Shawshank Redemption

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Have you watched Shawshank Redemption?
What did you like about it?

In 1947, Portland, Maine banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the Shawshank State Prison. He is befriended by Ellis "Red" Redding, an inmate and prison contraband smuggler serving a life sentence. Red procures a rock hammer and a large poster of Rita Hayworth for Andy. Assigned to work in the prison laundry, Andy is frequently sexually assaulted by "the Sisters" and their leader, Bogs.

In 1949, Andy overhears the captain of the guards, Byron Hadley, complaining about being taxed on an inheritance and offers to help him shelter the money legally. After an assault by the Sisters nearly kills Andy, Hadley beats and cripples Bogs, who is subsequently transferred to another prison. Andy is not attacked again. Warden Samuel Norton meets Andy and reassigns him to the prison library to assist elderly inmate Brooks Hatlen, a front to allow Andy to manage financial matters for other prison staff, guards from other prisons, and the warden himself. Andy begins writing weekly letters to the state legislature requesting funds to improve the prison's decaying library.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I love the movie, it's easily one of my favorites. I like everything about it, pretty much. My favorite thing is the friendship between the main character and Morgan Freeman's character, but also the intense and emotional escape scene, particularly where he's in the rain.

It covers heavy topics like suicide, rape, murder, institutionalization, and somehow balanced them with fun, lighthearted character moments and humor.

[Booyakasha]

I don't care for it at all.

[Deku Tree]

Never seen it.

[CaptHayfever]

Really good movie with a really bad title.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Shane]

Probably my favorite movie or close to it, and yeah, as cryptic titles go, this is one. It wasn't the most successful movie, though it easily made a profit, but most who saw it thought it was great. I had heard about it being the top ranked movie on IMDB a while back, and I'm not surprised it's still in that spot.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Really good movie with a really bad title.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

I held off watching it for a while based on that actually, and went into it with low expectations.