Forrest Gump
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him. From TMDB
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Produced on a budget of $55 million, Forrest Gump opened in 1,332 theaters in the United States and Canada on Wednesday, July 6, 1994, and grossed more than $8 million in its first two days before expanding on Friday to 1,595 theaters and grossing $24,450,602 in its opening weekend, Paramount's biggest opening non-holiday weekend gross, surpassing the record set by The Addams Family. Motion picture business consultant and screenwriter Jeffrey Hilton suggested to producer Wendy Finerman to double the prints and advertising budget based on his viewing of an early print of the film. The budget was immediately increased, in line with his advice. In its opening weekend, the film placed first at…
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60 of 222 · most liked firstIt’s fine to give Forrest Gump the movie a bunch of shit I guess but the moment when he finds out he’s his son and the first thing he asks if he’s smart or if he’s like me…. Extremely well done. Still hits Can’t hate it
positive · AI labelView post →Guy who has only seen Forrest Gump, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Forrest Gump' vibes from this.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hanks turns 69 today. “Nobody making ‘Forrest Gump’ thought we were making an important movie,” he said. “We thought we were making a commercial, whimsical tale. But it stuck with people — because it reminds them of what’s possible in life.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump is a highly overrated movie until you read the book and then you realise they should have given everyone on that set a medal
positive · AI labelView post →Tommy Robinson, otherwise known as Stephen Yaxley Shithouse has been released from prison and announced that he’ll be starring in a remake of Forrest Gump The film, renamed Racist Gimp, will be released next year.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump arrests Forrest Gump and Jenny. Film at 11.
neutral · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump is totally a movie designed to make white Boomers feel better about turning Republican
negative · AI labelView post →of late there's been a lot of Discourse about Forrest Gump the film being bad but I can promise you that you are not prepared for just how much better it is than Forrest Gump the book
positive · AI labelView post →Wrote about FORREST GUMP at 30. For a film that obviously resonates with a lot of people, I honestly can’t fathom what it’s trying to express. amp.theguardian.com/film/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →Instead you should be like me and develop a deep obsession/hatred for the movie “Forrest Gump” and understand it is the cause of the vast majority of Americas problems over the last 30 years. Do you have a libbed up aunt who thought poor people should be evicted during covid? Thank you, Forrest Gump
negative · AI labelView post →Lot of people posting tonight that Forrest Gump is either a bad movie or represents a reactionary conservative view of postwar American history, but they seem to be forgetting that it also gave us the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., a delightfully whimsical chain of destination restaurants.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Jenny was the real villain in Forrest Gump" "the movie Forrest Gump is misogynistic in how it portrays Jenny" Jenny is actually a pretty realistic portrayal of the long-term effects of childhood sexual assault and the issues she carries into adulthood are pretty on point.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is 100% true about the movie “Forrest Gump”. It is the most destructive American movie made since birth of a nation and I’m not even slightly kidding.
negative · AI labelView post →“Forrest Gump is a bad movie” No, Forrest Gump is a drama remake of Back to the Future. It’s a time travel movie except every accidental butterfly effect was supposed to happen to make the right timeline. It’s the “Marty playing Johnny B Good” joke for an entire movie. And that’s enough for me.
positive · AI labelView post →I saw someone with a screenshot of this as proof that "the left" sucks because people are "refusing to sit next to someone with intellectual disability," as if that's what this post is, and not just that the film Forrest Gump fucking sucks, or just that strangers talking to you can be off-putting.
negative · AI labelView post →I'm curious what the in universe Wikipedia article is for Forrest Gump. Like the film paints him as an unknown, but he was a college football star, war hero, cult leader and business tycoon. There's tons of photo and video evidence of him at important historical events! The nerds must have noticed.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want to make the movie great, simply view it through this lens: Forrest Gump was a serial killer, the box of chocolates was poisoned, and the story he tells about his life is a masterpiece of unreliable narration.
