View Poll Results: Pulp Fiction Vs The Shawshank Redemption - Which one is the better movie
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Pulp Fiction Vs The Shawshank Redemption
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Pulp Fiction Vs The Shawshank Redemption
The battle of the two most highly regarded movies of the 1990's. My prediction for the winner? Pulp Fiction, because if it doesn't win, Arpeggi won't be happy
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I didn't vote in the other thread, but while Pulp Fiction is a great and well crafted movie, but it is way overrated. Shawshank for the win.
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Pulp Fiction is a great movie.
Shawshank is a perfect movie.
Shawshank is a perfect movie.
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Can't I love them both equally?
I guess if I have to pick one, I'll go with Shawshank. Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis' French girlfriend always annoyed the piss out of me. Shawshank solved that problem by not having any women with speaking roles aside from that lady at the bank and Rita Hayworth.
I guess if I have to pick one, I'll go with Shawshank. Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis' French girlfriend always annoyed the piss out of me. Shawshank solved that problem by not having any women with speaking roles aside from that lady at the bank and Rita Hayworth.
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SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is the most overrated film in the annals of overrated films. It's not a bad movie, maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10, but far from deserving of all the accolades it seems to attract from fawning millions. QUIZ SHOW was the best film of 1994.
PF for the win here.
PF for the win here.
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Shawshank Redemption is a good, popular movie, but unremarkable as a representation of the craft of filmmaking.
Pulp Fiction is already on the cover of film class textbooks and will be remembered as one of the most influential movies of all time.
It's a fairly easy test: how many knockoffs/imitations of Shawshank Redemption have there been vs. Pulp Fiction? That one's easy to answer.
Pulp Fiction is already on the cover of film class textbooks and will be remembered as one of the most influential movies of all time.
It's a fairly easy test: how many knockoffs/imitations of Shawshank Redemption have there been vs. Pulp Fiction? That one's easy to answer.
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SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is the most overrated film in the annals of overrated films. It's not a bad movie, maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10, but far from deserving of all the accolades it seems to attract from fawning millions. QUIZ SHOW was the best film of 1994.
PF for the win here.
PF for the win here.
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There you go. Now you guys had to make me pull out my '94 Shrine again.
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Pulp Fiction.
I need to see Shawshank again, and I did really like it. But I'll take as an indicator the fact that I've seen Shawshank once in the theatres and haven't really felt the need to revisit it whereas I've lost count how many times I've seen Pulp Fiction.
I need to see Shawshank again, and I did really like it. But I'll take as an indicator the fact that I've seen Shawshank once in the theatres and haven't really felt the need to revisit it whereas I've lost count how many times I've seen Pulp Fiction.
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LEON is one of those movies I'll have to watch again. I saw it once and thought it had a good opening, a great ending, and a REALLY DULL, LIFELESS, AND UNBELIEVABLY PONDEROUS hour or so in between.
I'm not a fan of wall-to-wall-action in lieu of storytelling, character, or narrative flow (if so, I would have LOVED Quantum of Solace), but they really needed something to make Act II interesting.
But like I said, it's been well over a decade so maybe I should give it another shot.
But Luc Besson pooped in my watermelon once so I dunno...
I'm not a fan of wall-to-wall-action in lieu of storytelling, character, or narrative flow (if so, I would have LOVED Quantum of Solace), but they really needed something to make Act II interesting.
But like I said, it's been well over a decade so maybe I should give it another shot.
But Luc Besson pooped in my watermelon once so I dunno...
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Pulp Fiction, while not 100% original at least has alot of good filmmaking influences all over it. Just watching it you can see the impact that Godard, Kubrick, Fuller, Truffaut & Melville had on this film and it's technique.
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From: Detroit, where the weak are killed and eaten.
Pulp Fiction, IMNSHO. It's re-watchability is nearly unmatched by any film. Shawshank? Liked it very much; but have seen it several times...don't really care to watch it again for a very long time...if ever.


















