A Boomer Fantasy: Why is FORREST GUMP So Controversial? 

My all-time favorite film Nightbreed came out in 1990

Boyz N' The Hood, I guess.

Trespass (1992) by Walter Hill.

Gotta be Heat for me.

Toy Story (1995) Woody is Tom Hanks best role, I don't care that it's animated!

Lieutenant Dan & Bubba are legends!

Amen to that.

I revisit that movie every couple of years and yeah, that scene will get you. I always remember to have _plenty_ of Kleenex handy. Especially for the end when he's talking to Jenny's grave. Whew...

I remember watching that scene with my siblings as a kid. I was 6 and my older brother was 8. We both cried.

It is extremely conservative tho, if you're comforted, you're conservative too

Let's put it this way - Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck loved this movie. Plus, In the movie, Forrest mentions that he was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest who was a Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

​​@@RebelCauseFilms​the movie itself could be interpreted as conservative I suppoose, but Forrest himself was the antithesis of a conservative character. He was supportive of integration, didn't look down on people, and was very charitable. Conservatives today would criticize him for being "woke".

@@deeanna8448 he wasn't supportive, he was just 'colorblind,' which is yet another conservative philosophy. Forrest Gump is a prescription to keep your head down and follow orders, with the reassuring fantasy that greatness will happen to you by the grace of god if you do.

Totally agree. Too many people are so obsessed with politics they attach it to everything and seem unable to enjoy life without it. Sad.

Every... Single... One! it was the only thing people could think of when they saw someone running. I ran home from school nearly every day and if someone had their windows open you could just sense their excitement that they would be the first person to ever think to yell this out.

@@synbiosblade That happened to me all the time. I hated it.

And if u were on a bike theyd yell “go lance!!” I was one of those kids yelling out the window haha. Unfortunate, it’s a bit of a lost art, don’t see that much now bc ppl are so whacked out and wound up they might pull a piece and shoot ur whip up

Y'all had it easy. Us skateboarders got the old "skater F--slur!" Every time, and maybe swerved at while they laughed.

​@@williamdixon-gk2skBro us roller bladers had it worse, not even the skaters respected us 😢

Like really wut? It was just a good movie with a dorky character that just happened to be in the middle of historical political events.

only people with some intelligence know this movie isnt divisive.

But...but.. He's not mentally challenged... It's called ACTING

@@TheHikeChoseMethe only people that find it divisive or problematic are the modern activist types that like projecting modern race and gender politics into everything and everyone.

the only way I can think of this movie being divisive to you if you have terminally online political obsession and need your media to pacify your bainrot

AI incoming

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I love this assessment.

Yeah, this is pretty close to my interpretation too. I also think there's a theme of how chaotic and unpredictable the world is. Gump's successes and failures are mostly a matter of luck. People around him are constantly making plans, talking about how things "should" be. But life doesn't care about your plans or ideals.

It could be viewed that his impartiality is just acceptance of the status quo.

@@RumchugMusic but there was no static status quo in the movie

@@RumchugMusic Please stop....

american "jozef mak", basically

i remember back in 2019, a year where my life first started to feel good, that 2020 would be a good year... i lost my girlfriend, lost my adoptive grandpa (he essentially raised me), lost my actual grandpa, my mother lost her house, my grandma started going blind and i lost every friend i thought i had... this all in the span of 6 months. i still haven't gotten over 2020 being such a disastrous year, for me, and everybody else

There always was, and will be hope, after all hope is the last thing that dies And the movie didn't exactly had the most "happiest" of endings per say

​@@zeynaviegasi hope things get better for you bro, dont give up ❤

"People in the 90's had hope" People really need to stop viewing past decades through rose-tinted goggles. Like, this constant idealisation of the 90's that keeps cropping up everywhere is _exactly_ like how people in the 80's had a raging hardon for the optimistic style of the 50's and I don't doubt people in the 2050's will talk about how great the 2020's were. This decade is shit, the last decade was shit, the 00's were shit, and the 90's and every decade prior were shit too.

@@dungeonsanddobbers2683 I never idealized the 90's. I was actually alive back then, so I do in fact remember what it was like. You can't even remotely compare the attitude in the 90's to today. The biggest issues in the 90's were gang culture, stranger danger, and children being on drugs. The job market was exploding and we were still years away from the giant housing bubble of the 00's.

