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Revisiting Forrest Gump for the ...
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blog s/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25 756.aspx Forrest Gump is on the following AFI lists:
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"Director Zack Snyder has succeeded in doing the impossible: he has adapted the “unfilmable” graphic novel, Watchmen, to the screen. While there’s no doubt that he has made the movie with surprisingly little deviation from the source material, that doesn’t mean he has made a good film. In many ways, Watchmen is a case study in the inherent differences between the comic page and the screen. Success on screen, even if the adaptation is faithful, is not guaranteed. The story (in case you didn’t piece it together from the constant barrage of trailers and posters clogging the internet since last summer) revolves around a group of costumed super heroes whose fates intertwine with the events of the twentieth century. Set in an alternate 1985, the world is on the brink of nuclear holocaust. The action is set in motion by the murder of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a retired hero with dubious morals. The outlawed heroes fight to avert impending doom, and spur to action the only one amo ... "
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"Two more days until we find out who wins this year’s Academy Awards! Okay, so the exclamation point is more than forced. It’s been quite awhile since we’ve had even an ounce of excitement about the Oscars. But we mustn’t let predictability get us down. Sure, even the still-uncertain races (Penn vs. Rourke; Winslet vs. Streep; Man on Wire vs. Trouble the Water) are anything but interesting, because the everyman of 2009 couldn’t care less about who gave the year’s better performance and would probably be fine shrugging his shoulders at the TV screen in the event of a tie (or, better yet, irresolution). However, there’s one thing people keep forgetting about the Academy: they’re full of surprises. So, rather than just go with the easy, “predictable” predictions, we attempted to guess who and what will Crash the Oscars this year with a surprise victory — preferably the kind that adds an “ing” to “upset.” And once again, we’d like to e "
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"David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a remarkable film and the best of 2008. It's been nominated for 13 Academy Awards, more than any other film this year, and deserves at least one more for Cate Blanchett. Yet despite being the 6th most positively reviewed film of the year, there has been an inordinate amount of critical backlash toward it.< "
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A memorable performance
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"Watching Forrest Gump was like reading a totally engrossing novel. I guess that goes to the talents of Robert Zemeckis in the way he translated this story, from the novel by WInston Groom and the wonderful screenplay by Eric Roth, to the screen. And certainly to Tom Hank's memorable performance as Forrest Gump. Great performances all around. There are many scenes in this that were just simply delightful to watch. It was funny, sad and bittersweet. "
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Gump/Button
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"I just watched 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'. It's a visually well constructed film that is constantly entertaining, although there are various dull points. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett's performances are both hollow. I've never really liked either actor much, including their duo performance in 'Babel'. I love David Fincher movies, yet I think this one doesn't suit his interests. After watching a somewhat amusing film, I drove home thinking about the ending. Just what did I watch? What was the moral of the story? I finally figured it out however I also found it to be almost exactly like 'Forrest Gump'. My feelings of confusion soon changed to betrayal. They took 3 hours of my life and I want them back! Creating this list of Gump/Button similarities was more amusing than watching 'Button'. I have a good loving memory of 'Forrest Gump' so this wasn't that difficult. _______________ Forrest Gump's black friend: Benjamin Blufford "Bubba" Blue Benjamin Button's bl ... "
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"After reading the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is simple to figure out the reasons why they changed it so much to make an Oscar worthy, mainstream film. The story is wonderful, very satirical and beautifully written, but it would not translate well into a film, even if they had kept the general plot devices; yes, the only resemblance the film holds to the story is the arch, a man born a septuagenarian (what a useless word) aging backwards into eventual nothingness. The short story has a whimsical, detached feel, a meandering narrative structure despite its compact length. The movie maintains the structure and the arch, but nothing else. That said, I loved the film. David Fincher will undoubtedly be criticised for going soft, for appealing to the pathos of a mainstream audience. I unjustly made this assumption at first glance; there's a doomed romance, and a misplaced focus on realism in some of the scenes despite the mystical possibilities of the premise. However, af ... "
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"Should special effects only be used to service a film’s story, or is it perfectly fine for movies to feature extraneous spectacle? That’s a debate that comes up often among cineastes, but ultimately there’s room for both functions. Sometimes, in cases like Jurassic Park and The Matrix, both categories of effects may even faultlessly coexist in the same film. Yet there is one kind of effects employment that’s intolerable to all film-loving parties: the gratuitous exploitation for the sole purpose of brazen gimmickry. It’s this kind of effects work that goes beyond spectacle. It’s not so much a show as a show off. For one example of this cinematic sin check out Karina’s review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which she references a scene featuring an inessential and irrelevant rocket launch in the background of an otherwise intimate moment between "
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"To borrow a line from Lou Lumenick: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is this year’s Forrest Gump. This is not really arguable. In addition to sharing a screenwriter (Eric Roth), Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture winner and David Fincher’s 2008 Best Picture front-runner (at least, as of this writing) both put groundbreaking special effects to the service of sprawling stories, spanning many decades and weaving a breadcrumb trail through modern American history, in which a man holds a torch for a woman who can’t reciprocate his love until her dreams of autonomy are spectacularly dashed. For me, the Gump comparison is a pejorative, a shorthand way to say, “This film will likely make a lot of money and win a lot of awards, and yet is so phony and cloying and gimmicky that its success will some day be seen by some as a tragedy.” But to others, the second coming of Gump would be a blessing. An Oscars-bait blockbuster? As Lumenick put it, before seeing the "
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"To borrow a line from Lou Lumenick: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is this year’s Forrest Gump. This is not really arguable. In addition to sharing a screenwriter (Eric Roth), Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Best Picture winner and David Fincher’s 2008 Best Picture front-runner (at least, as of this writing) both put groundbreaking special effects to the service of sprawling stories, spanning many decades and weaving a breadcrumb trail through modern American history, in which a man holds a torch for a woman who can’t reciprocate his love until her dreams of autonomy are spectacularly dashed. For me, the Gump comparison is a pejorative, a shorthand way to say, “This film will likely make a lot of money and win a lot of awards, and yet is so phony and cloying and gimmicky that its success will some day be seen by some as a tragedy.” But to others, the second coming of Gump would be a blessing. An Oscars-bait blockbuster? As Lumenick put it, before seeing the "
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