Epic achievement in the American Cinema 😊

Same here,it never gets old. Love it.

Also here,the length of the movie also perfect

Yep. You'll hear a dialogue here a split-second scene there that you swore you haven't seen before!

Absolutely and the same with me !

Same here. My favorite line from this film.

That's the one I remember

Part of me expected that Minty would finish the episode with this quote🙂

@@JackReaperQ he never mentioned it at all which kind of surprised me.

Agree. The ending was like a dream; very rewarding.

No, THE best movie of all time. I honestly cant think of one better.

Interesting fact: They actually were going to use a different ending from what I heard in the commentary. But this one won people over.

Never a Tim Robbins fan but he was superb as Andy.

@@jasonbritt9773 you didnt like Mission to Mars?

I have done the same. The very day that it was first available on DVD I went and bought it. In fact, I had pre-ordered it and I was was STOKED at the DVD bonus features. This was years ago, of course. I had absolutely worn out my VHS copy of this movie and since a DVD has no moving parts I knew I was going to be able to watch that DVD without worrying about the machine eventually eating it or mechanical failures of the mechanism since there is no mechanism. I have watched that DVD countless times and at least once a month I get it out and put it in the player and, just as you said, no matter how many times I have watched it, I never grow tired of it. Knowing the dialogue, expressions, and everything else in the movie makes it that much more enjoyable. The scene of him playing the Opera record and then cranking it up after they are screaming at him to turn it off is just about my favorite scene in the movie. I still get choke up a little during that because of the expression on his face and the meaning of what he is doing. He is grabbing freedom and embracing it for those few minutes until the guard breaks the door glass to get in. Andy knew he was going to receive a terrible beating and solitary, but he had decided that those minutes of freedom and what it demonstrated to ALL of the other prisoners was MUCH more powerful and he wanted to show them that they could do whatever they wanted to him, but they were NEVER going to break his spirit. That's why I can watch his movie endlessly and never tire of it.

Same with me. I gets repeated every now and then on television and I'll always end up watching the whole movie. Great movie.

Only dozens of times?

@@joelthorpe4170 LOL, yeah, I know I'm slacking.

Meh, i honestly prefer "Brolmung & Bungsly's The dungish barrens of Goonache". Best prison movie ever and is said to be the basis for Shawshank.

I'm a simpleton. I always preferred, "Get busy livin', or get busy dying".

"How can you be so obtuse?"

@@unperson5713 "What did you call me"?

My fav "hope" quote is; “Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.” Remember what its from?

@@rougeneon1997 Matrix, isn't it? 😁

Very interesting story ! Thank you for sharing.

I was a movie nut and about the same age as you (and still kinda am) and saw just about everything in the theaters. I did not even remember it hitting theaters. My mom rented it as soon as it hit home video as she was a big Steven King Fan and knew the story (really we watched everything that would hit the video store). I loved the movie and quickly read the short story. (movie was one of the rare cases, it was better then the book). This movie, Braveheart, Se7en, The Elephant Man, Akria and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen made me start to see movies a bit different.

I remember the discount movies already released. I wasn't aware you had to watch doing QC first before public view. Actually I don't think I've ever attended one before for $1. Too busy in life during then. It went on for at least 5 years where I use to live until it became a bankruptcy.

I remember as a projector having to sit still and not even BLINK much less go to the rest room (i always took a jumbo cup for uhm... Emergencies 😉) good times!!

don't tell the Academy that....

Minty already did Shawshank 🤨

It's a great movie but best of all film? That's a little much. As far as Stephen King films go, there a bunch as good as Shawshank. I like Dolores Claiborne. Mostly because I like a heroine that kills her abusive husband. 🤷‍♀️ And it's foolish to think the same tree and stone would be in Maine after 30 years. That field got made into $500k subdivisions long before they got out.

@@mapples007 Name a film you feel deserves the right to be called the best ever....if not Shawshank then?

@@nathanknight6042 "Lawrence of Arabia". GOAT

Lol *in my Peter Griffin voice"

to think that the sh*t was "water, chocolate syrup and sawdust"......LOL

A little known song for "Andy Dufresne": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a5OWltmfvqqpemQ.html

@@jasona9 Well, now I know what to use to make doody water. All I need is believable poo gas for the smell.

Hollywood will remake it in another 10 to 20 years. Don't be surprised if Kevin Hart and John Cena are the main characters either.

@@tomfoolery2964 But.... how would they be able to find John Cena?

