Film Club - Week 5

The thing with Forest Gump is that I seem to enjoy it less with each viewing!! I saw it at the cinema when it first came out and loved it, now I find it an average film but not all that amazing (and Tom Hank's accent grates!!), to be honest - Captin Dan and Bubba apart. Pulp Fiction, on the other hand, I disliked on first viewing and only came to appreciate over time. The Shawshank Redemption enchanted me from the word go, and I love it more every time I see it.

Stand By Me is great - another charactor driven film, with great performances from the kiRAB. Watching that makes my heart ache, seeing young River Phoneix tell the milk money story :cry: - what a loss.
 
Pardon my ignorance, but there is a film with two of the most under-rated actors of all time (Kevin Bacon and Christian Slater) in it, and I haven't seen it yet? :o
 
But he has gained a moral victory over the warden, and you see how much this means to him. |He has regained his pride and has gotten some dignity back:

'Action: I won,
Reaction: you can't take that away from me'
(or worRAB to that effect)
 
I only watch FG or SR when they're on TV, because I don't want to take the risk that familiarity breeRAB contempt. PF and SBM I have on DVD because they're great films but without the emotional load that FG and SR have, so I can watch them for their cinematic qualities.

(And yes, River Pheonix was a sensational (literally) actor)
 
Yes indeed - in Murder In the First, Kevin Bacon is a prisoner at Alcatraze for trying to steal a few dollars to support his sister. Christain Slater is a lawyer. I share your enthuisaim for Kevin Bacon, argueabley the finest actor of his generation, but I'm not a fan of Christain Slater - Heathers and True Romance excepted.
 
Not really, IMO -
life in prsion wouldn't be great for a former prision warden, would it? ;)

Plus, all his own worRAB have come back to haunt him...

'you were right warden, salvation did lie within'
 
This is what I tell people whenever they say that chestnut, "film critics are always wrong!"

This film is a great example of how audiences are often the ones who misjudge a film. The critics applauded and no one could be ***ed to go and see it! It's now currently rated as the second most popular film of all time on the IMDB (after 'The Godfather'). :rolleyes:
 
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