@@The_Catnip I think her life at that time was at a turning point. For the first time she told Forrest that she loved him and she showed it. But then she wanted to prove it to herself that she can take care of herself. She got a job and a proper place to live even if she got pregnant and could have simply returned to Forrest but she resisted to take advantage of Forrests love.
During Vietnam they needed all the soldiers they could find. The Army started a program to use recruits that had subpar intelligence called “McNamara’s morons”. They had about double the casualties.
One interesting thing about this film lieutenant Dan. Gary Sinise This film changed his life Not only did it change his life but the people that he came in contact Who were disabled Serving in war. And devoted most of his life towards that. Talk about honor.
I am so happy to finally watch a Forest Gump review that understands Jenny and why a relationship with Forest was for her was complicated. She was always his friend and loved him as a friend. Many people get angry at her because she doesn't want more with Forest and they accuse her of coming back to him for his money. I don't agree, she didn't take anything from Forest, but gave him motivation, acceptance, advice, and at times companionship. At the end they shared a son who gives father Forest great joy. Jenny was a troubled and good person.
Yes!! THANK YOU!! You are literally the first male reviewer who ever understood that Jenny was protecting Forrest from her, and how she could have been so toxic for him had she got with him before she healed herself. I'm subscribing. That's awesome.
"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Hanna Hall and Jacqueline Lovell. Casting Notes Fact: The girl in the school bus with the red hair is Tom Hanks's daughter, Elizabeth Hanks. Historical Fact: During the ambush in Vietnam the enemy is never actually seen. This led many combat veterans, especially Vietnam veterans, to rate this as one of the most accurate combat scenes in movie history. It was very sudden, the enemy wasn't seen, and it happened very quickly. Music Enthusiast Fact: Inspired by Lieutenant Dan Taylor, the military veteran character he played in this movie, Gary Sinise co-founded a rock and roll cover band called "The Lt. Dan Band" during the mid-2000s. The band often goes on USO tours to play for U.S. military personnel stationed around the world and also plays various benefits for veteran-related causes. Sinise was awarded the Presidential Citizen Medal in 2008 for his charity efforts. Double Duty Fact: In the movie there are four actors/actresses who play multiple roles. Gary Sinise plays Lieutenant Dan as well as all of his ancestors. Mykelti Williamson plays Benjamin Beaufort "Bubba" Blue, as well as the waiter opening Dr. Pepper bottles when Forrest meets JFK as an All-American. Sally Field plays Forrest's mom, as well as a male reporter during Forrest's run across America. Tom Hanks plays both Forrest and his Confederate ancestor.
In College Forrest played for Alabama coach Bear Bryant, When Forrest was on the Dick Cavett show John Lennon got the Idea for the song "Imagine". When Forrest was in Washington DC during the protest the guy in the American flag shirt was anti war protester Abby Hoffman
Jenny had a warped vision of what love is. To her love is violent and abusive. She doesn’t say she doesn’t want to marry Forrest, she says “you don’t wanna marry me”. She thinks (rightfully so) that’s she’s too fucked up for him and that she’ll poison him. It’s only after becoming a mother that she can start to know what love truly is.
@@innercircle341 I was drafted, but then I volunteered to get my choice of Training, else I would have automatically gone into the jungles of Vietnam. About 1/3 of us had volunteered, after we got our draft notices, from which no one could or was going to escape. You were going, for sure. Forrest is a fictious character. Don't take him seriously. We had no mentally challenged people in training. Stupid People, yes, we did, but not mentally challenged people. They would have never made it through boot camp.
You're right. There are requirements now and were supposed to be then. But the army drafted thousands of boys who were not equipped to be there. It was a national disgrace, just as it was a disgrace how those boys were treated if they lived to come home.
In order to join the Army, you must achieve a minimum overall qualifying ASVAB score of 31 if you are a high school senior or have a high school diploma, and 50 if you are a GED holder. I scored 89.