neutral · AI labelView post →This reminds me of film school where a screenwriting professor lamented that so many of our generation (class of 03) liked Forrest Gump and went on a minor rant about how that movie exists to uphold a jingoistic and fascistic status quo boomer fantasy. He then made us watch My Life As A Dog.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw an unironic post that said "maturity is realizing Jenny is the villain in Forrest Gump," just a guy sitting around getting fuckin furious at the molestation victim from the 30-year-old movie and going "damn... I'm pretty mature for this"
neutral · AI labelView post →Just remembered how they shot Forrest Gump in the head after the movie was filmed so another one could never be made. Kinda fucked up imo
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a fascinating story about the Forrest Gump sequel "Gump & Co." which was never filmed. Author, Winston Groom, received no residuals on the Forrest movie because by "Hollywood Accounting", the 4th highest grossing movie of the 1990's actually LOST $60M He took Paramount to court over it.
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s a bunch of cultural writing about how Forrest Gump is conservative but he’s clearly a lib: the movie shows him getting Nixon busted, aggressively not caring when he sees Reagan and Ford being shot at on tv, and shows him being sad that Lennon and JFK were assassinated
positive · AI labelView post →America doesn't want to watch a Robbie Williams biopic because they've never heard of him, but how many Brits had heard of Forrest Gump before they made a film about his life? We still watched it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump and it's not close. It's not even a terrible movie overall but it is an inconceivably bad date movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Imagine exploring the ping-pong backstory for Forrest Gump except with a guy who fucks and looks like Timothée Chalamet and thats this movie
neutral · AI labelView post →humiliating that sib 2 is probs my favorite symphony. it’s spiritually like saying that your favorite movie is Forrest Gump
negative · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump may have been the most harmful film to ever come out of the 90's. Lionizing the Boomer Era by having a hapless spectator move through a whole period of social and political upheaval with zero comment and no stance taken. I gotta wonder how many people got cooked by it.
negative · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump-a movie about when morons fail upward, I guess the cheerful hope is that the moron who fails upward is a good person and not a cruel person. God I hate that movie
negative · AI labelView post →What's my destiny, Mama? You're going to have to figure that out for yourself. You have to do the best with what God gave you. Movie: Forrest Gump (1994) 🏔️ A beautiful morning in Jispa , Leh (Photo by Kirpal Singh)
neutral · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump (1994) Directed by Robert Zemeckis
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a good point if 1. everything you know about the Black Panthers comes from the film Forrest Gump 2. Kat's running for national or even statewide office. Bobby Rush, chairman of the Illinois Black Panthers after Fred Hampton's murder by law enforcement, served 30 years in US Congress.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know👆? Bubba Gump Shrimp is themed after the movie Forrest Gump even though the movie isn't very good? Food for thought 🤔 🍤 😁
negative · AI labelView post →even in like FORREST GUMP, he's in Vietnam for like 7 minutes of the movie and in that time he gets shot along with every other guy he knows.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. You may have seen it in movies like Forrest Gump. Trump decided to paint it blue like a swimming pool and the job looks to be going bad. Trump personally chose the color, contractors without asking anyone really or going through the proper channels like getting approval from congress and input from the public. In the years to come, the blue pool will mark the time during which Trump was the president…
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: people started using the word "groovy" not in the 1960's but in 1994 when it appeared in a movie *about* the 1960's. That movie was Forrest Gump, cementing its position as the most effective propaganda film ever made.
negative · AI labelView post →"Compared to this, Forrest Gump is Apocalypse Now" 🫣 🤔 Is this the first Kermodean rant of the year??? Find out which film provoked it—and about some others you might want to watch instead—in our latest show 🎞️ 🎧Listen: pod.fo/e/29e83a
neutral · AI labelView post →is this the best movie of 1994? (others from that year: Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Speed, Quiz Show…)
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone needs to make a film about the life of this guy, who was basically the "Forrest Gump" of the American far right from 1952 when he joined the KKK in Reading, PA, thru the Nazi Party, LaRouche, & then up into the early 2000s when he was back with the Klan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fra...
