can only fail as hard as their pretensions. Hudson Hawk was badly bungled, but it had a few good parts and there is a really great version of it in some alternate dimension where the filmmakers settled on a tone and Bruce Willis is less of a gaping dickhole. Also, Andie MacDowell is particularly terrible and can only be good in movies as good as Groundhog Day. The hint of goodness in a lovely movie irritates some people more than the rampaging shittiness of movies that are fully terrible and would never have been made in a perfect world.
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Dec 10, 2015 23:35
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I had a massive crush on Andie MacDowell until I saw her in this piece of poo poo.
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Dec 11, 2015 01:08
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hey you want me to gently caress him -what a guy says about another guy in hudon hawk movie film
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Dec 11, 2015 01:29
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Consistent tone is for fuckers.
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DarkSol posted:I think if they had marketed it properly, it would have done better. That said, I'm not sure how much better. I can't think of any slapstick action movies that were R around that time period. Maybe Ford Fairlaine and Cool World, perhaps, maybe Dead Heat just a bit earlier. It didn't seem like outside of Beverly Hills Cop that the action-comedy sort of found their audience until maybe post-MiB and Austin Powers and the Scary Movie franchise by the second half of the 90s. edit: Looking at R-rated flicks of 1991, there are a lot of R-rated comedies that did lackluster business, espcially those that tried to have a crime/action angle to them. From a quick glance on BOMojo, you have Hudson Hawk, but also Marrying Man, VI Warchowski, Rage in Harlem, The Hard Way that were sort of infamous for their lack of success. Most of them would have probably been PG-13 affairs just decade later either due to studio cuts to make them more marketable or just changing social acceptance, I'd suspect. Considering 2001 the only notable R-rated comedy films are sequels to the films that revived raunchy R-rated teen comedies like American Pie 2, Scary Movie 2, a Bridget Jones movie a bunch of more indie affairs or low-budget films that have probably been largely forgotten that maybe got greenlit due to the above said raunchy R-rated comedy boom. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Dec 11, 2015 06:02
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Hudson Hawk being good or not is up for opinion but the reason why it's so notorious is it's a Studio Killer (Heaven's Gate with MGM and The Golden Compass with New Line are two others) which is the worst kind of bomb.
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Dec 11, 2015 20:42
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The chapter from Richard E Grant's book about this are pretty great, though it's really nothing that you couldn't already have guessed. It was a movie without any sort of real vision behind it that was constantly being changed all the way through shooting. I think it's clear that Willis wanted something that was going to be a little off-beat and I think more personality driven, and I dare say there's actually a fun idea in there somewhere (The heist scenes are actually fun) but the whole thing is just an utter mess that flounders desperately. Also, Andie Macdowell was literally cast at the last minute since the original actress pulled out with a back injury. In fact they were already into principal shooting before she was cast, likely meaning that she was the only actress who was A) Sort of well known and B) Actually available at the time.
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Dec 11, 2015 22:19
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zardoz was pretty good too
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Robotnik Nudes posted:Hudson Hawk ain't that bad. it's a fun little thing. it's basically a live action Lupin III movie, and the antagonists are all delightfully insane. it has some great well choreographed action. It's dum, bad, and not funny. Did you watch it yet?
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ZenMaster posted:zardoz was pretty good too Pretty good?
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so many wrong opinions. Hudson hawk is incredible. Look at it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX_jCwNTKHU Look at that loving glorious trainwreck. I love it.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:43
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My father says it's his favorite Bruce Willis movie. I didn't believe him until I watched it and realized that he was right. It's probably the most fun Bruce Willis movie.
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Dec 12, 2015 04:35
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Gritty reboot
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Dec 12, 2015 04:54
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Want me to rape them?
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Dec 12, 2015 05:25
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It's a deeply flawed movie that couldn't decide what it wanted to be, but I'll always appreciate it for a bad guy getting his head cut off and Bruce Willis' character quipping "I guess he won't be attending that hat convention in July."
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It's been so long since I've seen it, but it's sort of a proto-Austin Powers romp. You've got a lot of similar things going in in both films. Characters who were once at the top of their game and emerge into a new era they don't fully understand. Musical numbers. 60s spy caper homages. I think In Like Flint sound effects were used in both and even Demi Moore was a producer for at least one of the Austin Powers films. We should get one of those companies that specialize in crossover comics of movie franchises to do a Hudson Hawk vs. Austin Powers with Goldmember hunting down Da Vinci's machine or something. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Dec 12, 2015 07:24
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I do not understand how anyone can hate Hudson Hawk. Do you hate fun?
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Judakel posted:I do not understand how anyone can hate Hudson Hawk. Do you hate fun? No truer quote than this. This movie is fun and so low brow is good. It's like what National Treasure would be if it were made in the 90's. Bunny, ball ball!
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screenwritersblues posted:My father says it's his favorite Bruce Willis movie. I didn't believe him until I watched it and realized that he was right. It's probably the most fun Bruce Willis movie. The Last Boyscout and I would like a word with you. Also, I assume you mean that it's the most fun Bruce Willis movie that is not one of the first three Die Hard films?
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Ensign_Ricky posted:The Last Boyscout and I would like a word with you.
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BUNNY BALL BALL Always made me laugh.
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