FORREST GUMP (1994) MOVIE REACTION! First Time Watching!
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- SO FUNNY & YET, SUCH A TEARJERKER! With the Laal Singh Chaddha Trailer Out & it being Memorial Day, watching Forrest Gump for the first time. The film stars Tom Hanks (oscar-winning performance), Robin Wright (Jenny), Gary Sinise (Lieutenant Dan Taylor), Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson (Bubba Blue), Haley Joel Osment, the origins of Bubba Gump Shrimp to which I did not realize stem from this movie.
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@The Reel Rejects Yes. I cried with you for few of the emo scenes during the reaction mann 😭😭😭😭😭..... Still holds up..... It's a masterpiece ❤❤❤
Fun fact: Gary Sinese has a band called the “Lieutenant Dan Band” I’m dead serious guys
Love your reaction. Especially that you understand Jennys actions come from her childhood.
Yep. I cried with you.
An emotional roller coaster from beginning to end. Tom Hanks does some real damn fine work.
When Forrest's mic got unplugged, he actually said "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
Never knew. Cool
Just found out, thank you.
…and SOMETIMES they get killed in Vietnam and don’t even know it til they’ve been home for months….
How do you know this
@@mattluszczak8095 me? Because of agent orange exposure
Theres not many films that make a 31 year old man like me cry. But the scene with Forest meeting his son and seeing how smart he is hits me like a ton of bricks everytime, holy shit.
@@eileengriffin6476 People that have actually watched the film said Tom Hanks was fine. I don't know what you are on about.
Every single time I cry.
Turning 40 next week and I started tearing up just KNOWING that part was coming up. There are only a few scenes from movies that can get me every time like that. "I could've got more" scene from Schindler's List is for sure another.
It still gets me after all there years as well especially now that I have a son on the spectrum even just listening to Greg's reaction it's the same as mine was all those years ago I don't care what other people say about it but for myself it's in my top 3 of boat movies
This is the one movie that I have cried on and I feel like I need to watch more to get more emotions
"Is he smart? Or is he....."
THAT'S the part that always wrecks me...the fact that Forrest knows perfectly well how he is, even if he would never understand the medical diagnosis, and for a moment is scared to death that his son is the same way.
After all, all fathers at some point wish for their children to be better than them.
That moment and as well as the part where he’s talking to Jenny tellin her about how they read a book together every night and how smart he is
Loved that Greg saw Jenny’s story and just felt bad for her through the film. So many reactors hate on her for hurting Forest, but he immediately recognized, “Damn, she’s stuck in a cycle of abuse.”
I feel bad for abuse victims. I still call them pieces of shit when they use and abuse other people...especially people they know love them and will sit there and take it.
@@VanDavis She didn't abuse him, she always felt that she sould be close to him because he's the only person that's good to her, but BECAUSE she was a victim of abuse, she always felt that he deserved someone better.
@@VanDavis she didn’t really abuse him. She was on a different path in her life. She thought she was being a free, wandering hippie but was really running away her whole life, and she got into more abusive relationships and drugs. After the war, she tells him they have different lives but that she’ll always be his girl. The only time she was shitty to him was when she stayed with him and ghosted, and didn’t tell him about his son. But I think she realized she couldn’t run away anymore or stay with Forrest with all of her emotional issues. She had to figure her shit out, be dependent on herself, and heal after becoming a mom. She is not required to love Forrest romantically, just because he’s the protagonist. She didn’t love him like that, I think people partly hate her because she friendzones him.
@@daffodil852 no one would care if she simply friendzoned him. That's a very female centric view of what people get annoyed about with Jenny.
i definitely don’t think she was abusive but at a certain point it just felt like she was taking advantage of forrest’s love for her
The line "is he smart? or is he like me.....?" makes me cry every single time I watch this movie.
That's what makes Tom Hanks the GOAT 🐐
Me too. This line is definitely the ultimate test if you're a human beeing or not.
I'm the same way. It always gets me.
That isn't even what he says. Don't use quotation marks if you don't know the correct quote. That is what they are for.
@@MrParkerman6 Oh no, they added 2 words at the end of the quote. End of the world. We're all going to die.
When he says "Is he smart? Or is he..." That's it. I cry like a baby.
Same.
it immediately made me cry
The whole movie he seems uncaring and almost unaware that he is a bit different, but at that moment you see how much he understands and how much it has affected him.
Yeah, same
I loved that. Instead of being a jerk and saying it was somebody else’s his first thought was of his son’s mental health.
"Forrest, I never thanked you for saving my life"
That's the line that breaks me every time.
Forrest was running off the pain. He lost his best friend, his mother, he saved someone who might not have wanted saving, he's called stupid his entire life, the only woman he's ever loved kept leaving him... and through it all he just loves unconditionally and tries to do the right thing. He's a ridiculously beautiful human being.
He IS america....
@@KyuuDesperation wut
Jenny wasn’t leaving to hurt him but protecting him from her ugly truth. She didn’t feel worthy of the innocent love he had for her. Jenny couldn’t bare it if he no longer loved her. She lived only because she always knew there was someone out there in the world who really loved her.
As far as the historical references, that was what was going in at the time. That’s what we saw in the daily news. Vietnam was 24/7 in the news. There were violent protests, sit ins that lasted for days. I’m 72, I was there. History is not always comfortable, it is what it is. Nothing can change it.
Everybody has to experience this movie once in their life
I watch this movie since i was a kid
@zirath ashe it made me cry as well i kept rewind entire 📼 tape
Different experience when you realize they got the Panthers totally wrong
I still remember watching this film for the first time back in 2013. Man, what an eye-opener it was…
@@Joe-96X4E get over it?
“I’m not a smart man but I know what love is”
Gets me every time
Which makes him smarter than most.
