see you auntie said:
The topic of discussion was who hates Tom Hanks? I think it's impossible. Denzel is a no brainer, although he's getting into a familiar pattern lately.

Not just trying to disagree with you, but I really don't like Tom Hanks. So it is not impossible. I think when an actor becomes too big you end up "watching Tom Hank films" instead of watching a movie. Harrison Ford went this way long ago. In Star Wars it felt like you were watching Han Solo, in Indiana Jones it felt like you were watching Indiana Jones. Somewhere along the line I began feeling like I was watching Harrison Ford. My feeling is that the actor should convince us the character is real. The whole point of acting is to be a player in a story, the focus is suppose to be on the story, good actors will tell a really good story in such away that the story itself will be what we take home with us, not "Wow, Tom Hanks just blew me away in that movie, he is such an amazing actor, I forget the name of the character he played, but OMG he is such an amazing actor."

But in this day and age of star worship, the actors are who many people want to see. It is all about finding stories for the actors to play in, not about finding the actors to bring a really good story to life.