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Never cared for this movie; Good performance are overwhelmed by gee-whiz effects and a mawkish script. Woody Allen's "Zelig" did it much better....

I'm not overly fond of movies that glamorize being dumb.

Icky introduction to war time ....

i love tom hanks & i enjoy all his works. the story was really moving. Tom appeared as brilliant as ever.

Forrest Gump is one of those rare movies for me that seems to get better each time I watch it. Tom Hanks really does do a great job of staying in character, which must have been difficult when playing a character like Gump. Seeing history go by from the stories of a guy like Forrest Gump is really quite the concept for a movie.

I think the movie was really cute but Tom Hanks just pulled it off. Any actor could've talked slow and loud and called himself a retarded man. Leo Dicaprio in what's eating Gilbert grape did an amazing job.

Tom Hanks is brilliant.

Simple, simplistic, utterly contrived, and frequently just plain dull. There is absolutely nothing to this movie. About as profound as a bad comic book.

One of my favorite movies. Ingenious.

Love it!

This movie insults one's intelligence. We're supposed to believe that this character is involved in all these historical incidents? It's American History for people who dozed through that subject during high school.

Maybe you have to be an American to understand this film. It is a painless way to teach history to the folks who weren't around during the Civil Rights, Vietnam War, the Peace Movement, etc. As one who lived that era I found it to be a relatively accurate portrayal of that time in our history. Good story.

A masterpiece of the American idiosyncrasy.

Tom Hanks deserved his second Oscar for this performance - a super movie!

This movie proves why Tom Hanks is one of the most talked about actors of our time. This movie is pure brilliant.

Asked this elsewhere: Did Forrest speak for or against the war at the Rectangle in D.C.?

I saw it once, when it first came out. I enjoyed it somewhat but I thought it was a little over hyped. I never did bother to see it again.

I don't give it a 1 because it was clever with the computer work mixing the actor into old footage, but how can one joke be funny for two hours and twenty minutes?

It's a long journey folks to get to the end, and if you don't buy Hank's persona at the beginning, it's a long TEDIOUS journey. Forrest DUMP is more like it!

I never get tired of this movie. This movie touches me to the core. Very deep and sad. Wonderfully made. Tom Hanks is awesome. Fantastic Cinematography also. One of my all time favorites.

Tom Hanks' superb performance as the loveable Forrest Gump earned him his well-deserved second Oscar for Best Actor. (He had previously won the Oscar for Best Actor for the 1993 film "Philadelphia", and has been nominated three other times.) Robert Zemeckis also earned the Oscar for Best Director, and the film itself won the Oscar for Best Picture as well as three other Oscars for Best Visual Effects, Best Editing and Best Writing. Gary Sinise earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, in addition to six other Oscar nominations that included Best Cinematography, Best Music and Best Sound. Part of what "Forrest Gump" so endearing was Zemeckis' use of superimposing actors into actual, historical film footage. This footage included the late Pres. John F. Kennedy, the late John Lennon, the late Pres. Richard M. Nixon, and the late former Alabama Gov. George Wallace to name a few. (Robert Zemeckis used this same archival footage technique again in the 1997 film "Contact".) Other memorable characters in the film include school bus driver Dorothy Harris (Siobhan Fallon), Bubba's mother (Marlena Smalls), Abbie Hoffman (Richard D'Alessandro) and Forrest Gump Jr. (Haley Joel Osment). Some of the many memorable scenes in the film include the opening scenes, running with leg braces, running across the football field during practice, scenes at the University of Alabama, boot camp, Vietnam, D.C., NYC, the shrimping boat, running across America, and the scenes with Jenny (both as child and adult). I regard "Forrest Gump" as one of the best films ever made and rate it with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars. It's the kind of film that draws the viewer into its story and keeps the viewer engaged throughout its 142 minutes. I highly recommend the DVD version of the film to everyone, and the second DVD is good with its various documentaries and other material. Tom Hanks went on to star in many more memorable film roles, including his roles in "Apollo 13" (1995), "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), "The Green Mile" (1999) and "Cast Away" (2000) to name a few. Unfortunately, many of Gary Sinise's film roles that followed have been far less memorable.

I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND how people just don't understand this movie. Don't schools teach poetry anymore? Forest Gump in not just a character in the movie that takes place in America. He IS the United States of America, and everything that happens to him, from start to finish, IS the history of the United States--in metaphor! From start to finish, the film is a more-or-less straight-down-the-line history lesson, taking viewers through all of America's bumbling, if at times horrid, but always well-meant and often heroic beauty. In war and peace, through thick and thin, from before Independence through the Revolutionary War and all our other wars, it takes in the Industrial Revolution, Manifest Destiny and mostly every other national milestone and definitive concept, on into the present day (of 1994). Jenny is (ever-illusive) "Peace"--won, in the end, if for an only too brief period--only to be lost again, and Gary Sinese's character is, in a word, a painfully disabled (and white-suited) "God", always looking out for the bumbling but good-natuerd half-wit. Then there's the score. Owing to its having so beautifully mirrored that same history, the film score has to be high on the list of the best ever composed. I listen to it regularly, more and more, these days--usually directly after the latest news on Iraq! So. See the film--and listen to it--again! Of course, if you don't know your history, you won't deduce any of this, or hear it. A pity. Somebody: read a book for God's sake! Magnificently done. Inspirational. Phrix

I don't get how people can not like this movie? Predictable? Hardly. A great All American movie that shows 20th century America through the eyes of a slow, yet devoted and heroic man who just wants to make people happy, drink doctor pepper and be with the first person other than his momma to care about him. One of the best movies ever made. It was long but I didn't mind that at all. This movie alone makes Tom Hanks one of the top 5 actors in Hollywood.

