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SPazzo

September 20, 2009, 08:00:39 PM
...should be at the IMDb Top 250?  http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
I'm pretty sure most people don't care, but I'm still curious...

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September 20, 2009, 08:15:27 PM
yeah. I think its a great movie.  :thumbup:
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September 20, 2009, 08:16:01 PM
I'm good with the film...not in my top 250 though.
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#4
September 20, 2009, 10:20:38 PM
I do like Shawshank Redemption.  Though I do have to wonder how it got voted up and stayed on the IMDB top list for so long...

Well, how many hardcore IMDB posters are big b-movie fans? 
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September 20, 2009, 11:03:06 PM
Quote from: sideorderofninjas on September 20, 2009, 10:20:38 PM
I do like Shawshank Redemption.  Though I do have to wonder how it got voted up and stayed on the IMDB top list for so long...

Well, how many hardcore IMDB posters are big b-movie fans? 

Well, at least 1,684.   :teddyr:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060666/ratings  That's how many people rated Manos 10.

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#6
September 21, 2009, 08:22:17 AM
Great film, but probably not. I'd go with L.A. Confidential or North By Northwest.

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#7
September 21, 2009, 10:56:02 AM
It's probably in my Top 250 . . . but near the bottom . . . there are quite a few movies I think are better . . . but SHAWSHANK is certainly nothing to sneeze at.
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September 21, 2009, 10:58:02 AM
Yes.  :thumbup:
                                             

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#9
September 22, 2009, 02:00:43 AM
What is it right now? #1, eh?

Yes, I do think that it deserves its top title. Is it the greatest movie of all time? No. That would be Seven Samurai.

However, Shawshank is a great story. Really, a great story. While I think there are other movies that surpass it, there isn't another movie that has affected the broad spectrum that The Shawshank Redemption has.
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September 22, 2009, 12:01:17 PM
No.  I've complained about this before.  It's a good movie, but I don't think it should be in the top 250, much less #1 ahead of THE GODFATHER, SEVEN SAMURAI, CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA, THE WIZARD OF OZ, SCHINDLER'S LIST, and so on and so on.
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September 22, 2009, 12:24:01 PM
It's a good movie, but I think it deserves to be in the 200-250 range at best. It is a movie that to the average person has that 'greatest movie ever' feel to it, but the average person seems to have forgotten anything more than a decade old.
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September 23, 2009, 04:29:49 PM
Quote from: ghouck on September 22, 2009, 12:24:01 PM
It's a good movie, but I think it deserves to be in the 200-250 range at best. It is a movie that to the average person has that 'greatest movie ever' feel to it, but the average person seems to have forgotten anything more than a decade old.

Agree. Hell-I can think of at least 250 movies before 1970 that are better.
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September 23, 2009, 04:30:38 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 22, 2009, 12:01:17 PM
No.  I've complained about this before.  It's a good movie, but I don't think it should be in the top 250, much less #1 ahead of THE GODFATHER, SEVEN SAMURAI, CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA, THE WIZARD OF OZ, SCHINDLER'S LIST, and so on and so on.

Ya know, I understand its importance in the genre (it created quite a few aspects of movie storytelling), and I do think it is a very good movie, but one film I have to pick at is Seven Samurai.  It's been quite a while since I last saw it, but I remember actually finding quite a few parts of it boring.  Like the extended scenes between the youngest samurai and the village girl.  Just...  Uninvolving.  Which is a word I can't say I'd apply to any of the other Kurosawa films I've seen.  I think it's probably my least favorite of the seven or eight of his films I've seen (that or The Hidden Fortress, which I also found a little boring at times).  

For my money, The Shawshank Redemption is a better film.  Think I'd agree your other picks are better though.

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September 25, 2009, 12:30:41 AM Last Edit: September 25, 2009, 12:32:28 AM by the ghoul
Quote from: ghouck on September 22, 2009, 12:24:01 PM
It is a movie that to the average person has that 'greatest movie ever' feel to it

That fact alone is proof positive that it does not belong anywhere near the top 250.
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