That whole Elvis stealing Forrests dance move scene is a piece of brilliant screen writing... How did they come up with that? -it almost had to be by watching some kid do that dance with legbraces on and being reminded of Elvis, before writing the scene, because imagining that a kid dancing in legbraces would look like Elvis and then imagining the whole "stealing the move" plotline out of thin air seems almost impossible... I wonder how that idea came about...
Well the song in that scene, Hound Dog, was originally by Willie Mae Thornton, and was basically stolen by Elvis. Them creating a story of him stealing Forest's dance makes a lot of sense.
Don’t forget that one Mr. Ballen video about the guy in war that wouldn’t die was veeeeery similar to Forrest saving Bubba and everyone else in Vietnam!!
It's finally here! I never thought I'd see the day you'd watch a classic like Forrest Gump! ❤ I've been watching your reactions since Hey Charlie, I found you because of a music reaction (an Eminem track if I remember correctly?) and you know I barely missed a MrBallen, a Mr Nightmare or a That Chapter reaction. Now here we are 😅 Love you dude! ❤ This reaction was exactly what I expected from you. Goofy as shit but heartfelt and genuine ❤
Enjoyed your reaction. Tried going in the Marines back in 1980 with my buddy from High school. Went for physicals, he passed, I failed. I failed due to I had flat feet.
Back then collage students were except from the draft, forest wasn't drafted he enlisted, there is a mental test but it's not for intelligence it's to see if your morally fit enough to go kill everything without question, it's completely moronic if forest could pass a physical and it's really hard to fail thst physical you went to Vietnam right after basic training, the first american to be killed in Vietnam was Tom Davis, he comes from my home county of overton county Tennessee, no movie about him but is listed as first american killed in Vietnam, he has a very short road named after him and the high school football stadium named after him
It's the law you can not make a Vietnam movie with out a credence Clearwater revival song in it, most of the time it's fortunate son this movie has that and have you ever seen the rain
Wow I must be early. Jenny’s gigantic simp squad haven’t yet flooded the entire comment section with defenses for every one of her adult life decisions
i remember my parents watched this movie, and i watched it like once or twice as an adult, and i don't remember most of this. him being named after a relative that was in the clan, or his mom helping him get those 5 points up. i'm thinking "dang...he really just sat there and told a black woman that he was named after somebody that doesn't like her people." lol i don't know if there is or was a mental requirement to get enlisted or drafted, but if there was i don't think forest was low mentally enough to join. i don't think they cared anyway back then, they drafted everybody that was male out of desperation for soldiers for the war. and yeah they wouldn't let you enlist if you had flat feet or food allergies, but i heard that the military so desperate that they started lifting those rules, but i don't know if it's true. as a teen i almost kind of thought about enlisting but i had flat feet and a lot of food allergies, especially peanuts so they said i couldn't. up until several years ago they wouldn't let you enlist depending on your sexuality either. but again they were so desperate for soldiers, they'd let you join as long as you didn't admit you were attracted to the same sex, and they weren't allowed to ask you. that's where the phrase "don't ask, don't tell" came from. "a whopper of a tale" is like a tall tale or a big tale. a whopper is just old people slang for "big". like if you caught a fish they'd say "you caught a whopper". so yeah i don't think burger king invented the word. lol
Well it was more that Jenny didn’t think she deserved Forrest. She didn’t think she deserved someone so kind so good bcuz of how damaged she was from her life. That’s why she never came him a chance she thought that Forrest deserved better than her. But that’s the thing though you need to learn how to love what’s good for you. And Forrest was good for. She didn’t want to taint him.
Hey Charlie🖐🏾i’m a day one fan and i REAALLLYY enjoyed your Mr. Nightmare and scary story video reactions. Can you please watch one for your scary story viewers?