@@TheDivayenta u mean like jenny
He had to let his girl know!
It broke my heart seeing that because if u truly paid attention to Jenny and how she was....you know the REAL reason why she said no to him.....and that is She truly felt she doesn't deserve him.
@@ladybfromnyc Yes! It was Jenny who didn’t know what love was, not Forrest.
Tom Hanks' monologue over Jenny's grave is one of the greatest tearjerking moments in the history of cinema. It got me real good as a kid. Great reaction! 👍🏿
Always gets me
Gets me more as an adult than it did as a kid!
Yup, that's what got me. If you didn't at least get choked up at least once during this movie then I wonder if u got a soul
That part when he asks if his son is smart or not gets me the hardest 😢
"If there's anything you need, I won't be far away." 😭😭😭😭 Gets me tearing up every single time
Tom acted his ass off in this. One of the best movies of all time. Jenny's 'virus' was a nod to AIDs. It was the early 80s during that time.
Yea when heard that virus I just thought WTF, as if leaving the poor guy wasn't enough, she gave him and his child friggin AIDS
The author of the book said it was hep C
AIDS was a good guess. But yeah - Hep C@@scrungo7610
@@scrungo7610Fits considering Hep C was discovered in 1989, even if Jenny was diagnosed she was likely too late.
@@user-xx7kl7sr6i yeah, it’s sad :/
The way they inserted Tom Hanks into historical footage, and altered it to fit the context, in 1994 is just incredible. Also, the amount of emotions Hanks shows when Forrest meets his son
The fact that he asks “is he smart or is he…” and points to himself because he thinks of himself as stupid just, ugh. Instant tears every time.
@@mausiwerner yep, that line gets me every time!
I almost thought they just got actors that looked exactly like those historical figures!
Isn't it incredible and sad that movies were so much better back then
Seeing this as a child and not knowing anything about movie magic, I thought Forrest was a real person
The beauty of the film is really the dichotomy between forrest and Jenny’s paths. She runs away from things as she tells him to do, and he runs toward things, but eventually life gets you where you’re supposed to be.
Beautifully said. I've never realized that. Thank you for that amazing observation. I like this movie even more now 😭
And the difference with them is forest was loved by his parent, jenny was abused and molested by her dad, so she was always around abusive men and ended up working as a sex object because that’s what she knew. It’s who she thought she was. Very sad
Very sad but a very beautiful movie at the same time
Jenny was a terrible person to the only person who was always there for her and kept his son away from him until she was dying of AIDS and so if she didn’t get sick there’s no reason to think that she would of ever told him about his son bc strong feminist wahmon don’t need no man.
The scene where he was talking at Jenny's grave talking about destiny, he mentioned how he thinks that we are both floating and being swept through where the wind takes you (or something to that effect) AND destiny. Basically stating that even though we may be just going wherever in life, we will eventually make it where you end up where your "destiny" is. That's what the feather at the start and end represent.
The scene where Forest and Dan are in the hospital and Dan, and clearly Dan was still having trouble accepting his fate. “ Lt.Dan: I WAS Lieutenant Dan Taylor !” And forest simply responds “ you still are Lt. Dan” and that scene is one of the best in the film for me.
It is so good.
Any scene with Lt. Dan in it is the best,
"She taste like cigarettes"
This movie won awards for best visual effects, best actor, best director, and best adapted screenplay. It deserved everything it got.
That's pretty stupid that the screenplay got credit over the writer!
@@MrParkerman6 You think the writer of the book should get the award for the screenplay adaptation?? Or did I misunderstand you?
Also won Best Picture at the Oscars
@@MrParkerman6 It got best ADAPTED screenplay. The writers of the movie got credit for adapting a book onto the screen, and honestly, the writer of the book shouldn’t be awarded, the book is godawful.
Gets me every single time when he sees his son for the first time and his thought is, "Is he like me?" Heart-wrenching.
Exactly. Throughout this entire film, we watch insults and abuse rain down on Forrest, and he barely reacts at all. You can almost believe that Forrest is too simple-minded to really let things get to him. You want to think he doesn't realize that people are poking fun at him.
But at that moment... he's suddenly terrified that his son will have to go through it too. At that moment you realize that he WAS tormented. You realize that all of the abuse he took DID get to him. You realize that he pushed through it all with courage and grit, NOT because he didn't understand what was happening. That was the moment in this film where my heart broke for the guy. Forrest was never broken by the torment of others. But the thought of someone else experiencing it WOULD break him.
@@Mr.Ekshin very well said analogy of a scene and i totally agree👏
😭😭😭
@@Mr.Ekshin EXCELLENT comment! 🖤
He never says is he like me, Yu dumbass.
One of the most underrated lines in the movie..."Sometimes, I guess there just arent enough rocks". Gets me every time.
What I liked about Lt. Dan's storyline was that there was so much foreshadowing on them. He talks about socks to keep the feet from rotting and got no legs. He tells Forrest that if he's a captain, the guy will be a first mate and an astronaut. That got him to be a first mate but also get titanium legs that he claimed was what they use in spaceships
I believe in the book he did go to space lol
"Sometimes there just isn't enough rocks" gets me every time.
Me too
Yeah, me too. That's my "favourite" line and scene. 🥺
This movie gets me in the feels EVERY time. I still get kind of annoyed when people hate on Jenny without fully understanding that she sees herself as undeserving of the good that is Forrest and chases men like her father and loses herself in self-destruction
Hello, I think alot of people understand her messed up situation and backstory, but as an adult I don't think you can lean on pass trauma as an excuse for screwing someone else up, she literally gave the man and his son AIDS
"You died on a Saturday Morning". And I'm a puddle of tears again 5 years later rewatching this movie along with you
One of the many simple lines that Hanks delivered perfectly.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 true 👌
Everyone talks about Forrest’s speech at Jenny’s grave, but the scene on the boat where Lt. Dan for the first time thanks Forrest for saving his life always gets to me. Comparing that to the hopelessness he felt in the military hospital and on NY Eve, it showed that he finally saw the gift in life despite his physical disability and PTSD.
