Forrest Gump: Love it or Hate it? (1 Viewer)

[St. Widge]

I've said often that you will never see more delicious looking food than in a Red Lobster commercial

Say what you want about them but they hire the best in the business for their ads

I think it's illegal for you to thread jack your own thread.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I think it's illegal for you to thread jack your own thread.

Don't think it counts if you didn't start the thread jack.

I just joined the mass jacking already in progress

 

[Consigliere]

I think it's illegal for you to thread jack your own thread.

Not illegal, but I think there is something in Leviticus about jacking your own thread.

 

[St. Widge]

Don't think it counts if you didn't start the thread jack.

I just joined the mass jacking already in progress

Well, I think we all love a mass jacking.

 

[Madmarsha]

Well, I think we all love a mass jacking.

There's a phrase for that.

 

[zatsnzapps]

I've said often that you will never see more delicious looking food than in a Red Lobster commercial

Say what you want about them but they hire the best in the business for their ads

LNIL (last night I learned) that General Mills started Olive Garden as the Red Lobster of Italian food. GM started the chain from scratch with the goal of getting Italian food to the masses in the same way that RL did for seafood.

OG's first restaurant was in Orlando because it was thought to be the place to get the widest array of pallets and tastes from across the country in a single location because of the tourist attractions (Disney World).

 

[zatsnzapps]

Well, I think we all love a mass jacking.

I probably should not comment.

 

[St. Widge]

There's a phrase for that.

And a band.

 

[Optimus Prime]

LNIL (last night I learned) that General Mills started Olive Garden as the Red Lobster of Italian food. GM started the chain from scratch with the goal of getting Italian food to the masses in the same way that RL did for seafood.

OG's first restaurant was in Orlando because it was thought to be the place to get the widest array of pallets and tastes from across the country in a single location because of the tourist attractions (Disney World).

And Taco Bell was most Americans' introduction to Mexican food

 

[St. Widge]

And Taco Bell was most Americans' introduction to Mexican food

Pancho's on Veterans for me. I was very disappointed to learn that not all Mexican restaurants had flags to raise if you wanted more food.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

And Taco Bell was most Americans' introduction to Mexican food

No lie, the one on Williams Blvd in Kenna literally was for me .

 

[zatsnzapps]

Pancho's on Veterans for me. I was very disappointed to learn that not all Mexican restaurants had flags to raise if you wanted more food.

I used to live across the canal from Pancho's.

I like to say that I walked over there and ran home.

 

[Optimus Prime]

In defense of Jenny
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Robin Wright has hit back at critics who branded her Forrest Gump character Jenny as “anti-feminist”, describing her relationship with the film’s title character as “the sweetest love story.”

Jenny’s arc within the film, which takes her from childhood sexual abuse through drug use to an untimely death, has been widely criticised in the 30 years since the movie came out. The Independent’s Louis Chilton included it in a recent list of the “most problematic films ever made” thanks to “the film’s puritanical slut-shaming towards Robin Wright’s Jenny.”

In a new interview with The New York Times, Wright was asked whether Jenny was “punished for her choices” and if the role is “anti-feminist.”

“No! It’s not about that,” Wright responded. “People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest. I wouldn’t choose that as a reference, but she was kind of selfish. I don’t think it’s a punishment that she gets AIDS. She was so promiscuous — that was the selfishness that she did to Forrest.

“He was in love with her from Day 1. And she was just flighty and running and doing coke and hooking up with a Black Panther.

“And then she gets sick and says, ‘This is your child. But I’m dying.’ And he still takes her: ‘I’ll take care of you at Mama’s house.’ I mean, it’s the sweetest love story.”...........

Forrest Gump’s Robin Wright hits back at critics who called Jenny ‘anti-feminist’

‘People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest,’ said Wright. ‘I wouldn’t choose that as a reference.’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Yatman]

fortunately for us 30 years ago, people weren't so easily and constantly triggered

in a movie filled with improbabilities, jenny getting aids seems believable

robin is right

 

[bigdaddysaints]

everytime i watch this movie, i try to pay attention to the scene where Lt Dan finally meets Jenny. Its a very awkward scene and Dan doesn't look happy for Forrest. But he know saying anything about it isn't gonna change anything. Lt Dan doesn't even speak to her.