Who else was disappointed with the ending? Hooch was so great and then he died and it was really sad (I admit I got a bit choked up). But then...oh, great...Hooch's girlfriend had puppies and one of them is just a miniature version of his father...eh. This didn't make me any less sad about Hooch's death. Hooch cannot be replaced.
shareI was the same. It didn't make me any less sad. it was awful ending for a comedy.
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It was right to kill Hooch, if I was writing it that's how I would end it, just cause its a comedy doesn't mean you can't kill the dog to make it sad, to laugh all the way through the film then to cry at the end, you go through all the emotions and it works.
shareHis arc was complete. He goes from disliking Turner at the beginning to sacrificing himself to save Turner. In the end, Hooch died a hero. If Hooch had lived, it would have cheapened the ending.
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Omg it woz so sad.. he died threw helping his owner
them two had bin thro loads together
aww its awful =(
i kno some wil say goodway to end it lyk that other comment sayin u go thro all the emotions i certainly ddnt want hooch today its sad now that they finsihed such a good laugh of a film with somit so sad =(
least we know its not real tho x x
oops i wrote today insted of to die
shareIf they didn't kill hooch it'd be so crap, as soon as he got shot you'd be thinking "nah he'll be alright" which is what everyone probably does think which makes the shock of the death even better. Then you see turner going through the whole routine again with mini-hooch, good ending.
shareI cried every time too, but you can always let yourself think at least Hooch is with Amos now. Remember when Turner said, "You must miss Amos" I bet Hooch did. Amos owned him longer.
shareI have to say "Turner and Hooch" is one of my favorite Tom Hanks movies. At least when Hooch died he wasn't in pain for long. Also, a happy note was brought to the ending when Scott and Emily suppossedly got married, he got promoted to Chief of Police, and a new Hooch-like puppy entered the picture. Scott did not really change his ways, but showed that with every loss there is a gain (a new dog in this case). Great film!
shareDamn... what school you went?
shareI didn't like that Hooch died in the end either. It was just sad. This movie should have had a happy ending.
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Heh. My family owned this movie when I was real young. When I was around four or five I would watch it every day.
It never struck me odd that my favorite childhood movie involved a death like hooch's. But I suppose somehow in my own little child version of myself way I saw the ending as a re-birth rather than a "oh, a death happened and with it so does all happiness." I think it's a pretty ending.
AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT HOOCH IS KINDA LIKE JESUS.
As a Dog-lover I didn't like seeing that Hooch dies, but I do love the bit with
Hooch's own offspring at the end. Its cute and shows that there is a light at
the end of the Tunnel.
Silly ending, especially given that any offspring of a DDB male and a RC female would NOT turn out like the ones in the film. Crossbreeding just doesn't work like that. They'd be a hideous mixture of both breeds.
Mind you, considering the fashion these days of producing ridiculous crossbreeds, giving them a stupid name ("Yorkie-Poo" etc) and selling them to gullible, stupid people for exhorbitant amounts of money as "rare", a litter of DDB X RC would probably make a fortune for its unscrupulous breeder.
Come on everyone, i creid in honesty it was really sad but the way the little dog twists his head at the end was brilliant i was cetainly cheered up and thought it was a good ending
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I saw itfor the first time as a little kid, and the endingmade me very sad. The "Hooch puppy" at the end didn't make it okay for me.
shareI agree...and it especially didn't make sense that Hooch (a Bordeaux Mastiff) mated with the doc's dog (a collie) and you end up with all collie dogs and one Hooch. You would have ended up with 6 really mixed up looking dogs.
Being that it was a comedy, I think it was wrong for Hooch to die. It totally spoiled the film for me. Because you're laughing though the whole film and then you're in tears. If it had been a drama, it would have been different.
I got to meet Hooch. When the movie was running they had a publicity event at the mall where you could get your picture taken with Hooch. So here I was, an adult in line with all the kids. :) I still have the photo. BTW, he really does drool like in the movie. Between each photo the owner would lean over with a rag to wipe his mouth!
I say hooch dies and no puppies. I dont like a lack luster attempt to try and make me happy after I just got done blubbering like a 4 year old with a skinned knee. I think it would have made it alot more memorable...Say a late 80's "Ole Yeller".
Great Flick, Bad IMDB Rating.
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I say hooch dies and no puppies. I dont like a lack luster attempt to try and make me happy after I just got done blubbering like a 4 year old with a skinned knee. I think it would have made it alot more memorable...Say a late 80's "Ole Yeller".
It can't be denied that having Hooch die left a bad aftertaste for the entire film. You are really loving this dog by the end of the movie and to lose him like that just wasn't right.
shareI thought this was a family movie, and my 8 year old daughter, who loves dogs (as I do), watched it with me. I was pretty shocked to see that he died. You can't have a family movie and the gruesome death of a dog. Fortunately, she understood when I explained that they put barbecue sauce on Hooch and somehow kept him from licking it off.
Now, I've read the other posts on this site, and there is some validity to what they say that this ending is more realistic, and isn't the trite Hollywood ending where the dog survives. That's as may be, but they can't have it both ways. If the movie is going to be serious, then Tom Hanks has to be serious too, and shutup. If the movie is going to be light family fare, then the dog can't die. You can't have both.
I think this is the main reason the movie scores so low. I liked the movie fine, the scenes with Hanks and the dog are funny as hell, but as a whole, it doesn't work due to the very heavy ending.
I asked the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
although the ending is sad, i don't think it could have been done any other way. i think that if hooch hadn't been killed, the movie wouldn't have been as memorable. it would have just been cheesy. it kept your emotions in check. if a movie is deliriously happy and comical the whole way through, it would have never obtained it's cult status. you need that good cry at the end. believe me, as a person, i would love for hooch to be ok and die old fat and happy, but it really was necessary cinema-wise.
on a different note, it doesn't make sense that hooch's puppy looked just like him. his mother was a collie, and his father a dog de bordeux. it would've been some weird mix breed. but then again, that's the joy of movies, i guess.
Yeah it's sad that Hooch died, but here's something all mastiffs have in common, the are a very loyal breed to thier family but the tend to get atteched to one person, while Hooch may have thought of Turner as family at the end, he wasn't Amos.
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