Doubting Thomas - Why I Won't Allow Films By Tom Hanks In My Home
A few years back, I believe it was around the end of 2019, I was telling a friend how I don’t understand the appeal of the Polar Express movie and how my kids were driving me crazy playing it over and over again. The film has always just seemed painfully average to me, and I have never truly understood its popularity. My friend looked at me and said, “You shouldn’t have movies by Tom Hanks in your house.” If you’ve known me for a good while you already know that I am not a Hanks fan – not a fan of his films, and not particularly a fan of the man himself. Much like Garth Brooks, Hanks has always struck me as someone who just oozes false humility. His aw-shucks, I’m just the guy next store routine has never set well with me. But if my kids wanted to watch that overrated Polar Express movie, I wasn’t really going to put up a protest. When it comes to raising kids in a rapidly declining s...