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Post by Parchandri on May 30, 2011 15:03:46 GMT -5
It's a fantastic movie. Easily my second favorite horror movie of all time (behind the original Dawn of the Dead). As far as the ending there are a few theories out there, I don't think anyone knows for sure. Just do a google search and you can read what a lot of people have come up with. The one I tend to believe is that his soul is eternally linked to the hotel, and every time it is reborn he is drawn back to the hotel. If you think of it that way and watch the movie again it makes sense. Con? Yep.  |
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Post by Sean - Infested Films on May 30, 2011 15:10:54 GMT -5
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Post by The Assassin on May 31, 2011 20:41:29 GMT -5
I like the directors cut: damn beat me to it as well on topic though, i saw the shining for the first time a few months ago, it was definetely a lot scarier than i expected. i always thought it was kinda about some guy who goes nuts and tries to kill his family. didn't realize it had ghosts and creepy psychological horror stuff. if anyone was a fan of the shining, i'd recommend watching the film "1408". similar kinda theme, and again pretty scary IMO. |
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Post by J12 on May 31, 2011 21:43:51 GMT -5
The film is great, as is the book. It's funny, because a lot of the scariest scenes in the movie aren't even in the book, and many of the scariest moments in the book don't necessarily translate as well in the movie.
The women in the bath tub is creepy in the movie, without a doubt, but in the book, it's downright terrifying. That whole chapter was so unsettling that I almost had to stop reading and pick it up later.
I love Stephen King, and it's amazing to claim that he is in fact from my home state. In fact, during the school year, I live within walking distance of his Bangor residence. It's crazy.
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Post by moogie101 on Jun 7, 2011 23:15:39 GMT -5
There is also a TV movie version which is far more faithful to the book & does a very good job.
Just an amazing film & Nicholson is just astounding as he slowly loses the plot.
My only problem with the film was that in the book his wife is so strong & in the film it's the exact opposite.
Strangely though Mr. King himself wasn't as impressed.
"Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fall flat. Not that religion has to be involved in horror, but a visceral skeptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of The Overlook Hotel. So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters and made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones. That was the basic flaw: because he couldn't believe, he couldn't make the film believable to others. What's basically wrong with Kubrick's version of The Shining is that it's a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little; and that's why, for all its virtuoso effects, it never gets you by the throat and hangs on the way real horror should."
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Post by Halloween King on Jun 11, 2011 16:23:40 GMT -5
It was on tv last night and It's the first time I'd ever watched it My  ing god was it scary  It puts all the latest horror movies to shame, i was scared within the first 10 minutes when the visions of the twins and the blood coming from the elevator showed up. Those little girls were creepy as . 31 years old and its still scary. Theres one thing i didn't get about it though, Why was Jack in the 1921 picture  Thats bugging me to hell This was the scariest thing to me. It was so random and out of nowhere. It just made your imagination work over time. You start thinking WTF was that? And then I thought wow... there is alot more to the hotel than what is being focused on because of these random spirits. |
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Post by Sean - Infested Films on Jun 11, 2011 16:41:02 GMT -5
There is also a TV movie version which is far more faithful to the book & does a very good job. Too bad it's an awful movie, regardless of how faithful it is. |
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Post by shenmue on Jun 11, 2011 17:22:24 GMT -5
Jack's performance is what makes this film, he's a complete nut job. A very entertaining and creepy film indeed.
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Post by tom on Jun 11, 2011 23:42:25 GMT -5
no matter how much technology or special effects advance, there is no substitution for genius filmmaking. the shining is the perfect example of that.
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Post by K5 on Jun 12, 2011 15:26:55 GMT -5
yea, nicholson is da bomb in it.
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Post by TurboEddie on Jun 12, 2011 20:32:01 GMT -5
They don't make 'em like they used to.
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Post by fattic on Jun 12, 2011 20:44:05 GMT -5
It was on tv last night and It's the first time I'd ever watched it My ing god was it scary It puts all the latest horror movies to shame, i was scared within the first 10 minutes when the visions of the twins and the blood coming from the elevator showed up. Those little girls were creepy as . 31 years old and its still scary. Theres one thing i didn't get about it though, Why was Jack in the 1921 picture Thats bugging me to hell This was the scariest thing to me. It was so random and out of nowhere. It just made your imagination work over time. You start thinking WTF was that? And then I thought wow... there is alot more to the hotel than what is being focused on because of these random spirits. I read the book in high school, and I'm pretty sure that part is explained more fully there. Can't remember for the life of me the actual backstory, though. Anyway, awesome film. Scared me as a kid, still scares me now. |
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