A lot of people try to defend Jenny using her upbringing as an explanation, but they forget that she looked down on Forest like everybody else. She thought he is too stupid to understand love, then she just shows up at his house and sleeps with him? She could have been sick (after wh*ring/dr*gging away her life) and get it to Forest who didn't know anything about her life. Not to mention the baby situation. She could have send a letter to Forest or make a phone call way before her sickness. She was reckless and selfish.
You aren't allowed to join the military if you have any kind of disability. I only wanted to join the marine corps growing up, but when I was 13 I ended up finding out that I have epilepsy which broke my heart.
They let it fly for the movie. Even if you look at all of the things he did in the movie, the odds of 1 person, the same person doing all of those things is as rare as peoples chances at having multiple powerball winners. Still a great movie though..
Gump is a mutant, like Marvel's Domino. He takes the good luck away from people he encounters. That's why so many he encountered died or experienced trouble and tragedy while he thrived without effort. I'm not being serious, but it IS weird if you think about it.😁
Dang are we done with horror reactions D:? Edit: Like stories n stuff. Ive seen some movies in the feed. Been waiting on stories. But if you're journeying to other things. I get it. Ill watch the rest of what ya got in the play lists!
@CampCrystalCharlie Awh man. Enjoy your path then! I'm relatively never able to catch those. I actually like to download your horror reactions into a Playlist. Can't really do that with twitch. But, alas. I am 1 in 1000s that watch you. And I'm sure there are plenty who will be able to catch it. Your schedule isn't mine! :). Only thing I'm curious is if you'll upload the live portions here as well again. As I did notice you have some in the Playlist from twitch. 👊
No Reagan wasn't assassinationated but there was an attempt on his life..I remember him getting shot when I came home for lunch in high-school I even seen the jacket he was wearing at the Reagan library in Simi California 😅🎉🎉 funny movie Man!
Look up "McNamara's Morons." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100%2C000?wprov=sfla1 Yeah it was a program to make combat soldiers from mentally disabled men. Vincent D'Onofrio's character in "Full Metal Jacket" was hinted at being one of these draftees.
Excellent, underrated film that gets way overlooked, but I think thanks to RUclips and channels like yours, it's making a comeback as a classic. The only thing about it that doesn't ring true, in a movie with some pretty farfetched but heartwarming stuff in it, is how anti-Elvis the mother is. Hollywood likes to gloss over the racial component to Elvis. It's way too simple to just say that people didn't like him because he swivelled his hips and had long hair. There's a reason they called rock and roll "the devil's music." It was a direct shot at black people, because back then, rock music was almost exclusively associated with black people. There were a few white people coming up around the same time as Elvis like Bill Haley and Jerry Lee Lewis, but it was still very much associated with black musicians and being that it was the southern US especially, they wanted to get it and everything it represented (black people) as far away as possible. Elvis showed a lot of courage actually pushing on, because when he arrived, he bore the brunt of the anti-rock backlash. He dressed and sang like a black person, so he was hated by a lot of racist people. The mother clearly wasn't racist at all, so her reaction to Elvis is pretty odd. My grandma was a huge Elvis fan and she came out of this same era, and she was the furthest thing from racist. So it's strange that she would be so concerned about Forrest watching him, because it wasn't really about the singing or the dancing. It was all racial. So a character like her would have never reacted that way. My grandma loved Elvis and listed to a lot of southern gospel and other stereotypically black music from the 50s. Maybe my grandma was just Canadian.
Underrated??? It won a bunch of Oscars, best picture and actor for Hanks. Personally I think it's overrated. I had a negative reaction seeing it on first release...I resented the emotional manipulation. Zemeckis as a director is also overrated IMO. His best was Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but his other films, including the crap Back to the Future movies, are also seriously overrated.
Yep, like I said in the Tropic Thunder comments, Forrest is not "my kind" of movie but it is undeniably a great movie, a must see movie. If Edge of Tomorrow and Forrest Gump are playing at the same time and I need something to watch, I will choose Edge of Tomorrow every time.
