Hook w. Carolyn Kendrick
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
There you are, Peter! We talk Hook, bad dads, the magic of youth, and Spielbergian camp with the spectacular Carolyn Kendrick.
You can find Carolyn online here.
The Music of You Are Good: Vol I can be found on Bandcamp here! You can stream the album here!
We made a playlist to accompany this episode! It's comprised of songs that come to mind when we all think about this movie.
Here's the Discord!
You Are Good is a feelings podcast about movies.
You can find us on Twitter, Instagram and Patreon.
You can find producer and music director Carolyn Kendrick's music here. She's also on Twitter.
Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.
Abigail Swartz of Gray Day Studio designed our logo!
Links:
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/youaregood
- Carolyn: https://www.carolynkendrick.com/
- The Music of You Are Good: https://carolynkendrick.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-you-are-good-vol-1
- The Music of You Are Good Streaming: https://linktr.ee/youaregood
- Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nsSCyPjZmFzBIQtdkuIM2?si=f84645bb7f0145c6
- Discord: https://discord.gg/pCuEE6ms5h
- Website: https://www.podpage.com/dashboard/you-are-good/
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/youaregoodpod/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/youaregoodpod/
- Carolyn's Website: https://www.carolynkendrick.com/
- Carolyn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carekendrick
- Fresh Lesh: https://www.freshlesh.com/
- Gray Day Studio: https://www.graydaystudio.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, you're listening to you are good feelings podcast about movies I am one |
| 0:11.4 | of your co-host Alex steed I will be joined by the wonderful Sarah Marshall my co-host |
| 0:16.8 | and a few moments. We're joined in this episode by Carolyn Kendrick who is our fabulous producer |
| 0:21.9 | and music director. We thought this was going to be a bonus episode actually but we've been |
| 0:26.3 | trying to get together a good fellas episode this was to come out this week for a while but |
| 0:31.2 | once in a while I'm reminded that this show is organized by a couple of toruses sometimes we |
| 0:36.5 | just aren't able to get things out according to a plan or a schedule or an agenda so we have |
| 0:43.9 | hook this is the movie people have been asking for since we started the podcast especially back |
| 0:48.8 | when we were called why our dads which was a show that was a more forward about exploring |
| 0:54.6 | relationships with dads of course this is a movie about a dad who's you know relearning how to |
| 1:00.8 | be a kid which was once very very important to him which was his whole life philosophy until |
| 1:07.4 | being a grown up being a pirate took over this perspective so yeah this is this is about that |
| 1:14.0 | a lot of people have asked for this movie so I'm glad that we're finally able to cover it I didn't |
| 1:19.0 | know until we covered this movie that this is not loved by critics my experience is summed up in |
| 1:25.4 | this great av club piece that asks is hook Steven Spielberg's worst movie or just his most |
| 1:31.0 | excessive and Jesse Hassinger in that piece writes the following I was 11 in 1991 when hook came out |
| 1:38.8 | and the exact right exennial age to forgive the movie its myriad successes and embarrassments |
| 1:44.0 | just as those a few years older than me are liable to forgive the goonies in those a few years younger |
| 1:50.0 | may forgive hookahs focus on and on in both directions throughout the history of chinchy kids movies |
| 1:55.7 | that was me you know I was a kid when this came out it was like a big movie and I just assumed |
| 2:00.4 | that everyone loved it had Robin Williams in it what's not to love we talk a bit about the |
| 2:04.8 | critical assessment in this episode and we talk a little bit about you know maybe why it fell flat |
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