My most watched ever movie

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2004)

I loved this movie and have watched it over 50 times in a 2 year period; I believe it should have won an academy award, but its my guess that the "bull queer" scenes removed any chance of that. The dialog between Andy and Red was spellbinding at times and the interplay between them and the other guys in their clique made it seem like being in prison could be enjoyable. My wife hated the movie because of the scenes containing violence and I have to admit that some of them could have been left out, the movie really didn't need them to be successful or appear real. I originally thought I would hate this movie and didn't see it till it was on HBO TV. The other movies that come close to being most watched are Titanic and a comedy called Midnight run.