A whopper is anything that is big. Like Burger King’s whopper sandwich. In the context in that scene from the movie, the man is walking away, laughing, saying “we were sitting next to a millionaire“ means that he thought Forrest was telling a big lie.
It’s understandable for a man to earn sympathy when they suffer from PTSD. But not so for a woman who experienced her mother’s death (possibly murd€r) at the young age of five. Plus then an abusive daddy forces a tiny girl to take the place of his wife. I missed the joke about Womens Rights. What was so funny? Misogynist?
It's one of those movies that at some point during the run time just stops being a movie and becomes an experience, and it's no longer feels right to just call it a movie. I'd like to think that Lt. Dan and Susan look out for Forrest and his son and become each other's extended family for decades to follow.
Intentional or not the reflection in the picture behind you works bro. I’ve seen the movie so it gives me context when you cut the movie out. It’s just visible enough I can make out the scene.
Forrest was a college graduate . That’s not considered special needs according to the Army.😉Forrest always went to regular school. No special classes . Thanks to Mama🤦♀️
she waited until she was diagnosed to spend the rest of her life with forrest. it could have been 4 years or 24 years, he wouldn't have gotten that letter until she needed money.
Jenny not telling forest about his son is probably because he literally ran across country for years
Exactly and they didn't have cell phones back then nor pagers, they were writing letters to communicate.
She could have sent a letter to his home tho
@@The_Catnipso he would have found out a day or two earlier than he did ...
@@The_Catnip which he didnt return to for +3 years while running, right.... the beast just ran ocean to ocean
@@The_Catnip I think her life at that time was at a turning point. For the first time she told Forrest that she loved him and she showed it. But then she wanted to prove it to herself that she can take care of herself. She got a job and a proper place to live even if she got pregnant and could have simply returned to Forrest but she resisted to take advantage of Forrests love.
During Vietnam they needed all the soldiers they could find. The Army started a program to use recruits that had subpar intelligence called “McNamara’s morons”. They had about double the casualties.
One interesting thing about this film lieutenant Dan. Gary Sinise This film changed his life Not only did it change his life but the people that he came in contact Who were disabled Serving in war. And devoted most of his life towards that. Talk about honor.
I am so happy to finally watch a Forest Gump review that understands Jenny and why a relationship with Forest was for her was complicated. She was always his friend and loved him as a friend. Many people get angry at her because she doesn't want more with Forest and they accuse her of coming back to him for his money. I don't agree, she didn't take anything from Forest, but gave him motivation, acceptance, advice, and at times companionship. At the end they shared a son who gives father Forest great joy. Jenny was a troubled and good person.
THE GREEN MILE!!!
Yes Tom Hanks and Lt. Dan are both in that
Yes!! THANK YOU!! You are literally the first male reviewer who ever understood that Jenny was protecting Forrest from her, and how she could have been so toxic for him had she got with him before she healed herself. I'm subscribing. That's awesome.
"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Hanna Hall and Jacqueline Lovell.
Casting Notes Fact: The girl in the school bus with the red hair is Tom Hanks's daughter, Elizabeth Hanks.
Historical Fact: During the ambush in Vietnam the enemy is never actually seen. This led many combat veterans, especially Vietnam veterans, to rate this as one of the most accurate combat scenes in movie history. It was very sudden, the enemy wasn't seen, and it happened very quickly.
Music Enthusiast Fact: Inspired by Lieutenant Dan Taylor, the military veteran character he played in this movie, Gary Sinise co-founded a rock and roll cover band called "The Lt. Dan Band" during the mid-2000s. The band often goes on USO tours to play for U.S. military personnel stationed around the world and also plays various benefits for veteran-related causes. Sinise was awarded the Presidential Citizen Medal in 2008 for his charity efforts.
