It merely seemed to be a touchstone for nostalgia for the sixties marketed at aging boomers.
I also detested the strained facade of reaching for "evenness" as far as their take on Viet Nam went.
Still, as a piece of anthropological evidence it had its merits. But as a film, I quite agree.
plus it had all those special effects--bringing people back from the dead, like JFK...
Forrest Gump will be the movie that in 20 years people will be looking at the Academy Awards and scratching their heads and saying "WHAT were they THINKING?"
Overall it seemed a pointless movie; wasn't "ha ha" funny either. Escapes me what the attraction of it was.