Another one of those films that I have seen about 50 times. And I will probably watch it 50 more. Stellar acting, script, score, cinematography, etc. Tom Hanks rules.

forrest gump is the best movie in the whole world.i love that movie.

So many things to like about this one. Tom Hanks was brilliant, as he normally is.

Excellent movie, but like PBeavr, this wouldn't be on my upper echelon of all-time greats. The book was better and funnier, but it was cleaned up considerably for the movie. If the character's innocence was what you liked best about the movie, then don't read the book. Bad language and racial slurs abound, and even though there was no malice intended, it would still offend a lot of people.

Forrest Gump has always been one of my favorite movies, and I'm sure that 25 years from now, people will still be watching it, laughing and crying along with Forrest. I thought Tom Hanks was at his best here. His acting in this film, or any other for that matter, is so believable and intense. Never have so many subplots been fit into the big picture so perfectly. I really enjoyed seeing history through the eyes of a man who just sees things as they are and doesn't provide an opinionated slant one way or another. I thought that his analysis on JFK was simple and actually sort of funny in the way that he said it: Somebody shot that man while he riding in his car. His meeting with both JFK and LBJ was hilarious.... I got shot in the butt.... His love for Jenny makes for compelling drama, and his friendshp with Bubba (obsessed with shrimp) makes for some funny moments and some sad ones as well. He goes on to run across country, run a shrimp business, play football, and do anything imaginable despite having a low IQ. I loved how Forrest was so down to earth and nothing mattered to him but making those around him happy and honoring their memory when they died (Momma, Bubba and Jenny). A great performance by Sally Field as Forrest's Momma. Never before have I seen a movie that brought out all of the audience's emotions so well. This film is a classic!

I cried the last hour or more when I first saw this great, magnificent masterpiece of a drama movie in the cinema, thus being the film that has made a strongest emotional impact on my feelings. Since then I've seen it numerous times, each of them finding the movie to be just as marvellous as the first time I saw it. Forrest Gump touched me so deeply that I even decided to make a website about it some years ago with among other features some audio quotes taken from the film. Everything in this movie is just amazing, but the best part of it is Tom Hanks' way of acting, which might be the best achievement on the part of an actor in any movie ever (although I certainly also do honour the great work of Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!, Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Roberto Benigni in La vita é bella ++). Enough said. ;)