"My gorge rises at it" -- Hamlet
Added 11/8/2009
Is there room on here to fit all of what Forrest Gump means to me and possibly others? Probably not! Forrest Gump mixes so many styles of film in one movie it is incredible. It is a comedy, drama, war movie, love story, one of spiritual enlightenment, but most importantly it is about a life. We all walk this earth and from the beginning of our life, we grow, we laugh and love, we have pain and heartache, and eventually we die. How will others remember us? How in a positive way have we touched others during our life?
The Blu-Ray version of this film is like watching it again for the first time. There are little things in the background that stand-out unlike the regular version. The battle scene is visually striking.
In the play Hamlet, Hamlet is in the graveyard and comes across Yorrick's skeleton. Yorrick was the king's jester and Hamlet spent a great time with him when he was younger. As he holds his skull, he speaks the lines, "My gorge rises at it (his skull)" meaning his throat rises at it. I always took this to mean his spirit was moved to the point of being choked up! There are quite a few scenes in this film that bring me to that point. To me these aren't superficial feelings, as in other films, but touches the spirit, and that is why I feel that Forrest Gump is more than a film, but a life lesson.
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Don't buy this: it's the same as the 2001 set in a new box
Added 11/6/2009
The kitchy "chocolate box" packaging might seem cute, but the discs inside are the same from the 2001 release, with none of the new extras included on the Blu-ray discs. Plus, you'll be ticked when you realize that there is no conventional DVD case inside the box. This box won't fit on your shelves. Get the Signature Collection BD, or order the 2001 DVD if you don't own a BD player. The simple 16-page booklet inside isn't worth buying this one.
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Blu-Ray Review
Added 10/30/2009
Right now Best Buy has 100's of Blu-Rays on sale for a lot less than Amazon. North By Northwest is $20.99 there for the Blu-Ray. Easy Rider is the same price. Forrest Gump is $20.99. Leon The Professional is $13.99. I emailed Amazon but they don't seem to care.
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Very good product
Added 8/28/2009
I recieved this DVD very quickly and it is in rather good shape. I was very pleased.
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This movie speaks to me
Added 8/25/2009
Not literally. I for the most part have watched this movie in dribs and drabs as that's how much I can take of it. To be honest I really don't like it because unrequited love makes me sad. This is a sweet story about Forrest and his undying love of his friend Jenny. Forrest has a handicap in which he has to wear leg braces until the age of 9, and he's also slow mentally. Jenny is a poor girl who is molested by her single father until she's taken away from him. The roads that Jenny and Forrest end up taking are different as night and day. Jenny ends up in a world of drugs, sex, and rock and roll while Forrest now having shed his leg braces has gone onto college to play football, and enlist in the Marines, and goes to Veitnam, and becomes a successful entreprenuer, but still longs to have Jenny by his side, but circumstances keep pushing her away from him, and then Forrest does something that I wish I could do if I could afford to, and that's run back and forth across the United States. He runs to get rid of all the demons within him; meaning all the hurt, rejection, and anything that was bothering him. I know I'm carrying alot of baggage around within me, and I also have alot of responsibilities that I wish I could just run from, but I couldn't abandon my son, so I consider writing reviews on here as my way of running back and forth across the United States. I write about how movies, music, and books affect me, and hope that there's an understanding audience out there to know what I go through. I know some of it doesn't make sense, but I have to get my feelings out somehow.
Anyway after Forrest gets back from running back and forth across the United States he finally gets Jenny as she comes home to Forrest, and introduces him to his son, and Jenny has AIDS, so Forrest loving her still marries her, so he gets her in the end, but it's a short, but sweet marriage as she ends up dying. I know that my wife died, and I'm left to raise my son on my own, so that's another way this movie speaks to me. It's good, but I don't know if I will ever own it as I still don't like unrequited love, but I guess none of us do. I also feel that the line "Life is a box of chocolates...you never know what you'll get." is overused here, and while there's probably a note of wisdom in this I just think it's lame. While it deserves the best picture Oscar I was pulling for "Pulp Fiction".
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"My gorge rises at it" -- Hamlet
Added 11/8/2009
Is there room on here to fit all of what Forrest Gump means to me and possibly others? Probably not! Forrest Gump mixes so many styles of film in one movie it is incredible. It is a comedy, drama, war movie, love story, one of spiritual enlightenment, but most importantly it is about a life. We all walk this earth and from the beginning of our life, we grow, we laugh and love, we have pain and heartache, and eventually we die. How will others remember us? How in a positive way have we touched others during our life?
The Blu-Ray version of this film is like watching it again for the first time. There are little things in the background that stand-out unlike the regular version. The battle scene is visually striking.
In the play Hamlet, Hamlet is in the graveyard and comes across Yorrick's skeleton. Yorrick was the king's jester and Hamlet spent a great time with him when he was younger. As he holds his skull, he speaks the lines, "My gorge rises at it (his skull)" meaning his throat rises at it. I always took this to mean his spirit was moved to the point of being choked up! There are quite a few scenes in this film that bring me to that point. To me these aren't superficial feelings, as in other films, but touches the spirit, and that is why I feel that Forrest Gump is more than a film, but a life lesson.
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Don't buy this: it's the same as the 2001 set in a new box
Added 11/6/2009
The kitchy "chocolate box" packaging might seem cute, but the discs inside are the same from the 2001 release, with none of the new extras included on the Blu-ray discs. Plus, you'll be ticked when you realize that there is no conventional DVD case inside the box. This box won't fit on your shelves. Get the Signature Collection BD, or order the 2001 DVD if you don't own a BD player. The simple 16-page booklet inside isn't worth buying this one.
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Blu-Ray Review
Added 10/30/2009
Right now Best Buy has 100's of Blu-Rays on sale for a lot less than Amazon. North By Northwest is $20.99 there for the Blu-Ray. Easy Rider is the same price. Forrest Gump is $20.99. Leon The Professional is $13.99. I emailed Amazon but they don't seem to care.
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