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Title: Forrest Gump
Year: 1994
Length: 142 minutes
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Eric Roth, based on the novel by Winston Groom
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
Music: Alan Silvestri (mostly non-original music)
Distinctions: Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (Hanks), Best Editing and Best Visual Effects; Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Sinise), Best Score, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Makeup, Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing; currently #37 on the IMDb's Top 250
My reaction
Synopsis: the young life of an idiot who can run fast
How I saw it: on video many times, most recently two days ago (rented from Netflix)
Concept: Bad.
Story: Bad.
Characters: Great.
Dialog: Good.
Pacing: Good.
Cinematography: Indifferent.
Special effects/design: Great.
Acting: Great.
Music: Bad.
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay). It's mostly entertaining, but it's so very dumb. If the movie had just been about Forrest, it could have been pretty good. Instead it's a sort of aimless nostalgia-fest for baby boomers, bathed in disgustingly bad philosophy.
Objective Rating: 2.5/4 (Okay).
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