There’s absolutely nothing problematic about this film. It’s beautifully done, beautifully written, and beautifully acted. Forrest Gump teaches people about love, compassion, friendship, family, etc.
Folks need to look beyond what is shown. See the heart of this film.
The people calling this film "problematic" have lost their minds and the plot entirely.
I can’t fathom anyone have issues with this movie, war, culture, abuse, politics. As the movie says sh*t happens. Anyone who thinks otherwise is way off the mark.
If you believe that this film is "problematic" (whatever the hell that means) then something has gone really wrong in your life and nobody should listen to your opinion. Especially not on cinema.
Thank you for recognizing Jenny for the tragic figure that she is, so many viewers hate on her for how she treated Forrest. Which WASN'T good of her, HOWEVER, the movie shows you how traumatic her early life is and how it shapes her as a person, and most people seem to forget/overlook that.
From watching reactions its the one thing that shocked me as I never felt hostility for Jenny. She was Forrests only friend who didn't bully or belittle him whilst going through horrific trauma herself as well as witnessing her sisters go through it from the one person she should be able to trust and feel safe with.
I guess the majority of the populace these days are very quick to judge and not pick up on what the plot tells you about her life and what led her to the decisions she made.
When you think of how popular this movie is and how many people have seen it it does scare me a little that's what a lot of people thought of her character and just can't grasp how circumstances like what she had growing up can create a person with Jennys personality but she is definitely not an evil person
Seeing an abuser's early childhood traumas, and gaining an understanding of why they do what they do, doesn't mean you have to give the abuser a pass for hurting other people.
So why does Jenny get a pass from being called a horrible person, for the ways she used Forrest as a crutch and then bailed throughout their entire relationship?
Jenny is a tragic and complex character, but it is difficult to sympathize with her. I certainly don't hate the character, but Jenny put herself in bad situations over and over again in a blind quest for love and acceptance from everyone but the person who loved and accepted her from the first moment they met. For all of her rhetoric about free love and peace, she spent her time amongst violent, abusive people, and when things didn't go her way she either took it out on Forrest or flat out ignored him. And in fairness to Jenny, her mantra was that she wanted to fly away from her troubles like a bird, and Forrest wanted to cage her free spirit by making her a housewife and mother because that's all he knew of the world for a LONG time. The truth is both characters traveled the world for most of their lives and they were quite literally ships sailing in the night, never staying in one place for long. Their relationship only really worked when they were children. And if her father hasn't done what he ultimately did to Jenny as a child, if she had loving parents instead of one perverse father, who knows how different their lives would have been? It's an interesting thought experiment. Perhaps in an alternative timeline, Forrest and Jenny are high school sweethearts, go to college together, his college football career leads to a successful run in the NFL, Jenny focuses her energy on writing or researching how to help people like Forrest, and they spend their golden years on the convention circuit or going from cruise to cruise.
Touche i didnt like her before but now that makes perfect sense
Jenny felt like damaged garbage. The kindest thing she could ever do was run away from pure soul Forrest. She loved him and knew he deserved a whole and decent person. If you have been abused during your childhood, that damages you to your core. It was only after becoming a mother did Jenny find her own self worth and begin to heal. It was only then that she became worthy of Forrest's love. Jenny never used Forrest. They clung to each other as children who had no one else and as she matured, she did her best to shield Forrest from her perceived rotten and damaged soul.
The bubba death scene always gets me. Especially when forest says bubba is his best good friend
This legit my favorite movie
Of all the lines in the movie, “Sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks” is the most profound.
When Forrest asks Jenny about Little Forrest and if he's like him, it's the only time that he, himself, knowledges that he's not "normal". Also, Lt. Dan's Space Legs are a funny easter egg for Apollo 13, with both Gary and Tom starred in.
With the whores, him ruining the party. He said, Lt. Dan doesn't want to be called crippled like he doesn't want to be called stupid. He acknowledges they both touchy about why they different.
Tom Hanks's younger brother served as his running double for this film. If you watch the Graham Norton Show Tom Hanks explains about he got the accent by studying the young actor who played the younger version of Forrest Gump. Basically he recorded him speaking with tons of cassettes by studying that to perfect it.
Cool. I always assumed the kid actor was doing an amazing job of copying Tom Hanks accent but it makes more sense like this.
@@beesmitty3435 other way around! The producers originally tried to get the child actor to copy Tom Hanks, but Tom Hanks put his foot down and decided to copy the child actor's natural accent to make it easier on him. They apparently still keep in touch to this day.
Also he never blinks when playing ping pong because he's told never to take his eye off the ball.
@@chelseyleachman4 aww that's so sweet
The Doomsday killer?
I've always found it hilarious that when he is running across America the news program refers to him as a gardener from Alabama, not an All-American football player, Medal of Honor winner, millionaire business entrepreneur no a gardener because he mows the lawn of the football field isn't that crazy?
I'd like to think they (media) asked forest who he was and that's the answer he gave.
It makes it look like anyone can do great things
@@TheJoshestWhite
_Oh bro... that makes more sense to me now. Thank you._
One of my favorite things about your reaction was your compassion and understanding for Jenny. I get so frustrated with reactors who just hate on her and think she’s being intentionally cruel. They don’t understand how scared and damaged she is. And how inadequate she feels to accept his love. No woman owes a man her body or her heart just because he asks for it, not even Forrest.
Well put.
Alot of they guy reactors act like she owes forest a relationship when she doesn't even know how a healthy relationship is suppose to work, pretty frustrating. They understand forest but don't try to understand Jenny even when they want her to be with forest.
