Episode 145 – Forrest Gump

We had no trouble finding plenty of people who hate Forrest Gump. Whether it's because it won Best Picture instead of Pulp Fiction (which, true, probably should have won), or the perception of it as a "conservative" movie, it sports a shockingly low score of 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. Collin went in knowing only a few quotes from the movie and no knowledge of the backlash that has been leveled at Gump over the last 25 years. What was a 17 year-olds impression of this supposedly "problematic" film? ‘Forrest Gump,’ 25 Years Later: A Bad Movie That Gets Worse With Age by Eric Kohn