#2 is a continuation of #1...I actually like it more.

Then you will want to watch #3 because #2 ends in a cliffhanger.

And about 20 minutes into #3 you will be like what the **** is this shit.

Yup, I remembered Dragnet right after I posted that. I really enjoyed that movie.

Time Bandits.

There are a few clips with Stoltz that are out there. They got released on DVD a few years back. Search the Internet.

Family Ties is still one of my favorite sitcoms of all time. Fox OWNED that show. Ironically, Tom Hanks made a few guest appearances on that show. He played an alcoholic uncle. Great episodes.

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It was a good movie for its time.
But to me its much more than a movie so I'm a little partial.
The Release date: July 3, 1985
July 4, 1985 was the first time I kissed my wife soon after we moved in together and we've been married for 21 yrs now.
I married a good one shes awesome a good mother etc and so forth...
I figured this thread I could add a little romantic Valentines twist to it for a feel good vibe.

On a side note I haven't had any Strange since June something 1985 ...
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The Final Countdown.

you're a lucky man

I watched Cry Baby the other week for the first time in many yeas. Forgot how good a movie that was. Johnny Depp, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake. I was cracking up!

I guess I'm not as refined as Saccopoo. I love Tom Hanks.

That's kinda freaky

Even as a teen I was always lukewarm with it, just didnt do much for me.

Sorry.

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.

If I could have you portray my thoughts in this fashion from now on, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

Pretty much says it all.

I shed tears for Winston and Hooch.

Hanks was also brilliant as the russian guy in Terminal.

HIS NAME WAS WILSON, DAMMIT! WILSON!

LMAO you could throw this pic at any post on any topic and it'd still be LMAO

For christ's sake Hamas...are you working as his professional biographer or the caretaker of his wikipedia page?

Nobody gave a shit about the volleyball. Cast Away was a ****ing horrible movie. Hanks might as well have been a cardboard cutout for the range that role demanded.

You can't parody Hanks because he hasn't had a role worthy of parodying like DeNiro in Goodfellas or Pacino in Serpico. (Or a large number of other roles in movies that are ****ing terrific from an acting perspective.)

He's endeared himself to the masses because he is everyman. He's the same ****ing guy in 99% of the movies he does. The audience relates to him because they know him. He's ****ing the Applebees of movie acting.

Wow, Sacc... you're having a bad day behind the keyboard.

Forrest Gump was exactly the kind of iconic role that DeNiro and Pacino had in their biggest hits... Hanks played the wide eyed innocent, mentally slow southerner note for note, played it like a boss.

Forrest was ALL heart, and that came from Tom Hanks.

Same for Private Ryan, his captain was full of heart and real emotion.

I can't stand Tom Hanks.

I can't stand even more that that somehow puts me on the same footing as saccoshit.

I love DeNiro and Pacino. But to add to your point, let's keep in mind that the majority of their careers have been built around a very specific role as well. Actually, Pacino has evolved from a tremendous character actor to a guy who's MO is to scream his way through average movies these days.

No, I don't think Hanks would be fit for a lot of roles Pacino plays, but Pacino would not be well cast in a lot of Hanks' roles either.

Wow, that's like Anti-American if you don't like Tom Hanks

Once again.....I just totally disagree.

I think Tom Hanks has done a wonderful job tranistioning from comedic actor to a guy that plays a wide variety of roles...and plays them well.

You want to know a guy that is the same person in every move? Tom Cruise.

You might be on to something. I also can't stand Sousa music.

I agree with every single sentence of that.

Pacino just goes through the motions these days, too much bombast and not enough nuance.

And lots of actors couldnt do what other guys do, imagine Al playing Forrest Gump LMAO... or imagine Travolta as Gump, he was originally the first choice for that role, ugh.

How do you feel about Jimmy Stewart as an actor?

I'll have to watch again, but the main thing I remember from Saving Private Ryan was me thinking, "That's a great portrayal of time in a warzone." So many war movies are RAH RAH tough and crazy type movies, to see a movie where the characters were everyday people just trying to get through the crazy ordeal and get back home, was a welcome change. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Hanks in that role. He brought lots of human emotion to the role.

Oh, dear lord.

I am not a huge fan of hanks work recently but Captain Phillips was some the best work he has done in years. Watched it from a netflix rental was pleasantly surprised.

Yep, probably Spielbergs best movie IMO, atleast it was his best adult themed movie.

Have you seen Captain Phillips yet? Hanks is pretty damn good in it as well.

All of these great actors being named, and they are/were all great in their own way. Comparing them is an exercise in futility.

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.

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Definitely an exercise in futility, except for when the original person making the comaprison is basically calling one of them garbage compared to the other two.

