I HATE TOM HANKS

What is going on with the world? The government is shutdown, I’m sick and Paddington 2 is 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. I don’t understand… Paddington 2?!? Anyways, I have been sick this week so it’s been kind of hard to go see movies lately with snot pouring out of my nose. With some heavy medicating and armed with 5 folded up tissues in my back pocket I was able to go see The Post in the theaters on Saturday. I also finally got to watch Happy Death Day so I’ll cover that as well.

Do you ever have that one actor/actress where there is just something about them that bothers you? Maybe you hated one of their characters and so it’s made you hate them in everything? Maybe they remind you of someone you don’t like? Or maybe there isn’t a reason but you just don’t like them. For me, that person is Tom Hanks. *braces for reaction of “*gasp*, you don’t like Tom Hanks?! But what about ‘Forrest Gump’?! Why don’t you like Tom Hanks? What has he done to you?”* I know, I know… but let me explain a little bit. In the winter months when it would be raining during P.E. they would lock us kids up in a cold, dark room and put on a movie. It was supposed to be fun but we only had 3 movies to choose from: The Sandlot (which I love for the record), Rudy, and Big. I don’t know why but it seemed like every damn time it would rain they made us watch Big. It got to a point to where it was no longer consensual, I was being forced to watch this movie because we couldn’t be outside. Every time it rained I knew it was coming… why can’t we watch Sandlot today?? I’ll even watch Rudy! Why is it always Big?! Now I’m not hating on all his movies, I like most of them. I just don’t like him. After all that his voice is jarring to my ears and it just bugs me hearing it. I’m sorry to admit it but I HATE TOM HANKS.

Now here’s what I thought of The Post:

The Post (RT 88%)

Cut to the chase: A period piece about The Washington Post newspaper competing with The New York Times and the government to expose top secret documents about the Vietnam war (AKA: The Pentagon Papers) in the early 70’s.

I had really high hopes for this movie but ultimately, I would say it’s a bit overrated. Everybody is talking about how it will be nominated for Oscars and such but I don’t know that it’s really “Oscar worthy”. I know there is a 98% chance that it will be nominated for at least one considering it is a Spielberg movie with Meryl Streep (who gave a wonderful performance) and Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks aside, I thought it was really boring… there wasn’t much suspense, the stakes weren’t set very high and the story didn’t really interest me at all. Maybe if I lived thru that period of time I might feel differently but I felt really bored the entire film. I’m glad I saw it and did enjoy the acting; I love me some Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks didn’t annoy me that much. There was just nothing memorable about it. I think there are lots of other movies that came out this year that are a lot better than The Post. But that’s just my opinion…

Happy Death Day (RT 71%)

Cut to the chase: It’s basically like the movie Groundhog Day if it was a slasher flick.

This movie came out right when we were moving into our new place and we had no free weekends to go out and see it so I’ve been waiting for it to get released on DVD. A rating of 71% on Rotten Tomatoes for a horror film is really good. I thought it was a good modern horror film, it felt like a blend of Butterfly Effect mixed with Groundhog Day.

The main character’s name is Tree… I kept thinking I was hearing it wrong and it was like Therese or something like that but after looking on IMBD it is in fact Tree. So, this chick Tree is basically a horrible person. She’s a sorority girl in college and basically a bitch to everyone she comes into contact with. At the start of the movie she is waking up from a one night stand with a guy who she is a total asshole to. As she goes about her day we learn that it is her birthday. Towards the end of the day she ends up dying and then wakes up and repeats the whole day over again. In the end, she has to figure out why she is being made to live through that day over and over again and more importantly find out who keeps killing her.

It seems like that would be a repetitive movie to watch but it never felt that way to me. It’s worth watching even if you’re not into horror movies. It isn’t very scary and the gore is more funny than realistic. The film used a lot of jump scares but you pretty much saw them all coming. If you’re looking for a humorous horror film to watch then this is definitely worth checking out.

That’s it, I am going to go back to playing Mario Odyssey and pray I will feel better on Monday. Au revoir!