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malickfan
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Feb 25 2016, 10:10pm
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Nothing wrong with a bit of cheese now and then...
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...The Shawshank Redemption is probably my favourite film but I'll certainly admit at it's heart quite a melodramatic, cheesy story prone to speechifying and built on several lucky coincidences (so Andy was lucky enough to stay in the same cell near the only escape route for nearly 20 years, and was able to dig a long tunnel laboriously with a small hammer every night without being caught?  )...but for me personally it's a engrossing story about the nature of male friendship and the redemptive power of hope in the worst of situations.
A perfectly paced, beautifully shot and scored (and for the most part wonderfully acted) film packed with symbolism, memorable dialogue and likable characters, funny, tragic, and sad, it's just a great movie i.m.o.
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Bracegirdle
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Feb 26 2016, 3:51am
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And Freeman’s voiceover puts the icing on the cheese, er, . . . cake!! //
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Starling
Half-elven
Feb 26 2016, 5:18am
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are reminding me why I despise that film so much. Honestly, it makes me want to grate my face right off.
"Each to their own," said the old woman kissing her cow goodnight.
(Or something like that).
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Bracegirdle
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Feb 26 2016, 1:00pm
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"To each their own?" Go Figaro
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No Shawshank redemptive qualities?
If this movement doesn’t move Starling, oh my, what would?
“I have no idea what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. . . .
I tell you those voices soared.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718RlaIYBlo
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malickfan
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Feb 26 2016, 8:22pm
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I do kinda see where you are coming from, Morgan Freeman has carved out a great (or typecasted) career since Shawshank, more often than not by being cast in the elderly authority character spouting wisdom from the sidelines...but he does it very well, and Shawshank was one of his earlier 'wise old dude' roles so I find the cheese easier to forgive.
But as I said in my earlier post, Shawshank is built on a very ludicrous, cheesy basic premise anyway...
According to the commentary for Shawshank:
The voiceover narration was recorded before filming began and was then played on set to dictate the rhythm and camera movement of each scene, it was originally recorded in an studio by Morgan Freeman in only 40 minutes weeks before filming began. Unfortunately, there was a minor hiss to the track which sound engineers were unable to eradicate, it had to be re-recorded in a proper studio; this time it took three weeks...
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malickfan
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Feb 26 2016, 9:11pm
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...my list of films I can watch over and over (ever growing of course):
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Godfather 1+2 (definitely not 3)
Raiders of The Lost Ark
Star Wars OT Trilogy (particularly Empire Strikes Back)
Unforgiven
Castle In The Sky
The Shawshank Redemption
Jurrasic Park
Big Trouble In Little China
Dumb and Dumber
The Room
Where Eagles Dare
The Prestige
Groundhog Day
City Of God
Taxi Driver
Fight Club
Once Upon A Time In America
Field of Dreams
Casino Royale
Children of Men
Planet Of The Apes (1968)
Apocalypse Now
Pans Labyrinth
The Toy Story trilogy
The Living Daylights
The Thing (1982)
Terminator 2
The LOTR trilogy (esp FOTR)
Blade Runner
Die Hard
Badlands
Brazil
Gladiator
Back To The Future Trilogy
Some of these films aren't by any means classics, and there are many more I've seen that I'd rate higher, but these are the films I can watch over and over again...
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N.E. Brigand
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Mar 7 2016, 5:00am
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"Citzen Kane" fell from favor in 2012.
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Orson Welles's 1941 film has the reputation of all-time greatest film because it topped the best-known critics' poll, the one conducted each decade by Sight & Sound magazine, in the 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, and 2002 surveys. (It didn't even make the top ten in 1952.) However, as noted here, in 2012 the critics dropped it to #2, putting Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) in first place.
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N.E. Brigand
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Mar 7 2016, 5:06am
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From your list, I'd guess I'd pick The Godfather or maybe The Empire Strikes Back, although I'm not sure either would even make my top 25, much less my top five.
My favorite film is Satyajit Ray's moving debut, Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road"), which relates one year in the life of a poor family in Bengal. It is the first installment in what became known as the "Apu Trilogy". Apu is a young boy in the first film; he grows to manhood in the next two films, Aparajito and Apu Sansar aka The World of Apu.
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HOBBITFAN13
Lorien
Mar 11 2016, 8:11pm
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A perfectly paced, beautifully shot and scored (and for the most part wonderfully acted) film packed with symbolism, memorable dialogue and likable characters, funny, tragic, and sad, it's just a great movie i.m.o.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Mar 13 2016, 4:02am
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On the Beach - "It's not the end of the world at all,"
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he said. 'It's only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us”
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