@@AnnieMustange So very true, because of childhood trauma ;being sexually abused , Jenny had a screwed up sense of selfworth and a screwed up view of love. She made poor life and relationship choices due to said abuse. But she did overcome it at the end.
with me its not owing him a relationship its that she keeps coming back to him giving him the impression she wants to be with him, then leaves for months or years at a time with no contact. I think most guys well myself anyway would have preferred her just stay out of his life all together instead of confusing him by making him think she cared for him only to constantly run away from him.
@@AndrewJamison79 she didn’t repeatedly “come back”. He visited her in college, where she made it clear she is dating other boys. Yeah, she let him feel her up, but because of the molestation she kinda gets her self worth that way. Then she finds him at the rally, but she literally says we have very different lives and makes him no promises. The next time they meet up again, I assume is when she is detoxing and trying to make her life better. Forrest proposes, and she sleeps with him. She keeps friendzoning Forrest but he is still in love with her, and she knows she is emotionally messed up so she leaves. She thought it was better for him. She doesn’t owe him her romantic love. The ghosting was the worst part, but she didn’t “lead him on” the entire relationship, not until she slept with him. She was friends with him. It’s also not 100% her responsibility how the relationship goes. He could have stopped obsessing and cut her off too.
I feel like another component of this movie people can take from it is the parents and how raising their children affects them. Forrest's mom was just the pinnacle of a great mom and was very caring and selfless and willing to do anything for him, and that quality was passed down to Forrest and you see it in how he treats others, especially Jenny. Jenny's father you can infer was nothing short of terrible with how badly life went for her til she finally found a way and got herself together. While we didn't see Dan's parents, you can tell by his family legacy that a lot of pressure was put on him to be this unreachable goal of a great general that dies on the battlefield and leaves behind this grand legacy, and not achieving that absolutely crushed him. And Bubba kinda reminds me a lot of Tiana from Princess and the Frog with how he grows his passion for shrimp and wanting to go into the business because of his mom kinda like how Tiana grew her passion to cook from her dad. I just thought it was really neat and I noticed it more and more with each watch.
All good points.
Well said
Gary Sinise's autobiography talks a lot about the impact this role had on his life, with the Lt. Dan Band and his work with veterans. Really interesting and inspiring!
He and Joe Mantegna do a fabulous job every year hosting the Memorial Day tribute and concert in the Capitol for PBS.
I have a custom DVD of an hour long interview/biography Gary Sinise did with my grandfather, who passed a 2 years ago, and who fought in WW2. Apparently they met several times over a couple of decades.
@@masemunejm omg, that’s amazing!! And you have those interviews forever!
@@Ivy94F He met him like 8 times over the years or more , and contributed to one of his books as well
Aparently the medals he wears in the movie were actually his brother in-laws medals who was killed in the vietnam war
Jenny is the probably one of the most misunderstood and hated characters in movie history. She isn't evil. She's just broken. She gives him the only advice she knows how to give, which is to run. It's how she protected herself since she was a girl.
Many people thought that Jenny jerked Forrest around for years. That wasn't it. She understood that he was slow and didn't understand things the way people of average intelligence do. She didn't want to take advantage of him in that way. So, when she says that he doesn't know what love is, she believes it. But she's wrong. He loves her in the purest way.
Exactly! Someone else pointed out that when she realized how shocked Forrest looked seeing her boobs that most likely reminded Jenny of how scared she was when her father took advantage of her and most likely thought "Oh my god, I'm turning into my father: taking advantage of someone who clearly doesn't know any better and can't properly consent, not to mention is my pure and innocent best friend! I really am a monster who deserves nothing but the worse and Forrest deserves better than me". I'm not saying that people who are like Forrest mentally are unable to consent to sexual activity but that's what Jenny most likely thought in that moment
Anyone critisizing this movie as problematic have never lived through even a single similar event portrayed in this movie. Its one of the most innocent heartfelt movies ever done. I wish i had so few problems to find time critisizing freakin Forrest Gump. Thats mad.
Also, loved how you caught all the cool tie ins.. again, not bc of politics.. cause its just cool. Lol sorry, its like we cant even just ENJOY Forrest Gump now?
The metaphor of the feather at the beginning and the end perfectly shows Forrest’s life. also, every time he cries at Jenny’s grave I literally scream “OSCAR WORTHY” in my head, it’s SO GOOD!
When he asks Jenny about his son "is he smart, or is he like me?" no matter what I do I can't hold back the tears at that part. One of the most genuinely good characters in the history of cinema. An example to us all.
He never says is he like me, Yu dumbass
"Million-dollar wound" means something serious enough to get you taken out of combat but NOT serious enough to leave any lasting damage.
This film, pulp fiction, The Lion King and Shawshank redemption all came out the same year, 1994. What a year for cinema. Some amazingly well put together and memorable films.
Who in the world calls this “problematic”. Absurd. It’s just a movie showing how a simple man can have such a huge impact on the world through something as simple as being able to run and being a good person
That's why they can't make good movies anymore. Everything now has to cater to social justice activists.
I bet these type of “writers” could even find Spice World problematic.
I always took that word as meaning, not a real problem but we gonna pretend it is. If it was a problem they could say it straight up 'it is a problem' then define what the problem was. All BS it seems for the word salad as they gotta think of something to write about to justify why they get paid.
@@DerekMoore82 Or it has to be on the complete opposite end of the spectrum and cater to so called "patriots" and "anti woke" groups and completely leave out real life situations and issues because it doesn't want to be labeled as "woke". Please don't act as though the SJW as you called them are the only ones who play that game. Make anything today dealing with race, sexuality, or featuring strong women and it's automatically "woke" and "horrible writing". She-Hulk is the perfect example. No matter how good it is (and make no mistake, it's brilliant) the "M-SHE-U" crowd is going to hate it no matter what. Both sides are a problem, but I still like my media to display real characters that deal with real life issues.
