The Shining (1980) | FULL LENGTH REACTION
Added 2023-10-25 14:57:16 +0000 UTCI finally know what "The Shining" means!!!
Such a great movie, really interesting too, so obviously I'll have to read the Stephen King novel at some point 😂
Poor Wendy, holy crap she is incredibly strong to deal with all this nonsense. Not just the husband, but what the kid is going through also.
Definitely would recommend it to everyone, and I loved the constant tension in the movie. That's the terrifle thing... it just doesn't let up and we find out more and more of what is going on.
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- Vero ✨
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Stephen King disliked it so much he produced and wrote a three-part TV miniseries to better tell the story of his book.
Miles E Coburn
2025-02-18 12:40:48 +0000 UTCThe Shining is your first Stephen King. Great. Okay. Let's all breathe deep. Um, ugh, oh buddy. Jim, this is gonna get rough. All of us are here for you, and we will support you. And please, yes, let us all know how you liked the book.
Richard Flores
2023-10-31 03:19:19 +0000 UTCExacerbates!!! I love it!! I think the more I get used to older movies, the more the pacing will be ok for me. I'm naturally an impatient person so things that take a while get to me quickly lol I think the rest of the scenes were ok while I was watching it, it only became very apparent how slow things were when I was editing and going through the footage to cut the slow parts lol OOh, let me know how you like the book!
Verowak
2023-10-30 15:57:20 +0000 UTCI finally got to watch this (and revised my thoughts on discord). Firstly, yes, I’d take this job (well, not this exact job, I’d rather not be driven to go on an insane murder spree). Ideal if I had internet, but I’d still be happy with my ps5 and a load of good books. I’m not sure I’d have totally coped back in the 70s though. I haven’t seen tons of older movies but personally I don’t have a problem with their pacing, I’m quite happy for some scenes to sit in the moment without needing to rush a cut to the next one. I do, however, agree with you about the scene mentioned, it is too long. I’m fine up to the point where it becomes apparent Jack has written nothing else in a loooooong time, so a few pages at random chunks in the tray would have sufficed. The thing which exacerbates it (ooh, get me Shaun 😆) is cutting to the slow reveal of Jack and she’s still sifting through. I have just started reading the book (my first Stephen King) so I’m interested to see what’s different. I really want to watch Doctor Sleep again but I’ll wait for your reaction.
James Hadden
2023-10-30 11:16:12 +0000 UTCI had someone read it and give me the gist of it, thank you for the spoiler warning! I had known that Stephen King did not like Kubrick's version of the Shining, and seeing that Stephen King liked Doctor Sleep is great! I am going to read The Shining before watching Doctor Sleep, so I can get the intended version of events from King instead of what Kubrick changed!
Verowak
2023-10-26 14:18:17 +0000 UTCThis is just a suggestion and it may contain slight spoilers. Please let any mods or safe points of contact read this first. Since you have already seen the movie without reading the book, I hope that you find time to read the book before moving on and watching Doctor Sleep. King... um... HATED Kubrick's movie. He would not stop talking about how much he hated it. But there's a caveat here. Kubrick made a movie about stuff that scares us all. He just happened to base it on a novel. A novel written by Stephen King about what scares himself. And that distinction between the two, King was very unhappy with how they down-played his fear so they could up-play others. So he didn't just fight popular culture with interviews and essays, he actively chose to write the Doctor Sleep novel as an argument against this movie. But when the Doctor Sleep movie was made, it ended up being common ground. It fought for both King's book AND Kubrick's different vision. And King himself liked the Doctor Sleep movie. [Final Edit] Forty minutes after starting this comment, I think I've finally edited it into something that isn't gibberish. I want to delete it, but it's gonna stay.
Richard Flores
2023-10-26 04:04:13 +0000 UTC
