Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump
1994

Today I had absolutely no intentions of watching Forrest Gump.

My day started out with seeing the new Twilight movie Eclipse. If they cut out everything but the werewolf vampire fight it would have been a good movie! As I was riding home I was hoping that my mother had left the door unlocked as I have no key to my house. But guess whose door was not unlocked? Mine!

So, instead, I was trapped at the Dunn’s house and had nothing better to do than watch this movie.

And while I am complaining bitterly can I also say I had to watch the edited version?! The edited version! How much does that suck? If a “bad” word came up suddenly there would be no sound. Wouldn’t it be weird if that happened in real life? Like if someone was talking then cussed at you and no sound came out but their lips still moved? I would be freaked. Okay. I have thoroughly ranted.

Forrest Gump has an IQ of 75. So he’s not the brightest bulb of the bunch. Dumber than a bag of hammers. Ladder doesn’t go all the way to the top. Dimmer than a mole convention. Lights are on but nobody’s home. You get the picture. But he’s nice. So nice in fact he starts telling his life story to people waiting at the bus stop with him.

When he was very little he had braces on his legs to straighten his back. One day he met the love of his life Jenny on the school bus and they became “peas and carrots.” They are best friends all through high school.

One day because of bullies, Forrest finds out he’s a really good runner. So he ends up going to college and playing football because of how fast he is. After college he goes into the military.

He becomes pretty good friends with this guy named Bubba. Bubba’s obsessed with shrimp. He goes on for like, five minutes about the kinds of shrimp and what you can do with it. It’s a little disturbing. So Bubba convinces Forrest to go into the shrimp business with him. There gonna get a boat and everything. It’s too bad that Bubba dies though in Vietnam. I kind of liked him

During the same attack that killed Bubba, Forrest uses his running skills to save the lives of fivish officers, including one of Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant is the hardest word in the world to spell. Lieutenant Dan looses both of his legs and is real bitter about that. He blames Forrest for saving him. Forrest was also wounded in the attack. He was shot in the butt.

So while recovering at the hospital, he discovers he’s really good at ping pong. The army adds him to there team and the beat China. Woo hoo! Then they discharge him. Also woo hoo! Somewhere in there he was reunited with Jenny, but I don’t remember when, that was three hours ago.

Because he promised Bubba, he has to go became a shrimp person. He buys a boat and legless Lieutenant Dan, who is not as bitter at him, joins him. They catch a bunch of tires at first but after a storm takes out everyone else’s boat they catch A LOT of shrimp. And through investing in Apple become gajillionaries. Woo hoo!

But then, Forrest’s Mama dies. It’s sad. But he moves on. And starts mowing grass. Jenny comes back randomly. They chill and he asks her to marry him. She says no and they sleep together. Cause that makes sense…

Jenny then leaves and Forrest decides to go for a run. A big run. A three year run all across the country. After he is done, Jenny calls him to tell him something. He has a son. And she is sick. So they get married and she dies. The end.

I dislike this movie. I kind of finished it feeling “What was the point of that?” Maybe I don’t get the hype and stuff about Forrest Gump and I’m missing a major point or something, but it was just kind of, meh. It had it’s funny parts, and some good acting, but it was just, there. I don’t particularly get this movie. Maybe it takes a special person to do so, or a special person to miss it completely, but I don’t get why it won at all. And I am still really sad Jenny died! I mean come on! What a horrid way to end a movie!!!!! Sheesh.