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- Simone & George react and review Forrest Gump (1994) - First time for both Simone and George! This Movie broke our hearts and made us laugh with tears!
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So we filmed this on July 5th and literally right after filming, Simone's friend sent a screenshot from IMDB's Instagram page with a post that says 'on July 5th 1976 Forrest Gump starts running across the country'.
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@@rxlxviii Please don't forget Captain Phillips
The George Wallace shooting footage was the real news footage.
"Is he smart..." is right up there among the most emotional movie moments ever. Your reaction was so moving. That scene hits me hard every time.
One of the best acted scenes in movie history. IMHO
It gets me too. When he sits to watch TV with him. All around this is my top 3. If it's on I watch it
This and Liam Neeson as Oscar Schindler saying "I could've got more..." is right up there on my list.
I cry every time such a beautiful and caring man.
The man is just too good!
The other powerful scene for me was when Lt Dan got angry and stood up for Gump telling those girls to not call him stupid.
this movie has a strong scene for everyone. its about life. at one point in the movie you see yourself. this makes it a masterpiece. while i see your powerful scene it was another one for myself :)
I loved it when he thanked Forrest for saving his life.
Lt. Dan has a great character arc. Few reactors mention that at the end, his fiance is Asian, most likely Vietnamese.
Even school bus driver goes from smoking to chewing nicotine gums
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Korean. But Asian nonetheless
The scene when Forrest finds out that he has a son, and he asks about little Forrest's intelligence. It breaks me every time. Such an amazing scene.
Appropriately enough, that is one of the specific scenes they used for his audition. Definitely a good one to use, because it is easily one of the most important scenes in the entire movie, performance-wise. It is the one that must be done right, and Tom Hanks absolutely NAILED it
It really highlights Hanks' talent as an actor.
Jenny's life is a juxtaposition to Forrest Gumps life. They both go through troubled childhood experiences. However Forrest had the benefit of an awesome parent to guide them through the difficulties of life. Whereas Jenny never had that and she was left search for that comfort as a broken person. Amazing writing to give the story an anchor as well as a propelling force to drive Forrest Gump forward in life.
And they pass through the 70s with 2 of the most prominent tracks for those of that time.
Forrest was exceptional. Most not-slow people raised by a single mom don’t turn out the way he did
How good is Tom Hanks? The scene where he meets his son. Just by the changes in his face and posture, not a work spoken, he related EVERY possible feeling! Now THAT is acting! Just incredible. Hanks is a treasure of the world!
Hey Sane Lucid! Tom Hanks is certainly one of the best actors of all time. Very talented! I think in the Mid-Late 1990s was really Hank's peak, with films like Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, and The Green Mile. As far as Forrest Gump goes, I Just find this movie to be Very Inspirational! Also, I often Personally connect with this movie because my brother actually has Autism (So Forrest and my brother can relate a bit in that they are both disabled).
I also just wanted to mention that Last Year, I actually posted a video on my TH-cam channel that was almost like a tribute video to Forrest Gump (though I called it a Mashup). You see, there's a band named Family Of The Year, and they used their hit song "Hero" for Richard Linklater's 2014 movie called Boyhood. For my video, I used "Hero" as background music while showing various scenes from Forrest Gump. Aside from matching song lyrics with movie scenes, my intention with the video was to try and create something unique.
If you have a few minutes sometime and are interested, here is a link to that video: th-cam.com/video/Or-sIiNANYg/w-d-xo.html
If you don't check it out, then no worries! I would Not be offended at all! But Thank You So Much in advance if you do see it! I hope you Have a great day today, Sane Lucid! Please Stay Safe, Please Stay Awesome! 🙂🙂🙂 Thank You For Your Time!
There is only one actor who can compare with him, the Tom Hanks of my parents' generation...Jimmy Stewart. I wish there were more reactors who would take a deep dive into his filmography...
That and also the scene with the Black Panthers, and Jenny’s boyfriend hits her. It’s just his face but it’s fire
I get choked up when he asks if his son is like me every time. Just that acknowledgment that he knows he’s not like everyone else, and how much harder that would make his son’s life has me in tears. 😭
“Run Forrest, run!” That’s the only defence mechanism she knew and that’s what she did all her life, until she became a mom.
Unfortunately she ran from all of her problems and never learned to solve them.
