Why is The Shawshank Redemption considered so great?

Great movie. It's one of those movies where I can be channel flipping and if I come across it, I can just start watching it regardless of what scene is playing.
 
osudude said:
The question I have to ask of that, and this also pertains to literary experts, how much of that is "the establishment" filtering potential "experts?"

I mean, in the literary field, what are the chances you'll ever be considered an expert if you like Stephen King? In other words, do you have to like what the experts like to become an expert? Or as you learn and become an expert, do you naturally develop the same likes as the other experts?

Something tells me it's not so natural...
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If you have those qualities that I have listed, it would be hard to NOT like most of what the experts consider some of the greatest films of all time. There will always be some exceptions to this, I have a few too, but you will agree with the most of them.

But I think this whole speculation about who is an expert and who is not is just an ego-boost. Just enjoy movies, and be curious to check out something new, and go beyond your comfortzone every now and then. Thats it.

If I would list my favourite films, you would find all kinds of shit there, from popular movies like Fight Club to obscure european art films like Viridiana. From badass masculine stuff like Gladiator to romantic films like Silver Linings Playbook. From easy to watch Boogie Nights to really heavy shit like Shame or Million Dollar Baby. I gave all of these films a 10.
 
AncientEnemy said:
I thought it was great the first hundred times I watched it, but then I watched it high, and found so much humor in the long melodramatic scenes that rendered it all so corny and therefore making it a movie I am unable to take seriously now.
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Lol.


I don't really get the hype around Shawshank either.

First time I watched it I went "hm, this is a pretty good movie. A little bit corny, not the most original plot, but entirely watchable".

Having watched it four or five time since then, that opinion stands.
If someone says "Let's watch Shawshank" I can usually go for it.
But if someone says "No, lets watch Transformers/Avengers/Seven/Zoolander instead" I'll agree with them. I'm in the mood for those kinds of movies way more often than Shawshank.

I felt this was very important to clarify.
 
ShoelessRye said:
Man rape. You put man rape in a movie/show and it becomes critically acclaimed and edgy. Look at HBO's Oz - complete drivel, but there is man rape and penises and everybody acts like it's brilliant shit.

Pulp Fiction is another example. Marcellus never gets fucked in the ass and I bet there is a little less acclaim for the movie. Deliverance is another - take the "squeal like a pig" scene and nobody even goes to see that boring ass movie.
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There are a lot of movies with man rape that don't get critical acclaim. But I do agree that both Oz and Pulp Fiction are fairly overrated.
 
Matt said:
Great movie. It's one of those movies where I can be channel flipping and if I come across it, I can just start watching it regardless of what scene is playing.
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You said what I said, but you said it so much better.
 
Count of Monte Crsito elitists won't give that film its due because it was so different from the book, but it was a great movie, along with Shawshank.
 
new_mexico1 said:
There are a lot of movies with man rape that don't get critical acclaim. But I do agree that both Oz and Pulp Fiction are fairly overrated.
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how the fuck is Pulp Fiction overrated?

one of the best movies of the 90s and probably the most influential

Do i have to stab YOU 3 times?

no, just once, but i got to pierce your sternum
 
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