Forest Gump

Film Critique of Forest Gump



Have you ever seen the movie Forest Gump? It is a great movie both funny and sad. It’s about a guy named Forest Gump who is played by actor Tom Hanks and Forest isn’t a very smart person. But his only friend is named Jenny Curran played by Robin Wright Penn and Forest has a big crush on her. Forests mother is a huge part of his life and she was played by Sally Field. Once forest grows up he goes to Vietnam in the army and meets another friend who is named Benjamin Buford Blue also known as Bubba and is played by Mykelti Williamson. Forests lieutenant is named Dan Taylor played by Gary Sinise. But during a battle lieutenant Dan gets his legs blown off and Bubba dies. Then Forest starts to play professional ping pong. After that he becomes a shrimp boat captain with Lieutenant Dan and becomes rich. In this movie some of the things used to catch the watchers attention are a great storyline, great special affects, and a great screenplay.
Fist off the movie has a good storyline. For example Forest had a flashback to when he got his first pair of shoes and something as stupid as that actually gives you a great idea of what he is talking about throughout the entire story. Then he has another flashback to when he was in the army and without him talking about this bubba and lieutenant Dan wouldn’t have been cared about by the viewers. A little while after that he has yet again another flashback to when he was shrimping and if he didn’t talk about that then we wouldn’t know how he got the money to invest in apple and get rich.
Secondly the movie is full of awesome special effects. For example when he gets awarded all of his medals it is by presidents and of course he wasn’t really there but it looks very real when you see them and also the talking goes very well with forests responses. Another example of these special effects is the bombs, gun shots, and wounds. It looks so real when forest is in Vietnam and the bombs are exploding and guns are fired, also when Lieutenant Dan got his legs blown off and when he got them sewed up it looked like he didn’t actually have legs in real life. Another example of special effects is the aging of people. Although they did have different actors and actresses to play Forest and Jenny as kids, but his mom was the same actress all the way through the movie they just put makeup on her to make her look much older than she actually did.
Third the movie had a good screenplay. For example when they showed his dirty shoes at the beginning you find out that there is actual more to it than just dirty shoes. Another example of screenplay is that when he was a kid he had braces on his legs so he couldn’t dance like a normal kid does. But Elvis rented a room at his house before he got famous and he was showing Forest some moves on the guitar and Forest started to dance and Elvis liked the way he danced so Forest taught Elvis how to dance and that helped Elvis become famous. One more example of screen play is how at the beginning and the end it shows a feather floating and at the beginning it lands on Forest, so he picks it up and puts it in his book and at the end his son is taking the book to school and Forest sees it and picks it up and when he opened it the feather fell out and started floating again.
So some of the things the writer used to catch your attention are an interesting storyline, great special effects, and a good screenplay. So the point of this film is or what I believe is, is that even if you aren’t smart doesn’t mean that you can’t accomplish great things. Think of some famous people that you know of that aren’t really smart and look at how good their doing and how much they’ve accomplished.

Internet Pop Ups

Internet Pop Ups


Have you ever been using your computer at home or some where besides school and a lot of annoying pop ups keep coming up when you’re trying to do something? Of course you have. But if you really think about it they actually can be both good and bad. For example if your on your computer and a pop up comes up and its something about a good deal on something that you want and you check it out it could save you a lot of money on something that you could have wasted much more money on. But although they can be good they can also be bad. For example if a little kid is on the computer and they are just trying to play a game and a pop up comes up that is very inappropriate for a kid his or her age and they don’t know how to use the computer to get rid of the pop up and they end up clicking on it and it links them to a pornographic site it might not be the best place for a little kid to be going to at his or her young age. This isn’t just something that might only happen once or twice it can happen an awful lot so at my sisters house were my computer is currently at she had the pop ups blocked because my nephew who is only four years old doesn’t need to be seeing one of those very inappropriate pop ups at the age of four. I think that if you have a computer in your house and little kids go on the computer that you should get a pop up blocker so that none of the little kids see things that they shouldn’t see at a young age.

violent movies

Violent Movies


Recently many of the new movies are so violent. All of these movies are rated R but parents still let their kids go and see them. These movies are much too violent for kids that are like 9 or 10 years old. First off these new movies are much too bloody and gory for young kids. And just like with violent video games kids could turn out to be serial killers like in the movies that they see. For example my friends little brother just got done watching a fighting movie and all he wanted to do was punch and kick people. Although this isn’t an example of how violent movies might make kids into lunatics it shows how kids a lot of the times repeat a lot of what they see in movies or on TV. These new movies are also to graphic for kids because in the past you could tell what was real and what was fake in violent movies, but now the graphics look so real that kids might actually think that it is real even when its not. Like for example hostel is a very graphic movie because everything looks so real but it’s actually computer animated to make it look real. Also when the movie is rated R it means that it is supposed to be for grownups but they are still usually seen by kids more than adults. I think that the people who sell tickets at the movies should obey the law and make sure that to get into movies you have to be the right age instead of letting 12 year old kids go see a rated R movie without adults because I have gone to R rated movies before without adults and they let me in. so they shouldn't break the law just to make a little extra money. For additional information go to http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Film/film_violence.html

violent video games

Violent Video Games


All of the new violent video games that kids are playing are going to lead them to a life if crime. for example grand theft auto, true crimes streets of L.A., and all of the other games that let you run around and kill whoever you want whenever you want are way to violent and graphic for young kids. Parents shouldn't let their kids play these games until they are 13 or 14 because little kids might go out and actually do what they seen on the video game. For example my 8 year old cousin loves playing these types of games. But one day when I was in a car with him and my uncle he seen some people walking down the street and told my uncle to run them over with the car like he does on grand theft auto. Now I play grand theft auto a lot and I have beaten all of them except the new ones but I don’t go around doing what I see in the video games. Its because I am older than him and I know better because I know what will happen if I did do that stuff in real life but he’s young and he hasn’t learned what will happen if you do that stuff such as killing people and stealing things. I think that parents should teach their kids what will happen to them if the steal things or kill people so that they don’t grow up to be some sort of cereal killer or a robber so that they can live a normal and happy life. I know that it’s sort of exaggerating a lot but it is very possible that these games could cause these problems. Parents could also just wait until their older to let them play these violent video games. For additional information go to http://www.apa.org/releases/videogames.html

all about me

Hi my name is James. But most of my friends call me jimmy. I am 14 years old. I attend THS were i am a freshman. Sometimes when i am alone i like to just sit down and watch TV but i usually don't watch it a lot. On a typical day i will watch about 2 hours of TV. Usually i hang out with my friends at their houses or at the park. when i go over my friends houses we usually go for bike rides. i have one brother and ones sister. my brothers name is Nicholas but most people call him nick. my sister name is Renee. i have both a niece and a nephew. my nephew is 4 and his name is Austin. my nice is about 1 month old an dis named Savannah, both of which are from my sister. my mom and dad got divorced when i was 5 or 6. i was about the same age when my grandpa on my moms side died from cancer. i have 2 dogs one of them is a pugs mixed with a beagle which is called a puggle and his name is Jax. my other dog is a jack rustle terrier and his name is Thor. my favorite sport is football and i was on the track team in the 7th grade. my grades are good, they usually consist of A's and B's.