Muad'zin
Fractal Fanatic
Shawshank is easily in my top 10, although I feel nothing will replace my beloved The Good, the Bad & The Ugly, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Blues Brothers as my top 3. The director of Shawshank Redemption was of course greatly helped that unlike most of Steven Kings books it has no supernatural element. Just a prison, all the hardships that come from that and the male friendship that allows the inmates to survive as human beings. Although I still think that Raquel Welch poster realistically should have been moving in the draft that logically should have come from Andy's tunnel. And also, how on Earth did Andy manage to fix it back in place from behind? My only nitpicks with the movie. I've never seen Green Mile though. I reckon I fear its ending. As for IT, I LOVE the Tim Curry mini series, which did quite a good approximation of the book. Tim Curry does a great Pennywise, with less gore and more psychological horror and mindgames. The IT movies were nowhere near as good as there was too much emphasis on gore and CGI trickery. I still think that directors who learned their trade without CGI use it better, more sparingly, to augment where its needed. As opposed to later directors to whom its as normal as breathing. Unless you're doing a slasher movie less is more in horror. What you don't see is much scarier then what you constantly see.
Well, lets be fair here, NO ONE watches Robin Hood to see Kevin Kostner. We all watch it to see Alan Rickman chew up the scenery.
Hell yeah. And took me quite some effort to get it on DVD on the 2nd hand market. Sellers seem to know its value. Of course, it seems to be a prophetic movie predicting towards where we're going. Together with Idiocracy.
