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.
Don't I get a cookie?
Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
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Laga - Dec 23, 2007 2:33:10 pm PST #2952 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 23, 2007 3:41:15 pm PST #2953 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
erikaj - Dec 23, 2007 3:42:07 pm PST #2954 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I still like Tom Hanks, but am depressed that he seems to have bought his own hype so completely.
Scrappy - Dec 23, 2007 4:03:15 pm PST #2955 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
So, Matt, Gerard Butler gay? Whattaya think?
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2007 4:29:23 pm PST #2956 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't like Big because of the sex. It totally creeps me out.
Steph L. - Dec 23, 2007 4:41:41 pm PST #2957 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
LOVED him in Apollo 13 (though my love for Ed Harris eclipses Hanks, really), but the ultimate Tom Hanks movie? One word: Dragnet.
Kathy A - Dec 23, 2007 4:45:50 pm PST #2958 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
LOVED him in Apollo 13 (though my love for Ed Harris eclipses Hanks, really)
Favorite Apollo 13 actors in ascending order: (4) Tom Hanks, (3) Gary Sinise, (2) Loren Dean (as the oh-so-hot EECOM guy who works with Mattingly to get the power-up routine in order), and (1) Ed Harris.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 23, 2007 4:58:10 pm PST #2959 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
So, Matt, Gerard Butler gay? Whattaya think?
Depends on how many falling stars I get to wish on in the next year.
Seriously, I can't tell... I've wondered, but that may just be due to wishful thinking rather than any real vibe I've picked up. The combo of him being from the U.K. and very much my type makes it too difficult for me to get a good read on him without actually meeting in person.
sarameg - Dec 23, 2007 7:18:26 pm PST #2960 of 10000
I don't care at all for Tom Hanks, but really enjoyed Charlie Wilson's War. I am a cold-war geek, afterall. I laughed out loud (ruefully) at the closing line of the movie. Partially since I'd heard an interview with someone where they were asked if the repercussions today of our involvement were at all alluded to in the film, and the guy dryly said "Oh, I think the connections are clear." and I wasn't sure if it was a half-assed cover or not. It wasn't.
Theodosia - Dec 24, 2007 2:32:57 am PST #2961 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I share Scrappy's love for That Thing You Do and am still impressed with Hanks' work on it.
Historically I'd say that Hanks has made more good choices for roles than not, but these last few years have brought his average way down from what it was.