I actually met Andie MacDowell at the Fine Arts Theatre in my hometown! At the time she was promoting a documentary about the horrifying effects of the civil conflict in the Congo during the 2000's (the details too graphic and depressing for me to describe here) and was showcasing it with the ticket sale proceeds going to aid refugees of the conflict. She's a really nice lady and has done charity work for other causes, including animal rescue!
I can see that. I recall watching, I think it was one of those Intelligence Squared debates where the topic was faith versus atheism and she randomly popped up in the audience enquiring about beauty in nature. Nice surprise.
That line about Whitney Houston should have been followed by the classic Simpsons bit of Bleeding Gums Murphey singing the National Anthem at a Springfield Isotopes game, and stretching THAT into half an hour.
Whoops... Wrong comment... Buut.. Who cares... Also Deep blue sea (also directed by Renny Harlin) would be nice. Once you finish this series, of course☺️
You took the words right out of my mouth!! As a fellow French woman myself, I'm offended but at the same time I don't have hard feelings about throwing shades at my country because it's hilarious. We French people do it all the time to each other anyway. Besides I'm also half English so I'm allowed to laugh at that 😜.
Yeah,now he looks like he is in Xanax. Apparently,he forgets his lines and never shows up on set. That´s why he work in VOD films...they have 10 pages of screenplay and took less than a month to make.
Apparently he only takes movies where he needs to show up on set for just 1 day and use a double for everytime he doesn't need to show his face. He won't even take fun cameos, Andy Samberg has been trying to get him on Brooklyn Nine Nine for years.
Plus, Lethal Weapon 2 was obscenely overrated, yeah, I said it, and, I'm standing by it, the third, and, fourth, films, were atrocities, the original was magnificent, though.
@@nicesoncashguy201 No, I only hate, 2, 4, and, 5, the original is a classic, and, the third, is pretty good, as well, Alan Rickman, and, Jeremy Irons, were great.
Man, I never knew this movie won the Razzie for Worst Picture. I thought it was a pretty funny action packed film, with a plot that sounds like a cross between Goldfinger and Raiders of The Lost Ark.
Not only did it win worst picture, it bombed so badly that Bruce Willis said it cut his salary in half in Hollywood because it was such a huge failure. I always liked it, but yeah this film was *hated*. It was a punchline on SNL for years when they referenced something bombing.
It is. It gets better with repeated viewings, too, as you get to learn the intricacies of the weird-ass characters. It's also quotable as hell. "Every schmo has a fantasy that the world revolves around them. It rains, a car crash happens, they say "how can this happen to me?" Or the much shorter and punchier "How's my driving!? 1-800- I'm gonna fuckin' die!"
@@danielgehring7437 I like Hudson Hawk. This dude with C.E. is splitting hairs with all of his little complaints. Someone should tell this guy that,in Back to the Future,they really didn't travel through time.
I actually like Hudson Hawk, it's one of those films that is so strangely bad and ludicrous that it's actually enjoyable to watch. For your information "laser" or Light beam security systems do not exist. The technology to create them does, but they are so easy to fool that no one uses them. Mythbusters were able to fool some, they made themselves, with junk found around their workshop. Most high tech security systems, from TV and the Movies aren't used in everyday life as they are far too complicated and difficult to maintain. You would spend too much time and resources just keeping the conflicting systems running. Most security is still done with cameras (motion activated and continuous sweep), digital/key locks, security guards and freakishly thick walls and vaults.
I'm with you, it's no goodfellas but it wasn't trying to be. Danny and Bruce are an awesome combo and if you don't enjoy Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard camping it up, well we just ain't gonna be friends. I've been in the closet way too long, I don't just like this movie - I love this movie.
This movie is so so soooooo campy. And whether you like this movie or not depends on whether you get camp. And camp is such over the top approach, and it is just such a specific sense of humor, that it is completely understandable that many people dont like it.
Apparently Richard E. Grant devoted an entire chapter of the book With Nails to discussing his time making this movie. I understand the film did well in Japan, mostly because Eddie reminded them of Lupin III. Given the "success" of the live-action Lupin films, I can see them gravitating to this.