Nonsense. She was an evil user who did nothing but take advantage of Forest, who was much more abused than her for a much much much longer time (his entire life)
@@unclebounce1495 That's such a shallow minded thing to say. You realize a person that has suffered from sexual abuse at a young age, are mentally fucked up for the rest of their lives.
She also kept telling Forrest that he didn't know what love is, while in reality she's the one that doesn't know what love is.
@@Chimponaut Exactly. She was chasing the same abuse her dad passed on to her.
About Jenny... She's a tragic, sympathetic character. Children abused by a parent, particularly sexual abuse of the kind Jenny experienced, often struggle to form permanent bonds and connection with romantic partners because their first love relationships -- the ones with their parents -- left them feeling unsafe and hurt. So, when they start to get too close to someone, they begin to feel trapped and unsafe, and they pull away as a way of self-protecting. This explains Jenny's entire life, moving from man to man, in a process of slow self-annihilation. She got as close to Forrest as she possibly could, considering her core wounds. And it's finally Forrest's unconditional love that allows her to feel safe and to finally connect with him. Jenny always deserves our love and sympathy. She does the best she can.
I always agree with that perspective up until the baby was born. Trauma or not, hiding a kid from their parent is wrong.
@@SyntheticCK however, it didn't help that a good chunk of the time when she found out that she was pregnant and even giving birth to Forrest Jr. and then raising him for a few years... Forrest was on the road running from place to place for (I believe it was) around 3 years. During that time he didn't visit his home in Alabama and didn't have a phone number that she could reach him. It's not like he had a cell phone at this point that she could just give him a call and say, "I'm pregnant," "We had a child together," etc. She may not have even been aware when he finally stopped running. We only know once that she saw him running on TV. For all, we know she may have tried to call Forrest a few times but he was not home.
@@ericfink1331 Then you do what a person would do in that time period and send a letter. That way he would find out asap.
@@SyntheticCK where would she have sent it to as he didn’t have a mailing address to send it to other then his home in greenbo which he wasn’t there for at least three years.
@@ericfink1331 Of course send it to his house. The timing isn't the issue, it's the not doing anything at all part.
The flock of birds flying off as Forrest leaves her grave...
"Dear God, make me a bird. So I can fly far. Far, far away from here..."
the feather as well can represent her dream of being a bird. With him thru the story and always watching over him.
I didn't think of that.
@@tomyoung9049 I think the feather is reference to destiny or chance and outside forces without intelligence or design. "Are we all floating aimlessly?"
“Free Bird” playing as she was standing on the ledge about to….
@@OriginalPuro She prayed, and the situation changed for her and her sisters quickly into something positive. :) I know what you're thinking "coincidence" yes, that perfect escape word for atheists.
That scene, "Is he smart or...", is one of the finest pieces of acting ever filmed.
Hanks delivers so many simple lines so perfectly in this movie. "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." "She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday", even the ubiquitous "And that's all I go to about that." He packs simple lines, spoken by a "simple" man, with so much meaning.
The best line in this movie (for me) is "Sometimes I guess there aren't enough rocks." That hits home SO hard some days.
So glad to see someone else appreciate that line. It’s my favorite too. Powerful wisdom from such a simple minded character.
I love that line too, so simple yet so accurate
This movie is so unique because you go through every single emotion watching it.
Also, people hate on Jenny forgetting she suffered sexual abuse as a child. She left Forest because she felt unworthy of his love. She didn’t view him as defective, SHE felt defective.
Yesss! It bothers me so much that ppl expect Jenny to be with Forest regardless of how bad she would've been for him had she given in when the audience wanted her too. She needed growth, she needed to stop running. She got caught in the running instead of facing her past demons which is why she breaks down in front of her childhood home..which ironically enough is torn and tattered like her. Forest demolishes that house after she dies.
@@oliviarogers3559 I would have kept it the same but have Jenny explain that she loves him too but he deserves better than her. It would have hit harder and explain to a lot of people (who somehow tend to not realize) how broken she is because of her childhood.
Also keep in mind that Jenny keeps getting involved with abusive people and putting herself in to escapist, ultimately self-destructive situations. She doesn't KNOW what her issue is. But she is constantly treating herself as unworthy of happiness. It takes her having a child who loves her unconditionally for her to alter her self image. And then come back to the one other person in her life who had always, unconditionally been there for her.
