Saturlight
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Having watched this on Film 4, I came to the conslusion it an over-long, boring, tedious, over-acted and a very very very very very
OVER-RATED movie.
Hell knows what goes through the minds of people to vote
this the 2nd best film EVER!! I first saw the cut down version lasting
1 hour 25 minutes, and it was still too long.
I wouldn't mind but it's so drawn-out, fanciful and pathetic. The
things that happen in that prison would never happen, just because some
nerdy bank manager has "hope..." Give me a break! Which soap opera did
that sad line come from!
No wonder it was initially ignored, and it
should be continued to be ignored. Robbins, who is accused and wrongly
convicted for the murders of his wife and her lover, never ages. At one
point he HAS TO "remind" us he's been in jail for 12 years, because it
only looks like a week.
Yet did you see the way he really changed in 12 years from 1994 to
2006. He looks a much older man. And of course he does, he's 12 years
older!! In the Shamshank Dedeption he never aged one day in 12 years,
and his hair is even cut the same style.
Even when we then go forward something like 20 years, he still looks
the same, never aged at all, apart from a few bluey grey hairs at the
sides. And after he escapes (after 20 years of tunneling through thick
concrete with a a small screwdriver), he meets up with his old buddy
Freeman, who got out of jail legally. And get this, BOTH look younger
than when they first went in.
By my reckoning Tim Robbins should now be about 70, and Morgan Freeman
in his early 80s, yet both after serving their time still look barely
40.
And what a load of talkative rubbish. The most boring over-hyped-up
film in history. Complete twaddle. God knows how on earth I watched all
of it, but I did if for a bet, 'cause I cannot stand it. Wasn't worth
a UK tenner anyway!! My vote, 2 out of 10 for a mediocre drama.
Get a life, if this is the "best" film you've even seen. Better still,
get a cinema ticket!!!! Or rent a DVD. And more than one!!
I know people won't agree, but still, I think it's cr:-shhp.
OVER-RATED movie.
Hell knows what goes through the minds of people to vote
this the 2nd best film EVER!! I first saw the cut down version lasting
1 hour 25 minutes, and it was still too long.
I wouldn't mind but it's so drawn-out, fanciful and pathetic. The
things that happen in that prison would never happen, just because some
nerdy bank manager has "hope..." Give me a break! Which soap opera did
that sad line come from!
No wonder it was initially ignored, and it
should be continued to be ignored. Robbins, who is accused and wrongly
convicted for the murders of his wife and her lover, never ages. At one
point he HAS TO "remind" us he's been in jail for 12 years, because it
only looks like a week.
Yet did you see the way he really changed in 12 years from 1994 to
2006. He looks a much older man. And of course he does, he's 12 years
older!! In the Shamshank Dedeption he never aged one day in 12 years,
and his hair is even cut the same style.
Even when we then go forward something like 20 years, he still looks
the same, never aged at all, apart from a few bluey grey hairs at the
sides. And after he escapes (after 20 years of tunneling through thick
concrete with a a small screwdriver), he meets up with his old buddy
Freeman, who got out of jail legally. And get this, BOTH look younger
than when they first went in.
By my reckoning Tim Robbins should now be about 70, and Morgan Freeman
in his early 80s, yet both after serving their time still look barely
40.
And what a load of talkative rubbish. The most boring over-hyped-up
film in history. Complete twaddle. God knows how on earth I watched all
of it, but I did if for a bet, 'cause I cannot stand it. Wasn't worth
a UK tenner anyway!! My vote, 2 out of 10 for a mediocre drama.
Get a life, if this is the "best" film you've even seen. Better still,
get a cinema ticket!!!! Or rent a DVD. And more than one!!
I know people won't agree, but still, I think it's cr:-shhp.