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Originally Posted by _____V_____
I do agree with most of the points raised. Excellent bashing, folks!!:D
Ok, many of you absolutely LOVE it, but some of you HATE it and call it over-rated...but why does
The Shining
share such bipolar attitude with the audiences?
Bring on the bashing!
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I don't hate it, I have lots of love for Kubrick as a filmmaker and it is a solid, smart horror film. BUT it is definitely not my favorite Kubrick film. Its just because the book is so well loved. And it was very much Kubrick's The Shining, and not King's. Normally, I wouldn't have had a problem with that, I want directors to put their own spin on things......but in the novel, Jack seemed like a regular guy that had anger management problems, and a drinking problem, but he wasn't crazy.....it was a slow descent into madness, and the problems that he already had made him particularly susceptible to the evil of the place. In the movie he just seemed to start out nuts and he was hard to identify with. In the novel, Jack was very easy to identify with (you didn't always like him, but you "got" him), which made it all the more frightening. It just wasn't as scary or as effective as the book was, in my opinion.