re: Does anyone buy that Forrest was the father of Jenny's son?

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The position held by beta males.

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I would actually argue the exact opposite given that your position requires leaps of faith in reasoning and a tendency to see the "feel good" compassionate result rather than the manifestation of will triumphing over seemingly insurmountable odds.

So I'd posit that your suggestion is compensating for the obvious "beta" qualities inherent in your belief that the ball was dropped on purpose.

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I think the end of the movie was actually set on the mid-80s

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Agreed. It was probably early to mid 80s.

When Forrest is talking at Jenny's grave it says she died March 22, 1982. Although it's hard to determine if her tombstone had a typo or what exactly happened in the Forrest Gump timeline from the late 70s to Jenny's death because:

1. Forrest begins running the day after him and Jenny hookup. It's also the day President Carter collapses (September 15, 1979). When he stops running, he says, "I had run for three years, two months, fourteen days, and sixteen hours." Some time later, he gets Jenny's letter - the day President Reagan is shot (March 30, 1981). So, not only did Forrest only run for one and a half years. But it woulda been pretty tough for Jenny to have a 4 year old in that time.

2.)When Forrest is talking to Jenny at her grave, he says "You died on a Saturday." But March 22, 1982 was a Monday.

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What is this in reference to?

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A League of Their Own

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Whether Dottie dropped the ball on purpose is to the Movie Board as Lee vs JJ is to the Rant or at least is comparable to the OTs Kate Upton fat vs hot.

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Agreed. I've gone all in in two different threads from the past and it sucked all of the energy out of me. I don't think I could even bear doing it again.

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I mean.... she did. She realized Kit needed the game and the win more than she did. Dottie had her husband back so baseball was no longer a top priority for her. Kit on the other hand had nothing else. Dottie knew this and dropped the ball on purpose to Kit could have what she always wanted, which was to be better than Dottie in baseball and step out of Dottie's shadow.

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Ahh, so many leaps of faith.

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IMO Jenny is the biggest POS in movie history

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I've joked with my brother before about how it's going to be an awkward conversation when Little Forrest asks Big Forrest about his mom and dad's backstories when he gets older.

LF: "Dad, tell me about mom."

BF: "Well, she dropped out of college, was a drifting hippie in the '60s, did more drugs than Chong, played guitar and sang naked in clubs, dated a violent member of the Black Panthers, became a coke fiend in the '70s, ran off and left me a few times, and didn't tell me about you until you were 4."

LF: "Whoa. What about you?"

BF: "I was an All-American football player at Alabama for Bear Bryant, served in the Army in Vietnam, won the Medal of Honor for saving my platoon during a firefight, became a world champion ping pong player, built the largest shrimping business in the South from absolutely nothing, met 3 US Presidents, and was an initial investor in Apple."

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I mean.... she did. She realized Kit needed the game and the win more than she did. Dottie had her husband back so baseball was no longer a top priority for her. Kit on the other hand had nothing else. Dottie knew this and dropped the ball on purpose to Kit could have what she always wanted, which was to be better than Dottie in baseball and step out of Dottie's shadow.

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Truth.

If she was only naming the kid after Gump to cash in . . .

She wouldnt have waited until she was dying to collect on that investment.

Ergo, the kid was his

I'd serioulsy love someone to do a pyschological study on this topic. How someone can conjure up that Dottie dropped it on purpose using all that plausible, yet completely contextually unsupported speculation is beyond me.

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I mean.... she did. She realized Kit needed the game and the win more than she did. Dottie had her husband back so baseball was no longer a top priority for her. Kit on the other hand had nothing else. Dottie knew this and dropped the ball on purpose to Kit could have what she always wanted, which was to be better than Dottie in baseball and step out of Dottie's shadow

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I see the arguments on both sides, but I'm settled on the side she didn't drop it on purpose. She had many opportunities to tank the game, generally, and, in fact, could have let Kit be the hero in regulation. The only way you can believe that Dottie dropped it on purpose is, either:

A. Dottie knew/engineered the game coming down to the wire, and deliberately set Kit up to win, or,

B. Dottie made an impulsive decision to drop it on purpose, sometime after Kit got on base the last time.

And both of those are very unlikely.

Back to Gump:

Jenny is one of the least likeable romantic leads in film history, period. The royal screwing she put to Forrest is epic - Biblical - Cersei Lannister is more likeable, in hindsight.