Catch Me If You Can Movie Review

[TOOL illusion]

I seen Catch Me If You Can last night, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Besides the fact that everything that comes from Tom Hanks is a good movie, this one had many unexpected twists and turns.
Leo plays Frank Abagnale, a teenage con artist that scams Pan-Am airlines out of 4 million bucks by posing an an airline pilot. In the 60's that was a helluva lot of cash. Tom is the FBI agent, Carl Hanratty, who's life's mission is to catch Frank and lock him up. Frank also poses as a doctor and a lawyer and even passes the Lousiana Bar Exam and becomes an assistant prosecuter.
An added bonus in this movie was Christopher Walken, who plays Frank's dad, Frank Sr.
Just when you think Frank has finaly been captured and Hanratty wins, Frank slips thru the cracks, literally.

For those of you that have seen this movie already I have this to say:
"knock, knock"
"who's there?"..................

PS Here I give an actual movie review instead of just saying "this movie rocks" like in soooo many other movie threads in this topic.

[DonnyBaseball]

technically you gave a brief summery. you left out your opinion of the movie, so i guess a "this movie rocks" would have sufficed.:D

[TOOL illusion]

true but at least it wasn't a

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This movie kicked ass!!!!!!! Go see it now!!!!

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[gibridehome]

i think im gonna see it tonight

[AllUrBase]

it was pretty good, exept i thought it would never end, he kept escaping!

[deermaster]

I agree, the movie could have been tightened up a bit. I thought most of the actors did a great job, especially Christopher Walken, but I thought Spielberg tried to drag this out into an epic like most of his other movies. He's a great director, there's no doubt about that, but I thought the tone of this movie could have been a lot lighter. Although it could've been more the writer's fault than Spielberg, I didn't like how Abagnale's life was morphed into some sort of meaningful moral drama. After all, as the real life Abagnale said himself, he really became a con artist so he could get more chicks.

[Ben]

I enjoyed way more than I expected to. Leonardo almost managed to shake his pretty boy image. Almost.

[TOOL illusion]

kinda like teh way Johnny Depp will always be a 'pretty boy' no matter how long his facial hair gets?

[chris_78660]

he can grow facial hair?

[TOOL illusion]

Yup....he sure can

[Kanism]

I've seen some women with lots of facial hair...not a pretty sight...

oh btw...I hate Leo and as good as the movie seems to be...I can't watch it :(

[TOOL illusion]

Kanism,
Don't hate, congratulate

[Kanism]

I just can't seem to do it...I think my hatred for him stems from his days on Growing Pains

[TOOL illusion]

ew! u watching Growing Pains....I couldn't stand that show, and that was when Kirk Cameron was the latest Teen Idol.....
I was more of a Family Ties and WKRP kinda kid

[Kanism]

I didn't say I liked the show...hence, that's where my hatred of the guy was spawned...I think

yeah, Family Ties, Diff'rent Strokes, Brady Bunch, Facts of Life...staples of childhood viewing

[Eminem]

Originally posted by Kanism
I've seen some women with lots of facial hair...not a pretty sight...


example - michael jackson

[JKegan]

Wait... everything with Tom Hanks in it is good? Have you not seen 'You've got mail'?

[deermaster]

"Turner and Hooch" and "Joe Versus the Volcano" both sucked dog balls as well.

[DonnyBaseball]

Tom Hanks is a good actor, I'll I have to say is Big.

As for Johnny Depp....I think he is a superior actor and he has a lot of dark movies that are the opposite of what a "pretty boy" would be in I.E From Hell, Sleepy Hollow. I also think Leonardo Dicaprio is a good actor especially in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (with Depp) and since I am sounding very gay right now (no offense to Tool or her gay friends) I'm going to stop this.

[deermaster]

"From Hell" was a damn good movie. Depp was also good as the great Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Even if I thought the movie was a poor adaptation of the book, Depp plays a great Thompson. And "Edward Scissorhands", there's another great Depp movie. And "Donnie Brasco". Now I'm starting to sound gay.

[chris_78660]

brasco was a good movie.....i held out watching it forever because it sounded like a chick flick, like that other movie....don juan, i think it was

[TOOL illusion]

Originally posted by DonnyBaseball
(no offense to Tool or her gay friends)

lol none taken, my dear, DB

[disturbed]

i saw that movie and i thought it was a great role for Leo.

[DonnyBaseball]

Originally posted by deermaster
"From Hell" was a damn good movie. Depp was also good as the great Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Even if I thought the movie was a poor adaptation of the book, Depp plays a great Thompson. And "Edward Scissorhands", there's another great Depp movie. And "Donnie Brasco". Now I'm starting to sound gay.

How could I have left out Fear and Loathing and Edward Scissorhands? Danm. I haven't read the book but thought the movie was fucking amazing. Benicio Del Toro was great too. He was hilarious in Usual Suspects givemethekeysyacocksuckawhatthefuck.

Little known fact about BDT: he was in Big Top PeeWee and played Duke, the dog faced boy. I'm sure he would want everyone to know that.

[Kanism]

yeah!!! the line up scene in Usual Suspects cracked my ass up...well, that's how that line got there!...anyways, I was on a date with this gal and she gave me the WHOLE history on BDT (as if that's what I was interested in)...but, the movie did kinda slow down after he got whacked

[chris_78660]

if you are a BDT fan.....you should check out "the way of the gun". good movie, you will not regret renting it....i own it;)

[Kanism]

I'm not a BDT fan...just cracked up by his performance in Usual Suspects...but, I'll give it a check out next time I'm strolling blindly through blockbuster

[chris_78660]

block buster is a rip off.......i go to hollywood video;)

[disturbed]

yea it is a total rip off!!

[fawn]

Okay I am late on this one, but I finally got to see it and I thought it was really good. I just might rent it when it comes out on DVD. I would like it if they followed it up with a real life interview on the DVD.