Obviously. Not to mention that the utter lack of seriousness that is showcased right at the start of this movie means that anyone starting to snoop around for inaccuracies is missing the point by about a mile or two.
Why do I love this movie so much... This is one of those examples where I just don't get the hate. I found the flim to be so consistently creative and the humor completely unique...its also very rewatchable... this had the same vibes as Big Trouble in Little China.. I love this type of storytelling..
Funny, I saw this in theaters (summer of '91) unaware of reviews, box office receipts, behind-the-scenes problems, etc. Me and my buddies ENJOYED IT! I doubt this guy was even born then and talks like he's made The Godfather.
My dad showed me this film years ago and it became a fun film to watch. Yeah, I consider it a fun time and a bit of a guilty pleasure. I'd recommend having a beer while watching and watching it with some friends. Also if Richard E. Grant seems familiar, that's because he starred in Logan back in 2017. He was the asshole that was about to monologue before Logan shot him.
The idea is that the times he's quoting will be how long it takes him and Tommy to sing the song mid-heist, considering how often they'll have to stop and be quiet to let a guard pass or whatever (as is evidenced in the heist scene). It's not supposed to be a sign of his weird encyclopedic knowledge but how many of these heists he's pulled off and practiced the skill. Not that you don't still have a point, I've just seen this movie way too many frickin' times.
Hudson Hawk is a great film. Its comedy/ adventure and irony with wonderful timing and panache. Stylish, clever and beautifully shot. Great one liners and comic scenes. Sandra Bernhard and Richard E Grant are hysterical. These two actors pick their roles carefully. Its a cult favourite. It did poorly at the box office due to a backlash against Bruce Willis by movie snobs. Watch without prejudice and enjoy. Its a gem of a film.
North almost killed the career of Elijah Wood, ironically, the bad press saved his career as he became more selective, unlike his contemporary Macaulay Culkin.
North did claim the directorial career of Rob Reiner, following the smash hit A Few Good Men, this disaster dealt him a career blow that he only survived due to his early successes.
I actually kinda liked this movie when I was younger and stumbled across it a few years after it came out. That was mainly because I liked Bruce Willis from Die Hard and Last Boyscout and the movie was just completely bugnuts insane.
Hudson Hawk is actually a great comedy if you watch the German dubbed version, which does not care about the original dialogue at all but instead opts for the wackiest mile-a-minute one-liners
Honestly surprised you didn't mention the the troubled production that this film had. Behind the scenes there were constant rewrites and clashes with Willis and the director among other things. It was so bad that Richard E Grant dedicated an entire chapter to it in his autobiography.
I think Kit Kat was a great character. He kind of embodies the idea/failings of mimicking others in order to fit in. Also, his arc is Shakespearean levels of tragic: he starts out with the villains and ends up using his last moments alive to save Anna. His cards remind me of trying to plan for potential conversations when I was growing up.
This movie is one of my guilty pleasures. My brother and I discovered it as teenagers and watched it probably 10 to 15 times. It is really stupid but somehow hugely enjoyable. Although that might be the German dubbing, I think they often put in their own jokes (probably while drunk or high - or both, like with The Persuaders) and it is great.
Trey Broughton Yeah....that needs to be reviewed. It tries to be cute...but it’s kinda disturbing. Apparently, Santa uses child slave labor, not elves. And his home is not at the North Pole, but rather “high up in the clouds.”
I love this film.. a typical 80s/early 90s adventure, no emotional investment required, just good fun and quite enjoyable if you suspend your disbelief and just accept it for what it is...
I always find it funny that a heap of people I know that love Anime hate live action that doesn't follow the laws of physics. If a film is meant to be in the real world it gives me the shits, but this film is so obviously a cartoon I think it works. Or you can just treat it as a spoof of 80's action, most of them are just as stilly
This was definitely the one year where Sly Stallone did NOT end up winning Worst Actor. And i'm also glad that Nothing But Trouble (one of my favorite supposedly bad movies) didn't win anything apart from Dan Akyroyd winning Worst Supporting Actor.
Maybe it's me, but I couldn't stop watching and rewatching this movie on VHS. It was quirky, eccentric and fun. I loved the weird characters, and watching Richard E Grant and James Coburn chew the scenery. Guilty pleasure, M'Lud. Guilty as charged.
