Is this going to be better than The Shawshank Redemption?
Because that movie was dumb. I hope this one will at least be better than that. Otherwise I'll have to skip this.
shareWhy do you believe The Shawshank Redemption to be dumb?
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing .
He's obviously trolling.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
These days...man...you never can be fully certain.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing .
IMDB, the place on the internet where calling The Shawshank Redemption dumb makes you a troll.
Seriously, that movie was dumb. Full of exposition and no subtlety at all. I guess that's how you adapt a short story into a 2hr+ movie.
But to be fair, this movie has potential to be worse considering the odd casting choice. Did nobody realize the Detta story in Book 2 was already standard SJW fodder?
So this was just a way to express my worries about this film. I'd really deem it an acceptable effort if it's not worse than Shawshank.
SJW
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing . share
#triggered
shareI find it amusing how people (mostly bitter men) are rebranding everything that doesn't blatantly and completely kiss the ass of Caucasian/white heterosexual men as "SJW" or "PC".
P.S. You picked a book with almost stereotypical Mafiosos and a cartoon character of a black woman ("Butterfly McQueen" meets "Mandingo", I believe Eddie said) as your definition of "SJW". Even if you want to argue that Odetta is the ultimate in "SJW" material for being a crippled black woman that's mentally and physically sharp, there's simply too much other "unfortunate implication" clutter that stands in defiance of the caricature you've already concocted.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing .
Ughhhh, smh. Look who's the one projecting.
Do you even understand what SJW means? It's a fancy term for idiots.
And the Detta story is already the quintessential material for SJW pandering, making Roland's casting redundant and thus even more stupid. Hope that's clear enough for you.
Okay, I'll bite and expand on my reaction. The Shawshank Redemption (TSR) is the #1 most popular film on IMDb. Now that does not mean you can't disklike it. But it does mean that a LOT of people do like it. So for you to throw around sentiments like "that movie [TSR] was dumb" and stating that The Dark Tower would have to be better than TRS in order for you to give it a chance is like saying that all the many, many people that like TSR are wrong to like it. It seems like an obvious attempt at getting a reaction out of the people that like TSR and at the same time taking a dig at The Dark Tower.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
It seems like an obvious attempt at getting a reaction out of the people that like TSR and at the same time taking a dig at The Dark Tower.
That's spot-on, I'll give you that.
But Shawshank is still, objectively, a dumb movie devoid of meaning. And I meant it when I said I hope this one will be better, though from what little I've seen it might well not be. So I'm not likely to be watching it, which I acknowledge doesn't mean anything either. Just wanted to get it out there. share
But Shawshank is still, SUBjectively, a dumb movie devoid of meaning.
Fixed that for ya.
I don't know if you're aware of this but I've already changed things. I killed Ben Linus.
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I though Shawshank was a timeless, classic piece of cinema, and it always will be.
"That's it. It bit into his arm-pit. Like It wanted to eat him, man. Like It wanted to eat his heart." share