EDIT: All together now, in your best Forrest Gump impressions: "Life is like a box of chocolates."
This post was edited by Walt O'Reagun at February 17, 2022 7:56 AM MST
I'm the one human being who did not like that movie. Stop, Forrest, Stop.
:)
EDIT: I posted last night after a very long day - - I've since remembered that Randy D and are the only two humans who find the movie did not live up to its hype. See Randy D's reply to me here for a well-said summation :)
He and I have previously discussed our reaction to the movie.
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at February 17, 2022 11:11 AM MST
Be glad they haven't made the sequel book into a movie. It seems the only reason it was made is because the movie was so popular, but the author's heart wasn't in it.
Welby, don’t forget me, Buddy! Once I finally saw it weeks or months after people kept saying it was a life-changer, I found all the hype about it to be highly overrated and completely ridiculous.
I sometimes wonder if I'd like it if I watched it again. Like Randy D said, it didn't come even close to the hype for me.
I admit I had a grudge -- I had also seen "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" at about the same time I saw "Forrest Gump" - - and I thought young Leonardo DiCaprio was MUCH more believable in his role and wondered why everyone wasn't raving about his performance as they did for Hanks.
In Douglas Adams' The HitchHiker's Guideto the Galaxy, the megacomputer Deep Thought calculated that the Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything was in fact 42 ... so an even bigger, more powerful computer had to be built to determine what the actual Question was. This computer was so mindbogglingly complex that sentient organic life was part of its operational matrix, and so huge that it was usually mistaken for a planet. It was called The Earth.
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at February 17, 2022 11:12 AM MST