11:43 They actually explain this: they want the heists to be clean and without casualties so they don't draw unwanted trouble. Eddie is willing to do that. Caplan just killed everyone.
Huh, I always thought the title was referring to Bruce's character (he's from NY and gets on top of buildings to "swipe" things like a hawk). Anyway, loved the movie and the cartoony humor, primarily because of the cast and their enthusiasm while delivering the silliest dialogue imaginable. This is not even remotely the worst movie of the year. Arguably, it's great, if you love the cast and the comedic style the movie is going for. By the way, the original plot was even sillier. There was a deleted subplot about Kaplan killing Hawk's pet monkey Little Eddie, for example. Speaking of Cool as Ice, you could always change the rules and review both the movie that won the Razzie for worst picture AND the movie you personally see as the worst movie of that year - especially when it comes to Cool as Ice. You can't just drop that title and not cover the glorious cheesy nonsensical ego trip and basically a kids commercial for Ice's media persona and, at the time, his mega hit album that the film/film-length music video represents.
Yes, that's the one where Melanie Griffith plays some deep cover operative acquiring the secret papers showing the German long-range missile program in World War II. The drama is in finding out whether or not she and Michael Douglas will make it out. This is undercut by the framing device in which badly aged future versions of the characters are narrating the whole thing. Memorably, Melanie Griffith asks Michael Douglas to taste her strudel and it doesn't lead to a reenactment of the best scenes in Basic Instinct.
I'm surprised that The Bodyguard was nominated in the same year as that film. I mean, it's not an amazing movie, and Whitney Houston's version of I Will Always Love You is more remembered than the film itself, but....REALLY??
Oh, thank goodness, I did my normal Googling what was next, and I never heard of it either. However, have heard of Cool As Ice, mostly due to scrolling through the Rifftrax section of Amazon Prime. Haven't watched it yet, and hearing your thoughts of it, kinda curious now what stuff Mike, Kevin, and Bill have to say, so may do that. Thank you.
There's another bit early on where the film fails basic addition. They say the scenes with Da Vinci are set in 1481 and the rest of the film is set exactly 500 years later. That would mean that the film is set in 1981 rather than it's release year of 1991, but there's a ton of references to stuff from after 1981, like talking about the NES at one point. Hell, the super bowl that Whitney Houston sang at was also in 1991, yet these guys failed to realize based on their math, they have it set ten years before then.
Most of the movies I loved when I was in my early teens, I hate when rewatching. This, on the other hand, is not the case with Hudson Hawk. I loved it back then. And I still love it now. For it's campiness. For the energy it carries. And pure charm.
How dare you, I loved this movie as an 8 year old and even though I havn't seen it since, I cannot concieve of it no longer living up to my nostalgic memory...because that never happens.
One thing you missed. At the beginning, it mentions the bronze shortage due to the war but, it also claims da Vinci originally built his machine to convert lead to bronze but it ended up turning lead to gold for some reason. Bronze, by the way, is not a naturally occurring element. It actually a combination of copper and a small amount of tin. Something that a smart guy like Leonardo da Vinci would know.
The part where they jump of the building and then just end up back at the Mario's with no explanation on how they miraculously survived reminds me of a joke in The Simpsons episode "The Last Temptation Of Homer. Homer, Lenny, Carl and Charlie (does anyone remember Charlie?) play a prank on a worker which causes a radioactive Gas leak. They run to the emergency exit only to find that it's painted on and the gas consumes them and they collapses. The scene than cuts to Mr Burns's office where Charlie (Again does anyone remember Charlie?) is saying That he won't bore Mr Burns with details of there miraculous escape, but they need a proper emergency exit.
I remember enjoying this film in theaters at the tender age of 20. It was a fun time and my pals and I laughed it up at the goofiness. I have never revisited this picture since then, as I know it would not live up to the fond memory. IT was just something about that time, my age, and my friends which would not be present now.
This Movie ended up exactly as intended and it's actually really good. I also bet a ton more people have watched/liked this movie since '91. Premiere week also had What About Bob playing, also a great flick.
