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Summary: Great film with NO comparisons please!
Review: Film is a seperate medium and you should never attempt to directly copy the original written work. The book will always be better, because ones imagination personnalizes the experience. This film is top notch and Nicholson is flawless. Young Danny Lloyd is also superb. I read a review where they thought the kid was a downer. Since Danny is privy, from the opening, that evil exists in the hotel, then I would expect him to be terrified and depressed throughout the film. I think it would not have worked for Danny to be a little giddy, when his world is crumbling down. Take a look at Danny's expresion when Scatman is killed and he's hiding in the kitchen cupboard. Priceless! Kudos to Kubrick and Danny Lloyd for playing it correctly throughout. Another complaint was the pacing, as many thought that the film dragged. I can only assume that you've grown up with the modern blockbuster, action film. You have not acquired the patience for a film to develop tension and suspense. Oh well, there'll always be plenty of "Pearl Harbor" type films to dull your mind with. My favorite scene is still the one between Jack and Mr. Grady in the bathroom. The tension created is incredible and it's also the point where the audience sees the connection of Jack's character to the hotel. It's a great film with a marvously tight script, superb direction, perfect pacing and terrific ending. My only minor complaint would be the awkward acting in some of the secondary scenes. Duvall could have been better and Scatman looked uncomfortable at times. The new DVD remastered version is very good, with a great 5.1 surround mix. Turn it up!!
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Summary: My favorite movie
Review: I love this movie. It's brilliant, hilarious, disturbing, and intriguing. Yes, Kubrik strayed a great deal from King's novel but you know what-- he improved it in my opinion.
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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: The remastered DVD is the only way to see it. Gorgeous colors and clarity. Audio is discreetly and beautifully remastered in 5.1. As for the film... it is without a doubt one of the five best horror films ever made. Funny. Scary. Beautiful. Astounding. Like the maze of the Overlook Hotel, the film can be endlessly critiqued for its double meanings and mirroring images. It's a masterpiece and a work of art. And the trailer is one of my favorites. It still freaks me out.
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Summary: The new, improved June 12 DVD
Review: There is little to add beyond what others have already said, however, I have to wonder why the "improved" version still ISN'T WIDESCREEN?! Other than that, sensational movie, good sound and picture quality. Definitely on my list of scarriest movies of all time. Here, Kubrick shows he can give Hitchcock a run for his money, even if only once.
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Summary: Fatally Flawed
Review: If The Shining were about camera work and atmosphere only, it would rank with Kubrick's best, which is to say about as good as the movies get. To Kubrick's handheld camera and cinematic imagination, the hotel's vast empty corridors and adjacent rooms become a labyrinth of horror in which evil of any kind might emerge. Only The Sixth Sense, of recent vintage, comes close to capturing the same spooky anything-can-happen atmosphere of the Shining's Overlook Hotel. If the film were about script only, it would still rate an arguable 5 stars, as Kubrick & Co. substitute mood and spectral apparitions in place of the book's hokier parts, such as flying topiary. Nor do I think the film is overlong, since a leisurely buildup is essential to the crashing, mind-altering climax. But this is not the early Kubrick, the sure-hand behind Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, or 2001. This is Kubrick in decline. A director who either cannot or will not control the wild excesses of his celebrity-star Jack Nicholson in the film's pivotal role. In a part that fairly cries out for sublety and nuance, especially in limning the descent into madness, we get instead a leering, smirking self parody of an actor obviously wallowing in a chance to pull out all stops. And who can believe that that dreadful mood-killing line, "Here'sss Johnny!" is actually in the script. Rarely has such a grossly self-indulgent performance been allowed to reach the screen in unaltered form. And for that, there is only Kubrick to ultimately blame. I realize I risk offending Nicholson's legion of fans for whom this "cool dude" can do no wrong. But the fact is he traded in his acting credentials soon after Cuckoo's Nest for the easier road of self-parody, in which the silk purse of Five Easy Pieces becomes the sow's ear of the typical Nicholson Role. I care because in more disciplined hands - say an Anthony Hopkins - this could have been a great movie, instead of the artistic irritant it finally is.
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: I really liked this verion but I watched the mini-series on Sci-Fi the last few nights I noticed few things, like Jack (Steven Weber) doesn't say "Here's Johnney," but I liked the 80's verison but the 1997 is better have a good summer. UPDATE! For those who liked the mini-series it will be out on VHS & DVD either fall 2002 or early 2003. And it will re-air Sunday July 21st....
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Summary: HERE'S JOHNNY!!
Review: This along with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the scariest films of all time. What really gets under my skin about this movie is the music, man is it creepy!! Jack Nicholson plays a madman real well!(Check out One flew over the Cuckoos nest,it makes you wonder about his sanity) I recently watched this movie late at night and after I saw it I was scared to leave the living room! I'm also currently reading Stephen Kings novel. Kubrick and King are geniuses and this is one of the reasons why!
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Summary: Good film, awful adaption.
Review: To Mr. Fowler, who describes a Stephen King fan as "card carrying groupie" and that Stephen King is a sick weirdo has a LOT to learn. first, didnt Kubrick direct a film where someone is beat to death with a ceramic penis? Huh? Who is the sick weirdo now? With the film, it is inferior to the greatness of the book. It is however good in horror terms. Well directed, and often tense, Kubrick should've changed the names and do the film differently. Then, people will like it without criticising to the original.
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Summary: JACK NICHOLSON AT HIS BEST....
Review: JACK NICHOLSON AT HIS BEST. THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A MAN, HIS WIFE AND HIS CREEPY SON. HE TAKES A JOB AS A CARETAKER AT A RESORT IN THE MOUNTAINS FOR THE WINTER. THE RESORT IS CLOSED FOR THE WINTER DUE TO THE TERRIBLE SNOWSTORMS THAT THEY GET THERE. SLOWLY YOU SEE NICHOLSON'S CHACTER SLIP AWAY INTO INSANITY. HE SEES GHOSTS OF OTHER CARETAKERS THAT HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE AND KILLED THEIR FAMILIES WHILE STAYING THERE. IT'S A REALLY GOOD MOVIE. AND SHELLY DUVALL AS HIS WIFE WILL MAKE ANY REALLY SANE MAN, EVEN IF THEY WEREN'T COOPED UP IN THE SNOW, TOTALLY LOOSE THEIR MIND. AND THEIR SON IS A TRIP. AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE REDRUM.
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Summary: My Favorite Movie of al l t ime
Review: The Stanley Kubrick film the Shining from 1980, this movies been my favorite for years. one of the best horrors i ever seen. Jack Nicholson takes the roll as the winter caretaker. Jack Nicholson does a outstanding job in the part , who only couldve don this good of a job. what a cast this movie has , Everyone does well, From a Elevator pouring out an ocean of blood ,solotude and isolation becomes a problem, spooky snow scenes, a rotting corpse in a bath tub, eerie scenes, eerie sounds and music, even the music when the movie first starts, JAck sabotages the radio and the snowcat, Danny and Scatman Crothers as Dick Halloran and the Over look hotel it self shares ESP. What ever happened to Danny Lloyd? seeing things that havent happeend yet, even soem things that happened a long time ago. Wendys face as the Ax goes through the door. I love the steps scene, my favorite part.i think soem parts will leave you laughing . I think this is the best horror movie made. so if you like JAck Nicholson and horror youll absolutley love this movie so what a re you waiting for ?
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