Tom Hanks

[Bubbler]

Bachelor Party. God that movie rocks.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Personally, I loved "Man with One Red Shoe" and "Dragnet." Of course, I was like 11 when they both came out.

And there's some deep philosophical **** in "Joe Versus the Volcano." You'd have to have a brain cloud not to see that. Very, very underrated movie.

Having not seen SPR, here's my top five:

5. Nothing in Common
4. Big
3. Punchline
2. Sleepless in Seattle
1. Philadelphia

 

[Mutah]

Having not seen SPR, here's my top five:

WHA?!?!?!
Security!

 

[Freelance Hack]

Having not seen SPR, here's my top five:

WHA?!?!?!
Security!

I know. That's bad of me. Never got to see it in the theater, and I wasn't going to just watch it on TV.

My brother's got a mini-theatre set up in his basement. I may try to watch it there sometime.

 

[linotype]

He may win Oscars and Golden Globes, but to me he'll never escape being the alcoholic Uncle Ned drinking maraschino cherry juice and cough syrup on "Family Ties" ...

 

[farmerjerome]

SPR
A league of their own
The green mile
Apollo 13
Big

 

[tmunson]

1. Forrest Gump
2. Apollo 13
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Philadephia
5. Nothing in Common (w/ Jackie Gleason)
6. You Got Mail
7. Big
8. The Green Mile
9. Castaway
10. Sleepless in Seattle

 

[Starman]

I'd have to bump "Nothing In Common" back onto my list too.

Not so much for Hanks, who was still raw and fresh from TV-sitcomland at the time, but for Gleason, and Eve-Marie Saint, who were good as the parents -- two people who loved each other, in certain ways, who belonged together in certain other ways, but who really couldn't live with each other any more.

Gleason, if nothing else, was doing a riff off of "The Poor Soul" and some of Ralph Kramden's more subdued moments. Not his greatest, but much like John Wayne in "The Shootist" and Henry Fonda in "On Golden Pond," a worthy coda to his career.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

It's also O.J. Simpson's birthday.

Is there a Top 5 list for him, too?

The sequel to Blade Runner, perhaps?

 

[dooley_womack1]

For O.J.:
--The Naked Gun movies (three)
--The Towering Inferno.
--Capricorn One.