OT: The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked!

OT: The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! Mar 26, 2020 15:49:33 GMT

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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 26, 2020 15:49:33 GMT

Mar 26, 2020 15:37:32 GMT masterofallgoons said:

Mar 26, 2020 15:22:18 GMT Rey Kahuka said:

He was an anti-hero in Road To Perdition. He played a reluctant villain; he worked for a mobster because he needed work, not because he liked it. He wasn't a cruel man, like Rooney's son was. The final line in the film says it all, "When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them, he was my father." In other words, if the son is a good man, perhaps you should judge the father as the man who raised him. Comparing him to Devils Rejects characters is about as far off base as you can get.

Easily my favorite Hanks movie, it's in my all-time top five films, period. It's laughable that his performance is ranked so low on this list while his voice work for stupid kids movies is ranked second. I easily would've thrown four or five films off this list in favor of Joe vs. The Volcano.

The major flaw in the movie to me was always the sort of deus ex machina ending. It's barely, and sort of lazily, set up that they've encountered a kindly older couple who never had a child but wanted one, so now this kid has somewhere to go. It would have worked so much better for me if his fate was left uncertain at the end. It was a cheap semi-happy ending that wasn't earned. Still a hihg quality film, but that really detracts from the story to me.

Also, the Toy Story movies are objectively not stupid. They're more emotionally mature and intellectually engaging than much of this list. Just because they're 'for kids' doesn't make them mindless. That would be like saying Road to Perdition is dumb because it's a 'comic book movie.'

Most people don't know Road To Perdition was based on a graphic novel (with a different ending), so there's no comparison with an animated film clearly aimed at children. As far as being more intellectually engaging than much of his filmography, that's a matter of personal taste.

The old couple are irrelevant to the ending for me. The 'happy ending' was the son had a chance to bond with his father, and see there was more to him than what he or other people thought based on his reputation. The point was that his father didn't live to see him become the murderer he was. The old couple were just there to put a bow on the theme that Michael Jr. would have a life different from his father, which is what Michael Sr. says is his motivation a few different times during the film.