Movies and TV Where do you rank Back to the Future? - Page 10

**Bufkin** · 02-14-2015, 01:15 AM

Hadn't watched it since the 90's, and it was on TV tonight. I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed watching a movie so much, let alone one that I had already seen.

For me, I'm going Goodfellas, Borat, Back to the Future, The Warriors, and National Lampoon's Vacation, in no particular order. No way could I rank them.

**Easy 6** · 02-15-2015, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

What's amazing about Cruise is how long he's been on top.

He was only early 20s when he made Risky Business, All the Right Moves and Top Gun.

You're right, he's still the gold standard for "movie star" IMO

KChiefs1 · 02-15-2015, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Bufkin

Hadn't watched it since the 90's, and it was on TV tonight. I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed watching a movie so much, let alone one that I had already seen.

For me, I'm going Goodfellas, Borat, Back to the Future, The Warriors, and National Lampoon's Vacation, in no particular order. No way could I rank them.

It's a classic & one of the top 5 movie franchises of all-time.

**mlyonsd** · 02-15-2015, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

What's amazing about Cruise is how long he's been on top.

He was only early 20s when he made Risky Business, All the Right Moves and Top Gun.

Cruise is very good at selecting the roles he wants to play.

Minority Report, Rain Man, Edge of Tomorrow, Risky Business are my favorites.

**TimBone** · 02-15-2015, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Easy 6

For me, Jerry Maguire will always be Cruises best movie... its the only time I really thought he displayed the full range of human emotion and did it very well.

He was never so relatable as he was in that movie... "tell me you didnt let that snake! Bob Sugar in the door".

I'm just in a different boat. Even with that movie, I see the same guy.

With Tom Cruise movies, I don't feel like I'm watching different characters. I feel like all of his movies are the same character and they're all just sequels of each other. I feel like I'm following the same character around in all of the movies; and in one he's a high schooler in a steel city, hoping that football will get him out of town, then he joins the service as a Navy Lawyer trying to save two Marines that were just following orders, then he gives up that career to become a sports agent that suddenly finds his morals, after that he's on a cross country journey with his savant brother. Not different characters, just the same guy doing all these things.

**Easy 6** · 02-15-2015, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by TimBone

I'm just in a different boat. Even with that movie, I see the sane guy.

With Tom Cruise movies, I don't feel like I'm watching different characters. I feel like all of his movies are the same character and they're all just sequels of each other. I feel like I'm following the same character around in all of the movies; and in one he's a high schooler in a steel city, hoping that football will get him out of town, then he joins the service as a Navy Lawyer trying to save two Marines that were just following orders, then he gives up that career to become a sports agent that suddenly finds his morals, after that he's on a cross country journey with his savant brother. Not different characters, just the same guy doing all these things.

Haha, fair enough... to you he's just a smarter Forrest Gump careening through life from one adventure to another.

**TimBone** · 02-15-2015, 03:52 PM

****, I still can't wrap my head around Travolta as Forrest Gump. What a terrible decision that would have been. Tom Hanks was just so perfect for that role.

Spinoff question: If there is somebody out there aside from Tom Hanks that had to play that role of Forrest Gump, who would you choose? I'm going to do some IMDB cruising before I answer.

**TimBone** · 02-15-2015, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Easy 6

Haha, fair enough... to you he's just a smarter Forrest Gump careening through life from one adventure to another.

lol...exactly. And a little more traditionally handsome, of course.

**TimBone** · 02-15-2015, 03:54 PM

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****, I still can't wrap my head around Travolta as Forrest Gump. What a terrible decision that would have been. Tom Hanks was just so perfect for that role.

Spinoff question: If there is somebody out there aside from Tom Hanks that had to play that role of Forrest Gump, who would you choose? I'm going to do some IMDB cruising before I answer.

Before I head to IMDB, a name popped into my head that I really like.

Edward Norton.

listopencil · 02-15-2015, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by TimBone

****, I still can't wrap my head around Travolta as Forrest Gump. What a terrible decision that would have been. Tom Hanks was just so perfect for that role.

