Why I don't like Forrest Gump (to be fair, I have watched about 20 minutes of it)
1. The entire film is a grandiose form of the Simpsons' episode: 'Pulling a Homer'. That is, Forrest lives the American dream, and succeeds despite idiocy.
2. (Related to the first point) It made a bazillion dollars, and nearly every person in America during the mid-90s embraced (and basically made on icon out of) a mildly retarded person.
3. It won an Academcy Award for Best Editing. A 3-hour movie really shouldn't win for that category - what was left on the cutting room floor?
4. I get it Zemeckis, you like special effects. No, not over the top like 'Star Wars' or 'The Matrix', but how empty would the film have been without the lame FX spliced with historical footage?
5. I guess no one else here found that atrocious made-up dialect Tom Hanks chose to use unbelievably irritating.
This message has been edited by sadowsmd on Aug 27, 2007 7:55 PM
1. The entire film is a grandiose form of the Simpsons' episode: 'Pulling a Homer'. That is, Forrest lives the American dream, and succeeds despite idiocy. - Quite a stretch of a comparison there. And even if it weren't, who cares? I'm sure somewhere in that long list of flicks you've seen that it isn't always the Harvard scholars who come out on top.
2. (Related to the first point) It made a bazillion dollars, and nearly every person in America during the mid-90s embraced (and basically made on icon out of) a mildly retarded person. - I can think of worse people that we could, and sometimes do, make icons out of. What difference does it make that he was disabled?
3. It won an Academcy Award for Best Editing. A 3-hour movie really shouldn't win for that category - what was left on the cutting room floor? - Who knows? Could be a lot. Long movies have to be edited too. And how is this a reason for not liking the movie itself?
4. I get it Zemeckis, you like special effects. No, not over the top like 'Star Wars' or 'The Matrix', but how empty would the film have been without the lame FX spliced with historical footage? - Not empty at all, because it is a long movie, and that makes up about .02% of it. This you would know had you watched it.
5. I guess no one else here found that atrocious made-up dialect Tom Hanks chose to use unbelievably irritating. - Not really.
I dunno. I wouldn't even put this flick in my top 10 or anything. I just find it odd how much venom you can spit for a movie that you...haven't even seen before, and almost hear universally good things about.
"Singing in the Rain" is good. Nothing gut wrenching, nothing to change your life. Just a feel good movie with good singing and dancing. Nothing more. Good classic I say. Good for the time period it was made in too.
