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Originally Posted by SarcasticRat
It wasn't just critics. Like nobody saw Shawshank when it first came out. I like the movie but it's hardly an all-time great imo, it just has themes that people on the internet love so they grasp onto it and act like it's the GOAT.
Yeah, I've never really gotten the massive love affair people have with Shawshank. It's quite good but seems way overrated. Then again it was a rare case where I had read the book already so was comparing it to that which is often hopeless.
Speaking of which, Stephen King's non-horror writing seems massively underrated; he has some of my favorite stories ever, a lot of which were later adapted as highly regarded films. But King is apparently destined to be best known for his horror stories.