How can you be so obtuse as to not think this is the best movie ever?

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2004)

The Shawshank Redemption is easily the greatest movie ever. It is such an amazing journey of two people throughout approximately twenty years of a prison sentence. The evolution of their friendship (Andy played by Tim Robbins and Red played by Morgan Freeman) over that period is just amazing how they go from not knowing each other to very close best friends. I love to see how Andy, through his financial prowess, is able to accomplish so much for him, his friends, and fellow prisoners. Bob Gunton as the warden and Clancy Brown as the head prison guard were also amazing in there roles. Brown was very authoritative and violent in his control of the prison. Gunton was impressive as the corrupt warden who did not like to be reminded of his misdeeds. I love when he goes nuts when Andy asks how he can be so obtuse. I think that is hilarious how somebody would take as much offense to the word obtuse. The way that the movie ends is what made this my favorite movie of all time. I did not see that ending coming at all and I will not spoil it. To explain how great this movie is I would say this: If you have seen the movie Gymkata and know how extremely bad that movie (except that its badness makes it hilarious), The Shawshank Redemption is as great as Gymkata is bad. This has been my review of the greatest movie ever and everybody should see this movie at least once.