It's likely not just that she felt defective, but it's also a case of who Forrest is. Forrest isn't the smartest guy and while Jenny knows he's smarter than people give him credit for, he's still like an innocent child in a lot of ways. She can't reconcile that child-like innocence of Forrest and her romantic and sexual feelings for him. If she acts on them, then she feels like she's almost taking advantage of him, someone he loves and trusts. Her past makes her see it like her own trauma, someone that is supposed to love and protect taking advantage of an innocent person who may not fully comprehend what's going on. In that situation, Forrest is her and she's her father, but she doesn't want to be like her dad and she doesn't want to do that to someone else.
The tragedy of the relationship between Jenny and Forrest largely stems from Jenny's traumatic childhood and if it hadn't of happened, they would've likely ended up as a couple far, far sooner.
@@oliviarogers3559 No, I don't. But I'm not the character in question, so my outside perspective is irrelevant to her decision making process. I don't think she's a bad person either, just someone who had issues stemming from trauma that influenced her decision making process. As someone who also has issues stemming from trauma, I understand that it can cause you to make choices that others may not understand, but are logical to you, even if they're based on illogical/irrational thoughts. That doesn't mean we're blameless from the effects of our decisions/actions, but nothing Jenny did was malicious, just out of desire to protect herself and/or Forrest. She was a good person, she just unfortunately made some bad decisions before she came to terms with her trauma.
Jenny had a lot of emotional issues. Her being molested really screwed her head up. That's why she was always running away, that's why she always told him to run because it's all she knew how to do. And Forrest loved her so much he would just listen and do anything for her. The time when she left but said she wasn't running was more or less because she deep down thought that Forest deserve better. She thought that Forest was such a good soul that she was no good for him. That's why she said he didn't know what love is, because in her mind how could someone like him love someone like her when she has so many issues. It was messed up, but stuff like this has happened to people that have a really jacked up childhood and it can leave such a deep emotional scar.
"She thought that Forest was such a good soul that she was no good for him." People are so often mad at Jenny for leaving and not loving Forrest back; however, you nailed it. She knew Forrest as being pure and good; the complete opposite of how she saw herself. I also think that younger people don't realize that Jenny died from AIDS.
Jenny is a very tragic broken character. She is running as far away from home as possible to find a place in this world. Since her childhood home is a nightmare to her. However in the end home give her the one person that truly loves her. Forrest Gump. She fights it all her life. Till she finally gives in and realizes that she should be with Forrest. Many broken people go through this process of self discovery. Often many don't live long enough to reach of the journey.
Castaway is another Tom Hanks masterpiece.
Ehhh...it’s ok
One of my favorites. I really love that one man alone on an island survival
90%, may 85%, of that movie is just Tom Hanks acting by himself.
Amazing actor.
@@leniobarcelos1770 that made me chuckle
@@leniobarcelos1770 Wilson overacted too much.
The sad moments in this film are heartbreaking, the deaths are awful but asking about his sons mental capacity is, I find, so much more.
It shows that he is acutely aware of what he does not have.
It also shows the fear that his son would live like him. A brutal understanding. That scene in this film.. breaks me everytime.
Did that feather just float around randomly or did it have a destiny? Did Forest wander around randomly or did he make things happen.
some people. like feathers flowing about with the wind, will enter your life at the most unexpected of times and turn your world upside down, before they move with the wind again. forrest is that sort of person
For the longest time, I thought of it as some angel feather. His life was blessed from when he found the feather and as long as he kept it, then much later in life, when his life is stable with his son, the "feather" leaves. only later, did I realize that although he finds it early in the movie, it wasn't early in his life.
Tom Hanks is such a great actor. Everyone talks about that scene when he asks Jenny if his son is smart or like him... What an incredible performance.
Always fucks me up when he’s at Jenny’s grave. Masterful acting
Jenny was dumb
It was a gut punch. She was finally turning her life around, then she dies.
@@azazello1784 She was victim of abuse all her life, her behaviour is understandable.
@@madizzle90 Jenny was supposed to have died from Hepatis B due to intravenous drug use.
I always cry at that scene. That was his love and his good friend from childhood.
Like that you don't completely tear Jenny apart like most reactors, and realize that she has her problems too.
*Sleepless in Seattle* is a must see, and *You've got Mail* is good too.
And after you watch You've Got Mail, you must watch Jimmy Stewart in the original, Shop Around the Corner.
This movie has so many tonal shifts! I can't think of any other movies that switch as often as this movie does.
