I'd like to know...whats up with Tom Hanks lately?

At this point, I still like Tom Hanks and will still support future projects of his but.........if he keeps being loony, I will lose all respect for him and quit supporting his new and future film projects. If he is so against violence in movies and such, then why the hell did he make Saving Ryans Priva-er hem, Saving Private Ryan as well as the excellent: Road To Perdition.

Hanks is now walking a tightope and does not have a safety net under it. If others like: Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood for that matter, go that way-im done with new projects from hollywoodland. I know Eastwood has slight leanings towards the "Lesser Side" but at least he aint against owning and enjoying Guns-WWII German Militaria (which he also happens to be a major collector of-and yeah, I met the German Dealer-while I was in Germany-whom he buys from) so yeah, I know Clint buys that nasty nazi sruff too. However, Clint Eastwood also has enough class-to keep any opinions to himself that others might not like. I thought highly of Tom Hanks for his being able to keep his lips shut on that stuff but, in the past few weeks-he's really starting to lose it.

Well, if and when that time comes that ill quit supporting hollywood land and their new projects-I can and will fall back on all the classics already made-and will have NO regrets what-so-ever, in only watching those older movies. Theres enough out there that I have seen and have yet to see, to last me several lifetimes.

Anybody else here have any thoughts and opinions about Tom Hanks and his loosening lips?

 

Hanks should stick to his Forrest Gump script, because those lines make a lot more sense than what has come out of his mouth recently. By most accounts of those who know Hanks personally, he is a really great guy. In my opinion, take it for what it's worth, Hanks is an actor, and a mediocre one at that. He is not a philosopher, and he is certainly not an historian. From Saving Private Ryan, through Band of Brothers, and now The Pacific, Hanks is Steven Spielberg's tag-along errand boy. Someone somewhere thinks that Tom Hanks' name and image must pull some weight or something. For years, Carl, I have said that if only a WWII film would receive the multi-million dollar budget and special effects treatment of, say, a Star Wars, we war movie lovers would be in heaven. Well, thank goodness Steven Speilberg is a WWII fan! My hat is off to Steven Speilberg and Tom Hanks can go $**t in his, as far as I am concerned.

Greg C.

 

Hi Greg and many thanks for your comments which I wholeheartedly agree with. I'd love to see Spielberg come out with more good WWII movies and or other period-outers. On Hanks though, I liked his acting in quite a few movies but-he somehow still reminds me of the baby-face guy who played in those Bourne-movies-and I know his name but refuse to say it since hes a loon too. Im still willing to give Tom Hanks another chance or two but-if he keeps going down the road hes now on? well-it'll be quits on him for me.

Martin Sheen seems to have been getting a bit quieter over the years so-I have not fully stopped liking he or his projects. I refuse to watch anything with Charlie Sheen in it now-cept for a few past things-like Red Dawn and such.

Oh and, I absolutely hated Forrest Gump. The most memorable line in that miserably-too long of a movie was: "Aye have tuh go peyyyyy".

 

Err, what happened?

Oh and Speilberg was just as involved with Saving Private Ryan as Hanks was, maybe more!

 

Hi Mehar, Hanks as of the past few weeks, has been going onto a few lefty-TV talk shows and blasting his mouth off about how the Americans treated the Japanese in WWII saying stupid stuff like how raciset our attitudes were towards them and things like that. What Hanks conviently forgot wass, that they attacked us first (Pearl Harbor) and thaat they-started committing atrocities on us and our allies, no we doing that to them. Hanks also forgot that they murddered many US PWs on Wake Island and on at least one other island whose name I cant remember. Hanks alsof rogot that the Japanese murdered many US and Phillippion PWs on the famed: Bataan Death March. Hanks also forgot that they murdered several Doolittle Raiders who had been captured after the famed raid.

This goes deeper but I just dont have time to explain the rest yet.

Take care--C. ;-))

 

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Tom boy has become a man of the 2000's his remark says it all when asked about what was WW 2 about : his reply ............. racism and you already said it Carl anyway in the above posting. He has been warped by present day media snoops, hey whatever makes you the big bucks guys like him will buy into it.

