Forrest Gump (1994) Movie Reaction [First Time Watching] 

if u want a mental movie ,go for " crank 2006 "

CRASH!!!

love from India, by the way, you can watch the Indian version Forrest Gump trailer. it is released in August. it is an official remake of the original Forrest Gump. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R6savS7m0Fg.html ( official trailer link )

I didn't see anyone mention it, but you guys left out where Forrest calls security when he sees people snooping around at that hotel. Those were the guys who did the Watergate break-in. Just another way he changed history all by himself.

I totally agree!! I never get tired of watching and I love it’s innocent yet timeless feel.

Between your comment and the bowie thumbnail, two thumbs up 👍👍

Forrest Gump IS NOT 'special', he's just like all the other kids.

"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."

Movie should have been named Forrest Dumb

And every life he touched, that person changed for the better.

@@bettybaby63 How'd it work out for Nixon?

quite exactly! i am confused if the little forrest was his kid, but to be honest i dont really care.. i know Forrest will take care of him as his own. Jenny was the only friend Forrest had.. he couldn't give up on her no matter what.. due to his lack sense of judgemental mindset.. he gave her the most innocent and pure love she could have.. she didn't think she deserved it.. her life was too messed up.. in the end she did the right thing

She was trailer trash. Case closed.

@@justmeeagainn I bet you totally undrstood Will Hunting.... same issue. It's terribly sad and terrifying to see people not get Jenny.

@@shinrapresident7010 Who did she abuse again? The only thing she did was run every time things got too personal, she almost took her life to run away from herself. And had a child and instead of sucking Forest dry she sorted her shit out and raised a fine you boy. Anyway it takes empathy to grasp it and thankfully there are people with hearth and compassion to help these people. Anyway I am done with this...just too disheartning.

@@justmeeagainn Wow you really understand the world,lol.

wow.. if she is the same lady.. she never aged!

And another detail; she smoked at the beginning, but by the end, she's chewing gum, which means she put in effort to kick the habit. Even if she didn't leave the town by doing the same thing over and over again, she still managed to turn her life around in her own significant way.

Hurt people hurt people. Jenny in a nutshell, at least until she got clean, had her kid, and had her happy ending with Forrest and married him.

Thank you! Jenny was complicated but their was no doubt she loved forrest too but the way Forrest wanted it

feel the same thing :(

for real?

@@MJoy4Fun Yes

they don't let evil in the world taint them and that's what makes them special! God bless you and your son! 😊

@@MJoy4Fun God Bless you and family too, I can see the goodness in you, keep up the good work..

oh my goodness! that is scary...no wonder jenny was so complicated

it isn't because "she feels she aint' good enough", what ends up happening with those people is that stability (and similar related things) gets them nervous/uneasy.

Good Will Hunting... pretty much the same thing. Since Will is a "pov" chacter I've seen the same people who hate Jenny love Will. It's diapointing and kind of scary. "He pushes people away before they get to leave him." That's why her advice to Forest has always been "run!"

@@larrote6467 nah

@@larrote6467 why do you think it has to be one or the other? It's very much either/or... _or_ both.

@@znk0r exactly. Some double standard bullshit

To understand America you just have to understand optimism

@@oaf-77 Optimism on Forrest's side of the story, pessimism on Jenny's.

@@jp3813 But she gets her redemption. So, there's optimism in that. 😊

@@kldawson53 Balanced out by Forrest losing her.

as an european i might disagree. i can see your position from an us side but this movie even appeals to us. its about the message sent

thank you! we reacted to shawshank!

She died of aids. The director has said this many many times.

No, she died of Hepatitis C, the author came out and confirmed it a few years a ago. If it was aids, that would insinuate that Forrest and his son likely had it as well. Seems kinda like a morbid way to end an uplifting movie.

@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 in the movie she died of aids!!! I’m so tired of having this disc with people. I don’t care what happened in the book I’m talking about the MOVIE!!!!

@@sweetkiss119 The book is terrible, by the way. Forrest is a very unlikeable character in it and there's a scene where Jenny (and another girl) basically rape him in it.

what the heck?? really???

One of the many simple lines delivered so perfectly by Hanks in this movie.

It's also a subtle hint that he is not Forest's biological son.

That part and also when he says ” I miss you jenny” always gets me

🤣i guess we will do some comedy films then

Thank you! we feel that this is the best way to really enjoy the film and appreciate it. That's why we pause and talk during the movie because we don't wanna miss important stuff (some people doesn't agree to it) but it helps us to better understand the film

I think they already reacted to The Green Mile

hahaha.. for a minute there our hearts stopped!

I think it has a lot to do with that scene where she shows Forrest her breasts. She doesn't seem to treat Forrest as a serious love interest, as these reactors pointed out, and in that particular scene led him on. Additionally, and this is probably unfair, I think people don't care for her reaction/lifestyle of running away from her troubles and her encouragement of Forrest to do the same. It's one way of dealing with her trauma, whereas Forrest always confronted his traumas--although often internally. The closest we get to a scene with Jenny showing some contemplation of her life's choices are when she stands on the edge of that hotel balcony and an on-the-nose remark from a taxi driver as she runs from Forrest after (unknowingly) getting impregnated by him.

