Hook (1991)

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Wikidata Q646389, film, IMDb tt0102057, TMDB 879: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Charlie Korsmo as actor (‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan); 3 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Christopher Robin: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Hook ⇒ Christopher Robin (the host's read). Hook foreshadowed reboot culture; Christopher Robin is basically Hook again.
    “Like, we're actually literally getting a version of Hook this year with Christopher Robin, the new Winnie the Pooh movie”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Connected to

Raiders of the Lost Ark: 2 lines contrast ×1 programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Hook → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode.
    “We will have a defender on the episode.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 2 lines verdict ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Hook → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg himself said he lacked faith in Hook's meat and covered with bigger sets and colors.
    “I didn't have a lot of faith in the meat of the movie, and I cover for it by being like, make the sense bigger”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:35:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Christopher Robin: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Hook → Christopher Robin. Hook foreshadowed reboot culture; Christopher Robin is basically Hook again.
    “Like, we're actually literally getting a version of Hook this year with Christopher Robin, the new Winnie the Pooh movie”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Hocus Pocus: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (nostalgia trap): Hook → Hocus Pocus. Both are named as films people canonize only because they aired constantly during childhood.
    “We have to stop canonizing things just because we saw them when we were young.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:39:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (pivot / better version): Hook → Jurassic Park. Hook is where Spielberg turns parent, and Jurassic Park is the better telling of the same father story.
    “Jurassic Park is the much better version of what the story that Huck is trying to do.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:24:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Robin Williams: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Hook → Robin Williams. Williams's antic performance comes out of the peak of his movie stardom.
    “this was really in the heyday of Robin Williams's movie stardom.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Hook → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hook has no sense of struggle on air-conditioned sets; Raiders feels like a military operation.
    “Hook, there's like no tension, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:34:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Hook → Christopher Robin. Hook foreshadowed reboot culture; Christopher Robin is basically Hook again.
    “Like, we're actually literally getting a version of Hook this year with Christopher Robin, the new Winnie the Pooh movie”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Hook → Robin Williams. Williams's antic performance comes out of the peak of his movie stardom.
    “this was really in the heyday of Robin Williams's movie stardom.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Hook → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode.
    “We will have a defender on the episode.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Hook → Hook. Hook was a hugely anticipated Premiere-magazine movie when it came out.
    “Hook was a very big premiere magazine, news and notes movie.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (creator's own verdict): Hook → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg himself calls Hook a disaster and his biggest mistake, so hosts argue nostalgia should not rehabilitate it.
    “he says he thinks hook sucks.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:38:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (nostalgia trap): Hook → Hocus Pocus. Both are named as films people canonize only because they aired constantly during childhood.
    “We have to stop canonizing things just because we saw them when we were young.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:39:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (pivot / better version): Hook → Jurassic Park. Hook is where Spielberg turns parent, and Jurassic Park is the better telling of the same father story.
    “Jurassic Park is the much better version of what the story that Huck is trying to do.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:24:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Hook → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg himself said he lacked faith in Hook's meat and covered with bigger sets and colors.
    “I didn't have a lot of faith in the meat of the movie, and I cover for it by being like, make the sense bigger”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:35:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Hook: Spielberg thinks Hook sucks and calls it his biggest mistake; hosts say only nostalgia explains its revival.
    “my biggest mistake.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:38:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Hook: Premiere-magazine-era gossip about Julia Roberts and Dustin Hoffman's dark Captain Hook.
    “Dustin Hoffman is like a very, he's he's dark in this movie as Captain Hook, you know?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:30:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Hook: Rufio's chant echoes forever in the speaker's mind.
    “I also just the chance of Rufio in the back of my mind echoing forever.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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