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on 3/23/2010
Sorry, Stephen! Even at your best, you'll never beat your calling-card.
on 4/13/2010
morgan freeman <3
on 5/13/2010
Jack Nicholson > Morgan Freeman
Aw, hell no. Not in anything. (And I love Jack, most of the time.)
on 7/18/2010
Shawshank....It's hard but....Most of all I miss my Friend....
on 8/21/2010
Sorry Kubrick, but The Shawshank Redemption is just the best prison-movie I've ever seen and The Shining is not The Best horror movie.
on 5/24/2011
Shawshank may be the best prison movie, but that's because there aren't so many great prison movies. The Shining is absolutely one of the top 5 horror movies, a much harder honor to come by. The fact is, Shawshank has a fantastic script and an inspirational story but as a work of art its pretty vanilla. On the other hand, I could watch The Shining all day and catch new nuances, and yes, Nicholson's a better actor than Freeman, hands down. But then again, Nicholson's one of the great films actors out there, so that's no insult to Freeman.
on 7/25/2011
love them both....but morgan freeman has my heart <3
Brooks Was Here. So Was Red.
on 8/1/2011
I'm a huge fan of Stephen King's work (read about 16 of his novels so far), but I'm sad to say I have not read either of the two books that these films were adapted from. However, this allows me to judge both films without bias. And Shawshank is the clear winner here in my eyes.
on 8/3/2011
Shawshank is the perfect prison film while The Shining is the perfect horror film, so I guess they both sort of do stand against one another but I gotta go with Kubrick on this one.
on 11/10/2011
Either way,Stephen King wins. Such good stories...but Shining got this.
on 11/15/2011
shawshank wins. I've read both stories, the shining is brilliant, but the film is a little bit overated in my opinion.
on 1/29/2012
shawshank wins
on 3/31/2012
Shawshank Redemption for sure.
on 7/11/2012
The Shining for me. It was a truly surreal experience. It had fabulous direction, a great soundtrack (one of the best ever) and Danny Lloyd who was freaking out of this world. I notice something new every time I see it. Kubrick put in that extra effort to make the viewer feel a touch of dread playing with psychology and spatial arrangements. On the contrary the more I watch TSR, the more I realize how ordinary it is.
on 10/1/2013
Shawshank without hesitation.
on 11/3/2013
Somewhat difficult, but not really... Shawshank wins this one
Shawshank and it really isn't very close.
on 3/4/2014
We are entering Top 5 territory. Shawshank wins.
on 3/5/2014
The Shining was great, and Stephen King is an amazing writer, but he has never written anything that was adapted so perfectly as Shawshank Redemption
on 3/21/2014
now this is a challenge I honestly don't know both in my top 20 but last time I checked shawshank was better ranked
on 2/9/2015
Shining easily
on 2/16/2015
Shining easily. Shawshank is overrated
on 1/10/2017
I think they're both overrated, but for me the powerful story and performances in Shawshank beat out the soulless technical mastery of The Shining easily.
on 8/19/2018
shawshank redemption is forgettably shit and the shining is a horror masterpiece
As much as I like Shawshank, it was just... a movie. At least, fuh me. Nothing really special, just a movie. The Shining, on the other hand, ignited my love for cinema. It's easy.
Shawshank is very good but it’s nowhere near the best of all time in my opinion. Yes, it’s inspiring and incredibly well acted but I prefer something more complex. The Shining is just superb and incredibly complex and surreal! There’s nothing like Kubrick!
The Shining is pretty good, but Shawshank has better here.
Kubrick wins this face off. The Shining is brilliant and chilling.
on 10/28/2019
The Shawshank Redemption is a far better film than The Shining 1980. Some of you people need to get off of Kubrick's jock !
The Shawshank Redemption is easily a better film than Kubrick's extremely overrated "The Shining" movie. Stephen King's The Shining Novel is also much better than Kubrick's terrible movie adaptation of it.
Shawshank is bettet.
Shawshank is better.
on 11/28/2019
Both masterpieces.
on 8/4/2022
Currently, Shawshank is in my top 10, and The Shining is in my top 40, but that might change upon rewatch. But yeah, I'm going for Shawshank for now
on 12/29/2022
Shawshank is in my top 5 while the shining is in my top 20 so this isn’t even close
on 1/23/2023
The best King adaptations. I don't think it is right to compare these 2 movies as they are of different natures, but Shawshank gets my vote.
on 2/28/2023
Both are good but Shawshank gets my vote
Shawshank is a good movie with some funny narration; and, well, that's all it really has going for it. The Shining is a masterpiece of horror cinema.
