Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
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Re: Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
You mean by starting a career as a non-standup comedy actor and keeping a career in non-standup comedy acting?
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Re: Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
Tom Hanks has won an MTV Movie Award and nominated for 12 more. Paul Rudd has only been nominated for 3 MTV Movie Awards and never won. So I see no comparison.
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Re: Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
Paul Rudd has been around for a while.
Maybe to some people he is a new star because of his work in the Apatow films.
Maybe to some people he is a new star because of his work in the Apatow films.
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Re: Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
I've always thought of him as a modern day Tim Matheson.
I just wish he was in better movies. I know I'm in the minority here, but I don't think the Judd Apatow productions I've seen are anything special.
I just wish he was in better movies. I know I'm in the minority here, but I don't think the Judd Apatow productions I've seen are anything special.
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Re: Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
If you're talking about some parallel universe where Tom Hanks never progresses past the point of Bachelor Party and plays that same character over and over again a la Groundhog Day... then maybe you've got something.
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Re: Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
I think Paul Rudd is pulling more of a Leslie Nielson. Not that Paul Rudd's comedy is slapstick like Nielson. I mean that Nielson started as a serious actor and only got really famous by doing his comedies, sort of like what Paul Rudd is doing. I actually now look forward to Paul Rudd films. If he's in a film, I want to see it....
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What serious movies has Paul Rudd been in? I can't think of any pre-Clueless (which seems to have mapped out his career). Or for that matter, many post-Clueless.
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Re: Is Paul Rudd the new Tom Hanks?
Yeah, looking at IMDB he has pretty much always been doing mostly comedy work, except for a few made for TV movies which he probably only had bit parts in anyway.