I am the last man in America to have seen Shawshank Redemption

[BYH]

Yes, we all know I was already a failure of epic proportions. But somehow, I'd never seen Shawshank. I missed it even though it was released during my peak movie-going time--college--and kept missing it even as it became the movie the greatest Guy Movie of all-time. It was oneo f those movies I always said I'd see but always kept putting off, because I knew it would require 2-plus hours of my undivided attention.

Finally, tonight, a few minutes after 9, my wife said the movie was just starting on one of the HBOs and we should finally watch it. And for the next 2-plus hours, we sat transfixed, saying almost nothing and, in my case, even logging off SJ.

What a movie. I won't be That Guy who starts spouting lines from a classic movie he just finally saw, but wow. The hype praise is warranted and then some. That's one to buy on DVD.

And in related news, my goodness, 1994 was some year for movies (Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction) when Shawshank got seven Oscar nominations and not a single win...and Tim Robbins not even a nomination.

Commence mocking me...............NOW!!!

 

[Rosie]

I can't.

I've never seen the movie.

 

[spnited]

Since you brought it up, Forrest Gump is one of the most overrated movies of all time.

Shawshank is exceptional.

 

[mike311gd]

I'm in the same boat, Rosie.

1994 also gave us Clerks. Kevin Smith helped, though.

 

[dreunc1542]

I haven't seen it either. I don't have the excuse of it being during my movie going prime, though, I was 7 at the time.

 

[STLIrish]

Great movie. Good to know there are still people out there who can watch it for the first time.

 

[imjustagirl]

Get busy living, or get busy dying, BYH.

 

[slappy4428]

I can't.

I've never seen the movie.

You wouldn't be the last man in America then...

 

[hockeybeat]

Um...I've never seen Shawshank.

 

[imjustagirl]

Um...I've never seen Shawshank.

The odds on that post being made were incredibly low in Vegas.

 

[Rosie]

I can't.

I've never seen the movie.

You wouldn't be the last man in America then...

::)

 

[Norman Stansfield]

I saw it for the first time in September, BYH, and I was roundly mocked by those I let in on my dirty little secret.

Needless to say, I was mesmerized much like you and the wife were. Great movie.

 

[Overrated]

Yes, we all know I was already a failure of epic proportions. But somehow, I'd never seen Shawshank. I missed it even though it was released during my peak movie-going time--college--and kept missing it even as it became the movie the greatest Guy Movie of all-time. It was oneo f those movies I always said I'd see but always kept putting off, because I knew it would require 2-plus hours of my undivided attention.

Finally, tonight, a few minutes after 9, my wife said the movie was just starting on one of the HBOs and we should finally watch it. And for the next 2-plus hours, we sat transfixed, saying almost nothing and, in my case, even logging off SJ.

What a movie. I won't be That Guy who starts spouting lines from a classic movie he just finally saw, but wow. The hype praise is warranted and then some. That's one to buy on DVD.

And in related news, my goodness, 1994 was some year for movies (Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction) when Shawshank got seven Oscar nominations and not a single win...and Tim Robbins not even a nomination.

Commence mocking me...............NOW!!!

Ummm...I think this revelation belongs on the "Why are you weird?" thread.

****ing freak. :D

 

[forever_town]

I have you beat. I still haven't seen Shawshank.

 

[Steak Snabler]

BYH, a man who crawled through a river of SportsJournalists.com posts and came out clean on the other side ...

 

[slappy4428]

BYH, a man who crawled through a river of SportsJournalists.com posts and came out clean on the other side ...

N-i-c-e

But does that make spnited the Warden?

 

[old_tony]

I, too, have yet to see this movie. Maybe the title simply hasn't drawn me in.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

Shawshank is one of my go-to films. I have some I absolutely love (Fight Club, LOTR, American History: X, etc.), but this is the one that I can virtually guarantee everyone will like. Thus I recommend it a lot.
I think it's one of the top five films I've ever seen, and I watch a ton of movies.

 

[spnited]

BYH, a man who crawled through a river of SportsJournalists.com posts and came out clean on the other side ...

N-i-c-e

But does that make spnited the Warden?

Ellis Redding used to hang out here now and then but I guess he got paroled

 

[GB-Hack]

I can't say how many times I've seen this.

I will say this; you did the right thing to give it your undivided attention, because it is such a great movie it deserves nothing less.