Forrest Gump is still good after 15 years

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Sometimes it's the subtle special effects that are the best, and most of them in this film you wouldn't even realise were computer generated.

Disc two is generously packed with production featurettes, interviews and screen tests.

Still a great movie - even though it's very American.... My only critique is the bit with John Lennon - terribly dubbed, and probably impossible to make it look real. Robert Zemekis was probably so please with himself after making JFK say "I believe he said he gotta go pee" that he got a bit carried away.

I like Forrest Gump me.

[benbaaa]

^ Dreadful film. Sentimental bollocks. Total waste of two hours of my life.

[The Gentleman Scamp]

It was a good film, however Hank's Oscar speech was sentimental blubbery bollocks.

[Texpat]

Still a great movie - even though it's very American....

What does that mean?

[The Gentleman Scamp]

^ Patriotic but not irritatingly so.

[Sir Burr]

Awful movie, though the sound-track was excellent.
Message: You can be mentally retarded and still be a winner in America.

[bkkmadness]

[Boon Mee]

Terrific movie. One of the best Vietnam-era films ever made.

[PHA]

Great performances, great soundtrack.
Not as sentimental as many people would say, after all it doesn't exactly have a happy ending.

The two books are excellent also.

The first, which the film is based on, is the funniest thing I have ever read.

[Silent Orchestra]

I liked Forest Gump. Brilliant performances from everyone.

It was sentimemtal mush, all the way, but enjoyable.

[Frankenstein]

Enjoyable but nowhere near the epic some people hold it up to be.

[chinthee]

I liked Forest Gump. Brilliant performances from everyone.

It was sentimemtal mush, all the way, but enjoyable.

You know, this is the charge leveled against many Hollywood movies by foreigners for many years, that they are too sentimental. I think that is changing somewhat with the globalisation of the market and the fact that foreign markets now account for larger revenues in many cases. Purely American values movies may become fewer and fewer now and into the future unless destined for domestic consumption mostly.

[Begbie]

Yep terrible movie, though quite funny because it was so bad.