The Shawshank Redemption Re-release

[DrX]

Hey, can you tell me if there are any differences between the original R2 release of Shawshank and the VCI re-release (September 2001)?

Ta muchly!

;)

[DrX]

ah come on guys!

90 views and squat!

[John Nelson]

No. Same double-sided disc with 4:3 one side and 16:9 anamorphic on the other, with Dolby Surround.

BTW, the R1 has a DD 5.1 mix and widescreen only on a single-sided disc.

-- J.

[pbenstead]

If you've got a multiregion player then go for either the R1 or R4 as the transfer quality is terrible on the R2.

[Chris]

Originally posted by DrX
Hey, can you tell me if there are any differences between the original R2 release of Shawshank and the VCI re-release (September 2001)?

Ta muchly!

;)

It wasn't a re-release it was a price drop. VCI announce price drops this way.

[nashie]

dear lord,
there has been a special edition or ultimate edition or whatever you may choose to call it, of every half-decent film around, and yet the greatest movie ever made has not got a good DVD.

We need a Shawshank Rdemeption with a documentary/retrospective style thing, maybe that mark kermode tv special, a remastered cleaned up transfer, and a commentary from darabont and the cast.

Why has this not been done, if Se7en has such a good DVD why can't shawshank at least have a commentary. appalling situation

[Michael Brooke]

<B>there has been a special edition or ultimate edition or whatever you may choose to call it, of every half-decent film around, and yet the greatest movie ever made has not got a good DVD. </B>

Indeed not - Robert Bresson's <I>A Man Escaped</I> isn't available on <U>any</U> DVD, forcing me to put up with feeble American imitations like <I>The Shawshank Redemption</I>!

[nashie]

not heard of that, but shawshank certainly isn't feeble and if you believe that shawshank is a rip off, then i have never heard anyone else say so.

[Michael Brooke]

I don’t seriously think it is a direct rip-off, but it has absolutely nothing new to say about its subject that hasn’t been said countless times before in distinctly better films – hence my use of the word “feeble”. It mistakes sentimentality for profundity, and the Bresson wipes the floor with it on practically every level.

<I>Shawshank</I> certainly isn’t a <U>bad</U> film as such, but two viewings to date have left me baffled as to why people foam at the mouth quite so much about it – quite apart from anything else, there’s a scene at the end that’s so ludicrously implausible (let’s just say that it involves a poster, to avoid spoilers) that it made me laugh out loud.

So why do you rate it so absurdly highly as to call it “the greatest film ever made”?

[nashie]

well you either love shawshank or you don't, nothing i will say will change your mind.

but i found it a wonderful look at life and about the human spirit enduring, and ultimately hope.

'hope is a good thing and no good thing ever dies'

[ed rooney]

Originally posted by Michael Brooke
<I>Shawshank</I> certainly isn’t a <U>bad</U> film as such, but two viewings to date have left me baffled as to why people foam at the mouth quite so much about it – quite apart from anything else, there’s a scene at the end that’s so ludicrously implausible (let’s just say that it involves a poster, to avoid spoilers) that it made me laugh out loud.

It's not the most implausible thing I've ever seen in a movie. It might be implausible but not impossible. Maybe "Red" also got him some double-sided sticky tape!

I find action movies constantly amusing for the seemingly impervious abililty of the hero to avoid rounds and rounds of bullets without a scratch.

I know you are a serious movie buff but for some people movies are just entertainment and it's dangerous to over-analyse these things.

I myself do like the film very much but can recognise its flaws.

[nashie]

<spoiler>well why can't u loop the sticky tape thats what i used to do</spoiler>