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Grab a Dr. Pepper And Enjoy!
This movie is best experienced over and over. I've seen the movie about forty times, and my husband and I quote it frequently. (Great quotes for all occasions: Dieting? "Wanna chocolate?" ... Someone cut you off on the freeway? "Stupid is as stupid does." ... You're an executive subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury? "That's all I have to say -- about that.")

Forrest Gump, a loveable innocent with an I.Q. of 75, stumbles through life pretty much without a clue ("Would you believe it? After five years of playing football I got a college degree!") -- yet he somehow manages to become a football star, a war hero, and a successful businessman.

Only in America.

The special effects in this one are absolutely amazing. Forrest shakes hands with JFK, peeks over George Wallace's shoulder, and shows Linden B. Johnson his butt-cheek. It's all totally first class stuff.

Adventure addicts will love the war scenes (which were bloody, but not nauseating)... Comedy buffs will love Forrest's ability to be funny without meaning to... Romantics will love the unconditional adoration Forrest showers on Jenny (a confused and often abused girl who only too late realizes that what she was looking for was there all along)... History buffs will love figuring out what year it is by what events are going on at the time... This movie has something for everyone!

(Due to the violence, partial nudity and foul language, however, parents should see this first. I wouldn't recommend viewing by anyone under 13.)

Don't rent this one -- BUY IT for your video/dvd library and watch it often.

One of the Best Movies Ever
To start off, I'm reviewing the movie, not the DVD, since I've only seen this movie through rentals. Anyway, let's begin.

I never really thought that this movie was going to be very good until I saw it. However, when I watched this movie on a bus trip, I thought it was one of the best that I've ever seen.

This movie stars Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, who is a little bit mentally retarded, just below normal. After having a youth that most people wish they had when they get older, Forrest Gump becomes a college football hero, a Medal of Honor recipient, a shrimp boat captain, a shrimp boat company owner, a famous runner, and eventually a Daddy. Throughout his life, Forrest has been obsessed with a long time friend called Jenny, who he eventually marries. Jenny, who is played by Robin Wright Penn, is a girl who was once sexualy abused and lived with a relative most of her life. Throughout her some what screwed up life, she becomes a hippi and hints at commiting suicide several times. Other actors are Gary Sinise as LT. Dan Taylor, Mykelti Williamson as Pfc Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue, and Sally Field as Mrs. Gump. Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, John Lennon, and Richard Nixon are just some of the many historical figures in this movie.

I was amazed at how well put together this movie was. The direction was very good, and all of the actors were well cut out for their roles. I haven't read the book yet, but if it produced such a great movie, than it's obviously very good. An obvious choice for Best Picture.

Life is like a disc of bonus features.....
I think the merits of Forrest Gump as a movie have been debated enough by now. If you're reading this, you probably already have a pretty good idea if the movie's digitally enhanced nostalgia and praise to the virtues of simplicity will appeal to you or not. So I'm just going to talk about what I thought of the DVD. The film enthusiast and the Gump fan will find a fair amount of interesting stuff to peruse, but the bonus feature are unfortunately kind of hit or miss. It's neat seeing exactly how all of the special effects were done or how sound and makeup were used to enhance mood in particular scenes. The screen test are nice enough, if only because you get to see Tom Hanks playing Forrest before he had worked out the accent. And the Zemeckis/Starket/Carter commentary, while lacking the fun and spontanaity of some I've heard, provides enough good tidbits and insights to keep you interested. But these pretty good features run alongside some really poor ones. The Finerman commentary runs out of steam very early and lapses into the producer repeating herself (apparently there are at least TWO seperate scenes where Forrest first becomes a man) and talking about what she thinks the audience is feeling or thinking at that point in the movie. (I don't need to know what the audience is thinking. I AM the audience.) Add a photo gallery that is half stills from the movie and a pretty bland documentary and you pretty much have the disc in a nutshell. I guess if you really love Gump or absolutely need to know more about the effects, you'll really enjoy the disc. But the rest of us are left a little unsatisfied and wondering why a movie that supposedly relied more on a great script than visual effects has a disc of extras which touch so little on the former and so much on the latter.

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