@@SSJ2Phenom Thank you! Both sides are problematic, not just the so-called SJWs
People hate on Jenny too much. She learned from a very young age and throughout a very traumatic childhood, “just if you're ever in trouble, don't be brave. You just run, ok?” She offered this to Forest as advice throughout their entire friendship, “Run, Forest! Run!” She’s not a perfect person, but she didn’t think she was. It also beats the novels version where the book ends with Jenny raising Forest Jr. with another man lol
I actually hate the book and the sequel.
Wtf
Yeah people just don't get what abuse can cause. Especially to a young girl by her father. It Ruins people.
Yeah, the book is garbage! Forrest is kind of awful in it. I couldn't make it all the way through.
@@ljbimoore did the book come first?
“And then, in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It was so beautiful.”
A quote that will stick with me forever
Something no one seems to catch: in the bar LT Dan says “if your a shrimp boat capt, I’m an astronaut” … fast forward to Forrest’s wedding, he shows Forrest his prosthetic legs and says “titanium alloy, like they use on the space shuttles” subtle but great.
As a guy that cries A LOT when watching even slightly emotional movies, I appreciate that these guys never try to hold back their tears and emotions.
I remember growing up Jenny was the first female character I saw that actually felt as real and flawed like woman are in real life. She inspired me a lot, she’s an extraordinary character that I think till this day ppl don’t understand and rather judge her and even hate her.
Totally agree. People hate her basically because she turns down Forest and goes off with less worthy men. They never take a second to step into her shoes. She's as emotionally damaged as Forest is mentally deficient, so she makes some bad choices She's human. Also, how many people can really, truly say they would have been all in reciprocating romantic feelings for someone with a severe mental disability. The ethical implications alone are hard to grapple with.
I can empathize with both sides. Many don’t like her because they love Forest so much that they resent anyone that hurts him and although she runs because of her childhood abuse, her running away hurts Forest. The point just that the dislike comes from a good place in a way. That said I always felt sorry for her more than anything and understood her motives flawed as they were.
@@frightenedsoul I get it, but man it really feels like that sums up so much of what's wrong with the world today. "I like him, she hurt him, end of analysis, she's bad." (not saying you think this way, but so many do). The inability to see past one's base emotional response to the real cause of the issue is really important to solving problems, and something we as a society sorely lack.
I've even been sent memes on social media where she has come bottom of likeable characters list.
The people who still can't stand Jenny are probably the same people who think people are able to be born evil, have no concept of how a person is raised shapes their personality and they also seem to forget that Forrest himself describes her as his ONLY friend in his formative years, everybody else either bullied him or ignored him.
Because she doesn't want to marry him immediately and settle down people just tend to judge her harshly from their high horses.
It's a damning indictment on society to see how many people dismiss her as opposed to those who after taking into accounts the horrors she and her sisters went through have some sympathy for her and can see why she has the personality she has. People just don't get it
@@A-small-amount-of-peas speaking of sisters does the movie even mention her sisters beyond the beginning? I feel like they were never mentioned again. I hope they at least came to the wedding lol
1994 is easily one of the greatest years for films
90's in general they smack harder then modern films for some reason
Yeah seriously. Three of the greatest movies of all time (imo) Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption and Forrest Gump. I know there's probably more, but those definitely come to mind.
90s era in everything. Television, film, music, art, fashion ect ect
I believe lion king also came out in 94
@@adreyenbarnes2876 agreed. 98 alone is god tier
Thank you for recognizing who Jenny was. She loved Forrest her whole life. She wasn't trying hurt him. She was actively trying NOT to hurt him, which is why she kept telling him to leave her alone, running away, and finally saying, "you don't want to marry me". With how screwed up she was for so many years and the things she was doing to try to run from her pain, she would've hurt Forrest even more if she'd done it in front of him. Abuse had been her idea of love her entire life. She'd tried on so many different identities throughout her life, trying to be anyone but herself. When Jenny finally got clean and found her purpose (being a mother) she was able to realize that the only man who actually loved her, was Forrest. She came to understand what true love was, through her son. She made amends with Forrest for the pain she'd caused.
Hell yes!! You’re reaction to “is he smart or is he like me” was excellent and genuine. THAT’s what you want in a reaction.
Forest is, by definition, a catalytic hero. It’s less about how he changes than about how people change as a result of him being in their life. He’s the only one in his world that isn’t trying to make something of himself; he accepts life as it is and embraces it, and as a result succeeds and achieves infinitely more than everyone else. It’s fantastic. Love it.
Interesting fact, Gary Sinise wears a very unique rosary and dog tag set in this film. They belonged to his brother-in-law Jack Treese, who served 2 tours in Vietnam as a combat medic in the 101st, earning 2 Bronze Stars and 2 Purple hearts. Jack passed away on October 1, 2014. He gave Gary the dog tags and rosary to wear for this role, the same ones he wore on his tours to Vietnam.
The only movie I was at on an opening night that ended with a standing ovation. My father clapping wildly with tears in his eyes
The thing I took away from this movie was this.
At the end of the day, how smart or tough you are isn't the primary measure of our humanity.
It's how good we are to each other.
Dan and Jenny were broken. Through their relationship with Forrest, they were made whole. Nothing was undone. Jenny had AIDS and Dan's legs were never grown back.
But in both cases, they had something that sort of...made more bearablewhat they went through. Not perfectly- it can never be perfect. But they found a way to live and find joy in life. Dan found peace with God and love. And Jenny found purpose and a home and love.
I learned that we can be great by the impact we have on the people who know us. Forrests greatness was written in the lives of Jenny and Dan. And they recognized this. He was good to his core.
