‘The Shawshank Redemption’ with Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Bill’s Dad | The Rewatchables 

Bills dad is a legend. Has the calmest and coolest delivery in the game

Bill's dad... a gentle mixture of Mark Twain and Albert Einstein.

Brooks was here. The single most emotional scene I've ever seen in my life. Beyond gut wrenching.

Took my son on the 25th to see the re-release in theaters, this was the first time he has ever watched it. Just the see the way this 13-year-old (that loves Xbox and action movies) was glued to the screen and the look on his face when the prison break was revealed was the greatest thing ever. It instantly became his favorite movie. On a side note, my wife and I took our honeymoon in Ixtapa Zihuatanejo over 18 years ago, just because of this movie.

Morgan should have won for Glory and Shawshank. My favourite part of the movie is when Red walks through the fields after visiting the tree. The music, the imagery, just flawless.

I'm finally happy to see what bills dad looks like. now I can picture Bill in 40 years looking like don Nelson

The ending is as perfect as an ending could be, to a movie that is as close to perfect as could be.

Bill Simmons dad looks like Larry David wearing a disguise

Bill’s dad has a triple-double in 13 minutes on court in this episode. Great addition.

Stil think this movie is the one of the two greatest stories ever about friendship. This movie and Stand By Me are the two best in my opinion. I would also say this is one of few movies I didn't want to end. When they met on the beach and the credits were rolling I still wanted to see what happened next.

The warden excels at making you hate him and the corruption he represents. I appreciate [Gunton] reprising the disciplinarian role in _Demolition Man._ Extra rewatchable in both.

Heat Check Award for this pod: Bill shutting down his dad, chastising him to hold off on picking nits until Picking Nits.

Dudes...it's an outflow pipe...even if there's no way to know ahead of time which direction he had to go, once he broke thru, you'd just follow the flow

The movie was so good that it could get away with no plausible explanation as to how Andy was able to reattach the Raquel Welch poster from inside the tunnel on the night of his escape.

To Bill's nitpick about the pipe, every step Andy takes above ground exposes him to possibly being spotted from a guard tower. Gotta get inside that pipe as soon as possible.

The only "wow" moment even remotely comparable to Andy's escape I can think of is the Keyser Soze reveal in "The Usual Suspects".

Shawshank is definitely my #1 movie. Can't even count how many times I watched it.

This is amazing! The Tom Cruise impersonation is hilarious! I was in tears laughing 😂 😂😂😂😂

This movie was based on a Stephen King novella. Only 100 pages long. I read it before I saw the movie and the novella may be even better. But because it's only 100 pages the movie is really true to the story. The novella is part of a 4 story mix none are horror. It's called 'Different Seasons' and all of them were made into movies. 'The Body' was the first and the movie version is known as 'Stand by Me' which is also an amazing story and movie. King wrote each story between his big novels. The guy just couldn't stop writing.

Did the Shawshank tour with my Pops 2 years ago on Fathers Day. Awesome time, and I recommend it to everyone! Right between Cleveland and Columbus

19:00 "Is that your expert opinion dad?" Haha! That was hilarious!

happy 50th bill

That beer commercial idea is a stroke of genius! At the end..Red could say “just because you can”😎

Shawshank is what made Morgan freeman the best narrator ever

Clancy Brown is probably most known for being the voice of Mr. Krabs in Spongebob nowadays

Obtuse, best use in a movie ever. I have never heard it used ANYWHERE better.

Hoop Dreams also 1994. One of the greatest documentaries ever.

Actually Ebert gave it 3.5 stars originally, and Siskel loved it. Had it in his top ten of 94 as well.

I'm with Bill on the last 40 minutes. Shawshank was/is on the inflight entertainment system on United Airlines, and the several times a year I flew them I would watch the last 40 over and over.

“Warden you were right.. salvation does lie within”

17:05, so true. Tom Glavine (with Don Sutton on the play-by-play) Or Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen. Those TNT/TBS days were fun times!

Please do Catch Me if You Can

Finally, this was a long time coming. As someone who has been reading Bill since Aol days, this was worth the wait. 2 movies that HAVE to be done on The Rewatchables... The Usual Suspects JFK

I think the poster stays up because Andy secures the top two corners, lifts the bottom, crawls in and lets it fall back down behind him. It's not that difficult, haha.

One of my favourite lines from the movie is when the warden finds out about Andy's disappearance and say " ..up and disappeared like a fart in the wind"

Shawshank, Goodfellas, Casino, Christmas Story, Forrest Gump, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, heck, even The Big Lebowski and Sunset Boulevard ... I just realized that ALMOST all my favorite movies have Narration.............. and even "not most favorites" like Wolf of Wall Street, American Beauty and American Psycho were made much better due to narration....

