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Forrest Gump

Who Won the Movie?

Forrest Gump The Rewatchables

Tom Hanks wins the three audible ballots for making the character, emotion, and entire movie work.

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  • Three speakers audibly choose Hanks without hesitation, calling the performance the whole film and the career’s most iconic work; a fourth choice is not audible before the outro.
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The Fugitive

Most Rewatchable Scene

Dam chase versus the opening 24 minutes

In the discussion (13)
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  • Opening interrogation
  • Bus fight and bus/train crash
  • Marshals taking over the investigation
  • Dam pursuit and jump
  • Copeland’s capture
  • St. Patrick’s Day chase
  • Kimble calling Gerard from Sykes’s apartment
  • Subway fight
  • Cardiology-conference confrontation
  • Final Kimble/Gerard exchange
  • Mallory favors the dam chase
  • Chris favors the opening 24 minutes and 20 seconds
  • Bill favors the opening crash material; the definition of a single scene is debated
In the discussion (12)
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The Fugitive

The Vincent Chase Award: Are We Sure This Character Is Actually Good at Their Job?

Charles Nichols; Sykes and the defense attorney also considered

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  • Nichols’s failure to neutralize Kimble
  • Nichols’s denial of knowing a colleague
  • Pathology approvals dated after Lentz’s death
  • The implausible no-side-effects claim
  • Sykes killing the wrong person and failing again
  • The defense attorney is nominated; his shortcomings are deferred
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The Fugitive

What’s Aged the Worst?

Defense failures, disguise logic and sequels

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Approx. transcript time · 00:55:33Read transcript
  • Kimble’s legal defense
  • Forensic/DNA handling is criticized as dated
  • Failure to show Kimble testifying
  • Slow parallel prosthetics investigations
  • Oversized opening credits
  • Joe Pantoliano’s wig
  • Pre-CGI concealment of the actor’s arm
  • U.S. Marshals and later adaptations
  • Removal of Julianne Moore’s romantic subplot is debated and defended
  • People failing to recognize Ford’s distinctive face
  • The final Nichols/Kimble fight
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