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Now on the ROUND 2 of the 'WEAKEST LINK'. I decided to go with some of my favorite Tom Hanks films. Pick the film that you think is the WEAKEST LINK from the ones provided.  I do know he has been in MANY good movies, I just picked some of my favorite films to include in the list. Again, thanks to everyone who plays.

Now to the 1st Round to determine the BEST of these TOM HANKS films.

You are going to pick the film that you think is the "Weakest Link" after 2 days I remove the two (2) movie with the most votes. We will then move on to ROUND 3.

Big (1988)
A League of Their Own (1992)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - Eliminated Round 1
Philadelphia (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Cast Away (2000)
The Terminal (2004) - Eliminated Round 1

POLL- THE WEAKEST LINK: TOM HANKS FILMS - ROUND 2 38 votes

Big (1988)
7%
cutzmickeyratGern Blansten 3 votes
A League of Their Own (1992)
26%
hedonistdarwinstheorymcgruff10Asterisk on the StreetF Me In The BrainPJNB1ThoughtKnownSmallestOceansJojoRiceMeltdown99 10 votes
Philadelphia (1993)
5%
MayDay10JimmyV 2 votes
Forrest Gump (1994)
7%
Yefaerebusbrianlux 3 votes
Apollo 13 (1995)
10%
goldrushBLACK35OffSheGoes35Purple Fairy Tree 4 votes
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
7%
PoncierdankindPap 3 votes
Road to Perdition (2002)
28%
pjhawks2-feign-reluctanceLedbetterman10mfc2006BentleyspopGlowGirleeriepadaveHobbesbbiggsMatts3221JPPJ84 11 votes
Cast Away (2000)
5%
josevolutiontempo_n_groove 2 votes
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  • JojoRiceJojoRice Kennesaw, GA Posts: 4,398
    A League of Their Own (1992)
    This one is tough!
    "I got memories, I got shit"


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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    Gern and mickey, you joyless fuckers! 


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  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,600
    A League of Their Own (1992)
    Big gets a ding.  Ouch
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • JPPJ84JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    Road to Perdition (2002)
    Big is wonderful! From next round on this is getting really tough 
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • JPPJ84JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    Road to Perdition (2002)
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
    I cannot stand Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of my favorite films, as is Jaws.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • JPPJ84JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    edited September 2021
    Road to Perdition (2002)
    dankind said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
    I cannot stand Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of my favorite films, as is Jaws.
    Fair enough. Never watched Jaws. I’m not sure I could stomach it 😄
    Post edited by JPPJ84 on
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,403
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
    I cannot stand Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of my favorite films, as is Jaws.
    Fair enough. Never watched Jaws. I’m not sure I could stomach it 😄
    Jaws is one of the greatest films of all time.
    But I'm with Dan on Spielberg, somewhere along the way, maybe late 80s to early 90s he became far too full of himself.
    And the changes he made to ET for the 20th anniversary release should be reason enough to exile him from Hollywood.
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  • JPPJ84JPPJ84 Hamburg, Germany Posts: 3,464
    Road to Perdition (2002)
    Poncier said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
    I cannot stand Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of my favorite films, as is Jaws.
    Fair enough. Never watched Jaws. I’m not sure I could stomach it 😄
    Jaws is one of the greatest films of all time.
    But I'm with Dan on Spielberg, somewhere along the way, maybe late 80s to early 90s he became far too full of himself.
    And the changes he made to ET for the 20th anniversary release should be reason enough to exile him from Hollywood.
    Isn’t pretty much everyone in Hollywood full of themselves? ;) I didn’t even know about any changes. I‘ll stick to the original 
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    Poncier said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
    I cannot stand Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of my favorite films, as is Jaws.
    Fair enough. Never watched Jaws. I’m not sure I could stomach it 😄
    Jaws is one of the greatest films of all time.
    But I'm with Dan on Spielberg, somewhere along the way, maybe late 80s to early 90s he became far too full of himself.
    And the changes he made to ET for the 20th anniversary release should be reason enough to exile him from Hollywood.
    I don't know what was more disturbing: the walkies replacing the guns or the bath scene.
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,403
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    dankind said:
    Poncier said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
    I cannot stand Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of my favorite films, as is Jaws.
    Fair enough. Never watched Jaws. I’m not sure I could stomach it 😄
    Jaws is one of the greatest films of all time.
    But I'm with Dan on Spielberg, somewhere along the way, maybe late 80s to early 90s he became far too full of himself.
    And the changes he made to ET for the 20th anniversary release should be reason enough to exile him from Hollywood.
    I don't know what was more disturbing: the walkies replacing the guns or the bath scene.
    Damn terrorists hippies
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    A League of Their Own (1992)
    JPPJ84 said:
    Poncier said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    JPPJ84 said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What’s wrong with Spielberg? So do you actually dislike Private Ryan or is it Spielberg‘s involvement? What about E.T. or Schindler‘s List?
    I cannot stand Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is one of my favorite films, as is Jaws.
    Fair enough. Never watched Jaws. I’m not sure I could stomach it 😄
    Jaws is one of the greatest films of all time.
    But I'm with Dan on Spielberg, somewhere along the way, maybe late 80s to early 90s he became far too full of himself.
    And the changes he made to ET for the 20th anniversary release should be reason enough to exile him from Hollywood.
    Isn’t pretty much everyone in Hollywood full of themselves? ;) I didn’t even know about any changes. I‘ll stick to the original 
    Yes. Yes, they are. 
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,570
    Cast Away (2000)
    The Terminal didn't make it out of the first round?

