Hanks couldn’t buy off the bad pre-release reviews apparently. Having said that a 50 million dollar budget even adding in the additional marketing cost isn’t much. Doesn’t sound there was great expectations from the get go. Not sure why those involved bought into this tripe unless there was real financial shenanigans going on to get people paid a lot of money.
he did an interview with Gayle King. They did an experiment where you leap out of the chair with the joy of a 17 year old. I was waiting to see if someone threw out their back or injured their groin. Gayle could barely do it.