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Summary: An All Time Classic!
Review: This is the greatest horror movie ever. Truely spooky atmosphere. The music alone creeped me out not to mention the tub lady, the hedge maze, the psyco dad. No one can tell a story like Kubrick. One of the greatest movie moments is in this when the cook goes to save the family. I won't give it away but it is brilliant. I heard that Stephen King was dissapointed in the movie but I can't see why. It is by far the greatest addaption that any of his books has ever gone through. And the parts that were altered were made that much better. It was so clever and Jack Nicholson was terifying and funny. It is a great movie
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Summary: One of the greatest horror movies of our time
Review: Though this film is lacking in violence, it is a classic and a must-have for any horror collection. Jack Nicholson does an amazing acting job in this movie. However, the ending leaves you with the feeling that you're missing something. The book was much better.
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Summary: Eerie and terrifying
Review: "The Shining" is simply not just another slasher film. I don't know about you, but I don't find it scary when a person is just chopped up out of nowhere. No, that's not scary at all. You have to build up suspense. And "The Shining" does that beautifully. One way it does it the music. This and Halloween have the most creepy musical score I've ever heard. The organ notes that if you think about it, sound like a child screaming, now that really chilled me. Another way is how nothing that scary happens almost through out the whole first half of the movie. Now, don't get me wrong. It's still utterly terrifying, and scary thing DO happen, just nothing to do with the dad, that much. It's the second half where he really goes "nuts". There's things that aren't ever really explained too, such as why why blood pours out of the elevator. Obviously from some unlucky victim of the past, but they never say who. There was way to much blood for it to be from the two little girls and their mom. And that just makes you wonder. This movie has some very memorable parts that went down in horror movie history. You can't say that about "I know what you did last summer" or any other amusing, but just not scary slashers. I mean, I can still freak out my friend by saying "Redrum!" in Tony's voice.
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Summary: watch the shining again with my insite of how i see it...
Review: first you have to see the movie to understand what i am saying.............well only kubrick can make a film that the more you watch it the more you realize that you may think you know whats its about.buy you end up changing you opioin later...for example if you have seen a clock work orange(you might think its about sex and violence)the more than once you might get that it is about more or less about the disfuntional system(kind of like hal in 2001) and how it plays a roll incontroling ya.so on the shining kubrick paints a landscape of horror to show the dark side of a modern family life.a typical disfunctional family with all the problems that are most kin to any family. 1
alcoholism.2no job.3a young kid that has some metal problems4a wife that has no control of her family or recives no love 5a husband that has no creativeity with his work.6a son that is afaid of his dad .just alot of issues with this family.so bringing this family into the middle of nowwhere and seeing how they might get threw an entire winter of solitude.might bring the worst out of any one.nothing to do but (watch t.v ).(eat all that food). (ride around the hotel on a big wheel) .or get lost in the maze. so when jack finnlly reaches the point that he loves this place better than his family because she wants to leave he snaps...heres johnny......one important scean that jack says when he talks to shelly on the bed about .she had her whole life to figure things out.(just like the scean in eyes wide shut)
you might get the vibe that he is really talking about himself,that he feels kind of worthless and needs something to belong to..(maybe the hotel is his escape) so of course this movie is really not about everything i have just said but it is really another way of looking at it.being a more politicaly incorrect way .which is some thing that stanley was known for. so at the ending of the film when the camera goes to a picture of jack with the date july 4th.that to me only thinks that this was jacks independance day.he has always been there because he has wanted to be something not the bad father he was or the alcoholic.but a creative writer a man that could be the center of attention.....so you decide horror or a journey into the relems of the disfuntional family.......seeing how kubricks other movies EYES WIDE SHUT , LOLIDA, A CLOCK WORK ORANGE AND BARRY LYNDON .had those themes there must be a link????
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Summary: Put the book to shame...
Review: While I love a good horror movie as much as the next person, this one was very disappointing. Anyone who has read the book can tell you that the movie was absolute rubish in comparison. I couldn't even tell it was based on the same story. Taken out scenes, of course, is to be expected, but was it really necessary to change everything? The character's personalities were in no way based on the characters in the book, and the hedge animals changed to a hedge maze...whats up with that?
All in all, I recomend you read the book. It is a bit long for those of you who arn't into reading, but its totaly worth it. It would behove you to read the book BEFORE you see the movie, otherwise The Shining will be completly ruined. While I am not a Steven King fan, The Shining was one of the best books I read, despite the fact that it bread a horribly casted (minus jack), and filmed, grainy film after it. However, if your determined to see the movie, don't let my review stop you. I just recomend you rent it before spending 20 bucks to buy it for yourself.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: Digitally remastered, this film has never looked or sounded better. One of those rare horror films that doesn't seem to lose it's atmosphere over time. Brilliant music, an over the top performance from Jack and fantastic direction make this film worthy of any collection.
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Summary: What Happened?
