‘Forrest Gump,’ 25 Years Later: A Bad Movie That Gets Worse With Age
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"Gump" backlash is nothing new. But these days, it's even more problematic than it used to be.

I was gonna do a writeup but this author sums up my thoughts pretty well. I always hated how the movie portrayed Jenny. It's like the movie tries to punish her for daring to move against the broader (white, patriarchal, militaristic, conservative) culture. Notice how she only receives redemption when she functionally gives up her counter-cultural ways and accepts her role as a mom. And even then she still gets "punished" for her "sins" by dying of AIDS like it's some Grimm fairy tale. Feels a bit like incel fan-fiction, in hindsight.

And of course the movie panders to white reactionary notions of the Black Panthers. They were just angry black men who were reverse racists. Gross.

Forrest Gump is incredibly reactionary and it's terrible. It's the conservative boomers' attempt to tell a morality tale in which they are the ultimate victors over their contemporaries who dared for something different.

    • Zizek [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      the shrimp there isch very bad, every time I engorge myself on it? I get very sick, puking and shitting and sho on and sho forth. thisch isch not a problem when I feed on shrimp in Slovenia.

    • sandinista209 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Still crazy that those places exist. Like after the boomers die off no one is gonna care about this movie so what’s the point.

    • PowerOfGlove [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I admittedly have a soft spot for Bubba Gump's cuz I'm a sucker for oddly-specific-gimmick restaurants, and I used to go there with my late grandma.