"No one thought much of Andy Dufrane..." Got to be one of the best movies ever. It runs on cable so often I haven't had the need to add it to my movie collection. I must watch this movie half a dozen times each month. I just can not turn the channel on it.
I agree, this is one of my all-time favorites. The man that wrote and directed this movie (Frank Darabont) is a friend of my dad's. When I met him about a year ago, I made sure to tell him just how great of a movie I thought this, and his others (The Green Mile, etc) are. I'm sure he's heard it a million times, but I wanted to tell him anyway. At the time, he was working on the screenplay for the next Indiana Jones movie, and I believe he was also doing the next Mission Impossible movie. Morgan Freeman is definitely one of my favorite actors as well. I agree, more Oscars should have been won.
Shawshank is an outstanding film and I particularily like Morgan Freedmans narration. I am a big fan of his films and was totally floored after watching Million Dollar Baby. This was a fantastic film that left me thinking about it for days. I highly recommend watching it in the theater.
Bump. I knew there would already be a thread, glad I searched. I'm watching this movie for about the tenth time. Gets better every time!
Shawshank is truly a masterpiece. I too watch it every time it's on TBS, even when I catch it in the middle of the movie. Awesome film!! Best movie ever though, is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "It's just a flesh wound...."
To think Shawshank was based on a short story by Stephen King, whose books normally don't transition well to the Big Screen....
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Shawshank is a fantastic film. A few others I love are L.A. Confidential and Cast Away. I really liked both Danny DeVito and James Cromwell in Confidential. RMX
movie is good, and very faithful to the book which i read like 5 or 10 years before the movie came out, and if i recall it was by Stephen King using his psuedonym Richard Bachman. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.
Agree with everyone else...I always can sit and watch this movie whenever I see it on tv. Another film that I would put in that same category would be The Patriot with Mel Gibson. I just saw Twelve Angry Men with Henry Fonda and that was a great movie, considering the whole movie takes place in one room.
Ditto. There comes a point in every man's life where he has to either get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.
Every body thought Andy had a pretty good head on his shoulders for a guy doing life behind brick walls. But then one day in 1947, or was it 1952; who knows, time moves slowly when you're behind bars. Anyway, one day Andy starts talking crazy, like he's going out of his head. Babbling something about "time travel" and "enter net" and "F chat". Real crazy talk. Next day in the yard he sits there sayin' nothin' for an hour, then calmly says: "It's time to get busy posting on F-chat or get busy dying!" That's the last time we ever saw Andy. We found out later that some stranger named Carbon McCoy walked into a dozen banks all across Maine in one afternoon, drawing out over $300,000. Said he was going to retire to Mexico and buy a black Ferrari.
Shawshank is definately one of the best, but what about Glory? It has Morgan Freeman and Mathew Broderick. I watch both of those any time I catch then on TV and own the DVD's. Another great movie that no one has mentioned is Blow. Gotta love a good "drug" movie!!!
