Tom Hanks is about to do it again!

[Straight Shooter]

I F-in REFUSE to watch anything with these lunatic leftists. Theres not a movie that they could possibly make Id want to see.
Stop feeding these m-fers.

[SteyrAUG]

I F-in REFUSE to watch anything with these lunatic leftists. Theres not a movie that they could possibly make Id want to see.
Stop feeding these m-fers.

Band of Brothers?

[OH58D]

I F-in REFUSE to watch anything with these lunatic leftists. Theres not a movie that they could possibly make Id want to see.
Stop feeding these m-fers.

Despite not liking the politics of a lot of Hollywood, I can separate the actor's personal life from the Art of the film. If I detached from society, there wouldn't be anything I could watch on TV, in the theater or listen to in popular music.

I admit there are some more rabid Leftists in the arts who make it hard to buy their product because of an anti-military stance, or anti-Conservative social positions. Case in point the Country Group: "The Dixie Chicks". They were originally a 4 member Texas Swing Cowgirl Band. I sold a ranch horse to one of the original members. Two of the original members left and a big mouthed blonde named Natalie Maines was brought in by the record company and turned them into a modern country trio. Natalie Maines is a big time leftist and she had some verbal drama about American troops overseas, basically ruining their popularity domestically. Concerts went unsold and they ended up doing foreign tours to make money. I have not bought anything with Natalie Maines in it, but I have some nice autographed CD's and photos from the original Texas Swing quartet.

[Ed L.]

Hanks is a huge WWII history buff, and does a lot to support the WWII Museum in New Orleans.

For a WWII history buff, he has a decidedly left-wing view. For example he said: "Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"

I can't believe he would say this considering that he was one of the producers for the excellent HBO miniseries "The Pacific." We wanted to annihilate them because of Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, treatment of American POWs, like the rape of Nanking, the fact that they almost never surrendered and fought to the end, etc.

What makes his statement very strange is that he has done research and in another interview https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...e-Pacific.html said:

"The war in the Pacific was a different beast from the conflict in Europe,” says Hanks, during our recent interview in Los Angeles. “In Europe, by and large, when the bad guys knew that they were beaten, they’d put up their hands and say, 'We give up’ and they were taken off and put in prisoner-of-war camps, and that was that. This did not happen on the islands of the Pacific. The war in the Pacific was a war of terror and suicide and attrition, that’s all it was. There was killing and killing and killing until there was nobody left to kill.”

Maybe this was a reason why we fought them more zealously.

[Slater]

Well, Admiral Bill Halsey was quoted as saying "Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell".

[SteyrAUG]

For a WWII history buff, he has a decidedly left-wing view. For example he said: "Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"

I can't believe he would say this considering that he was one of the producers for the excellent HBO miniseries "The Pacific." We wanted to annihilate them because of Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, treatment of American POWs, like the rape of Nanking, the fact that they almost never surrendered and fought to the end, etc.

What makes his statement very strange is that he has done research and in another interview https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...e-Pacific.html said:

"The war in the Pacific was a different beast from the conflict in Europe,” says Hanks, during our recent interview in Los Angeles. “In Europe, by and large, when the bad guys knew that they were beaten, they’d put up their hands and say, 'We give up’ and they were taken off and put in prisoner-of-war camps, and that was that. This did not happen on the islands of the Pacific. The war in the Pacific was a war of terror and suicide and attrition, that’s all it was. There was killing and killing and killing until there was nobody left to kill.”

Maybe this was a reason why we fought them more zealously.

He is allowed to question motivations and make comparisons. Perhaps if he looks closely enough one day he will see that the Japanese empire has more in common with our current enemies than us. And he is correct that our underestimating views of our enemies has bit us on the ass more than once, we still make the same mistake today in a lot of ways and at many levels.

When you factor in his zip code and occupation, he's probably considered a conservative by his peers and you have to expect him to be infected by liberal views to some extent. Not trying to excuse it but if you are raised by scientologists your world view is likely to be very skewed no matter how educated you are or objective you attempt to be.

