How to take a great novel and butcher it to pieces

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2003)

LET ME SAY THIS: WATCHING AN IDIOTIC FILM VERSION OF A GREAT BOOK IS NO BOX OF CHOCOLATES. This movie is (quite possibly) the WORST adaptation of a book to a "film". When it was first announced that Forrest Gump was going to be adapted for the screen, I was very excited, as this was one of my favorite stories. I cannot begin to describe the nausea that overcame me as I sat through the slaughter of Winston Groom's literary masterpiece (tall tale of the tallest). I was completely embarrassed in front of my friends (whom I had dragged along to the movie theater with me); I had to urge them to read the book and forget what they had witnessed on the screen. Everything about this movie, from the casting to the "rewriting", was just plain wrong. It was as if the powers that be at the studio were waiting for someone in the audience to jump up and say: "THE EMPEROR IS NAKED", but(secretly) knew that the sheep would even eat weeds.