It just an odd movie and yet I liked it at the same time.

The story is so clever and yet so simple. You can't help but like Forrest who is brilliantly played by Tom Hanks. Part of me would like to see a sequal but the other parts says leave the story as it is. A timeless classic that will be enjoyed for a very long time.

I'll give the idea of the movie a 3, Hanks' portrayal of Gump a 5 but the movie as a whole, if I had named it, would be Forest Speed-Bump.

i saw it at the age of 11....i cried, i loved it. what 11 year old cries when watching a movie.....one that is truely moved by the story line.

this movie was the best drama of the 90s decade to me.

I think I'm one of 11 people in the world that didn't like this movie. Jenny was a slut.

Well directed. Ok (but vastly overrated) acting. Stupid theme. The wonderful changes of the past 30 years (women's rights/rights of minorities) are ridiculed and the American simpleton is celebrated. Did this tripe win an oscar?

forrest gump teaches you that anything is possible. it teaches you to experience life as it was said life is like a box of chocolates...his momma said some pretty wise things.

What a neat movie. Tom Hanks did a terrific job as Forrest Gump a man who does not have a lot of smarts but a huge heart. I loved how events of his life tied in with meeting about four presidents. Forrest has always loved Jenny since childhood they grew up best friends. Their lives take different paths.Forrest succeeds in everything he does, he is the best runner on the football team, He was a hero during the vietnam war, He ran a shrimping busy in honor of his friend Bubba and ending up being a millionaire.etc. He met presidents and was awarded by them for different reasons many times. The movie has a lot of great special effects. putting Tom Hanks in films with real presidents, Making it appear That Dan had no legs. I like the fact that a a person like Forrest who is not very smart but a very kind caring person.falls upon success in everything he does yet money and fame mean little to him just finding Jenny[who had fallen on bad times} and being with her is what is important,I loved how he was a devoted friend, to Jenny, his mom. Bubba, and DAn.A little bit too long but a great movie.

One of my all time favorites from Tom Hanks. He is such a talented actor.

at times on my top ten worst movies of all-time list. it keeps moving further down the more films Ben Affleck makes, but that is another matter. Gump is a piece of unimaginative tripe, right propaganda dump on the nation right in the middle of Clinton's presidency. quintessentially American in it's message. and what is Gump's message: it's okay to be an idiot in America, it is in fact endearing; people who rebel against America, hippies, minorities with political intent, are nothing but violent and abusive animals. if you are a loose, troubled woman like Jenny, you will ultimately pay for your sins by getting a horrible disease and dying you. if your Forest, an absolutely clueless moron, you need only wait and said loose woman will one day give it up to you. this man was also present for every important event in the later 1/2 of the 20th century. why not have Gump shuffling in the background as the vietcong pulled the trigger in that classic video. or better, let's have Gump jump in front of the bullet meant for Reagan. or he could've run really fast and tried to save John Lennon, since apparently the two were on Dick Cavett together. that said, i dont have a problem w/ficitious characters being placed in historical situations, but one as blantant and full of agenda as Forest Gump, i have a problem with.

Not just Tom Hanks' best movie of all time... THE best movie of all time. It has every single thing you could possibly hope for in a movie. Tom Hanks is one of the best actors of all time.

By far Tom Hanks best movie. He was amazing. This is what made him a legend. He was sucessfull before the movie, but this performance convinced everyone. I don't know how often I watched that movie, it is timeless. It is an adventure. Definately in my all time top 10.

It's always amazing to me how liberals always miss the point of this movie- even Tom Hanks disliked the character Forrest Gump. This movie is simply about your most basic Christian belief- about caring for your fellow man and doing was is good- about pursuing happiness in its rightful place. It parallels the lives of two characters Forrest and Jenny. Forrest- dumb as a bag of rocks- processes the realities of life in it's most basic forms no matter how challenging it became he always did what thought was good- what his momma told him. His journey from a crippled child to enlisting in the military and serving in Vietnam, having his best friend die in his arms is riddled with painful events that he turns into positive experiences by doing what is good. Jenny, his love, is also dealt a horrible plot in life being sexually molested as a child. Jenny is brilliant however and ends up going to Berkley living the fads of the era and embarks on a different path. She becomes consumed by fulfilling human desire that eventually consumes her and leaves her perpetually lonely. The point being made here was that human happiness is not satisfied with prurient satisfaction but action of virtue. That this appeal to universal human goods transcended human brilliance- that human happiness was part of something greater. In the end the dummy Forrest fathers a baby with Jenny that brings her only solace in life before she succumbs to AIDS. Though being the dummy the world however is Forrest's oyster where he attains an improbable wealth and happiness that he uses to continually do good. The essence of this movie is defining what is the pursuit of happiness- what is it to be free. Is happiness about satisfying simple earthly wants or is happiness about doing what is right and reaping the benefits? Liberals view the world in such a constricted box that they will consistently miss the beauty of a movie like this. But as Forrest says stupid is as stupid does.

