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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:52 PM
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Poll question: Best Tom Hanks movie?
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mpsteve Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:52 PM
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1. Easy...Forrest Gump
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:54 PM
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2. Hey, where the hell's Bachelor Party?
You can't beat a horse snorting coke!
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phillybri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:59 PM
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7. I'm with you, Bachelor Party is it....
And that was, in fact, a donkey snorting coke!
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:54 PM
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3. Hey, where the hell is THE MONEY PIT?
:D
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whirlygigspin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:55 PM
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4. castaway
Wilson!
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mpsteve Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:58 PM
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5. BORING....What a snoozer!!!
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mpsteve Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 02:59 PM
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6. Turner and Hootch good but not best by far.
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tuck Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:00 PM
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8. um .... road to perdition?......
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mpsteve Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:05 PM
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12. BORING again. Not a big T.H. fan as you can see.
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displacedvermoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:45 PM
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37. I agree
Road to Perdition is his best film appearance -- I liked him playing a "bad guy", even if his "bad guy" was the hero!
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gyopsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:01 PM
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9. Saving Private Ryan
But how come "Road to Perdition" wasn't in the poll? I seriously thought it to be one of his best performances.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:01 PM
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10. Dragnet, Toy Story & Joe vs. The Volcano
& maybe Bonfire of the Vanities.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:02 PM
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11. Money Pit
n/t
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Punkingal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:13 PM
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13. I must be one of the few people on the planet....
who HATED Forrest Gump.
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cherryperry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:27 PM
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17. You mean you and I are two of the few ... n/t
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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:37 PM
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19. I liked Forrest Gump, but it was a *very* conservative movie
I think of it as the opposite of "Pleasantville" which was also an analogy of America since the 1960s, but with pretty much the opposite message.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:48 PM
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23. Sorry, Don't Agree
I think the overarching theme is the continued selflessness of the main character overcoming his circumstances. The luck and the money, and the rest is just window dressing.

The reason why Forrest survives, IMO, is that he's never in it for himself. He loves, unconditionally. He respects others, unconditionally. He cares about others more than he cares about himself.

Those are pretty anti-conservative sentiments, if you ask me.
The Professor
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 04:03 PM
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28. I'm with you, Prof.
I don't see how it could be called a conservative movie at all.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:27 PM
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33. Me, too
Sounds like, when it came out, the righties co-opted it as being 'their' film. It most decidely was not, and it's just another case of those bozos being too stupid or too entrained within their own blinkered little set of paradigms to notice the reality of a property.

All right...Forrest's slaying Private Ryan in the poll (well, by one vote 'til now).

For-rest! Fore-rest! For-rest!
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:15 PM
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14. "That Thing You Do!" is better than half the movies on the poll.
IMO.
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rabid_nerd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:24 PM
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15. AGREED
I'm from Erie, PA... So perhaps I'm biased?

I also liked Apollo 13 as my #2
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:34 PM
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18. You're right
how could I forget Apollo 13 and remember Turner and Hooch?
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:49 PM
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24. Yea! Mac
Edited on Thu Aug-21-03 03:51 PM by ProfessorGAC
I love that movie. Two REALLY good pop songs in that film.

I like a lot of Hanks stuff, even some of the sappy Meg Ryan stuff. Most everything on that list, and some of the stuff mentioned by others in this thread.

Hated Castaway, though. A 130 minute Federal Express commercial.
The Professor
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:59 PM
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26. Figured you would, Prof!
The soundtrack CD is outstanding. If I recall, the guys from Fountains of Wayne wrote a few of the songs. There's a jazz piano combo number called "Time To Blow" that I bet you would like. My favorite song is under the closing credits: "I Need You (That Thing You Do)".
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Blue_State_Elitist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:26 PM
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16. that thing you do
hands down
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:44 PM
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20. I thought he was excellent in " A League of Their Own" One of my
favorite lines ever is "There's no crying in baseball!" Talented man.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:53 PM
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25. Best Moment In That Movie, For Me
At the end when elderly Dottie is walking through the Hall of Fame. She sees the picture of Jimmy Dugan (Jimmy Dugan Hits 58 Homers in 193x). She looks down and sees the two dates for birth and death and he lived to over 80. She saved the guys life.

Penny did a pretty understated job of referencing that. I liked that a lot.
The Professor
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 04:21 PM
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29. Yes, this is his best
he was very funny. He's a likeable guy but his movies are often a little contrived. League of Their Own is a good movie and Hanks was perfect.
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:46 PM
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21. I LOATHED Forrest Gump...
fake-nostalgia bullshit with some CGI thrown in there. UGH.

But I like the DUer username Forest Gump very much! :)

I voted for Philadelphia.

Cat
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wellstone_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:26 PM
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32. oh God so did I
and Private Ryan was a schmaltz fest...hate them both.

Philadelphia and That thing you do are very good.
Hey, Bachelor Party is underrated as well
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:37 PM
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34. One of my favorite movies
:P

Nyah-nyah.

But I do have to admit that you've got excellent taste in user names. :-)
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:41 PM
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35. I think Philadelphia is by far his best performance
very nicely done, very subtle work, often underrated.

and Forrest Gump gives me the shuddering ickies. I hate pretty much everything about that movie. Ugh.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:44 PM
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36. Forrest gets the shuddering ickies
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:50 PM
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39. The "shuddering ickies"! Perfect description!!
:hi: Geni!!
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helleborient Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 03:48 PM
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22. You mean "Bosom Buddies" isn't an option? Oops..it's TV (n/t)
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 04:00 PM
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27. who voted for Turner and Hootch?
my mom likes it too
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goddess40 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 04:50 PM
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30. the caviar scene in Big is one of the best
I feel the same way about that crap.
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:05 PM
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31. Gump and Ryan are neck and neck
I think Ryan is a much more substative film. Hanks has done lots of good films.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:46 PM
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38. um . . . a . . . Apollo 13?
Castaway?

and I've always had a soft spot for Joe Vs the Volcano.
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kixot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 05:51 PM
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40. Tom Hanks couldn't act his way out of a nutsack.
Specifically, pistachios.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 06:28 PM
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41. Class Act
Tom Hanks is one of the best actors, not only in acting but
from the heart, he is classy and human,
and his acceptance speach when he won the oscar for Philadelphia
had me in tears.
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 07:51 PM
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42. I remember that acceptance speech too
very moving.
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