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...
Hold up- Gump beat Pulp Fiction??
How?I like Forrest Gump, it's a fantastic movie(Don't hurt me for that) but Pulp Fiction kicks it's ass any day
But I saw it last night, it's really good, but you gottta read the book first