Double Duty Fact: In the movie there are four actors/actresses who play multiple roles. Gary Sinise plays Lieutenant Dan as well as all of his ancestors. Mykelti Williamson plays Benjamin Beaufort "Bubba" Blue, as well as the waiter opening Dr. Pepper bottles when Forrest meets JFK as an All-American. Sally Field plays Forrest's mom, as well as a male reporter during Forrest's run across America. Tom Hanks plays both Forrest and his Confederate ancestor.
In College Forrest played for Alabama coach Bear Bryant, When Forrest was on the Dick Cavett show John Lennon got the Idea for the song "Imagine". When Forrest was in Washington DC during the protest the guy in the American flag shirt was anti war protester Abby Hoffman
Jenny had a warped vision of what love is. To her love is violent and abusive. She doesn’t say she doesn’t want to marry Forrest, she says “you don’t wanna marry me”. She thinks (rightfully so) that’s she’s too fucked up for him and that she’ll poison him.
It’s only after becoming a mother that she can start to know what love truly is.
Well said
Right exactly she wanted better for him
She kind of said it when she snuck out on him.
She said to Forest he doesn't know what love is...
@@The_Catnip I believe she didn’t know what love was that’s why she said that reflecting her negative feelings about her past on him.
Forrest had his undergraduate degree and enlisted before Vietnam, which means he can become an officer.
During Vietnam, they were drafting everyone. Forrest was a college graduate, so he was a Prime Candidate to be drafted.
The Draft is different. Forrest signed up volontarily
@@innercircle341 I was drafted, but then I volunteered to get my choice of Training, else I would have automatically gone into the jungles of Vietnam.
About 1/3 of us had volunteered, after we got our draft notices, from which no one could or was going to escape. You were going, for sure.
Forrest is a fictious character. Don't take him seriously. We had no mentally challenged people in training. Stupid People, yes, we did, but not mentally challenged people. They would have never made it through boot camp.
It's the classic story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
You're right. There are requirements now and were supposed to be then. But the army drafted thousands of boys who were not equipped to be there. It was a national disgrace, just as it was a disgrace how those boys were treated if they lived to come home.
In order to join the Army, you must achieve a minimum overall qualifying ASVAB score of 31 if you are a high school senior or have a high school diploma, and 50 if you are a GED holder. I scored 89.
Such a good movie. But when he starts talking to Jenny's grave, whew, that always gets me.
Thanks for the great reaction! 😊 One of my favorite ones of this movie!😁
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed =D
agree
19:45 Thats Ray Ray from South central " What that duce like Ray Ray"
Reagan was not assassinated, but he was shot. Attempted
That whole Elvis stealing Forrests dance move scene is a piece of brilliant screen writing... How did they come up with that? -it almost had to be by watching some kid do that dance with legbraces on and being reminded of Elvis, before writing the scene, because imagining that a kid dancing in legbraces would look like Elvis and then imagining the whole "stealing the move" plotline out of thin air seems almost impossible... I wonder how that idea came about...
Well the song in that scene, Hound Dog, was originally by Willie Mae Thornton, and was basically stolen by Elvis. Them creating a story of him stealing Forest's dance makes a lot of sense.
@@Monbebesaurus yeah, Elvis did alot of cover songs...
Don’t forget that one Mr. Ballen video about the guy in war that wouldn’t die was veeeeery similar to Forrest saving Bubba and everyone else in Vietnam!!
“I take it, he shot the club up” bro wth 🤣🤣
I mean she got prego so he had to unless it's not his baby xD
“He shot the club up…”
That shit was priceless! I never heard that before, and now I’m never gonna stop saying it! lol…
It's finally here! I never thought I'd see the day you'd watch a classic like Forrest Gump! ❤ I've been watching your reactions since Hey Charlie, I found you because of a music reaction (an Eminem track if I remember correctly?) and you know I barely missed a MrBallen, a Mr Nightmare or a That Chapter reaction. Now here we are 😅 Love you dude! ❤ This reaction was exactly what I expected from you. Goofy as shit but heartfelt and genuine ❤
Great reaction!! Enjoyed it so much! 😊
Enjoyed your reaction. Tried going in the Marines back in 1980 with my buddy from High school. Went for physicals, he passed, I failed. I failed due to I had flat feet.
