Yep The money pit was terrible! Castaway was billed as awesome but it was ok to me. I know he had a hand (teleplay)in Band of Brothers which doesn't surprise me at all. Didn't he direct or write the series called "pacific" or something like that?Originally Posted by Moveon
I've liked watching Tom Hanks since he was first on TV and dressing up like a women to live in an all female building with his friend who also had to dress up like a women in order to live there. Hey it was a 1970's TV comedy show and pretty funny and had a lot of good looking women that lived in the building.
I was told once by a Doctor's Wife that I looked like Tom Hanks. That really surprised me but then the other day I was told by someone else that they too though I looked like Tom Hanks. I can't see any resemblance myself. I don't think he is handsome or anything but he is very normal looking and quite talented at acting.
But one of his movies was horrible. The Money Pit was one that I had to walk out of the theater about 20 minutes into the show starting. I hate those type of movies or TV shows where everything goes wrong and the Money Pit was one fo the worst movies I saw. To this day I can't watch it if it's shown on TV. I think I walked out when the stairs fell apart. To me that's not funny at all. It was just way too much and over done. I also didn't enjoy the one where Tom was ship wrecked and alone on the island with the soccer ball. That was a strange movie too. Now Hooch was not too bad and I watched that one OK. He's been in a number of good movies but Saving Private Ryan was one of the best. I like the part where they just attacked the German Machine gun and they are all arguing about what to do with the sole German Prisoner and Tom distracts them by asking what the Pool is up to and finally tells them that he was a High School English Teacher before the war started. Later in the movie we know that he would have been better off just shooting the German Prisoner. He gave a good speech to his men about why he was fighting the war. He said if he could earn the right to go back home to his family then he would continue to fight the war in order to earn that right. That sort of stuck with me. It hit a cord with his men too as they all stopped fighting with each other and fell back in line.
The movie got me to thinking about why men fight wars? For different reasons I sure. But most fight in order to not have to fight again IMHO. They fight to protect their way of life and their families well being.
But we always end up having to fight another war sooner or later. We fight because that is what we do. It's in our genes.
Chimpanzees also fight among themselves over food and territory. Male chimps from one tribe will get together and whoop it up and then go on the warpath looking for lone members of other Chip tribe and if they can catch them they will beat them to death. It's in our Genetic Makeup. It's in our nature. I'll stop for now.
Oh one more thing about Chimps that I found interesting the other day on another web site. Researchers have discovered that some Chimps like to eat fermented fruit and get drunk. Some of this fermented fruit has an alcohol contect of over 6% which is more than most beers. They eat this stuff and get drunk and then go on the war path before falling asleep. Funny stuff and you can't make this up.
Forrest Gump, Green Mile and Philadelphia were all awesome movies in my book.
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