Self-parody, as in every Al Pacino role after Scent of a Woman, not The Joe Pesci Show. If you're going to troll, at least possess some reading comprehension.

This.

No one has made a bigger career and won more awards off of playing himself than Denzel Washington.

That's just awesome. I've been surrounded by the military all my life. Three of my uncles have served in combat, as have my father and grandfather. Myself, and two of my siblings are also veterans, although we've not been to combat.

I'm not trying to hijack the thread, I just want to point out that between my family members, and all of my infantry buddies that describe combat, it always sounds a lot more like the role Hanks played than it does the other RAH RAH tough guy war roles.

That was an awesome acting job.

But, you know, I love his movies. I don't consider them masterpieces or anything. They aren't great American movies or anything. Just really enjoyable movies to watch. Training Day and Man On Fire were bad ass.

Yep. If Cruise wasn't the go to guy in my head for that description, it's likely Denzel would have been the next guy up.

EDIT: I guess the main difference for me being, I like Denzel Washington's personality. I find Cruise extremely prickish. So it bugs me with Cruise.

You commie!

Oh what was that Denzel movie with the demon hopping from person to person? He was a cop trying to clear the name of a former cop who had committed suicide.

I totally agree. Most major movie stars are like that, especially once they become established. Matt Damon pretty much always plays Matt Damon now, and Brad Pitt is almost always just Brad Pitt. Earlier in their careers, however, they took significantly greater risks and were often quite brilliant in doing so, like Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Pitt in 12 Monkeys.

The difference is that they never won Oscars for playing themselves. Denzel has done it twice, and has probably been nominated a handful of other times.

Also, to TimeBone's edit: Tom Cruise is apparently one of the nicest guys you could ever meet (I feel bad for him, in all honesty, because he closets himself). Bill Simmons has a Tom Cruise story on one of his podcasts that is outstanding.

The only way to win is not to play. Would you like a nice game of chess?

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".

FWIW, here is a trailer for Damon's greatest work:

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Be damned if I can think of it either, "Un" something with John Goodman co-starring... decent chiller.

I haven't seen it. It's so different from the normal kind of movie I watch, that the only interest I had in it was Hanks. I told myself, I'd watch it since he was in it, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Yup. Exactly so. Oh, the movie I was trying to think of is "Fallen." Just another really fun Denzel Washington movie.

The best thing about this thread is I have a bunch of good ideas for movies to put into my Netflix queue.

It's "Fallen." I looked it up.

Regarding Denzel: I will say this--having toddlers, there has been more than one time when I've wanted to say, "I'll snatch the life right out of you."

Good movie. Not Saving Private Ryan or Forrest Gump but good.

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.

I went into it with pretty low expectations, just seemed like kinda boring material... but it ratchets up the tension nicely and Hanks carries it the whole way.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

****, 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.

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

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

Edward Norton.

Maybe Woody Harrelson.

Billy Bob Thornton

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm sure when you're Tom Hanks, you're probably asked to do more charitable things than most humans can possibly comprehend.

That film was over after the plane crash.

Well he is no Lt. Dan who actually walks the walk. I am sure hanks was there by video on a big screen though.

The ending sucked. He lost his wife and his volleyball. Can't get much worse than that.

You should relish the moment. That level of personal ascension (albeit as brief and fleeting as it might be) doesn't happen with any degree of regularity for even the most enlightened of individuals.

Come on Hamas, you are better than that. You've been going to the "possess some reading comprehension" well far too often lately. (Although, you have been bringing some solid posts lately, so I'll forgive this singular transgression.)

And you never specifically mentioned where and when Pacino began to parody himself, though I am well aware of when it happened, why it happened and to the extent it happened.

And if it weren't for the brilliance of Serpico, The Godfather, Taxi Driver and a host of others - and I mean a whole shit load of others, I'd never forgive either one for the putrescence that was "Righteous Kill." But both actors have numerous movies that no one could deny stand up amongst the greatest of all time. They've earned the right to parody themselves to a degree.

Hanks has a dumptruck full of just flat out horrible movies. ****ing atrocious movies. Shit that Jason Statham wouldn't even do. "You've Got Mail." "Cast Away." "DaVinci Code." You could go on for hours about the garbage on his resume.

Bachelor Party? Brilliant.

Philadelphia? Okay, but Denzel tends to carry his co-stars better than he carries himself.

Forest Gump? It was nice.

And it's not that hard to play a reerun. 90% of humanity does it on a daily basis and they aren't even aware of how accurately they are portraying one. This board is an excellent example of that concept.

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Tom Cruise is a ****ing badass.

Yes, Tom is the living, breathing epitome of a movie star.

But to talk him up while dogging Hanks means that you're the one :shake: worthy.

I'm telling you, that ONE character lived quite the life.

Loved the movie.

I've decided that I don't like your taste in films.