I didn't used to. Really, when he was Kip on Bosom Buddies, I actually found him funny. Big wasn't too bad either.
Maybe it started around Philadelphia. As someone who was involved with pediatric AIDS at the time, the movie felt ... like an oatmeal version of a very complex, heartbreaking reality.
The Oscar speech outing his H.S. teacher wasn't a favorite either.
Or maybe it was Forrest Gump. Sue me, but I didn't find the performance particularly compelling although the rest of the cast was great.
And the ego started to grow. Saving Private Ryan - squeezing tears out of the doughboy face to try to portray some emotion while Matt Damon stole what small show existed in Steven Spielberg's film school trick laden, jurassic park wanna be WWII movie where the Nazis were the dinosaurs.
Or how about the movie where he was onscreen with a volleyball. Maybe you forked out $8 to see that for three hours, but I'd rather contemplate my bellybutton.
So this summer, he played the lead in the Da Vinci Code. What Injustice!! Religious controversy aside, there is no person less appropriate for that Robert Langdon part. Again, you may have spent your money, but my taste for the perfect summer popcorn movie was dulled at the thought of seeing TH destroy a particularly likeable character for 2+ hours.
Which brings me to today's reason for this OT rant. Anyone who spoke to me two or three years ago had to hear a 15 minute speech devoted to Charlie Wilson's War. In case you forgot, let me refresh -
How great a book it was, how one man can make a difference, how complex and simple Washington worked, how our current Middle East crisis is particularly frightening in the context of American influence in the region in the 1980s.... etc.
You all yawned. Patted me on the head. Went on with your lives.
Tom Hanks optioned the book and is PLAYING CHARLIE WILSON!!!!
I curse the network that ever put bosom buddies on the air.
