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Summary: I may be slow, Jenny, but I know what love is...
Review: Forrest Gump 1994
Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a slow witted man who believes what his mother (Sally Fields) tells him. Her saying "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you might find" is what gives Forrest his focus. As a young child Forrest meets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn) and they become the best of friends, "like peas and carrots". Forrest finds himself running through life, literally. Running on the football field. Running in the jungles of Vietnam. Running just because he felt like it. Through it all he craves the attention and love from his childhood best freind, Jenny.This movie may be an exaggeration of one smalltown southern boy's life, but it brings out the atomosphere of what it was like growing up with Forrest. Tom Hanks won best actor for his outstanding performance in this movie. The movie itself won best picture, and Robert Zemeckis won best director. This heatwarming epic is a must see.
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Summary: This could've been real!
Review: Forrest gump may have been a good movie but thats no excuse for setting an example that a redneck from alabama turns into all the things fellow people of today wish to do or be. I just don't see how this movie convinces me of believing in a word called luck. For god sake, this movie offened a top preformer, Elvis, and said that he stole the hip swinging from a dumb kid with an IQ of 75. Not real enough but still good to watch if you want to get your mind off the world we live in today and live in a fantasy land like forrest gump did.
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Summary: WOW
Review: Yesterday I've seen this movie for the first time and it automatically became one of my favorites.
Tom Hanks plays Forrest Gump, a man always oppressed by others because of his disabilities, but to be oppressed and with disabilities doesn't mean you have to turn into a loser and forget about the miracles life offers in daily basis. Forrest, tells the best example of all by sharing his stories from the bus stop bench he's sitting on.
This movie, will make you laugh out loud but there are times when this movie makes you sob silently too.
There are no such words as to describe what this movie really is.
You must see it yourself if you didn't so far.
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Summary: so great!
Review: It's really sad but definitely a must-see. It's a classic and you won't forget it.
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Summary: And If You Believe That...
Review: There's willing suspension of disbelief, and then there's this. If you can accept that a developmentally disabled man with a talent for running and ping-pong can personally meet several presidents, George Wallace, John Lennon, and pretty much everybody else worth meeting between 1963 and 1979, this pat parable is right up your street. It's all about how dumb luck and a good storyline can solve all your problems for you, and it's about as credible as the fairy tales your mother read you when you were this high. The first time you watch it, it bilks you into thinking it's just a high-spirited fable, but the more times you watch it, the more you realize it's based on broad twists of fate and extreme leaps of logic, culminating in a moral so simplistic that Aesop would have laughed out loud at it. Its success rests primarily in its having been made in the 1990's, a time when we believed we could accomplish anything by simple skill and sheer force of will. We've moved past that time, and we have a more cold-eyed view on the world. We now believe some things are beyond our control. And this dusty leftover from the yee-haw Clinton era seems like a relic from the 1950's, for all its lyrical sophistication. Go back to football, Forrest. They still love you there.
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Summary: forrest gump el pendejo
Review: this movie is about a man sitting in a bench talking about earlier on in his life from when he was a child till he is now. he isn't really a smart man but he sure can suposebly run fast. he in the begging couldn't walk good but then he learned and he was confident. this movie won an oscar for best pictures. it beat pul fiction witch in my knowing was a horrible movie and it made watch seinfeld. but this movie is funny touching and it is a good movie for people that like story telling since this movie is a about a person telling a story about his past.
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Summary: why another movie about a slow-witted man?
Review: I have had people ask why I loved a movie about a mentally challenged man, when that subject has been exhausted in movies.
I don't really see this film as a movie about a dumb man.
The writer had to have a character without ego or high intellect,and a pure heart, in order to create one of the meaningful points of the story.
Forrest goes through a time period of great upheaval, ending up in situations that are a sometimes tragic and sometimes absurd result of ego,greed or power- and it his reaction to it that is important. If you love the idea of heart and humanity unintentionally making us see right through some of the results of lesser characteristics of humanity, you will probably love this film.
I thought the original book was excellent too. There is much more detail. For example, the ping-pong and Mao Tsetung part of the story was very funny - some great satire. I highly recommend both those who love this type of story.
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Summary: Genius
Review: This movie is a definate classic. It's about I mentally slow man and his extradinary way throughout life. Truely uplifting!
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Summary: one of my favorite movies
Review: I just wrote a review about this being a gentle political satire, and left out the most important part.
What I loved is that Forrest represents the best in all of us, and through him, we see the prevailing power of a pure and simple heart, in a world, in our lives, and events, that we sometimes don't understand. Through him some of the crazy things that man creates in his self importance, can be seen as it truly is through Forrest's simplicity. Summed up -
"That's all I've got to say about that." Simple, perfect.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies of al time
Review: This movie is masterfully crafted gentle satire with a huge heart - funny, sad and some beautiful, magical moments.
I have heard it compared to a modern day Candide, which is a good way to describe it's political satire. Without that edge it might be considered by some to be too sentimental or silly, but it is carried out wonderfully. Who can't relate to Lieutenant Dan, on the mast of the ship, confronting God, looking for answers to his destiny and existence. Unforgettable.
The feather is a beautiful touch - a metaphorical version of Forrest, blowing whimsically on the wind of time - so we can wonder about the places it lands -destiny or accidental? Watch and enjoy.
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