Best. Movie. Ever.

Top 5 entry for one of the greatest movies of ALL time. No question.

18:35 "When was the last Ed Wood conversation you had?" Last month. I'll fight you, Simmons. Put some respect on your tongue.

Bill’s Dad, Love it

Shawshank !!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY in my top 10 movies of ALL TIME and probably top 5! This movie is SOOOOOOO GOOOOD! I have seen it I KNOW over 30 times! You can write an entire BOOK just on what was so great about this movie. It is definitely a rewatchable! 😀

This is cool! Good rewatchables. Bills dad is awesome. Chris is more relaxed than normal and not screaming. All I want for my birthday is more podcasts like this. No more yelling and laugh talking/screaming on the Ringer.

I hate to keep doing this, but I used to live 15 minutes from where the movie was shot. Anyway, another fun fact. Most of the non-prison interior scenes were still shot in the prison. If memory serves, the court room scene was shot in the old infirmary. Or it may have been in the main lobby of the prison. In any case, there are about five rooms that were used for multiple different scenes. The "Brooks was here" room was also used for a couple other scenes. The Warden's office was used for a couple other things too. And...the hole through which Andy escaped is there for all to see. It's about 4 feet long with plexiglass on both ends. Again, if you're a big Shawshank fan, you really should do the tour. And that's the end of my pimping for the Ohio Tourism Board or whatever it's called. :)

Brooks had a great quotable with “Maybe I should get a gun and rob the Foodway, I could shoot the manager at the same time and maybe they’ll send me home”. Also, a woman let him into his room.

Bill’s dad kinda looks like a thin Jerry Garcia! Welcome back Mr. Simmons.

Apocalypse Now had some great narration as well. I think it comes down to the writing.

Bills dad is somehow the youngest one there

Can we please talk about how The Green Mile is the best King adaption?! It seems to get overlooked all the time but is an absolute masterpiece. Hanks, Rockwell, Duncan, Morse, Cromwell, Hutchinson. It's career defining!

I didn't know Bill's pops is David Crosby

FWIW, the Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield, OH was well known in Ohio before Shawshank. It's supposedly haunted and had been holding tours, etc., long before the Shawshank crew showed up. The cool thing is all the stuff from Shawshank is there now. Seeing the actual set vs. how it looks in the movie is a testament to how well movies do things. Finally, I've ridden my motorcycle down the road they used in the scene where you see Red's bus from behind. It's wild to watch Shawshank and see so many things I'm familiar with. The scene where Andy stands with his arms extended in the rain after the escape was shot about 10 feet from Ohio Route 13. You see it in person and again, you're impressed by how the movie was shot. Also, there is an actual modern prison on the site of the old Reformatory. You see some of it in the "Affleck Helicopter" shot. Finally, there is a Harley-Davidson dealer about 1000 feet from Andy's "rain scene." If you're into Shawhank and have the interest, a trip to the Reformatory is well worth the effort. "Brooks was Here" and "So was Red" is still carved into a room that served as three different sets in the movie. Cool stuff.

What a year it was for movies. Pulp fiction, Forest Gump and Shawshank are my top 3 movies. Speed was my second fav action movie after Die Hard. Four Weddings and a Funeral is also a favourite. There is a part of me that question are they really that great or did they just made the most impression on me as a 15 year old....coz I watched other 'great movies' like Jaws, Godfather, Blade runner, good fellas etc and they dont leave the same impression

A fact that that blew me away. Clancy Brown does the voice of Mr. Krabs on the SpongeBob cartoons. If he's not banking retirement money from this gig he needs to fire his agent!

the ending is the best part

36:59 "Shawshank2: On The Run" ....hilarious!

Lions fan here. We crawl through 17 weeks of sewage every year.

I've done time in two prisons,we never got to choose where we sat in the chow hall. Maybe the 50s and 60s were different. The anti prison rape videos you have to watch are priceless tho.

This deserves a Re-Re Watchables Live.

i DID NOT expect bills dad to look like that lol so professorial

True fact : Michael Douglass was an early champion for the movie. The push by him and some other Hollywood heavyweights caused the film to get discovered by Academy voters.

Both Stand by Me and Shawshank Redemption have a narrator!

