Michael Clarke Duncan: R.I.P. I just heard on the news that he died from complications from a heart attack he got 2 months ago.
This is without a doubt the best movie of his, no question about it. I might just watch this again soon in honor of his name.
I have yet to not cry my eyes out. Puffy eyes, running nose, trebling lips, so many tears I can't even see the screen.. THIS is what drama movies should be about; invocate real emotions while telling us a unique story, not bore us to death. I don't know how many times I have watched this movie, bit I know I will be watching it so many times more in the future.
That is sad news indeed. As you said dunpealhunter, this is his best role by far.
A patchy career but when he got to have fun he was great. I will remember him also in Armageddon standing on the table in leopard undies flexing and dancing for the doctors. :)
RIP
In my top 10 favourite movies! I have watched it many times. This is what you call a movie, an 10/10 movie. What a beautiful experience.
One of my favorite movie, yet it makes me realize how much God really love us.
Great movie, didn’t feel slow despite its length. I just don’t buy all the religion bs
"People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world."
Watched this as a kid and didn't fully understand it. Watched this as an adult and was moved by it. All the actors brought their A-game and I couldn't get enough. Also, Percy might be one of my most hated characters in a movie.
This movie is almost perfect, but having some very, very small calm moments here and there, which might make the movie feel a bit lagging.
It portraits the US Death Penalty in a pretty bad light - a light that is fully justified. Crowds cheering for the death of a person - it is just cruel. Sending someone into the death is not bringing your loved ones back, does not undo the crime, it is just that: Another person dead, there is no winner.
In the perversion of justice, the ones executing or being responsible for doing so have become monsters themselves.
The burden of a messiah, or a godsent person, and how he is dying for our sins as an innocent. Have to see all the harm and violence in the world, and have to endure it.
Some of the prisoners show actually quite some humanity. Humanity the system or even the survivors and relateds of the crimes lack.
Oh and yeah, that one warden is such a stupid jerk you cannot even fathom it.
Rating: 9.5/10
Finally, I saw it in full length - before I saw just parts of it. And that's the biggest problem with this movie, the length.
It starts with the script, which tells everything and everything three times - e.g. we see who is the true murder, but there is a conversation which tells us this again. And it goes to the pace of the acting, everything is told slowly. The actors speaking like bubble gum. I like to have an editors cut, thightened it up. This story is just not a 3 hour story, it is not the godfather! I assume that Stephen King had a big involvement in it, which doesn't help a movie in my experience. (One of the best "Stephen King movies" - The Shining - had no involvement whatsoever and when he did his version it was a big failure.)
The acting was good. Especially, Rockwell and Hutchinson were great. Unfortunately, Duncan's role as Coffey consisted of 90% crying. Which is a failure by the director and screenwriter using the most boring and easiest way to tell.
The movie was not able to get me emotionally involved - only Hutchinson's role got me - everything and everyone else I didn't care. After 3 hours I was exhausted and happy the movie was over. (And again, the movie ended but it was not over, it goes back to the current time and tells another story and someone else has to die, and the mouse has to reappear - what a boring mess.)
This movie is arguably my favorite movie of all time. And another great King adaptation.
Shawshank was better, but Stephen King is still a force of nature.
This was on tv all the time growing up. I like it and I don't think it drags at 3 hours long but I find the fantasy elements silly. MCD's performance of a 'magical negro' is one dimensional and stereotypical, offensively so.
It's heavy, but it's a movie that sticks in your heart.
The Green Mile is a great adaptation of Stephen King's novel. Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan give standout performances that are both captivating and emotionally charged. The film's story is moving and explores themes of justice, redemption, and the human condition in a way that only Stephen King can. Director Frank Darabont expertly brings the story to life with his direction and cinematography.
''I am tired watching this movie'', Dog tired! It was something new I had to admit that but due to it's length and pace it's just too much to take in.
The acting by everyone was flawless it's a well directed and good movie.
