What does Yea Forums think of this movie, Is it the greatest film ever made?
What does Yea Forums think of this movie, Is it the greatest film ever made?
Wyatt Long
Jeremiah Wilson
Kind of boring. But I may be saying this because I saw the Family Guy parody first
Dylan Martinez
Looking back, it was kind of shit
Liam Perez
What are better movies that you've seen?
Isaiah Bailey
I used to think it was the greatest movie ever made. IDK man. It is a powerful movie, but I think everyone has seen it about a million times now, lol. It loses it's emotional impact. IDK, plus my college professor fucking ruined it for me by trying to tell the class it was all "secretly about homosexual subtexts" and shit like that. Like WTF man? It's not about that. It's about freedom and stuff, and guilt, and oppression, and blame, and determination, and endurance, and the perseverance of the human spirit. It's about all that and more but it is literally NOT about fucking homosexuality and gay love. Fucking college professors ruin everything man, and they NEVER even know what they're talking about.
Dominic Anderson
Pretty progressive for it's time with all the gay subtext.
David Allen
>Is it the greatest film ever made?
Definitely one of.
Zachary Howard
It's an dishonest film.
It portrays child murderers (Freeman, didn't you know his character killed his wife and a kid in an insurance fraud gone wrong?) and other criminals in a positive light, while displaying those in chrage, the warden and his first man, as the real "criminals" of society.
Ayden Nelson
adding some more things:
>everyone in the prison was innocent
they made it sound funny, but is it really a joke?
Tim Robbins character says that he was an honest man before he went to jail and he had to break the law once he got in. That's a big lie.
Who believe he could be a vice president for a bank before he was 30? You don't get there in an honest way. Also, he was drunk and drove a car... Stephen King is a known alcoholic that likes to write it as not being that big of a deal. Tim Robbins character drank half a bottle of whisky, and he is potrayed like he knew what happened, not a single doubt in his mind that he wrongly charged for murders that he did not commit. In my mind that is a dangerous line to potray.
The first thing Tim does when he went into prison is to order a picking axe. How is that innocent behaviour? And he had to have started digging pretty early. And how did he know what direction to dig, and what was on the other side, and why did the lignting have to thunder so he could knock the rusty iron with a stone? It has plot holes that are unnecessarily stupid.
Also, what kind of prison guard goes around and loudly screams that he just got £30000 among known criminals? Is that really something you talk about in prison?
The film is really well made, it's precisely directed to trick you into liking/disliking characters and events that you wouldn't like given all the facts. It's a pure pleb test.
The cinematography is great, it has darabonts style, the quality, soundtrack, scenery, acting, editing is also on point. But it's dumbed down, there's nothing to it. No depth, no symbolic analysis needed. It's all there in the plain. Perhaps that's why the general audience likes this movie so much. They can enjoy it and think they're smart while shutting down their brain. To me that is why it's a good movie (7.5/10). It's a similar movie to Saving Private Ryan.
Blake White
Lmao no, mediocre at best. I'd rate 5/10. (Haven't seen it though.)