He's Done it Again
Well it is summer time and sports have slowed down, and my other passion is beginning to pick up, the summer movie season. I will not go see a lot of the Hollywood filth and trash that is out there. However, I will choose movies that seems to have an engaging story, are well done technically, and have actors or ensembles that I enjoy.
This afternoon I pulled a double matinee feature. I went to see Dodgeball and The Terminal. I will first talk about Tom Hanks (be warned this will be a me sucking Tom Hanks dick rant). Hanks is the best, it is that simple. We all know about his award winning roles in Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, and Saving Private Ryan. But try and think of some of his other roles, even some not as the lead and try to picture another actor pulling those roles off. For example Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own, Carl Hanratty in Catch Me if you Can, Sheriff Woody in Toy Story, Allen Bauer in Splash, Chuck Noland in Cast Away and even those gay Meg Ryan Movies. Nobody is as good as him, he can do it all, he can carry a movie all by his lonesome, he can make others better, all by himself he makes movie watching enjoyable. He is totally believable in every movie, he is so good he is almost tangible. To me he is Wayne Gretzky, we always want Jordan, Ruth, Ali, Jim Brown, etc to be the greatest athlete of them all, but it is really Gretzky, who quietly dominated his sport like no man before or since, that is what Hanks does.
In the Terminal his comic timing is brilliant, his character stays true to himself throughout. And the movie, while at times a little predicatable and sappy, is great. He pulls it off again, the only thing I can say is go see it, take a date it will be worth your while. The movie does not dissappoint even the love story in it plays out well. (and nobody hates useless love storiy lines more than me)
As for Dodgeball, I would say wait for the rental. It was funny, I mean it had some laugh out loud moments in it, and I only know this because I had a black man sittitng next to me and you know how they laugh (Martin you were there). It was a short movie but worth watching, Ben Stillers character is despicable and Stephen Root (Office Space and News Radio) is his usual nerdy funny self. So that is all for movies right now, I can say that I am awaiting the arrival of The Notebook due out in July and The Aviator (DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, directed by Sciorsesse) due out this winter.
This afternoon I pulled a double matinee feature. I went to see Dodgeball and The Terminal. I will first talk about Tom Hanks (be warned this will be a me sucking Tom Hanks dick rant). Hanks is the best, it is that simple. We all know about his award winning roles in Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, and Saving Private Ryan. But try and think of some of his other roles, even some not as the lead and try to picture another actor pulling those roles off. For example Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own, Carl Hanratty in Catch Me if you Can, Sheriff Woody in Toy Story, Allen Bauer in Splash, Chuck Noland in Cast Away and even those gay Meg Ryan Movies. Nobody is as good as him, he can do it all, he can carry a movie all by his lonesome, he can make others better, all by himself he makes movie watching enjoyable. He is totally believable in every movie, he is so good he is almost tangible. To me he is Wayne Gretzky, we always want Jordan, Ruth, Ali, Jim Brown, etc to be the greatest athlete of them all, but it is really Gretzky, who quietly dominated his sport like no man before or since, that is what Hanks does.
In the Terminal his comic timing is brilliant, his character stays true to himself throughout. And the movie, while at times a little predicatable and sappy, is great. He pulls it off again, the only thing I can say is go see it, take a date it will be worth your while. The movie does not dissappoint even the love story in it plays out well. (and nobody hates useless love storiy lines more than me)
As for Dodgeball, I would say wait for the rental. It was funny, I mean it had some laugh out loud moments in it, and I only know this because I had a black man sittitng next to me and you know how they laugh (Martin you were there). It was a short movie but worth watching, Ben Stillers character is despicable and Stephen Root (Office Space and News Radio) is his usual nerdy funny self. So that is all for movies right now, I can say that I am awaiting the arrival of The Notebook due out in July and The Aviator (DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, directed by Sciorsesse) due out this winter.
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