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I just saw Forrest Gump on the Biography channel.
Wow.
I want to own it.
From the incredible acting, to the humor, ("The flashlights keep wakin' me up!") to the history, (I really want to get into studying Vietnam and the Cold War) to the messages, I loved it ALL. It totally tugged at my heartstrings.
10/10!!!!!!
"She taysted lyke sigritts."
Last edited by Lily Adams; 10-23-2007 at 03:46 PM.
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
Originally Posted by Lily Adams
yes, Forest Gump is a great movie. Although, for the longest time we had people around here going "Run Forest Run" all the time and I could've done without that but yeah, it's most definitely a 10/10.
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
You were watching last night, too?
I've seen it SOOOO MANY times now!! It is one of those movies I just keep watching. I have always liked the part where Bubba goes on forever about the different types of shrimp!
Ha ha, yeah.
It was kinda funny because I missed the first thirty minutes of it or so (MUST WATCH!) but when I turned it on, we were eating shrimp for dinner and that part came up fairly quickly where he goes on and on about the shrimp.
It was a beautiful movie. I love watching movies with substance. It's like reading a good book, probably why I love movies so much. I get so tired of the more mainstream, mindless garbage that Hollywood cranks out. It sickens me.
Plus Tom Hanks is a really good actor, I think.
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
Can I offer a differing point of view?
Forrest Gump is a terrible movie, and Tom Hanks is a vastly overrated actor.
That is all, for the moment.
Hell is other people.
~Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit"
Well, of course there are people who don't like it. But what made it so terrible for you?
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
I think Tom Hanks is pretty good. I am a bit tired of him at this point (didn't want to see him in the Da Vinci Code and the movie with him stranded on an island by himself was just a snore), but he was in Punchline back in the eighties with Sally Fields and he played a comedian who had a meltdown on stage and I thought he pulled it off. He's not a BAD actor and he was likable there for a while
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
A few things. For one, it's one of the most sugary and overly-sentimental films I've ever seen. Two, it's a film that derives most (all?) of its laughs from mocking the behaviors the mentally handicapped. Third, I found Forrest's struggles and the way he seems to single-handedly bring about so many fads and social changes to be extremely corny, not to mention empty in the long-run. And I found most of the dialogue to be completely idiotic.
Why this is praised as a great film I'll never know. Even looking at it from an ideological standpoint, the message of the film seems to be that if you don't question anything and do what everybody tells you, you'll become successful. What a sappy, stupid movie. Just thinking about it makes me angry.
But hey, on a much better note, I just rewatched an old favorite of mine, Alan Parker's Angel Heart, a remarkably emotional and disturbing experience with fascinating religious themes. It's kind of cross between a thriller, a film noir and a horror film, but one that trascends all three.
Last edited by Big Al; 10-23-2007 at 10:21 PM.
Hell is other people.
~Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit"
I don't think the movie is necessarily mocking the behaviors of the mentally handicapped. Taking care of a mentally handicapped child is an extreme challenge (and that's not to say that taking care of a physically handicapped child is not an extreme challenge). Family members of the handicapped have to cope with the situation and sometimes we'll sit around and talk about how amazing that handicapped child is despite all the rest. With the physically handicapped, we try to focus on what they can acheive academically, but with the mentally handicapped you praise their ability to say, tidy a room, or you focus on their ability to write their own name. I think Forest Gump is just kind of a cinamatic extension of that.
And as far as the overall message of the movie being "... you don't question anything and do what everybody tells you, you'll become successful."
Forest may not have a been "a smart man" (sorry, I just couldn't resist) but he wasn't completely unwise. For example, he knew enough to get Jenny out of the strip bar where she had a job as a nude folk singer.
Other than that, you bring up interesting points.
Last edited by Shalot; 10-23-2007 at 10:36 PM.
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
haha 'tom hanks is a vastly overrated actor'... its more the shiny bottom lip and do-gooder attitude that annoy me. i liked forrest gump though, its a cute, if slightly brainless movie. all of his other movies, however i have to agree, eg castaway - what a waste of 2 hrs?!
my last movie: Se7en
rate it: 5.5 out of 10
i liked brads unlikable character, and the fact that he, unlike his wife (in real life), doesnt just take pretty boy roles. his character was a bit of a bastard, and you get the feeling that he enjoyed playing it. the movie was a bit gruesome (im not good with blood) but even i could see that the effects were aging a bit. also, the part of the severed head at the end didnt seem real, or very shocking, it seemed very staged and the acting around this point got very wooden. and also i dont get why Morgan freeman didnt want brad to shoot keven spacey ( apart from the fact that it was illegal etc duh) was this a moral question that i didnt quite get?
also i thought this was kind of a lame 'event to go down in history', as keven spacey kept saying it would be - what really did happen in the end? there were a few murders, mostly of people noone would really miss (dont take this the wrong way, i just mean people the press wouldnt latch on to and make it a 'scandal' -prostitues, drug dealers and a man that didnt seem to leave his house) - and then a police officer shoots a person in their care... this unfortunatly happens a bit in the news so it wouldnt be front page material.... i was just a bit confused...
He did indeed. I knew it was sappy, but I just couldn't help it. It's a "feel good" movie. (Actually, wait. It was more bittersweet.) Or in Big Al's case a "feel angry" movie.
Tomorrow always holds the promise of something new and exciting. I am the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.
I agree with both of you on your points about Forrest Gump but I have to admit it was really a disappointment for me and I would never waste my time watching it again. I did not necessarily think that Hanks was bad in the role. I just thought the film was so outlandish and downright silly at times. I do think it was over-rated. I know people who claim it was their favorite movie. It was not mine by a long shot. I thought for one (Sally Field) his mother sleeping with the administrator was the first place the film lost it's credibility for me. From there on I was watching the film with a lot of sceptism. Guess I am old-fashioned but that just seemed to me to be crude. Much of the film seemed fairy-tale like also, or more of a parody. Am I the only one who thought this?
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
it's just a movie though. They don't all have to be so REAL. I watch movies to escape. When life is too big for me and dull and dreary and cruel it's nice to get away. I don't want to watch a film that truly captures life as it is, because sometimes ,and I am not being negative or pessimistic, life just SUCKS and that is where silly fairy-tale Forest Gump movies come in.
Forest Gump
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
I watched A Bridge To Terabithia this weekend with my mother, who is a sucker for sad, "family" movies and this was certainly sad. I have to admit that while I'm not a huge fan of the genre myself, I was a little teary eyed.Yesterday, I watched Medea, a Danish film. It was incredibly slow moving, almost to the point of being excrutiating. It was only about 75 minures but it was the longest 75 minutes of my life.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
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