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Summary: 8 out of 10
Review: Good film. If you want my serious opinion, this film is little bit too true and too good that I feel imperfection must be achieved to say that is a great film. I mean, the movie was like watching Mr. Goody-Shoes, don't ya want to kill Forrest? Anyway, yes, that part where you don't see Gary Sinise's legs is incredible piece of work. This film is good. BUT....I can't believe Pulp Fiction did not win the best picture, best actor, best director, best supporting actor, best actress, and so on. Shawshank also is a better film than this film. The story found in Forrest Gump is little bit boring and narrow. Shawshank Redemption explored the feelings and the characteristics of the people revolving around Andy Dufresne. Forrest Gump did not achieve this completely, only involving one woman, Jenny. Too narrow. Pulp Fiction, this is a masterpiece. A work of a genius! It is not about the gory, cuss, and violence found in that film, qualities too salient for people to focus on. It is about how the story is told, how much emphasis was placed on each incident before shuffling back or forward. Forrest Gump is too thin. Shawshank Redemption is a thick story that will invariably find new holes to discover. Pulp Fiction is a straight forward story that was stylized in a flashback way. If Pulp Fiction wasn't mixed up, would have that been a movie as it was before? I seriously doubt it.
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Summary: A Powerful Story Of Love And Adventure
Review: FORREST GUMP is a movie about a backward young boy who grows up to lead a remarkable life while managing to get involved in some of the most important world events of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years. The film is a powerful story of love and adventure-especially love.Tom Hanks is superb as Forrest Gump. The strong supporting cast includes Robin Wright, Sally Field, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson and a very young Haley Joel Osment. FORREST GUMP won Oscars for Best Picture, Director (Robert Zemeckis), Actor (Tom Hanks), Adopted Screenplay, Art Direction, Film Editing and Visual Effects. It also received nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Gary Sinise), Cinematography, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Make-up and Original Score. Robert Zemeckis will be remembered in addition for his direction of BACK TO THE FUTURE and ROMANCING THE STONE.
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Summary: Being a baby-boomer, this film riled me like no other
Review: I just intellectually could not suspend all that would be required in order to enjoy this. The basic motif of inserting Gump into all these actual events annoyed me. And then seeing it take place over and over just exacerbated my annoyance greatly. Few movies as nice as this one bothered me as much as this one. So, to go from the subjective to the objective, I'd like to suggest that this doesn't have *universal* appeal. It is a very distinctive movie, with a unique structure and content. And if it *is* your cup of tea, great. But if as you're reading about it, a little voice inside is getting annoyed, listen to that voice. For some of us, it just doesn't get us there.
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Summary: Brilliant Magic
Review: The best word to describe this movie is, magical. To enjoy it, one must suspend reality for a bit and simply, let it work it's magic on you. The story begins with a pan of a feather delicately falling from the sky to forrests' feet. Forrest is sitting at a bus stop and we see him begin to talk to a stranger. He begins telling them his life story, and the movie takes off from there. Forrest it turns out is a man with below average intelligence who was born with physical disabilities. Despite these disabilities his single mother raises him to be "just like everybody else" and he grows up to be as normal as possible. But he is different. Despite all his attempts to be just like the other kids he is a very unique individual, and that is his magic. As it turns out his disability is not physical, nor is it intellectual. Rather, his disability is his heart. His heart is unable to feel any bad thought for anyone and his purity is the driving force of this movie. His innocence, like the symbolic leaf that falls in the beggining of the movie, makes him casually sway with the winds of change and he casually falls from one circumstance to another. Free of any pretension or hidden agenda's no one can believe that he really is as open a book as he really is and this sets off a chain of events each as implaussible as the next. The film is a brilliant next step to the classic Peter Sellers hit "Being There". It's a sarcastic romp through our past that critiques our society in a way Voltaire would be proud of. Taking naive Forrest through all sorts of insane situations where he blunders through and looks brilliant no matter how badly he screws up. A charmed life indeed. This isn't slapstick comedy, it must be said. It's very subdued and intelligent humour that needs to be taken with a small smirk rather than a loud gaffaw. This is Dennis Miller, not Andrew Dice Clay. This is Bill Cosby, Not Eddie Murphy. The scenes delicately set up the humour and the circumstance is the punch line. The joke is intricately woven and expects you to pay attention to get it. But if you do, you are well rewarded for your efforts. In one scene Forrest simply decides to run, and because he's running he just keeps going. The worlds disbelief at his audacious running just to "do it" inspires a whole generation of people to "just do it", sound familiar?
Suddenly he's leading a jogging craze across america, and when he finally stops, no one knows what to do. It's brilliant bitter sarcasm that puts society and all it's pretensions in it's place. If you can sit back and take the movie for what it is, without allusions or expectations you will absolutely love this. It's brilliantly written with an endless stream of double meanings and subtle jabs at social conventions. This is a movie you can be proud to introduce to your children and inspire them to think critically about what they are viewing, or it's also a movie you can watch for yourself and have a smirk at how strange real life can be. It's a very intelligent movie that deserves a good viewing. This is the apocalypse now of comedy. Brilliant.
