Forrest Gump: Love it or Hate it?

zenshin said

While I respect your opinion that it's not a good movie, your reasoning here is not very accurate. Not all successful people are intelligent, educated individuals. Some people ARE in the right place at the right time. Luck has a lot to do with success.

As for Hanks, he's OK as an actor. Better than some, not nearly as good as others.

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Sure, sometimes those things happen. I'm not saying that luck doesn't happen and I'm not saying that you shouldn't try to be nice. All I'm saying is that it's not something to strive for and this movie glorifies and promotes those ideas as though it happens all the time and it's the way it should be. But, Mongoose is probably more correct in his interpretation.

As for Hanks, I agree he's okay. He's not terrible, but I really don't think there is a role he has played that could not have been played better by someone else. The possible exception to that is Big.