Let's talk about how fucking awful 'Forrest Gump' is

Eat my peas and carrots OP.

OK, I'll admit I haven't seen it, but I've seen clips, and it looks mawkish and phony. And if Dick Widmark said that it's a hymn to stupidity, that's good enough for me. He was a class act and, for a while, the father in law of smokin' Sandy Koufax.

Can anyone tell me what this movie was supposed to "symbolize"?

Stupidity R3.

An Oscar vehicle for Tom Hanks?

Mama? What was Forest's destiny supposed to be?

I never saw it, but I was fucking sick of the spoofs and takeoffs of that chocolate riff after about five minutes.

Make me a bird so I can fly away from this movie, make me a bird so I can fly away from this movie, make me a bird so I can fly away from this movie.....

R3 a caramel cluster.

R4 Wonder where the feather that fell out of Haley Joel Osment's book ever landed. Probably somewhere in America. Back when times were simpler and folks were folks. Maybe...maybe it landed on the first fried peanut butter and banana sandwich that Elvis Presley ever ate.

Or the last one, the one that killed him, because the feather had Bird Flu

R11 Life is like the bird flu. You never know when something so seemingly harmless is going to kill you.

R10, what makes you think it's landed?

There is no movie I loath--loath--more.

R13 That's right! The feather is still out there! Out there floating around America! It will probably land near a child, a simple child who grows up to be a simple man. A man whose simplicity is a beautiful inspiration to us all and a metaphor for America itself.

But little Forrest (Haley Joel Osment) was sooo cute

r15 until the child gets Bird Flu and starts a pandemic

LMAO! R17

You should write the sequel for Forrest Gump. What would the title of the sequel be?

Jen-nay was a slut

Simple people are often the wisest. This film was a celebration of wholesome simple-minded American values.

R19 That's another thing! It didn't piss anyone else off that Jen-ay only deigned to marry Forrest until AFTER she was diagnosed with the AIDS virus?

Hated It

I thought it was decent up until the end when...spoilers

they suddenly tell us his girlfriend his pregnant and then she dies

R23 Jen-nay had Forrest's baby who was about 5 or 6 when Forrest met him. Then she died. Sheesh!

The movie took a crap on everything progressive that happened in the 60s. It was very regressive. And how prescient that a mentally disabled man is held up as an example of a great American. And eventually we elected two of them as president.

Both Republican.

Right now, you hate me - you really, really hate me.

I found sitting through it torture!

It is nearly three hours of awfulness. Hanks is embarrassingly shitty, the message is regressive pablum, and the wigs are TERRIBLE!

I guess straight white people eat this shit up, and shockingly, many people I know that it was brilliant. I know, "MARY!", but I actually found "Forrest Gump" offensive.

[quote]There is no movie I loath--loath--more.

...except "Pretty Woman"!

Should we start a Pretty Woman thread? I cannot tell you how much I hated the Disney version of the life of a prostitute.

R26 Thanks for ruining our Panther party Sally.

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

You may be a not very smart man who knows what love is but do you know what a crappy movie is?

Does anyone remember that peter sellers movie -Being There - ?

Chance the Gardener was kind of an idiot too - but the whole thing was more whimsical and charming - and smart! - than the appalling Gump shit.

I would have preferred a Lt Dan movie. I remember watching this as a kid and watching to see more of his squalid life.

It’s pretty damn offensive to those with intellecual disabilities.

Mother and me found it very Inspirational.

It’s a hagiography to America, specifically the America that everyday white Americans want to believe existed.

MAGA-- Make America Gump Again

Straight, white baby boomers licked that shit up like it was ice cream. It was an ode to them, I suppose.

Now how did the slut Jen-nay get AIDS but not pass it on to Forrest and Forrest Jnr?

Watched it recently for 1st time since enjoying it in cinema....its just pure entertainment...Dont question everything folks...the brady bunch..golden girls...little house....Some people LOVE them..if u Dont, just pass it by...i dont like sports...Am i gonna comment negatively...No.....as Ailsa sang...Let it fucking go....... ĺ

I've never seen it. I guess I'm not missing out.

