Movies you admit you've never seen.......

How so? It drags a bit after he stops following the band, but the narrative arc seems pretty much perfect to me. It's the hangover period, when you're off the road and getting re-accustomed to normalcy again. Interested to hear where people think it should have ended or how, bc I always thought it nailed the landing.

 

I would've chopped the plane crash scene and the one with Russell coming into William's bedroom, for starters. Penny's real-name reveal was pretty hokey, too.

I like the idea of it ending with Russell killing the article, only to see William go on to universal acclaim covering other bands.

 

That is a real place, not a Hollywood prop, the Swim Gym at Beverly Hills High School. You walk into the gym for a basketball game and get nailed by the chlorine smell. I don't know if it is still used a dual-purpose gym, but it was within the past 15 years. And it was built in the 30s.

 

yeah, the plane crash scene was lame. I can get behind your alternative ending. As long as he develops a coke habit. By the way, what the hell ever happened to that kid who played William? I don't think I've ever seen him in another movie.

 

His name is Patrick Fugit. He was in Saved, which is a criminally underrated movie.

Apparently, he stars in a Cinemax series called Outcast, which looks pretty cool but which I will likely never watch.

 

Blood and gore in the Rocky movies?
He gets beat up pretty bad, and I guess the first one has the gruesome "Cut me Mick" scene, but I wouldn't classify those as anything close to gory.

 

I have the very contrarian view that Forrest Gump was a bad movie.

 

He's making a living as an actor which puts him in the top .1% of the profession.

 

He was in 'Wristcutters,' which I liked.

 

Probably could have ended with William running through the airport as Penny Lane waves from the plane window.

But the journalist looser in me liked the ending, with the article finally published and Russell finally giving William an interview.

Don't take drugs!!!

 

I hate Forrest Gump with a near-blinding passion. I like a lot of Hanks' other stuff, but arrgggh.

Probably not coincidentally, "Contact" would probably be one of my top 20 movies, if not for Zemeckis' rehashing the Gump schtick of digitally dropping historical figures into the movie plotline, with the stupid and totally gimmicky insertion of Clinton as the president. That irredeemably dates the movie and drops it about 50 slots in my ratings.

 

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