Comments on: Forrest Gump 2

By: Earl

Earl — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:28:45 +0000

When do you think that forrest gump 2 will come out in theaters? From what i have heard that it will be another good tom hanks movie but dont know if it will top the charts like forrest gump did in 1995 but as all of us know the sequels are normally awesome. Im a forrest gump fan as anyone would imagine. Just let all of us fans know when forrest gump 2 comes out

By: noc

noc — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:08:43 +0000

forrest gump is an awesome movie first of all, and real people would understand it, but the idea of a second movie is bad though, this movie is a classic and i’m sure the studio is gonna wreck it!

By: shane razey

shane razey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:40:22 +0000

By: KIMMIK

KIMMIK — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:17:28 +0000

Surely they cannot be serious about this!?!?!!

By: SamF

SamF — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:14:25 +0000

No-one can understand why I hate forest pump so much… but it is almost unwatchable.. shawshank on the other hand is certainly one the best films ever made.

By: sal

sal — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:52:28 +0000

I dunno, if book 2 (which I have not read) is funnier & has more back flashes on world history like MOTHERNATURE mentioned above, I think it could be good. For me, those were the funniest bits in the first film. Sure we might be sick of the “Hi I’m forest, …forest gump” touchy feely cliches but those would only take up a small percentage of screen time if used. If they do go ahead & make it, good luck to ’em.

By: Ricci

Ricci — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:25:38 +0000

This is an awful idea, they will be making a huge mistake if they make this movie.

The original is a full story with a begin’ middle and end, imo there is no reason to extend its life.

By: Marla Singer

Marla Singer — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:47:26 +0000

I think we should start a petition and send it to paramount

By: Marla Singer

Marla Singer — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:45:55 +0000

NO NO NO!!! It was fine when they were building sequels to crap like big mommas house and meet the parents but you CANNOT and i mean CANNOT make a sequel to a fully rounded academy award winning movie like FOREST FUCKING GUMP!!! God damn this world gets shitty-er and shitty-er everyday, waht the fuck, there are plenty of other ideas for movies to think of, if they cant think of any then contact me cuz i know some good ones that havent been done yet! Fuck…you know and Forrest Gump is my all time favorite movie, like… what a bunch of losers at paramount. I cant even say anymore i’m so super pissed off right now!!!

By: alfie

alfie — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:36:36 +0000

ides of march is right…

he was promised “net” points from the box office but the studio believe it or not claim that forrest gumo never actually made a profit on the net and they have the books to prove it..heavily cooked books.

it was situations like these that lead actors etc etc demanding a percentage of the gross as opposed to the net…getting money from the gorss meansyou receive money from the total gross regardless of whther or not it is a hit…thats is when you are t om cruise giant star…some have a clause that they will get a cut of the gross when it reaches certain points of success…say someone might have a deal that at 50 million BO they start to receive 5% of the gross form that point on……

net points are the nasty ones.

they are what people refer to as monkey points as you would have to be a monkey to accept them. Pretty much anyone who has been told they will get “net” points wind up receiving nothing. even on mammoth hits like gump….you see studios will put losses from their bombs up against the monies from their hits….so you could be offered net points ona huge giant film like gump but once the studio have finished with the books it appears that the film never actually made any real money….when obviously gump made money but the studios are crafty.

this is an incredibly short version of what it all means but I read abook about art buchwald when he took on paramount over coming to america and it covers alot of this kind of thing…..

the gunpo situation was similar….he assumed he was about to get a nice pay day after it became a global blockbuster but was told sharply that it had not made any net so therfore he didn’t get anything…ugly business …ugly business….

By: motherNature

motherNature — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:13:23 +0000

I enjoyed the second book. It has more crazy moments of Forrest getting mixed up in world events, eg, he gets shot into space with an orangutan and crash lands in papua new guinea where he lives for a year or two with his monkey and some natives.

But the theme is good, his son turns out to be a genius as foreshadowed at the end of the first part. So it’s Forrest struggling with his son being smarter than him. Kind of like I am Sam.

By: Ides_of_March

Ides_of_March — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:07:35 +0000

There was rumor that the author of the book, Winston Groom, did not recieve any money from the success of the film; therefore, when it came time to write the sequel Winston Groom was not very enthusiastic about writing a sequel. Can’t really blame the guy. The majority of reviews of the 2nd book are pretty negative. Yeah, I don’t see this movie seeing the light.