 

I've never watched any of his films and never will, not my cup of tea.

 

It's the "I'm a celebrity therefore the public needs to know what I think and feel (not what I know)" syndrome.

Linda Ronstadt (just as she was losing her "hotness"; ie, gaining pounds by the hours) stopped after a song in a concert and started to babble about some political point she felt strongly about.

When she paused, someone yelled "Shut up and sing!" The concert drowned out her response with applause!

Stick with your day job, Linda and Tom! And that goes for you too, Sean Penn, and the all the rest of you celebrities!

 

This mostly has to do with the fact that the Pacific Theater is largely unknown about by the world, with the European Theater people see the Holocaust, with the Pacific theater they see the Atomic Bomb, very few look deeper than that for this aspect.

 

The new "social historians" would rather spend page after page focusing on the period propaganda posters and cartoons the American press published depicting the Japanese as near-sighted monkeys than mention the atrocities commited by the Japanese in China, Korea, and, as already mentioned, to Allied prisoners of war. I guess stereotyping the poor Japanese is a more serious offense than throwing a Chinese baby in the air and catching it on the end of a bayonet.

Greg C.

 

Hi E, you hit it and thats probably thecase. I guess Hanks thought that if he didnt come out and say something loony, that he might not get as many "job" offers in the future.

Heck, Jon Voight-whom I always liked much better than Hanks-used to be one who did much protesting in the 60s-as did Charlton Heston did-both of them joining in on marches and such-but they "saw the light" and they saw through the BS that they had been staunch supporters of-same as Ronald Reagan. I fully respect those three men.

Hi Richard, your not missing anything not watching his films. SPR, Big, and Road To Perdition are the exceptions. The only one of these i have on DvD is Road To Perdition and mainly because of Paul Newman being in it. Ive alwaqys thought of Paul Newman as an Actors-actor-like Richard Basehart etc.

Hi Tex, agree with you fully as well. I hadnt been aware of linda Ronstadt doing something like that? but then again, I never listened to any of her music cept when two of my older brothers played something on occasion.

Hi Mehar, thats true and is partly why I started reading loads of books about the war in the Pacific. I wanted to know as much as I could about it and read everything I could find about Guadalcanal, Midway, Wake Island, Siapan, Okinawa, yadda yadda yadda-and thanks to my Pacific interests, I finally branched out to the war in Europe and finally graduated to the War on the Eastern Front.

Greg, you hit the nail on the head too-I agree with every word and it is the truth. I saw a few years ago, what passes for new history books-thanks to a neighbors kid. I found the 6 page section dealing with WWII and THREE pages of it was only about the holocost-not that im saying the holocost should be skipped-but c'mon-more than just the holocost happened in WWII and I guess these revisionists jerks are trying their best to see to it that school kids these days, do not get the full picture. These revisionist pinheads really piss me off >:-((

Hi Biak, in not hearing what Hanks said-you didnt miss anything cept that he made an ass of himself and made me lose much respect I had for him.

 

C.Evans - i had to LOL at this statement:

Mel Gibson has been off his rocker for years! How many drunken tirades has he got in trouble for? I'm pretty he's said some pretty anti-Jewish things too, for that matter. Certainly some one who has 'gone down that road' already I think!

 

What is it we don't like that Tom Hanks said? Was it that he said the Pacific war was fought with a great deal of racism on both sides? Or are we angry over the comparison of the deep hatred toward the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, and the deep hatred of Muslims in general after 9/11?

He may have been able to word his thoughts a bit better, but it is not like he is making it up as he goes along.

 

Hi Matt, sorry i had forgotten about Mels drunkeness. I had been thinking of him in his best days as an action actor. His Letha Weapon days to be exact. Oh and, i wouldnt be surprised if that was where he first started to go wierd-because of his co-star in those movies-who I liked till recently.

 

Hi Mike, I think whay you posted above is exactly what he said. I think Hanks needs to go read a few of the war in the pacific titles as i read while growing up. Bokks by Richard Tregaskis, HWO Kinnard, Guafdalcanal Diary, Guadalcanal, Pappy Boyingtons book and a slew of others.