Riverwind (imported) wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:28 am I could not agree with you more, Tom Hanks is way over rated and inflated.
River
Ditto. His rise to fame has always amazed me. His laid back, almost boyish-ness isn't amusing, it's boring. He affects me in the same way Jack Lemmon did, that almost constant twitchy nervousness isn't very watchable. Hanks has had the luck or someone had the intelligence, to cast him in films that had a strong, vulnerable, admirable hero ("Philadelphia", "Saving Private Ryan", "Forrest Gump" etc) without remembering trash such as "Joe Versus the Volcano". And then there's this; in terms of Hollywood he's squeaky clean, no drugs, no ugly divorce, no drunken rides down the Pacific Coast Highway-how rare is that? He's also middle aged which, just now, appeals to executives who, themselves, are middle aged. How many of you are like me and read a name and am told they're a "star". Although of what and for doing something I'm unsure. A "Tom Hanks" is a jewel of great price. Studios no longer try and present tidy pictures of America played by believable people. Now it's all CDG, Aliens, Monsters, Super Heroes.....a large dose of the unreality that seems to pervade the United States.