The Shawshank Redemption


No, it just wasn’t it’s time.

There’s no denying it’s a canny film but I’m amazed you would sit through it 20 times.

Dont get me wrong..for a lot of those I didnt deliberately put it on. Probably was on the TV and its one of those films that you need to watch once its on.. see Jaws or Back to the Future
 
Blade runner ffs :lol:

Nee wonder this “IMDb best movies ever” consists of

The Matrix
Django unchained
Inception
The dark knight rises
All 3 LOTR films

Come on then, give us your top three Barry Norman.

FWIW, Blade Runner isn’t in the IMDB top ten.
 
Well that’s easy as I accept my top three are my personal favourites not what is “the best in the world ever”.

Jean De Florette
Black Swan
Rear Window

Didn’t ask for you personal favourites tbf.

Taking the public out of the equation, blade runner and black swan have broadly comparable scores on metacritic, blade runner slightly higher at 84 compared to 79.

Odd that you don’t like IMDb scores but say a fillum isnt great if it flopped at the box office, bit of a contradiction there…
 
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Didn’t ask for you personal favourites tbf.

Taking the public out of the equation, blade runner and black swan have broadly comparable scores on metacritic.

Odd that you don’t like IMDb scores but say a fillum isnt great if it flopped at the box office, but of a contradiction there…
When did I say that Shawshank isn’t great?
 
When did I say that Shawshank isn’t great?

My original point was that it is one of the all time greats despite flopping at the box office.

You metric for a great is that it has to have done well at the box office which is at odds with your distaste for imdb and their ilk.
 
Excellent well made movie. Over exposed possibly but its much better than a lot of Stephen king adaptations, partly because it’s a short story , certainly by his standards.
 

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