The poster is even shown in the the movie, he lets it hang from the top two points and works under it. It's an outflow pipe of sewage, you just check where it flows and crawls that way. And ofc when you reach the end where the shit flows out you obviously walk UPSTREAM to wash off! The nitpicks wasn't well thought out.

My goodness, the pipe crawl gives me nightmares even until this day.

Shawshank is still better, but don't forget "Cool Hand Luke" as a strong prison movie.

Bills Dad is Bill in old man make up. Look how they shot and cut it - Chris and Bills Dad together, Bill on his own.

Every Plot Hole Explained 1.Poster was taped on top...Clear duck tape. Opens up while the tape on top hold it up...… 2. Andy uses 8 hours to take 5-10 showers. Head and shoulder 10 Bottles...……….Olive Oil...……… Takes a bath with 10 bottles of shampoo...………….. 3.Presses the suit @ a hotel/motel. 4. Adrenaline fight or flight kicks in. Doesn't look tired at all. Maybe he buys cocaine @ Hotel Alley? 3 Cups of coffee. Takes another shower in the morning...….Combs hair in his motel room. 5.Heavy cologne...….@ The Bank.

The inn would have been called the Rock Hammer.

Love this movie!

Although I agree that Morgan Freeman is great in Shawshank, I will not stand for Bill's slander of Martin Landau. Ed Wood is an excellent movie, and Martin Landau is phenomenal in it!

Never seen this movie...Still gonna watch 'cause these guys are so great! ❤

it is a travesty that Tim Robbins wasn't nominated for an oscar

Just discovered this page last week and it's fantastic. After listening to the analysis of Shawshank Redemption, I'd like to ask of I'm the only one that notices "Life" by Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence may just have similar themes or probably be the comical version of Shawshank Redemption.

Shawshank was featured in a 10 episode Hulu show - Castle Rock. Not exactly telling the same types of stories but playing with the mythology.

Ye guys are hilarious 😅and raise interesting points on the movies 🎥 you select! 🎉

Morgan Freeman is in Brubaker which they reference as a great prison movie.

Robbins was great in the Player too.

COOL DAD, COOL SHOW

Been waiting for this for ages, the past few movies on the rewatchables have been pretty weak

Another very good voiceover: Richard Dreyfus’s in Stand By Me

i am laughably late here but I'm from mansfield, OH; legitimately watched the movie for the first time in college [2018] and had no idea it was actually a good movie; always thought it was just a random movie filmed in my hometown. Every year, the prison turns into a haunted house around halloween and stays open as a museum-ish for the rest of the year

Picking nits on this pod: Greeking out the regular bottled water, while prominently displaying the sponsored smartwater.

Because of the poster of Andy standing in the rain him escaping wasn't a surprise but it still didn't lose it's impact

Great movie

Freeman was nominated for Best Actor, not Best Supporting Actor.

The thing about deleted scenes is nobody will believe you (the actor) were in the movie or good in that role if that's the only scene you were in. Plus it could have been your major break. Hard luck

Nit-pick red never takes his apron off when he is working for the grocery store bathroom scene 😂😂

Freeman WAS Oscar-nominated. Best Actor. Lost to Hanks for Gump. Many felt that Robbins should've been nominated, as well.

Love Bills dad ❤

Don’t understand the problem with the poster. The top two corners always stay attached to the wall. Andy lifts the bottom, crawls in the hole, gravity does the rest.

"I _had_ your mother, she wasn't that great." The poster nit pick isn't one: the poster hangs from the top so it's an effective curtain; reloads on adhesive from Red. The sewage crawl: he breathing through his mouth...mostly.

That tom cruise impression is spot on lmfao

Wow, never thought of the ammonia build-up in the pipe, before. THAT could make it hard to breathe, or not burn his eyes.

I’m jealous of the Simmon’s family hair genes!

Bill's dad with the bushy combover

Of the big 3 that came out that year this is my favorite. Though Forrest Gump winning wasn't a snub & still great & of course Pulp fiction is arguably Tarantino's best movie

Respect to you Mr Simmons for sitting in the Oner . A lot folk afraid to A) do that ( go to the movies solo) B) admit they sat oner That Quincy center theater was a dump

Hope you guys will do rewatcheable of "Glory"

I have one nitpick. Andy spent 20 years in the same cell. Imagine after 18 years Hadley comes “ hey Andy get your shit we are moving you from this cell”

Clancy Brown is amazing. Awesome in Carnivale

Andy’s Oceanside inn names: The Great Escape Escape from Reality Inn and Out Dig Inn.

I'm glad that a beer company hasn't exploited Shawshank for a commercial. I'm also surprised that they haven't.