New Tom Hanks movie "Greyhound"
 

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This looks good...Comes out in June 2020.

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He lands a bus on the Hudson river.

ROFL

Spoiler alert that bus is hijacked by Somali pirates!

The Somali's are from the pirate ship The Wilson.

In. World War II, submarines...gonna be awesome!

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This is screaming BIG SCREEN! :thumb:

It looks like a big budget version of those straight-to-video movies starring Tom Sizemore.

From the screenshot it kind of looks like he did a biopic of Captain Stabbin.

That have aids.

Lol! Like "Company of Heroes"

If Tom Hanks is in it I’ll watch it.

Might be worth watching. The heavy use of cgi gives me considerable trepidation though.

Always the right answer.

Yeah this looks incredible, I’ll cough up $9 for that

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Ive begun to wonder why we (the collective we, as in the nation) are more obsessed with WWII than any other war. It was certainly pivotal, no denying that. I'm not complaining - there are many compelling stories to be told.

It jus seems (and I haven't done any research to back this up) that there are 10 times as many movies about WWII than all our other wars combined.

I never really thought about it, but offhand I'd say there are a few factors.

It was fresh in the minds of people, both filmmakers and the general public, during the golden age of Hollywood.

It was the last major conflict in which we fought that we clearly won. It wasn't a draw, or a lingering, unresolvable mess.

And the generation that fought it was remarkable. It's been all downhill since.

They’re propaganda movies. WWII was the last war that had the countries full support.

What I find amazing is that Hogan’s Heroes was only like 20 years after WWII.

There’s no way a POW comedy could get made now days. For any war.

I think you've named quite a bit of it. In WWII it was much easier to define it as good v evil (or maybe that is easier in retrospect - I'm not sure how much of Hitlers evil was evident at the time). The following wars weren't so black and white, they were more political power moves (gross generalization).

We just feel better about ourselves in WWII, than we do subsequent or prior wars with maybe the exceptions of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

Also, they could churn out a movie a month back then.

I think the sheer magnitude of WWII has something to do with it. It was the largest conflict the world has ever seen. There are so many stories; large, small, fiction, non-fiction, European theater, Pacific, and everything in between. It's like a writer's playground.

And as others have mentioned, there was a very clear line between good and evil. And the blurring of that line has potential for great storylines.

SPOILER ALERT: Unknown passenger leaves a soccer ball in a suitcase at the back of the bus with a shipping label and he spends the whole film trying to find the rightful owner, starting at the Fed-Ex terminal at the airport during World War II.

Some scenes are flashbacks to when he was a kid playing a piano and is being bullied by a few new Somali neighbors. He realizes his destiny when he goes to the boardwalk and a fortune telling machine called "Zoltar Speaks" predicts he will become the World's greatest Bus Driver.

He goes to the Empire State Building on his day off and meets a woman on a blind date and they fall in love and marry.

A lot of factors.

Largest war ever in a lot of different facets.

First time using modern warfare tactics.

Mobile warfare makes everything more interesting and easy to tell stories about.

Good villains.

And everybody knows about it. Knows the battles whatnot. For instance the battles of Verdun lasted 10 months. That’s just hard to tell a story about.

Looks like this is going straight to streaming now. Just showed up on my apple TV + account. Premiers in July.

Absolutely! :thumb: :clap: :thumb:

Yeah, I saw a commercial for it last night that said it would be on this exclusively.

You'd think a Tom Hanks war movie would be something theaters would be interested in to bring back audiences. I don't get it.

The 'Rona of course.

Sucks it's only on Apple too...

Curious what they paid to get it

Dropped today on Apple TV.

Excellent flick. Much better than the trailers made it look.

Only 90 minutes long so no wasted moments and moves at fast clip. Extremely well made.

This, I enjoyed it as well! Most was filmed in Baton Rouge, LA from the docked USS KIDD. Good movie :thumb:

Just finished it. Loved it. Very well done. :thumb:

Watched it today. Started off with a weirdly awkward exchange between Hanks and Shue. But after that goofy irrelevant bit, it was really great. Caught myself literally at the edge of my seat a few times with the action. Pleasantly surprised.

If anyone cares, the podcast Hardcore History Addendum podcast has Dan Carlin interviewing Hanks. It’s a really good goddamned podcast. I haven’t cared too much about what Hanks has to say about anything but it was a really good listen.


Is there a place I can watch this without an Apple TV subscription?

https://www.vidlox.me/enise1htvkbl

Malware app highly recommended

There's a 7 day free trial available and after that, it's $4.99 per month.