I got the thrill of a lifetime when I actually met and shook Tom Hanks' hand in Flagstaff, Az. He was in makeup with his beard while filming the scene where he steps on 'a big pile of shit' while running. I was in the adjacent building to the right, watching them film the scene. I had no clue I was watching the making of an American classic.
Fun fact for you: Forrest Gump is one of only a small handful of movies in history to Win Best Picture and also be the highest grossing movie of the year.
How is that fun?
@@eatsmylifeYT How was it not fun?
@@jp3813 You tell me.
@@eatsmylifeYT Ditto.
@@jp3813 Saying "ditto" means you're too stupid to explain it.
fun fact: there is a self-fulfilling prophecy! lt. dan said: "the day you become shrimp boat captain, i become an astronaut."
one year later gary sinise plays again along with tom hanks in the film apollo 13 ... as an astronaut 😂
“I’ll always be your girl” gets me every time
@@Shzzaam so you are adding info not shown in the movie at all. In fact, it's not for sure it was HIV. The author of the book indicated it was Hep B, which also became known in the early 80s. (Others say the author was not stating the truth. We'll never know for sure.) Maybe you could create your own movie with your own story line.
"You're my best good friend Simone" that was cute George. 😁😃
This is an emotionally devastating movie. I watch it when I need a good cry. According to the novel, the unknown disease that Jenny had was not HIV, it was Hepatitis C. In the larger scheme, it is not important what the disease was. Thank you for letting me cry along with you.
True. They both could work for the story. HepC was still without a ‘cure,’ and both could be contracted from IV drug use. What made me think it was HIV, was because she says they don’t know what the virus is, and I’m pretty sure we were familiar with HepC by the 80s.
@@Ivy94F According to the sequel's script, (and Tom Hanks) it was HIV. Forrest Jr. was found to be HIV positive as well, and it apparently progressed into AIDS. People found out about it, and were concerned with sending their kids to school with him.
@@Ivy94F HIV was first identified in ''83. Hep C was first identified in '89.
This film goes around 3 decades of the USA history with all the tragedies as Vietnam or the Aids. Jenny always runs when a problem appears, and so she teaches Forrest. But Forrest change this when he did not run and came back to rescue Bubba. Then his life change and he became rich while Jenny goes in a darker life. When at last she stop running it is to late for her.
Woah, great underrated comment. Never seen the "running" put in such a way. Brilliant
He did run when she left him after that night together. For three years.
The author said it was hepatitis.
@@skeetercoddiwomple6269 Yeah I was going to ask about that. I heard some people say the book was Hepatitis while the movie was Aids.
Some of the historic moments:
Elvis
School integration
Gov Wallace assassination attempt
Kennedy meet & greet
Viet Nam (although I think that's a stretch - he wasn't integral in changing history)
LBJ mooning
Protest on the Mall
China (maybe - he was part of a team)
John Lennon/Dick Cavett - Imagine
Watergate
Hurricane Carmen
1970's running craze
"Shit happens"
Smiley face
Apple Computer
To me, the feather symbolized Forrest's journey through life - blown on the winds of fate, touching lives but not really being touched. In the background, but always there.
There are a lot of subtle things as well. ‘’Bear” Bryant and college football, AIDS, …
Most people think the worst of Jenny, but I always thought that she did love Forrest but she also thought he was too good and didn't deserve to be with someone like her, especially considering that Forrest is, as he said, not a smart man. I mean, the movie makes it clear that she was abused by her father in every conceivable way as a child and that as a result she has very low self-esteem and lets men abuse her and is very self-destructive, and that her default coping mechanism is to run instead of facing her problems. Hell, that was her usual advice to Forrest as well. Whatever happens, run. It's not until she matures that she can come to terms with her past, and accept herself as deserving Forrest's love. Of course, since she is forced to mature because she be comes a mom and because she's sick and dying, most people think she came back to Forrest out of self-interest just to make sure her kid would be okay after she was gone, and since she's been pretty selfish and awful to Forrest for the whole movie, it's hard to argue otherwise. I don't think she did, or at least not mostly because of that, though.
I echo every word of this!
The Jenny hate infuriates me.
@@summerrose8110 yeah, besides not comprehending the long-lasting impact of that abuse, it shows lack of comprehension of the limitations and expectations of the times.