I loved your video. Your reactions were moving. I saw this back when it came out and seeing it again through your eyes was powerful. Thank you.
Jenny didnt have aids. She had hepatitis c.
@@sylmyl umm I don't think so. She told Forest that she had a virus that they didn't understand yet. This was early 80s, when AIDS was becoming more well known and HIV was just being discovered. Her lifestyle through the 70s (unprotected sex, drug use, etc) were the primary ways it was transmitted. Having the virus usually meant developing AIDS. She died shortly afterwards.
Movies and TV about AIDS were still being made in the 90s. (This movie WAS only a year after Tom Hanks won an oscar for playing a man living with AIDS in Philadelphia.)
The implication in the movie is pretty blatant
It was definitely HIV/AIDS.
Doctors certainly knew what Hepatitis was/is. The movie was full of culture milestones and the timing.
When it was released, we all knew it was AIDS.
One of the things I love the most about this movie is that so often in life we never get to see the impacts we have on one another, maybe we do something kind for a stranger and we never see how that ripples out, but for Forrest, we all see how him just trying to be a good person helps everyone around him and the butterfly effect is obvious, which in some ways is what the feather represents.
Butterflies don't have feathers..
"Butterflies don't have feathers.."
(spins a staple gun around his finger)
They do now.
(holster his staple gun)
This is a masterpiece! Those who say this is problematic probably didn't get the movie's point. It's a social commentary ahead of its time.
I still love that the audience only gets glimpses of Lt. Dan’s healing process…forever warms my heart
Tom Hank's performance when he asks if his son is smart or not should be in the dictionary as the definition of acting.
Gary Sinise is amazing. Such an underrated actor. Fun fact: He's in Capatin America: The Winter Soldier as the Smithsonian narrator.
he's also an amazing guy in real life who founded a nonprofit for disable veterans
Fun fact: Dan refer to 2 other movies:
1 "I'm walking here" - Midnight Cowboy
2 "If you will be a shrimp boat captain, I will be an astronaut" - Apollo 13
His band is pretty dope too
This movie is fantastic, they don't do movies like this anymore
May be you can watch "My Name Is Khan"😊..Its a Bollywood movie..very close to this. It's about 9/11 terror attacks. Really good movie.
Movies like this still exist globally. It's just you who don't make an effort to look for it.
They still make a lot of movies like this lol
i recommend to you a movie called boyhood 2014 it is a very unique movie that was filmed over 15 years or something it's kinda similar to forrest gump
@@aligmal5031 personally I found Boyhood overrated. No way near to Forrest Gump, for me. But if u like it, it's ok😇
When bubbba dies and he says, "and that's all I have to say about that" was literally the most choked up any film had me, when he asks if forrest Jr is smart took 1st place soon after, one of my favourite films ever
I put off seeing this for YEARS and finally my friend in middle school talked me into watching it one night and. I. CRIED. FOR. HOURS.
I love how Forest has such an impact on major events in American history! It’s so cool the writers thought to do that. Forest’s value isn’t from being smart or slow, it isn’t from his politics, it’s from being a wonderful human being who has something to teach all of us.
Can't believe you haven't watched this movie before now, but im so happy we got to experience it with you. Its a masterpiece
I love how you wear your emotions on your sleeve. This movie is so iconic. So powerful and so sad you can't help but shed a few tears. One of my favorites
My favorite thing about Forest Gump is that the author of the book wrote it the way Forest would tell the story, she wrote it with the accent, with the description he would use, with the emotion he felt in those scenes. And she wrote every single word possible incorrectly. Now it was incredibly infuriating to read because I have trouble reading regularly and having to slow down and focus on every word to understand it was incredibly frustrating, but completely put it in perspective as to how the world is for these types of people. I mean I had to go back at least 10 times to correct my spelling just while typing this. But thats just while im reading writing and talking. I cant imagine it being every single thing in my life and how difficult that must be. Knowing how kind the character Forest remains despite all the trauma he has faced in his life as well as a disability on top of it is honestly a feat I dont think I could achieve. If it were me I would become a spiteful person towards the world and the fact he isnt is inspiring
I didn't know that the book was written that way, and now I'm interested in reading it. It sounds similar to Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, which was a short story later expanded into a novel. I recommend it.
I don't see it as "problematic" at all, it's inspirational, kind hearted and deals with real life things that people don't talk about. It made politics a side car and put humanity first and how people can lead a good life w/o all the noise.
22:06 One reason this works so well is because that table to the right is CGI. Obviously Gary Sinise actually has legs, so if there was a table there, they would hit them when he spun around. Adding a little table next to him in post was just a clever little way of tricking your subconscious into believing it. Simple but genius. Thank you Corridor Crew.
The table is real. Not cgi.
Corridor crew said the table was real though, his lower half of his legs were just covered in blue spandex
@@tempsitch5632 No, it is not. It is CGI. If that table were real, Gary Sinise’s legs would’ve hit them when he spun around. There’s literally behind the scenes footage of this scene that shows it lol no table.
@@brennanbarber7469 You don’t know the meanings of the words you are using. You aren’t smart enough to be in a conversation about this with me.
@@brennanbarber7469 The table itself is real, just added after the fact. the same shot is filmed at a different time without the actors but with the table, then the table is cut out and composited into the shot with the actors.
I feel like every time I watch this movie or see a reaction to it, I notice something new. It just occurred to me that Jenny's childhood mirrors her son's with opposite outcomes (presumably). Her mother died when she was a child and she grew up with an abusive father. Forrest Jr. also lost his mother when he was very young, but he'll grow up with a loving father.
There are three scenes in this film that absolutely crush me. First is Jenny on the balcony while Free Bird screams in the background. I know the pain she was in there, all too well. Second is when Forrest learns he's a father. Finally, Forrest at Jenny's grave. He waited so long for her, and she finally left him for good.