@@cinemappendix1389 I can't argue the logic I just think those traits are understandable and don't outweigh the unseen good she'd done for Forrest considering Forrest describes her as his ONLY friend. Once she knows Forrest has it more together than she does in terms of stability (mama to college to the military) in his life and meeting a new best friend in Bubba she stays away from him as her previous trauma and the start of the hippy movement and music scene and wanting to go in that direction to escape her upbringing means she has to get away from Forrest as she knows she's no good for him. She's not a bad person, simply flawed, she dies knowing she gave Forrest the one thing in his life he didn't know he was missing

@@A-small-amount-of-peas there's also this: where do you draw the line? I wouldn't dare say where, but the point being that at one point every single human being becomes repsonsible for their actions. And you can't keep trying to help someone who doesn't accept help, patience has it's limits too. In this particular case: where would you draw that line?

@@A-small-amount-of-peas Forrest himself brings that point home while (in maybe the best scene in the movie) he describes how Jenny was with him in all of those times and in all the places he visited. I think people reject Jenny because she is flawed and Forrest is really not flawed as a character. They see too much of themselves in her and it sickens them.

Understanding Jenny's trauma and condoning her actions I think are different issues

ofcourse... is easy to judge. in fact i believe that Jenny loved him more than he died by protecting him from her... you may wonder (well why she acted like an a**hole) couple of times towards him... that's a protective mechanism from people with deep trauma.. they want to test u how much u are able to use or hate them... bcuz they dont believe they can be loved. when they cannot make u hate or use them.. they get afraid bcuz they are not used to be around goodness or nice people like that.. so they ran away cuz they feel unworthy...

She still probably gave Forrest aids and i dont hate her as a character but she genuinely was unworthy of Forrest

She was trash. People have to take responsibility for themselves. Plus she conned Forrest in the end into thinking her bastardized spawn was his kid.

@@justmeeagainn Conned him? How? Why? She didn’t care about his money. If she asked, Forrest would have given her every cent of his money.

Meh, I still agree with Weird Al Yankovic's opinion of her.

thank youuuu

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed this one

oops! probably we did that with many other movies lol

@@MJoy4Fun Don't feel bad guys. There's a good number of young Americans missing a lot of that in Forrest Gump because they didn't experience the times. BTW, cool shirt Marian! I was born in S.C. 😁

I feel that for everyone watching this movie who wasn't in junior high when JFK was President or 20 during the Vietnam war or at the time of Wallace or Nixon. It's like expecting people to react to the song American Pie. Really not fair.

Thank you so much!

thank you so much! ☺

i knoww! too bad we don't know a lot of American history

we willl!!!!

ohhh yesss

i had a fishy feeling about it honestly

Hey mrdegrassifreak! Forrest Gump is certainly an Inspirational movie! It has a great balance of many different genres of film (Drama, Comedy, Romance, "Coming-Of-Age", War Film, etc...). And The performances are VERY good, especially from Tom Hanks (and Gary Sinise as Lt. Dan is another favorite of mine)! Personally, I often connect with this movie because my brother actually has Autism (I know Forrest did not have Autism, but him and my brother can relate a bit in that they are both disabled). I also just wanted to mention that Last Year, I actually posted a video on my RU-vid channel that was almost like a tribute video to Forrest Gump (though I called it a Mashup). You see, there's a band named Family Of The Year, and they used their hit song "Hero" for Richard Linklater's 2014 movie called Boyhood. For my video, I used "Hero" as background music while showing various scenes from Forrest Gump. Aside from matching song lyrics with movie scenes, my intention with the video was to try and create something unique. If you have a few minutes sometime and are interested, here is a link to that video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Or-sIiNANYg.html If you don't check it out, no worries at all! I won't be offended! But thank you so much in advance if you do see it! I hope you Have a great day today, mrdegrassifreak! And please stay safe too! :)

It's not that we don't sympathize with Jenny's childhood, but it doesn't justify her actions or give her a pass for treating Forrest like she did throughout the movie. It just seems convenient that now she has an incurable disease she now wants to be with Forrest let alone tell him he has a son. Had she not be sick, would she have told him about Forrest, let alone ask to marry Forrest...probably not.

forrest was the main character in the film... the film showed us who forrest was and is... but we only know so little of jenny and that's why a lot of people will see her as the villain of this film

I gotta disagre about the american part. Im swedish and gets the points, but I know my history and know about most of the events even though I was'nt born until the 80's. I agree about the movie being about big points in american history and that's important to know about elvis, aids, vietnam, jfk and much much more.

@@junglekimmy3611 Glad to see I'm not entirely right, then. Knowing history - one reactor I watched didn't know who JFK was - makes the movie more comprehensible. Otherwise, it's just a (rather weird and sad) romance

welcome to the club haha

@@MJoy4Fun I've got a couple decades on you whippersnappers. 😉

we did already!!! check our moviess

100% agree. Very underrated movie.

we are slowly discovering more timeless movies and feel free to suggest some!

THIS is what Tom Hanks, himself, says he said (explanation found online) : When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks he 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. (Audibly) And that's all I have to say about that."

yes exactly! we don't see jenny as a villain.. we saw her as a victim!

@@MJoy4Fun I wrote that early on before you guys started coming around to her

most of the time i cut my own hair haha. after going through the Corona phase... i ain't trust anyone to cut my hair lol

Many of the wars scenes were shot in South Carolina near the coast.

@@WPA33SC Yep, they were. And in Savannah, Georgia, also.