I'm sure I've seen at least parts of it... My Mom was a big Lana Turner fan... But I am not competent to render a verdict.

..apparently when it finally hit the US screen ( it was too much for american psyches i guess) there were Harry Potteresque lines to see it as it was touted as a love story. HA!

though they wouldn't have at the time. Maybe the modern trend toward greater realism makes them seem that way? I think acting in the early days of movies was treated more like stage acting, which is (or was) a rather different style.

>After the hype it got I really tried to like it but it was painful to sit through.<

I grew up on American New Wave films so many films from the 1940s feel very stiff to me. They feel like people delivering clever lines and therefore are not immersive for me.

What was wrong with Postman?

A certain willing suspension of disbelief is required for many films, but too much was required for the premise of that movie.

It is a very polarizing movie -- people tend to either love or hate it.

I think this is what bothered me so much about this movie.

I spent 45+ years in pediatrics, and, for the most part, there is no way that someone with the degree of limitation that the character of Gump was portrayed as having would have had all those wonderful experiences, or made it thru Army basic training.

.. I think its because ( in my opinion) there was absolutely no depth in the characters. There was no redeeming qualities and at no time did I empathize with any of them as the problems they were facing was 100% their own making. And they kept making the same bad decisions every time. And there were some very bizarre twists and turns that added nothing...just more noise.


It like when hubby and I finally went to see The Blair Witch Project. remember the hype? when we went to see it the theater was empty (cept for us) and half way thru the thing we were yelling 'DIE HEATHER DIE'.

"Die Heather die"

within the context of the era they were made.

I also like the NOIR genre a lot but his one was so one dimensional. I tried watching the later one with Jack Nicholson ages ago and quit part way thru with that one.
But... I dont want my uneducated film critiquing to discourage anyone from watching it.

Maybe I'll give it another chance and watch one of the later ones again.

especially from the film noir era. I was only trying to point out that movies are a product of the social, technological and sometimes political backdrop of the era they were made. I apologize for any misunderstanding.

and I couldn't watch the whole thing either; I went to a West Wing rerun.

...perhaps now is the time.

it's the BEST.