[1995 Academy Awards] Forrest Gump vs Shawshank Redemption vs Pulp Fiction.

Gump should win actor and film. Shawshank used the twist ending to be good, otherwise there were was not much imagery, or dialogue that makes it WOW good. Anytime you need flashbacks of the same scene to tell the story it drops a peg.


Quentin Tarantino should get best director because he changed the way people thought of movies with Pulp Fiction.

 

Forrest Gump is a terrible movie with a terrible message.

"Sit down, shut up, don't rock the boat, and do as you're told. Only then will good things happen to you. If you have the temerity to venture outside of society's norms you'll become a drug-addicted prostitute and die of AIDS."

Pulp Fiction and Shawshank are both great but in my mind Pulp Fiction is clearly ahead, both at the time and in how they further influenced cinema.

 

I liked pulp fiction the best and feel that it sort of stands the test of time the best of them all. I think the use of the non-linear intersecting storyline was better executed here than in Reservoir dogs. Forest Gump's sappiness I think sort of kills it, it didn't stand up to repeated viewings the same way. Shawshank is great it just didn't seem as innovative as Pulp Fiction did at the time.

I think Forest Gump's oscar success by the way had as much to do with politics as anything (that was the year Republicans re-took congress so the "family values" thing was very prominent that year, certainly in comparison to a violent gangster film like Pulp Fiction)

 

I also choose Pulp Fiction for the reason that it has stood the test of time. It still seems fresh and original when you watch it.

What is Forrest Gump the character supposed to be, anyways? r****ded? Half r****d? Never go full r****d! Nonetheless, it was the kind of epic, uplifting film that Oscar voters like.

 

moes, if I remember correctly in a previous thread you picked Shawshank and blasted the other two films when compared to it. It would probably take me too long to dig and try to find it. Do you still feel the same way?

Best Picture - I would give the slight edge to 'The Shawshank Redemption' and I just watched it for the first time last year.

Best Actor - I would definitely give it to Hanks. He made the character not only memorable but very believable as well.

Best Director - Tarantino for the same reasons mentioned by Castor27. He took a cast of has-beens and unknowns and made a masterpiece.

 

I didn't know that was the message conveyed with Gump.

 

the funny thing is this is tough to argue with. but i think you miscontsrued the message, gump didn't always not rock the boat, he befriended bubba, he didn't let his comrades die on the beach, he started the shrimp boating business that people thought was crazy, and the running was far from conventional.

aside from joining the army during vietnam (which I don't want to argue about being good or bad) gump always did the right thing because he always had good intentions, and he was blessed.

 

Is this PC?

 

This goes to my other question. Hanks was a believable...what? Idiot? r****ded person? Doesn't seem to me like he was a realistic r****ded person.

 

Gump was the definition of being outside of norms. He was always put with the outcasts of the group. Poor girl (jenny) black r****d in army (bubba) and the crazy army vet with no legs ( dan)

 

I also don't agree that this was the message. Seems to me that he did a bunch of stuff outside the norm.

 

Forest Gump was a movie for baby-boomers, and won the Oscars on the strength of baby-boomers.

Pulp Fiction was compositionally much more rich, with better character development, dialogue, wit, and coolness. The other two don't come too close.

 

"Slow? yes. r****ded? Maybe. Braces on his legs, but he charmed the pants off of Nixon and won a ping-pong competition? That ain't r****ded! You went full r****d, man."

Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies of all time. I (comparatively) recently saw Pulp and Shawshank. All three are incredible. I think that Gump should have gotten best picture and actor. Hanks is phenomenal in that role, and the visuals are incredible. Tarantino for director.

 

Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full r****d, went home empty handed...

 

I pick Pulp Fiction for best movie. I think Shawshank Redemption was also a great movie. I wasn't a big fan of Forrest Gump and other than the popularity of Tom Hanks in the 90s, I'm not sure why that movie is so highly regarded.

Best Movie: Pulp Fiction
Best Screenplay: Pulp Fiction (by a landslide)
Best Director: Quentin Tarantino
Best Actor: Samuel L Jackson (one of my all time favorite movie characters)
Worst Actor: Quentin Tarantino (he should leave himself out of his movies)

 

Forest Gump for all 3, easily

 

Ditto. Paul Newman, though, was very good in a subtle way for that Nobody's Fool movie (OK movie, though). Hanks is amazingly consistent, though, in his speech and mannerisms throughout the whole movie.