{"id":511,"date":"2006-05-12T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/05\/tom-hanks-wants-us-to-know-movies-dont-matter\/"},"modified":"2006-05-12T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T06:46:00","slug":"tom-hanks-wants-us-to-know-movies-dont-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/05\/tom-hanks-wants-us-to-know-movies-dont-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks Wants Us To Know Movies Don’t Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Speaking about Saving Private Ryan<\/em>, Tom Hanks said today, \u201cIf you are going to take any sort of movie at face value, particularly a huge-budget motion picture like this, you\u2019d be making a very big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh wait. No, he said that about The Da Vinci Code<\/em>. I\u2019m sorry. My bad.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking about Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks said today, \u201cIf you are going to take any sort of movie at face value, particularly a huge-budget motion picture like this, you\u2019d be making a very big mistake.\u201d Oh wait. No, he said that about The Da Vinci Code. I\u2019m sorry. 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