50 Funny And Relatable ‘90s Posts That Define An Entire Generation

There is a whole lot of conservative cultural-backlash-to-the-sixties stuff in there that makes it, or would make it, without Forrest's obvious sweetness, an unpleasant experience to watch. Quite honestly, I'm not sure that the premise of the village idiot traipsing happily through the worst parts of the second half of the twentieth century in the United States was ever going to get off the ground with me. It's to Hanks's credit that it's watchable at all. In one of his better lines, Anthony Lane called Forrest's character, "less idiot savant than idiot triumphant."

Not all movies are meant to be "enjoyable". A lot of the scenes in Forrest Gump are specifically meant to make you uncomfortable. If you can't understand the depths of something like that, that's on you, the rest of us get it and can enjoy a movie that isn't 100% feel good. The fact that you summed it up as the village idiot traipasing happily blah blah blah blah blah means that you don't understand his character or the movie at all. He is so much more than a village idiot and the movie is about so much more than just him traipasing happily through the worst parts of the 20th century.

Of course you think you have great taste, everyone does, and I'm sure that you do to you. But for the vast majority of the intelligent world, this is a list of extremely good movies, albeit for very different reasons from movie to movie. Of course you're welcome to your own opinion, but when you say you have good taste, you're not using the word taste in the way that the rest of us are. That's like telling us you enjoy eating trash and then saying you have good taste, sure it tastes good to you, but that's not how we use the word. If you actively dislike every book and movie that the majority of people find at least decent if not spectacular, you're either intentionally being contrarian, or your taste is not as good as you think.