Posted on 12/24/2008 10:48:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ain't it the truth?
I detested Forrest Gump.
The idea of putting the main character into old films had been done before and so much better in “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.”
You are the first person I have ever seen who dislikes Forrest Gump. That movie is one of my all time favorites.
I will wait for the blu-ray.
I made an exception and went to see all three of the LOTR trilogies, which didn’t SEEM long.
For the rest, I wait until someone buys them. Then I borrow them.
The character, the mother and the hype around it just grate on me.
At the time they hailed it as a huge breakthrough in film making. If I were Steve Martin and Carl Reiner I would have been greatly offended. Their movie was soooo much better.
Neither did “The Dark Knight” It was long but it flew by.
read TLOTR and the Hobbit each twice back in the 60’s and early 70’s.
waited and waited for a good film to be made and saw the first movie when it came out and never so the rest.
it was good but I am no longer in that type of fantasy mode any longer....
I borrowed “The Dark Knight”. Great Joker.
I love Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, but no MOVIE should be much over 120 minutes unless it is a masterpiece. I enjoy intellectually demanding works, but if a film is not of extraordinary quality then I don’t want to sit through so much of it.
The biggest (obvious) difference between a long film and a long novel is that you can take breaks from reading the novel, but if you walk out of the movie theater you miss a lot (video/DVDs change the scenario, but still, a movie is all about immersion and sensory experience, so who wants a 3-4 hour movie that you just can’t sit through?).
It seems that sometime about 30 years ago directors decided it was better to keep the editing room floors clean.
I couldn't get past Sally Field romping**I'm calling it romping, but those who saw it know it was more than that) with the school principal-(or teacher, or whoever it was) while Forrest patiently waited it out...
...I found that disturbing and didn't bother to watch the rest.
LOTR trilogy is the best endeavor I’ve seen in a long time!
Sure enough, reinforcements come (led by Peter Lawford, IIRC and accompanied by a piper. As they march over the bridge, he officer smiles with relief at the camera and we heard an echoing voice-over “hold until relieved”.
Then came the Intermission.
I cannot watch Forrest Gump, because it makes me cry. The first time I saw it in a movie theater with my children and a friend of my son. They were about 10, an age at which I could not even believe they sat WITH me in the theater much less in the same city. I suppose I was the only one with cash for popcorn? I wept through most of it, could not really understand why it moved me that way. Fortunately the kids were not mortified, and kept sitting by me, seemed to be concerned as to my mental health. I suppose we learned alot about each other that day.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
The t.v. show Mork did the same thing back in the 70’s. They were born old and got younger as they “aged”.
All this talk about Brad Pitt and no pix? What gives? I need something to erase the Obama ‘shirtless’ photos.
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