[ESQUIRE] “Saving Private Ryan” Is Tom Hanks’s Best Movie

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25 comments

  2. I give it to Forrest Gump

    He’s got a lot of great ones though.

  3. He has a lot of classics, but claiming Saving Private Ryan is his best isn’t gonna ruffle too many feathers. 

  4. Playing Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia is the best… or Victor Navorski in The Terminal.

  5. For me it’s Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail.

  6. I sometimes forget that it’s a Tom hanks movie. Like every Tom Hanks movie is a Tom hanks movie, but SPR is such an ensemble masterpiece, I just don’t think of it has a “hanks” movie

  7. Big, Philadelphia, forest gump, Saving private Ryan, cast away.

    Those are his top 5, and that’s leaving some good ones out

  8. Big for me. One of the few where I can’t imagine anybody else playing his part.

  11. Things like this get you into the question of best movie vs. movie HE was best in.

    SPR is arguably his best movie because of its technical brilliance, compelling story, etc. But was that his best performance? Probably not.

    I think you gotta look to Philadelphia or Forrest Gump or even Toy Story for that.

  12. Gotta be Cast Away. That man made us cry over a fucking volleyball.

  15. “You’re not here to do the right thing, you’re here to follow *fucking orders*!” First time I ever heard Tom Hanks say fuck, somehow amidst all the violence in SPR, **that** is what really stuck out to me.

  16. Clearly they’ve not see The Man With One Red Shoe 😀

  18. Tom Hanks for President?

    I mean, knowing of course that if asked Mr. Hanks would give some polite and kind hearted version of “FUCK NO!”

  20. I’d say Philadelphia. Required more of him and oh boy did he deliver

  21. I liked The Ladykillers, but I expected it to rank low.

  23. Everyone knows Tom Hanks best work was on “Bosom Buddies”.

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