Forest Grump is oatmeal for the masses. It's a nice cute little story for the kids and for people to have fun with. It's very easy to digest. I like films with more substance in them.

An improbable tale, but portrayed in a plausible fashion. Hanks is outstanding, but I think Gary Sinise's performance is overlooked. For me, the most powerful moment of the movie is when Lt. Dan goes for his swim in the ocean, making his peace with God.

Original, gripping, moving, fun!Tom Hanks was incredible.

Dana Carvey calls this movie Retard On A Bench.

Forrest Gump is, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst film I have ever had the sad misfortune of viewing. This celebration of gross stupidity is crass, completely lacking in any genuine wit and moves at a sloth-like pace from ridiculously contrived plotline to another. Tom Hanks, a leviathan of modern film-making, is as sickly and lacking in charisma as ever. I would sooner watch my Grandmother being savaged by rabid Tigers than view this piece of rubbish again.

It is not just a movie, it is a philosophy, forgotten easily in this crazy world of ours. It is a drama about a simple man, who is ready to sail with the wind, with full gusto, just like the feather in the opening/closing musical suite. His life, the way he 'simply' goes through the turbulent times around, as well as his 'Run', and the feather,..they are ALL SYMBOLIC. Nobody expects real life to be like that, but it is a beautifully crafted DRAMA (critics are U listening) that forces U to ponder upon another way of looking at things! Great acting, wit, direction and music (perhaps the best cross sectional selection of greatest American classics).

In the words of the 'Cancer Man' from X-Files....'Life is like a box of chocolates, a cheap perfunctory gift that no one ever asked for. Irreturnable because all you ever get back is another box' While I wouldn't say this was by any means the worst film I've ever seen, I wouldn't call it profound or challenging in any way either. Big in heart small in brain, just like Forrest.

RUN FORREST RUN!! Mama always said that life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get. This movie is absolutly hilarious! Tom Hanks did such a good job, but I found a lot of adult content in it, and that turned me off a bit. But, I suppose thats the going rate for a good movie.

Just an Amazing story,Awsome cinematogrophy, and the best performance Tom Hankes has done. The story of a stupid person that never does anything actually stupid. he just kinds of floats by so many Historical moments and has such big roll in history he is not even aware of.He grows up Alabama raised by just his mother barly makes into public school, but insup being on the national football league because of his ability run fast. From then on he meets three presidents, serves in Vietnam, Is awarded the medal of honor, speakes infront of thousands during a war protest, gos to China and plays in the world ping-pong championship, uncovers the watergate scandle, starts the biggest scrimpin company in America, is one of the original investors in micresoft, and runs for three years straight across the country. Obviously he has an exciting life, but after "advevture" always returns to his home in Alabama. An epoc film, and historicly Amazing. You will never see life the same once you have seen it through the eyes of FORREST GUMP

My favorite movie, and the first movie I have been able to say that about. One of those movies that can be watched Over and Over again. Not one frame in this movie is boring. Also it gave Americans a lesson in History that was so badly needed. Best movie Soundtrack of all time.

What's the point of this moronic movie? The acting is stilted, the jokes fall flat and the tone is typically dark and moronic. Can't compare to dramatic masterpieces such as "Star Trek: Nemesis," "Pokemon 4Ever," or "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace"

Awsome movie! I could watch it a 10000 times and still Love it

"Forrest Gump" has always been one of my favorite movies, and I'm sure that 25 years from now, people will still be watching it, laughing and crying along with Forrest. I thought Tom Hanks was at his best here. His acting in this film, or any other for that matter, is so believable and intense. Never have so many subplots been fit into the big picture so perfectly. I really enjoyed seeing history through the eyes of a man who just sees things as they are and doesn't provide an opinionated slant one way or another. I thought that his analysis on JFK was simple and actually sort of funny in the way that he said it: "Somebody shot that man while he riding in his car." His meeting with both JFK and LBJ was hilarious.... "I got shot in the butt...". His love for Jenny makes for compelling drama, and his friendshp with Bubba (obsessed with shrimp) makes for some funny moments and some sad ones as well. He goes on to run across country, run a shrimp business, play football, and do anything imaginable despite having a low IQ. I loved how Forrest was so down to earth and nothing mattered to him but making those around him happy and honoring their memory when they died (Momma, Bubba and Jenny). A great performance by Sally Field as Forrest's Momma. Never before have I seen a movie that brought out all of the audience's emotions so well. This film is a classic!