Cool Hand Luke 1967.

I really enjoyed Cool Hand Luke! So far it’s been one of the only movies that I’ve been able to watch from start to finish without getting bored or tired. I think Paul Newman played his character so well and I found myself sympathizing with him despite all the bad things that he had done. I sincerely wanted Luke to get free all three times that he escape and I felt my heart sink every time they brought him back. I also was sympathizing with everyone in the jail when they thought their hero was no longer the person they thought he was; Dragline, especially, was broken when he thought that Luke had given in to the bosses. He also was really upset when Luke had left him at the church after they had escape and that made me a little upset. I can't help but wondering if they would have gotten away with it had Luke and Dragline stayed together.
There were a couple scenes that I thought went on for a little too long. The boxing scene, despite it being symbolic in showing that look won’t be broken by anybody, just kept going and going and going… The other scene that went on for awhile was when Luke was trying to get his chains off the second time he escape. The whole time I was just saying “Go, hurry up or you’ll be caught!” It seemed that he took a long time explaining to the young boys what to get and the whole “I bet you can’t,” “I can,” banter made the scene even longer.
The ending was the best part of the entire movie despite Luke being shot. I was marginally upset that he was caught and ended up being shot but the movie wouldn’t be the same if that hadn’t happened. If he did go peacefully with Dragline then his character would have been broken, which isn’t the typical Luke. The last line he spoke also made the death a little less upsetting because he used the Warden’s words against him. “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”