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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 464
Released: August 28, 2001 |
| Our Price: $6.37 |
| Used Price: $2.97 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
THROUGH THREE TURBULENT DECADES, FORREST RIDES A TIDE OF EVENTS THAT WHISKS HIM FROM PHYSICAL DISABILITY TO FOOTBALL STARDOM, FROM VIETNAM HERO TO SHRIMP TYCOON, FROM WHITE HOUSE HONORS TO THE ARMS OF HIS ONE TRUE LOVE. FORREST IS AN INNOCENT AT LARGE IN AN AMERICA THAT IS LOSING ITS INNOCENCE.
Description of Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition):
The Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis, and Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic. Hanks plays the title character, a shy Southern boy in love with his childhood best friend (Robin Wright) who finds that his ability to run fast takes him places. As an All-Star football player he meets John F. Kennedy; as a soldier in Vietnam he's a war hero; and as a world champion Ping-Pong player he's hailed by Richard Nixon. Becoming a successful shrimp-boat captain, he still yearns for the love of his life, who takes a quite different and much sadder path in life. The visual effects incorporating Hanks into existing newsreel footage is both funny and impressive, but the heart of the film lies in its sweet love story and in the triumphant performance of Hanks as an unassuming soul who savors the most from his life and times. --Robert Lane
Forrest Gump (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) Reviews:
Gift set is garbage 
2009-11-09 - Fantastic movie. Awful gift set. I completely regret my decision to purchase the gift set. No blu-ray case for the movies, gigantic box, nothing worth the extra money. I'm mad at myself for ordering this. Get the normal blu-ray with case instead.
Life is like a box of chocolates 
2009-11-09 - Tom Hanks is brilliant in this movie. this has to be one of his best performances ever. i love this movie and so will you. recommend it for everyone
"My gorge rises at it" -- Hamlet
2009-11-08 - Is there room on here to fit all of what Forrest Gump means to me and possibly others? Probably not! Forrest Gump mixes so many styles of film in one movie it is incredible. It is a comedy, drama, war movie, love story, one of spiritual enlightenment, but most importantly it is about a life. We all walk this earth and from the beginning of our life, we grow, we laugh and love, we have pain and heartache, and eventually we die. How will others remember us? How in a positive way have we touched others during our life?
The Blu-Ray version of this film is like watching it again for the first time. There are little things in the background that stand-out unlike the regular version. The battle scene is visually striking.
In the play Hamlet, Hamlet is in the graveyard and comes across Yorrick's skeleton. Yorrick was the king's jester and Hamlet spent a great time with him when he was younger. As he holds his skull, he speaks the lines, "My gorge rises at it (his skull)" meaning his throat rises at it. I always took this to mean his spirit was moved to the point of being choked up! There are quite a few scenes in this film that bring me to that point. To me these aren't superficial feelings, as in other films, but touches the spirit, and that is why I feel that Forrest Gump is more than a film, but a life lesson.
Don't buy this: it's the same as the 2001 set in a new box
2009-11-06 - The kitchy "chocolate box" packaging might seem cute, but the discs inside are the same from the 2001 release, with none of the new extras included on the Blu-ray discs. Plus, you'll be ticked when you realize that there is no conventional DVD case inside the box. This box won't fit on your shelves. Get the Signature Collection BD, or order the 2001 DVD if you don't own a BD player. The simple 16-page booklet inside isn't worth buying this one.
Blu-Ray Review
2009-10-30 - Right now Best Buy has 100's of Blu-Rays on sale for a lot less than Amazon. North By Northwest is $20.99 there for the Blu-Ray. Easy Rider is the same price. Forrest Gump is $20.99. Leon The Professional is $13.99. I emailed Amazon but they don't seem to care.
