Forest Gump

"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."
How many words was that?
- Bill ("Every time you hear a bell, a zombie takes someone to ****!") (My favorite Christmas film, 976 EVIL 2)

It's Forrest Gump after Nathan Bedford Forrest (who founded the KKK but who also abandoned it when it turned ugly and was one of the most kick *** soldiers ever). I grew up in Forrest County. I think this film was huge cause it sort of summed up the baby boomers. It just summed us up. All this stuff happened and we were there but when it came right down to it and the dust settled the basic stuff w

[nq:1]Ten years later, still an amazing movie. Explain why in 300 words or less.[/nq]
Legend has it (and fairly reliably, as legends go) that FG was originally made as a fairly dark, mean-spirited satire on the kind of over-the-top schmaltz people can't help but respond to. Trouble was/is, no one got it.

Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary
Steven
(43 words)

[nq:2]Ten years later, still an amazing movie. Explain why in 300 words or less.[/nq]
[nq:1]Legend has it (and fairly reliably, as legends go) that FG was originally made as a fairly dark, mean-spirited satire on the kind of over-the-top schmaltz people can't help but respond to. Trouble was/is, no one got it.[/nq]
Yup. Same thing happened with "Independence Day." My friend and I were the

[nq:1]Ten years later, still an amazing movie. Explain why in 300 words or less.[/nq]
"Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks."
Gene

Ten years later, still an amazing movie. Explain why in 300 words or less.
[nq:1]Legend has it (and fairly reliably, as legends go) that FG was originally made as a fairly dark, mean-spirited satire on the kind of over-the-top schmaltz people can't help but respond to. Trouble was/is, no one got it.[/nq]
A celebration of stupidity.
I despised FG when it first came out, for the same rea

Frankly, I found it rather less than gripping. That voice! And that rubbish about the box of chocolates - don't American ones have that handy little illustration that shows you what flavour each sweet is?

Bert
www.bertcoules.co.uk

[nq:1]Frankly, I found it rather less than gripping. That voice! And that rubbish about the box of chocolates - don't American ones have that handy little illustration that shows you what flavour each sweet is?[/nq]
Americans crumple them up and toss them out they like to live dangerously! You never know what it's going to be... Crunchy Frog or Anthrax Ripple!

The praise that comes fr

[nq:1]Ten years later, still an amazing movie. Explain why in 300 words or less.[/nq]
I thought it was alright but I haven't been tempted to watch it again.

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"