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@@viscountrainbows2857 but they also showed the side effects

No, it doesn't. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." Life is more chance than we care to admit. Good and bad things happen with random precision Unless you read the top of the box... Gump is a dumb movie to smart people, a smart movie to dumb people.

@@tskmaster3837And I like that it’s a smart movie to dumb people, how else would I enjoy a film?

@@tskmaster3837 "I'm a Smart Person"

I appreciate what your grandfather said, and I certainly won't say it's wrong, but I think America had many peaks and declines, the first peak being 1861, before the North invaded the South. A steep decline followed, only rising again in the 1910's. The next peak was November 21st, 1963, not rising again until the late 70s. He was absolutely correct that America hasn't been the same since Sept, 01.

@@realtyranny3310 good point. By the way, he's still alive and in decent health, so if you or anyone have any questions for him I'll be glad to pass them along.

​@@realtyranny3310*South attacked the North. The articles of Confederation felt no need to paint black people as anything less than chattel that must remain chattel, because they didn't anticipate a future where they would be revealed for how awful they were. John Brown, however, did.

@@PanAndScanBuddy Southern states withdrew from the Union. If Washington D.C. would have respected their choice, there would not have been a war.

@@realtyranny3310yea and thank god they fucking didnt

Yeah no general of that era would have don that... Which IRL that's an anti war message not an anti Vietnam message.

If you think the politics are unimportant then that's because they serve you - congratulations, you're a conservative. What you do now that you have realized this is up to you.

@@RebelCauseFilms thanks dad

all of your replies make you come off as a deeply miserable person. I understand your view points but you seem rabid

​@@MrAweezeyou're welcome, son. 😉

@@RebelCauseFilms LOL, we've mostly had Democrat Presidents the past 30 years. Liking the status quo doesn't mean you are a conservative. Our present society is this way because of Democrats.

Yeah, hard to call it unpolitical when they attach every vaguely leftist movement or idea to Jenny and every bit of the status quo and right wing idea to Forest. Maybe the author and director all thought that while making it, but that just highlights how entrenched those politics are in our society.

That's why's so accurate😊​@@altrocks

Hahaha Jenny does not go "against the flow", she adopts every single popular trend that comes along mindlessly and treats Forrest like dirt over and over again. You probably think adopting every single belief forced down our throats when we're young is "going against the flow" too, considering how firmly entrenched the Cult of Woke is in our culture. Being left wing is not going against the flow, it's going with it. Right wingers are the ones constantly fighting the inexorable pull of that merciless god, Progress. The wheel of history must turn, and those that are crushed beneath its turning are called "right wing", because they refuse to get with the program and adopt the new status quo. Jenny's promiscuity and obsession with activism are pretty true to form for the left too, so how can you call it a ringing endorsement of the status quo simply because Jenny gets AIDS? HIV is a real virus, catching it and potentially dying of AIDS was a real side effect of living a promiscuous lifestyle for a lot of people, especially in the late 20th century before better treatments were developed to keep HIV from developing into AIDS. Also, if it is supposedly a right wing propaganda film like you are implying, why is the somewhat conservative hero a mentally ret@rded (not sure if I can write that word without my comment being deleted) man? Doesn't seem like a ringing endorsement of conservatism to me. Plus, while the author of the book may have been right wing, Robert Zemeckis isn't and neither is Tom Hanks or anyone else involved in the movie, at least not that I know of, I mean Hollywood isn't very welcoming to dissidents.

She was a sexually abused drug addict. She wasn't someone who bucked the trend and got punished. She made stupid life choices that anyone with a brainstem can call stupid, and She faced the consequences of those choices. No one is saying she shouldn't have been a hippie or cared about left leaning things. But maybe she should've been more discriminate with her choice of sexual partners and did less heroin. Crazy, I know.

Forest Gump has always hit me as centrist in messaging terms. Forest believes in family values and is tolerant towards others that were different from him. When it comes to Jenny and being the face of counter culture, it is the epitome of what happens to those that are irresponsible. Not a Left or Right kind, but what happens when you make clearly bad choices. Many that rebel or go against the grain mostly do it to stand out and want to prove to others that they are special or are not just another brick in the wall. Jenny could have succeeded while going against the grain, but she was wilfully blind from recognizing the inevitable outcome of her choices.