It's a hard film to watch at times, heartwarming and wholesome and yet dramatic and gripping. One of Hanks' absolute best films and performances.
Dudddeee im surprised how a lot of people haven’t watched this gem blows my mind one of my favourite movies ever i don’t even know how many times ive watched this already 🤯
I've never seen it but I know about the run Forrest run thing
They’ve seen it they’re just pretending they haven’t lol…
@@bobbyfischer9927 Reaction channels in a nutshell( theres like 2 or 3 that i think are genuine but u never know)
@@bobbyfischer9927 that too a movie nerd like Greg 🙈
@@bobbyfischer9927 it’s not that uncommon to love movies yet miss a lot of them . I haven’t seen tons of iconic 80s films yet I love watching movies. Back to the future for example, or any Star Wars film.
Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. I know people who don't like this movie because they think it's "too sad" or "tragic" but the truth is, it's the exact opposite. It's one of the only movies that I've seen which shows people that even with the simplest mentality you can still succeed in life and I love that.
A true masterpiece.
There was a speech Tom Hanks spoke during that rally that was cut off. It was "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that."
"I thought this was a feel good movie, oh no"
Yeah buddy. You weren't prepared lol.
This movie is a lot of things. It is both one of the most joyous experiences you can have with a film and it's also one of the saddest films ever made. It's both a war epic and a coming of age epic. It manages to be a lot of things in 2-3 hours, and because it pulls all of it off so well IMO, it's hailed as a classic for a reason.
I love how when he’s running the news anchor introduces him as forest Gump a gardener from Alabama. It’s not like he’s a war hero, football star, pingpong star, or millionaire business owner.
This is one of my favorite nuggets
"I hope I like it" you're going to Iove it.
The feather is Jenny, BTW. Her character arc is heart wrenching. So many brilliant things in this movie that it took several books to explain them all. Its a classic.
One of my favorite movies of all time. I laughed a lot, cried a lot and was in awe of Tom Hanks performance. So many funny moments and definitely sad ones, Bubba dying and Forest asking if little Forest was smart or is he….makes me cry every time. I love Lt. Dan and so glad he had a happy ending. Just a gem of a movie!
Another great film to watch is Good Will Hunting. Man that movie is filled with so many life lessons and Robin Williams was phenomenal in it. Great great movie
i have never seen such a great start to a story with Forrest mimicking what he did to his mom
I love this movie's soundtrack! The songs are so well chosen. They not only set the mood for the scene but they also place you in a specific time/era.
they call that the score, how the music fits and and edits with the movie
@@energeez Isn't the score the orchestral music created by a composer for the movie (in this case Alan Silvestri) while the soundtrack is the group of "popular" songs picked to be included in the movie?
@@NRF787yea your right, i guess i meant music editing which in my mind is kind of "scoring" a film. I find it almost as important if not more important then a scoring - writing of music, which to your point in forrest gump you have heard all these songs, but it hits "notes" where the story is elevated beyond just providing a soundtrack. But yes you are right.
and the score!! Alan Silvestri is amazing, i can hear the similarity between this and others like the Parent Trap. All the feels!!
I don't think it's fair to call this a "simple performance" or a "simple character". This is a once in a lifetime performance. Do be able to play a character like that without it being offensive, with so much emotion (just think about the scene at the grave or when he finds out about his son) and make it this believable is just amazing. Only Tom Hanks could have done it.
I think Greg is more referring to the simplicity of the character. It's one important bottom line of the movie: we tend to complicate things, but what would happen if a person wouldn't be able to complicate and would do the opposite? Forrest has a very unique world view and Hank's performance achieved the impossible, to make us FEEL it in ourselves.
@@RobertvonHeeren thank you haha. I was getting ready to type back but you pretty much did it for me
@@ReelRejects I'm happy and you're welcome Greg. Sometimes I'm a really good mind reader :)
im sorry you made me think of tropic thunder 😂
The moment when he asks "is he smart or is he.. like me?" is heartbreaking because in that moment you know Forrest knows he's not as "smart" as everyone else, but also knows how people view him.
I've seen this film several times and own a copy of it on DVD. Several times through this video I cried. Beautiful film. Holds up well after all of these years IMO. Not problematic in the least. It was made in a time when we as a society were not as informed on intellectual disabilities as we are now. It's not fair to go back and judge a past work decades old in a historical context, by today's social sensibilities. There is still a lot to learn from this film in the way it tells its story
No matter how many times I watch this movie, that line "Is he smart?" gets me choked up every time.
I think the thing about Jenny and Forrest's relationship is that, like a lot of childhood sexual abuse victims, Jenny feels like what happened to her made her unworthy of love. She feels like it made her dirty or broken, like there's something wrong with HER. And Forrest is so pure and good, she probably feels like she would ruin him like she's been 'ruined'. So while it's easy to think that Jenny thinks she's too good for Forrest, it's very obvious when she says 'you don't want to marry me' to his proposal that she doesn't feel like she deserves something like healthy love. Her story is so heartbreaking, but she's a beautiful character.
“genuine Greg by himself reviewing” > Greg w/ others with cynical comments - we love “greg by himself” from time to time! It’s amazing to see you this genuine and emotional
The acting when he asks if his son is smart is one the most emotional moments in film history
By far one of the best reactions I've ever watched. Arguably the greatest movie of all time. Tom Hanks was phenomenal and the rest of the cast were outstanding. It still gets me emotional every time I watch it. Your cat is beautiful.
