TOM HANKS NEW MOVIE LOOKS LIKE MOVIE

Can't believe they didn't try to get Meg Ryan for this.  How the (semi) mighty have fallen?

The Ladykillers is way better than almost all of Hanks' comedies.   Yeah, I said it.   I'd probably only rank Big and maybe A League of Their Own above it. 

Doesn't Meg Ryan look kinda scary now?

For a second, I thought this was a movie about Thomas Crown's younger doofus of a brother.  This looks... middling.

Julia Roberts acting like a bitch for an hour & a half..ticket sold!

I was onboard with the idea of Tom Hanks playing a lower middle class everyman, until it kinda felt that, with his body language and delivery, he was kind of playing this guy as kind of an idiot manchild. I mean, is this what Sandler is going to be doing in ten years? Feels like it.

The world needs, no DEMANDS, another Bachelor Party from Hanks.

Please? 

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The world needs, no DEMANDS, another Bachelor Party from Hanks.

 

Please? 

Reboot with Colin Hanks!

Bachelor Party always seemed like the one odd mark on his resume.  It's so tonally different than anything else he's done.  Name another Hanks film that jokes about donkey-fucking!

And that is what's so great about it. It still remains one the few comedies that actually made me completely lose it. And I mean literally out of breath, rolling on the floor, cackling like a hyena on PCP. The donkey overdose and its payoff still makes me feel happy when I think about it.

I guess I'll be the one to say it: I kind of like The Terminal. I don't think it's terrific and it's so cutesy that someone easily susceptible might develop diabetes while watching it, but I never got the outright venomous hatred for it. It's like hating cotton candy--yeah, I see your point, it'd nothing but sugar and it's gone once it hits your mouth, but the blue one tastes so good. Point is, it's lightweight stuff, told in a lightweight manner by a team capable of more, but clearly is just having fun. I've never understood what was so offensively bad about it, other than it's a Speilberg and he's not allowed to do breezy and fluffy.

And Charlie Wilson's War is great, GREAT, until its wimpy third act happens almost entirely in montage. I'd love to see a longer cut, because you can tell one is there.

Mostly, though, I want less comedy Hanks and a return to the kicking ass in asskicking dramatic films Tom Hanks from the late 90s-early 00s. You know what I'm talking about-- Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, CastAway, Road to Perdition...I want more of THAT. It's been too long! 

I like The Terminal. I don't own it, I don't really think about it, and I've never recommended it, but I liked it just fine. I think that film arrived at a time when a "takedown" for Spielberg, Hanks, and that kind of film seemed due, and people pounced at the chance, wailing on it with a lot of hyperbolic invective. It's like people who call Gigli the worse film ever made, when anyone who knows anything about film knows that is absolutely false, it was just a standard shitty movie that arrived on the scene with a bigger than usual target on its back.

Yeah, I liked The Terminal well enough.  I'd never buy the DVD, but it never offends the senses.  Tom Hanks has made worse movies, and this new one looks like it will add to that list.  

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I guess I'll be the one to say it: I kind of like The Terminal. I don't think it's terrific and it's so cutesy that someone easily susceptible might develop diabetes while watching it, but I never got the outright venomous hatred for it. It's like hating cotton candy--yeah, I see your point, it'd nothing but sugar and it's gone once it hits your mouth, but the blue one tastes so good. Point is, it's lightweight stuff, told in a lightweight manner by a team capable of more, but clearly is just having fun. I've never understood what was so offensively bad about it, other than it's a Speilberg and he's not allowed to do breezy and fluffy.

 

And Charlie Wilson's War is great, GREAT, until its wimpy third act happens almost entirely in montage. I'd love to see a longer cut, because you can tell one is there.

 

Mostly, though, I want less comedy Hanks and a return to the kicking ass in asskicking dramatic films Tom Hanks from the late 90s-early 00s. You know what I'm talking about-- Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, CastAway, Road to Perdition...I want more of THAT. It's been too long! 

I really want Tom Hanks to play a villain, like Phillip Seymour Hoffman in MI3 or Anthony Hopkins as Lector. I really want that.

Ah, good.  I'm not the only way that enjoyed The Terminal.  It's disposable, but pleasant.  It gained a lot of points from me by having CZ Jones remain kind of wishy-washy and fucked up, and Hanks sort of just letting her go and going on with his life. 

I also prefer Dramatic Hanks to Comedic Hanks.   Hanks as a full-on villain could be amazing.  Something along the lines of what Leone gave to Henry Fonda, or, at mimimum, Hackman in Unforgiven.   

Maybe Tarantino can get Hanks for this Western he's gearing up. START BEATING THE DRUMS!

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Hanks as a full-on villain could be amazing.  Something along the lines of what Leone gave to Henry Fonda.   

Oooh, I want this.  Road to Perdition could've been the start of something like that, but it really pusses out.
 

I think his character from the Tales From The Crypt episode he directed was the closest Hanks has ever been evil(and it's really just sleaze since he was just a behind the desk escort service pimp).

Bonus points to that episode when his head gets smashed into a TV by Treat Williams!

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Can't believe they didn't try to get Meg Ryan for this.  How the (semi) mighty have fallen?

 

The Ladykillers is way better than almost all of Hanks' comedies.   Yeah, I said it.   I'd probably only rank Big and maybe A League of Their Own above it. 

The terrific JOE VS THE VOLCANO would like to have a word with you.

And "cute" is about the only word I can muster for the LARRY trailer. Nope, got another one... "safe".

Light and fluffy is good, but also not usually over two hours long. THE TERMINAL's bloated beyond belief.

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And that is what's so great about it. It still remains one the few comedies that actually made me completely lose it. And I mean literally out of breath, rolling on the floor, cackling like a hyena on PCP. The donkey overdose and its payoff still makes me feel happy when I think about it.

YES.  Haven't seen it in years but at school we rewatched this endlessly.  Of course I was at boarding school with not much to do.  Well at the time I thought I did not have much to do.  Anyway,  it is endlessly rewatchable and quotable.

"If I was that kid, I would breast feed until I was 17 or 18".

"Is that the foot long?"      "And then some".

"Is it Nick,  or Mr. Dick?"

"You're kidding. Boy George has a yeast infection??"

Even the simple, delightful scene where Rudy buries his face in a huge bowl of potato chips and then spews beer all over an innocent lady cracks me up. 

Yes, I have watched this too much.

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The opening of JOE is kind of brilliant, but that film really dies in the second half.

 

No.