FORREST GUMP (1994) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

I'm a double amputee above the knee. An IED under our lvat 10 years ago. Gary Sinice visited me personally afterwards.

This movie changed Gary Sinise' life. He formed the Gary Sinise Foundation to aid disabled veterans. He sends the families of veterans and gold star families on all expense paid vacations to Disneyland via his Snowball Express. He tours military bases all over the world with his band, The Lt. Dan Band. He is an American patriot.

The “Is he smart, or is he…” line ALWAYS breaks my heart. You spend the whole movie watching people be cruel to Forrest and him not really acknowledging it, and you imagine that the reason he lets it go is partly because “stupid is as stupid does,” partly because he doesn’t really understand it because of his disability, and partly because he’s just a genuinely kind man. And then he meets his son. And the VERY FIRST thing Forrest is worried about is if his son will have to go through all of the cruelty Forrest himself went through, and you realize that he has ALWAYS understood what those cruel people were doing to him. He’s always known; he’s just too good of a person to let it affect him. But that line shows that he doesn’t want his son to have to go through what he did. He met his son twenty seconds ago, and he already wants his son to have a better life than he had.

Cassie and Carly - I don't know if you ever read these comments but I want to share an anecdote with you regarding the movie. My sister worked on post-production on "Forrest Gump" for nearly a year as an ADR editor (ADR = Automatic Dialog Replacement). Part of her job involved synchronizing the footage where the movie superimposed Forrest into scenes using archive footage of the governor of Alabama, George Wallace blocking the integration of black students into segregated white only schools in the 1960s. She and her team also had to sync the dialog when Forrest met Presidents Kennedy and Johnson so that Forrest appeared to converse with both Kennedy and Johnson at their respective meetings. My sister won the Golden Reel award for Best Sound Editing - ADR editing awarded at the Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards in 1995.

Forrest’s speech at the Vietnam protest, by the way, is: “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas 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.”

British Army veteran here. A good friend of mine came back from Iraq paralysed from the chest down as a result of spinal injuries. Told he would never walk again he vowed to prove them wrong. A year later, with the aid of braces and a large wooden staff, he walked 2 miles a day, till after 13 days he completed the London Marathon. This and other events, he achieved his goal of raising £1m for charity to help other wounded veterans and service personnel. Three years later he completed the same London Marathon again, but this time in 26hrs.

Forrest and Lt. Dan also acted together in Apollo 13 so it's kinda funny when he says his new legs are made of titanium alloy like they use on the space shuttle.

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“I guess sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks” 🤣 such a great line perfectly delivered.

Forrest lived his life like a child, Jenny couldn't escape her childhood, and it took a child to bring them together at the end. Complete circle.