My wife wanted (and received) an Apple TV 4K device for Mother's Day (even though we have 6 Roku TV's), which comes with a full year of Apple TV. They have a Roku app, so hopefully, I'll have time to watch this film in the next few days.

FYI, Hanks produced this film, which is part of the reason why he was so bummed out that it wasn't going to be released in theaters and going to Apple TV only, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I LOVE his work and That Thing You Do, which he also wrote and produced (while co-writing the songs) is a regular staple in my home.

He also wrote the screenplay.

Very refreshing film as well. No agenda, no subplots, no preaching, just straight forward good guys versus bad guys. It's the kind of movie that could have been made 50 or 60 years ago, only with models in a big tank instead of CGI.

Exactly what I thought. It even had the classic clapping/swelling music ending.

Overall, I liked it. It reminded me that anyone who signs up for the Navy is nearly insane.

I had no idea that U-boats needed to come up for air.

The subs of that era could only operate submerged for limited amounts of time. While completely underwater, they ran on battery power, as the diesel engines required air to function. They would run out of both breathable air and power if they stayed under for too long.

A History channel website says they could be under water for about 2 hours. That blows my mind. I honestly thought they were roaming around for about as long as their food/ammunition supplies could last.

Damn didn’t realize Tom cowrote on TTYD, it’s one of my fav movies. “I quit”

It's been many years since I've seen Das Boot. Seems like it would be a nice companion movie to Greyhound. Perhaps I'll watch it tonight.

Unfortunately it’s about 3x the length.

Great movie, though.

Tom Hanks is a pedo

I'm stoked about Greyhound now but my all time favorite submarine movie is The Hunt For Red October. I just can't turn that movie off, even if I start watching it at 10pm.

If Greyhound is even close to Red October in terms of film making and story, I'll probably find it difficult to turn off as well.

The long ass directors cut is particularly outstanding and one of my favorites.

There was also a recent series for German TV that’s on Hulu. It’s a mixed bag with some unnecessary plot lines on shore but everything sub related was pretty good stuff.

crimson tide is good as well.

Does Tom Hanks rape any kids in it?

That was more WWI era when the battery technology was less advanced. WWII era was more like a day submerged but they were slow when underwater. I also seem to recall reading something about surface firing of torpedoes being more accurate.

Absolutely. A favorite of mine.

That’s not what Hanks said in the Hardcore History Adendum podcast.

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This is the last movie we'll ever see Tom Hanks in.

Why do you say that?

Agreed about Red October - hell, I watched most of it for 1,000th time just yesterday. It's one of those movies like Die Hard or Aliens, that I'll watch if it's on no matter how many times I've seen it (I guess I should add Silverado to that list, since I just watched it again this evening). Also, Red October came out while I was still in the Navy, and the portrayal of Navy ships and personnel is spot on for the time period. Back then that was generally not the case.

Greyhound is closer to the most recent Midway than Red October, but it's still quite enjoyable. I would have had no problem paying theater money to see it.

Awesome!

I watched Midway last weekend and my first reaction was that of utter horror as I saw the attack on Pearl Harbor.

I’ve seen every war movie ever made and I’m not sure if D Day, as depicted in Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan, was any more horrific than watching those men die horrible deaths. I know it’s a movie and they’re actors and all, but just seeing those men, those brave Americans, die with absolutely no chance of not only fighting back, but with no option of surviving.

And why in the world is the name Dick Best not celebrated more in American history? The guy singlehandedly took out not one, but two of the Japanese navy’s largest ships, yet there’s never a word about the guy.

The actor that portrayed him was excellent.

See the DC thread - it's all the rage.

There was another pilot in the Enterprise squadron named Norman Kleiss who also scored two carrier hits, and later a hit on a destroyer, thus becoming the only man to hit three ships in the battle. The people who made the movie omitted him and his contributions completely; I assume they thought it would detract from Best's story to add him.

If you're interested in Pearl Harbor, I highly recommend the book Second To Last To Leave the USS Arizona, written by Lauren Bruner, the final survivor of the attack who passed away just last year. The rescue scene is undoubtedly based on his story, although the truth is far worse than what the movie depicted.

It's a tough, but interesting read. A good part of the book details what life was like on Hawaii before the bombing, which was also very interesting.

I did a quick look in that shithole and couldn't find much so I bailed. Google search says some chick made allegations, but she's probably a troll and nothing could be substantiated.

Is that right?

Check out the Wayfair thread in DC

:facepalm:

Why did I ask?