Deserves to be ranked #1

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2015)

This movie has the one thing every great movie has, and that is that the movie is tied together and all the details conform into one great story at the end. Don't get me wrong the movie was great through every scene (especially small details, like how Red sees 'Brooks was here' carved into the ceiling of the room Brooks hangs himself in), but the moment you think you'll see Andy hanging lifeless from his cell you find out that he has escaped Shawshank. In the next moments while watching you start to realize that from the first day Andy talked to Red about the pick hammer, he already has his plan in mind. And even though it seems as if Andy wants the poster of the actress while watching the film for his own pleasure, he actually used it to cover up the tunnel he dug during the years he was in Shawshank. Andy's calm demeanor when under pressure from the warden and the guards causes him to slip under their eye and dig the tunnel to escape Shawshank. That's why this is my favorite movie of all time, because the conclusion makes you realize things that were going on throughout the story that no other movie ending can even come close to how the Shawshank Redemption ends.