Overrated

Keanu Reeves

Hey everybody, look! Look at me! I'm in a movie that doesn't suck!

Audience

GASP!

Keanu Reeves

Yes, it's true! Not only that, despite my total lack of acting ability, I very nearly didn't suck in this movie!

Audience

(faints)

ps. This piece of shit stole most of the premise from Dark City.

Forrest Gump is one of the most cliched, unrealistic, and pointless movie ever. I found nothing funny about having to pee in the oval room, or that he thinks "coon" stands for raccoon. It trivializes important historical events such as the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and the assassination of Kennedy. Sure it breezes past the surface of all the importance historical events from the 50's to 70's, but it gives absolutely no insight to any of them. Does any of them actually matter? No. Does Forrest learn anything from them? No. It feels like the writers are trying to have Forrest accomplish one incredible feat after another just for the sake of it while neglecting more importance aspects of the movie such as character development and a message that viewers and identify with.

I mean, can anyone tell me what this movie is trying to say? That ignorance is bliss? That if you do everything you are told in life that you will rewarded with fame and fortune? If you question your government, you will become a drug abuser, a prostitute, and will attempt suicide?

Forrest Gump is just another feel good piece of trash like Crash that the Academy falls for. This is likely the most offensive movie that I've ever seen. If life is like a box of chocolates, it must be a really bad box of chocolates. People are supposed to improve themselves and evolve. Gump encourages them to stagnate in their stupidity. Not only is it bad, but it insults your intelligence.

good acting by johnny depp, but the ending is typical cheesy ending that disney always use.

probably the worst movie that has won Best Picture.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Your social class is stuffy. Let's dance with the ship's rats and have fun.

Kate Winslet

You have captured my heart. Let's run around the ship and giggle.

(The ship SINKS.)

Leonardo DiCaprio

Never let go.

Kate Winslet

I promise. (lets go)

a mark on Zhang's career

Here's how you end up with such a pretentious and unoriginal film like Amelie:

Add:
* 3 parts of Three Colors: Red
* 1 part The Double Life of Veronique
* 1 part Chungking Express
* a dash of Fallen Angels

Dilute 100x with forced charm and unfunny gags.

Get Amelie

overrated as hell

This is really a music video that rips off Kieslowskian themes, not a feature film.

this movie is shit, the only good part was Dafoe as a gay cross-dressing detective.

Matt Damon

I'm smart, but so what? Let's start fights and pick up chicks.

Robin Williams

If you push people away, they can't be close to you.

Matt Damon

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP you fixed me thank you I love you. (cries)

Not quite as good as I had hoped. Del Toro brings the world of post-Spanish War Spain with the fantasy world of a child, but fails to address the conflict between these two very different worlds. Real life characters are poorly characterized and as a result feel like caricatures. The Francoist army is portrayed as inhuman sadists while the resistance fighters are not shed much depth neither. The political aspect is too simplistic that one cannot take this film as a serious political film. It offers nothing interesting or profound about war or its effects.

Ultimately, the film's message is stated by its final line: "It is worse for a man to inflict wrong than to suffer it". And this is the part I have the most trouble getting past. Yes, the girl's actions in the end confirms this moral, but what about the actions by the rebels at the end? Blowing up trains and shooting unarmed enemies are justified because they are done by the 'good' people. While these vengeful acts of violence feel satisfying, they undermine the film's purpose and reduce what could have been a morally complex film into a simple tale of good vs evil.