What’s Aged the Worst?
John Lennon’s lips, the suitcase, historical age casting, lost rights and deleted scenes, the abandoned sequel, and Nathan Bedford Forrest naming have aged worst.
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- Most effects hold up, but Lennon’s digitally altered mouth looks rough and the scene diminishes him by crediting Forrest with song ideas.
- Forrest’s suspiciously eclectic suitcase and Sally Field being only about ten years older than Hanks expose visual and continuity awkwardness.
- Warner Bros. traded away the property after Rain Man for Executive Decision, a choice framed as a roughly $650 million error.
- A deleted scene in which young Jenny kills her abusive father with a tractor is one the panel wishes had survived, rejecting the filmmakers’ fear that audiences would not forgive her.
- A filmed scene in which Forrest diverts police dogs from Martin Luther King is unanimously treated as wisely deleted.
- The proposed sequel would have involved Forrest Jr. with HIV, O.J.’s Bronco, Princess Diana, and an Oklahoma City bombing death; its extremity and post-9/11 abandonment are documented.
- Naming Forrest after Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest is the clearest aged-worst decision, even with the narration’s explanation that people do senseless things.