Shawshank Redemption is on AMC ....

[Flaxbee]

It started at 8 or 8:30 - I just found it - but just FYI for anyone who wants to watch!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Flaxbee!

That is absolutely my most beloved movie!

Great story, great ensemble cast, great acting!

Forrest Gump beat it for the Oscar that year...I have never forgiven FG for that!

Superb movie!

:hi:

[Flaxbee]

2. I love it, too... and the Academy is on crack most of the time...

I don't recall all the Best Picture nominees, and while FG is diverting, it doesn't rise anywhere near to the level of Shawshank!

I'm getting so homesick for SoCal I can hardly stand it ... enjoy the Pacific for me, OK?

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I was just down at the beach a little while ago...

The clouds looked like they do in my pic thread...

I know I'm really lucky to be this close to something so beautiful...

I wish you could be out here enjoying it too, sweetie...

:hug:

And I hear you about the Academy, lol!

[bigwillq]

3. Love that movie!

:bounce: :hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I think it may be one of the finest movies ever made...

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...except for the very, VERY end... when Hollywood went for the all-loose-ends-wrapped-up
ending rather than the excellent ending Stephen King had for the story.
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Also arguably one of the finest things he has ever written -- and has absolutely NOTHING
in common with his usual genre format.
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[Flaxbee]

6. what WAS the Stephen King ending?

I haven't read it, but would really like to know what King wrote - I've read enough of his books to know he didn't tie up the loose ends.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I'll PM you the ending...so there won't be spoilers here...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Ah, my dear MiddleFingerMom...

I agree about it being one of the finest movies ever made...

But.

I have to disagree with your take on the ending. I thought it was the logical conclusion to the story.

I won't discuss it since I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen the movie...but I thought the ending caught the spirit of the story perfectly...

:hi:

[mysuzuki2]

9. Wonderful movie

[Yavin4]

10. That Movie Is Exhibit A on Why The Oscars Should Wait Five Years

after a movie is released to award the best film. By waiting, a movie is allowed to find its audience and the voters don't fall prey to immediate emotions or slick marketing campaigns.

Does anyone remember Forrest Gump? Does anyone remember the film that beat out Brokeback Mountain?

[bigwillq]

11. Hated Forrest Gump

Thought Pulp Fiction was the best movie that year, followed closely by Shawshank.
Crash beat Brokeback, another travesty, imo.

[Yavin4]

12. "Crash", I Don't Even See That Movie Any More

No one even replays it.

[bigwillq]

13. It wasn't very memorable. That's why.

I only saw it once. Thought it was OK. Other movies have done the whole race relations thing a lot better.

[Orrex]

14. I'm afraid that I have to confess that this film bores me to tears

I like the cast and I like their performances, but overall this strikes me as one of the most drably conventional films in the history of cinema.


I know that this film is sacrosanct and that its adoration is largely assumed outright, but holy moley I just can't stand it.