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...with my caustic remarks about the Shamkshaw Redemption. If you like it, ok, but I really dislike the amount of praise heaped on this average low budget film, with then a cast of unknowns, and basically one set. It was a film made on a shoestring.
Not that there aren't any shoestring movies that are good, but this is ok, at its very most.
It's just to me the story is absurd. Robbins spends 40 years in jail, from about 30 to 70 years old. Then crawls through a sewer as long as 15 football pitches, and splashes out into the river, and raises himself up, tears his shirt off - ALL LIKE THE SPRING CHICKEN HE WAS, 40 YEARS AGO! If that's not stupid, Lord knows what is. By rights, he should have looked like the old guy who hanged himself.
I am sorry. In all my years I have been watching and following the cinema, Shamshank probably rates well into the lower thousands. Not, at number two! No way. So like I say, I know some of you guys have bought it on DVD, and that's fair enough. I bought Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1964) on DVD, and some people hate that.
We all have our opinions. ;)
And since this is the new critics forum, there's a few other films I'd like to slate and praise.
Not that there aren't any shoestring movies that are good, but this is ok, at its very most.
It's just to me the story is absurd. Robbins spends 40 years in jail, from about 30 to 70 years old. Then crawls through a sewer as long as 15 football pitches, and splashes out into the river, and raises himself up, tears his shirt off - ALL LIKE THE SPRING CHICKEN HE WAS, 40 YEARS AGO! If that's not stupid, Lord knows what is. By rights, he should have looked like the old guy who hanged himself.
I am sorry. In all my years I have been watching and following the cinema, Shamshank probably rates well into the lower thousands. Not, at number two! No way. So like I say, I know some of you guys have bought it on DVD, and that's fair enough. I bought Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1964) on DVD, and some people hate that.
We all have our opinions. ;)
And since this is the new critics forum, there's a few other films I'd like to slate and praise.