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Summary: "Being There" revisited
Review: A simple man, no, an "INNOCENT" who "KNEW what love is"What a wonderful two hour escape into the clarity of his heart and a needed escape from our troubled times. Move over Mr. Frank Capra and make room for Tom Hanks on your bench please. I am sure we all found a slow monent here and there, but, the movie is a collectible. Dr. Mario T. Scaduto Ph.D.
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Summary: Top pick, of course....
Review: One of the best movies ever! The movie "Forrest Gump" isn't only just a good movie (or book adaptation, whatever you like) but it has an outstanding cast that really makes us feel what is happening on the screen. About the story, there isn't much to say, you have to see it to really understand what it is about and how it is presented. Definitely, this is a movie that everyone must have because it is already one of all-time best movies
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Summary: The best feel-good film ever.
Review: This film is a masterpiece. Tom Hanks excels in his role as Forrest Gump and Sally Field is excellent too, as his mother. This film is moving, yet funny and is the best feel-good film ever. Zemeckis' direction is flawless and the story just flows smoothly and fills the audience with joy. One of the best films ever made.
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Summary: One Of the Most Conservative Movies Ever
Review: Don't be fooled by the eye-popping special effects, the exotic locations and the superb cast, "Forrest Gump" offers a puritanical view of contemporary American history and has an extremely conservative message. The film centers around the experiences of one man, Forrest Gump. He's supposed to represent the essence of purity and innocence, so Zemeckis made Gump mentally challenged and gave him an IQ of 75. It's offensive that Zemeckis thinks that only the mentally challenged can be innocent for the simply reason that they don't have a high IQ, or as Zemeckis puts it, because they are just plain stupid. His view of the mentally challenged is Nazi like, believing that a person is defined by how intelligent they are. Anyway, like the feather, Gump goes along with the flow of things and everything works out for him. Could you get any more conservative? The message here, is that you'll achieve the American Dream as long as you do what you're told and don't question authority. Gump is nothing more then a trained machine and is rewarded for conformity and obedience. According to the film, everyone who didn't do this back in the 50's and 60's had a terrible life, like Jenny. Right off the bat Jenny loses her innocences, Zemeckis has her father molest her. The key thing here is sex, any sexual act equals loss of innocence. When Jenny begins to explore her sexuality in college we would think this is a good thing because she has finally gotten over what her father did to her. Wrong. She's revolting against the sexually repressive America of the 50's and is struck down. Because she was in an adult magazine, she's kicked out of college and her life falls apart. I guess everyone who is kicked out of College is never able to recover. After her expulsion she needs to be rescued from each situation she gets herself into, like striping or the black panthers - talk about a one sided look at the panthers. She then later gets AIDS because she was promiscuous- so did everyone who had sex in the 70's get AIDS then? Zemeckis never has the balls to come out and say she just has AIDS, he's purposely vague about it and she essential tells Gump that she got this mysterious disease because she was a bad person. In fact, the whole part of the film dealing with AIDS is almost identical to how conservatives treated the gay community when AIDS was first broke out. So in a nut shell, Jenny's disaster of a life all occurred with her exploration of her sexuality, or simply her loss of innocence. Maybe if she got a lobotomy as a kid she would have been running a fortune 500 company as an adult. Then there is the films conservative look at Vietnam. Do we see a horrors of the Vietnam War in "Forrest Gump"? No. We see American heroism during the war. This all leads to Lieutenant Dan, an over the top version of Tom Cruise's character in "Born on the 4th of July". Dan has a bone to pick with God, he doesn't understand why he wasn't killed, or simply doesn't understand God's master plan. Once Dan finds/accepts God everything works out for him. He becomes rich, gets his legs back (in a way) and gets a wife. Once again the theme of being the feather, accepting what's handed to you, conformity equals success. Some times I think a Nazi wrote this screenplay. Throughout the film we see famous film clips, many of them are from the Civil Rights Movement. Is Zemeckis telling us that Martin Luther King Jr. should have just accepted segregation laws and never have fought them? Should Rosa Parks just done what the bus driver asked? Should black students not have caused a headache for some white southerners by integrating the Little Rock Central High School? According to "Forrest Gump" blacks should have just kept living their lives the way they were. Where would this country be if everyone conformed and never questioned authority? People often say that this is a delightful movie, that it's just charming. Before you say that again, or blow off my review, realize the strong anti-progressive messages which are deeply rooted in this film.
