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It's Road to Perdition for me.
Just epic. Paul Newman is just sublime too.
Show some conviction, not a top three.
Just one, your fave Tom Hanks film.
Big
Apollo 13
Philadelphia all day long
Road To Perdition is a fantastic film and I'd say Hanks best role as it's so different to his usual type of role. He played the part fantastically. Special mention to the soundtrack from Thomas Newman which is one of my all time favourites. Bizarrely it's a film that almost seems to be forgotten. Rarely hear it mentioned nowadays.
Catch Me If You Can is up there too. I've also got a very soft spot for Dragnet😂
Turner and Hooch
It was that or Saving Private Ryan, or Castaway for me. But Road to Perdition swings it.
As above but Saving Private Ryan was hailed by people who actually landed on Dday as being pretty true to what it was really like.
Big. Although is a bit creepy now watching as an adult. But this seems to be standard when watching 80's films.
Big
Saving Private Ryan - the only one of his films I can actually watch. Awful actor.
Saving Private Ryan for the affinity I have when he tells Tom Sizemore to "shut the hell up" as he questions his plans.
I empathise with some of the nobs at work.
Big
He is responsible for one of the worst films I've ever watched, Joe Versus The Volcano. I get angry just thinking about it
SPR and The Money Pit. And Splash. And Castaway. Apollo 13 was awesome, as was Big. And Forrest Gump.
Money Pit.
EDIT: **** 3 minutes 😂
The burbs, absolutely the pinnacle of his career
Saving Private Ryan – the only one of his films I can actually watch. Awful actor.
He's not awful, he's mediocre. If you see his name on a billboard, you know it's a safe choice. It won't be a great movie, but it won't be terrible. Any competent actor could play his roles, but he's a safe choice for producers and directors.
Contrast that with Nic Cage. His movies tend to be either brilliant or utterly heinous, not much in between, never boring like Tom Hanks. When you decide to watch a Nic Cage movie, you are always taking a gamble.
Edit. I forgot about Green Mile. Utterly awful movie. I saw it in Hong Kong on a stopover. Every time I've been back to Hong Kong, I've remembered that and wondered if I can go and demand my money back on that movie ticket.
Never understood the hatred for The Green Mile. Is it the religious connotations?
Hanks is a throwback actor. Feels like someone from the old Hollywood system. A modern day James Stewart, Cary Grant etc where he essentially plays the same character in every film.
Yes, I often get Forrest Gump and Captain Miller mixed up. 🙂
Never understood the hatred for The Green Mile. Is it the religious connotations?
Everything about it sucked.
Just one, your fave Tom Hanks film.
Miracle on the Hudson.
Miracle on the Hudson.
Nah. Plot is too unbelievable.
The Polar Express
Surely toy story…
Tom hanks without actually having to watch Tom hanks
Surely toy story…
Tom hanks without actually having to watch Tom hanks
True, he was a bit wooden though.
True, he was a bit wooden though.
I never really got what all the buzz was about.
Animation wise it changed the game, light years ahead of the competition.
Captain Phillips.
Still not seen Forest Gump. Really struggle with serious/emotional Hollywood films just feel fake and manipulative.
Bridge of Spies
Still not seen Forest Gump.
Don't. It's lame.
Toy Story. Could anyone else really do justice to Woody?
I had to look up a list of his films to see if I’d actually seen one of his and as a result Toy story narrowly beats Catch me if you can, being the only two I’ve watched.
Never understood the hatred for The Green Mile. Is it the religious connotations?
The awful racism? That swings it for most people I know.
Apollo 13 is not a terrible movie
Bachelor Party.
Rather liked the recent Elvis film, not necessarily because of Hanks’ performance but thought it was just a good piece of cinema.
Bachelor Party.
Yep, he should have retired right there and then.
Bachelor Party
Yep, the pinnacle of his career, it’s been downhill ever since. 😂
Splash. Absolutely an underrated classic.
Everything about it sucked.
😆
Castaway for me. Even if it is a two-hour DHL ad. And that one with Dicaprio. Philadelphia too I guess.
Dammit! Just reread the brief. Ok, Castaway cos I love the Robinson Crusoe vibe. Do I win five pounds?
Splash.
Don't compare him to Cary Grant tho FFS.
Philadelphia. Followed by miracle on the Hudson. Both had something to say.
I love Tom Hanks and his acting.
Big is probably my favourite as I was 12 when it came out. Road to Perdition is excellent. Apollo 13 and That Thing You Do are both amazing too.
'The man with one red shoe'
/Thread.
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).