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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #50 on: March 28, 2012, 03:21:53 AM »
Shawshank was and still is a great film and deserves to be up there. Other favourites of mine are Midnight Express, Gladiator, and Goodfellas. I can't believe I still haven't seen any of the Godfather films!  :-\

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #51 on: March 28, 2012, 03:38:16 AM »
i have watched it countless times so it must be the greatest  :D
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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #52 on: March 28, 2012, 04:15:39 AM »
Shawshank was and still is a great film and deserves to be up there. Other favourites of mine are Midnight Express, Gladiator, and Goodfellas. I can't believe I still haven't seen any of the Godfather films:-\
You're in for a treat, then. Watch them (1 and 2. avoid 3, please) first for the plot, to get that straight, and then watch them again to appreciate everything else. Stunning.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #53 on: March 28, 2012, 04:23:49 AM »
The Shining really should be higher!

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #54 on: March 28, 2012, 04:24:54 AM »
Shawshank was and still is a great film and deserves to be up there. Other favourites of mine are Midnight Express, Gladiator, and Goodfellas. I can't believe I still haven't seen any of the Godfather films!  :-\

Lucky bastard!
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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #55 on: March 28, 2012, 04:39:43 AM »
kingdom of heaven .
best movie
best soundtrack
Very good movie.  Anyone interested in history/crusades should watch this. 

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #56 on: March 28, 2012, 04:58:23 AM »
ha... I don't know if Crash was PC, I agree though it was overrated.
Some highly-rated films are only so because they address issues highly specific to american culture

For example, in the States everybody is so obsessed with race that such a film was guaranteed far more attention than it deserved.

The theme in that movie was so amateurishly overstated and to base a whole movies story and characters on one aspect like racism is banal. Like you described a "sure thing". It should have won an award for Best timing or Best exposure strategy.

There are so many sofisticated ways to adress the race issue, even Avatar did that better!

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #57 on: March 28, 2012, 06:00:14 AM »
Leon is a great film!

I have never seen Godfather films either.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #58 on: March 28, 2012, 06:32:07 AM »
Shawshank was and still is a great film and deserves to be up there. Other favourites of mine are Midnight Express, Gladiator, and Goodfellas. I can't believe I still haven't seen any of the Godfather films!  :-\


me too lol!
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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #59 on: March 28, 2012, 06:53:18 AM »
Idk why everyone gets their vag all slimy over Shawshank.  It's a good movie, good acting etc, but basically just another feelgood flick.  Talk about a vomit inducing Hollywood ending.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #60 on: March 28, 2012, 07:31:10 AM »
Ridley Scott fan.
I didn't realize it, but you are right.
My other favorite (not so much favorite to watch, but I feel it was a masterpiece) is the original Alien.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #61 on: March 28, 2012, 08:00:33 AM »
It's a fantastic movie.  It really is.  Great narrative, it moves along at a great pace.  Very smart movie.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #62 on: March 28, 2012, 08:17:36 AM »
Idk why everyone gets their vag all slimy over Shawshank.  It's a good movie, good acting etc, but basically just another feelgood flick.  Talk about a vomit inducing Hollywood ending.

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Good yes but what makes it the best ???

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #63 on: March 28, 2012, 09:24:06 AM »
He was crawling to freedom through 600 yards of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine when the after breakfast wave hit him.  Four thousand inmates had simultaneously evacuated their bowels and flushed away four thousand turds of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine.  I picture Andy Dufrane bodysurfing that wave of excrement toward freedom, with joy in his heart, before being pinned against the varmit cage at the end of the pipe, turd after turd beating him in the back of the head.  I like to think he knew which was mine.  I miss my friend Andy.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #64 on: March 28, 2012, 09:52:12 AM »
He was crawling to freedom through 600 yards of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine when the after breakfast wave hit him.  Four thousand inmates had simultaneously evacuated their bowels and flushed away four thousand turds of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine.  I picture Andy Dufrane bodysurfing that wave of excrement toward freedom, with joy in his heart, before being pinned against the varmit cage at the end of the pipe, turd after turd beating him in the back of the head.  I like to think he knew which was mine.  I miss my friend Andy.
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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #65 on: March 28, 2012, 10:15:26 AM »
It was written by Stephen King, alot of ppl forget that.
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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #66 on: March 28, 2012, 10:27:23 AM »
SOme damn fine movies mentioned above, but I just saw a couple that may not be on anyone's Best List but were damn impressive none-the-less.

I have  a feeling that most of you GetBiggers have never seen either of them though.

Arena - Fighters kidnapped and held captive and forced to fight to the death for an underground "TV" network that is broadcast via the internet. Good story, good fighting, and a damn good ending.

Chronicles - How three teenagers handle their newly acquired super-powers. It's a small independent but some in Hollywood say it's the best super-hero movie ever made.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #67 on: March 28, 2012, 10:37:11 AM »
I shouldn't have forgotten Full metal jacket, Some Like it Hot and Taxi Driver.
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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #68 on: March 28, 2012, 01:05:28 PM »
I would argue that The Wizard Of Oz might be the greatest movie of all time.  Every single kid of every generation knows that movie!

And the hidden meaning in that movie is above and beyond anything ever made.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #69 on: March 28, 2012, 01:09:46 PM »
It may take a while for people to fully embrace it, but Titanic was an excellent movie.

Cheesy as shit....but a really good movie.


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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #70 on: March 28, 2012, 01:41:01 PM »
Remember the Titan


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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #71 on: March 28, 2012, 02:01:46 PM »
It may take a while for people to fully embrace it, but Titanic was an excellent movie.

Cheesy as shit....but a really good movie.



excellent filmmaking. that's one of those cases where mainstream and quality coincides

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #72 on: March 28, 2012, 02:58:46 PM »
excellent filmmaking. that's one of those cases where mainstream and quality coincides

Yep....and years from now people will also realize "Jerry Maguire" was the great love movie of a generation.

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #73 on: March 28, 2012, 03:25:52 PM »
Very good movie.  Anyone interested in history/crusades should watch this. 

Great film, but could have been an excellent one had there been a lead actor in there instead of a metrosexual pretty boy with a bland, one dimensional acting style

Interesting to see a film's star outacted by just about every member of the support cast

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Re: Is "Shawshank" the Greatest Movie Ever Made?
« Reply #74 on: March 28, 2012, 03:26:27 PM »
No. HTH.