In a related piece of irony: this film had a life sentence to be played every Saturday afternoon on what used to be called cable television.

"As we all know, the being known as God left earth in the year 1991 *pause* "

"God abandoned Earth in 1991" .... I was born in 1991. Coincidence?! o_0 Also, I just noticed that Andy hides his hammer in the book of Exodus. Not only a book about slaves being freed, the word Exodus comes from the Latin word meaning "to expel, exit, or escape."

I studied this film in my final year of high school. It started a great love of films for me and to this day, Shawshank is one of my all time favourites :)

Wormuloid says God abandoned earth in 1991. The year Freddie Mercury died.

"you'll think you got fucked by a train" - Mark 13:35

Eyebrows look bushier than usual.

This my favorite movie. The "Brooks Was Here" scene still makes me teary eyed.

Do The Silence of the Lambs, please?

The Green Mile!

I want to thank you wisecrack. I really enjoy all the content you upload to youtube. I show some of your videos to my dad and he totally loved it!! He is 64 and he even learned how to use youtube just to watch your videos and thanks to you now i have new conversation themes to talk to my dad everytime you guys update ( I'm sorry if my english is awful, i'm still learning) But yeah, thank you so much, you are awesome, please keep doing earthling cinema, thug notes, pop psych and everything you think is interesting enough to be part of your channel!!

Just discovered your channel thanks to the crossover with Cracked. Loving what you're doing. I haven't gone through your entire catalog yet so apologies if any of my suggestions have already been done. * The Fifth Element * Galaxy Quest * Star Trek (a variety) * Tolkein/Jackson collection * Gattaca * Empire Records * X-Men (pick one??) * Edward Scissorhands * Beetlejuice * The Shadow * Masters of the Universe * Interstellar There are just so many that deserve this treatment! * Anything by Rob Schneider, viewed by aliens as serious cinema and highly influential to our culture * Same for Adam Sandler * Ernest P Whorl as well? Probably best to not overdo this approach. And yet... * Peewee's Big Adventure (the movie, not his legal adventures) * Ocean's Eleven * The Matrix trilogy (or a take in which the sequels never happened?? I would love to see how you decide to handle it.) * "Kung fu" stuff. Jackie Chan, Jet Li (Fearless? Unleashed?), Bruce Lee, The Best of the Best, Karate Kid, etc. * The Sixth Sense * Signs * Mars Attacks So many more but I don't want to further dilute this list. Looking forward to more!

Do O Brother Where Art Thou! I just saw it and it's amazing and probably worthy of an analysis.

I just found your channel yesterday and I think I've watched about 10 of your videos. Every single one has given me a unique perspective on a movie I know and love. You're a genius, man. Even better, a funny genius.

I would love to see you do Pan's Labyrinth! It's a rich and complex movie, I think it would make for great analysis.

Apologies for having not realised a few minutes ago, that you had already produced a video on The Shawshank Redemption. At present I have just watched back to back your videos of Shrek, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Brokeback Mountain, and The Shining as well as obviously this one, and so far I am impressed and amused. Thanks for them, looking forward to the rest of the videos, regardless of whether I have watched the movie they are featuring as appears to be the case with several of them.

This is becoming one of my favorite youtube channels. Definitely deserves more attention

Seriously! Do Blade Runner! It's non negotiable.

The Godfather, Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Cane, please do more about the classics like these...

Throughly enjoyed this episode. "Shawshank Redemption" is one of my favorite movies. I really hope "Clerks" or "Mall Rats" are on the list for future episodes. I also think "Rounders" would be a good episode as well.

I'd love to see an episode of Earthling Cinema on Ferris Bueller's Day off!

The is one of the best Earthling Cinema episodes ever. I loved it! Really good stuff.

1991: The year Gene Roddenberry died, creator of Star Trek. That has to be it!

Spot on, excellent analysis!

Amazing video. Thanks for spreading knowledge.

thank you for making me watch this movie one of the best and truly a masterpiece

I can't believe how good this is

YESS. Thank you guys so much! I was hoping to this movie analyzed.

