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Post by thevoid on Aug 6, 2018 0:19:52 GMT
Wendy I'm not gonna hurtcha I'm just gonna bash your brains the fuck in What a film
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Post by cooper67 on Aug 6, 2018 1:13:39 GMT
But wouldn't that kill her??
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Post by PotterLog on Aug 6, 2018 2:05:40 GMT
Best god damn bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine.... or Portland, Oregon for that matter Probably my favourite film if Iām really pushed to choose one
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Post by wapiti on Aug 6, 2018 4:07:26 GMT
Great film......way better than the book.
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Post by supersimonstainrod on Aug 6, 2018 5:55:29 GMT
Claustrophobically atmospheric film.Nicholson's slow descent into madness is brilliantly done.
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 6, 2018 6:22:09 GMT
Great film......way better than the book. What! The book is outstanding. Unlike lots of his subsequent works, The Shining is a short book full of tension. It's also his first book, so less of the self indulgent waffle that makes so much of his later writing a dirge.
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Post by harryburrows on Aug 6, 2018 6:42:55 GMT
Great film......way better than the book. What! The book is outstanding. Unlike lots of his subsequent works, The Shining is a short book full of tension. It's also his first book, so less of the self indulgent waffle that makes so much of his later writing a dirge. Was a massive fan of his early work , always amazed me how his later work was virtually unreadable
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 6, 2018 7:45:55 GMT
I once dreamt I was Jack & it proper scared me š±
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Post by yeokel on Aug 6, 2018 7:56:23 GMT
I once dreamt I was Jack & it proper scared me š± Perhaps you were.
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 6, 2018 8:00:44 GMT
I once dreamt I was Jack & it proper scared me š± Perhaps you were. "You've always been the caretaker"
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Post by thevoid on Aug 6, 2018 8:44:05 GMT
But wouldn't that kill her?? You'd think so wouldn't you.
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Post by thevoid on Aug 6, 2018 8:49:58 GMT
I grew up on horror films and the only scene that's ever bothered me is the rotting woman in the bathroom from The Shining.
Kubrik was a genius.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Aug 6, 2018 10:16:11 GMT
I'd also say it's my favourite film. It is better than the book, but they're very different. The ending of the book is absolute wank, "Oh let's end it in a big explosion", boring and lazy. The discordant soundtrack of the film is incredible and really sets an edge. Interestingly as well, the architecture of the Overlook doesn't make sense, it's impossible with windows where there can't be, corridors that are impossible and playing with space. It's not immediately recognisable but adds to that off putting claustrophobia. This article explains it really well and is a great little five minute read: www.intjournal.com/0613/the-shining/
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Post by thevoid on Aug 6, 2018 11:07:47 GMT
I'd also say it's my favourite film. It is better than the book, but they're very different. The ending of the book is absolute wank, "Oh let's end it in a big explosion", boring and lazy. The discordant soundtrack of the film is incredible and really sets an edge. Interestingly as well, the architecture of the Overlook doesn't make sense, it's impossible with windows where there can't be, corridors that are impossible and playing with space. It's not immediately recognisable but adds to that off putting claustrophobia. This article explains it really well and is a great little five minute read: www.intjournal.com/0613/the-shining/The music used just adds to the mounting sense of dread.
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 6, 2018 11:30:32 GMT
I'd also say it's my favourite film. It is better than the book, but they're very different. The ending of the book is absolute wank, "Oh let's end it in a big explosion", boring and lazy. The discordant soundtrack of the film is incredible and really sets an edge. Interestingly as well, the architecture of the Overlook doesn't make sense, it's impossible with windows where there can't be, corridors that are impossible and playing with space. It's not immediately recognisable but adds to that off putting claustrophobia. This article explains it really well and is a great little five minute read: www.intjournal.com/0613/the-shining/The music used just adds to the mounting sense of dread. The opening shot scares me. The car traveling through the vastness of American big country. It just swallows the tiny car with the family in it. MrsBath did an American road trip & said that it would be easy to disappear in the Mid-West. Everything about America scares me, same as Africa. Must be an A thing šš
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Post by wapiti on Aug 6, 2018 16:59:19 GMT
Great film......way better than the book. What! The book is outstanding. Unlike lots of his subsequent works, The Shining is a short book full of tension. It's also his first book, so less of the self indulgent waffle that makes so much of his later writing a dirge. The problem with the book for me was that it wandered off into fantasy to the point of the daft...ā¦.not so, the movie. The movie was so well constructed that it pulled me right in, as if the events there were all real and explainable. Think it's the only King book that I have read. I saw the movie first and then read the book. By comparison, I've read Catch-22 several times and it was brilliant as compared to a movie that fell very short of the book. My vote for other perfect movies are Withnail and I and any English gangster film...ā¦.extra points if Vinnie Jones is in it.
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Post by turtlefox on Aug 6, 2018 18:00:16 GMT
As good as the film is, it never really explained or gave thought to the relation between Dannys shining and the dark past of the hotel. In the film, you don't get a sense of Danny and the hotel both being able to understand each other. The hotel is alive with the past and Danny just happens to be there, which, if I remember the book, wasn't the case. It was because of Dannys psychic ability that the hotel acted in this way because of him and his psychic gift, which the film doesn't explain. The film moves too quick for me also. Jack goes from normal to insane in about the 1st half hour.
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Post by wapiti on Aug 7, 2018 1:02:08 GMT
But what length of time did that first half hour cover? Was he progressing towards insanity prior to arrival at the hotel/resort?
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Post by shimmer on Aug 7, 2018 7:20:49 GMT
Great Film, along with one flew over the cuckoo's nest. In particular I like Nicholson from the 70's.
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Post by thevoid on Aug 7, 2018 8:15:34 GMT
But what length of time did that first half hour cover? Was he progressing towards insanity prior to arrival at the hotel/resort? He was crazy from the outset. I think in the book he's a recovering alcoholic and one of the many theories of the film is that he abused Danny in the past.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 12:58:12 GMT
But wouldn't that kill her?? Blunt force trauma.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 13:01:27 GMT
The Scatman Crothers scene in the kitchen...now that's atmosphere.
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Post by wapiti on Aug 7, 2018 14:49:00 GMT
Time to watch it again, maybe have myself a personal mini-film festival with Reese Witherspoon in "The Freeway". Another wild ride.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Aug 9, 2018 11:10:52 GMT
As good as the film is, it never really explained or gave thought to the relation between Dannys shining and the dark past of the hotel. In the film, you don't get a sense of Danny and the hotel both being able to understand each other. The hotel is alive with the past and Danny just happens to be there, which, if I remember the book, wasn't the case. It was because of Dannys psychic ability that the hotel acted in this way because of him and his psychic gift, which the film doesn't explain. The film moves too quick for me also. Jack goes from normal to insane in about the 1st half hour. I'd say that's a point that stands in the film's favour. It's well documented that King hated the film with this being one of the reasons why, but I always thought that the ambiguity regarding whether the hotel was a sentient being, or whether Jack was just insane, was far more compelling than it being a straight-up ghost story.
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Post by wapiti on Aug 10, 2018 21:54:35 GMT
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Post by trentvale68 on Aug 12, 2018 12:33:34 GMT
The only film that ever scared me, just the titles as someone else said, the shots of the road and the music, you really feel dark entities are at work from the start.
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