ho did he ever manage to enlist in the Army? okay, okay...

we have some of the best movie making ever, in the first hour or so...then we veer off into 7 other movies.

the character has an IQ of 75 but his intellect does not account for his, shall we say, humanitarian IQ. are we supposed to wonder...is he such a moral, courageous man because he does not deal at all in adult social complexities and just reacts? is he a "savant", in that as "dumb" as he is, intellectually, he can accomplish things that "average" people cannot, simply because they *think* too much? I wondered if his running ability is half "transferred" skill (what he lacks in real brainpower he gains in braunpower?).

we are given not one porterhouse steak here but two...meaning, too much is too much. Like Fred Blassie once said, you see women wrestling two nites in a row, by the third?.....nah. should the Director/Writer simply presented the greatest human running machine in history > cannot possibly break a sweat, stopping his run only for food and nature calls? well, he is the world's greatest runner, a War Hero, a multi-million dollar entrepreneur...and he's got a hot hippie chick n the back burner, too! I think the creators referenced MARATHON MAN, BEING THERE, that DUSTIN Hoffman movie where he plays the "counting" marvel.

the two disc set does not include the deleted footage where Gump meets Jesus. :)