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Summary: The Greatest Movie Of My Entire Life!
Review: Forrest Gump is an amazing movie! Forrest has an IQ of 75 but his love for Jenny must of been 100. The film goes through the Veitnam War, The Hippie Era, Watergate Scandal, and other famous things in the 20th century. Forrest meets people such as JFK, John Lennon, and President Nixon. It also tells in which he creates the "Happy Face", Becomes the Ping Pong Champion, And runs the country. This movie is the most greatest movies I've seen and if you have never seen it, I suggest you rent it or buy it today!
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Summary: Best Hanks' film ever!
Review: This is certainly one of the best films ever. Emotional, humorous and with sufficient action elements, this film owns most to the superb (!) performance of the main actor (Tom Hanks) and the director (Robert Zemeckis). The simple fact that this movie is the Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor should be enough to convince you that this title is a must-have. Go, buy one now!
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Summary: Best Film Yet
Review: Tom Hanks gave the best performance of his life in this film. The way the movie interacted with past events really drew me into the movie and made me feel like I was really there. I recommend Forrest Gump to anyone who enjoys a heartwarming but yet, funny movie.
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Summary: Another big Oscar winner finally released on dvd!
Review: After just reading "Catcher in the Rye" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" I happily discovered that "Forrest Gump" will be released on dvd in a 2-disc special edition! Why do I compare classic novels with "Forrest Gump?" Well, all three are delivered in the first person narrative and all three have troubled or zany characters in them. Of course I would love to one day see Oscar worthy movies of both "The Catcher in the Rye" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" but that may be asking for too much. At least I can settle on seeing Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump! Just check out some of the great features that will be included: "Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump" a making of documentary, "The Magic of Makeup" makeup design documentary, "Through the Ears of Forrest Gump" sound creation documentary, "Building the World of Gump" set design documentary, "Seeing Is Believing: The Visual Effects of Forrest Gump," a Photo Gallery, Screen Tests, Trailer of the movie, all in a 2-Disc Set that will be released on August 28th, 2001! Woohoo!
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Summary: Baby Boomer bio.
Review: Perhaps the key to Robert Zemeckis' *Forrest Gump* is that Forrest SYMBOLIZES the Baby Boomer generation -- a naive, inarticulate generation of morons. In which case, I've misunderstood this movie all these years, and it's a masterpiece. But, no. Despite some comic business, this is not a satire. Besides which, Forrest DOES symbolize the passage of the Boomers: the idiot, played far too actorly by Tom Hanks (bucking for Oscar; duly received), during his march through the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties, manages to be in all the crucial places in the right time. Vietnam. Protests in D.C. Receiving medals from three Presidents. Table-tennis in China circa early Seventies. The jogging craze of the late-Seventies / early-Eighties. The AIDS epidemic. And on and on. So much for the movie's vaunted symbol of the "feather in the wind". More like the nightly evening news. Zemeckis' Gump is not so much a character as a camera, or sponge, soaking up everything that's happened during the last 30 years. The director doesn't approach all this with so much as a point of view: one minute it's the horrors of a Vietnam firefight; the next it's comic pratfalls reminiscent of *Hogan's Heroes*. This is schizophrenic filmmaking. Not to mention that all the cultural montages really have nothing to do with Forrest's personal story, but then, as I've said, Zemeckis isn't much interested in Forrest, anyway. Robin Wright is saddled with an ideogram instead of a character. Gump's buddy Gary Sinise has his resolutions tied up far too neatly, probably because Zemeckis is out-of-control by this point: the frantic signs of searching for an ending to all this are pretty evident.
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Summary: not that great
Review: tom hanks in with a typically dull and overrated performance and zemeckis showing off his post-back to the future boringness. very long and tiresome, but not without its moments. very sentimental and some decent special effects. a not so bad performance by gary sinise as well. not worth a watch unless you're really curious what the hype's all about. stick with roger rabbit, used cars, and bttf 1-3
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