@@tinatidmore3809 Exactly. I've seen reactors who bash Jenny by thinking,"Oh Jenny sucks" or "What's wrong with Jenny?" And I'm just like,"Did you really think that after suffering sexual abuse by her father at a young age was going to go away?" Jenny's psyche was messed up since the beginning, so when we see her in multiple abusive relationships, and Forrest helps her, but not even he realizes that is all Jenny knows. When she tells Forrest to run or says he doesn't know what love is, she's projecting herself onto him to stay away from her because she doesn't love herself and feels she would ruin Forrest.
@@summerrose8110 and he represents the home and childhood she wants to leave, to find love through fame. He would be bringing her back, so she just ran, ran from him, from her home, and toward a way out, a way to what she believed would make her whole, heal that wound.
What upsets me the most is people having no comprehension of what it would have been like for a sexually abused child IN THAT TIME. Shame, no resources (especially in rural Alabama), no understanding in society of how that abuse changes a person's psyche and leads to drug abuse and other self-destructive behavior.
Stop putting 2021 society's expectations and conditions on a person in her 20s in 1970s.
The 90’s are full of banger films, including this film Forest Gump.
You’re the only reactors I’ve watched that didn’t end up hating Jenny; I loved your sincere reactions!
Yes it is disheartening when she is hated upon. I think she resenates with those of us who went through some kind of abuse from parents/siblings /others, whether it was verbal, emotional or sexual.
@@tessesmom I think some of the reactors are just kinda simple...
Mental health and psychological are extremely misunderstood in this country
@@Shzzaam XD true
@@cassu6 Stupid is as stupid does.
There is a reason this won so many Oscars when it came out. I love this masterpiece of a movie...easily one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time! So iconic, so good, so rewatchable!
8:05 This part was inspired by the kid who played Young Forest. He said his daddy made grease and then listed all the things grease is used for. Turns out there is a *LOT* of thing grease is used for.
After Saving Private Ryan and this one, i really hope you two haven't seen these Tom Hanks movies yet?! 🤞🏻
The Green Mile (1999) 😥
Catch Me If You Can (2002) 😎
The Terminal (2004) 🤗
Cast away (2000) 😥
These 6 are my favorites!✌🏼
You should react to The Green mile with, Hanks! The Princess Bride with Jenny! I promise you want be disappointed in either one!
When Jenny is throwing the rocks - you could've included "Sometimes i guess there just aren't enough rocks" that Forrest says.
That sentence is so deep and can be used in so many situations.
This movie is based on a book and crazy thing is - when writing the script they actually scratched several more historically relevant/otherwise groundbreaking moments. Unlike other movies based on books where they always add tons of stuff, here they got to select which parts to adopt.
This is based on the book, "Forrest Gump" by Winston Groom. The filmmakers actually tried to screw him out of some royalties and he took them to court. They settled out of court and the settlement apparently included a proviso that he write a sequel. "Gump & Company" disclosed that Forrest became an astronaut, was responsible for the crash of the Exxon Valdez, and the fall of the Berlin Wall (among other things). He's also approached by an actor named Tom Hanks who's interested in making a movie of his life. It's worth a read, if you can find it.
Yes, all of that historical footage was real. The inserted Hanks into the shots.
And of course some mouth replacement and dubbing (like with JFK and John Lennon)
You make such a good pair of reviewers/reactors. Great chemistry! Keep up the good work
Absolutely loved this reaction. I know you struggled to understand her too but sooooo many other reactors absolutely trash Jenny, not understanding what a tragic character she is. Abused from earliest childhood, she never thought herself worthy of love and her deciding to leave Forest was her way of protecting him.
I loved Forest for loving her.
Jenny.left because she couldn’t trust a love that pure because she was abused by her father so she couldn’t trust him.
I love the contrast in Forest. Yes, he was a s dumb as a rock but he was also incredibly WIZE and pure at the SAME TIME. He came from nothing and had nothing. He was born with FAR less than most of us were. However, in his journey through life, he EARNED almost every success he had because of his wisdom and morality. Forest Gump shows us that if HE can do it?...then we have NO excuse to hide behind. Yes,...we each can do it also if we tactually try.
This is such a wonderful movie on so many levels. It has action, comedy and sadness. It is positive and hopeful and tragic at the same time. I love the nostalgia moments too. The music? The script and screenplay? The acting? The flow? The psychology? It all just leads your brain and heart along so carefully. Forest Gump is an almost PERFECTLY "balanced" movie that contains every narrative check box that you could ever want....all in in a single move. Stunning! Love your video take on this!!!