Spinoff question: If there is somebody out there aside from Tom Hanks that had to play that role of Forrest Gump, who would you choose? I'm going to do some IMDB cruising before I answer.

Maybe Woody Harrelson.

**Easy 6** · 02-15-2015, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TimBone

****, I still can't wrap my head around Travolta as Forrest Gump. What a terrible decision that would have been. Tom Hanks was just so perfect for that role.

Spinoff question: If there is somebody out there aside from Tom Hanks that had to play that role of Forrest Gump, who would you choose? I'm going to do some IMDB cruising before I answer.

Billy Bob Thornton

**srvy** · 02-15-2015, 04:10 PM

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FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) 06/29/2006— Actor Tom Hanks was inducted Thursday as an honorary member of the U.S. Army's Ranger Hall of Fame for his accurate portrayal of a World War II Army Ranger company commander in the movie Saving Private Ryan and for his continued commitment to honoring those who served in the war.

Besides his role in Saving Private Ryan, Hanks was cited for serving as the national spokesman for the World War II Memorial Campaign, for being the honorary chairman of the D-Day Museum Capital Campaign, and for his role in writing and helping to produce the Emmy Award-winning miniseries, Band of Brothers.

Hanks, who was unable to attend the induction ceremony, becomes the first actor to receive such an honor.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/...s-ranger_x.htm

I think I would have made time to attend. Wonder why he couldn't.

**ShortRoundChief** · 02-15-2015, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by srvy

I think I would have made time to attend. Wonder why he couldn't.

Maybe he didn't want to. Who gives a shit?

listopencil · 02-15-2015, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by srvy

I think I would have made time to attend. Wonder why he couldn't.

I thought the same thing but you never know what was going on for him at the time.

**Easy 6** · 02-15-2015, 04:25 PM

Probably a movie committment with a bajillion dollars on the line, I'm sure the veterans understood.

milkman · 02-15-2015, 04:26 PM

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Tom Hanks made you care about the fate of a ****ing volleyball and had legitimate on-screen chemistry with a dog. He was able to turn a career as a successful comedic actor into maybe the most well-rounded American actor of his generation, and he did so without ever becoming a parody of himself, like Pacino and DeNiro did.

He lost thirty pounds playing a lawyer dying of AIDS in one of the first major Hollywood treatments of the disease, followed that up by playing a mentally impaired Southerner, then played an astronaut, and then a high-school English teacher turned Army Ranger, and did all believably. The only roles he had in between were voice work and a bit part in a film that he was mostly behind the camera for.

He's taken mostly safe roles since then and he's largely transitioned into more of a producer than actor, but he's an example of an artist that can have major public appeal and legitimate acting chops simultaneously.

I agree with most of what you say here, but I want Tom Hanks and everyone associated with Castaway to give me back the 2 hours of life I wasted on that useless piece of film.

02-14-2015, 01:15 AM
Bufkin Just here for the Royals Join Date: Jul 2014 Casino cash: $10029260	Where do you rank Back to the Future? Hadn't watched it since the 90's, and it was on TV tonight. I can't remember the last time I've enjoyed watching a movie so much, let alone one that I had already seen. For me, I'm going Goodfellas, Borat, Back to the Future, The Warriors, and National Lampoon's Vacation, in no particular order. No way could I rank them.
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02-15-2015, 03:52 PM	#141
TimBone Mostly Ignored Join Date: Jul 2013 Casino cash: $8419985	**, I still can't wrap my head around Travolta as Forrest Gump. What a terrible decision that would have been. Tom Hanks was just so perfect for that role. Spinoff question:** If there is somebody out there aside from Tom Hanks that had to play that role of Forrest Gump, who would you choose? I'm going to do some IMDB cruising before I answer.
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02-15-2015, 04:25 PM	#149
Easy 6 pie is never free Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: the drivers seat Casino cash: $-122225	Probably a movie committment with a bajillion dollars on the line, I'm sure the veterans understood.
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