Poll
Question:
Which prison movie/tv show do you like best?
Option 1: Cool Hand Luke
votes: 3
Option 2: Shawshank Redemption
votes: 8
Option 3: The Green Mile
votes: 1
Option 4: Ernest Goes to Jail
votes: 2
Option 5: Oz
votes: 3
Option 6: Prison Break
votes: 3
Option 7: The Prisoner
votes: 3
Option 8: FFS, how could you leave off _____?
votes: 4
Option 9: Not Another Prison Movie
votes: 0
Convicts only, no POWs or concentration camps.
I've only seen 2. :blush:
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.
Any movie with a realistic depiction of female gang showers is fine by me.
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. <_<
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.
Papillon
Cool Hand Luke, Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile are great films. Hard to choose just one.
Brubaker.
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.
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.
Slight edge to Cool Hand Luke over Papillon. Midnight Express gets an honorable mention.
Quote from: mongers on October 10, 2012, 03:33:18 PM
and 'Against the Wall' (story of Attica prison riot with Samuel L.Jackson) ?
Saw that on cable not too long ago. Pretty good retelling.
Shawshank with Cool Hand coming in a close second of the ones listed.
Prison Break's first series was awesome. Voted that as it is the only one actually in prison....(well....they go back but....no).
No Scum? Porridge?
Cool Hand Luke with Shawshank close 2nd.
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.
Agreed.
Let's start with 99 women.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063977/
Followed by a healthy dose of Caged Heat
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071266/
And finish with Reform School Girls-- if only cause it stars former punk rocker Wendy O. Williams.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091836/
There's plenty more where these came from.
Australian women's prison drama Prisoner Cell Block H and its shaky sets saw me through university lunchtimes.
Quote from: Brazen on October 11, 2012, 11:26:52 AM
Australian women's prison drama Prisoner Cell Block H and its shaky sets saw me through university lunchtimes.
Playing pool and drinking pints of milk, saw me through those and most of the afternoons as well. :)