Forrest Gump or Shawshank Redemption?

My friends are in an arguement over these two movies. I personally love them both to fucking death the same amount and i wanted to get the opinion of the Giant Bomb Community

I'd go for Forest Gump, just cause, it was the first movie that actually made me look at movies differently (I saw it as a kid)

A lot of people felt Shawshank Redemption was robbed at the Oscars that year when competing with Forrest Gump. While I think both are truly superb movies, I'm gonna go with Forrest Gump. It's one of my all-time favorites, and Forrest is one of my favorite movie characters. I freaking love that movie, man.

Shawshank is probably my favorite movie ever, and while forrest gump was great, i feel like a lot of its success is based on the cliche mentally imparred performance (see Tropic Thunder to understand what i'm talking about)

Shawshank for me.

To be fair it is an incredibly difficult choice. I think the performances and subject matter of Shawshank was a lot more interesting than just a snapshot, (granted a phenominal snapshot.) of several decades of history.

It also has one of my favorite sequences put on film...Ever.
Edit: Oh. And this is a spoiler. For those of you who do not own a television, where this movie is playing on every other month on some station. If you haven't seen this film yet in some form, I have judged you as a person, and that judgment is not positive.

Forrest Gump destroys all and if you dont think so you have no soul.

Just kidding, ive never seen Shawshank redemption so i can't really have an opinion, but Forrest Gump is my favorite movie ever.....

Shawshank remains my favourite movie of all time, so it's a no brainer for me

Forrest Gump for me.

Out of the movies that year for Best Picture, I vote Pulp Fiction. It is my favorite movie next to the first two Godfather films, and I have it nearly memorized. However, of these two, Shawshank gets my vote. It has one of the greatest endings in any film ever and the entire story is structured so you are constantly engrossed with Andy and Red.  No slight to Forrest Gump, however, as that is a damn fine movie as well.

Shawshank is amazing. I watched it again recently and was completely blown away by it. Forrest Gump is good too, but I think Wierd Al Yankovic's song was better than the movie.

They're both two of my favourite films of all-time. I honestly couldn't pick out of them.

They are both really good movies but I like Forest a little better.

Shawshank. That movie never gets old.

I think that Shawshank wins because I like Tim Robbins/Morgan Freeman combo over Tom Hanks, but both are amoung my favorite movies of all time. I think Shawshank may actually be my favorite, I much have watched that movie 100 times in the past 15 years.

Both are fantastic movies in every way.  I voted Shawshank just because I loved the atmosphere of that movie and the slow pace of it all, with narration by Freeman.  I hate choosing between movies like that though.

Dude, Forest Gump all the way.

my vote goes to shawshank, though both are very good films

Hmm..

I like Shawshank Better, Forrest Gump gets real old real quick.

I like Forrest Gump, but it's no competition for me-Shawshank is just a step above.

Shawshank is the fucking SHIT!
forrest gump was good about half way through then it got stupid when it kept becomming a trillionare and meeting famous people and all that other stuff.

Love Shawshank. Probably my favourite movie. 

Forest Gump.

I think both movies do things better than the other like how they presented the story in forrest gump was unique at the time which i like and shawshank had more great actors while gump had only tom hanks but i still like them both the same

Huh, not Forrest Gump. I don't know why, but the movie makes me angry. It's a little ridiculous really. I'm not saying it's bad, but I can't watch repeated viewings. Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies though.

Its a hard choice for me, but ill let my avatar do the talking.

Shawshank Redemption.

I seem to be in the minority, but I hated Forrest Gump.

Shawshank Redemption is probably my favorite movie of all time. Forrest Gump was great but it doesn't come close to the awesomeness of Shawshank.

When I was like 12 I would have picked Gump but as I got older I realized it is just pop culture reference after pop culture reference.  Shawshank on the other hand is a great piece of storytelling.  I do think Pulp Fiction should have won best picture though, that movie is also filled with pop culture jokes but it feels more important to the movie.

Shawshank all the way.

Forrest Gump was one of my favorite movies to watch while I was growing up. 

Shawshank by a mile, not to mention that it has one hell of an ending.

Is it possible to even compare the two?

I gotta go with Forrest Gump just because Bubba talking about shrimp is just flat-out great.

"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it."

Forrest Gump definately. Shawshank Redemption is a great move... but forrest is way better...

Shawshank by far

Forrest Gump is good (with a few moments of greatness) but overrated. I choose The Shawshank Redemption. That movie or Pulp Fiction should have won best picture at the 1995 oscars instead of Gump.

Shashank Redemption good story of someone that keeps going after a lot of failures and mistakes other people made.

Where's the neitehr choice?