Out of the movies made from Different Seasons, Apt Pupil was disappointing, imo. I REALLY wish they would make A Winter's Tale, The Breathing Method. BUT, they've GOTTA do it RIGHT. Which is probably why it hasn't been made into a movie.

@@badkitty4922 I agree 100% it is kinda sad how little seems to have gone into the making of the King movies. Only a few have actually been really, really good. But they did a great job on this one and I truly do believe it was the chemistry of, not just Freeman and Robins, but all of the cast. They all played their part with a realism that I can truly appreciate.

Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.

The entire book, all 4 stories are amazing. Apt pupil is truly disturbing. The breathing method is the only story not given a film treatment.

I read the book many times while locked up and couple years ago and its amazing . I wish they made a movie about the breathing method tho to me it was better than the other stories

Actually the Brazilian title is great because it conveys the ‘why’ of the greatness of this film. Outstanding.

Of course Sir Laurence would say that!

Classic!

Unless you cast votes for the Academy

He actually writes better non horror than horror...well these days anyway.

@@stommx That is true. I'm still a fan even though his horror has gotten a little weak. But it's still good.

I had many friends and relatives incarcerated there ( the 60s when selling a bit of ganja would get you a trip there )

Oh yes...... even though I know what happens, it’s when ‘Red’ glances around to see if anyone is nearby. I can feel his anxiety.

Sad fact, years later the tree was struck by lightning and removed.

Impossible, 'the room' is #1

It really is one of the best films ever made.

Minty missed one big difference. In book, its mutiple wardens, but Darabont felt it better (and wisely so) to merge them into one sinister one.

@@mandofan2616 You mean multiple wardens over the years, right? That actually makes plenty sense to make it into one , because the sub plot about corruption is a big part of the film. It would be diluted if it was a few different guys, all being inept or corrupt just for the sake of it. The self righteous warden, who quotes the Bible, while being the biggest criminal in his own prison fit perfectly. I always loved the decision to have him kill himself rather than be arrested. Something about that felt more accurate than him getting arrested and begging.

Subtle but powerful music score to boot.

I would have like to see Johnny Depp as Tommy

I could maybe see Tom Hanks as Andy but I think Tim Robbins is better.

He had a knack for adapting King novels like no one could. Even got The Walking Dead off to a good start before it took a dump

@@gSlover4reel ikr? Green Mile and,The Fog, The Mist as well. Darabont sued AMC Network ran the Walking Dead series and is getting paid out $200m.

Absolutely, to all Shawshank fans I suggest BOTH reading the story (or audiobook) and watching the film. Both GREAT and they compliment each other. Distinct differences in the two, but the same legendary, timeless KING STORY

I love this one and The Green Mile.

Yup! I've even looked at some of the items in his collection, like the copy of Handbook For The Recently Deceased, to name one thing, and thought to myself "Ooooh, I want one of those!". Lol!

Good idea! 💜

I've seen photos of the "Widow." A very scary persona.

Mansfield Correctional

He might have told you to never be an inmate.

Not really, the main issue was the title and advertising was confusing and it came out in a year where Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were poised to dominate the Academy Awards. Once it got more eyes on it via nearly constant replays on TNT and word of mouth and video rentals it was huge. I don’t think anyone that actually saw it for the first time in the mid 90s didn’t like it, it just took awhile to get to everybody else due to marketing issues.

I've probably seen in over a hundred times & I still find new stuff in it all the time.

I'm a Dayton native but was born in Greenville. Where you from? I now live in Tn.

@@joshuagibson2520 Columbus

@@grapeshot the Reformatory is in Mansfield if I remember. Yeah?

@@joshuagibson2520 that's exactly where it is at and they used real inmates as some of the extras.

Yes, and I had to watch it with my daughters. Totally expecting it to be a $#it movie, man was I mistaken. It was an absolute blast to watch.

P.s totally forgot about it too, thanks for the reminder. Downloading

I LOVE that movie. The fight scene is the best scene in any movie EVER!

That is such a good movie, I’ll have to sit down and watch it soon

Great movie also.My Dad loved 2nd hand lions, and everytime I re-watch it I think about my father and have joy

Jeffrey DeMunn was also in the walking dead.

@@beezer1225 The 1st season was directed by frank Darabont

@@ryanworkman3032 I know. That's why I commented what I did.

I was a big TR fan at that time, too, as I had just seen Jacob's Ladder (FREAKY, but EXCELLENT movie) and REALLY wanted to see more of that acting style of TR. His method acting makes him one of the best.