Back then collage students were except from the draft, forest wasn't drafted he enlisted, there is a mental test but it's not for intelligence it's to see if your morally fit enough to go kill everything without question, it's completely moronic if forest could pass a physical and it's really hard to fail thst physical you went to Vietnam right after basic training, the first american to be killed in Vietnam was Tom Davis, he comes from my home county of overton county Tennessee, no movie about him but is listed as first american killed in Vietnam, he has a very short road named after him and the high school football stadium named after him
My grandma said whopper is basically slang for extreme/crazy in this context anyway
RUN FOREST RUUUUUN!!!!
You should watch All the Presidents Men with Robert Redford
Im pretty sure back when this movie is set not many rules about who can join the military but nowadays mental health and capacity is a concern.
It's the law you can not make a Vietnam movie with out a credence Clearwater revival song in it, most of the time it's fortunate son this movie has that and have you ever seen the rain
Gary Sinise can act his ass off!
Wow I must be early. Jenny’s gigantic simp squad haven’t yet flooded the entire comment section with defenses for every one of her adult life decisions
Enjoyed your reaction. Love this movie. Happy I came across your channel.👍
Killer soundtrack!!
Like the channel, man.
He was in sixth Sense
i remember my parents watched this movie, and i watched it like once or twice as an adult, and i don't remember most of this. him being named after a relative that was in the clan, or his mom helping him get those 5 points up. i'm thinking "dang...he really just sat there and told a black woman that he was named after somebody that doesn't like her people." lol
i don't know if there is or was a mental requirement to get enlisted or drafted, but if there was i don't think forest was low mentally enough to join. i don't think they cared anyway back then, they drafted everybody that was male out of desperation for soldiers for the war.
and yeah they wouldn't let you enlist if you had flat feet or food allergies, but i heard that the military so desperate that they started lifting those rules, but i don't know if it's true. as a teen i almost kind of thought about enlisting but i had flat feet and a lot of food allergies, especially peanuts so they said i couldn't.
up until several years ago they wouldn't let you enlist depending on your sexuality either. but again they were so desperate for soldiers, they'd let you join as long as you didn't admit you were attracted to the same sex, and they weren't allowed to ask you. that's where the phrase "don't ask, don't tell" came from.
"a whopper of a tale" is like a tall tale or a big tale. a whopper is just old people slang for "big". like if you caught a fish they'd say "you caught a whopper". so yeah i don't think burger king invented the word. lol
Forrest Gump was just showing how slow Fords are 😂
Bahahahahahahhahahaha, Casual! I'm legit crying laughing at your comment 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You should check out The Burbs good show bud keep up the terrific work
During the Vietnam War, the Army was taking most anyone who could fire a rifle.
Ronald Reagan wasn’t assassinated, he was shot, but lived.
Oooooh ok!
@@CampCrystalCharlie I like your reaction though, and enjoyed watching this with you!
Well it was more that Jenny didn’t think she deserved Forrest. She didn’t think she deserved someone so kind so good bcuz of how damaged she was from her life. That’s why she never came him a chance she thought that Forrest deserved better than her. But that’s the thing though you need to learn how to love what’s good for you. And Forrest was good for. She didn’t want to taint him.
Hey Charlie🖐🏾i’m a day one fan and i REAALLLYY enjoyed your Mr. Nightmare and scary story video reactions. Can you please watch one for your scary story viewers?
A lot of people try to defend Jenny using her upbringing as an explanation, but they forget that she looked down on Forest like everybody else.
She thought he is too stupid to understand love, then she just shows up at his house and sleeps with him?
She could have been sick (after wh*ring/dr*gging away her life) and get it to Forest who didn't know anything about her life.
Not to mention the baby situation. She could have send a letter to Forest or make a phone call way before her sickness.