Review: Stephen King's best book becomes Stanley Kubrick's worst movie. As usual, Kubrick's cinematography is incomparable, but it's almost the only worthwhile thing in this epic mess.The characters are completely unsympathetic. Alcoholic madman Jack Torrance, hired to be winter caretaker of Colorado's (fictional) Overlook Hotel, is plainly crazy from the first moment he appears on camera, so going to the point where he attacks his hapless family with an axe is such a short step that there's nothing surprising about it. His wife, Wendy, is annoyingly simpering, making it hard to care that her life is in danger. His son, Danny, is virtually catatonic throughout the film, and only shows any signs of life toward the end, when menaced by his crazy father - the rest of the time, he comically talks to his finger in a really idiotic voice, which makes no sense at all. The only sympathetic character in the lot is that of the Overlook's cook, Halloran, who exists as nothing more than a plot device to deliver Jack's captive family, and then die a violent death (which is itself rather unconvincing). The film itself is disjointedly chaotic, and deathly slow and overlong. Scene separators are employed that are inconsistent - at one point, a card on the screen tells the audience it is "December," at another point one reads "10:37 P.M.," and a later third one reads "Thursday." Since none of these things are in the slightest important to the plot, they are nonsensical to begin with, and all the worse for their lack of any unity. Similarly, act headers such as "The Interview" appear for no worthwhile reason, and throw the viewer out of any semblance of continuity of action. And the question of whether the Overlook Hotel is actually haunted by real ghosts or only by one mad alcoholic with an axe is so inconsistently addressed that to even attempt commenting on it would itself sound confused and inane. But worst of all, the film simply isn't scary. It has more unintentional laughs than anything else. And that's when it isn't boring the viewer to sleep. The use of scary-sounding atonal music is almost an overkill telegraph to the audience, screaming, "This is a scary movie!" because, if it wasn't there, no one would know the movie wasn't supposed to be a cartoon black-comedy. And it doesn't work, both because it is overused and because it builds, repeatedly, to...nothing at all. This is just an incomprehensible film, no matter how you look at it. Read King's terrific book. And if it's Kubrick you want, watch any of his other films, almost all of which are terrific.
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Summary: Stephen Kings scariest!
Review: I believe this is one of Kings scariest works. Acting is excellent and plot kicks-a too.Not much can diescribe this move, so just rent it and find out it's greatness for yourself.
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Summary: The Shining-A Visual and Psychological Masterpiece
Review: When I first saw this movie, I couldn't sleep for days-it's such a terrifying work of art! The plot is simple-Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrance go to the haunted Overlook Hotel as caretakers for the winter. It's also Jack's chance to work on his book. Turns out there's quite a grisly past behind the massive structure. Ten years earlier, Charles Grady killed his wife and daughters, and his spirit lives on in Jack. After a month, Jack is slowly becoming mad, due to cabin fever and possesion of various ghosts.This leads him to get himself an axe and try to kill his wife and son. Scatman Crothers is good as the hotel's cook who posseses the power to shine with Danny. From the reviews that I have read, many complain about two things-Shelley Duvall's performance, and the movie's comparison to the book. First of all, I believe Shelley gave a quite memorable performance as the terrorized Wendy. Seriously, I don't think anybody would have really liked to see her so strong. We need a sort of wimpy character in a movie like this. Now about the book. C'mon!!!! It's a book! This is a movie! Two different things. And so what if the movie doesn't correspond with the book?The Shining is ten times better than the book! If it added scenes such as the topiary scene, there would be no surprise. Been there, done that. Anyway, I just had to reveal my anger towards everyone who thinks this is such a crummy piece of garbage. Give it another look. The acting is supurb, the visuals stunning, and the music frightening. Stanley Kubrick is a genious!
"Wendy, darling, light of my life! I said I'm not gonna hurt you, you didn't let me finish my sentence...I said 'I'm not gonna hurt you', I'm just gonna bash your brains in! I'm gonna bash them right the ... in!!!"
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Summary: Unlike anything you have seen before!
Review: Unbelivibly scary! I almost wet my pants watching this movie! I could not stop thinking about this movie! I saw it when I was eleven and the horrifying music woke me up at 2 in the morning playing in my head over and over like a record! I have watched this movie four more times since then though, and loved it every time! It is one of my favorite subjects to talk about with my dad! I bought the book and love all of the stuff and detail in it that was not in the movie like the hedge animals. Two things really bug me about the movie though. Did the lady in the bathtub scene really have to be so graphic and embarrasingly reavealing? I was scared and grossed out at the same time. Also, Dick Halloran was important to survival in the book, but in the movie he comes all that way and dies! What a ripoff! Also, Bill Watson made roll on the floor with laughter in the book because of his dirty talking humor about the woman in the tubs history when she was at the hotel and her grandson! He uses the F word almost constantly! As for acting, VERY good! Especially Jack Nichoson! Here's Jhonny! I will never forget this movie and You should go see it very soon!
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