Before we move on, I just want to kick Forrest Gump in his stupid head one more time. Like gravy boat, I kept hearing how great it was, including from friends of mine, didn't really like it, and so saw it AGAIN just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. And I was high one of those two times; I can't remember if I thought I give it a second chance sober or a second chance stoned, but I think it was the former.
Anyway, on that second try I realized how truly evil the movie was. Not just more tiresome baby-boomer nostalgia, but extreme 90s backlash, accompanied by the desire to piss all over everyone else's fun because the creators feel bad about all the shit they did in the 60s. The underlying message of that film is to go through life like a retarded person and do everything that people in authority tell you. You will become a multi-millionaire while your decadent hippie wife will get slapped by an angry black guy and get AIDS.
The net result of this was when all those same friends said Titanic was actually really good, I was like nuh-uh, no fucking way, not on your life.
