Always worth seeing

Rating: 10/10 (1 January 2003)

There are only a few movies that command your attention no matter when you come across them. This is one of them. If it is on TV and I am scanning the channels, once I hit this movie I MUST stay till the end. I must have seen it at lest a dozen times now.
Here are some stray thoughts on "Shawshank"
It contains the most beautiful narration job (Morgan Freeman) that I have ever heard. I could listen to it alone with no pictures and it would shine!
This movie holds some kind of record for small moments that are HUGELY memorable. e.g. Andy plays the opera record....beers in the sun....Brooks and his bird....Billy gets shot....Andy in the rain....Morgan Freeman in the field finding Andy's "treasure"....the gorgeous Blue Pacific ending....and there are so many more.
There may be some movies made that are as good as this one but I can't imagine any being better.