Charlie Wilson stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, two of my most hated.
I'm watching
Polar Express
for the umpteenth time, and every character but like three are Tom Hanks. It makes the movie additionally horrific. (Although, The Hobo may be my favorite Tom Hanks character, and replacing the actual dialogue with Hanks' dialogue from Saving Private Ryan can be amusing).
Another surreal and slightly tragic bit is that one of the three not-Tom-Hanks characters is Peter Scolari, the "other guy" from Bosom Buddies.
I just watched Atonement. about all i can muster is...guh.
James McAvoy is TOTALLY my movie boyfriend of the year.
an absolutely good guh, Laga. McAvoy is such a treat to watch and i'm pretty sure he's one of those amazing BBOC actors to boot.
My Hanks and Roberts-meter goes from Meh to Huh, That Was Surprisingly Palatable With A Couple of Genuinely Good Moments. And I've read so many of Molly Ivins's stories about Charlie Wilson (sadly, the only thing I can find online is this, but the Texas chapters of
Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
are full of glorious Wilson tales) that the subject matter is nigh irresistible to me.
Replace Hanks and Roberts with, say, Robin Williams and, well, anyone up to and including Kate Winslet, and I would resist, resist, resist, such is Williams' kryptonite factor for me. Tom Hanks, though, I can manage.
It's possible that the mere existence of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey are setting my acceptable-movie-star bar too low; practically anything with a white male lead between 30 and 60
could
have been cast with either one of them, and all the ones that aren't feel like perilous narrow escapes.
I like Hanks in quite a few things--
Splash, Apollo 13, Toy Story, Bosom Buddies,
and
That Thing You Do,
which he also did a fine job directing.
Just watched
Big
for the umpteenth time the other night and in spite of the BF Elephant in the middle of the plot I still love it.
I saw P.S. I Love You this afternoon. It was pretty good, although
the ending was too Hollywood pat/cutesy for me and Jeffey Dean Morgan apparently rode into the movie on the back of the Contrivance Fairy. I did like Hilary Swank's character, and sympathized immensely with her when she was trying to grieve and her friends and family were all over her telling her to get over it already and that mourning is so 5 minutes ago. Did these people not see that her dead husband was played by Gerard Butler?!? They should be grateful she didn't fling herself on his casket at the crematorium as it was rolled into the furnace
!
I am Matt. Walk Hard looks excruciatingly stupid and Charlie Wilson stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, two of my most hated.
Wow, you really are me, because that sums up exactly why I wouldn't see either movie.
I still like Tom Hanks, but am depressed that he seems to have bought his own hype so completely.
