Forrest Gump (1994) / Glenmorangie Nectar D'or Single Malt Scotch [66:49-71:33]

Very good movie. I remember walking out of it in the theaters. That was one of those weird movies that my dad and I were like, yeah, you want to go watch a movie and we picked while we were at the theater. And I was like, I don't know. Benjamin button. Sounds curious. Let's go watch it. And I remember as like a 17 year old walking out of the theater and being like, man, that was really nihilistic. Oh, man. I don't know if I enjoyed that. This was prior to before you knew anything about David Fincher. And now it's like, oh yeah, it's a Fincher movie, of course. Yeah. Exactly. Brad, for my let's make it a double. I think I'm going to throw back to a few seasons ago. We had the author Noah Gattell on the podcast to talk about his book, Baseball, The Movie. And Noah and I talked a little bit about the movie Field of Dreams. And how Field of Dreams is remembered as this movie about baseball. I think much like Forrest Gump is remembered as a movie about America. But it's also like it's a movie that's very obviously made by the baby boomer generation that deals with, you know, their own political progressiveness and like their ability to go out and protest and like fight the power. But also their desire to cling to all the values they had in the 50s. Like baseball. Like whatever it would be in Forrest Gump. And I don't know that either of these movies. It like is completely successful in holding both of those things together. But they so remind me of each other. They're like, they're just these big, weird movies. That like if you said something on paper. Like if you go into a pitch meeting and bring either Field of Dreams or Forrest Gump into the pitch meeting. You're like, well, I'm sorry. But yeah, but they're just American Classics now. And I think that you could do a lot worse than Field of Dreams here. Yeah, I mean, I mean, Field of Dreams is like the ubiquitous. If you ask any commoner. What's your favorite baseball movie? It's like, I don't know. Field of Dreams. I saw like half of it once in an afternoon. Comment. Yeah. You know, the peasants. Oh, man. Okay. So have you seen Field of Dreams? I have. I think I saw it when I was in like seventh or eighth grade. And I literally have no memory of that movie. Whatever you might remember about that movie. If you revisit it, I promise you you'll be like, I don't remember this. I don't remember this. Yeah. What's this movie about? Where's the baseball? The baseball doesn't show up until like the last five minutes of the movie. It's kind of like aliens and signs. Yes. It's like, yeah, they just show up for the last five minutes. All right, man. Let's give this movie some final scores. I'll get mine out of the way here. I think this is a good movie. Uh, it's a very enjoyable movie. I don't think it goes very deep. I think at its best it's like an eight and a half. I think at its worst it's like a six. So I'm going to fall kind of right in the middle here. I think this is a somewhere between a seven and a seven and a half film for me. I'm going to give it a seven out of ten, Brad. Ugh. Come on, Bob. Good movie. Have a soul. Good movie. I think that this is a nine out of ten movie, Bob. Hmm. Like, I think that your qualifier of it was that this movie is like good but shallow. I think this movie is good and the depth of it is what draws me up to a nine. Like overall for me, it's like an eight eight and a half out of ten. But the emotional depth that you find in the character of Forest Gump and the relationships in Jenny, like, I think that it speaks to the core of human desire in a really powerful way. And I, yeah, I think that this movie is way deeper than people give it credit for. All right. So it's a seven for me. It's a nine from Brad taking us to a very easy to average eight out of ten. But I'd like to know what you think. Which one of us is wrong? Because it's got to be one of us, folks. Is it me or is it Brad? You can tell us on any of our social medias, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, at Film Whiskey. Or if you want to join the conversation, we are live on our Discord talking to you all. Fans of the Film and Whiskey podcast every single day. So if you'd like to join the conversation, you can find a link to our Discord at the end of every single one of our show notes. Next week, we're going to be wrapping up our season ten revisit with a movie that never ceases to make me feel like it's freaking perfect. Alfred Hitchcock's rear window. So join us next week for some Hitchcock. But until then, I'm Bob Book. I'm Brad G. And we'll see you next time.