It came up in a recent interview with Empire magazine [July 2009]:
EMPIRE: Do you get a sense that people still have a lot of affection for comedies like Bachelor Party and Dragnet...
HANKS: They're kind of like set in time now.
EMPIRE: Men of a certain age love Bachelor Party...
HANKS: I'm proud of a lot of stuff in Bachelor Party. I think I'd just turned 27 years old and I'm ripping it up. We all did. Ripped it up.
EMPIRE: I guess you can't go back to that kind of comedy.
HANKS: One of the reasons I think there is an affection, which I share to some extent, for Dragnet and Bachelor Party is because I'm the guy in the movie. But I wasn't the only guy playing him. There were a lot of people playing the young guy getting laid, making his way in the world, wisecracking; a goofy guy who somehow gets the girl without being really good-looking. It was sort of where the national zeitgeist was. I said: "Okay, it's time for that to be done." There were plenty of opportunities, plenty of screenplays stacked up, but I just felt I didn't have anything to give it anymore. I couldn't go back and embrace that, not only because of where I was as a professional craftsman, but also because of where I was as a man. I didn't want to do it again.
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