The last movie you sat and watched...?

Originally posted by LikeASongRight wing propaanda?! What the hell? Man, I think we've seen different movies, then... In my opinion, Forrest Gump is the BEST critic ever made to the American political&social system (which is obviously based on right-wing-ed fundaments)... When he says "then, after 5 years playing football, I was given an official University title" is like... OMG

Originally posted by thejonner:The film puts forward the idea that simply doing what you're told will somehow make everything alright, no matter how stupid one might be - authority is always right and absolutely knows best. That's fascism, isn't it? "Why did you fix that gun so fast, Gump?" "Because you told me to, drilll sergeant!" "That may be the best single answer I've ever heard!" Or it goes something like that... And that's the tone of the whole film. Jenny gets AIDS (it's certainly the HUGE implication) because she acted like a 'slut' and opposed/rejected authority. Seriously, look at the film again - it's saying she got what she deserved. Just a couple of reasons why the film is cack...

Originally posted by WojBhoy:[..]
Never bothered reading the film that way before (that said, I've only ever seen it once all the way through), which is kinda bad considering I'm doing a module in Film Studies for part of my degree

Originally posted by thejonner:The film puts forward the idea that simply doing what you're told will somehow make everything alright, no matter how stupid one might be - authority is always right and absolutely knows best. That's fascism, isn't it? "Why did you fix that gun so fast, Gump?" "Because you told me to, drilll sergeant!" "That may be the best single answer I've ever heard!" Or it goes something like that... And that's the tone of the whole film. Jenny gets AIDS (it's certainly the HUGE implication) because she acted like a 'slut' and opposed/rejected authority. Seriously, look at the film again - it's saying she got what she deserved. Just a couple of reasons why the film is cack...

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]I simply can't agree there. The way he says "Because you told me to" is clearly a critic to the strict order and the ultra-tight authority which is the Army. And Jenny got AIDS not because being a sult but because she thought that we are 100% free to live our lives, something which is obviously false.

Originally posted by thejonner:[..]

It is easily the weakest Best Picture winner of the past fifteenm years, and that list includes The English patient and Shakespeare In Love. It was up against Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show (I'm one the relative few who saw it) and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION! It's a dreadful, wannabe feel good tale of whimsy, and that's how most people bought it - it's not; it's as right wing, in its way, as The Triumph Of The Will. You may have gathered that I can't stand Gump. Hey, even the writer got screwed on this one...

Originally posted by notcomingdown:[..]

I respectfully disagree there. Titanic was the 5th best movie in the best picture category in 97. Full Monty, As Good As it Gets, LA Confidential, and Good Will Hunting were all better. And Crash was the biggest piece of crap movie ever to win Best Picture. Act One-outrageous stereotypes on parade. Act two- each stereotype reverses course.

Originally posted by thejonner:[..]

You could ALMOST have a point. The film was obviously way ahead of its time in that it showed how successful an American idiot could be - well, howdy Dubya! I don't think that the film is critical of the army at all, and the army/Vietnam is shown as a place where one can be successful if one knows how to play table tennis. The film is also cowardly. When they give Jenny AIDS - because she thought she was 100% free to live her life? Don't understand that statement at all - the film makers shy away from nailing down exactly what she's dying of. It is easily the weakest Best Picture winner of the past fifteenm years, and that list includes The English patient and Shakespeare In Love. It was up against Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show (I'm one the relative few who saw it) and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION! It's a dreadful, wannabe feel good tale of whimsy, and that's how most people bought it - it's not; it's as right wing, in its way, as The Triumph Of The Will. You may have gathered that I can't stand Gump. Hey, even the writer got screwed on this one...