re: Is Tom Hanks the GOAT?

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So you could see Kevin Bacon or Colin Firth talking to a volleyball for an hour and a half?

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I think to carry a movie like Cast Away, you do need an extremely likeable guy. Kevin Bacon wouldn't do.

Colin Firth? Maybe, but it wouldn't have had the same type of impact as Hanks.

I really think that the movie watcher is watching a person who is 90% Hanks and 10% Chuck Noland (the actual name of the character). When the guy cries about losing Wilson, it's Hanks crying, not Chcuk Noland crying, so the audience, who loves Hanks, is more easily moved.

The only actors who have that likeability working for them as much as Hanks... no one. I was going to consider Jimmy Stewart or Sidney Poitier, but no one matches Hanks for likeability.