“Everything about Forest Gump was wretched.”
Well, wretched is a strong word, but I know what you mean.
I never saw this movie until a long time later on TV, but it was just awful. It was like a series of short sketches tacked together, I couldn’t believe how much people liked it, nor that it had won best picture!
Another one was “Sideways”, that was an OK movie (much better than Forrest Gump), but best picture, really? A couple of good performances, yes, but...best picture? I don’t think so.
"Sideways" won for Best Adapted Screenplay. "Million Dollar Baby" won Best Picture that year.
"Crash" didn't deserve to win. "Shakespeare in Love" certainly shouldn't have won. And how could "Chicago" beat out "The Pianist"? -- Okay, Roman Polanski, but come on, would "Chicago" really have been the best movie of any year?
The guy who wrote this complains that Bruce Beresford wasn't nominated for "Driving Miss Daisy," when the real scandal was that they gave "DMD" Best Picture.