No one could beat Emma Peel.... 
Posted on 10/12/2022 1:30:07 PM PDT by conservative98
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Republican Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, suggests that the movie The Shawshank Redemption justifies releasing convicted murderers from prison.
During an on-camera interview with NBC News’s Dasha Burns, Fetterman justified his record of helping to free convicted murderers from Pennsylvania prisons by stating that actor Morgan Freeman’s character in The Shawshank Redemption is about “giving somebody a chance” as opposed to having them serve their full life sentence.
Freeman’s character in the film admits to having committed a double homicide.
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He probably wouldn’t even know they were dead!
So are all of our government representatives and employees.
It’s just not a basis for policy.
I never thought it was but you’re right, Red paid for his crime, Andy outsmarted the whole bunch and it was indeed a great movie.
The Dukes of Hazard similarly justifies jumping 1960’s muscle cars with Confederate Battle Flags on their roofs. But, I digress.
I’m really not sure what you mean but suffice it to say I see nothing wrong with jumping ‘60’s muscle cars with Confederate Battle Flags on their roofs.....;)
Andy Dufresne was imprisoned because he was convicted through the misconduct of the prosecution. If Fetterman’s real point was that prosecutors need to be reined in, I might agree with some of that argument.
But Andy wasn’t a murderer, so the idea that the story justifies releasing convicted murders in general doesn’t follow from the story at all.
Maybe he also Wilma Flintstone is the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
If we’re going by Stephen King movies I suggest “The Green Mile”
Every inmate on the mile got to ride the lightning!
The dude is bat crap crazy.
We are living “Idiocracy”! The idiots are running the world!
OMG! That has wife and kids?
Scary.
“Idiocracy”
Watch it? We’re living it!
First time I saw it decades ago, it was amusing.
I saw it again a few months ago. It had turned into a documentary horror film!!
Well there you go, just not in the way he intended.
Don't forget to pick up a quality souvenir at the Prison Showroom, the location that was the inspiration for Shawshank prison.
358 Main St, Thomaston, ME 04861
(Mashiach in prison)
Besides, what's in the name of the one who brought up the [Shawshank] Redemption?
Metaphorically, a fetter may be anything that restricts or restrains in any way, hence the word "unfettered".
Why the leg cuffs?
"A fast-walking man is hard to beat."
If people laugh at the movie reference for its being fiction, how much more so stop-motion animation?
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What’s amazing is that it didn’t win Best Picture. It was up against Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction. Tough year, but I think it should have won. If it is on against those two, I will watch it again. The other nominees that year were Quiz Show and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Tough year.
So, what about ‘Designated Survivor’? /s
I was remarking the other day how it was truly written about
contemporary times, under the guise of taking place in 2450
or thereabouts.
It just nails it in so many places.
I felt the same way about Barbra Eden as ‘’Jennie’’.
Or when ever Mary Tyler Moore put on black tights and started dancing.
What’s amazing is that it didn’t win Best Picture. It was up against Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction. Tough year, but I think it should have won. If it is on against those two, I will watch it again. The other nominees that year were Quiz Show and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Tough year.
I liked Forrest Gump, couldn’t watch Pulp Fiction (too much nasty language) never saw the other 2 but when push comes to shove I think Shawshank Redemption outshined them all.
No one could beat Emma Peel....
The other two are quite good. Pulp Fiction has a gimmicky time line that is only really interesting the first time. Like a lot from Tarantino, it’s a bunch of wild scenes slapped together. Four Weddings and a Funeral is a romcom, but it’s one of the best that genre has to offer. I barely remember Quiz Show, but it was good. Shawshank should have won over Forrest Gump, which was also really good. One of the better years for movies.
The other two are quite good.
Well now that we have streaming I might try Pulp Fiction one more time.....no promises though.....also Four Weddings and a Funeral sounds like a chick flick and I’m into that......;)
“Four Weddings and a Funeral sounds like a chick flick and I’m into that”
Oh, it is totally a chick flick. I normally don’t like that, but it is really good for the genre. It had almost no budget and no big names (at the time). It had a good script and good acting. Imagine that.
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