couldn not go to sleep the other night . so i get up and flip on the tube and this movie be on . film maker bite off more than they could chew . just a ambitious in scope a forrest gump be . but gump read like an fairy tale where an extraordinarily lucky man guide u through the era . tgmb just relies on tired clichés to tell the story . almost like a broadway musical where actor have to ham it up . every character purpose be to fill a silly 60 archetype . take how be introduce to finnegan represent hug his black maid and receive a framed picture of mlk . criminey and talk about heavy hand . why not just give him a t shirt say i heart black people . sunshine represent isn not free love groovay and man . oh no and i do not have my period . mary beth represent i want to go to berkeley and not square ucla . uh and excuse me . there be nothing square about la in the 60 . rather than take the time to demonstrate what make berkeley unique and we just hear this brat whine about not go there . can not even remember the black kid name . he be just a prop use to show how racially tolerant the other kid be . thing be and period piece do not have to be this cheesy . take dazed and confused . look how be introduce to the football hero and randall floyd . we do not first see him on the football field . in fact and we never see him play football . be introduce to him in class and invite his nerdish poker buddy to a party . in dazed feminism isn not a casual by product of some chick get knock up . it much more organic and more serious than that . it refine in the lady room over a flip discussion about gilligan island . serious idea can grow in the most mundane setting . but real life be like that . some of the warm comment here note that the theme in this movie be still relevant . i agree . which be why i feel so disappointed by this piece of baby boomer pornostalgia .