Hollywood nice guy Tom Hanks goes scorched earth on movie critic ‘c–ksuckers’ as he defends his films

nypost.com:

“Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast on Sunday and called movie critics “c–ksuckers,” while explaining how the responses to films in Hollywood have evolved over the years. “Now what happened is that time has become one of the metrics for how these things matter, right?” he said. “In the day it was just a fist fight.

It was every movie you came out, are you going to make the playoffs or not? Guess what? No, kid, you’re 2 and 12 and you ain’t going nowhere.

Or, you got a shot.”“It used to be you had these Rubicons that you crossed,” he continued. “First of all, do you love it or not?

That’s the first thing. Yes, okay, you have crossed the Rubicon, right? The next Rubicon you cross is when the movie is completely done a year and a half later, and you see it for the first time, and you might like it.