web counter
 

The Pajiba Movie Club Returns With ... ?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (17)

shawshankred.jpg

We’ve taken a couple of months off from the Pajiba Movie Club (although, it appears that the AOL-owned blogs have taken up the idea), but with end-of-year and end-of-decade lists past us now, and with the first Pajiba Book Club discussion arriving on Thursday (this will serve as your reminder), I thought we’d step back into it for March.

Instead of hitting on an older classic, like Night of the Living Dead, or a smaller but thought-provoking film like Good Night and Good Luck or Let the Right One In from previous Movie Club discussions, I thought we’d hit one that is almost unanimously well regarded: 1994’s Shawshank Redemption. It may not be everyone’s favorite movie, but I don’t know anyone who dislikes it. I’d also like an excuse to write up a full-length review of it for our archives, and a Movie Club discussion is excuse enough.

Since it’s a movie most everyone has seen, I’m going to decrease the window for revisiting it, so check back on March 4th at around 2 PM EST for the discussion. And don’t forget: The Lolita discussion, headed up by Yossarian, will take place this Thursday afternoon.









Each Time You Like, Share, Tweet or Stumble a Pajiba Post, An Angel Does the Paul Rudd Dance

← Mark Strong To Play Sinestro In Green Lantern | Pajiba Love 02/22/10 →









Comments

Sweet! I'm glad to see that this is back!

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at February 22, 2010 12:43 PM

So excited for this. Things Dustin and Crew! I know they weren't all that popular, but of the ones I ventured in on, I always found the insights fun.

Plus, I've seen Shawshank, so double yay.

Posted by: Kayanne at February 22, 2010 1:02 PM

Yay! I missed the first rounds, but I will make this one. I'm happy to see this is coming back.

Posted by: jM at February 22, 2010 1:14 PM

I find this pleasing.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverpuppet at February 22, 2010 1:18 PM

Excellent.

Posted by: admin at February 22, 2010 1:40 PM

I was just saying last week that I missed Movie Club and hoped it would come back eventually.
And I do like the Shawshank Redemption, though I often forget that I like it. So this is perfect.

Posted by: MyySharona at February 22, 2010 1:52 PM

Great choice! Also, glad to see the Movie Club back. I was worried that it had up and vanished like a fart in the wind.

Posted by: branded at February 22, 2010 1:55 PM

HUZZAH!! I love this film!! Can't wait!! :D

Posted by: Jelinas at February 22, 2010 1:59 PM

Lolita with Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain or the first Lolita directed by Stanley Kubrick? Or Lolita, the book, which I'm not entirely certain is entitled "Lolita?"

Whatever. They're going to remake it in 5 years anyway. They'll dumb it down for the teenagers and make Lolita a robot, which is sure to be the next hip thing after pirates, vampires and ninjas (its coming, mark my words). She and ol' Humbert will go on a road-trip, but it'll be totally innocent and at the end of the movie she'll have his blessing to run off with a toaster-oven. It'll be called "Lolita 2199: Circuit Breaker" and Kat Dennings will be just old enough to play the lead.

Posted by: superasente at February 22, 2010 3:01 PM

Lolita with Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain or the first Lolita directed by Stanley Kubrick? Or Lolita, the book, which I'm not entirely certain is entitled "Lolita?"

Which will be discussed for the Pajiba Book Club? Obviously, you're not a golfer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita

Posted by: branded at February 22, 2010 3:26 PM

Be a little more generic why don't you.

Posted by: Phil at February 22, 2010 4:41 PM

Yay! I greatly enjoyed the last few. Will definitely be here.

Posted by: Micah at February 22, 2010 5:21 PM

Oh, Phil, we as a community apologize for our mainstream tastes. We, like the rest of the world, operate under the assumption that if something is popular and critically acclaimed, it must be bad. Only undiscovered gems like Glitter that were panned and nobody went to see are worth our time. It's no use having an interesting discussion about a smart, beautiful, entertaining movie when we could be offbeat and quirky.

We hipsters are such misanthropes and society-phobes that we believe that Popular and Excellent are mutually exclusive. Therefore, the next feature in the Pajiba Movie Club will be Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy.

/bitch

Posted by: esme at February 22, 2010 5:59 PM

Ooh, goody. I already have Barbarella on DVD.

Also, Glitter.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverpuppet at February 22, 2010 7:50 PM

Esme is such a hipster, she's too cool to go along with other hipsters. She's a meta-hipster -- she knows that the stuff that most mainstream society enjoys isn't hip enough for hipsters, but since she's so much hipper than hippsters, she actually has enough sense to evaluate things on their own merit rather than the merit society thrusts upon them.

Whatever, I'm a super-meta-ultra hipster who doesn't think anything that isn't cool actually is cool, unless hipsters think it's cool, in which case it isn't worth taking a look at, unless its a tuesday and I'm drinking PBR and listening to The Shins. But only if hipperster "dig" it. But only if they don't. So I love Shawshank Redemption. But only ironically.

WHATEVS! *pssh*

Posted by: superasente at February 22, 2010 8:34 PM

In. ,daughter and I have huge chunks of this memorized. I found the 10th anniversary DVD for $5 not long ago so I own it, too.

And if I could make a suggestion for the Book Club, it would be "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Alexandry Dumbass.

Posted by: , at February 23, 2010 9:47 AM

superasente and esme, I think I love you.
But only ironically, obviously.

Posted by: frank (aka frank_247 aka the lone Scotsman) at February 24, 2010 12:17 AM