Posted on 05/22/2020 3:27:18 AM PDT by C19fan
Forty years ago this week, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was released into a handful of theaters and was met with a blizzard of chilly reviews. Most critics in 1980 agreed: Like the director's previous film, 1975's period epic Barry Lyndon, it was all flash and no substance.
Pauline Kael wrote in the New Yorker that Kubrick's devotion to technique distanced the audience from the domestic horrors of his story. The Washington Post called it "elaborately ineffective." Gene Siskel said it was "boring" and occasionally "downright embarrassing." Toronto's Globe & Mail: an "overreaching, multi-levelled botch." In its first year of existence, the bad movie-centric Razzie Awards nominated The Shining for worst director and worst actress.
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One of the best movies based on one of his books was “Misery.”
I liked “The Shining” book and movie. The book was more about supernatural terror, and the movie more about psychological terror.
I still toss out some of the lines from the Shining, like “REDRUM,” “All work and not play make Jack a dull boy,” and “Here’s Johnny.” I can’t say the same about the others.
Surely you must be kidding?
I`m not kidding. And dont call me Shirley!
Oh stewardess I speak jive.
Joey, you ever seen a grown man naked?
Looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue!
LOL. Love that movie. And some of these quotes from Caddyshack are classic, but unlike The Shining, I don’t use the quotes when communicating: https://methodshop.com/2015/02/caddyshack-quotes.shtml
You’re right, Misery was a good movie. I just never read the book.
The Shining (1980) - Here’s Johnny! Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDpipB4yehk
The Shining is the only Stephen King novel I ever read. (I am not a big reader of fiction). I read it in a few sittings on a break during college before the movie came out. I enjoyed the book very much and considered King to be a very able storyteller. I saw the movie and while it had very many good qualities, it was highly disappointing. I am sure I would have enjoyed the movie more if I hadn’t read the book first. ***SPOILER ALERT*** The thing that really irritated me about the film and disturbs me to this day is the killing of the Scatman Cruthers character. He lives in the book and while I can’t remember the details, he may have been a hero. In the movie he rushes all the way to the hotel from Florida or wherever only to be killed with an axe by Jack Nicholson the moment he arrives. That was a real bummer.
I forgot about “Dolores Claiborne.” That was another good movie based on an S. King novel.
Stand by Me, The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption were also Stephen King stories.
The man is nutty, but he sure can write an interesting story.
I read an interview with him once. He said it’s just a matter of thinking differently. He compared himself to Zane Grey. If you could imagine a small oasis in the desert Zane would see cattle drinking while cowboys sat around a fire eating and swapping stories. He would look at the same oasis and see a creature lurking just below the surface waiting to grab anything that came too close to the edge for a drink.
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