Pulp Fiction was robbed.

It wasn't terrible. Mindless, feelgood dreck of the type which Hollywood loves but hardly terribly offensive. It didn't deserve Best Picture though.

Jews hated this movie, because it wasn't degenerate and it didn't shit all over goyim and their wholesome flyover culture.

Jews only like Woody Allen type Jewish narcissism movies, or Harvey Weinstein strategic degeneracy movies like Pulp Fiction.

Dont forget about the other simpleton in the film who spawned a chain of breeder magnet eateries.

A film for brainless morons like R45.

There are worse movies---Love, Actually and Benjamin Button, for starters. Forrest is simple, so he recalls things in a simple way. You empathize with him as you look at the world through his eyes, and then, the rational side of you pities him as you see things that go over his head---like the way Jenny uses him... He is oblivious to some of the worst aspects of people and the cruelties of this world, and that is touching... Sergeant Dan is a hoot, and I love him!! Great work, Gary Sinese...

r47 almost every movie Harvey Weinstein made was for brainless morons, including every Tarantino movie.

A movie for and about Deplorables before we or they knew how terrible they'd become.

I liked it.

It sucked.

r50 You call them deplorables because they don't like watching Harvey Weinstein rapey psychopath movies designed to increase violence and alienate people from each other.

Do you really think Harvey would support Kill Bill type movies in his homeland of Israel? NO, he wants Israel to be as functional and cohesive and community oriented as possible.

All of the so-called progress of the last 60 years has just been a degradation of the fabric that holds society together.

[quote] rapey psychopath movies designed to increase violence and alienate people from each other.

Oh, dear. You mean shit like "Passion of the Christ" which was essentially torture porn for Jesustards?

Jesus Christ! Does every fucking thread now have to refer to deplorables and Trump?

[quote] All of the so-called progress of the last 60 years has just been a degradation of the fabric that holds society together.

How the fuck do these trolls find their way to a gay gossip site?

[quote]rapey psychopath movies designed to increase violence and alienate people from each other.

Sounds like our current POTUS!

Patch Adams was worse.

R37, that's a great summary.

The slut gets AIDS and dies, just as God intended!

Does anybody why they cut out the scene where Forrest gets fisted in the military shower?

Richard Widmark is a god. My mother used to love watching the TV movie COLD SASSY TREE he starred in with Faye Dunaway.

It's the ultimate heterosexual movie... I have avoided it like the plague.

When he played a bigot opposite Poitier, he kept apologizing between takes, for his character 's dialogue.

[Quote] Patch Adams was worse.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman was great in it though.

Hate it with a passion! Pure crap about an idiot

Treacly tripe.

It helped bring on the Bush era by sending out the cultural message that being stupid, compliant and patriotic was better than being critical, intellectual, informed or questioning. Those threads have always been in American culture but seldom have they been so blatantly shoveled out onto the public in a huge, accoladed Hollywood film.

Here's what this fairytale taught us - if you're a retarded momma's boy you will become a multi millionare and keep bumping into one iconic figure after another.

But if you're a free spirit who goes out into the world to try your luck you will get AIDS and die.

Good night!

I love Richard Widmark but I don't think anyone who's been in "The Swarm" is in a position to call other films stupid.

Hated it.

HATED

I’m so happy about this thread. I hate F.G. more than any other film. LOATHE it.

I saw the Director (I should know who directed it but I don't because it was so bad) on a Charlie Rose YouTube clip. I swear to God I should find and link it because none of you will believe me... but ... he said he didn't envision Jenny as having AIDS but instead Hep C. He sounded so disingenuous and I think he was just trying to avoid any potential firestorm. I remember thinking "riiiiiight, you tag every other seminal historical event but NOT AIDS????" I will try to find and link

In the book that’s the sequel to Forrest Gump, Gump and Co., author Winston Groom reveals that Jenny died of hepatitis C, a bloodborne illness which would probably have been the result of her intravenous drug use during her hippie years. There’s a very low rate of transmission through intercourse or from mother-to-child, which is why neither Forrest nor their son was infected.

