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I love Jack Nicholson's performance in the Kubrick film. One of the best "crazy" performances in cinematic history. However, as an avid reader and a fan of Stephen King's book, the film just doesn't do the book justice. Kubrick took ALOT of liberties with the storyline, but I can understand why he did this.
King wrote about Kubrick's film:
"There's a lot to like about it. But it's a great big beautiful Cadillac with no motor inside, you can sit in it and you can enjoy the smell of the leather upholstery - the only thing you can't do is drive it anywhere. So I would do every thing different. The real problem is that Kubrick set out to make a horror picture with no apparent understanding of the genre. Everything about it screams that from beginning to end, from plot decision to the final scene - which has been used before on the Twilight Zone"
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