Looooong Movie... The Green Mile

I just finished watching The Green Mile. It wasn't a bad movie at all, in fact, it was pretty good. The characters were likable - that meaning, I liked the ones I was supposed to, and I loved to hate the ones that I wasn't supposed to like - and it was a pretty nice story overall. I'm just wondering WHY it had to be over THREE HOURS LONG?

I realize that they made it so long so you got the feeling that these people had been in prison for months, even years, but really, I didn't pick up on any feelings like that. There were times when I couldn't tell if a day had even passed. Maybe that's what they were aiming for instead then, the feeling of being in prison, like the days would never end.

Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan take the leads in this movie, and they both play their characters superbly. Hanks' character is a nice prison guard that wants to make the inmates on death row's final time on Earth as peaceful as possible, because he realizes that isn't an easy situation for anyone to be in, regardless of what they've done. Michael Clarke Duncan's character however, John Coffey, "Like the drink, just not spelled the same." was very different indeed. John was put onto death row for committing a double murder and rape of two girls that lived nearby where he happened to be one day. I'm not going to give anything away, but let's just say I saw the ending coming, for the most part, and they didn't need to take three hours to show me how they got there.

Overall, it was a pretty entertaining movie. Seeing the whatever miracles John Coffey would perform next was always fun, and I really loved what ended up happening to Percy - one of those characters you'll love to hate. As a rating I'll have to give this movie an 8/10.

Thanks for reading everyone!