[netmilsmom]

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.”

[aft_lizard]

You are the first person I have ever seen who dislikes Forrest Gump. That movie is one of my all time favorites.

[oblomov]

What didn't you like about the film? Actually that cinematic technique was used much earlier, and to fascinating effect, in Woody Allen's Zelig. In a sense, the Zelig character was an anti-Gump; not an accidental historical figure, but rather one who influences historical figures by (perhaps unconsciously, perhaps consciously, it is unclear) resembling them.