• FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      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.

    • cobysev@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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!