'The man with one red shoe'
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He does the same everyman shtick in every bloody film he appears in. I can think of a few he hasn't completely ruined, Bridge of Spies was enjoyable.
Another vote for Big from me. Generally like most of the things he's done, but that was the first one I saw when I was young.
Toy Story 1 - 4
...miracle on the Hudson...
Do you mean 'Sully'?
Splash
Do you also mean 'Sully'? 😉
He does the same everyman shtick in every bloody film he appears in. I can think of a few he hasn’t completely ruined, Bridge of Spies was enjoyable.
I think he might just be typecast rather than deliberately turning unpleasant characters in scrips into more relatable "everyman"...
Unless you're saying forrest gump was originally written as a bastard? Or sleepless in Seattle was supposed to be about a man stalking a woman remotely and eventually pushing her off the empire state?
I'm going to re-watch 'You've got mail' and see if I can spot the point where Hanks turns it from a cautionary tail about online safety into an unbelievable Rom-Com, that one never sat right...
Toy Story
Changing my answer to this.
But still Splash for the live action films.
Otm… Shank.
He’s India’s answer to Brian Dennehy.
Finch
I think he might just be typecast rather than deliberately turning unpleasant characters in scrips into more relatable “everyman”…
Unless you’re saying forrest gump was originally written as a bastard? Or sleepless in Seattle was supposed to be about a man stalking a woman remotely and eventually pushing her off the empire state?
I’m going to re-watch ‘You’ve got mail’ and see if I can spot the point where Hanks turns it from a cautionary tail about online safety into an unbelievable Rom-Com, that one never sat right…
Are you his brother or something? This was a lighthearted thread...
All I'm saying is that there's a consistent pattern: ordinary, basically decent bloke finds himself in an extraordinary circumstance and inevitably rises to the occasion.
I love him, he's one of the best.
Hard to choose. Probably Castaway. Such a great movie - the quietness of it!
Stating the bleeding obvious, but a large part of the love for him is the nostalgia it brings. For instance, my first trip the cinema was with my lovely Grandad, my favourite person in the whole world, to watch Apollo 13.
Tom’s movies have been blockbusters spanning decades, so bound to happen.
Doh. Yes Sully. I read the accident report. Film needed to be about another hour to really understand what happened. But the reviews from pilots said that the acting was spot on.
Saving Private Ryan for me.
But as many have said, he is an excellent actor with many great films to his name.
Bridge of Spies, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Terminal, and The Post are my fav Hanks.
I'd say pretty much anything he's been in is great compared to the usual <5 IMDB score crap MrsRNP makes me watch.
He was on this week's Graham Norton after he read this thread.
Bridge of Spies
This film was a masterclass of utterly brilliant acting by Mark Rylance vs Hanks, a journeyman actor who inexplicably became a superstar. With a squeaky voice. In one scene Rylance raises an eyebrow and shows more acting ability with that one tiny motion than Hanks did in the whole film. It could have been an immense film if Hanks' role had been given to someone who could act as well as Rylance.
I love a good Tom Hanks film. But The Circle is an abomination.
Saving private Ryan is probably the best film he has been in, but I don't think it would have made a big difference for someone else to play the part.
Forest Gump would have been a very different and probably much worse film without him IMO.
It absolutely cannot be Castaway. I hate that film with passion – not because of him (in fact I thought he was pretty good in it). But because...
^^^ apparently they didn't pay for that, I guess it was a choice between using an established brand the audience would immediately recognise, or just making something up for the movie.
I can't believe that - they even have a FedEx plane taxi-ing in the background towards the end (when he gets back to the USA). I guess it must be the payback for the FedEx plane crashing at the beginning but it seems so PR-driven (ie, we'll do whatever to deliver your parcel).