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"The Terminal"

..I really liked it.

The Zeta Jones love interest thing didn't really need to be there at all, more of a 'wider audience!' thing, so whatever, I'll turn a blind eye.

But I just.. find.. Tom Hanks so ridiculously hard to dislike. Even if the main joke really is non-Americans speak funny or something.. it's still stupidly enjoyable for some reason. At least it didn't fall to levels of Lost in Translation for the talking funny thing.

But then, who else but Spielburg could even TRY to turn [URL]http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0621/p11s02-almo.html[/URL] into a lovable adventure where everyone falls in love with the guy?

I'm just a sucker for sentimentalism. Give me It's a Wonderful Life any day.

So yeah, I enjoyed the movie. Gotta wonder why Spielburg has such a kick out of turning really awful situations into 'ain't humanity great!' things.

Fair enough, Lost in Translation split people right up the middle. But can you really see anyone proclaiming The Terminal to be their favourite film ever? It's a dirge, two odd hours of Tom Hanks doing his funny foreigner routine. Halfway through I was fairly content until I realised I was watching a Steven Spielberg movie.

Tom Hanks - happy go lucky foreigner who puts a brave face on everything
Zeta Jones - a ditsy air hostess who just wants to be loved
Stanley Tucci - a hard nosed security officer who is easily wound up

Film-making 101.

But Snuggly, [URL]http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/review.php?id=30[/URL], your opinion doesn't matter.

I wouldn't have gone out of my way to have seen this to be perfectly honest. Parents rented it, I was around, so what the hell. I was expecting nothing but a crappy love story and walking out to go play Warcraft, and it turned out I really kinda liked it and enjoyed it all the way through.

Instead of watching Lost in Translation all the way through, to see if anything interesting, at all, happened.

Void Snuggly. Void.

It has its moments, but like you say the whole love side-story is really crap. I think it should have focused more on him collecting the signature of that guy instead.

But yeah, it has its brilliant moments like the trolley-returnage, and the way he learns English, and the airport is absolutely amazing. But as a whole its pretty average.

Nope, this is another on the list of "Films I'll die without seeing"

[URL]http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/review.php?id=18[/URL]

The very definition of meh. Painfully average, I'm starting to vehemently despise Tom Hanks and his fat, stupid face. Stop trying to win Oscars you bender.

Good film. Was in stitches when they're having the dinner and that little man is spinning plates [i think]. Not sure why, but found that hilarious! Just a nice, different movie.

I enjoyed it. Nice easy good-feel viewing.

Awww.

Good film, but would have prefered a more (I live in America!) type ending. Ah well, Aunt and Mother enjoyed it so not bad...

I'll take that as a recommendation for "It's a Wonderful Life".

The first few awkward minutes made me wonder why I'd turned up to see it, but the moment he starts making himself "busy"... and it's just the way it winds up that priick who's trying to run the place! :-D

When I saw the trailers, I thought this might be silly enough to be enjoyable. I'm a bit of a sucker for this sort of film so I'll probably try and catch it on Sky Movies at some point.