Forrest Gump: Love it or Hate it?

St. Widge said
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One of the worst pieces of fluff propaganda anyone has ever made. It's incidious in it's stupidity. It implies that "be nice" is all you need to be successful in life and devalues education and intelligence. Beyond that, Tom Hanks makes any movie worse than it could have been and this one was going to be bad either way.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if people didn't keep quoting lines from it like they were sage advice. I mean, "stupid is as stupid does", what does that even mean? Stupid people act stupid. Really? I had no idea.
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Maybe "be nice" IS all you need to be successful if you define success as giving back something of which you have an excess. Too many people define success in the standard fashion--money, houses, cars, promotions etc.

Many people in this world can benefit more from a kind word now and then as opposed to material gifts. As a parent, I can tell you my son's "Daddy, I love you" at the end of a trying day will undo all of the crap endured to that point.