Forrest Knows Best

There is something oddly comforting about doing absolutely nothing on a perfectly good Saturday. Something inside me tells me that I am wasting away a perfectly good day...but then I think of the fact that it's a three day weekend and this is really just like a Friday that I happen to have off. Not that it makes the wasting the day away any better, but it works in my mind.
I watched Forest Gump 1.5 times last night. It was on two times in a row. I tried to make it through them both...but it just seemed wrong. Why does TBS always show movies twice in a row? It seems kinda useless. Unless you are that person who turns the tv on in the last 20 minutes of a good movie...then you may be excited to find out it is starting all over again. But...then it taints the whole experience of the movie anyway, because you just watched the end, and now you are going back to watch the beginning? It sets the world off its axis or something....it's just wrong.
Back to Gump...I forget what a poineint and powerful movie this is. Very sweet, and sugary, and thoughtful...it's like a good friend. This is a movie that brings your mind back to it's most simple existence, which is very important to do sometimes. "Life is like a box of chocolates" "Stupid is as stupid does" "You can tell alot about a person by their shoes...where they been...where they're goin" It's all so true!!! Forrest is a genius. If we all thought a little bit more like him, the world would be a better place. Forrest is all about being free, and learning, and absolute loyalty. He reminds me what having a heart is all about. One day Forest decided that he wanted to run...so he did. And he ran all the way accross the country. Everyone made a big deal about his running, and wanted to know why he was doing it. Was it for world peace? or for the environment? Forest simply said (in one of the best quotes you can ever hear) "I just felt like runn-nin" As I sit here on my useless Saturday, I tip my glass of iced tea to Mr. Gump. Here is to always doing just whatever you feel like.... I love Forest Gump.
Today on TBS...I have watched parts of Sleepless in Seattle, and You've Got Mail. This must be Tom Hanks weekend or something...I'm waiting to for Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan, and Road to Perdition to come on....probably in vain though, because that goes way outside of the TBS movie genre. They always do this too....they always play these two movies back to back. Essentially, I suppose these movies are pretty much identical. What is it about Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan? Were they trying to make the same movie twice here? A feel good, hopeless romantic comedy, that deals with the torture of will they or won't they ever find eachother... and if they don't the world will never be the same, and I will never meet anyone ever again... because If Meg Ryan can't do it, what hope is there for me? it's crazy...yet, here I am rooting for these characters to meet and fall in love, and why? because it give me hope. Hope that fairy tales and perfect men can exist. . even in real life. Crazier things have happened. It gives me hope everytime I watch it.
Where are Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan now anyway...are they still actors? If you ask me they should have been cast in Mr. and Mrs. Smith....that would have made TBS rich. Can you imagine them with guns. I think that is what You've Got Mail is missing. Guns.

Here's to Hopeless Romance...
and Forrest...

*EDIT* I just realized that it's not TBS playing all these movies I love...it's TNT. But just like those movies from today...what's the difference? Oh and Forrest is on again now...they are really going for it.