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Summary: The Best Film of the 20th Century
Review: I have not seen every film made in the 20th Century, but I sure have seen a lot of them. My favorite film has consistently been FORREST GUMP. The reason might be because it affected me so much. I was in early middle school in a Chicago suburb when I first saw this movie with my family. It had a certain buzz when I heard my mom talk about it. The name was strange, and I had this feeling that the movie was going to be important even before I saw it. Forrest Gump changed my life. It was the first film that I saw that really made me understand the importance of cinema in American culture. I was taken through a story that I didn't completely understand, because I was so young and didn't know a lot of the history presented in the movie. I was so interested by the way my mom explained how they used unprecedented special effects so that Forrest would function in different important events in the context of recent American history. Also, though I didn't realize it at the time, it was beautifully made from the cinematography to the set design to the music, and perhaps most important, the acting and directing. Tom Hanks is stunning. He honestly makes you believe that he is Forrest, which is so hard to do because Forrest is almost cartoonish. The acting in some of the scenes is monumental. There are so many quotable lines. The acting by so many of the supporting characters is so effective that you can take the characters' performance for granted and concentrate on the stories and themes. Gary Sinese, Sally Field, and another acting gem, an almost toddler Hayley Joel Osment, mold right into the story. There are so many intuitive facets of this film that it almost seems impossible to behold and understand it as one movie. Among other things, this movie:
-got me hooked on Simon and Garfunkel
-got me interested in the Vietnam War
-got me interested in John Lennon
-got me interested in politics and history
-taught me about the hippie era
-depicted the civil rights era in a way my teachers couldn't
-taught me about the KKK (with some help from my mom)
-taught me about social phenomena such as racism, bribery, psychopathy, physical/sexual abuse, drug use.
-Clarified basic aspects of life such as love, longing, despair, sex, loss, death. This movie was more effective than my Bar Mitzvah in turning me into an adult.
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Summary: 100% Magic
Review: Before I begin, I'd like to address the negative reviews given to this movie. I've read quite a few of them, but none of them have had me change or even consider changing my opinion. Most were written by people with issues. Whether it be the presidential jokes, their lack of appreciation for the special effects or Tom Hank's "poor" portrayal of a mental challenged man. Yet, most of them complain about the film's lack of realism. How all of these events from the 70's to present day could ever possibly happen to one man. These people have yet to discover the magic of (and not to mention, the biggest reason for) movie making. Why does reality matter? The point of capturing the life of a man who lived through so many trivial events is because no one real person could possibly ever achieve it. And by sitting in your seat and joining him in his tears and laughter only lightens your heart, as this movie was meant to do. Those who can say that this movie almost made them vomit, have a lot of nerve and very little understanding for "art". The movie is about a man named Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) who is born to his mother (Sally Field) with a "below normal" IQ of 75. To add to his challenges in life, his crooked back burdens him to wear braces on his legs. While running away from bullies at the advice of his #1 girl Jenny ("Run Forrest, run!"), they break off revealing his ability to run like the wind. This ability lands him playing football, which lands him a scholarship to college, which leads him to the army where he learns to play ping pong and meets his best friend, Bubba, who teaches him all about shrimp. Place Forrest at a bus stop with a box of chocolates telling his whole story, and you have magic.
This is one of my top 10 films by far. It is the true full body experience. It makes me cry and laugh. The all star cast is one of the film's best points. Taking you through and unforgettable and dream-like journey. What a film.
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Summary: What lifes all about is GUMP
Review: Dont we all wish we had lived Forest Gump's life. I mean this guy did everything even though he is mentally not all there. It's a heart warming story to watch Gump through all the hard times he faces yet goes on with his smile telling his life story to complete stangers on a bench. The 60's thru the 90's are covered by Forest Gumps life story. This movie will last a long time just because generations from now will watch it and see what the past times we like. Bottomline: This is a must have for any movie collector and/or Tom Hanks fan (becuase he was great in it)
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Summary: Is this supposed to be a cartoon?
Review: I've heard about 'Forrest Gump' for years, and recently I decided to rent it. Is this movie supposed to be a cartoon? I know movies can be unrealistic, but this movie is SO RIDICULOUSLY UNREALISTIC I found myself staring at the screen in disbelief. What did this man not do in his lifetime? Its as though he has been blessed by God and everything falls into his hands.
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Summary: See the movie once, see the world again!
Review: I think what truly emanates from this movie is its presentation of the human condition from a glorious perspective, that of a guru's, guised as a simple man. Alas, Forrest Gump's mental handicap is much more than an edge for characterization, it's a gift offered to the audience from which they can understand the world as Gump sees it. From there, the world is transormed to a less torturous place, one that isn't remembered for it's cruel wars and its petty insecurities, but for its beautiful landscapes and attachments to love. His conclusions are less childlike than they are optimistic and forward-looking; he's less oblivious than he is empathetic. His ability to focus on the simple beauties of life instead of its horrors is way past what we're capable of. Forrest Gump is a man way ahead of our time, and if we're lucky we can all see the world as he does. If you dont already agree, watch the movie one more time, and keep these assertions in mind. I'm sure some of you will figure him less ignorant and more insightful than most.
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Summary: A must see for all
Review: How wonderful a place the world would be if even 10% of men were like Forrest Gump - amazingly simple, astoundingly perfect and alarmingly good. Love and committment have such universal chord that it brings in tears spontaneously when two people destined for each other, eventually get married too. I had not read the novel before watching the movie; it felt so good to see Jenny finally deciding to marry Forrest.. it seems almost a perfect reward for Forrest's life time contributions of being a good man. The best part of the movie is that it does make one shed at least one undesirable trait of one's persona, rather uassumingly. The power of love and humanism, and the demands it makes on one's emotions, is indeed the only reason for every human being to be born and stay alive. Tom Hanks is brilliant and uarguably the best actor around in our times. PS : If the movie evokes nostalgia and longingness for your childhood sweetheart from neighbourhood of long past, as against marriages of urban convenience, remember to thank Jenny !
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