Hollywood nice guy Tom Hanks goes scorched earth on movie critic cksuckers as he defends his films

Don’t come for Tom Hanks’ movies.The Oscar winner, 68, appeared on the “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.It doesn’t matter if it works or not, you look at it and say, ‘Hey, I think we acquitted ourselves pretty good.’ That’s Rubicon No.

2.”Hanks went on, “Then the critics weigh in, that’s Rubicon No.3, and that’s always up down.

‘We hate it, we like it.This is the worst thing… Oh hey, oh hi Tom, I saw you in a movie.

It was cute.'”“That’s when you ask the wife, ‘Hey, honey, could you take the revolver out of the glove box and hide it somewhere, because I think…,” Hanks joked.The “Toy Story” star then noted that how a film performs at the box office is also important to its critical legacy.“Then a ton of time goes by when none of that stuff matters anymore,” he added, “and the movie just exists exactly as it is outside of loser winner status.

Thumbs up, thumbs down.And that’s when this stuff comes around, where it’s like that this thing that didn’t work back then, kind of does work now, or just the opposite, a thing that was huge back then is a museum piece and doesn’t really speak to anything.”O’Brien, 61, brough...