{"id":1922240,"date":"2023-05-01T19:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-hudson-hawk-is-the-bruce-williest-bruce-willis-movie\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:00:56","slug":"why-hudson-hawk-is-the-bruce-williest-bruce-willis-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-hudson-hawk-is-the-bruce-williest-bruce-willis-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u201cHudson Hawk\u201d Is the Bruce Williest Bruce Willis Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-hudson-hawk-is-the-bruce-williest-bruce-willis-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Why &#8220;Hudson Hawk&#8221; is a Cult Classic<\/h2>\n<p>When &#8220;Hudson Hawk&#8221; was released in 1991, it was met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-tries-re-releasing-old-movies-as-it-reels-from-dismal-box-office-numbers\/\" title=\"Disney Tries Re-Releasing Old Movies As It Reels From Dismal Box Office Numbers\">dismal box office numbers<\/a> and a library&#8217;s worth of bad press. But how hated was it really?<\/p>\n<p>A good indicator of just where Bruce Willis&#8217; dream project sat in the culture can be found in a review from Stephen Hunter, then a film critic for the Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n<h3>The Review<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Has any movie in recent history been so savaged so quickly? Across America, critics high and low, left and right, pedant and genius, plot-synopsizer and gestalt-decoder, agree on one thing: this sucker stinks. That leaves two of us \u2014 myself and a critic in a city 40 miles to the south \u2014 who dared to like the film,&#8221; Hunter wrote. &#8220;How could I like &#8216;Hudson Hawk&#8217; so much? It&#8217;s easy. When I sat down in the theater I started to laugh and I laughed for two hours. So sue me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the negative reviews, &#8220;Hudson Hawk&#8221; has become a cult classic in recent years, earning retrospective praises for being a one-of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-hudson-hawk-is-the-bruce-williest-bruce-willis-movie\/\" title=\"Why \u201cHudson Hawk\u201d Is the Bruce Williest Bruce Willis Movie\">-a-kind cinematic left hook<\/a>. It may be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-who-resisted-reopening-schools-took-thousands-from-teacher-unions\/\" title=\"Democrats Who Resisted Reopening Schools Took Thousands From Teacher Unions\">vanity project<\/a>, but it&#8217;s a vanity project only Willis could make.<\/p>\n<h3>The Plot<\/h3>\n<p>Willis stars as Eddie Hawkins, a legendary cat burglar fresh out of prison who just wants a cappuccino. He almost immediately finds himself running from security guards and secret agents with his pal Tommy Five-Tone (Aiello) and trying to save the world \u2026 or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>The movie never takes its plot all that seriously, so viewers are advised not to either.<\/p>\n<h3>The Humor<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Hudson Hawk&#8221; breaks the fourth wall and includes humor that had some critics scratching their heads. They couldn&#8217;t figure out what Willis was doing as Caruso&#8217;s mute Kit Kat repeatedly pops up and characters survive explosive situations, Looney Tunes-style.<\/p>\n<p>The height of the film comes early when Willis and Aiello perform Bing Crosby&#8217;s &#8220;Swinging on a Star&#8221; as they pull off a heist, using the song to time the robbery. It&#8217;s clever, sharp, charming and unique. It&#8217;s the longest stretch of film where it feels everyone is aiming for, and hitting the exact same target.<\/p>\n<h3>The Legacy<\/h3>\n<p>There are a number of incredible works that highlight Willis&#8217; talent, but none show the artist clearer than &#8220;Hudson Hawk.&#8221; There are still explosions and Willis is sarcastic as ever, but this is also arguably when the actor had the most creative control in his career.<\/p>\n<p>He decided to pour all of his juice into a madhouse production based on an insane idea two starving artists concocted while Hollywood was just a dream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hudson Hawk&#8221; is the Bruce Williest Bruce Willis movie, and in a world where he&#8217;ll never grace the screen again, that&#8217;s something to appreciate more and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> You can learn more about frontotemporal degeneration at The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author:<\/strong> Zachary Leeman is the author of the novel &#8220;Nigh&#8221; from publisher Gilded Masque and has covered politics and culture for LifeZette, Mediaite, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you, this wasn&#8217;t just any old bad review. Hunter called &#8220;Hudson Hawk&#8221; the &#8220;worst movie ever made.&#8221; Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1991, Bruce Willis had a dream project that he poured his heart and soul into. But when &#8220;Hudson Hawk&#8221; hit theaters, it was met with a tidal wave of hate. The box office numbers were dismal, and the bad press was enough to fill a library. But perhaps the most scathing review came from Stephen Hunter, a film critic for the Baltimore Sun. He didn&#8217;t just pan the movie &#8211; he called it the &#8220;worst movie ever made.&#8221; Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1922241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5747,17799,11916,4868,25535,15093],"class_list":["post-1922240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bruce","tag-hawk","tag-hudson","tag-movie","tag-williest","tag-willis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}