I probably should have watched this movie some time before now. I've heard Forrest Gump jokes most of my life, "run, Forrest, run!", "life is like a box of chocolates", and so on. I had a vague idea what the movie was about, and I never really took it seriously, but I guess I didn't quite realize how absurd and contrived the film is. Forrest Gump is an low IQ southerner who seems to be responsible or involved in some way with every historic event that occurred in mid-to-late 20th century America. He taught Elvis how to dance, met JFK, was there when the schools desegregated, won the medal of honor in Nam, talked with LBJ and Nixon, helped China open up, blew the cover off the Watergate break-ins, became a millionaire from shrimping, was an early investor in Apple computer, and probably half a dozen other things I can't even remember. At some point in the film he began to resemble an idiot savant Christlike figure. There were points where it reminded me of a more developed version of Robert Downey Sr.'s Greaser's Palace. That isn't really a compliment.
4 stars, instead of the 3 it probably deserves, because it was very well made, and some of the Vietnam sequences were pretty good (mostly just because they took place in Vietnam and had great music). I can't really recommend this film, but I can recommend Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Always enjoy eating there whenever I get the chance.
Streisand effect got me to watch this one. It seems like such nonsense It really seems worthless to suppress it. I love a good conspiracy theory, and I've seen many relating to the coronavirus, but this is a weak one. Instead of being critical of the WHO or China or any other standard corona conspiracy fare, this magical doctor woman, who has little evidence of anything, knows that the coronavirus was planned (but maybe not created, somehow) to be released either on purpose or on accident (!?) and Dr. Fauci is the mastermind. The ChiComs either went along with this or didn't know, presumably.
The doc is impressive only in how poorly its narrative is structured. It feels like they started making a conspiracy documentary at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak and just had to guess at what the conspiracy would be. Instead of government overreach, constitutional violations, suppression of dissent, overestimation of risk, coronavirus being a Chinese bio-weapon, and ChiCom corruption of the WHO, which are what the normal conspiracy theories have tended to be (well except the ones that involve 5G kookiness) they went with a Big Pharma is greedy/planned depopulation conspiracy. Not a bad guess, but unfortunately for them, not what the anti-shutdown arguments have been. Upon realizing they took the wrong approach, they played up the liberty angle in post, ultimately creating a jumbled mess of a documentary.
Not very impressive, its only credence ironically comes from its suppression.
