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Summary: Its the best movie ever.
Review: if u havent seen it , u better see i
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Summary: THE SECONED BEST MOVIE EVER MADE
Review: A GREAT FILM IT HAS GREAT PERFORMANCES WITH GREAT ACTORS.i'D SAY IT IS THE SECONED BEST MOVIE EVER MADE AND PULP FICTION WOULD BE THE BEST MOVIE BUT THERE BOTH PREETY CLOSE.IT HAS THE BEST ENDING ANYONE WILL SEE IN MOVIE HISTORY.
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Summary: the most astonishing movie in a long time
Review: There are hardly any words that can describe this picture. It shoould have won the Oscar for best picture and should have been on afi's top 100 easily. Freeman's and Robbin's acting are truely awesome as well as all the other perfomances. Every scene is one in which you will never forget. My favorite is the Intercom scene (which is slightly ripped off in "Life is Beautiful"). If you have never seen this movie, watch it. In the end you will surely find yourself examining your life and trying to see if your human spirit is being used to its fullest. This picture descibes how man has the power to change so many things and people, even while being confined to a cell. You will see yourself being changed as well.
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Summary: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Review: First of all, I'd like to say that this review contains spoilers for most the important parts in the movie, "Shawshank Redemption." If you haven't seen the movie yet then just read the first couple paragraphs; if you've seen the movie read on. This article might interest ya:"The Shawshank Redemption" is one of the few movies to have surpassed its original form, as a book. After seeing the movie for about the fifth or sixth time, and after finding out that one of my favorite writers, Stephen King, wrote the original story, I went out and bought the book, "Different Seasons," which is a collection of short novellas--also containing two other stories which were adapted into movies as well: "The Body," which became "Stand By Me" and "Apt Pupil," which--well--became "Apt Pupil." Considering the trash Hollywood has made out of Stephen King's "The Lawnmower Man," Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park," and Dean Koontz's "Phantoms," I was immediately surprised at the accuracy of "The Shawshank Redemption." Although there are a few moderate differences, Hollywood has done wonders with Mr. King's work. The differences are as follows: 1)Red is not black in the book. After reading the book and watching the movie again on "The Super Station" (Channel 29), I found a very subtle joke: In the book Red was nicknamed "Red" because he was a carrot-top, but in the movie he's obviously not. In the book, Andy doesn't even bother to ask Red why his nickname is "Red", because his hair is red, but in the movie Red has black hair, so Andy asks him why everyone calls him Red, and Morgan Freeman replies, "Maybe cuz' I'm Irish." I thought that was pretty funny--after reading the novella. 2)Andy does not create the false identity, to which he assumes on the outside, on his own. He has someone on the outside who helped him in creating the identity (Note: Andy is quite familiar with creating false identities; he's the banker who gave Kurt Dussander from "Apt Pupil" his false identity, Arthur Denker) that Andy assumed after fleeing Shawshank. (Note: Shawshank was also the prison that a few people in Stephen King's "IT" were sent to, and the prison that the boys in "The Body" feared they'd be sent to. Coincidence?) 3)Also, the stone wall in Buxton, where Andy told Red to go if he ever got out of Shawshank, was not just a place where Andy hid money & a note for Red, it was the place Andy hid his spare key for the safety deposit box containing his false identity. 4)In the book, Tommy Williams is transferred to another prison, he is not lured outside and shot by the head guard. 5)In the book, the Warden Sam Norton was not the warden throughout the whole time Andy stayed in the Shank, but in the movie he is there from the beginning. 6)In movie, the warden kills himself after Andy reveals all the scandals he was involved in, but in the book Andy never reveals the scandals, and never takes the warden's money because Andy's wealth was in the stock market, not the warden. In the book, the warden ends up becoming a pastor at a Baptist church, because he couldn't handle being a prison warden. 7) The warden does not throw a rock through the poster. He just tears it down in anger. 8) In the end of the movie version we see Red walk along the beach in Zihuatanejo--Yes, I spelt it right; I checked the book--and then Andy looks up, smiles, and walks toward Red while the camera pans out. But in the book it just ends with, "I hope Andy is down there. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope." It leaves you wondering, Did Red ever get across the Texan Border and find Andy? I like the last scene in the movie where they meet. I almost cried. There were a few elements taken out of the movie, yes; but it's not what was taken out movie, it was what was added to the movie that made the extra mile. You see, there were a few extra scenes in the movie which were memorable: like when one of Andy's friends picks up a piece of old horse poop, mistaking it for a rock, and a few others I can't take off the top of my head. I also believe the development of the story was much better in the movie. Especially in the scenes that lead to Andy's escape. In the movie it went from Andy saying, "How could you be so obtuse," to him being locked in solitary, to Andy telling Red about Buxton and Zihuatanejo, to that suspenseful lights-out scene in the jail where Red is sitting awake while the suspense-music plays, and ultimately to the Warden throwing a chess piece, carved by Andy, through the poster of Linda Ronstadt and into his secret escape tunnel. In the book, these scenes are separated by other less page turning scenes. A few years go by after Andy tells Red about Zihuatanejo, as well, in the book. With all said and done, if you enjoyed watching the flick, then you may want to consider reading the book. Reading the book afterwards reveals a little more about the whole false identity thing and Andy's money making scheme. Of course you don't have to. The movie was slightly better than the book, so you'll most likely be slightly disappointed, as I was with the book. --(M)att M. Patterson
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Summary: One of the best movies I've ever seen
Review: I think the key message in this movie is that our legal/penal system is not perfect and innocent people have been and currently are put into jail. It raises all kinds of moral and ethical questions, and should get you thinking about everything from how the American penal system does not help to rehabilitate prisoners to the moral issues surrounding the death penalty. And all of these thoughts are triggered by a beautifully acted and directed film. I think like "It's a beautiful life," this movie is way ahead of its time and will be fully appreciated by future generations and not completely appreciated by our own.
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Summary: Excellent portrayal of true friendship
Review: The plot is excellent! An excellent portrayal of true friendship which is not based on materialism, between several prison inmates, specifically between two. The acting is also excellent. It was a wonder it was worth three stars. It far exceeds the Titanic!
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Summary: From far, one of the best...
Review: I was 12 when I saw it the first time, just loved it, but didn't really catch anything for myself, after 4 years, now 16 I was on CBS and saw that it would be on, I canceled everything I was doing to watch it again, That was the best thing I did, after seeing and analizing the movie and it's wonderfull story made me think a lot, you wonder if a man could really do that in real life, stand all the pressure, well... I think it can happen, and more, it can be us, normal people, as Andy was, if u wanna see this movie be ready to get excited about everything Andy does, and try to apply it to your life, it doesn't matter how hard your life is or how old u are, you still can do it, Just "get busy living, or get busy diying" if u feel just like this u surelly will like(love) this movie, "You may say I am a dreamer, But I am not the only one. I hope some day you will join us, and the world will live as one." John Lennon
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Summary: Awful
Review: Another boring oscar-winning movie. I thought that this was one of the dullest films I have ever seen. The story was so boring and slow-moving. I was wondering when (if ever) something would happen. I found nothing special in this film, just another boring sentimental flick.
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Summary: Boring
Review: Definitely the type of oscar-winning movie that will put you to sleep inside an hour. This movie was lame, dry, amd very slow-moving. Why people liked this thing so much? I do not know. I did not feel suspense and/or was I riveted to my seat at all in this movie. Extremely 2-dimensional and the plot of someone trying to get out of jail, I thought was lacking substance. There are way better movies out there.
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Summary: my 2nd favorite movie ever
Review: i feel great just sitting in my room while shawshank is on. any part is touching and wonderful, i saw this movie for the first time 3 weeks ago, now i own it and have seen it 5 times. I am a well rounded movie watcher i love comedys the best namely happy gilmore but to me i see all great movies the same
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