This video has just provided me with the greatest summary of the movie I've ever heard.

Was not expecting the fully torqued on freedom line. Well played, Earthling Cinema. Well played.

What a coincidence. One of my favorite movies, and I just turned in a paper today on Sartre's understanding of human freedom.

I love how good your show is, Sir.

Great review as usual.

This is the best episode yet

One of your best review so far.

I love this channel :)

Beautiful. Your eyebrows and the analysis.

Enjoyed, TYVM!

This is the first video I have watched on your channel and my heart is still laughing. Thank you for a thought provoking and humorous film. I have subscribed and hope to keep enjoying your shows. Please do the movie, V for Vendetta, staring Hugo Weaving. Thank you.

You got to do " The Godfather " or " Enter the Void ". Awesome movies.

Best one yet. Love it!

Awesome work guys! I love your reviews.Please do Taxi Driver,There will be blood and Dr. Strangelove.

Why the heck is this series so good!

Fantastic episode! I just... WOW! Can't wait for "Dr Strangelove"!

First video i see from you and i have to admit i loved it!

"Sucks for you, object!" had my dying.

my favourite movie, thank you.

dude, your goddamn movies are GENIUS writing. it's unbelievable.

This is my favorite video in my favorite video series in my favorite channel

how about Akira, I feel like theres enough stuff there to analyze

What a great analysis, this channel is awesome! Would love to see The Godfather or The Pianist (:

As always Mr Wormuloid.....Genius

my god this is brilliant!

Love the episode ^^. Here's a movie that might be interesting to analyze, Fargo. (My mom and I have watched it and we discussed about the character and plot for a good hour) :D

I'd really like to see you do one for the movie Hard Candy. It deals with really important subject manner and is really well done.

Would love to see Wormuloid do the little-known 2001 Kevin Spacey/Jeff Bridges film K-PAX: That would provide a lot of food for thought, especially in the way that it's shot and uses light as a central theme.

another great episode! I never saw much in this movie; didn't get the hype. I do like the 'shaping rocks and freedom' motif. Didn't Andy make wood sculptures in this movie too? Or was that another film? Also, Dufresne means 'ash' as in 'ash tree' in French, the leaves of which are spear-shaped. I think there's some significance in there, but I just can't grasp it yet.

Basically told me something I already knew, but with more details. Thanks.

Plus, small things are funny! You are hilarious. Love the channel.

Another great video! How about doing one for SLC Punk?

HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE MORE VIEWS!

Why you gotta joke about brooks 😭😭😂😂

I'd love a video on The Prestige, one of my absolute favorites.

Bring back earthling cinema!!!!!

Amazing!

His sign on the wall, the stitch work quote, misspells ‘judgment’... Lol

Great stuff. Who wrote this last commentary? CAn I get the short book with pictures? LOL

my #1 movie of all time

Love the channel! Especially Earthling Cinema! But you've missed a rather significant allusion in this one. You've said nothing about Andy being the figure of Christ himself. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y5iYiq6n1pmZgoE.html Andy’s unexpected escape is a clear allusion to the death and resurrection of Jesus. “Oh my holy God.” Just as Red and others go looking for Andy’s dead body, the disciples went looking for Christ’s. Just as Red and the guards found the cell empty and Andy alive so too did Jesus’ followers. The entire film is in fact meaningful in light of the gospel. Andy’s resurrection redeems Red, “the only guilty man in Shawshank.” In a clear reversal of its prison film genre (think Cool Hand Luke and Escape from Alcatraz), the Shawshank Redemption depicts prisoners dreading NOT imprisonment, BUT freedom. And they dread it as they would death itself. Brooks, for instance, tries to kill Haywood when he finds he’s been paroled and later kills himself because of it. The prisoners of Shawshank are “Institutionalized.” Freedom for them means only to be empty and alone. Shawshank represents the life we know and outside, death, the world we've yet to encounter. But there is life outside, a point Andy, Shawshank’s only innocent man, wants his fellow prisoners to see. He offers them rare and extraordinary reminders of the outside world, like a beer on a hot roof, angelic music over the prison’s speakers, and a library, built by breaking down the walls of the prison. In the process, Andy suffers greatly for these acts. But it's Andy’s ultimate miraculous escape and life on the outside which means hope for Red. Because Andy lives Red will live also. He waits for Red, working the wood of a fishermen’s boat. All before an eternal sea. If that isn't an intentional allusion to Jesus, I don't know what is.

