There are many reasons that I would like to kick Tom Hanks's ass, but the time I spent unwillingly watching Forrest Gump is primary among them.
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
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Hayden - Jun 21, 2007 8:41:16 am PDT #9433 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
juliana - Jun 21, 2007 8:42:24 am PDT #9434 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Joel Grey is a freakin' brilliant actor. I wish I could have seen him on stage.
megan walker - Jun 21, 2007 8:42:47 am PDT #9435 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's better than Forrest Gump!!!
Preach it sister! Hate, hate, hate that movie. Although I'd rather see that on the list than Dances with Wolves.
Tom Scola - Jun 21, 2007 8:43:14 am PDT #9436 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I wonder if The Third Man was bumped because it's not American enough.
It's regularly near the top of the list of British films.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 8:44:23 am PDT #9437 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
For some reason, I am unable to paste into text boxes. But, Scola, I don't know if it's so much the magic in my heart as the idea of the story itself, one man having all these effects and ripples throughout American history. It's one of my Things, the way our lives affect other lives, the way we can have an impact on a greater scale.
Jesse - Jun 21, 2007 8:44:40 am PDT #9438 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I didn't hate watching Forrest Gump, but I never thought it was Great, you know?
I also think Pulp Fiction gets much better in retrospect, because walking out of the theater, I was saying that there were about 45 minutes I would have cut out of the movie, but now I mostly remember the awesome parts.
bon bon - Jun 21, 2007 8:45:33 am PDT #9439 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Unpopular opinions on movies I have seen: Cabaret is boring, aside from its musical sequences. You know what else? Some quirkiness ages well, and some doesn't. Good: Julie Andrews in Sound of Music; Diane Keaton in Godfather. Not so: Liza in Cabaret.
megan walker - Jun 21, 2007 8:46:20 am PDT #9440 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I wonder if The Third Man was bumped because it's not American enough.
Given that it was a European co-production, filmed in Europe, by a British director, based on a British author, I'm not sure why it was there in the first place.
bon bon - Jun 21, 2007 8:48:32 am PDT #9441 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It stars an American, is all I could guess.
JZ - Jun 21, 2007 8:49:57 am PDT #9442 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It's one of my Things, the way our lives affect other lives, the way we can have an impact on a greater scale.
But It's A Wonderful Life did all that so much better, without gagsome political subtext and cheesy CGI amputees!
eta: I should say, without a political subtext that is gagsome to me, as IAWL certainly has a grassrootsy communitarian-populist subtext that I like just fine but I'm sure other people find as gagsome as Gump's creepy creepy Morning In Americatude.
In short, I am a big ol' hypocrite. But still, anything FG did, IAWL did better to the power of 10.