The Shining

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Summary: Sorry, people!
Review: Looks like I'm going to ruin this movie's average 5-star rating by giving it only 3. Yeah, it's scary. Especially those creepy little girls: "Come play with us, Danny. . ." But there are too many problems. Why, exactly, did Jack go mad so quickly? And the cook--why did the movie even bother to include him? We see him receiving little Danny's terrifying psychic cries for help, flying cross-country, renting a snow-cat, driving it thirty miles across up an icy, treacherous mountain, entering the hotel--and getting axed in the back almost immediately. In the book, his character had a much more important role, and survived the attack to help the mother and son get out of the hotel. I'm no Stephen King fan, but this is one case where I thought the book was superior to the movie. Synopsis of review: it's a good scary movie, but doesn't deserve a perfect score.

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Summary: THE BEST HORROR FILM EVER MADE
Review: Stanley Kubricks lust for perfection is never so evident as it in the Shining. I can't think of any film that has ever looked so perfect. The film has a truly strange atmosphere running through it, which only grows greater as the film goes on. Nothing much happen for the first hour of the film but still it is composive viewing, as you watch Jack slowly growing mader and mader. The final section of the film is truly heart pounding stuff. There are some classic scenes to watch out for including Jacks "here's jonny" enterence, and Wendy sifting through a pile of Jacks work. Not forgetting the 'redrum' sequence. You will notice the major use of tracking which is used throughout the film. Like in most of Kubricks films tracking shots always crop up. This was one the first films to use steadycam, and it allowed Kubrick to free the camra and still have total control over the shots. I have heard that Steven King the author of the book from which the film was based hated the film. King thought Kubrick had taken to many literties and changed the film focusing on Jack and not on the house. Having read the book and seen the differences in the film I can see where he is comming from. But Kubricks version is far supiour, cutting out most of the background of the family history and focusing on the dehumanisation of the charactor Jack. Also the ending is changed from the book. I won't tell you what it is, but Kubricks is better. If you have never seen this movie you must put it on the top of your list.

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Summary: The Shining
Review: Excellent movie classic, beautiful scenery, and takes the effects of the winter doldrums to an extreme.

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Summary: Downright terrifying.
Review: Those words sum it up. I couldnt sleep good for a month. The maze, the bathroom, the bar. I couldnt even blink during the entire movies. Redrum!

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Summary: One of the All time greatest achievements in horror.
Review: With a haunting musical score and superb/sometimes over the top performances this film is the prototype for both Stephen King and Jack Nicholson fans! The most memorable scene for me will always be the staircase scene in which Jack reveals his insanity to his wife (brlliantly played by Shelly Duvall) and the camera work ascending up the stairs.

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Summary: Our now collective experience of mental breakdown
Review: I saw this film when it first came out as an eleven-year-old and it has left an indelible impression. I have just gone through a weeklong Shining festival. After viewing this film you feel that you have truly been given the opportunity to experience real madness. It is a cinematic experience that will never feel outdated as it relies on universal constructs that one can not help but fall victim. Claustrophobic as the Overlook may seem there is eternal freedom to be found within. Love and hate torture each other in a battle that is predestined toward certain doom because of psychotic and otherworldly forces. Purely genius orchestration of the dichotomies of life is evident in the portraiture of the dissolution of the American family, the power paradigm of such, and the ability of the familial bond to overpower all odds. This is a film to dine to...a film we can all understand because we share most of the psychotic experience-just not at the "redrumous" level. It is simply a fairy tale of the American family.

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Summary: i loved it
Review: I loved the shinning it's the best movie for sleepovers!It's so scary

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Summary: Nicholson in a memorable character
Review: This movie scared me to death. Really. I had read the book already and it doesn't follow with the movie exactly, but still scared me. The scariest part is when Jack Torrance speaks with Grady, the old caretaker. It is then that you see his madness is truly coming out. Grady tells Torrance his family must be "dealt with." And when poor little Danny is chased by his father through the maze outside, I nearly wet my pants. I can't watch this movie alone, so I advise that you don't either.

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Summary: Great movie with Nicholson, Shelly Duvall & Catman
Review: Absolutely one of the best thrillers I have ever seen. Casting was perfect w/Nicholson as well Nicholson, Shelly Duvall as protective mother yet loving wife and Catman Struthers was great in supporting role. Length not a problem because of suspense level.

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Summary: "You've ALWAYS been the caretaker,..Mr. Torrance."
Review: Sheeeees! That line sums it up! A creepy tale of "evil that never dies". The scenic "Overlook Hotel" recycles its terror and violence in the unsuspecting writer Jack Torrance (Nicholsan). Truly an "intellectual thriller" rather than a "blood-fest", there is only ONE murder scene (Scatman Crothers buys it in the lobby via a "fire-axe"),...Kubrick thought that Jack was "...too animated" during the shoot, but what was printed endures as one of the most memorable and damn scariest performances by Jack Nicholson, PERIOD. The players are all SUPERB. Shelly, his wife, is SO believable and makes scenes like "Here's Johnny" that much more terrifying. (Study her expressions while Jack is hacking his way inside the bathroom). Thanks to the wonderful cinemaphotgraphy (Including freakishly brilliant use of the steady-cam - Danny riding the hallways on his "Big-wheel" is amazingly effective and surreal,...listen to the silence as he roles over the carpeted sections of hallway. Then "CA-shhhhh" as he returns to the hardwood floors! so cool.) you get a front row seat to the mental decay and homicidal transformation of Nicholson. Man, it doesnt get any better than this! Things to watch for,..The hacked up bodies of Jack's "first family", the apparitions appearing at the end during Shelly's complete breakdown ("Smashing Party.." and the "Rabbit costumed" person performing some oral duty on a butler in one of the rooms,...yikes!),....and the piece of the puzzle that ties together the whole story, JACK himself in the photo taken 1938 in the Grand Ballroom. Evil reincarnated! Dont forget the creepy "crooning music" as the credits role! I NEED to see this movie once a year! Forget the book, THIS movie stands on its own!