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re: Does the time line of Forrest Gump bother you?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:39 pm to theantiquetiger
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:39 pm to theantiquetiger
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Does the time line of Forrest Gump bother you?
The only thing about Forrest Gump that bothered me is that Jenny did not get nekid...
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Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:56 pm to theGarnetWay
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While we're at it. How come every one else aged so damn poorly except for him?
Gump takes care of himself. No booze, no drugs, he exorcises, sleeps 8 hours every night, eats healthy... his only real vice seems to be his love of Dr Pepper.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 3:08 pm to jimboslice
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if the timeline bothered you, then im sure you're bothered that the same guy overcame both his physical and mental handicaps to become buds with Elvis and John Lennon, meet 3 presidents, All-American football player, army veteran and hero, world class ping pong player, world renowned long distance runner, shrimp boat captain, and millionaire business owner and investor.... seems pretty far fetched amirite
Hahaa, yea out of all the things to complain about, the timeline flaws seem pretty minor by comparison.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 3:12 pm to Dr RC
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Gump takes care of himself.
The frick are you talking about? He drinks more Dr Pepper than water, bare backs AIDS chicks, eats enough icecream for two, and kisses hookers on the mouth. Yeah, clean living.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 3:54 pm to jimboslice
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if the timeline bothered you, then im sure you're bothered that the same guy overcame both his physical and mental handicaps to become buds with Elvis and John Lennon, meet 3 presidents, All-American football player, army veteran and hero, world class ping pong player, world renowned long distance runner, shrimp boat captain, and millionaire business owner and investor
And valedictorian at the University of Alabama.
Wait, that part is believable.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 3:58 pm to theantiquetiger
Botched timelines bother me as well. Especially when films make a point out of their being period films.
I'd mentioned all of the anachronisms in The Nice Guys in a previous thread. It was a 70's film that just sort of threw random 70's and 80's stuff in to set a hazy time period. (BTW, the WB logo shown at the start of the film was the logo that was in use from '72 to '84, so they sort of tried.)
I really appreciate when films/TV shows go out of their way to be accurate. On Better Call Saul, they had a flashback to the early 70's. Every magazine and comic on the magazine rack in that scene was from the same week/month. Somebody took the time to find out which issues of Superman, Time, Mad Magazine, etc. would all be on display that day. Pretty cool.
I'd mentioned all of the anachronisms in The Nice Guys in a previous thread. It was a 70's film that just sort of threw random 70's and 80's stuff in to set a hazy time period. (BTW, the WB logo shown at the start of the film was the logo that was in use from '72 to '84, so they sort of tried.)
I really appreciate when films/TV shows go out of their way to be accurate. On Better Call Saul, they had a flashback to the early 70's. Every magazine and comic on the magazine rack in that scene was from the same week/month. Somebody took the time to find out which issues of Superman, Time, Mad Magazine, etc. would all be on display that day. Pretty cool.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 4:12 pm to theantiquetiger
no because it's a movie. it bothers me that no one tells Forrest to get an HIV test because he's too stupid to know he should do that...which is why i guess why they didn't specify what jenny died from
Posted on 2/22/17 at 4:15 pm to theantiquetiger
quote:It's what got me started on heroin. Damn that movie!
Does the time line of Forrest Gump bother you?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 4:16 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Botched timelines bother me as well. Especially when films make a point out of their being period films.
forrest gump isn't really a period film. it's a bunch of periods, but what's important is that this unremarkable idiot becomes involved in all of these remarkable events, plus those scenes are all very quick. the important scenes with the drama aren't full of "hey look, it's 1973" or whatever time period they're trying to set.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 4:18 pm to theantiquetiger
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Does the time line of Forrest Gump bother you?
Not even a little bit. And I'm terrible at suspension of disbelief.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 8:11 pm to LucasP
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Honestly it would be weirder if the timeline was airtight
Has a movie ever pulled this off?
A Christmas Story had 1980s cars in the background when the kid had his tongue frozen to the pole. You're guaranteed to miss something along the way.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 9:56 pm to BCMCubs
Hey the movie Made Jenny that way. She wasn't that way in the book so that's how I like to remember her.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 10:05 pm to The Spleen
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It's a pretty sloppy movie.
Love Hanks but it's one of my least favorite movies ever and how it beat Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture was a travesty.
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