‘Forrest Gump’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.6 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Life is like a box of chocolates … especially when The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey revisit 1994's seminal classic 'Forrest Gump’, which won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Tom Hanks), and Best Director (Robert Zemeckis). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	man, but I know what love is. And I think I love this movie. It's Force Cump. Controversial opinion,
0:39.3	this is a good movie. I love it. Here we go. Now my mom has always told me how miracles happen
0:43.9	every day. Some people don't think so. But they do. You can come home with me at my house
0:53.4	in Greenbow. I'll take care of you. Why are you so good to me? You're my girl.
0:59.6	The world will never seem the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forest Gump.
1:06.9	My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
1:19.4	All right, Sean Fantasy is here. We could get nobody else through this podcast with us because
1:23.7	Force Cump. It's not cool to like Force Cump anymore. Yeah, what happened? I don't know.
1:27.2	This happened. It went every Oscar. It made a gazillion, million dollars. I think what the
1:32.5	Justin inflation is like one of the 30 biggest movies of all time. Definitely more than that.
1:37.4	There's been a backlash. I have some theories on the backlash. Okay. You want to go right? I even feel
1:41.8	like I was part of the backlash. Okay. Because I remember writing about this being upset about it.
1:47.0	It beat Pulp Fiction in Shawshank in the 1994 Oscars, which was March 1995. Not great. It was the
1:52.9	worst thing that ever happened in this movie. And then it became, it was during this era,
1:57.4	the 1990s, when all these actors, you were taking these roles that started with Dustin
2:02.1	Hoffman and Rainman, take some sort of handicap, helped your Oscar chances. And it became almost
2:09.1	like a self-parody by the mid-90s. But got caught up in that a little bit. I think it might have been
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