I can think of at least 4 films that are more deserving of Best Picture than Forrest Gump (Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Ed Wood, Clerks) although for arguments sake I think we can all agree that Pulp Fiction should have won instead of this stupid movie.
shareIt's 2023.
About time to wake the fuck up and realize that oscars=shit.
Or ANY "award" for arts, for that matter.
Oscar for Clerks?
The fuck are you smoking?
Clerks was great, even if you don’t think it’s Oscar worthy it’s definitely more Oscar worthy than Forrest Gump.
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Ill take Pulp over Gump. But nobody thinks Clerks deserves an Oscar except for you and maybe Kevin Smith🤣. But I've come to expect nothing less from you. Just as stupid as the Academy.
I said it was more Oscar worthy than Forrest Gump (and it was)
shareNo. It wasn't. You're just as stupid as the Academy.
shareYes it was, Clerks is an overall solid film and the limited budget makes it even more impressive. Forrest Gump is just downright stupid and didn’t cover any themes that hadn’t already been covered much better by Back To The Future Part III.
shareI disagree. Forrest Gump checks a lot of boxes:
1) unique story
2) great soundtrack (both composed music and pop music)
3) use of ground breaking technology (Forrest placed with historical footage of celebrities)
4) some great cinematic shots (Forrest jogging, Washington Mall, Vietnam bombing scene)
5) An amazing performance by Tom Hanks
Also it was a box office hit. 678.2 million USD
Given that people complain that Oscar winners are often box office flops or too obscure for a mainstream audience, this movie also connected with audiences. That's refreshing from today's perspective.
Those other movies weren't as mainstream.
Good points, tickets.
FG had some serious competition at the Oscars though. I don't mind that it won but honestly, several films could have easily won that year.
Clerks is the most overrated piece of shit. Fuck that movie.
I get it, Kevin Smith had a dream and he pursued it and he made a movie on very few resources during a pre-digital era when that was rarely done. That is awesome and it's amazing that he has been able to carve out a successful career for himself. But is the movie actually good? Not really, at least nowhere close to Best Picture good.
As for your other mentions, Pulp Fiction is certainly a contender, as is Shawshank. But Forrest Gump is a great film, too.
Forrest Gump is not a great film, it’s an overly sappy, not funny cliched, contrived abomination. Clerks is legitimately a great film. Pulp Fiction should have won.
shareForrest Gump is my favorite movie between the five, so no complain by my side.
I don't understand what people find in Pulp Fiction. Shawshank Redemption is amazing film but not brilliant as Forrest Gump. Ed Wood and Clerks are good movies but don't deserve an Oscar.
I am actually think the Oscar should go to one of the two: Forrest Gump or The Lion King.
Forrest Gump is not "brilliant", it did not cover one single theme that wasn't already done a lot better in Back To The Future Part III. It's stupid, it's sappy and the acting is horrendous. The Lion King wasn't good either, they totally fucked up the message at the end. They were going down the right path with "face the past, it may hurt but learn from it", until we find out that no one would help Simba until they found out he didn't kill Mufasa, so the message is really: Face the past, it may hurt but learn from it as long as there is a chance that you have nothing to face in the first place, if you do then run away and Hakunah Matata (I know I misspelled that and I don't care)
shareI never heard of anyone who compare Forrest Gump to Back To The Future Part III. Forrest Gump is a great film, with interesting storyline, colorful characters, heartwarming with many unforgettable moments.
About Lion King, I didn't understand what you want to said.
The message in Forrest Gump and Back To The Future Part III are literally the same thing: Your future isn’t written, it’s what you make of it, it’s just floating around like a feather in the wind.
shareNo, that's not what the message of Forrest Gump is. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
shareForrest literally spoonfeeds it to the audience in the second to last scene.
shareHe says it in conjunction with the idea of fate. Two opposing ideas working together. You dope. You got it spoon fed and still missed half of it.
shareDoc Brown says no ones future is written, Forrest implies that life is like a box of chocolates and that a persons destiny is floating around like a feather in the wind.
It’s literally the same thing. Derp Derp. Retard alert.
Forrest days I don't know who's right mom or Lt Dan. Do we have a destiny or are we floating around. I THINK ITS BOTH HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME.
You're such a stupid fuckface who's posts are a relentless never ending stream of stupidity and entertainment 🤣🤣🤣
LOL what a stupid fucking statement, there’s no way it could be happening at the same time. Pay attention next time you watch a movie, I mean it’s not like this one is too hard to understand but I have to remember I’m dealing with a brain dead retard here whose parents kicked him a few too many times in the helmet.
Both of them literally covered the same theme: Is your destiny/future written or not? Only BTTF Part III did it a hell of a lot better.
Take it up with the writers fuckface. That's the message, not whatever stupid half-attention shit you think. Expand your attention span, dumbass
shareI don’t have to take it up with the writers, dickwad. The message is literally slapping you in your retarded face.
shareWeird how you used to get all offended by the word retard, now all of the sudden its your go to. Almost like you copy me, as usual.
