Unpopular film & TV opinions

[Orang Utan]

She was also brilliant in Paddy Consadines directoral debut.

No fucking dinosaurs in it, mind

 

[Yossarian]

I never understand people who pre judge movies/tv by the people who are in acting in it. They might very well be different in the new role they are playing because they are um... actors.

Some actors have more range than others - hard to imagine Ricky Gervaise's Hamlet.

 

[Sue]

Some actors have more range than others - hard to imagine Ricky Gervaise's Hamlet.

...and are better at picking decent/interesting projects.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Apollo 13.

Philadelphia.

not seen them - because of my Tom Hanks rule.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Charlie Wilson's War.

Saving Private Ryan.

hated those two

 

[petee]

I never understand people who pre judge movies/tv by the people who are in acting in it.

i don't judge a movie by its actors, but i will watch anything with edward everett horton or sterling hayden in it.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

why are people listing shit films that Tom Hanks was in? As if it proves anything. Haven't you got something better to do?

 

[Knotted]

i don't judge a movie by its actors, but i will watch anything with edward everett horton or sterling hayden in it.

I don't know who those people are but fair enough.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Captain Phillips.

Castaway

Forest Gump

Toy Story

The Green Mile

I don't count Toy Story because its just his voice. It's my rule and I apply it anyway i like. Bailed on Castaway after 20 minutes, it was terrible. Ditto Captain Philips. Green Mile is one of the most over rated films in movie history. My opinion.

 

[Yossarian]

Toy Story 2

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

seems my unpopular opinion is very unpopular.

 

[Spymaster]

why are people listing shit films that Tom Hanks was in?

It's part of the game.

Someone says "xxx is shit", and someone else says "no, because yyy"

 

[Orang Utan]

why are people listing shit films that Tom Hanks was in? As if it proves anything. Haven't you got something better to do?

How would you know though?

 

[DaveCinzano]

It's part of the game.

Someone says "xxx is shit", and someone else says "no, because yyy"

Known in academic circles as The Belboid Rule

 

[Orang Utan]

Splash
Bachelor Party

People will think you are jesting, but they are both genuinely good films, aren’t they?

 

[DaveCinzano]

How would you know though?

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

It's part of the game.

Someone says "xxx is shit", and someone else says "no, because yyy"

oh, ok.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

How would you know though?

Because i can read? And I have seen a few of them, hence how i established my Never Tom Hanks rule.

 

[DaveCinzano]

People will think you are jesting, but they are both genuinely good films, aren’t they?

They're both (very) dated, but they each are fully-functioning movies with their own charms, effectively made and with Hanks putting in strong performances

The Money Pit

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Tom hanks is a good actor. He's great in the Coen Brothers' Ladykillers, which is a very good remake. Like a good cover version of a song, it keeps the essence of the original while taking it new ways.

 

[Yossarian]

I wonder if many people who watched Tom Hanks' first TV series adopted a no-Hanks policy afterward.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Who cares what actors are in a film? Who's the director?

 

[tonysingh]

Only Fools and Horses is unfunny shite with deep veins of racism and anti working class feeling.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Only Fools and Horses is unfunny shite with deep veins of racism and anti working class feeling.

Yeah. It's set in Peckham. Where are the black people?

 

[tonysingh]

Yeah. It's set in Peckham. Where are the black people?

The only black character of any note is a one trick pony stereotype.

 

[ska invita]

i tried to put tom hanks into imdb to see his filmography but instinct took over and i accidently put it in Discogs

turns out he did a rap tune

 

[Yossarian]

Paula Abdul choreographed the video

 

[Elpenor]

Tom Hanks is a modern day (but less good) Henry Fonda really. Never plays a villain, and if you don’t like the sort of character he plays as he’s inevitably the hero in a character-based drama then I can understand why you wouldn’t want watch his films.

Maybe Hanks needs to play a real evil villain to show he has a bit of range

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Tom Hanks is a modern day (but less good) Henry Fonda really. Never plays a villain, and if you don’t like the sort of character he plays as he’s inevitably the hero in a character-based drama then I can understand why you wouldn’t want watch his films.

Maybe Hanks needs to play a real evil villain to show he has a bit of range

He's not a hero in Ladykillers, mind you, and is very good at being a slimy fucker in that.

Fonda was brilliant as a baddie in Once Upon A Time In the West. Good call that Hanks could do with a role like that.

 

[belboid]

Colonel Tom Parker is hardly a hero either