The first point I want to mention is that Forrest Gump came out 2 years after my beloved Golden Girls went off the air. Try not to be disappointed, fair blog followers, there will be other blogs with GG stories!
This is one of those movies that you see bits and pieces of, but unless you are intentionally trying to watch it, you probably won't sit there long enough to see it in its entirety, much like Gone With the Wind. I was expecting to see a couple of new parts, but, as it turns out, I had seen all of it. I know you (my followers) probably have a different opinion about this movie, but it just didn't do anything for me. I already hear you gasping, Ellie Rink. The movie didn't make me cry, but it did make me mad at the beginning. I hate it when people get teased. Seriously, I wish bullying was a more serious crime. If I could have three wishes, I think one of them would be that every time you said something mean to another person, you'd grow a hairy wart on the tip of your nose. Then, you'd think twice (at least twice!) before calling someone a "lint licker" or something else equally offensive.
But anyway, I digress (like Sophia Petrillo). I like how the movie included real clips of historical events. Very educational! It's always intriguing to me to see footage like that. It's not like they show it everyday. On another note, about halfway through the movie, I wanted to tell Robert Zemeckis, "Enough drugs already!" It's bad enough when you watch a movie and you can inference that someone has been doing drugs, but to see them actually do all those drugs-ugh! Sorry future children of mine, you will NOT watch this movie until you're at least 18.
In these kinds of fictional movies where the characters do impossible feats, I can't really enjoy them that much because I'm thinking, "That couldn't really happen!" or "That's ridiculous." I think that it's hard for me to mix real characters and fictional acts. For example, if this movie had cartoon characters instead of real people, it wouldn't bother me that the main character ran for two years. Does that make sense?
Anyway, sorry if my review wasn't to your liking. I wish I could have said BEST CLASSIC MOVIE OF ALL TIME, but I can't. When I told my Granny that I was watching it, she burst into tears and said, "That movie always makes me cry- that poor boy!" I'm beginning to wonder if I have a heart...... :S
And that's the way the story reads...
"Cain't seat heur!"
ReplyDeleteI love this movie. Ran for years, invented the smiley face, played alabama football (though it would be better if he played for UK), fought in Vietnam (dad says he and Forrest were buddies), etc, etc...
Not to mention, the song that plays when the feather floats around is one of my favorites :)
You've intrigued me with this quest you have...can't wait for more
i like this movie, but it is hard to watch all in one sitting. And like you said, it should have been included in this American Classics just because of the history shown in the movie. Too bad you didn't like it so much.
ReplyDeleteI honestly love this movie. I'm not sure it's truly a "classic"; I'd call it more of a meme until it gets a few more years under its belt. Still, utterly fantastic. Yeah, it gets rough with language, violence, drugs, etc., but it's never over-the-top. It keeps it true to the period (and probably even decreases it all to soften things for the audience). I actually wasn't allowed to see it until I was eighteen (much like your future children) for those same reasons. The historicity of it makes it OK in my book. And yeah, it's a bit hard to suspend disbelief that someone could have lived through all that and could have done everything he supposedly did, but that's part of the magic. That's what makes it American: an everyman, like Forrest, can do amazing things, even unbelievable things, and still come out on top.
ReplyDeleteYour Granny has a point, this movie is emotional. Not quite up to the level of Rudy(which we need to watch), but it's close. One thing I forgot about this movie is how quotable it is, and it knocks the socks off of Gone with the Wind, the WORST movie ever, EVER! I still haven't let that go.
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