My god, you're stupid as fuck. And everyone on this site knows it✌️
Just treating you like you deserve to be treated. If you don’t like it then go cry to someone who cares.
share🤣🤣🤣 Just pointing out what an obvious hypocrite you are who cant even stick to your own values. Fucking funny as hell🤣🤣🤣
shareSince you behave like a retard, it’s only appropriate to address you as one.
shareHAHAHAHA It's your new favorite word... got sick of getting your panties in a wad over it🤣🤣🤣
shareNo one’s panties are in a wad, except yours over the fact that you’re too stupid to comprehend this very easy to follow movie.
shareNobody's panties in a wad anymore now that you enjoy using the word retard instead of lecturing about it, hypocrite 🤣
shareIf you claim your panties are not in a wad then get the fuck over it, hypocrite. You can’t have this both ways, shit eater.
shareBoth ways? What the fuck are you talking about? I've been using it since day one with your dumbass. Never had a problem with it, never lectured you about it. Just pointing out how much of a hypocrite you are.
OH MY GOD YOURE STUPID!🤣🤣🤣
Too fucking retarded to recognize your own glaring contradictions.
You claimed your panties weren't in a wad yet here you are bitching and moaning over the fact that I called you what you deserve to be referred to as. Gutless retard.
What?? Show me where I bitched and moaned. I literally told you I was pointing out your hypocrisy you fucking idiot. Are you too stupid to understand the distinction? Do you not know how to read? Are you this stupid on purpose? My God youre a fucking retard 🤣
"the word retard, now all of the sudden its your go to."
There you go fuckface, pitching a little bitched fit because I said it yet you've said it repeatedly. Fucking retard hypocrite
Ok so you are too stupid to understand the distinction, got it.
Again, for the millionth fucking time, I'm pointing out your hypocrisy. I could give two shits that you use it, I find it amusing you eat it up like your fathers dick🤣
All you’re doing is exposing your own double standards and hypocrisy. You are not even a challenge, you are just some mentally challenged kid who needs to be put in his place. And ewww, again keep your demented sexual fantasies to yourself you sick fuck.
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Before I make my comment I want to qualify what I say with this - I don't give a rat's ass who or what wins an Oscar. I don't watch award shows and never will.
Forrest Gump is my favorite movie between the five, so no complain by my side.
I don't understand what people find in Pulp Fiction.
Shawshank Redemption is amazing film but not brilliant as Forrest Gump.
Pulp Fiction was trash.
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About Escape From Alcatraz and Shawshank they both great movies, definitely rewatchable but as you said nothing special except for an excellent director who knows how to tell a story. As we know but it's not easy thing to accomplish but still not brilliant as Forrest Gump. In my opinion, it is no coincidence that the discussions about Forrest Gump in the board are more interesting.
An Oscar for Pulp Fiction? WTF?
sharePulp Fiction did win Oscars
shareWell, that proves that the Oscars have been $h!t for even longer than I remembered.
shareUhhh, OK. I’m not exactly sure what makes your opinion the objective standard but whatever you think.
shareThe same thing that made your opinion the objective standard when you made this thread.
Did you or did you not write the following when starting this thread "for arguments sake I think we can all agree that Pulp Fiction should have won instead of this stupid movie"?
Right there you injected YOUR opinion into the thread starting that "WE ALL" agree that Pulp Fiction should have won.
So, what makes my opinion any less valid than yours? At least I didn't lump the ENTIRE world into my opinion like you did.
You said that your opinion proves the Oscars are “shit”.
I was just assuming that everyone thought Pulp Fiction was better than Forrest Gump. If that’s not the case then OK I guess not everyone thinks that but I am still going to think that Forrest Gump is a shit film.
I did say that didn't I? LOL. So, I will have to agree that it's not the case that everyone thinks Pulp Fiction is a $h!t film and the oscars have been $h!t for longer than I remembered, but I still think that Pulp Fiction is a $h!t film and the Oscars have been $h!t for even longer than I remembered. :-)
Shawshank should have won. I enjoyed Forrest Gump, but Shawshank moved me more than Gump did.
shareYou were moved when Jenny died of AIDS and left Forrest with the AIDS baby that probably wasn't even his?
shareI was moved by the story of Forrest's life. We ALL deal with just about everything that Forrest dealt with, but his was a unique perspective. We could all learn from Forrest. Of course, I was saddened by Jenny's death, but heartened by the child she had with Forrest. And, though it certainly seemed that Jenny had AIDS, I heard that in the book it was Hep C that she contracted.
And the "AIDS baby" as you called him, was his child.
Forrest and his son did not contract AIDS.
You are wrong. Jenny doesn't die in the book. She dies in the sequel to the book. The actual book ends with Forrest meeting Jenny and his son. After talking with Jenny and his son, Forrest agrees with Jenny that it's just as well she left him while pregnant with him as he doesn't know how to raise children. And you should disregard the sequel as the author only wrote it to get back at Hollywood for not paying him for adapting his book and for the people in Hollywood not mentioning him at the Oscars.
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AIDs baby? The odds are that even if a mother is HIV positive at the time of conception (something we don't know but let's say she was), there is a 70 percent change little Forrest would not be HIV positive (and in the book, Jenny had Hep C).
And Little Forrest was Forrest's child.