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Summary: This was a really good movie
Review: This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It was well put together. It was also very touching.It was funny too. You must see this movie you will laugh and cry and get happy.Very original.
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Summary: Truly Phenomenal Movie!
Review: Don't call him stupid, because at the end of the day - Forrest is not consumed by a world of greed, lust, prejudice, and pride. This movie is not about idolizing an idiot. It's about seeing life through the eyes of a less fortunate, mentally challenged man. He charishes what we all seem to take for granted, and is not a slave to possessions like the rest of us. Tom Hanks is absolutely amazing in this movie. Not once did I think of him as anything other than Forrest Gump. Like life, this movie is like a box of chocolates. But if you have good taste - you'll enjoy every piece.
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Summary: Truly Phenomenal Movie!
Review: Tom Hanks is absolutely amazing in this movie. Not once did I think of him as anything other than Forrest Gump. Don't call him stupid, because at the end of the day - Forrest is not consumed by a world of greed, lust, prejudice, and pride. This movie is not about idolizing an idiot. It's about seeing life through the eyes of a less fortunate, mentally challenged man. He charishes what we all seem to take for granted, and is not a slave to possessions like the rest of us. Like life, this movie is like a box of chocolates. But if you have good taste - you'll enjoy every piece.
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Summary: "Pulp Fiction" lost to THIS?
Review: During the 1995 Academy Awards, the critically acclaimed "Pulp Fiction" lost to a movie called "Forrest Gump" starring the then red-hot Tom Hanks. I never saw "Gump" in the theatres and assumed that it had to be a VERY good movie to rob the envelope-pushing "Pulp Fiction" of the Best Picture Oscar. Because I am such a fair person, I bought the DVD and decided to give the movie a shot before passing judgement. After the first half-hour I was checking my watch every fifteen minutes. Aside from the handsome production and Hanks's performance, this was an overall safe, fairly predictable little movie that pushed no boundaries and played by Hollywood's rules of filmmaking. It was fun to see Hanks evolve in his character, but there was little dramatic thrust and it was even a little sappy. Don't think I'm totally bashig this film; I just think that it's a tad overrated and didn't deserve Best Picture. Although parts of "Pulp Fiction" were hard to digest, I give it props because it at least dodged the conventions of filmmaking "Gump" so readily embraces. If you're looking for a little crowd-pleaser, then by all means, "Gump" will be your cup of tea. For me, I don't think I'll see this film again or recommend it to anyone else.
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Summary: Idolizing an idiot
Review: I agree with the reviewer below. this movie was okay and "Pulp Fiction" should've won. By the way, ANYBODY could've played the Forest Gump character, it's not a hard role to act out. Why would you make a movie about an idiot? It's way too overrated.
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Summary: Philosophical Taste of Life
Review: I have watched this movies many times. No need to mention the humorous plots and lines, the beautiful pictures, the excellent acting, and the span of various historical backgrounds in this movie, which make it indeed the top in the film-making history. What I like the most about the movie is its philosophical taste of life. It makes you think.Forrest Gum is really just a common person, not too bright, not too aggressive, but nice to every one. There seems nothing that he persists, and there seems no goal in his life. He goes to where life takes him. But he is not a loser, he ends up with success and luck beyond what he expects. His all-time love, on the other hand, forming a great contrast with him, always pursues her dreams, tries hard, and experiences all sorts of frustration, without a happy ending. It really makes you think how one should live his life. I like the scenes of the feather in the wind. That carries infinite taste of life. The more you watch the movie, the more you will feel the taste, and the more you will like the movie.
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Summary: Good Movie, but Overrated.
Review: This movie was good, but not as good as other movies that I've seen that serve as "quasi-baby-boomer scrap book." Plus, I still think the edgie "Pulp Fiction" deserved to take home the award for best picture that year.
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Summary: Voice in the Wilderness
Review: I guess I'm the only person in the World who didn't like this movie. I am a huge movie fan and generally like Tom Hanks as an actor, but this film just didn't resonate with me. The idea that an individual who is apparently borderline mentally retarded can go on to become a war hero, great athlete, and all around success story seems quite far-fetched to me. Our world is becoming more competitive, not less. A person of his intelligence level would be unlikely to be successful in any one area, much less several. I'm sure this will sound insensitive to some, but it's true! I know this was meant to be a "feel-good" movie, but the storyline seemed trite and unbelievable, and the superimposition of the main character into scenes with famous people such as JFK seemed gimmicky.
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Summary: All That, and a Box of Chocolates.
Review: "FORREST GUMP"(One of my favorite movies) is an uplifting, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, experience, where you see the whole wide world through the eyes of a man who's never seen it before, and hardly understands it.
Through my opinion, "FORREST GUMP" deserved every Oscar it won(Except for one). Tom Hanks(With his back-to-back Oscars) had been amazingly convincing(What, with his accent and all), but I found it nearly absurd that he was chosen over the even more amazingly convincing, Morgan Freeman, in "THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION"(Also one of my favorite movies). While watching this epic for the first time I laughed and cried, nearly at the same time. This movie is awe-inspiring, and though it is PG-13, I wouldn't reccomend this to a kid 10 or under.
The special features on the DVD look interesting and I might buy it someday on DVD, but for now, I'm sticking with what I originally had, the VHS.
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Summary: This is one of my favorite movies
Review: Forest Gump is one of the best movies I've ever watched. It never fails to reduce me to a sobbing mass on the couch, it's that touching. Anyone who dislikes this movie is crazy in my book, because this is an amazing movie.
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