Best Tom Hanks movie?

[CMT]

Poll question: Best Tom Hanks movie?

[mpsteve]

1. Easy...Forrest Gump

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. Hey, where the hell's Bachelor Party?

You can't beat a horse snorting coke!

[phillybri]

7. I'm with you, Bachelor Party is it....

And that was, in fact, a donkey snorting coke!

[Fenris]

3. Hey, where the hell is THE MONEY PIT?

:D

[whirlygigspin]

4. castaway

Wilson!

[mpsteve]

5. BORING....What a snoozer!!!

[mpsteve]

6. Turner and Hootch good but not best by far.

[tuck]

8. um .... road to perdition?......

[mpsteve]

12. BORING again. Not a big T.H. fan as you can see.

[displacedvermoter]

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!

[gyopsy]

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.

[SOteric]

10. Dragnet, Toy Story & Joe vs. The Volcano

& maybe Bonfire of the Vanities.

[StopTheMorans]

11. Money Pit

n/t

[Punkingal]

13. I must be one of the few people on the planet....

who HATED Forrest Gump.

[cherryperry]

17. You mean you and I are two of the few ... n/t

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

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.

[ProfessorGAC]

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

[mac56]

28. I'm with you, Prof.

I don't see how it could be called a conservative movie at all.

[ForrestGump]

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!

[mac56]

14. "That Thing You Do!" is better than half the movies on the poll.

IMO.

[rabid_nerd]

15. AGREED

I'm from Erie, PA... So perhaps I'm biased?

I also liked Apollo 13 as my #2

[CMT]

18. You're right

how could I forget Apollo 13 and remember Turner and Hooch?

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Yea! Mac

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

[mac56]

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)".

[Blue_State_Elitist]

16. that thing you do

hands down

[ScreamingMeemie]

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.

[ProfessorGAC]

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

[stanwyck]

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.

[catpower2000]

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

[wellstone_democrat]

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

[ForrestGump]

34. One of my favorite movies

:P

Nyah-nyah.

But I do have to admit that you've got excellent taste in user names. :-)

[geniph]

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.

[ForrestGump]

36. Forrest gets the shuddering ickies

[catpower2000]

39. The "shuddering ickies"! Perfect description!!

:hi: Geni!!

[helleborient]

22. You mean "Bosom Buddies" isn't an option? Oops..it's TV (n/t)

[davidinalameda]

27. who voted for Turner and Hootch?

my mom likes it too

[goddess40]

30. the caviar scene in Big is one of the best

I feel the same way about that crap.

[CMT]

31. Gump and Ryan are neck and neck

I think Ryan is a much more substative film. Hanks has done lots of good films.

[baldguy]

38. um . . . a . . . Apollo 13?

Castaway?

and I've always had a soft spot for Joe Vs the Volcano.

[kixot]

40. Tom Hanks couldn't act his way out of a nutsack.

Specifically, pistachios.

[Parche]

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.

[CMT]

42. I remember that acceptance speech too

very moving.