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on 8/15/2012
Both are equally epic journey of a 'hero' that changed the people and place around him. Both are long. Both has an emotionally satisfying. Both has Morgan Freeman. Shawshank has more emotional resonance.
Shawshank, and no matter how good "Rises" is....not even close.
i loved both, but shawshank is as wonderful and filled with hope and courage as the day it was released and the first time i saw it, the ending still gets me everytime
on 11/15/2012
Shawshank crushes here.
This would be a lot closer if it were The Dark Knight taking on The Shawshank Redemption. As it is, The Dark Knight Rises can't hold a candle to Frank Darabont's classic.
on 7/6/2013
What Caesar said.
What Caesar said was correct. Shawshank is one of the top ten greatest films and is a perfect film. Everything about that film is absolutely perfect whereas TDKR was quite flawed and didn't live up to the expectations for me. A better match up would be against TDK, and Shawshank would be one spot behind TDK
on 7/13/2013
TSR by much.
on 9/2/2013
I'm going with Shawshank, because no matter how much i love TDKR, Shawshank is Morgan Freeman's best work (which is really saying something) and is a lot more emotionally compelling than TDKR, while being just as interesting.
My knigga! Mah knigga!
on 9/15/2013
The Shawshank Redemption.
on 10/1/2014
TSR wins...
on 10/3/2014
Shawshank
Hard choice, but The Shawshank Redemption is the better one.
on 5/16/2015
Shank wins this
on 4/1/2016
I love rises.It is my favourite from Nolan's batman triology.But even it cant beat redemption
on 4/2/2016
As a huge fan of The Dark Knight Rises, I must say that The Shawshank Redemption wins, easily. But come on, seriously, almost any film that comes up against Shawshank becomes squashed.
on 2/18/2019
Shawshank is certainly damn the best classic films ever, it certainly just crushes the very far worst Dark Knight Rises as far the worst film ever ruined the trilogy.
on 11/28/2019
The Shawshank Redemption by 1K miles.
A Shawshank landslide.
on 11/4/2020
Love both but Shawshank stomps.