Thats certainly a take
Itās such bullshit that āthereās no crying in baseballā somehow became the iconic line of this movie when in any sane universe this was the signature moment.
Iāve seen this movie a few times and always enjoy Hankās performance - wouldnāt consider it uneven at all. The movie is definitely of its time and leans heavily on tropes of the era. Itās also overly sentimental but still, itās a good watch.
Isnāt this the beginning of peak Hanks? He launched with Big in 1988 but had some real duds in the following years (Punchline, The Burbs, Bonfire). League of Their Own reset his career and was followed immediately by some of his most famous movies. In the next 3 years he stars in Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13 and Toy Story. Thatās quite a run.
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Hanks is basically Tim Robinson in the āno crying in baseballā scene
Iām not a film person at all so Iām sure itās easy to come up with other crazy five (or six) movie, three year, runs, but thatās a very impressive one to me.
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He is awesome in Big Sick which is a truly great movie that doesnāt get mentioned enough.
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Hanks is so good. Not invincible, but I agree thatās a great run.
Kurt Russel has had an impressive run. Been steady making movies since 1963 and as far as I can see, heās never really been in anything ābad,ā even if his performance is what saves the movie.
Iām 36 years old and I can still hear my mom say āKurt Russelā in her overly Swedish-ified accent, talking about movies she loved because of this one guy, when I was very young. I have a soft spot for him in my heart, not because Iāve seen many movies of his, but because I can still hear my mom say ākurt russelā in this super-fake accent.
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Lol why was she saying it in an exaggerated swedish accent??
Well, I mean, not on purpose, but the name āKurtā sounds different if you assume itās a Swedish name. So she said his first name in the way she would call a Swedish person called Kurt, which is completely different from the English version.
Then Russel isnāt really a Swedish word/name at all, so she just kept on pronouncing it in this overly Swedish style (remember, this is the early or mid 80s, and almost any foreign word would come with a ānaturalā pronounciation that wasnāt necessarily anything like the original.)
All of this that Iāve tried to explain would be 1000% more obvious with a short 3 second audio upload 
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Nice Iāll do my best to imagine while we wait for the hero we need
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The burbs is my favorite movie of all time you son of a bitch
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And follows that up with Saving Private Ryan, Youāre Got Mail, Toy Story 2, The Green Mile and Cast Away.
Most actors would kill for a 3 year run like that and itās obviously inferior to his earlier 3 year run.
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Tom Hanks is an incredible comedic actor and Iām annoyed we didnāt get more of that in his prime years. I am absolutely serious about The Burbs being my favorite movie ever (Joe Dante ftw) and he also did Bachelor Party, The Money Pit, and The Man with One Red Shoe, along with Splash and Big. Dude was crushing in the 80s.
The Man With One Red Shoe deserves more pop. Feels ahead of itās time. Has a great soundtrack and Dabney Coleman absolutely slays. Check it out if youāve never seen it.
Couple movies I watched in the last few days:
-The King(Netflix): Timothy Chalamet plays Henry V and I thought it was a great period piece. Plenty of movies and TV time have gone to England v. Scotland but not a lot has gone to their wars with France. Iām surprised I have never heard of it. 8/10.
-Oppenheimer: I finally went and saw it. First off why the fuck was it so important to watch this in 70mm IMAX? There was what one scene that it even mattered what it was shot in in 3 hours? Half the movie is about the red scare in a few different small rooms shot in black and white. Oppenheimer himself is fairly superficially covered imo. An entire movie about nuclear weapons and only a single one minute scene with them actually in it. Maybe this movie was overhyped for me but my god was this movie boring. Absolutely no twists and turns. No intrigue. Nothing you couldnāt have gotten from the wikipedia page. It was well acted I guess but this is up there with the biggest disappointments going to the movie theatre ever for me. Itās still a good film so I guess 5/10.
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You can see the difference in the quality of shot with imax vs normal. A lot of examples available on Twitter.
Up to you if thatās worth it.
Think you missed a ton of what the movie portrayed tbh. It wasnāt about the bomb, and shows that he finds out theyāre dropped with the rest of the country. Itās about his cowardice and banality.
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You got me.
Maybe just the story of Asteroid City would have been interesting.
But instead it is somehow about the writing of the play of Asteroid City. It just doesnāt work.
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Aporia (2023)
7/10
A time travel movie that knows what it is and doesnāt try to step out of bounds. Iād put this in the kind of film that doesnāt get made too much because theater releases have to swing for the fences. Itās a movie thatās merely good, knows it merely good, so it leans into the strengths, which is the drama as opposed to trying to reinvent the time travel wheel. Judy Greer does good, someone needs to tell Edi Gathegi to shave the non existant patchy sideburns, and Payman Maadi, who I have never seen before, puts in a good preformance.
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I was really struggling to understand the appeal of Chalamet.
Then I saw this trailer and 
Oppenheimer 
seems like a made-for-sofa flick to me
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