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I watched this movie on fox the other night and i have to say it was the best movie i have ever seen in my entire life.

what do you guys think of this movie

Very difficult to sit through for more than fifteen minutes. I've worked and gone to school with people like that and though I know it's not their fault, they push me to my last nerve.

It's a nice movie.

I like it as a trip through US history, each decade is taken as its own chapter.

Production is excellent, a big step forward in the use of CGI tech in non-effects movies, I think that's why it took the interest of the Academy as much as it did.

The idea that the simple man with his hometown values is always right is kind of maudlin and annoying, but there's a lot of other really nice stuff going on.

I'm not sure it deserves the overwhelming love or hate it gets from some folk, but it's a pretty cool movie.

I wish they had made the sequel (based on the 2nd book 'Gump and Co'.

From Wikipedia to save typing...
As in the first book, Gump stumbles through important US events in the 1980s and early 1990s. He plays football for the New Orleans Saints, sells encyclopedias door-to-door, works on a pig farm, and helps develop the infamous New Coke. He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall (he climbs on it to see what is on the other side, and the germans nearby do as well, and down comes the wall), and fights in Operation Desert Storm. He meets many celebrities, including Colonel Oliver North, the Ayatollah Khomeini, John Hinckley, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Tom Hanks.

An enjoyable movie.

I think it was criminal that far superior Pulp Fiction was ignored by the academy in favor of it mind you.

Every few years the Academy decides to give a prize to a feelgood movie.

Slumdog Millionaire could win because of that factor.

I completely agree with LuciusAR. Pulp Fiction was far more deserving of praise than what it got at the time. Respect goes out to the Sundance Film Festival for giving Pulp Fiction it's due.

I would by no means call Forrest Gump one of my favorite movies, but it's pretty good.

As for the state of the current Oscars, I think that The Wrestler is deserving of nearly every nomination it has been given, though that's far from likely. However, if Heath Ledger doesn't win best supporting actor, I'm probably going to be ignoring the Oscars for the next few years. Not that The Dark Knight is one of the best movies of all time, but that would be almost be as much blasphemy as Pulp Fiction not winning Best Picture.

tom hanks is positively,surely and awesomely the best actor ever also watch the terminal awesome movie

I completely love that movie, and they even have a restaurant chain.
"The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company"
deeeeeelicious!