My favorite thing about this film is that it implies that Forrest is behind some of the most influential and significant events in history despite having a mental handicap and being disabled. A film to inspire those who are disabled and let them know anything is possible.
If you want another Tom Hanks movie that will move you, I’d highly suggest the Green Mile if you haven’t seen it. It kills me every time
Tom Hanks...The Green Mile🙌
The part that ALWAYS gets me, aside from Forrests Mom, Bubba, and Jenny dying, is when Forrest meets his son for the first time. And he asks Jenny, "Is he sm-smart or is he-..." . That just BREAKS me. He's so self aware and he realizes that if his son is perceived as "stupid" hes gonna have a rough growing up just like Forrest did and he might not have a Jenny to cheer him up. Just the self awareness he shows in that moment is one of cinemas greatest moments in my opinion.
This was a wonderful reaction! When you both were so shocked when he asked if Little Forrest was smart, I knew it was coming, but my eyes still filled up with tears. It's really great watching people show the genuine emotions that films bring out in us.
"is that what happens in the US" lol it sure is. you'll also see recruitment centers in strip malls in poor areas and stuff like that.
And they’re the ones that are the most patriotic and willing to serve. I did 20 years and loved it and was proud to have served my country.
They're like circling vultures. I was an army brat. Just a few days after I graduated, the recruiters came to our house. I answered the door, and told them that I'd go get my stepdad, because I thought they were from his unit, to come talk business or something. They were like "No. We are here to see you. You signed up to have a talk about the service." I told him I never did. So he tried to be slick and make it like, "Well. Since I'm already here....." I told him I was not interested. Found out that they get a roster sheet of graduates from all the county schools, and try to get them to sign up.
@@blackkatt777 Would you rather we had conscription? They are just trying to fill the ranks.
@@booboo8577 Conscription doesn't have to be horrible. In many countries that conscript, there's a very wide range of duties that can be performed, from admin or even things like social work, nut just _bullet catching._ I'm a proponent of a reformed conscription model like this, teaching young people discipline and accountability, very much needed today. This is coming from someone who had a very very misspent youth.
I hope you react to these three Tom Hanks movies.
- Cast Away
- The Terminal
- Big
(If one or both of you have never seen them before.)
The presidents he met: Kennedy (Football), Johnson (Metal of Honor), Nixon (Ping-Pong/China). Governor George Wallace who infamously fought desegregation was the Governor who was shot while running for President.
I understand why you guys didn't catch this because you didn't grow up in that time period. The music in the sound track not only worked to illustrate what was going on in each scene, but it precisely defined the time in year and month each scene depicted. I was born in '54 and my friends and I seeing the film had tremendously visceral reaction to each of the songs. We KNEW what they were about. We Knew exactly when those songs were in the Top-40. This made for a powerful effect that no other sound track has achieved in my experience. And that's just one aspect of this amazingly constructed film.
you cut out so many scenes with Lt Dan.... :(
I think when things get too emotional or where he was gonna break he just stopped. He wants to keep how he is. He doesn't want to stick with the bad. Anything bad he wants to put the blinders on.
I suggest you another 4 movies starring the incredible Tom Hanks, "The Green Mile", "Philadelphia", "Cast Away" and "News of the World".
You watch Pulp Fiction and THe Shawshank Redemption and you complete the 1994 best movies of all time trifecta!
I’m so in love with your channel, your commentaries, reactions and discussions are so fun to watch. You’re a great reactors duo!
thank you!
It always gets me when Forrest asked if his son is smart. Wonderful acting.
This will forever be one of the greatest movies all time. This is a rare case of being wildly popular and actually deserving of its praise
You nailed it George; it's what I often comment on this movie, it's unique; there's really nothing to compare it with. For me it is the embodiment of bittersweet or perhaps sweet bitter?
Thanks for choosing this, Simone and George and warm regards from the Netherland!
I rarely cry at films, but Forrest talking to Jenny at her graveside gets me every single time, Tom Hanks is just incredible. ET leaving Elliot is the only other scene that has the tears rolling down my face like that!
This is one of my top five favorite movies. Great reaction.
In the book he does a lot more like goes to space...
