Yeah, I don't think that fact stuck out to me at the time.

Do kids still watch movies like this at age 10? I feel like EVERYONE watched this movie when I was 10, knew the lines, etc. but nowadays so much stuff is aimed at 10-12 year olds, I doubt they would ever watch an ostensibly "adult" movie like this (not that there are a ton of movies like this being made).

My wife and I still do the "can't sit here" scene in its entirety like once a month. I don't think we've ever actually watched the movie together, it's just part of our vernacular.

This is probably true. I was born in 1984 and had older parents (not that old by today's standards, but in their late 30s when they had me), so they were about the same age as Forrest, and Southern, so it appealed to me on that level for sure—sort of getting to see my parents' lifetime play out on screen.
Ironically,…

That soundtrack was huge. The blue and red discs. I always skipped the Randy Newman song, although he's one of my favorites now.

Doesn't he also invent New Coke? I've never read it, but from what I understand, Groom wrote it more as a sequel to the film than his own novel, which is peculiar, but probably smart from a marketing point of view. Groom claims they wanted to make a sequel film out of Gump and Co. but he refused to license it to…

I remember reading the book when I was 12, a huge fan of the movie, and getting to some part where he's banging one of the tenants at the Gump boarding house who sneaks in his room at night (unless I'm remembering wrong). I remember being very nervous my mom would somehow read that passage and throw the book away (she…

So according to Steven Hyden's Danny McBride interview, David Gordon Green will be directing the entire second season (Jody Hill directed almost the entire first season; McBride did one). He also said if the first season is John Hughes, the second season is Brian DePalma.

There's Something About Mary may be my favorite ending scene to a comedy ever (and I don't mean the Build Me Up Buttercup credits sequence).

It's in the South and there's no racism! How can this BE?!

Arson is tricky with insurance companies. Often it's the people who own the home who commit the arson, in which case you would not be covered. I'm not sure of the ins and outs but there may be an investigation where they would have to prove that it was someone not covered under the insurance policy who committed the…

I took it to be Gamby was just first, not that he was the only one who was going to be shot. I fully expect Russell will get hunted down.

It's just 2 hours of Kevin Smith sitting in his director's chair stoned out of his mind and people coming up to ask him questions and he just starts laughing uncontrollably. The final 15 minutes are him explaining to Johnny Depp how the makeup is so good no one will ever know it's him.

Obama?

Yeah, I thought Ex Machina was definitely his best ending yet, but even that one got stabby!

CHECK PLEASE.

That's kinda Alex Garland's thing. His third acts get stabby.

He would scoot around on his butt as a baby. His dad started calling him Scooter. It stuck. That's literally the story.

There's something to be said for taking supporting roles in quality programs even when you're a big name. So many actors who I think would be terrific in supporting roles insist on doing lead roles, regardless of the quality of the show (Kelsey Grammer for instance), or they do really well in the supporting role and…

I actually liked those scenes the best. The rest I was sort of ho-hum about. Felt like Defending Your Life but not quite as good.