On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 9:10:18 AM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/21/2015 12:04 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:03:51 -0600, Janet B >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:21:26 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> >> > wrote:
> >> snip
> >> We did try the movies a week ago but the
> >>> movie that we went to (Ted 2) was so disgusting, we walked out.
> >>
> >> snip
> >> You didn't know anything about the movie before you went? There were
> >> a lot of big movies to choose from last week.
> >> Janet US
> >
> > I think we've walked out of two movies. One was a Fellini movie and
> > there has to be another one (for sure), but all I can come up with at
> > the moment are movies I wanted to leave except my bad movie tolerant
> > husband chose to stay - so I slept through them.
> >
> We walked out of a Tom Hanks movie once, and that's saying a heck of a
> lot since John and I both love him as an actor. It was a remake of an
> old film, "The Ladykillers". The original wasn't exactly a great film
> to begin with, but we figured Tom Hanks, okay. Seemed like every other
> word was F***. All we could figure is he was under some sort of
> contractual obligation. What other reason would there be for him to
> star is such a spectacularly bad movie? We weren't the only ones who
> walked out.
>
> Jill

The Ladykillers was a remake of an old Alec Guinness film from
the 1950s, one of several excellent comedies he did for Ealing
Studios. Someone probably pitched it to Hanks as "Want to be
in a remake of The Ladykillers, with Joel and Ethan Coen as
writer/directors?" It probably sounded like a good idea at
the time.

Cindy Hamilton