The time from Forest discovering he's a father to the end, as a Dad myself with a young son with development delays, hits like a ton of bricks. Also, a lot of reviewers say they're wrecked by what Jenny did but they don't fully grasp the fact that Jenny is wrecked. Abuse shaped her life and mental health is a very large part of this film. Anyway, this is one of the best reactions of this movie out there
I have seen this movie a lot in my life. It still makes me cry when Hanks is talking to Jenny about if Forest is Smart. That is a masterpiece
I remember watching this in the theaters. When Jenny is talknig to forest on her bad, asking if he ever was afraid fighting in the the jungles of Veitnam, and then he started to recap all of those events from this life that we watched during the movie, and Forest tells her how she was always with him... the theater was so incredibly unbelievably silent, you could have heard a pin drop.
What really pisses me off about this film is this: Would Jenny have told Forrest about his son if she HADN'T got sick?
You must Shawshank it up next if you haven't. 94 is ridiculously good movie year.
This movie is the reason Shawshank didn't win best picture that year.... and it is literally the ONLY movie I will have accepted doing so.
I wish Shawshank was pushed back to the following year, because it would have utterly destroyed Braveheart
Best soundtrack in a movie, in my opinion.
This movie, as well as American Graffiti , and Dazed & Confused
Best 3 soundtracks & would be extremely hard to pass copyright on TH-cam , during reaction videos -
Also, those are great movies !
1. Yes, those were the lyrics to “Imagine”.
2. Yes, that was real footage of George Wallace being shot. He lived. Some might say unfortunately.
3. Yes, Jenny died of HIV/AIDS.
4. Yes, Tom Hanks is a really good actor.
Absolutely positively one of the sweetest movies ever made. It will forever be a classic.
I think the "objective" is to depict a pure heart.
Anything Tom Hanks is phenomenal. The Terminal is great. Apollo 13 is great.
And the Green Mile.
@@paulcurlin2789 yes, absolutely!
Forrest said that Jenny died on Saturday, March 22, 1982. However, March 22,1982 it was Monday, not Saturday. I'm 100 % sure because it's my birthday
Damn ... I just cried watching even the review. This movie is a gem.
@ 6:35 This movie is full of history that Forrest was involved or witnessed. For example a couple of minutes earlier the college football coach is modeled after Paul "Bear" Bryant, google him to see the likeness. And that was Governor George Wallace shot by Arthur Bremer later in 1972. He was badly injured, wheelchair bound after and died in 1998. @ 7:52 Answer: yes! I started getting military literature in the mail not long before turning 17. The Vietnam war, and draft ended about 2 weeks before turning 18, and the literature stopped too! BTW, thank you for taking some of us in during those years. @ 11:13 The guy leading the anti-war rally is Abbie Hoffman. @ 12:30 I was thinking you two would catch that! LOL! @ 13:22 Yes, I'm sure you also noticed each song clip was a popular song at the timeline in the movie. There's a scene not in your video here where Lt. Dan and Forrest are crossing the busy NY street with that particular song playing. Lt. Dan beating on the taxi and yelling "I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!", along with that hit song was a reenactment from a popular 1969 movie "Midnight Cowboy" (Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight). The reason it was funny is in MC, Hoffman's character Ratso had a bad leg and bad limp, but COULD walk. @ 31:00 The first was John Kennedy. Then Johnson, and Nixon last. You guys would enjoy Robert Zemeckis earlier works, the Back To the Future trilogy. Checking thru your videos I have two more Tom Hanks to suggest: "The Green Mile" and "Apollo 13", and other awesome movies to consider, "Interstellar", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Apocalypto", "Apocalypse Now" and "Field of Dreams". ✌️😎
Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re gonna get.
In my high school history class, our teacher was retiring and just didn’t really care anymore lol. So one of the assignments was watching this movie over a couple days and we were supposed to write down like 30 notable historical things.
Of course this was easy and most people were around 80+, etc. But it was a cool assignment b/c this movies gives a quick (and super limited, but still) overview of some US and world history thru these times.
Basically we could write down anything. Like songs/moments/etc.
Interesting assignment
This is one of my favorite movies of all time! Love to see your first time reactions to it, cuz I can never experience it for the first time again, but this was close enough :) thank you both for showing your honest emotions! I always cry when I see it 😭😂 and so true what you said George, it's a really unique movie just capturing an 'ordinary life' but we see that everybody has some impact on the world. And I totally agree with you Simone, it's like you watch 6 different films.. But it's like different chapters of ever humans life I guess?
