[C19fan]

One knows you are going for a ride when the opening theme is "Dies Irae". I forget the film was panned by critics at the time.

[dp0622]

Well because if one has not read the book it really makes almost no sense at all what is going on.

In that way it is not a good movie.

[Quentin Quarantino]

I think it’s a brilliant film. It’s not supposed to make sense, it just makes crazy. It’s a bit like Joker, a chronicle of the disintegration of the psyche. Both movies have dark and stirring soundtracks, building the mood, taking me on a roller coaster ride to Hell.

[Bommer]

Hands down, from the movie preview it was the the best feel good movie of 1980!

[Mercat]

The movie, Room 237 is worth watching. There are lots of Easter eggs exposed. Lots of strange inconsistencies. I enjoyed The Shining after about my third viewing. I’ll probably watch again.

[Dixie Yooper]

The best thing about the movie Barry Lyndon when it came out, was my date that night. I was 18 and out with the prettiest girl in town. The longer the movie lasted, the longer my 1st and only date with the prettiest girl in town lasted. Thanks Stan!

[Demiurge2]

It probably didn’t help that it was in theaters competing with The Empire Strikes Back.

[Paddyboy]

Like all Kubrick movies it is tedious,dull and ice cold with virtually zero emotional connection to the audience.

[lurk]

This is good; I thought all these years it was just my slow mind that didn’t understand The Shining.

[Bon of Babble]

I remember absolutely hating this movie (still do) because I was such a huge fan of the book - and this was a movie about Jack Nicholson. Couldn’t stand the little kid, and his “Danny isn’t here, Mrs. Torrance.”

Love the book.

Hated the movie. Still do.

[Atticus]

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.