[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Forrest Gump (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/27/2007 3:23:02 PM EDT
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Is there something about this movie that is done brilliantly? I must be in the triple digits of seeing this movie, and I still enjoy it every time I watch it. Should I kill myself? |
I'm watching it too, I'd assume that I'd be bored of seeing the same shit over and over. Nope, still watching it like I did the first time I saw it. |
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Great movie. Whats up with the shocker when he's running across America? |
We did the same thing to a girl in college. "Jennnnay! C'mon Jennnnay" Man did it piss her off. |
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Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the only person in the world that hates "Forrest Gump". A movie about an underdog-type character that, with perseverance and a little luck, overcomes a hardship? Fine. However, a blithering idiot that gets lucky over and over and over and over? That movie always ends up pissing me off. It's like having a neighbor that wins the lottery once a week. After awhile, you just want wanna whack him in the head with a fucking shovel. Bah! Humbug! (The hippie punching was good though.) |
Probably. Also female to male transmission is much harder than male to female so it is possible to not catch it after one time. Then again, who'd risk it? |
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It's more the idea that the rest of the characters are so "smart" that they're constantly trying to rationalize doing the wrong thing. Forrest is so "dumb" that he never thinks to do anything but the right thing...because it's right. |
Tangent: considering the time frame of the movie nobody knew a damn thing about AYDS |
Ah, thats right. No wonder they never said it out. Speaking of good movies, way to ruin it with Castaway. This move is lame.
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That's exactly the point... I seriously HATE Forrest Gump. |
BIG plus 1 on that. Hendrix "Hey Joe" is one of my alltime favorites and when he wails on "Wes the Wussie Radical Hippie" it made my day! Go Forest Go!!! BIGGER_HAMMER  .... "I'm Sorry if I ruined your Black Panther Party" 
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Why? You aren't making any sense. |
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No way, it is a fantastic movie, I watch it probably once every few months. One of my top 5 movies. Great story, great acting, interesting look at the life of an American throughout the course of signficant events in our history. |
| I consider Forrest Gump to be one of the best movies I ever saw. It was brilliantly written. It also seemed to be a drama, action, and comedy all rolled into one. It is perhaps the only movie I ever watched that seemed to touch every emotion. I too never tire of watching it. |
The sound track is awesome. Jenny reminds me of a girl I once dated named....well....Jenny. The Jenny in that movie could have been based off of my Jenny. ...plus I've had a thing for Robin Wright Penn ever since seeing her in The Princess Bride...even if she is a liberal whackjob. She's so pretty I don't care. Forrest in basic is pretty funny. |
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I read the book in Las Vegas, in the mornings, waiting for the wife and daughter to get presentable. More insight to the character in the book, and different "happenings", but still the movie is very enjoyable. The author, Winston Groom, also wrote a very good book about a character in the Vietnam war. I think a few scenes were taken from "Better Times Than These" for the movie "Platoon". |
But that is part of what is so excellent about it.
| The Vietnam part was very good. His simplistic approach to life is in many ways to be envied. The basic theme of the simple man making the right choices based on instinct and inherent morality got its real basis in Faulkner's novels. In "The Wild Palms" two parallel stories are presented, one had to do with very educated people totally destroying their lives because they were intellectually superior yet morally decadent, the other story is about an uneducated prisoner who gets washed away form his work gang in a river flood and survives due to instinct and always making the right choices. Faulkner consistently showed the simple man as superior due to his having not been corrupted by modernity. Being 55 and raised in Alabama, experienced integration in high school, entered college in 69, Vietnam in 70, then the post war protest period, I experienced much of what was presented in the film. |