Late Gen Z and it's still one of my favorites.

same, this movie was american history to me haha

Same! But it's my favorite film I honestly feel like I'm forest gumpin through life rn 😂

I'm Gen X. Most of these times were way before my time, or I was too young to understand. I actually think I would like the film less if I was a boomer, since it seems to making light of serious times.

I love this

THIS! this is the reason why it is also my favourite movie, i could not have put it better myself!

​@@MattDraper I personally feel a main problem with Forrest Gump criticism is that a lot of the criticism and praise seems to only focus on one side of the film. I personally feel that the film tries to analyze the topics that it depicts in a light hearted way. The film depicts both the positives and negative of the decades it depicts and that seems to me like the most rational approach. For example the counterculture isn't shown in a negative light, as the protesters that accompany forest during his speech are shown to be friendly, his only when we are shown Jenny's boyfriend that we see the negative side of the counterculture and it makes complete sense as the counter culture had terrible people too, an example being the weathermen underground.

Did you succeed, then?

But Forrest legitimately had a low IQ but ridiculously high amount of luck. And Forrest "marries the love of his life"? No. He didn't. She sexually assaulted him and then left him to deal with the result.

Practical Magic is another good one

As for the movie itself I think trying to look for a heady, intellectual message is to miss the forrest for the trees. It’s a fairytale set in American history. If the film has any message it’s simply that if you work hard and love yourself and the people around you then things will work out. Whether that’s conservative, liberal, or any other part of the political spectrum is up to the viewer. Anything more is trying to impose an ideology from without onto the film.

He is one of the absolute best in the industry. His ability to mix genres is something that I don't necessarily hear from other major Hollywood composers. The man needs another award or two.

He already deserved a nomination for Back to the Future score.

FORREST GUMP was a huge industry political gem. Zemeckis had been nominated a few times before for other (better) films and been passed over. The film's whimsical tone and popular appeal made it irresistible and dangerous to pass him over again. Keep in mind the central competition at the time was PULP FICTION, which has stood the test of time far better. So GUMP was a virtual no-brainer as the awards sweeper that year. So they gave it to Silvestri because fuck it, everyone gets an Oscar for this movie!

Yep, that is the wisdom Gump represents.

How can it be right wing when Forrest is the least racist character in the whole film??? He sees desegregation happen & goes to the girl: "Ma'am, you dropped your book" like he would with any woman. He takes Bubba so seriously it's how he starts shrimping, then when he makes his fortune, gives Bubba's share to Bubba's family. He listens to the Black Panther talk about his views, & probably understands it, as when the man talks of brothers dying on the front lines, he sees Bubba dying in front of him. The only reason he ends up having to leave is he won't stand for Jenny's boyfriend hitting her, meaning he also stands against DV & sexism. He wants Jenny to achieve her dreams, & doesn't want to see her used, as in the naked guitar scene. "He tried to grab you" "A lot of men try to grab me". And it's summed up after Dan's party fails: "He didn't want to be called crippled, like I didn't want to be called stupid". His whole attitude to the bad stuff is he wouldn't like it happening to him, so why let it happen to another person? Conservatives are the people who won't sit next to Forrest, or the ones who explain desegregation to Forrest with racist slurs beginning with C & N, or the ones abusing Jenny because they can, or the ones taking advantage of Forrest or bullying him as he grows up

​@@elaineb7065Man, you seem to really hate them fellers

@@darknessml6145 The bullies & racists, I hate their acts & attitudes as I can't stand bullying in any form. My blood recently had the second boil in as many months as I signed another petition to stop the bullying of trans people by authorities

I was thinking the same thing. Why would anyone have a problem with this movie?

​​@@mrwednesdaynight This days people in all the world has problems with everything. That's the reality, and is sh*t😅.

My film history prof did not like Forrest Gump. I don't think he enjoyed the saccharine sentimentality of it, said it was a film with no message. A bunch of my classmates did not enjoy this take lol.

Yeah I just come around to learn that there's people who hate this movie, and it's one of my favorites, maybe I'm not the proper person to judge since I'm not american and I wasn't alive back then, maybe it's more or less the same problem with Gone with the Wind. Edit: at least Forrest wasn't racist, he lived around black people since early age, when Alabama is famous for being one of the most racist states.

​@@sofiaciel7599A film with no message? That's far from the truth, there's a lot of life lessons to learn and history too, I genuinely admire Forrest's Mom, it reminds me so much of my own Mother trying to find a "normal school" to which I could attend, it really costed me to adapt, I'm saying this as someone who has Asperger's Syndrome.

As a child of a child of Boomers, this is a classic.

Y'all never grew?

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who remembered this!

@@Theomite If Forest Gump is a Boomer Fantasy then Pulp Fiction is a Boomer...

"Momma always said the RU-vid algorithm was like a box of chocolates. Ya know what yer gonna git, but every now and then somethin' crazy shows up and you think 'what the hell is this?'"

I hate to break it to you, but that was over 30 years ago.

@@thelight3112 Yes I know. That's why I brought it up. That's the point

​@@thelight3112same with black slave trade, yet look who keeps brining it up no matter how many years n decades roll by

My take on it is slightly different. I never thought anyone would take it literally, let alone find it an endorsement of U.S. policy. And why do so many Baby Boomers think this? Because no one in it stands up and says, The War in Vietnam was a bad thing. It was very bad and very wicked. Yes it was, but to demand that the movie should have been a nonstop denunciation of the War would have ruined it and made it into pure propaganda, which would have satisfied the Left, but also would have been jaw droppingly stupid. To be clear, I too, did not support the War. and yet, I like the film very much.

@@davedalton1273 There's no way the producers could have thoroughly denounced the Vietnam War and made this movie such a success. I enjoy it too - as a satire of recent American culture and society, where every major event can be more or less traced back to a severely deficient individual - but I have to admit that the producers presented a very safe message to their customers. I understand why, but I prefer movies that show a little grit.

A retard ends up living the American dream. He can do it but you can't 😂

"Forrest Gump" is probably Robert Zemeckis best work. There was a lot of satire and criticism of US history in the film but the story was presented in a way where it also works very well as a traditional emotional drama. The filmmaking criticizes horrible US policy like "Project 100,000" without needing to give needless exposition within the scene.

You stay that like people like forest gup don't exist... the word idot savant was a medical term for an autistic whois disabled but is the best in the world at ione thing... I'm a very disabled super savant we do exists and I do rember all those events of the oast 28 years due to 24 hour news.

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Brilliant movie and it bums me out that movies like that no longer get made

For me it’s Sneakers (1992) which is also my favorite hacker movie even though the term hacker is never used.

@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive I think it's used once but so stealthily that even I can't recall exactly when. I think it's not even really used to describe what they do, it's almost incidental.

I still like to imagine it as a sequel to THE CONVERSATION even though it's a big stretch to do so.

Pretty tough year, I'm glad that at least Pulp Fiction won best original screenplay, but it's a shame Shawshank didn't took any awards, that's also a close favorite of mine.

Yeah, which was the first major chink in my view of the Academy Awards. Now I couldn't care less about any of it.

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Considering how Hollywood is now trapped in reviving and extending well know franchises, I wouldn't be surprised if they attempted to make a Forrest Gump sequel, call it "Forrest Gump Jr"? Set in the most important events of 21st Century.

​@jesustovar2549 there was already a book sequel (Gunp & Co.) that did cover later events. It was weird. They tried to get the rights to film it, but the author said, "No." Due to Hollywood accounting practices, the film "lost" money and Winston Groom didn't receive royalties of the profit. So when they approached him about the sequel, he asked why they would want to make a sequel to a movie that lost money.

In the sequel, Forrest Gump Jr. would have been DJ Kool Herc's assistant at the dawn of Hip Hop, accidently scratching a record and creating the "break beat"!

The movie didn't have a political agenda - but even not having a political agenda is still a political agenda. The movie very carefully avoids politics, but in doing so it has to ignore and dismiss serious subjects. The agenda the movie pushes, inadvertently, is that of the status quo: No problems here, everything is great, so don't rock the boat or try to change anything.

@vylbird8014 Interestingly, the movie also works as a political rorschach test. Not deliberately, of course. As you say, it's careful to avoid any political statements. However, I've seen people read politics into it. Especially those who didn't care for it (and there are people who don't like it). People I know on the Right thought it had Left wing messages and vice versa. These sentiments seem to be based on what it doesn't condemn or address at certain points. Like the Black Panthers, the Viet Nam War, or the various times when Forrest is among political or divisive historical figures. And some people don't like it just because it doesn't "choose a side."

It’s really not “anti-political”. It’s clearly a right wing movie

@@Cartoonnetworkisamazing Showing the sh*t show that was Vietnam is right wing?

i wasn't there but i think by the 90's the vietnam war was wildly unpopular. its transgressive to protest the vietnam war while its happening. its transgressive to protest for civil rights in the 60's but today mlk is incorporated into the staus quo.

@@Cartoonnetworkisamazinghow💀

​@@mattevans4377My brother and I watched the Thomas movie so many times that we lost count and there were times that I got tired of it.

Bump is a Daoist

GUUUUUUUUUUUUMP!!! Whydidyouassembleyourweaponsoquickly!? ...because you told me to??

That's not even his extensive career during the 80's.

Yeah…Tom Hanks had been on the map since 1989 or so.

Ahh.. and people with these challenges aren't capable of that?

@@erichmyles4481 Not to the same extent, obviously. Should they be Air force pilots too, just so everyone feels good about themselves? Acting is a serious and difficult profession, particularly the ability to carry an entire film as the lead role. Can it be done? Yes. Is it a good idea? No.

@@laurast.martin2421 Damn, now you're not gonna let them be pilots? lmao it's not like they're gonna send unqualified people up, discluding people just because you dont like having them do hard things is kinda crazy

Did the video really suggest that? 😂 Probably plenty of opportunities yes, given time, lack of need for profit in order to develop scenarios, and skilled adaptive writing. Maybe if community theater came back in some form, as a development platform. 🤷‍♀. It’s like by watching a magical drama they now think magically, and that snapping their fingers with an idea makes it doable, not able to reason through factors of plausibility..

@@franciscovegamarquez7646 ... Maybe its time to stop learning things from memes bud...

I was in film school back then our profs wanted us to make Mr Holland's opus but we all wanted to make Pulp Fiction

Wrong generation. High schoolers in the 1950s would have been the Silent Generation. The Boomers didn't start high school until the 1960s.

you need to re watch Pleasantville, it's about censorship and the rise of fascism.

Being born in the early 70s, it was annoying in the 80s and 90s how self-obsessed the 60s generation was with itself in Hollywood. Half the TV shows and films were "We used to be hippies, but now we're older....here's an entire show and film genre about just that." I blame "The Big Chill".

​@@JonSmith-hk1bqwas Pleasantville even set in the 50s? I always thought it was early 60s TV.

Seeing how Hollywood is remaking things and doing unnecesary sequels, I think a Forrest Gump sequel would be possible. Closest we're gonna have tho is Robert Zemeckis' "HERE".

I would love to see this..... All the historical figures are just personas of Roger.

@@Outlawstar0198 he was responsible for the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Gordon Lightfoot was one of his personas

@@jesustovar2549 they would make Forrest gay w Lt. dan, Jenny a communist lesbian (I guess the commie part was pretty close)she would be the protagonist

But the main theory is true... If your americain you'll be alright... Like it was in the 90s,50s,20s...

That's when I knew it wasn't gonna work out w/ my ex-wife. She hated westerns, didn't like Forrest Gump, & said Cool Hand Luke was boring.

I love westerns and genuinely don’t get why people don’t like it. I understand personal preferences, but most people have never seen any "old school" western and criticize only a strawman about "killing no-name natives". I even ask for recommendations about such westerns about embalming traditional masculinity (western deal with the topic well and often and before other genres, with excellent pieces like my favorite The Big Country), heroic cowboys (in fact, there are not many westerns about cowboys...), and yes - no name natives. Every time I see anyone criticize this topic I ask for a tip. Never get one. A narrative about "modern revisionist westerns" is only another deep-seated myth because the genre deals with this "tradition" since the 50s and does it in a passing way. Especially funny I considered the one about natives, it's pretty hard to find "non western" with a significant native cast (ie I love Chris Eyre movies).

​@@ladypeahen8829 There is a slight problem with your technique, there, because *a lot* of people blur movies of genres they don't respect on their minds. If I asked my dad "Oh, really, which demonic possession movies you've seen?" he would draw blank, even The Exorcist would take a hot moment to be recalled by him, but he was most definitely in on why he didn't like the genre. Quite honestly, I'm not into Westerns, myself, but because most of its plots are a little less innovative than the average Meg Ryan rom com. So, now there come the screaming men who no one will stop, then they will rape the judge's daughter, now someone will say something nice to the prostitute to show how tolerant they are, now this good guy will punch that other good guy so me see he is even manlier in spite of being older, now they are cooped on the jail.... and now the sweet woman who never sinned is gonna take a shotgun and kill exactly one bandit, in a scene that will never be addressed, so I guess that means she has personality this... was she a school teacher, a quaker or what other estereotypical peaceful cliché thing? Eh, can't remember but *exactly once* she was a former prostitute. Realistically, I know my memory is mixing the cliché plots of Westerns decades apart (I think the 3 or 4 westerns featuring the rape of the judge's daughter must be from the 70s, because that feels like a very 70s scene), but after being forced to watch at least 3 Westerns every Sunday with my dad for decades... they all blur into an amorphous mass for me, enough that I can only name Sgt Ruthledge as one that I remember for being about something different and interesting (a court drama, all of a sudden, and one that *ISN'T* solved by a John Wayne wannabe making "shame on you" faces, no less???) That and that there is one in which the cowboys had the gayest conversation ever seen, even when compared to gay porn, about caressing each other guns, feeling their weight and sighing as they shoot a tin into the air. That was... something to wake me up. I guess the problem is that since most of them have the *exact* same scenery, the plot had to be far more distinct for each to stand on their own as more than "back in the day, men were MEN, and those who defied them were shot dead". Quite honestly, even though most people compare Westerns to Dirty Harry, in my experience they were a lot more like Death Wish. Sure, lots of "now there is no more law, all because the youngins are lawless and godless, I wish someone would kill them to make things right", but looking a loooot sadder while doing it, and often dying in the process, because old fellas know that "the world is against the good ones".

@@ladypeahen8829 honestly old school westerns were deconstructing and reevaluating their own tropes and myths at the peak of the genre. There’s a reason the Man who Shot Liberty Valance feels timeless. It did what people want genre to do 50 years ago.

I still like to watch old westerns with my Great Uncle, he considers himself kind of and old leftist, but he's pretty much a conservative with really homophobic tendencies, still love him tho.

I liked comment simply because you're gonna have a bunch of people here in the States googling the word "treacle." You are right, though.

There has been some discussion in more recent years whether Gump, as depicted in the movie and regardless of the filmmaker's intentions, is actually autistic rather than low IQ.

Especially since Shawshank Redemption would have been the right choice

Apples and Oranges, I love Forrest Gump but that dosen't mean I can't enjoy a good Quentin Tarantino flick.

​@@MrKurtykurtIt's a shame Shawshank didn't took any awards, I would have given it to Morgan Freeman for best supporting actor. It's not coincidence that I love both Forrest and Shawshank.

I was certainly offended at the time.

It got best screenplay which it definitely deserved. And tbh that seems a more fitting Oscar for that film since it did have better writing than Gump.

Same, and I was only born 10 years after it.

@@jesustovar2549 Me as well.

Lol, no it is not.

It tastes pretty good though, the ice cream that is

Oh yeah remember the old trailer narrator's voice, that died around mid 2000s.

​@@jesustovar2549*"In a world... where no one listens to a male voice speaking in a low register excitedly..."*

No, just a hoe......

A few people on the internet start to criticize years later, and then all of a sudden they claim it’s controversial now even though nearly everyone who watched the movie loves it

It was a time filled with optimism, as the Cold War was over and 9/11 didn't yet happen.

90's were great, as everything was still going up. Now everything's seen as crap, and everything's a political battlegound. This age is a major bummer in every way I can think of. Tech has gotten better in, well, technical terms, but everything the tech can provide to us is more crappy and lame.

​@@FINNSTIGAT0R) so not any different from any era?

Armagdddon is truly a guilty pleasure, tho I think The Rock is Michael Bay's best movie, also Sean Connery's last 007 film.

They're still two of my faves

I read two books recently one about Taxi Driver and the other about the shawshank redemption and the modern writers started babbling on a lot of toxic tripe about how the shawshank redemption was about fragile and toxic masculinity and taxi driver was abhorrent because Travis was a Grape-ist honestly it's terrifying and so sinister how younger people think now

@@jplonsdale7242You do realize that when Taxi Driver came out not everybody loved it. I know your film bro mind will be blown but people can have different opinions of films both in their time and over time because things in life actually change for some people.

I'm born in the early 21st Century and I love this film, how is that? Several friends my age do.

Have you ever read any film reviews of silent films written back in the 1900s? Same thing, nothings' changed. This era isn't special or strange.

There was a book sequel