@Top100Rick The audio was horrible as well. Kept turning up the volume to hear the announcers and all I could hear was background noise. Rory’s drive on 15 was obviously right and the coverage was showing the left side of the fairway.
The Shawshank Redemption flopped in theaters, $16 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, opening weekend just $727,000 in 1994, it disappeared almost immediately.
It lost all seven Oscar nominations to Forrest Gump, no awards, no box office, the studio labeled it a failure and the director walked away devastated.
Then something quiet started happening, VHS rentals, cable reruns, someone watching it alone on a Tuesday night and calling a friend the next morning.
People who watched it told their friends, their friends told more people, it spread slowly, one recommendation at a time, no marketing push just genuine word of mouth.
By 2008 it reached number one on IMDb, the audience voted it the greatest film ever made and it has stayed there ever since.
It took 14 years to get there, a box office bomb turned into the highest rated film in history, built entirely by viewers long after the studio had already moved on.
“The deflection. The reaction. And then the MAJOR ONIONS out of Indiana.”
Look at the extra OOMPH Bill Raftery uses when he exclaims “Onions”.
This is like getting a behind-the-scenes look at Leonardo da Vinci painting the Mona Lisa.
@ErmanniMedia@tracywolfson I thought the same thing. Didn’t make the moment about themselves. Let each man do his job. Sometimes saying a little says a lot.
@notthefakeSVP Banned from ever winning Father of the Year after responding to my 7yr old, “If you ask me to watch you one more time I’m going to gouge my eyes out.”