Is The Shawshank Redemption the best film ever?

timesonline ^ | September 13, 2009

[dforest]

My hubby likes “Body Heat”.

[TADSLOS]

Funny you should mention it. I was thinking the same thing.

[Darkwolf377]

It's not even in my top 200.

It's always amusing to me how these kinds of movies are made about prisoners who aren't guilty. If the lib filmmakers really had the courage of their convictions, they'd be about GUILTY people in the system they are so worried about.

Yes, Freeman's character is guilty, but he's a supporting character, and is played as the most gosh-darned it guilty person--his defiance in front of the parole board is seen as heroic.

Great Freeman, great photography, great score, great last 20 minutes (without Robbins). That's it.

[Future Snake Eater]

LOL...ouch!

But I think "Manos" loses to this epic:

[LuvFreeRepublic]

The Shawshank Redemption is a great movie, but my favorite is We Were Soldiers, by Mel Gibson.

[devane617]

I watch that movie every time it is on. I have it on DVD, actually I have both versions on DVD. I think, there is a third version that was an Australian film before the GP version.

[Red in Blue PA]

The writing in Shawshank is simply brilliant. Well, most everything about it is.

Cannot believe that Firrest Gump won the Oscar that year!.......That is criminal.

[Darkwolf377]

The MST version.

[cripplecreek]

I’ve never seen the movie but I’ve read the book ‘On the beach” by Nevil Shute. Great read as well.

[sand lake bar]

On the Beach. Great film. Launched Fred Astaire’s comeback as a dramatic actor, made “Waltzing Matilda” a top 40 hit.

[Lacey]

I vote for “The Trouble with Angels”.

[TADSLOS]

I haven’t seen it it years. Great movie though. Dramatic and sobering.

[sand lake bar]

Shawshank is good, but not as good as “The Man who Shot Liberty Valence.”

[Darkwolf377]

Definitely in my top 20, Apocalypse Now is. Staggering.

Someone else mentioned Boondock Saints, to which I can only say "Only thing worse than Tarantino is second-hand Tarantino". :P Although the documentary on the maker of Boondock Saints, Overnight, is awesome.

[ropin71]

[devane617]

Fred Astaire was great...Very sobering movie as someone else mentioned. Waltzing matilda...How could I forget that.

[mel]

Not at all either

[FormerACLUmember]

Three better films, IMHO.

The Passion of The Christ

Places in the Heart (despite these two dim-bulbs)

The Seventh Seal

[peeps36]

I like Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers and the prison movie American Me. Braveheart and Black Hawk Down are good too.

[cripplecreek]

You tell em I'm comin. And hells coming with me.