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11/15/2004: "Tom Hanks?"
Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon? WTF? That's the first sign that the film version of The Davinci Code is going to majorly suck. Why are they going for highly glitzy star power in a movie that already has a built-in audience of the millions of people who have read the book and kept it on best-seller's list for months and months? It's not that Tom Hanks is a bad actor, quite the opposite. But at the same time, he's Tom Hanks. He's not a character actor; he won't blend in with the film and BECOME Robert Langdon. He'll be "Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon." Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, but for now, I'm just completely disappointed that TDvC: The Movie is turning into nothing but a multi-billion dollar earning box office hit, rather than just a really good movie based off a really good book.
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Sigh, I remember when Tom Hanks WAS a character actor. Then he became multi-Oscar winning Forest Gump, and that was that.Tara, Monday, November 15th
*sheds a lone tear*melantha, Monday, November 15th