I liked the movie and have seen it a couple of times. Quips from that movie became, and still to this day, are a part of Southern dialogue. You will often hear questions asked and answered like they came right out of the movie.....even though the topic is different. Lieutenant Dan, Bubba, Forrest, and Jenny have not been forgotten. Where I come from, put Coach Bear Bryant into a movie and it's a hit.
I like your answer, Thriftymaid. I mentioned somewhere in the thread that I did like Sally Field and her character in the movie. I'm thinking perhaps I just saw the movie on the wrong day for me. (I said that a couple of times in here, too, somewhere.)
While I did not dislike the movie, I certainly don't believe it lived up to all of the hype I heard about it before seeing it. People were saying (with their eyes bugged out as if they'd experienced some spiritual or religious transformation), "You HAVE to see this movie; it-will-change-your-life!" Ok, so I fell for it, I went to a theatre and watched it from opening scene to ending credits, awaiting this big metamorphosis that would awaken in me. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. By the time I was two-thirds through the movie, I was already convinced that no such worm-to-butterfly renaissance was going to occur. It's a movie, people, a movie and nothing more. It was neither the worst movie I have ever seen, nor is it the best, and I emerged from the theatre wondering what doldrums people must be in that this Hollyweird tripe had redefined their entire existence. Mind you, I am not saying that the movie was so bad or so terrible that I wouldn't recommend others to see it, nothing along those lines at all. I just don't preach from the mountaintops that it's as great as some people claim it to be. Madison Avenue clearly did its job in getting the word out and filling theatre seats on this one; everyone involved made buckets of money off of it. ~
Your wrong Colonel Sanders. I love my momma and now you know that.
Oh, wrong movie. I always get Water boy and Joe dirt mixed up with it. I liked em all. Life is like a box of chocolates and and bet if I think real hard, I can remember my first pair of shoes.
I enjoyed it. Not life-changing or anything like that, but a little bit of escapism never hurt anybody. A snapshot of a turbulent period, seen through the eyes of a permanent child. We lose that ability to wonder as we grow older, and that's a shame. Due to his disability, Forrest never really grew up so never lost that.
I don't really know the exact reasons I didn't like the movie so well. I didn't so much like Hanks in the main role. And I found it a really long movie that didn't hold my interest. (And partly, it was that seemingly everyone in the world was saying how wonderful the movie was - - maybe it was through no fault of the movie but more of all the expectations I had.)
I've seen a lot of films that no one else has apparently heard of at all that I liked much better and are more memorable to me. I realize my taste is not the same as most people's.
Yeah, it's not the worst movie I've seen but with how the WORLD raved about it endlessly -- for me, the movie in no way, at all, lived up to its hype. :)
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