She was reckless and selfish.
Shit done blew my high 😂😂😂
just discovered your channel and I really enjoy it so far. so are you in michigan? I was raised in oakland county. currently living in lapeer
Glad you enjoy and yeah I'm from Flint. I have a crap ton of family in Oakland County 😄
I’m glad I ain’t the only one who thought water boy was a little based on Gump
You aren't allowed to join the military if you have any kind of disability. I only wanted to join the marine corps growing up, but when I was 13 I ended up finding out that I have epilepsy which broke my heart.
They let it fly for the movie. Even if you look at all of the things he did in the movie, the odds of 1 person, the same person doing all of those things is as rare as peoples chances at having multiple powerball winners. Still a great movie though..
Gump is a mutant, like Marvel's Domino. He takes the good luck away from people he encounters. That's why so many he encountered died or experienced trouble and tragedy while he thrived without effort.
I'm not being serious, but it IS weird if you think about it.😁
Dang are we done with horror reactions D:?
Edit: Like stories n stuff. Ive seen some movies in the feed. Been waiting on stories. But if you're journeying to other things. I get it.
Ill watch the rest of what ya got in the play lists!
I think I might be moving them Twitch and going live doing the horror stories
@CampCrystalCharlie Awh man. Enjoy your path then!
I'm relatively never able to catch those. I actually like to download your horror reactions into a Playlist. Can't really do that with twitch.
But, alas. I am 1 in 1000s that watch you. And I'm sure there are plenty who will be able to catch it. Your schedule isn't mine! :).
Only thing I'm curious is if you'll upload the live portions here as well again. As I did notice you have some in the Playlist from twitch.
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Dat boy was in 6 Sense
that's what it was. I thought it dennis the menace 😂😂😂
@@CampCrystalCharlie HELL NAWWW TRUE🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No Reagan wasn't assassinationated but there was an attempt on his life..I remember him getting shot when I came home for lunch in high-school I even seen the jacket he was wearing at the Reagan library in Simi California 😅🎉🎉 funny movie Man!
Hoover Duece!
Idk for sure but my guess is that during the Vietnam era they weren't too picky, i mean they were drafting etc... i could be wrong
Look up "McNamara's Morons."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100%2C000?wprov=sfla1
Yeah it was a program to make combat soldiers from mentally disabled men. Vincent D'Onofrio's character in "Full Metal Jacket" was hinted at being one of these draftees.
Excellent, underrated film that gets way overlooked, but I think thanks to RUclips and channels like yours, it's making a comeback as a classic. The only thing about it that doesn't ring true, in a movie with some pretty farfetched but heartwarming stuff in it, is how anti-Elvis the mother is. Hollywood likes to gloss over the racial component to Elvis. It's way too simple to just say that people didn't like him because he swivelled his hips and had long hair. There's a reason they called rock and roll "the devil's music." It was a direct shot at black people, because back then, rock music was almost exclusively associated with black people. There were a few white people coming up around the same time as Elvis like Bill Haley and Jerry Lee Lewis, but it was still very much associated with black musicians and being that it was the southern US especially, they wanted to get it and everything it represented (black people) as far away as possible. Elvis showed a lot of courage actually pushing on, because when he arrived, he bore the brunt of the anti-rock backlash. He dressed and sang like a black person, so he was hated by a lot of racist people. The mother clearly wasn't racist at all, so her reaction to Elvis is pretty odd. My grandma was a huge Elvis fan and she came out of this same era, and she was the furthest thing from racist. So it's strange that she would be so concerned about Forrest watching him, because it wasn't really about the singing or the dancing. It was all racial. So a character like her would have never reacted that way. My grandma loved Elvis and listed to a lot of southern gospel and other stereotypically black music from the 50s. Maybe my grandma was just Canadian.
