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Started by Eddie Teach, October 10, 2012, 11:02:46 AM

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Which prison movie/tv show do you like best?

Cool Hand Luke
3 (11.1%)
Shawshank Redemption
8 (29.6%)
The Green Mile
1 (3.7%)
Ernest Goes to Jail
2 (7.4%)
Oz
3 (11.1%)
Prison Break
3 (11.1%)
The Prisoner
3 (11.1%)
FFS, how could you leave off _____?
4 (14.8%)
Not Another Prison Movie
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 27

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Eddie Teach

October 10, 2012, 11:02:46 AM
Convicts only, no POWs or concentration camps.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#1
October 10, 2012, 11:08:28 AM
I've only seen 2. :blush:
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CountDeMoney

#2
October 10, 2012, 11:09:12 AM
Going to have to think about that one, especially between Cool Hand Luke and Shawshank. 

There are others out there too, like
Murder In The First
Bad Boys
Escape From Alcatraz
American Me *shudder*
Midnight Express
and Papillon

:P

Although, I think Denzel Washington's The Hurricane was fantastic, even though it was maybe 75% slammer screen time.

Eddie Teach

#3
October 10, 2012, 11:11:39 AM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

DGuller

#5
October 10, 2012, 11:20:13 AM
Any movie with a realistic depiction of female gang showers is fine by me.

Eddie Teach

#6
October 10, 2012, 11:25:31 AM Last Edit: October 10, 2012, 11:28:16 AM by Peter Wiggin
Well excuse me for thinking of the movie with 90000 votes cast on IMDB instead of the one with 7000 which isn't even the best known prison film starring Sean Penn. <_<
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Eddie Teach

#7
October 10, 2012, 11:31:56 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 10, 2012, 11:20:13 AM
Any movie with a realistic depiction of female gang showers is fine by me.

Hmmm, maybe I could have added Lady Vengeance. But really no, it's not a prison movie, just a movie with prison scenes.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#8
October 10, 2012, 11:32:33 AM
Papillon
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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derspiess

#9
October 10, 2012, 12:03:48 PM
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

lustindarkness

#10
October 10, 2012, 12:42:48 PM
Cool Hand Luke,  Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile are great films. Hard to choose just one.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

PRC

#11
October 10, 2012, 12:46:18 PM
Brubaker.

CountDeMoney

#12
October 10, 2012, 03:09:18 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 10, 2012, 11:25:31 AM
Well excuse me for thinking of the movie with 90000 votes cast on IMDB instead of the one with 7000 which isn't even the best known prison film starring Sean Penn. <_<

:P  Dude, it's a classic.

mongers

#13
October 10, 2012, 03:33:18 PM
How about two John Frankenheimer films, 'Birdman of Alcatraz' and 'Against the Wall' (story of Attica prison riot with Samuel L.Jackson) ?

Heh, he even did a third prison film 'Andersonville', but since that was about the ACW camp, I guess it doesn't count.

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Admiral Yi

#14
October 10, 2012, 03:47:41 PM
Slight edge to Cool Hand Luke over Papillon.  Midnight Express gets an honorable mention.
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