That product placement was flawless

Speaking of "the word man" Stephen King, the Shining needs to be put on this list immediately.

Beautiful.

that was really good! those who made this, pat yourself on the back because... Damn!!! that was epic, someone took their time on the jokes with this one!!!

You guys are the best ! Please do Bergman's The Seventh Seal ! Greetings from Greece x

Do Spirited Away. Pretty deep for a kids film

I don't know how much analysis can be done, but a review on Moonrise Kingdom would be awesome

Kindly pause scrolling and make space for the following information in your memory banks: 1. When the prison warden found the Bible where Andy had hidden the rock hammer, it was in the book of Exodus. Exodus is a Greek word meaning "departure." 2. Red describes Andy's dream as "shitty pipe dreams". During his escape to live that dream, Andy crawls through a pipe filled with raw sewage. 3. If Andy had been incarcerated in just one cell to the left he would have had nowhere to tunnel to except the next cell, and thus would have had no amazing story to tell. 4. The three times Red meets the parole board he is told "Sit", "Sit down", and lastly "Please sit down". 5. Although it is never directly stated in the film, Brooks is in prison for allegedly murdering his wife and daughter after a losing streak at poker. 6. Despite being widely considered as one of the greatest movies of all time, it didn't receive a single Oscar win, though it was nominated for seven, including Best Picture. 7. The last word spoken in the movie is "hope", a major theme of the film.

Another great episode, I get the feeling you guys could do something special with American Psycho.

The only bad point was the prononciation of Jean-Paul Sartre.

You should do music, books, and shows, too

Best film of all time.

3:00 this makes an eerie amount of sense...

Earth salute you future enthusiast ! I hope the place were you find the artefacts is a blockbuster video tomb. It is truly a great place for excavation:)

Already subscribed to Wisecrack, but just discovered this pearl! Great format! I have an alternative interpretation to the whole movie which makes the ending turn out as a fictious representation - a dream of an optimistic possibility. Remember the night Red thought that Andy might have killed himself? Well, as he had lately been that gloomy because of all the trouble that happened to him lately, there is good reasons to believe the suicide really happened. A lot of things in the finale seem unrealistic to me: from the escape itself, to the fact that Red literally f**** off the giury, but they released him; and he anyway manages to find Andy in that paradisiac island in the middle of.. whaaat? Cmon. The happy ending is what the audience wants to see, as well as the epic revenge to the evil prison and their characters. Unfortunately, in reality that would never happen!

Freedom is a choice. Something to meditate on during this quarantine time.

i LOVE your eyebrows

Would you consider doing "The Maltese Falcon"?

I like a little 8-bit philosophy with my Earthling Cinema!

First time watching this series. Once you made The King Stephen joke. I'm in. subscribed.

dope video

I know this series is obviously sarcastic, but this video was actually crazy deep and I learned alot about the movie.

“You’ll think you’ve been fucked by a train” - Mark 13:35 😂

Easy Rider!! I did a review for it in one of my film classes and I'd love to see what we find in common!

Do Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, please.

Oh oh oh! Hidden Meaning in *Donnie Darko*. my favourite cult film. You should so do that. :P

I find it funny the way he goes all Sean Connery saying the title of the film and other s related words.

I loved this movie.

...awesome stuff garyx...how about alien or aliens?

I love watching your show...please do breaking dawm..

Best Movie of all time