The Shining - Page 2

bobbyi · #11 10-30-2005, 07:05 AM

Kubrick is my favorite director and this is a very good movie taken of itself, but I still find it disappointing to watch because I think it misses a large part of the things that made that made the book so great.

(That's unrelated to your question which I can't answer because I haven't seen the movie for a long time. Good idea though, I will watch it sometime soon).

diebitter · #12 10-30-2005, 07:13 AM

I take it to mean that he's been taken into the essence of the house, and integrated with it fully.

#13 10-30-2005, 07:15 AM

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That is another popular explanation.

diebitter · #14 10-30-2005, 07:21 AM

I don't actually think of the Shining as a horror film, more like an attempt to display artfulness through horror. I like it, but it does come across as a really great director trying to show he can pwn any genre he chooses, and getting the timings/tension/payoff right, without really understanding the true heart of a horror film.

I can't articulate it any better than this (and I know what I've said is lacking), but that's my gut feel on it.

Good movie though, despite reservations!

#15 10-30-2005, 07:22 AM

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I like that theory.

tdp · #16 10-30-2005, 08:43 AM

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He even added [censored] to movie that wasn't in the book. But it made the movie better, unlike most directors that just screw up books. The picture wasn't in the book.

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I read the book first and honestly the movie sucked.He completely missed the entire point of the story by turning it into a visual shlockfest.
BTW,i was 14 when the movie came out and I was a total horror junkie at the time.This movie bored me.