Underrated??? It won a bunch of Oscars, best picture and actor for Hanks. Personally I think it's overrated. I had a negative reaction seeing it on first release...I resented the emotional manipulation. Zemeckis as a director is also overrated IMO. His best was Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but his other films, including the crap Back to the Future movies, are also seriously overrated.
37:51 That's some Mandela Effect shit cuz I swear I remember him saying he was watching Sesame Street...idk wtf that kid just said he was watching
Bert & Ernie
@@sikksotoo oh ok bet
:)
Yep, like I said in the Tropic Thunder comments, Forrest is not "my kind" of movie but it is undeniably a great movie, a must see movie. If Edge of Tomorrow and Forrest Gump are playing at the same time and I need something to watch, I will choose Edge of Tomorrow every time.
The whoppers the man is defeating tell is a synonym of big fish an over the top exaggeration of something that is probly true but unbelievable
A whopper is anything that is big. Like Burger King’s whopper sandwich. In the context in that scene from the movie, the man is walking away, laughing, saying “we were sitting next to a millionaire“ means that he thought Forrest was telling a big lie.
Nice tobacco pipe u got there 😉
It's crazy how for two decades you couldn't find a bad Tom Hanks movie, now look at him...
It’s understandable for a man to earn sympathy when they suffer from PTSD. But not so for a woman who experienced her mother’s death (possibly murd€r) at the young age of five. Plus then an abusive daddy forces a tiny girl to take the place of his wife.
I missed the joke about Womens Rights. What was so funny? Misogynist?
Little forest can see dead people I hate to do spoilers but they don't know there dead
Seens like you mellowed up the in later parts of the movie, by the first ~60% you acted like 14 year old though. Grow up.
You are the one who should grow up.
Jenny is imo the worst movie villain ever.
Jenny was all screwed up from being sexually abused by her father. She wasn't the villain in the movie.
John F. Kennedy was such a nice president, he went and had an affair with Marilyn Monroe. 😏😏😏😏
37:48 This is the hardest moment of the whole movie if you ask me. The self awareness and concern is just painful to watch.
I knew that Charlie would appreciate the sentiment of this movie…and humor. 🥰😄
Who started naming them Charlie 👀 😅
it was a play on 'Victor Charles', which was a play on the initials 'V.C' (Viet Cong).
Yes. Depending IQ. Yes many with low IQ's can be accepted by the military in gecU. S. F A.
To answer your question, yes... John Lennon was shot and killed by a fan outside of his residence not long after that same fan had got his autograph.
Woohoo! Great history lesson. Please be kind to Jenny. Going to settle in and enjoy your authentic reaction. Love to you and yours from Seattle!
i like to think forrest Jr isn't forrest's at all, his dad who ran out on him met jenny in a bar and now he's raising his half-brother.
Richard Pryor Greased Lightning 1977. That's what you need to watch young man.
lol gotcha, Echo. I'll add that to my list of films
It's one of those movies that at some point during the run time just stops being a movie and becomes an experience, and it's no longer feels right to just call it a movie. I'd like to think that Lt. Dan and Susan look out for Forrest and his son and become each other's extended family for decades to follow.
Intentional or not the reflection in the picture behind you works bro. I’ve seen the movie so it gives me context when you cut the movie out. It’s just visible enough I can make out the scene.
chit, dun did blew my high, hahahaha love it
😂😂😂 I was not expecting that
yeah, your reaction was genuine. it made me laugh. it full snap you back to reality, and yes, more reactions pls. & thanks brother ;)
Forrest was a college graduate . That’s not considered special needs according to the Army.😉Forrest always went to regular school. No special classes . Thanks to Mama🤦♀️
Hell yeah, very very few reactors recognize ol boy from South Central!!
she waited until she was diagnosed to spend the rest of her life with forrest. it could have been 4 years or 24 years, he wouldn't have gotten that letter until she needed money.
Please, please, please watch The Green Mile!
Whopper - big fat lie
This is a really good movie.. I enjoy your channel. I subbed
Ayy, some movie reactions and its Forrest Gump