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I think I got about 2 minutes into Forrest Gump before I had to turn it off. Cannot stand that fake accent Tom Hanks has in that movie. And yes, that's a hill I will die on.
Same here .... as a story it also feeds that false mentality of "you can do anything as long as you try"
It's a work of fiction that everyone knows is fiction but they really really really want it to be true, even though it is so far removed from reality.
Forrest Gump is super racist revisionist history, where a low-IQ white male accidentally causes all sorts of large political and social historical events that were actually initiated by black people in real life. Plus there's a ton of other messed up sexist/racist portrayals throughout the film. It's a pretty awful film. And it stole the Oscar from Shawshank Redemption!
I thought it was pretty great, and still do. But Shawshank was better, no argument from me. A great year of movies.