The Shining

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Summary: Book and Movie Almost Entirely Different
Review: I saw "The Shining" a few years back and am presently reading the novel; despite the former being based on Stephen King's novel, I see them in two entirely different categories. Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King are brilliant in entirely seperate ways. The novel is good and even though Kubrick changed a lot of things, I must say that the movie is equally good. It's sincerely creepy to it's credit. Who didn't feel a chill up their spine when Danny is riding his tricycle around with dizzyingly effective camera scenes only to come upon two twin girls in a hotel that is supposed to be deserted? And the ocean of blood cascading out of the elevator is sincerely creepy. Jack Nicholson's performance is nothing less than extraordinary and reading the novel I started out thinking it would have been better for Jack Torrance to have gone from nice with a bad temper to totally insane instead of all ready slightly off his rocker as portrayed in the movie, but you know what? It's Jack Nicholson, who with his sinister eyebrows and piercing eyes just wouldn't seem right in the role of a nice guy. I consider the Jack in the book and the one in the movie two very different people. Nobody else besides Jack Nicholson could have played Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's, "The Shining, he's just so genuinely creepy and not someone you'd want to be barricaded in a hotel with. I would rather Kubrick hadn't taken such liberties with Wendy, however, who was described as blonde and lithe in the book; the total opposite of Shelly Duvall in the movie. She got the hysterics of Wendy down well enough, but I think an actress closer to the one in the book would have been better. The absence of the topiary scene is rather sad too because in the book it's genuinely creepy and I don't think it would have been too difficult to do as long as the audience had experienced the animals from Jack's POV since he never actually sees them move. Put in the rustling sounds and get someone to cut the animals differently and it would have been a nice edition. Like I said though, the movie and the book are very different. Both the movie and the book are scary. I can see why Stephen King didn't like Kubrick's version since it strayed so far from the book, but I think of "The Shining" more as a movie LOOSELY based on a story written by Stephen King. Hey, it was done with "The Body", a short story written by King, which became the cult movie "Stand by Me". So if you see the movie and read the book, making comparisons is pointless because they vary in numerous ways.

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Summary: Just plain to good
Review: [...]this movie is scary! The way its made, it will just have you glued to your screen. I can not describe just how good this is. Best Kubric film I've ever seen and thats saying a lot.

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Summary: redrum
Review: this is one of my faverite horror flick even though i am only 16 i love this movie it scared (...)me and i feel in love with the whole plot and i love how jack does the slow transformation from a normal person to a nut case if you like horror and scary stuff you have to see this movie (...)

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Summary: Disturbing and Very scary!
Review: The classic story of a family snow bound in the rockies while looking after a gigantic hotel. What the family does not now is the hotel is haunted. In past years a other cartaker was up with his family and sufferd a mental brakdown. He butcherd his wife and little girls with an ax. Jack and his wife try not to think about it but there young son Danny keeps seeing horricfic images of the past and future of the Overlook hotel. As the snow thickenss so does Jack's stress. Finally he snaps and his wife and son are alone trying to seek survivle but they are only two people in a hotel with hunders of emty rooms and ghosts who don't seem to die. On top of that Jack is stalking them around every corner with an ax. A very scary movie with bizzare disturbing scens and images that horrified me. Belive me if you like scary movies or are just are looking for a scare get Stephen Kings the Shining.

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Summary: Stanley Kubrick's Finest Moment.
Review: I am going to keep it short and sweet, I suspect everything that needs to be said, has been said. But has anyone who has a go at this movie ever actually read the book???? I have and the differences are not that great, I always thought the book was great and the best King I have read upto now, but I didn't feel it would make a great movie, and was proven right by the mini series that is a carbon copy of the book, and to me it just didn't work. Stanley Kubrick took all the best bit's and made one hell of a film, negating all the boring parts, aside from the hedge creatures coming to life that would have been impossible to film in 1980. Jack Nicholson is incredible (As usual NO Oscar, it's a Horror film what did you expect). A CLASSIC no doubt.

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Summary: The Best Horror Movie Ever Made
Review: The Shining is by far the greatest horror film of all time. People need to under stand that this movie is differnt from the book. Stanley Kubrick put his own thing's in the movie that were not in the book. He just adapted it which doesn't mean it has to be exsact but it has to have the same basic story as the book. This is a movie not a book weather its adapted from a book our not. Anyway the DVD is good but the picture isn't all that great. But its still a good DVD take a look for your self.

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Summary: All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Review: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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Summary: A Classic....
Review: I dont think there exists a person who hasnt heard of this movie, its a classic and a must buy for any Kubrick fan.

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Summary: Not a masterpiece, but great nonetheless
Review: The Shining is a great film...but it is flawed. For instance, Jack (one of the central characters) starts going crazy for no aparent reason. By the end of the film I don't think the viewer really knows exactly why he went nuts...it is never explained. Actually, now that I think about it, VERY few things in this film are explained...they just happen. The film is roughly 2 and a half hours long...the first hour is a complete bore...and none of the characters are well-defined. By the end of the film I didn't care about the characters at all becuase I knew nothing about them, other than that Jack was crazy, Wendy (his wife) is a major annoyance and that their son Danny is a complete nutcase. The film's major salvation is the acting, which alone isn't Oscar worthy, but decent. All in all, The Shining is a great horror film, but nothing more. See the made for TV mini-series if you want a true "epic" horror film/show.

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Summary: The Book Was Fantastic! The Movie Was Good!
Review: Not as good as Stephen King's book but it was a good movie and Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall were very good, especially Jack Nicholson. There was some scary stuff in the movie but there were things in the book that weren't in the movie but should have been in it, like when the father exterminated the wasps nest and gave it to Danny to keep in his room and the wasps came back to life and started stinging him, also Danny's creepy experience on the hotel playground and his and Jack's experience with the hedge animals, but all in all it was a good movie and had it's share of some creepy stuff like Jack who's elevator didn't go all the way to the top to begin with began to have what was left of his mind taken over by the evil of the hotel and Danny with his psychic abilities having those frightening visions that were turing him into a basket case, what kid wouldn't act weird after seeing visions of hacked up murdered people.Though not as good or scary as the book I still think it's a good movie and I recommend it!