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Summary: LOVED IT!!!!
Review: (I'm really 17 but I'm not a customer)
This was sooo good! I don't get why people don't like it and say that that crappy 1980's movie was "so much better", ugh! I thought the 1980's movie was HORRID, it was badly done ( with the exception of Jack's acting he was great) and it was too different from the book. This mini-series stuck to the book, and the acting was so much better. I can't wait to get this on DVD, I fell in love with it when I saw it on the Scifi channel and can't wait to watch it again!
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Summary: Like The Book!
Review: The other Shining movie from Stalney Kubrick is good but I like the remake better!I admit that the scene in this remake with the corny line that goes something like kisses that what I misses was kind of lame but it's only one line and it's not like the Kubrick movie didn't have any corny lines and at least Danny doesn't act like a little freak bending his finger up and down and talking in a croaky frog sounding voice. So in my opinion Danny in this movie wasn't irritating like he was in the other movie. I recommend this movie! It's just like the book!
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Summary: Unintentionally funny.
Review: This movie, although faithful to King's book, was unintentionally funny. The acting and makeup was bad and every time the little boy spoke, I wanted him off the screen. Nice hotel though.
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Summary: spellbinding
Review: I am so infatuated with this movie that i read the book and watch the movie every winter.I am currently making reservations at stanly hotel so i can see if it spooks me like the movie did.All of the caracters are my favorite actors and no Stephen King fan should be without it. This movie followed the book more closely than the Kubrick version[i could tell Kubrick did the sound stage thing]and this one took place at a REAL hotel[the stanly has its own real haunts].Mead was an excellent actor than the other danny and Steve Weber was so awesome in his acting role.It was more believable than the other movie.I like the other one too but this one is so Kingish to me that its a huge plus for the King fans out there. Please buy this. it is sooo neat!!HAPPY HAUNTS!!
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Summary: Oh my God!!!!!!
Review: This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, the original was a million times better. I will say that this version followed the book more closely, but the casting was horrible. Stephen Weber, and Rebecca De Mornay have been excellent in other roles, but in this movie, they suck. Pour direction most likely. The hardest thing to endure about this version is the absolutly pathetic preformance (if you could call it that) from the child who was cast to play Danny. If the film had a buget over a buck twenty five they should have went with Haley Joel Osment, now there is a kid who can act!! Buy or rent at your own risk, but what ever you do, don't expect a whole lot. This movie is made for people who watch Glitter, Scream, and Ghosts of Mars. A horror finatic should stay away. Trust me!!!
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Summary: Good TV Miniseries that follows book closely...
Review: I recently bought this movie on DVD, just after finishing the great book. I had seen the Kubrick version long before I read the book, and always thought of it as a masterpiece. Although entirely altered from the book, Kubrick's version still stands as my all-time favorite horror film.
Apparently, Stephen King held a 17-year long grudge against the 1980 version because it was so much different than his book. So finally, he decided to do a faithful adaption of his book...this being the result. It was created as a miniseries for ABC, so most of the bad language and sex from the book was cut out, however, I was surprised at how much violence they allowed (especially considering that ABC is owned by Diney.) Overall, I was pleased by this 4 1/2 hour adaption of the book...the following are a list of things I liked and didn't like about the film:
PROS:
Very faithful adaptation of the book
Steven Weber did a great job
The hedge animals were included in the film
Gives much more background on the Overlook and the dead things that lurk inside
Gives more background on the Torrance family
It is very nicely updated
Jack's desent into insanity was much more gradual
CONS:
I felt that King was trying too hard to avoid connections to the Kubrick version
At times, the film felt too glossy
The man in the dog costume wasn't as odd and gruesome as he was in the book
Doesn't maintain the dreadful atmosphere of the Kubrick version
The hotel was better in the Kubrick version
The scene in which the clock begins to squirt bloody tissue and brains all over the glass was left out...which was very symbolic to me
At times, I found Courtland Mead's upper lip to be somewhat distracting
The special effetcs were over-used just a bit
The obvious "commercial breaks" became annoying
If someone asked me which version they should see, I would have to reccomend the Kubrick version because I believe that it is truly frightening (and a lot shorter running time to handle.) However, I would not hesitate to reccomend this version to those who love the book or just want to see a really good TV miniseries.
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Summary: This was the most horrible movie that I have ever seen.
Review: Definitely a "made for TV" loser of a movie. I was almost in tears. Not only did it last about 6.5 hours but every minute was BORING! Please for the love of GOD, save yourself and buy the original version!
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Summary: This is "The Shining" movie for those who loved the book
Review: If you are like me and read "The Shining" as a book before seeing Kubrick's movie, it is one of the more intense and chilling novels King has produced. Now, while I enjoyed Kubrick's movie (I am a big fan of Stanley Kubrick), I was a bit annoyed at its departure from the book. Like most King fans, I shrugged it off and hoped that one day somebody would do a King book as a film that worked...to me, this mini-series fulfilled that wish. Most reviewers like to pit Kubrick vs. Mini-Series, but I think that is not the best approach to describe the difference between the two movies. If you never read the book "The Shining" (or did not like it, which makes me wonder why you'd watch the movie), chances are the Kubrick movie will be an utterly satisfying experience. If you liked the book, watch this version to have a visual experience of the book you loved so much. I love both, but I treasure Kubrick's version because I love Kubrick, but I also love this version because I treasure King. I am a man divided....
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Summary: pitiful
Review: what was King thinking. what a terrible idea. its obvious that nobody would be able to outdo Kubrik as he is truly a "king" as far as filmmaking is concerned. in comparison, King's version is just a mere spot of dirt on the bottom of a better man's shoe (in this case Kubrik's). this version is way too long and not nearly as dramatic...plus, how could it be successful with anyone other than Jack Nicholson as the caretaker?!?! what a shame....
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Summary: This Mini-Series Adaptation is Awesome!
Review: I read the book by Stephen King and it is my favorite book of his, it was scary and a page turner ! I was watching TV one morning and this Shining mini-series was on and I watched the beginning and than said to myself this is a mini series and probably about 5 or 6 hours and the station was showing the whole thing and I was like I can't sit here all day and watch a really long mini-series with commercials and I said I should just go buy or rent the DVD and I went out and bought the DVD and just finished watching it and I thought it was fantastic and I was like wow this is so much like the book. I liked the adaptation that starred Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, he was great but I preferred the mini-series and I thought Steven Weber was also great as Jack, he really gave a spooky performance, was absolutely creepy the more insane Jack got. Rebecca Demornay was good as Wendy and you could understand her fear and her trying to hold her family together and trying to protect her son. Courtland Meade was a good Danny, I thought for a young child actor he really was just as good as the adults and I thought Melvin Van Peebles was good as Dick Hallorann and I liked how they kept the character faithful to the book. Elliot Gould is also in this mini-series, he played Stuart Ullman who was played by Barry Nelson in the 1980 adaptation but he played him as a nice guy and Elliot Gould played him like the jerk and hated boss he was in the book. As everyone knows this story is about a family from Vermont, father, mother and son who move into a hotel in Colorado because the father is the new winter caretaker, the father Jack is a recovering alcoholic, his wife Wendy is trying to keep her family together and worries about her son Danny who has psychic abilities that sometimes cause him to blackout and added to that is the fact that the hotel is haunted and sinister forces are taking advantage of Jack's alcoholism and making him insane and they are after Danny because of his psychic abilities. I very higly recommend this Shining mini-series, it's really creepy and it includes things from the book left out of the 1980 adaptation like the killer topiary animal bushes and the wasps. This DVD also has some special features including some wonderful deleted scenes and I think some of them could have definitely been left in!
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