Obviously Jenny's actions and decisions were questionable, but I think she had a habit of pushing people away in an effort not to hurt them or just to prevent them from being around her because of how messed up she was. She spiralled for quite some time and was obviously depressed and even suicidal. Obviously we only have a rough idea of what was going on inside her head, but I think it's clear she never meant to hurt anyone. Asking Forrest to come down after her having a child and some unknown disease is obviously the most questionable thing and definitely doesn't look right, but I think she deserves the benefit of the doubt. In some cases people could get sick and something just clicks in place that makes them want to spend all their time with their loved ones. It wasn't overly obvious if she loved, but I think she did.
Did Jenny love Forrest Gump? It's debatable. Did she love her son? Without question. She lived through such a miserable life that her son was the only good thing in it. Well, her son and Forrest. So when she knew that she didn't have long to live, making sure that Forrest was able to take care of her son, whether he was the real father or not, was her #1 priority. Forrest would love the boy unconditionally and would have the resources to provide him with whatever he would need. In return, she would settle down with Forrest and see what she missed out on for decades.
You missed the point. She had trauma from sexual abuse as a kid. You and me have no idea how horrible that must be.
@@di3486 Trauma is a very serious thing, and it can have devastating effects on a person. The Jenny we meet at the beginning of the movie is a version of the character that you want to see succeed. You try and hold onto that hope, but she makes many decisions that hurt that hope, even knowing that her decisions were guided by a traumatic childhood. You're right about the source of the trauma, but keep in mind that she left as soon as she could leaving her young siblings behind. For many years Jenny was self serving and only looked out for herself. Well, until she lost the will to keep going. The only consistent part of her life was her relationship with Forrest. It makes sense that she would settle down with Forrest at some point. The sad part is that she didn't do it sooner. It was the child coming into the picture that forced her to really look at her life and think about what really mattered to her. She wanted to be a better parent than her own father. That wasn't hard. She also wanted to leave her son with a better parent than herself. So she went to Forrest. I'd like to believe that she still cared about him. Some days I'm more cynical than that, but today I'm on the side that she did care.
@@rdp16rulez I don’t think there was ever a question on whether she cared for him, but rather did she love him more than just a childhood friend. I’d like to think she did too, because I get the sense that she’s had therapy by the time she sees forrest again. The way she phrases things when they see each other sounds like post therapy speak. So I think the decisions she makes after that are sound decisions based on a clearer head, making up for lost time, and now being a more stable person ready to move forward. I honestly believe she would have returned to forrest whether she was sick or not.
@@rdp16rulez I never thought she abandoned her sisters? I assume it was the other way around. She was only 5 when Forrest met her, I thought the sisters were older and when it shows her being taken to live at her grandmothers, it’s only her. It’s entirely possible that they ran off as soon as they were old enough and left her.
You're one of the few reactors that have shown empathy towards Jenny and I honestly love you for that! She was abused and had so much trauma that she didn't want to complicate Forrest's life or bring him down. I could go on and on about how much I love this movie!
That delivery of "oh no... I thought this was a *feel good* movie..." cracked me up 🤣
This movie makes me cry every time. My mother never showed this to me growing up, because she said that I remind her of Forrest Gump, because I was severely autistic. After many years, I have come to appreciate this move tho show that anything is possible for me.
The old footage mixed with the actors was SO ahead of its time! So wild to think this came out in 1994 when dial-up internet wasn't available to the public until 1992! Gary Sinise was so moved by playing Lt. Dan that he became a HUGE advocate for military, vets, and their families.
As a spina bifida survivor who is not wheelchair bound, the two parts of this movie that always get to me are when Lt. Dan says to Forrest "Do you know what it's like not to be able to use your legs?" and when Lt. Dan shows up at the wedding with his "magic legs."
Spina bifida and scoliosis here, those parts get me too.
One of the most incredible effects of this movie has been Gary Sines' foundation that came out of it and his ongoing mission to service veterans and their families. And he still does benefit concerts with his lieutenant Dan band.
This is probably the most wholesome movie there is. Still gets me emotional every time. Still one of the best of All time.
Yeah and Maybe the green mile also with Tom Hanks in it
@@brandonproductions2421 oh boy... green mile is definitly a heavyweight on emotions. 😅
@@phenomenonk1 hahaha its sure is sir. I would never forget the scène when he first saw a movie. When i hear that i am in heaven on radio i always tear up and see his happy face.
This movie and Little Miss Sunshine.
It’s always a top ten movie for me. Just seeing how things can be if we just keeping things simple, not so complex and basically just go with the flow. People can’t say he never worked for what he has (Bubba Gump Shrimp), never sacrifice (fought in Vietnam), never cared about friends (Bubba n Lt. Dan), Never cared about family (Mrs. Gump) definitely never cared about Love (Jenny). Every character brought something different out of Forest, and I know there is a lot more to the movie. But I personally love the Character development in Forest and the ones in his life.
I remember that when i was little i used to hate Jenny for "hurting Forest", but now, when i watch the movie i feel bad for her, she is stucked in a cycle of abuse, and because she is in a cycle of abuse, she thinks that Forest deserves somebody better, because Forest always was the one that treated her right, treated her like a person. She thinks that she dosent deserve Forest because of her trauma
I love the fact that Gary Sinise's band is called, The Lt. Dan Band
People that have a problem with Jenny are flat out wrong!
She never asked him for anything, she never promised him anything, they were never boyfriend & girlfriend until they got married.
She didn't tell him about baby Forest because he was running the entire time, he wasn't home.
She doesn't owe him anything, even after sleeping with him. If a girl sleeps with you does she owe you marriage??? Absolutely not.
The only bad thing she did to Forest was not say goodbye after sleeping with him.
She could have easily found him while he was running. And he was running for three years; she didn't tell him about his son till the kid was at least 6 or 7. She owed it to both her son and Forest to tell him as soon as she knew she was pregnant. Mothers don't have sole ownership of their children and anyone who says they do is a piece of shit.