Richard Widmark is a saucy bitch!

There’s a sequel to that drivel? Thank God we’ve been spared from the movie version.

I wanted to hear about the sequel that involves the bird flu!

A sappy, backward looking 3 hours about the glories of stupidity, ignorance and blind compliance to authority. An awkward mash-up of Being There & Zelig.

It's wonderful to see a film that depicts how easy life is for mentally challenged people and how glamorous and exciting their lives are.

How is the book?

R79 LOL That reminds me of A Beautiful Mind, a film that taught us that you can overcome mental illness through the healing power of love.

I remember seeing it in summer 94. It was HUGE. Hanks is set for life because of his getting a piece of the profits. Best pic Oscar quality-no. It was one of those feel good crowd pleasers that actually got the top Oscar. But it’s pretty unwatchable 25 years later.

[quote] I saw the Director...he said he didn't envision Jenny as having AIDS but instead Hep C. He sounded so disingenuous and I think he was just trying to avoid any potential firestorm. I remember thinking "riiiiiight, you tag every other seminal historical event but NOT AIDS????"

He probably underestimated the audience believing that a straight female could get AIDS, so he covered his bases by making it vague. The Christian morons could believe it was Hep C and everyone else would assume AIDS.

[quote]I love Richard Widmark but I don't think anyone who's been in "The Swarm" is in a position to call other films stupid.

Not to mention this turkey.

If you hate the movie as much as I did, try eating at a ForrestGump chain restaurant. The wait staff in Honolulu make you recite dialogue and movie quiz questions before serving you nasty FG meal. I was with a table of Fraus and the gawfaa and giggles was like water boarding.

R82 exactly. “Titanic, “ stupid in its own way, has has staying power and is broadcast frequently. “Gump” has fortunately disappeared.

Does Tom Hanks ever talk about it these days?

R81 Oh, that was the best! Relentless mental torment and emotional pain and just the debilitating nature of schizophrenia in general aside, Ron Howard's corny, schmaltzy take on mental illness made me I wish I could have schizophrenia so that I could also be a respected Nobel prize winner. What a feel good ending!

I know I don't have legs Gump.

Don't blame Ron Howard for that, blame Akiva Goldsman's script. He's without a doubt the worst A-list screenwriter of the last 30 years.

Hideous movie, I'm in my twenties and watchning this absurd piece of crap recently I can attest that this is no classic whatsoever and it's maddeningly cheesy.

More Lt. Dan!!!!!😍🍑

Richard Widmark’s contempt for Gump even made his obituary!:

“The businessmen who run Hollywood today have no self-respect. What interests them is not movies but the bottom line. Look at ‘Dumb and Dumber,’ which turns idiocy into something positive, or ‘Forrest Gump,’ a hymn to stupidity. ‘Intellectual’ has become a dirty word.”

I hated Gump so much I wanted to throw feces on the screen like an angry monkey. And I hated Gump Redux in the guise of Benjamin Button nearly as much.

G-d bless cantankerous old fucks like Richard Widmark. He could’ve had a second career aa a reviewer.

R62 Cold Sassy Tree is wonderful - and Widmark and Dunaway have great chemistry in it.

It needs a digital release!

> ‘Intellectual’ has become a dirty word.”

>I hated Gump so much I wanted to throw feces on the screen like an angry monkey.

Yeah, what a sophisticated intellectual that windbag was.

Jenny was a sympathetic character. While Harvey Weinstein and Quintin Tarantino defend Roman Polanski and say the 13 year old "party girl" wanted it, Forest Gump depicted the very real and devastating effects of child sex abuse that last a lifetime and often lead to an early grave.

While Jews like Weinstein promote pornography and pedophilia like they are positive experiences for the exploited women and girls, Jenny and her behavior patterns are very similar to those of most sexually exploited girls.

