Reply to Unpopular Entertainment Opinions

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "Unpopular Entertainment Opinions"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tom Hanks is secretly evil and a terrible actor.  Not to mention that Forrest Gump was a terrible movie.[/quote]

(Hand raised in back of the classroom)

I don’t think he’s evil or has a dark side per se, but I don’t believe he’s a good guy. Always wary of someone who is endlessly sold as “the nice guy” and who obviously wants to be sold that way. Also, Hollywood is a dirty business and anyone who’s been super successful for a super longtime just can’t be a truly good person ... it is impossible. [/quote]

Decades ago, entertainment weekly published an interview with him, and the interviewer just hated on him, pointing out several instances where Hanks was  rude, pompous, and condescending during the interview. It really painted a picture and stuck with me all these years. He was such a golden boy—I couldn’t believe they even printed it. But always made me wonder….[/quote]

NP. Golly gee, PP, so entertainment reporters always give an objective and unbiased portrait of the person they're profiling? Wow!

Seriously, anyone can "point out several instances" where anyone else was rude during one interview on one given day. And paint that as The Way This Person Is At His Core.

I like Hanks as an actor and he seems like a cool person, but I'm not responding to your post to defend him. I'm responding because it's hard to believe anyone thinks any one article, especially one "decades ago," ever gets at anyone's real self. Maybe that's why I prefer to enjoy people's work, or like specific characters they play, but don't know or care a lot about whether some article wants to tell me what they're like. Outright nastiness like with Kevin Spacey, for instance? Yep, that's documented horribleness and puts me off the performer. But vague "Actor was snarky to me, the reporter" stuff? Don't care. Oh, and by the way, I'm a former reporter, though not in entertainment. And I know there are plenty of agendas in every kind of newsroom. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics