Forrest Gump (1994) MOVIE REACTION **FIRST TIME WATCHING** 

Buckle up, dude.

Ohhhhh sh------t, we're in for a ride fellas....

@@jjsdad4952 the only thing about this movie that doesn’t make any sense is the Apple part because in the 90s Apple was almost bankrupt so for stock would’ve been worth nothing. the 90s stock for apple went from 140 to 14 but now its like 224.

I just wanted to say thank you. I appreciate the reaction

It’s like a supernatural fairytale 💀🥹🥹🥹

Yes, I’ve seen some reactors that just hate on her ALL thru the movie. Obviously they’ve never been through trauma. These guys understood from the beginning.

Her abusive father destroyed her ability to respect and love herself. She kept running and looking for a reason to love herself. She spent the next 30 years building her self-worth....and finally succeeded when she last saw Forrest.

@@cog4life ... Many of them just have problems with women.

It still doesn't excuse how she treated Forrest. I get childhood trauma.... Its still not okay

basicly every reactor understod that they just understand also that it dosent matter she is a horror show of a person she is uber selfish

An hour and 17 minutes! Wow! You guys might want to let a thought go now and then. Other than that, love ya...

EVERYBODY cries watching this movie (or they're not human)!

Yes we cry, but sometimes we push the pain deep inside, out of the light, even when we're alone. 🥺

@@TylerD288 I legit want to give you a hug right now 'cuz dang! 😢

@@imajinallthepurple awe, thanks. ❤ Kind words, much appreciated.

Gen X rules!

​​@@FirelightlyYeah it does!!!!!!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊

It makes a difference doesn't it?

IS THIS A JOKE.. THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW GEORGE WALLACE

@@patrick-qs8gn or AIDS/HIV

@@ozzmandias0083 When Forrest tells her "You're my girl", it always touches me. He didn't know hatred, he knew love. And she was the one he loved the most. Didn't matter what she did, even to him, he always loved her.

@@kazbaby this comment is very true, as a survivor myself it takes the purest thing imaginable to change your own mind about you, a baby. It’s not the case for everyone but I believe it was the case for Jenny and myself ♥️

I never would have seen this take. Thank you for opening my eyes to this angle. This movie becomes more and more of a masterpiece everytime I see it

@@kazbaby thank you.

Believe me; if it wasn’t for Jenny’s childhood trauma, she would have treated Forrest differently.

Paramount popped for audio description, so that helps.

@@ariceagaandros how about he forced Nixon to resign due to the Watergate scandal when it was Nixon who got him the room at the Watergate hotel.

Also when he was running, the news called him a gardener from Greenbo Alabama.

@@user-uz9nn8hx5u ...Well, that's what he was.

@@user-uz9nn8hx5u Technically, the people who discovered him did, so Forrest still keeps his status of being impactful upon history on a level that's not widely known to the public.

I still call Gary Lt. Dan.

Not just the young men, I've seen plenty of young women be mean towards her as well. One might have expected them to have more empathy, but I guess that's not the case.

I agree they got her better than moat others do so I was surprised when they didnt understand she got the new fangled AIDS virus.

@@JustGrowingUp84 Agreed. The lack of understanding and empathy is staggering, bewildering, and sad.

Others really _do_ 💩 all over Jenny. Like, *hello* are you paying attention to her LIFE???🤦🏾‍♀️

No I understand Jenny I just don’t like her. To quote Brooklyn 99 “cool motive, still murder.” I know people like her in real life and eventually you need to put your foot down and let their trauma excuse continued bad behavior. I’ll give her credit though, she found help and eventually straightened herself out. I wish more people would look for that help and accept it.

Well said, moral clarity is more valuable than IQ in life.

At that year's Oscar awards, Tom Hanks said as much, that in a time when most people were unsure, Forrest Gump's own moral compass always remained true.

Real morality, yes

Just seeing reality as it is. Clarity on reality

yeah Jenny in general is a very misunderstood character (sadly)

@@ChrisFrom515 it’s ultimately self-worth and self-love that Jenny doesn’t have due to her father. She is actually a sweet human being but it was her trauma that shaped her into who she is

It was a skill that saved him many times. I always took his three year run as a response to the emotional trauma of her leaving for what felt like the last time. Running is what he did when he was in trouble. I feel very strongly that the fact that he felt like running for three years after she left was no coincidence.

Exactly; the girl clearly suffered from PTSD and severe depression…and she sadly never gotten any professional help or therapy as it was during the late 80s where the awareness on mental health was not prominent to the public

Bedford Forrest was a very effective CSA General. He formed the KKK. He left them behind, after the group went beyond guarding Whites' interests, and got very violent.

Brilliant line and a very true statement. There aren't enough.

His emotional intelligence is very high. I wouldn't even say he's unintelligent in general either.

I was kind of surprised they cut that out of this edit. Obviously, they can't keep everything in, but that one has to go?

@@sproductionsinc He was definitely not intelligent academically.

"She was finally facing her demons and leaving to get herself clean and worthy" By contracting HIV

Forrest said it best: Sometimes you got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

She wasnt facing her demons she was running away just like she did with everything

@@joshsaunders6392 watch the movie again and then read this comment again

@@danayneal4409 I love that take.

I am so sorry for your loss. I am lucky enough to be married to my best friend and I know what that's like.

@@windwarattack2300 Godspeed good sir

Thank you so much, that really means a lot to us. We have heard the sentiment about Jenny quite a bit and to me it is shocking. How do people miss the fact that she grew up being abused? A couple of people in the comments have called her a villain. She’s a victim, not a villain

I also find it funny they both play in Apollo 13 the following year lol

@@brettcloud8550 true but I didn't watch that

@@phtevenj you should, as it's a great movie

@@user-yu9uw8wo9o too based in reality for me 🤣

In the book, which was more fun, Forest was in space with a monkey.

Spine problems do affect the ability to use your legs. I can no longer walk because of spinal problems. In my case it was the opposite of Forrest because it began 60 years later in my life than it did in Forrest's early years.

@@sharonhoyt2133 thats not what he said. the treatment on the leggs with bracers was to force the spine in a straight line while in the developing phases of childhood. That was a way to treat scoliosis. When the spine grew straight and could do so on its own, the need for the bracers would disappear as depicted in this movie that forest could run freely without bracers once his spine was corrected. In the movie it just feels like 5 minutes, but i could have been a year or 2 passed once he got the bracers until they got assaulted by the boys on bikes. so yes, in the context of this movie, the bracers had nothing to do with his ability to walk. The spine was the problem and the bracers where the solution to the spine broblem. The bracers did not treat the symptom, but the disease.

@@ronniebots9225 To be fair, Sharon is also correct. I was in a bad car accident about 11 years ago and it messed up my spine. As a result, my hips were misaligned and I had more difficulty walking than I did before. Chiropractic has so much to do with our mobility and joint pain.

@@ronniebots9225 I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was addressing him saying that nothing was wrong with his legs. He had to have the leg braces because he could not walk due to spine issues. I was simply pointing out that the spine affects the ability to walk. IE. Forrest and I both had walking problems because of the spinal issues but they definitely affected the legs. If the legs do not work because of the spine it is still an issue with the legs.

It wasn’t her fault. She was broken and only doing what she knew.

That part always confuses me. I was only 23 when this came out. And we were so much less aware of what trauma does to a person. But I understood Jenny perfectly. “Sometimes I guess there just aren’t enough rock” is the most underrated movie quote of all time.

@@krisfrederick5001 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much. Made our day!

@@Mister_Samsonite Well said!! I agree!! The best!

I love these guys!!!!!❤❤❤ They are my FAVORITE!!!

@@chelseyleachman4 The movie is better with him having a southern accent.

@@Potatopugs came here to say this!

Actually in the book and movie its Hepatitis C that she has which was new at the time also and was a death sentence. It was not transmitted to child or sexual partner so forrest and jnr are OK It was from shared needles.

Sometimes it takes being in the belly of the beast to truly understand the hurt it is causing before one can change.

@@danayneal4409 I didn't know that. That is a cool fact.

@@danayneal4409 right, I think they missed when Forrest said that she named him that to remind him that sometimes people do things that make no sense. Like starting the KKK.

Learn something new every day. I'd always known NBF had founded the KKK, but always thought his story pretty much ended there. I had no idea that he later had regrets and, in time, even reversed his views to some extent. Amazing.

Because your vocabulary includes hyperbole and recollections, I highly doubt your IQ is 45 😂

Glad you enjoyed!

​@@mikeyshowpresentsI'm so glad can I watch you guys reaction to this. As many people have said here already... both of you really "get" Jenny right from the beginning. Also you both don't blame her or shame her as I've seen quite a few other reactors do. AS someone has gone through childhood trauma somewhat similar to hers and also as an adult with abuse. I've also struggled with drugs so this has ALWAYS been something that bothered me about other reactors because they came off as very judgmental. If you haven't experienced it TRUST ME you don't know the ins and outs of a lot of OUR COMMUNITY'S survivor instincts and how we end up maneuvering through life. Yes we ARE a community because statistically we do have a higher rate of not just drug and alcohol abuse. But we also have one of the highest rates of suicide attempts and ALSO successful suicides. Sooo... THAT'S why it turned me off to other reactors when they dogged Jenny. Even when some of them KINDA got where she was coming. Because some of them STILL smack about her. THAT just really blew me away and IMO was like bottom feeding or what song is picking low hanging fruit IF those expressions make sense to you guys? I'm glad that you both kept reiterating a message of not to do drugs in your video.... It's very important. I tell tell people that I have more dead friends than I have live friends, AND that actually is the truth. Thank you both for treating Jenny with such an amount of genuine grace and understanding and a caring spirit. There is an expression~Hurt people hurt people and that's partly WHY Jenny does some of the things she's done in Life. It also applies as for WHY she's been self destructive in her Life. It doesn't always have to be an outward issue on our part. Thanks again! #CleanOVER20YRS #NYGenXBIKERLady

@@stanzaloan3454 lol, in the beginning, they weren’t invested yet. I kept waiting…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 💥

@@Mister_Samsonite ooooh, that's why so many people hated it from the get go and never gave it a chance! Fortunately I was 9 back then so when I watched all 3 of them in the subsequent years, I would never have thought to compare them, as they're all clearly masterpieces of their genre.

@@carlalussini No argument there. I was 23 and saw all 3 of them not long after release - loved them all. Every so often there is a really tough year for "best picture", even knowing they don't often get it right. The same thing happened with Titanic and L.A. Confidential. Both great films, and a tough choice.

Forrest Gump is better. My opinion.

@@sharonhoyt2133 if it is "your opinion" and not you thinking you or anyone have the authority to declare what art is better than another, then you're opinion isn't that "is better" but that you prefer it. I do too.

@@carlalussini The semantics of opinions can be a slippery slope. Saying a movie or song is better than another is like saying that vanilla is objectively better than butter pecan. I know what I like, but I don't expect anyone else to like it.

Wow, thank you!!!

I said Submersion but I meant Emersion.

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Lived *

Me too! I watch other [younger] reactors when the scene comes on and they have no clue that it’s Bear Bryant in his signature hat. 😊

The houndstooth hat should tell everyone that this was Bear Bryant. I afraid that the audience for this movie is dying off. You would have to be a US citizen older than 60 years to get all of the references. A millennial in Sydney, Australia would have no idea who Bear Bryant or George Wallace was. He wouldn’t know where the Watergate scandal got its name. He might not even know the lyrics to Imagine. Sadly, the shelf life of this movie is expiring. Future generations will not ponder the question: are we all living a life with a predetermined destiny, or are we going through life with our eyes closed, floating through our days like a feather on the breeze?

@@cammygram1 I was born in ‘96 and didn’t see this movie until well into the 2000s but being from Tuscaloosa, AL it was almost a requirement to recognize Bear Bryant in this movie 😂

Agreed!! Of all of the reactions to this movie that I have watched, this has leapfrogged in to the front.Thanks for your heartfelt observations gentlemen!!

Those are extremely kind words. Thank you so much for such a beautiful comment. That is really kind. Please give us a subscription if you can, we would appreciate it!

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Sean’s voice is like honey, ain’t it??