Every time it came up
Hosts discuss whether the film is worth rewatching and criticize character Jenny's treatment of the protagonist throughout the story.
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Jenny who only shows back up when she has AIDS. Dude it is hard to like her. She is just mean and rotten.”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Forrest gump is one of those movies go back and re-watch it not that good”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“she was awful. She strung his hopes along, basically.”
Referenced while describing the desert landscape scenery on the motorcycle trip
Woody · unverified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“i was thinking of forrest gump today because i'm driving and it's just like pastel colored cliffs on either side of me”
Extensive discussion of Forrest Gump film, Tom Hanks' method acting approach with the young actor, comparison to the book, and character details
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I read the second Forrest Gump book, and he plays for New York Giants. Oh, that's cool. I'm glad they didn't make that movie. That would have gotten silly. There's a second book. It was a terrible book.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“That is a neat story. I do like Tom Hanks being like, you know, maybe we should put the acting load on my back.”
Mentioned as contrast to Full Metal Jacket's Vietnam section
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I feel like it goes from 9 to 1. Like the Vietnam part, maybe it's just the juxtaposition of going from really, really good movie to really, really shitty part.”
Extended discussion of emotional moments and the film's narrative
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“Forrest Gump makes me cry too. Which part of Forrest Gump makes you cry? Where he realizes that she's not into him at all because he's mentally retarded?”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I like the parts that I like about Forrest Gump, like, when he starts running and all of a sudden, like, running is a superpower”
Kyle discusses watching the movie recently and the shrimp metaphor from the Vietnam War scenes
Kyle · unverified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“I was watching Forrest Gump the other day. I'm not being fucking serious, you bitch.”
Kyle references the bus scene to explain how seating assignments work in jail versus prison
Kyle · unverified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“you remember that scene in forrest gump where he's walking down in the school bus trying to look for a seat”
Extended discussion about the movie, comparing the book and film, and emotional impact of certain scenes
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“If I watch Forrest Gump, I cry. There's no way I can make it through that whole fucking movie without crying, especially when it gets to the very end”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I read Forrest Gump 2. I wanted to know what happens next. Forrest Gump 2 fucking sucks. I think the book sucks and it was really just a good movie.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Jenny was a fucking whore. Yeah, I don't feel like Jenny got the hate she deserved in Forrest Gump. Oh she gets it from me. Fuck Jenny.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I love that movie though like that and then the second the second scene that that actually will make me cry if the first one didn't it's when he's at jenny's fucking grave”
Extended discussion of Forrest Gump film and novel, comparing protagonist skills to Radio character, discussing the book sequel.
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“that movie didn't P out either that's one of my favorite parts of the the story is that forest was the only um shrimper who was dumb enough to be out shrimping in the hurricane”
Josh · unverified▼ negative
“I read the sequel It's one of the worst books I've ever read in my entire life”
Woody · unverified▲ positive
“that movie is I mean the book's a cluster [ __ ] in the book was he more or less [ __ ] than in theie more he was basically like non-functioning”
Discussion of book versus film adaptation quality
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“i read forrest gump too it was terrible”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“movie movie better than the book there huh much better”
Discussing quality of the film on rewatches and criticizing character Jenny's treatment of Forrest
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“Forest Gump is one of those movies go back and rewatch it not that good it's just not”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I like Forest the best part of the movie is when that guy is listing all the types of shrimp that's the best part of the movie”
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“she is just mean and rotten and she's terrible to Forest”
Taylor · unverified▼ negative
“I don't like that she was awful to you for the longest time”