Hanks did just fine in the role. One of the greatest war films ever. Spielberg was robbed.
Agreed. It did a great service by introducing the Greatest Generation to a lot of kids who had very little knowledge of what happened then.
I remember speaking to my 10 year old nephew who saw it, and he said “Those things never happened” when talking about the beach scenes. I reminded him that not only did they happen (or things similar) far worse happened that would never find their way onto a movie screen.
When they gave the Oscar for best movie to “Shakespeare In Love” that was the last Oscar ceremony I ever watched.
The movie had it’s faults, but I don’t think the casting of Tom Hanks was one of them. And Hanks did give us “Band of Brothers” which was very well done, IMO.
There is a lot to fault Tom Hanks for, but he gets a pass on those from me. (That said, I don’t watch his new movies any more)