So for me, I weight the good against the bad and try not to support the bad as much as possible. There are people whose work I want nothing to do with. Woody Allen comes to mind and for the life of me I don't understand why he isn't in jail. Also have a similar problem with Roman Polanski, I feel bad that the Manson family destroyed his life and I'm impressed by the film The Pianist (which I think is an important film as it told a truer story than Schindler's List), but he was also a guy who liked to drug and rape underage girls.

I also think Hollywood itself creates a predatory culture where young, wannabe actors and actresses are presented to powerful people for all kinds of abuse and some even do it willingly and consider it the "cost of being discovered." This is as old as Hollywood itself and Weinstein was hardly the first. If you live in that environment, maybe you think now it's your turn since you paid the price so long ago and it's a perk of fame, maybe the environment is simply so tolerant of victimizing young aspirants that it is seen as a form of jaywalking.

At any rate, Tom Hanks and his world view is hardly the worst that Hollywood has to offer and unlike the rest of them he has actually done some good work and contributed to good things. But that's just my view, nobody is required to agree with me.

[OH58D]

At any rate, Tom Hanks and his world view is hardly the worst that Hollywood has to offer and unlike the rest of them he has actually done some good work and contributed to good things. But that's just my view, nobody is required to agree with me.

In the 20th Century, I spent a lot of time overseas. One of our greatest exports was our culture, and that was reflected in American Films. Like Hollywood or not, the fact is they have been very good in the film industry, and other nations craved that product, in addition to our exported $100 a pair Levi's. I was traveling in Germany in early 1993 between assignments and heading to Somalia. I turned on TV in the hotel, and there was Michael Douglas and Karl Malden in an episode of The Streets of San Francisco, in English with German sub-titles. This show aired in the US from 72 to 77, but was on prime time German television in the 90's.

[Grand58742]

Tom Hanks, despite his personal political views, has actually done a pretty bang up job of his historical pieces and mostly stayed true to the historical facts rather than trying to warp it like many in Hollywood these days. Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon are all examples of "documentary" films/series he's been a producer on that have mainly stuck to the historical facts and not decided to introduce "social justice" into the mix.

If he follows form of what he's helped direct, produce and star in from the past, this one will probably be outstanding as well.

[mack7.62]

I have actors on my do not watch list, there are films I refuse to pay money to watch like recent Star Wars, but I have a level of tolerance, I have learned to ignore a certain level of Hollywierd BS and still be able to enjoy a film. IMO Hanks does a decent job of not carrying his personal bias into his movies, also telling that the trailer starts out with him praying, and his movies show America in a good light. This is one I will pay to go see.

Now my pet peeve about The Pacific, Band of Brothers covered D-Day to the end of he war in 10 hours, to shoehorn the 4 years of the Pacific War into 10 hours was BS that should have been at least a 3 season show.

[ABNAK]

I have actors on my do not watch list, there are films I refuse to pay money to watch like recent Star Wars, but I have a level of tolerance, I have learned to ignore a certain level of Hollywierd BS and still be able to enjoy a film. IMO Hanks does a decent job of not carrying his personal bias into his movies, also telling that the trailer starts out with him praying, and his movies show America in a good light. This is one I will pay to go see.

Now my pet peeve about The Pacific, Band of Brothers covered D-Day to the end of he war in 10 hours, to shoehorn the 4 years of the Pacific War into 10 hours was BS that should have been at least a 3 season show.

Roosevelt's "Europe first" policy has carried on for 75+ years. The Pacific was almost an afterthought to Band of Brothers. Kind of like "Gee, maybe we oughta do a movie about the Pacific war too huh?"

My grandfather was a USMC vet of the Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, Munda, Bougainville). I grew up much more interested in the Pacific war than the one in Europe. I'm probably still guilty of that bias to this day.