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Forrest Gump was boring and artless, is all. It's just a pandering piece of tripe. It's like a product. Like a car designed to win those silly JD Power & Associates awards, and then lemon out two years later.
I guess as a dumbass little fairy tale it's fine, but it ain't no great or even good movie. Like I said, David Fincher did the whole thing bigger and better, from better source material and with a better end result, with the Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Big Fish is also basically Forrest Gump, only Tim Burtonized. That one is actually even worse. Ugh. I loathe those kinds of movies. Populist horseshit. Appeal to everyone, unsettle no one, inspire no thought, stand for nothing.
At least Benjamin Button was elegant and beautifully filmed.
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