BasketCase
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Why update Forrest Gump?? That's like doing a remake of Casablanca.
Don't mess with it.
Don't mess with it.
How would you update Forrest Gump?
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This.
mangxema
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At least he could still make a bunch of money from investing in that 'fruit company'.
gangleri2001
Garbage day!!!
I'm not saying to update it, all I'm asking is how would you update it if you were to update it.
Forrest Gump invents the iPhone and the iPad?
Forrest Gump invents the iPhone and the iPad?
BasketCase
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Bleh. I figured "I wouldn't mess with it" was carried implicity in my last post.
gangleri2001
Garbage day!!!
Bleh. I figured "I wouldn't mess with it" was carried implicity in my last post.
Ok, but now assume the hypothetical situation in which you're about to update it. How would you do it?
mitsho
Deity
It's not about an update, right? It's about Gumps life past the movie which ends aroung 1985 (or so?). And that is an interesting question since the movie is all about juxtaposing the naive hero with a straight forward "simple" thinking in the complex and often cynical "real" world. It's a brilliant satire.
So, Gump should definitely be involved in the .com-bubble with an own company, he should be in New York on 9/11 and probably inspire Jobs for the ipod (though would that be blasphemy?)
So, Gump should definitely be involved in the .com-bubble with an own company, he should be in New York on 9/11 and probably inspire Jobs for the ipod (though would that be blasphemy?)
jtb1127
Deity
They should make him say "noooooo" when Jenny dies.
Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
Make Forrest Gump a 21st century movie?
Film everything infront of a green screen with tennis balls as the suppording cast. Then add interesting CGI characters and backgrounds later.
Or
Film the whole thing with a with a camcorder.
Film everything infront of a green screen with tennis balls as the suppording cast. Then add interesting CGI characters and backgrounds later.
Or
Film the whole thing with a with a camcorder.
BasketCase
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I realize I've gone crazy and I stop.
The only remakes I've ever agreed with were the latest reboot of Batman ("Batman Begins" being pretty much THE best Batman movie ever) and the "do-over" Hulk movie with Edward Norton in the lead role.
"Forrest Gump" doesn't gain anything from adding current events to Gump's long string of Kilroy-style pop-ups. That's not the point of the film. Hence I say don't remake it.
Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
Well I for one, would fully support a 3D unrated and uncut Forrest Gump Redux Edition re-release with CGI enhanced scenes and backgrounds and with a complete six DVD box set with a couple of dozen hours of extra features. Seriously I would throw away the theater version in a second.
Narz
keeping it real
I'm saddened to be reminded that 1994 is almost 20 years ago. 
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+ Thanks, did not know that. It sounds terrible though.
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Jewel Runner
Having been born in 1994, I'm freaking overjoyed when I hear that.I'm saddened to be reminded that 1994 is almost 20 years ago.
Am I a terrible person for finding Forrest Gump to be a pretty overrated movie? It wasn't bad by any means, but it didn't quite live up to the hype for me. I don't see much merit in remaking it, but the movie never seemed to be untouchable by any means.
There's not a whole lot of originality in Hollywood these days. A lot of movies are sequels/prequels/remakes or copies of movies from other countries (Dragon Tattoo).
Most of us elderly types who lived through that period find it a nostalgic treatment. You youngsters probably find it boring.
To address the OP, Forrest would go to the White House again and stumble upon BC and ML in the Oval Office, staining the little blue dress. Later, while visiting his son at Harvard, he would tell the roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, to get his "Face outta that Book and have a chocolate". Eventually, on a pingpong trip to Pakistan, he would stop at a certain compound in Abbottabad for directions and accidentally run over the Old Bearded Lunatic there.
Narz
keeping it real
I thought it was decent the first time I watched it but it has little replay value.
Unlike, for example, classics from that era like Major League or Groundhog Day.
BasketCase
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It was better than most of the films they make today. Lately Hollywood has been a big old letdown for me.
bathsheba666
Fast 'n Bulbous
Both Reagan and Gump, in their way, gave outsiders the impression that the US was entirely delusional, and perhaps harbingers of things to come.
To the OP. I wouldn't - let it be quietly forgotten.
Although, it would appear unique, in that any remake must surely be better than the original.
To the OP. I wouldn't - let it be quietly forgotten.
Although, it would appear unique, in that any remake must surely be better than the original.