Jenny keeps leaving Forrest on multiple occasions, and he dont understand why 🙃
And when Jenny & Forrest are getting married, she still dies :S i get it, but...... Still, Jenny is really not a good character imo. :S
Strongly suggest Green Mile with Tom Hanks. Then the Shawshank Redemption soon there after.
Movie implies Jenny had HIV/AIDS... Book mentions Hepatitis C.
Jenny was a perfect example of how being abused as a child can impact your entire life. Her "solution" to any problem, emotional, physical or social was "to run away". Until she could no longer run due to being a mother and facing death.
Lt. Dan however is possibly the BEST character in the entire movie. Simply because he goes through basically EVERY emotional and social reaction to what wounded vets go through. And it is also one of the first times that a "wounded Vietnam Vet" ended up being HAPPY at the end of the movie. So many times we had seen the vet return home completely broken and struggling with issues until they basically self-destruct. Lt. Dan however comes out with a new love of life, married and RICH! Not only that, but he also comes away with his pride and dignity returned NOT because he "got new legs", but because Forrest simply treated him as an equal, not a "cripple" which is what Dan feared he would be treated like for the rest of his life. That was what the "storm scene" was about. Lt. Dan basically "facing god" and saying "either finally destroy me, or reward me for what I've endured".... And because of how decent he treated Forrest (a pure innocent), God rewards Lt Dan beyond his wildest dreams in regard to being happy and finding a new purpose in life.
The objective of the movie was to take us, an audience in the mid nineties, on a tour of our recent history as told from the eyes of a simple man. It was for us to step back from our crazy, high strung lives and divisive politics and just reflect. And it does it perfectly without all the preachiness that a modern movie would be full of.
I guess I'm late here.
Anyway, I think you have Jenny wrong. It's not that she didn't love Forrest. Jenny hated herself. After the way her father treated her, she grew up thinking of herself as a nobody, and she saw Forrest as an honest, caring, loving man, and thought that he was too good for her. "You don't want me..." That's why she left, so she could save Forrest from her.
This is one of the few times that I don’t see Tom Hanks but the character. Except a couple of times when he yells for Bubba and Jenny in the reflecting pool.
I think you should wach "Sleepless in Seatle". I really like that film because it is aware that it s a cheesy romcom making it really fun to wach at least for me. I´d love to see your reaction to it... Greetings from Germany.
I deeply loved your reactions. Forrest Gump losing Bubba and Jenny always is heartbreaking. I cry for 1 hour seeing Forrest talking to Jenny’s Grave saying “If you ever need me, I won’t be faraway!” 😢😭
This edit sucks. You're usually better at putting in some of the best parts but I'm stopping at 6 minutes and 41 seconds in, because you've already edited out some of the parts, that audiences had the biggest reactions to.
Forrest lived his life like the feather
Wish I did an tally of every thing there quoting.... that was the premise if the book. I remember the guy who ran across the country, and the boat that survived the typhoon by staying out...
Something I just noticed in this movie, was when he checked the mail about "the fruit company".... that only Gump's mailbox has their name painted on the side. The rest have proper name plates shown above the boxes. I feel like this is a metaphor in some way
Her leaving was not "running away"... In her mind he is sparing him. It's a state of mind. Does it make since, no... But she had the best intention of that decision.
I find it really hard to believe that it's been 27yrs since the movie was made. The shit happens quote was funny. Imo the smiling face scene told me perhaps there are nice people in this world. Even though Forest Gump is not a real person. I firmly believe that a lot of people especially in today's world could learn a lot from him. Once the people think and figure out what Forest may have taught them. Watch the movie again and you should see that Forest Gump was A LOT SMARTER then the majority of the people give him credit for...
In an interesting way, Forrest reminds me of Chance from "Being There" in that simple people can find themselves intertwined in history simply due to their innocence and how others misinterpret them. Meanwhile, the intellectuals screw things up.
This movie isn't about Forrest Gump and Jenny. It's about America during a couple of very difficult decades. It's basically the cinematic version of the Don McLean song "American Pie."
15:40 This moment strikes me so hard every time. My mom also had cancer, and also died on a Tuesday.
The Army always delivers the mail, no matter where the troops are, even if it's on a ship at sea, or deployed at war. Things have changed with the internet but the mail was considered one of the most vital morale missions of the military back then.
sorry so late with thus comment
Forrest represent America. Successful though optimism and good luck.
My favorite scene is when he opens the letter he invested in some fruit company. I agree the comedic parts are used wisely to give relief from the tension.