Forrest Gump | | Cast : | Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Sally Field | | Director : | Robert Zemeckis | | Studio : | Paramount Studio | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 06, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | December 29, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Life is like this movie, Forrest. It absolutley sucks. | Content
 | Tom Hanks is an odd fellow. On the one hand, he's perfectly likeable in, say, Road To Perdition, oozes charm in, say, Big, but then there are times you could happily run him over with a car. Castaway is a good example, but surely the best example has to be this - 2 and a bit hours of Idiot Does Good. And 2 and a bit hours of the most sentimental, mawkish U-S-A! U-S-A! drivel you'll ever see.
Reasons to hate this movie.
1. Forrest Gump himself. Tom Hanks thinks playing someone who is mentally slow equals having big wide eyes and, er, well, that's pretty much it. And saying really stupid, but supposed to be cute, things ("my name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump)". Ha ha ha, oh how witty. Doesn't he just warm your hearts, ladies and gentlemen? Eh, no.
2. The humourous coincidences throughout the movie. One would have been fine, a nice little knowing, "ahhhh", but Forrest unknowningly invents so many things (phrases, logo's) you half expect him to get zapped back in time to invent the wheel. It's stupid and corny.
3. Pulp Fiction.. that's PULP. FICTION was beaten to the Oscars by THIS syrup-laden, twee "all is well.. all is well.." crud-fest. That's just sick and wrong.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Don't even think about buying.. run along there, that's it..
The_Curmudgeon_Hates_You@yahoo.co.uk |
| Rating | | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Must have in collection | Content
| My God, if you don't have this classic of a movie in your collection what the hell is wrong with you. I'm a big fan of Tom Hanks and I thought he did a superb job of playing Forrest Gump. If you thought this movie was dumb or just plain stupid, you have issues that should be dealt with right away. I was about 14 or 15 years old when this movie came out and even then as a young teenage girl, I knew that this movie would be a classic. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Forrest Gump | Content
| This has been one of my fav. movies since it came out. The wonderful story would make anyone seem good, but Tom Hanks kicks it right threw the uprights with his wonderful, talented turn as the title character. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 13, 2005 | | Summary | lacked direction | Content
| The problem I had with this movie is during the entire 2.5 hours, the film really has no direction, it simply feels like you're watching the biography of a person from some historical text played out on the big screen. It's just one episode after the next depicting the heroic acts of Forrest and showing the relationships between him and the people he meets, but all these events don't build into any coherent storyline you can care about. Each individual episode presents its own challenges to Forrest, but these feel isolated and doesn't help build the story.
This movie lacks a clear purpose to get behind the main character. In the movie I am Sam, it's interesting to watch Sam fight desperately to get his daughter back, in Sling Blade, you really feel for Karl and care about his relationship with the boy Frank and wonder how that story will play out. In Forrest Gump, I didn't feel invested in anything. I didn't feel like there was any central plot that was developed from scene to scene. Again, I felt like I'm just watching the story of a man that did different things in history, no conflict to overcome or anything like that. Jenny was never developed enough as part of the main storyline enough for me to consider that as anything more than a subplot.
If you like stories like this, go watch Sling Blade or I am Sam, they're much better movies that don't put on a facade of being some grand spectacle of our times. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | Best Film I have seen in a very long time! | Content
| When I want to show my students a film about the 1950's to the 1980's in America, here is where I go. That and I want to show them that strange as it may seem to them, doing the right thing does pay off in the end. I would be not surprised if this film is shown as the quintessential film about America in the future. |
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