Tom Hanks nominated for three 'Razzies'

Finally some awards nominations I can get behind.

He forgot how to act or something, because he has delivered terrible performances for the last decade or so. He's become a parody of himself.

I never found him a good actor. He started doing mostly undemanding comedies, and then began winning awards with horrible overacting. And, of course, Forrest Gump.

Do the Razzies hand out lifetime achievement awards? Asking for a friend.

R4 You made me laugh out loud at my desk and I'm sure my coworkers think I'm a weirdo now, but it's worth it. Thank you for that.

He's a frontrunner for this one. It's the worst performance of his entire career, and it's not even close. He ruined the film.

Tom Hanks made three good movies.

Bachelor Party.

The Money Pit.

Big.

It was all downhill after that.

He really should stick to comedy.

Weird, usually the Razzies are more interested in hating women.

I would add That Thing You Do to R7's list.

I like the one about the crashed plane and the soccer ball.

It doesn't make it better, it actually makes it worse on the part of Hanks, but I think he didn't have the balls to play Parker as Parker was presented in the screenplay - as just a straight-up very bad person.

I think playing an outright villain was beyond Hanks' skill set, and comfort zone, given his nice-guy public image.

(And, as an aside, Parker's portrayal in the "Elvis" screenplay as a super-villain didn't sit well with people who actually knew Parker and Presley. People who knew both say that their partnership was on a more equal footing that what the "Elvis" screenplay portrays.)

So, Hanks concocted an over-the-top performance so he could wink at his audience and save his nice-guy image.

I can't think of any other explanation for his Snidely Whiplash impersonation.

And Luhrmann himself didn't have the balls to rein his superstar in, when maybe he wanted to,

[quote] And, as an aside, Parker's portrayal in the "Elvis" screenplay as a super-villain didn't sit well with people who actually knew Parker and Presley. People who knew both say that their partnership was on a more equal footing that what the "Elvis" screenplay portrays.

This is 100% correct. Some people love to portray managers and agents as these evil super controlling masterminds, and maybe some are but what's forgotten for the most part is they work for the artist not the other way around. I watched an interview with the real Parker and he said explicitly that nobody told Presley what to do, that he picked his own songs, and Parker wasn't even allowed in the studio when songs were being recorded. I believe this because it matched other corroborating stories from the entourage that surrounded him 24/7. The colonel had the industry connections elvis did not and elvis had the talent that the colonel did not so it was a fair trade. Also, watching the interview Tom Hanks totally fucked up on the voice and mannerisms and the overall demeanor of the colonel so much so that it looks like Tom did no research for the part, which is shocking because he's obviously no rookie in the business. I think when artists die prematurely the public looks for someone to blame which is typically the mangers, but they have less of a say about the day to day activities than people think. Fame makes these people think they are gods and they behave like it as well. The truth is elvis died because of his over the top lifestyle, his poor eating habits, and his drug use. It was nobody else's fault.

He’s the most overexposed actor ever.

[quote] Tom Hanks totally fucked up on the voice and mannerisms and the overall demeanor of the colonel so much so that it looks like Tom did no research for the part, which is shocking because he's obviously no rookie in the business

I think he was doing his ridiculous accent from the The Ladykillers.

He probably thought he could phone in the performance and just re-create that accent for Col. Parker.

Obviously, he was wrong about that.

They can spin it all they want, but Otto looks like a turd with a capital T!