    I thought that was a fantastic movie.

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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,570
    Cast Away (2000)
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What kind of asshole doesn't like... uh, well, never mind...
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    tempo_n_groove said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What kind of asshole doesn't like... uh, well, never mind...
    A tight one!
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,570
    Cast Away (2000)
    dankind said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    What kind of asshole doesn't like... uh, well, never mind...
    A tight one!
    I don't think your definition of "tight" is accurate in this instance.
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,001
    Big (1988)
    road to perdition is a great movie.
    wtf is wrong with you people
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    mickeyrat said:
    road to perdition is a great movie.
    wtf is wrong with you people
    We are not joyless fuckers. 

    Et tu, cutz?


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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    And I don’t know if I can vote against a movie with Lori Petty in the cast. 


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,770
    Forrest Gump (1994)
    My favorite are Big, Cast Away, Philadelphia, Apollo 13 and... not on the list???... News of the World. 
    Runner up, "A League of Their Own" because at the beginning of COVID Hanks said "nobody cries in baseball", and I cried.
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  • 1ThoughtKnown1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    A League of Their Own (1992)
    mickeyrat said:
    road to perdition is a great movie.
    wtf is wrong with you people
    I’m quite puzzled as well. 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,770
    Forrest Gump (1994)
    mickeyrat said:
    road to perdition is a great movie.
    wtf is wrong with you people

    We took too much acid and stared at the sun.  Which is why so many of us love "Big". 
    If I were into noir and lots of blood and guts I might like Road to Perdition.  I hear it's gotten a lot of positive reviews.  Only I don't care for either noir or ultra violent films and thus have yet to watch it.
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,345
    Big (1988)
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    You are insane. Please get help.

    Gump is a fantastic movie and SPR is epic just for the beach storming scenes alone.

    The Terminal was bad in my opinion. Just not interesting at all.
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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,641
    Apollo 13 (1995)
    I liked The Terminal more than about half of the films on this list.
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  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,600
    A League of Their Own (1992)
    I am with Dankind on Gump. 
    Gump is so overrated, to me.  Everyone I knew loved it when it first came out and I was the only one that thought it was laughable.
    As a comedy, there are parts that work.
    As a serious movie I did not like it much.

    I do think the beach storming scenes in SPR were crazy and I liked many parts of that movie.  The overall movie?  Watched it 2x.  Once in theater and once right when it was out to watch at home.  Since then I only watch the start if I catch it on. 
    Not my least favorite but not my favorite on this list. 
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  • JojoRiceJojoRice Kennesaw, GA Posts: 4,398
    A League of Their Own (1992)
    Love Forrest Gump.  It's a top 10 movie for me.  I do think that as a film itself it hasn't aged well compared to others.  
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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,570
    Cast Away (2000)
    JojoRice said:
    Love Forrest Gump.  It's a top 10 movie for me.  I do think that as a film itself it hasn't aged well compared to others.  
    One of the greatest lines ever uttered in film came from A League of Their Own.

    "There's no crying in baseball!"

    This movie is also a nice historical piece and gave the Women of baseball a proper place in history when they were all but forgotten about.

    I wonder if any of them are even still alive?  I saw one player at a card show back in 1998.
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    Gern Blansten said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    You are insane. Please get help.

    Gump is a fantastic movie and SPR is epic just for the beach storming scenes alone.

    The Terminal was bad in my opinion. Just not interesting at all.
    I am getting help, goddamn it!

    And my therapist thinks Gump sucks, too. :lol:

    SPR: 25 minutes of handheld mastery (with a shitty Spielberg gag, to boot; i.e., helmet guy) do not excuse the following 2 hours+ of jingoism and boredom.
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  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,345
    Big (1988)
    dankind said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    dankind said:
    Forrest Gump is the absolute worst performance (absolute dogshit film) on this list, but my aversion to Spielberg keeps clicking on Saving Private Ryan.

    (I have never bothered to watch The Terminal, so it wouldn't have felt right voting for it in the last round. Seeing as it's already out, I gather I'm not missing much by avoiding it. Having said that, I do have a soft spot for Sleepless in Seattle.)
    You are insane. Please get help.

    Gump is a fantastic movie and SPR is epic just for the beach storming scenes alone.

    The Terminal was bad in my opinion. Just not interesting at all.
    I am getting help, goddamn it!

    And my therapist thinks Gump sucks, too. :lol:

    SPR: 25 minutes of handheld mastery (with a shitty Spielberg gag, to boot; i.e., helmet guy) do not excuse the following 2 hours+ of jingoism and boredom.
    The final battle scenes were very good. I wasn't bored with it at all but Corporal Upham's pussyness did piss me off a few times. 
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    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
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    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
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