It's Hannibal,wank and forgive me for not enjoying staring into the Pit like you do.
As for Shawshank and it's initial popularity,when first released it was a bit of a bomb assumingly because it made the mistake of being marketed to adults who unlike children tend to not make relative garbage like Maleficent among the top grossing movies of all time.No I take that back, Shawshank isn't a bad film,it just irks me that it's so ridiculously overrated.
If a single solitary(prison humour) person can stand here and make a case why SR is considered better than either Papillon or Cool Hand Luke, both of which are about a gazillion times better as both prison dramas and showcases for indomitable spirit then I shall never again voice a word of protest toward you lemmings.
Also Dustin Hoffman/Steve McQueen ,Paul Newman/George Kennedy vs Tim Robbins/Morgan Freeman.
I watched Edge of Tomorrow yesterday which probably makes sense temporally and while there is a scrap of a good story there it's largely defeated by truly horrible directing and what I term the "War is heck" effect.
In the War is heck effect,all the violence is so bloodless,both literally and figuratively that you never get the true sense that there are any real costs involved.Hence you never really care what happens to anyone.
I will also note that the armored suits made no sense as the strength of infantry is it's mobility.If you want indiscriminate blow stuff up superiority that's what you have missiles and bombs and planes and ships with big guns for.
I also had the thought that seriously what kind of human being like the ones who inhabit Hollywood now don't even try to make the best movie they can and throw away logic and plot and emotion just for the sake of appealing to a bunch of mouth breathing teens?
If I made movies and was ever happy to settle for that I'm fairly sure I'd do the right thing and off myself.
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