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Best Tom Hanks Films

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He’s in a movie on Apple TV next month called Greyhound. Trailer looks great. Looking forward to it coming on.
It’s a WWII movie about a US destroyer protecting convoy ships from the U boats.
He’s also written the movie from a book.
 
gluepot said:
Surprised Forrest Gump hasn't been mentioned. Do SMBers not like it?
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I was just thinking the same thing. There was something too American about it. The sort of sentimentality that goes down a bomb over there but lacks a bit of and edge for us over here. I think that most of the plot became a little predictable and depended too much on the special effects putting Hanks in to historical footage to wow the audience. It was all very clever technically but as I say the story just lacked an edge.
 
Lord Potts said:
I was just thinking the same thing. There was something too American about it. The sort of sentimentality that goes down a bomb over there but lacks a bit of and edge for us over here. I think that most of the plot became a little predictable and depended too much on the special effects putting Hanks in to historical footage to wow the audience. It was all very clever technically but as I say the story just lacked an edge.
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Yeah at the time it was quite novel with some clever footage like superimposing him meeting the presidents ... guess its old hat now.
Anyway I'm off for my run now.... Run gluepot Run
 
Lord Potts said:
I was just thinking the same thing. There was something too American about it. The sort of sentimentality that goes down a bomb over there but lacks a bit of and edge for us over here. I think that most of the plot became a little predictable and depended too much on the special effects putting Hanks in to historical footage to wow the audience. It was all very clever technically but as I say the story just lacked an edge.
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Forrest Gump is chock full of really dark themes and events. It has its sentimental moments, largely fuelled by the title character's innocence, but the bulk of the story and most of the history that goes on around him is brutal and desperately sad.
 
He's absolutely class Tom Hanks like. He's so well rounded, you could have a top 10 of comedies, a top 10 of dramas and a top 10 of voiceovers.

I'll have a crack at this (leaving the voice over stuff out of it).

1) Captain Phillips
2) Castaway
3) Saving Private Ryan
4) Big
5) Sully
6) Forrest Gump
7) Splash
8) Bridge of Spies
9) Apollo 13
10) Catch Me if You Can

So many of them films I want to watch again now, might do a Hanks double header today.
 
Lord Potts said:
I was just thinking the same thing. There was something too American about it. The sort of sentimentality that goes down a bomb over there but lacks a bit of and edge for us over here. I think that most of the plot became a little predictable and depended too much on the special effects putting Hanks in to historical footage to wow the audience. It was all very clever technically but as I say the story just lacked an edge.
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The soundtrack is what makes it great
 
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