I'm watching forest, Forest Gump now

[miketx]

Saw it 25 years ago and I'm doing it again. I still don't think it's all that great. I'm sad Bubba died.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

'Stupid is as stupid does'

 

[miketx]

'Stupid is as stupid does'

That's what my momma used to say.

 

[lennypartiv]

 

[Hellokitty]

You're killin it with the avatars...

 

[lennypartiv]

 

[GMCGeneral]

I have that movie in my DVD collection.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Saw it 25 years ago and I'm doing it again. I still don't think it's all that great. I'm sad Bubba died.

Bubba's death was just part of a bigger picture, part of the bigger point of the movie, to show a man who manages to live through and experience all sorts of horrendous things, and still maintain his childlike innocence.


I consider Forrest Gump to be part of a trinity of movies, which also includes Taxi Driver and Falling Down.

Though these three movies are very different, and their protagonists are very different, they all get down to the same point, which is to shows us the world through the eyes of a protagonist who sees it very differently than we would, in order to show us how fucked-up the world is from the point of view of each movie.

 

[toobfreak]

Saw it 25 years ago and I'm doing it again. I still don't think it's all that great. I'm sad Bubba died.

That movie brings back bad memories. I saw that movie on my first date with my ex-wife.

 

[Esdraelon]

I was an X-Ray tech back in the 90s, working at a small community hospital in Fairhope, AL when in comes a request for a routine X-Ray, and when I greeted the patient I had to look up to him. I'm 6'1 so I don't look up to a lot of folks, routinely. He looked familiar but I couldn't place him until I processed the paperwork. He was the author of the book they used to make the movie. He lived in that area growing up. Super nice guy.

 

[lennypartiv]

 

[Dogmaphobe]

That movie brings back bad memories. I saw that movie on my first date with my ex-wife.

Shoulda taken her to Pulp Fiction, instead.

 

[Unkotare]

Saw it 25 years ago and I'm doing it again. I still don't think it's all that great. I'm sad Bubba died.

Great movie if you get what it is really about.

 

[Unkotare]

 

[miketx]

Great movie if you get what it is really about.

So splain it to me.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Shrimp pancakes, shrimp potato pie, shrimp casserole...

 

[JGalt]

 

[Unkotare]

So splain it to me.

America.

 

[toobfreak]

America.

America! Gee, now there's a real insightful analysis of the Gump movie as he travels
across the country seeing the highlights of the nation that any
5th grader would have gotten! Good one,
Crappy Tappy!

I bet you need a Master's Degree
to get that, huh?

 

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