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The Shining (1980)
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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's...
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Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall): [crying] Stay away from me.
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson): Why?
Wendy Torrance: I just wanna get back to my room!
Jack Torrance: Why?
Wendy Torrance: Well, I'm very confused, and I just need time to think things over!
Jack Torrance: You've had your whole f*ckING LIFE to think things...
(complete The Shining review by B Movie Ben)
The Shining Movie Review by Jarrod  (7/9/2007) |
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I have to admit that I have never really liked 'The Shining'. As much as I love Kubrick, as much as I love horror movies, as much as I love Stephen King and Jack Nicholson, I just do not have much love for this most esteemed adaptation of arguably King's best novel, though there is very little similarity between the book...
(complete The Shining review by Jarrod)
| The Shining Movie Review by Jesse (3/8/2008) |
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The Shining (1980)
director: Stanley Kubrick
starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Joe Turkel
Reading the novel before seeing the film is almost always recommended, but in the case of The Shining, I would stay as far away as possible from the novel and focus on the genius...
(complete The Shining review by Jesse)
| The Shining Movie Review by Ben (12/24/2007) |
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The latest edition of this movie was just released on DVD, and it is the first time I have had the chance to see it in widescreen. Apparently, Stanley was never really a big fan of those black bars that preserve the widescreen aspect of the movie as it was seen on the big screen. But he's dead now, so he had no business...
(complete The Shining review by Ben)
Kubrick's masterful film about the perils of cabin fever is a classic for a reason.
Jack Nicholson is terrifying while chasing after his wife and son through a huge empty hotel.
The twins, the hallways and hallways (makes one wonder if Aaron Sorkin was forced to watch this movie on repeat and it escapes into the hallway...
(complete The Shining review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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