No one can deny that.
A very, very good movie. Had it been shorter, it would have been perfect.
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R.I.P. Michael C. Duncan!
I'll always remember you as the great, honorable Mr. John Coffey.
This movie has moved me many times - it's just PURE MAGIC.
Thank you Big Mike.
Just watched it for the first time (yep i'm late!)
The film is very good, except that for 2017 it would have made a way better mini-series (like 6 episodes, no more)
Anyway, despite the extreme length, it's a very good adaptation of Stephen King's book with a n excellent cast (Michael Clarke Duncan was amazing…)
I thought I would cry but I didn't, so I'm kind of disappointed aha, the science-fiction side keep me out of identifying myself to the characters so I can't get as moved as I would be if that could happen irl
But anyway, that's a classic and of course I recommend it!
one of my favorite movies of all time. Sam Rockwell's performance was classic......All I wanted me was a little cornbread.
another great adaption from Stephen King's novel.cry as many you can cause is the way to be while watching.
Darabont does it again with another Steven King classic. Michael Clarke Duncan losing the Best Supporting Actor Oscar to Michael Caine is still a damn shame. Don't get me wrong, Caine was great in Cider House Rules, but this was Duncan's career best and he was fucking phenomenal as John Coffey
There are things that I didn't understand, but the story and Mr. Jinggles....
Well, I thought it was a great story with some points to improve, but it can be understood.
10/10
Tom Hanks is the G.O.A.T.
Sam Rockwell shined. :heart: Theirs acting was good.....
But tbh I didn't liked the story.
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mr jingles snubbed for best supporting actor
One of the amazing films everyone needs to watch...it was emotional and everyone was incredible in their role....
Percy's character was well written, and all the morbid vibes of surrounding the death row inmates were well done ... it was okayish
Not a masterpiece, but a cult nonetheless. Technically monstrous, but the length a bit too long, 30 minutes could very well have been shortened. Touching, raw but without too much violence, Tom Hanks incredible also in this film, The Green Mile turns out to be a wonderful film, to be seen at least once in a lifetime, but if you watch it for more than 3 times it tires.
8.5/10
A masterfully crafted and morally profound film that’ll bring the manliest of men to tears. It’s a prime example of movie magic at it’s finest.
Masterpiece, worth watching! 1 to 10, obviously 11!
One of my favorite movies that I've seen several times and never bored me. A spectacular, great and powerful story that is worth watching.
Awful tired now, boss. Dog tired.
An abundantly loyal Stephen King adaptation (something of a rarity) that manages to balance a ton of heart and an equal amount of weirdness without getting the two hopelessly tangled along the way. It can be blunt and telegraphed at times, it's seriously overlong at just past three hours, and the dialog has moments of real weakness, but it's able to counter all that with a serious knack for tension, a truckload of bittersweet feelings and some fantastic central performances. Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan are the most visible, and work an easy connection with the cameras in two deeply sympathetic roles, but Sam Rockwell also hands in a terrific part as a give-no-damns lunatic whose wild, vicious, unhinged attitude works in strong contrast to his cellmates' general resignation.
Tough to watch in places, especially as the mile's population begins to dwindle, but generally arresting and intensely emotional - there isn't anything else quite like it.
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In human nature there is a fear of the unknown, inexplicable. And hence the lack of acceptance for otherness and passivity when something can threaten it.
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If you play this movie on backwards, you basically get Frank Darabont's Frankenstein.
The head is given in belief that a military story or war movie. But that hope was wrong. The film began with slow stroke and slowly came to the track. And became thrilling.
A long but also very touching picture about the cruelty and evil that men do...
One of the best movies I have ever seen. Strongly recommended for everyone.
Excelente movie one of the best I see
I like it very much
Great movie. I've watched more than once.
Brilliant movie... Now it makes it even more tragic... RIP
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The Green Mile is a masterwork. This is film as art, at it's very best. Film was invented for creations like this.