![]() ![]() It doesn’t have any real, clear focus to it. ![]() As early as 1989 he was trashing it in the press, telling Playboy that it was “Not a very good movie. He has made no secret of his disdain for Stan Dragoti’s simultaneously half-baked and overcooked spy thriller. One movie Hanks definitely isn’t referring to is 1985’s The Man with One Red Shoe. Photograph: Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar Hanks and James Belushi in The Man with One Red Shoe. Let’s assume sincerity and choose to believe that Tom Hanks only likes four of his films. Plus he also made that new Pinocchio film, but perhaps we shouldn’t dwell on that.īut, hey, if the rest of the internet is at it, we might as well join in too. The man has had a decades-long hit rate that almost every other actor on Earth should be jealous of. Because of course Tom Hanks has made more than four pretty good films. “Tom Hanks: I’ve Only Made ‘Four Pretty Good’ Movies in Decades-Long Career”, barked out a recent Indiewire headline, which either made the mistake of missing the point or just really, really wanted some clicks. ![]() Unfortunately, however, it also shows that Tom Hanks isn’t very good at the internet. “I’ve made a ton of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think),” he writes, in what is almost definitely a demonstration of his famed everyman understatement. Not only does Hanks use the statement as proof that he knows his literary beans – at one point he literally quotes Hamlet – but he also pulls off the mother of all aw-shucks America’s Dad moves. ![]()
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