neutral · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump is such a phenomenal movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I once came into the room to find my mother watching the end of Forrest Gump, crying, and saying between sobs, “It’s such a stupid movie”
neutral · AI labelView post →And this is very reductive I admit, but the conservative movement was given so much credibility through that movie and through the real life Forrest Gump, Bill Clinton
neutral · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump is a bad movie
negative · AI labelView post →I want to make Millennial Forrest Gump but it's going to have the tenor of Mr. Bean and Yakkity Sax will play the entire movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Forrest Gump. The book has none of the charm of the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →And, yes I know that Winston Groom now contends that Jenny died of hepatitis, not AIDS. That is not consistent with the film. The white population of Alabama (other than Forrest Gump and his mother) is shown to be evil bullies or their enablers.
neutral · AI labelView post →VOLCANO (1997)-Terrible film, but the original teaser poster had a great tagline. Today, Tubi has apparently decided it's "Michael Bay's FORREST GUMP". 😀
neutral · AI labelView post →Besides Forrest Gump, Name a Film Bluesky Hates.
neutral · AI labelView post →Top movie JFKs: 1. Ossie Davis (Bubba Hotep) 2. Greg Kinnear (The Kennedys) 3. JFK (Forrest Gump)
neutral · AI labelView post →In addition to a We Didn’t Start The Fire update, the other piece of Peak Boomer Victory Lap Media that needs a sequel is Forrest Gump. The first movie depicts his rise, Forrest Gump II has to detail the collapse. Forrest at the Twin Towers, Forrest and the subprime mortgage crisis…
neutral · AI labelView post →Production Designer Rick Carter recently lost his house along with his treasured artwork and belongings in the Palisades fire. One of the movies he designed was Forrest Gump, and he kept the bench from the movie in his backyard. The only thing that survived, relatively intact, was the famous bench.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some photos on long-expired Kodak EXR-100T. It was a popular 1990s movie film stock and was used in movies like Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, and Fight Club! #film #photography #believeinfilm #analog
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmHistory On this day 1994, Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump had its Hollywood premiere at Paramount Studios in LA. The film gave Tom Hanks another Oscar-winning role & gave the ’90s one of its most unforgettable film icons. It won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture & Best Director.
neutral · AI labelView post →#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 24: a song from your favourite soundtrack San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie This is one of numerous great songs that featured on the soundtrack of the film Forrest Gump www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0v...
neutral · AI labelView post →The End Goal of Trump’s Cringey, Nonsensical Videos. On Saturday at Mar-a-Lago, as he was supposed to be speaking to the White House press corps about the overnight military raid in Venezuela, Donald Trump was busy doing what he loves most: posting on social media. While the reporters waited for him, he published a 84-second video on Truth Social featuring footage of the attack set to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit “Fortunate Son”—the opening guitar lick of which has been a Vietnam War…
neutral · AI labelView post →the film adaptation of Forrest Gump 2 was thankfully canceled because of 9/11.
neutral · AI labelView post →They sure did, and his response when they came to him for the rights for Forrest Gump 2 was brilliant. Paraphrasing: "In good conscience, I cannot let you make a sequel to a film that lost so much money."
neutral · AI labelView post →What film takes will have them plugging you like Kubrick? Mine's that Forrest Gump was mostly a work to inure audiences to the idea that it's weird for specific, otherwise arbitrary historic actors to repeatedly be present for and an active participant in massive, disparate political events
negative · AI labelView post →Annual reminder the author of the Forrest Gump novel had to sue for royalties because according to the studio the movie lost money.
neutral · AI labelView post →They should’ve known the moment he had a Forrest Gump shirt, bc Forest was one of the kindest, most talented, loving, bravest, and most loyal characters in film history
neutral · AI labelView post →I kinda feel like Forrest Gump is an easy answer for everyone except Baby Boomers lol. I hate that stupid movie.
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