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Gaaahhh I think I've just died and gone to heaven!!!! sjjhkhjgks 😂😍

ADAM AT THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF HOTMD, GUESTS INCLUDE TOM HANKS AND RITA WILSON, DARREN CRISS, AND JUDD HIRSCH. COURTESY ADC

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Um tédio bem fotografado: "Asteroid City" (2023)

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Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson

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2023 Movie Journey #1: A Man Called Otto

a man called otto. i am so deeply conflicted about this movie. i watched it back in january and i’m still not sure what i think, because i both think that it was a good movie and that i never want to see it again. 

this is gonna be spoiler filled, just fyi. i cannot explain my feelings on this one without laying out why the plot was the problem for me--and if you only saw a trailer, you may be as unaware of the plot as i was going in. (i know it’s also a book, but i’ve never read it.) 

basically, the trailer shows us grumpy otto, who misses his wife and hates people, and some new neighbors who move in and change everything. there is also a cat lurking around him. that part was especially noted by me, a person who has unofficially adopted a half-dozen neighborhood cats in the last few years. the trailer portrays his story as a hopeful one, the kind of curmudgeon-forced-into-happiness movie i would expect from tom hanks.

and some parts of what i assumed from the trailer turned out to be true. they’re not lying, exactly, in what they choose to show. but the trailer (at least the one i saw) is really selective in what it shows--so carefully leaving out other things that for me, just because the scenes in the trailer are IN the movie, doesn’t mean the movie i saw was the one they advertised.

i mean, this is a tom hanks movie, so it has an uplifting message. otto becomes less grumpy, he lets people back in his life, he starts to live despite his wife being dead. those parts are accurate. but they leave out a lot, for good and for bad.

tw for nonspecific mentions of suicide attempts and death.

grumpy otto, we learn as the movie opens, doesn’t just miss his wife. he is determined to join her. he starts the movie by failing at suicide. then he meets his new neighbors, and the movie turns into what feels like it’s supposed to be a dark sort of comedy, where he keeps trying to kill himself in different ways, and is constantly interrupted/postponed by his new neighbors, who have no idea he’s suicidal and are just accidentally always annoying him. until he slowly, eventually opens up. 

that part of the plot is pretty predictable, but juxtaposed with the constant ‘tom hanks trying to die’ that i was NOT prepared for, i was really freaked out. it made it impossible for me to totally enjoy the parts that were meant to be heartwarming. 

the movie didn’t win me over until otto’s first real emotional breakthrough of treating someone decently comes with a young man who had known and loved otto’s late wife when she was his teacher. he’s trans, and comes to otto when his family kicks him out, and the movie’s touching moments didn’t make me cry until that character showed up. he is the real start of otto building a new found family, and i loved that. 

there’s also a storyline that’s rewarding in the end, about a man otto was friends with before his life fell apart--that actor did a great job with the small space he was given, genuinely stole my heart. and the mom who is the driving force in the family that won’t let otto get away, otto’s relationship with her is great too, especially as it develops later. him teaching her to drive and giving her the most loving angry lecture i’ve ever heard made me genuinely wish somebody like that had scolded me into driving when i needed it, too. 

throughout the movie, we learn about otto’s life before we met him, in flashbacks where young otto is played by tom hank’s actual son. that part was cool. it allows us to know his wife, and what they went through together, and tbh does a decent job of filling out the picture when that can often fall flat as a method. and rita wilson sings the song that’s a major theme in the movie, which is neat.

but then, at the end of the movie, once we know all about otto and he’s happy and loved...HE FREAKING DIES. i do not need to see tom hanks die! who ever needs to see tom hanks die?? instead of being an uplifting movie about a man rebuilding his life, it’s a bittersweet movie about a man who brings his life to a close and passes on what he has to his new loved ones. 

and i can understand how maybe that is an uplifting movie for other people, somehow. i wondered as i came home that day if maybe it was a movie meant for those otto’s age, if maybe being in a place where you think more about death would make the movie more relatable than it was for me--there were certainly a number of jokes my packed theater of primarily older folks laughed at that just left me going ‘huh?’ (about car brands, or The Youngsters And Their Technology). maybe i was just oversensitive watching it.

but it also left me wondering how tom hanks and rita wilson are doing since they had covid--what they went through individually and as a couple, as parents of grown children, as older people...if that experience had them thinking about when one of them goes first, or about the end of their lives in general. about their future. 

so i’m really left with mixed feelings on this one, because it was not bad at all, for what it was. but i wish i had been warned going in that it was essentially one long movie about death--the mourning of it, the wishing for it, the attempting it, the dealing with it. it was so comedic and so not funny at all, all at once, and it just ended so sadly. again, i know it was meant to be uplifting in its way and thus more bittersweet than depressing, but i cried so hard when he died, i just didn’t enjoy that. 

also, when it comes to things i did not enjoy, there’s a jumpscare gunshot i really could’ve done without, and a supposedly-funny scene that felt like cat abuse and another where the cat looks dead but is ‘just’ frozen and later revived. plus the fact that otto dies and his cat is just...silently right there with him, until he’s found the next day, breaks my whole fucking heart. 

anyway, yeah. i don’t know if i recommend this one. ymmv. maybe everybody else loved it! maybe if you haven’t seen it yet and watch it, you’ll love it. (at least if you read this, you’ll be more prepared than i was. and there are good parts.) but it left me feeling sad and weird and like yeah okay death is inevitable but i didn’t need a movie about it quite like this. so i don’t think i’ll ever watch it again.

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Bad movie I have Volunteers 1985

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Fortune smiles! The theater is still pretty empty so that means I’m…

#NowWatching A Man Called Otto (2022) 🚉🚲🫀

“𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎. 𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎!”

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Now showing on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...That Thing You Do! (1996) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #comedy #drama #music #thatthingyoudo #TomHanks #TomEverettScott #SteveZahn #jonathanscaech #ethanembry #CharlizeTheron #RitaWilson #LivTyler #JonathanDemme #giovanniribisi #bryancranston #ColinHanks #kevinpollak #chrisisaak #PeterScolari #BillCobbs #ObbaBabatunde #alexrocco #clinthoward #tracyreiner #SeanWhalen #geddewatanabe #dvd #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest

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And none of you guys, always claiming you love Mamma Mia so much, ever told me that the oh so nice Mr and Mrs Hanks produced this magical movie?

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A Man Called Otto started its life as a Swedish novel (A Man Called Owe), followed by a Swedish film adaptation. Rita Wilson saw the potential for the story as an American film, and her production company secured the rights. Of course, it helped that Wilson had a pretty big star she could easily attach to the project: her husband (and one of her production partners), Tom Hanks. The project has been in the works for more than five years; now that it's done and on the big screen, Wilson told us she knew it was going to be something special from the very first day of shooting.

A Man Called Otto is now playing in theaters.

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Volunteers (1985)

Most will see Volunteers as a dumb American comedy, which it certainly is and there are plenty of better ones. However, I always favour the underdog and prefer the pointlessness of this film over Hanks’ bigger hits like Big and Splash.

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Chet Hanks & Kim Zolciak hook up in Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets [VIDEO]

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9 July 2011 | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson attend the BAFTA "Brits to Watch" event held at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles, California. (c) Matt Baron-Pool/Getty Images

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The Most Memorable Red Carpet Moments of Tom Hanks That Perfectly Captured The Essence Of Consummate Leading Man Of Hollywood

Tom Hank is an American filmmaker and actor, he was born on 9 July 1956. He is widely known for his dramatic and comedic roles. In the world of entertainment, Tom Hank is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks' films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America. He has received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor both in 2016, as well as the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020.

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