Forrest Gump (1994) / Glenmorangie Nectar D'or Single Malt Scotch [56:49-61:49]

Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, one of the reasons I think Forest Gump has stood the test of the time is because of how sincere it is. And it wouldn't win today because of that. We're so much more cynical as a nation and I don't think that the sincerity of the character of Forest Gump let alone the whole film. I just don't think it would work nowadays. Not in the same way. I would still like it because I think the cynicism is tiring and overrated. It's not fun to be cynical, Bob. I think that's what I'm trying to say. It's fun for a time. But you have to come back to reality like Jenny. Yeah. Well, and I think that's another reality of the human experience that we all have had over the last 80 years in America is that it is a very difficult journey to go on to figure out who you are, what you're all about in a world where we have so much more awareness of what's going on in the wider realm of human existence and trying to figure out who we are and the journey we go on in our late teens into our 20s and then we arrive into our 30s and suddenly we have different viewpoints on the world. I think it captures that the tumult of growing up in a very different world than humanity has ever had in its history. Yeah, man, well said. I think that we've kind of captured most of what we have to say about the movie. And I feel badly because I don't feel like we reviewed much of the movie itself today. So before we get into, let's make it a double. I have many notes on this movie, Brad, but let's just try to condense it down into a few quick observations. Is there anything that you want to make sure we touch on before we get out of here today? You texted me this, so it's your point. But I love the idea of watching this film and maybe like cutting out every single part that's not the bus stop and like just imagining this movie through the eyes of the people sitting at the bus stop. That poor woman at the start of the movie, the nurse that sits down. Oh, like she's just like I had a hard day leave me the F alone and this guy, you know, you want a chocolate? He's just like putting a box in her face. Those must be comfortable shoes. She's my fever. Like how many more signals could she be giving this guy? This dude will not shut up. I also took a note that he is just in general just a horrific listener because there's a point where you think he's like going to genuinely engage someone in dialogue and he says, did you go to an all-girls school or girls and boys together school? And she goes, oh, it's co-ed and he goes, oh, okay, cool, because Jenny went to a school that was only, and then he dives right back in. And it's like forest. This is not how you're supposed to be an active listener, man. It's not all about you. Yeah, if you made it a cut of this movie that was the exact same length, but the first 90% of the film, the camera just sat there on the bus stop as he told the story, that would be a hell of a movie. I had a couple questions that are rhetorical questions, but I was thinking about this movie in the history of PG-13 movies because like, this movie is significantly less violent than a movie like The Avengers, but they show blood, and so then you're like, oh my gosh, like this is a real war movie. You know what I mean? Like it's not horribly violent, but it seems extreme by what we have come to understand a PG-13 movie to be. And perhaps in no way, more than in the sexual way, you could just do a whole lot more sexy stuff back in 1994 and get away with the PG-13. This is only a couple years before Titanic just showed boobs for seven minutes straight. And there's a couple boobs in this movie in a Playboy magazine, but for the most part, there's no nudity, but I did write down the question, is this the only film ever to get a PG-13 rating and also feature a guy jizzing on someone's bathrobe? Wait, what? When they're in the dorm together, and she takes off her top, and then she has forest-toucher boobs, and then he ejaculates, oh, I've never interpreted it that way. Oh, he literally says right after that, I think I ruined your roommate's bathrobe, and she says, that's okay, I don't like her anyway. You've never caught that before? Nope. Oh, and then he goes, oh, I'm dizzy. Well, how did you interpret it? I don't know. I didn't really think about it.