A sky high percentage of porn stars, prostitutes, and hard-core female drug users were victims of child sex abuse, and they die young more often than not.

R90 It took watching 'Cinderella Man' for me to realize that. He gives everything the Mayberry treatment.

R92? Look, it's pretty basic here: you stick with me and learn from the guys that have been in the country a while you'll be alright. There is an item of GI that can be the difference a live grunt and a dead grunt: socks, cushioned soled OD green, try and keep your feet dry while we're out humping I want you to remember to change your socks whenever we stop, Vietcong will eat a grunt's feet right off his legs, so you boys are from "Arkansas", I've been through there Little Rock is a fine town, now go shed down your gear see the platoon sergeant for what you need in the field if you boys are hungry we got steak burners right over here two standing orders in this platoon , one, take good care of your feet and two try not to do anything stupid, like getting yourself killed.

R92? We all have a destiny: nothing just happens, it's all part of a plan. I should have died out there with my men, now I'm nothing but a God damn cripple, a leg less freak, do you know what it's like not being able to use your legs? I had a destiny, I was supposed to die out there in the field with honor and you cheated me out of it. This wasn't supposed to happen to me

R92? They gave Gump the Congressional Medal of Honor?? They gave Gump, an imbecile, a moron who goes on television and makes a fool out of himself in front of the whole damn country, the Congressional Medal of Honor.

R92!! Hey! Don't call him stupid! You shut up! Don't you ever call him stupid!

"Does anyone remember that peter sellers movie -Being There - ?"

Yes. It was a good movie. And Peter Sellers should have won and Oscar for his performance. He was perfect in that role.

As for "Forrest Gump"...well, I'm one of the few people who hasn't seen it. I never wanted to. Just hearing about it made me inclined not to want to see it. I've seen a few film clips of Tom Hands doing his retard routine and I can't believe people went crazy about this thing. And the dialogue! "Life is like a box of choc-lates. You never know whut you're goin' to get." Yech!

You don't have to watch it R102. Here are the brilliant, inspiring and deep quotes from the film guaranteed to change your perspective and, most importantly, to open your heart.

(You know what's sad? This article was published in 2018. People have not caught on the idea that this is a bad movie.)

I thought it was terrible, but then I thought "Pretty Woman" and "Titanic" and "The Favourite" were terrible too, and that's why I never made it as a professional film critic, kids.

R104 Roy Leonard said that all the praise for Ben Stiller's 'There's Something About Mary' finally made him realize that it was time to retire. He said he could think of one single redeeming quality that film had, was mystified by all the critics who were recommending it and he felt that maybe he just didn't understand movies anymore.

I loathe Tom Hanks as an actor.

Well, he was really cute in Bosom Buddies.

R106 I do too. Every character he plays has a shaky southern accent. Daniel Day Lewis he ain't.

He used to be funny. He is, or was, a good comic actor. Not sure why the majority of his films are not comedies.

I did not dislike the movie at first - only after seeing the wonderful French take ( The Eight Day ) on people with mental disability.

I see no equivalence between Gump and Dumb and Dumber R93. Dumb and Dumber used stupidity to get laughs, it's meant to do no more than make the audience titter and giggle. It was the Three stooges for the 90's. Gump uses "slowness" to warm your heart and impart some sort of retrograde moral message. I'm sure they were aiming for Being There. Not bothering to notice that movie was a rather quiet and clever satire of the political ruling classes. Chauncey was used as a tool to expose the stupidity, gullibility and cravenness of those who saw some sort of sage in that simple, not very bright but oddly practical man-child because they wanted and needed to see it - and use it to their own advantage.

6 Academy Awards including Best Picture on 13 nominations. 3 Golden Globes including Best Picture. 8 BAFTA nominations, SAG Winner Best Actor Tom Hanks, National Board Of Review Best Picture, People's Choice Award Best Picture, MTV Movie Award Best Picture, Directors Guild Best Director Robert Zemeckis...... not everyone thought it sucked.