Posted on 10/01/2005 12:40:10 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Click on the link to watch a preview for the upcoming re-release of the Stanley Kubrick classic, The Shining...
(Excerpt) Read more at ps260.com ...
...the feel-good smash hit of the year...
[bwahahahahaha!!!]
Thank goodness its a re-release - if Hollywood re-made The Shining these days there's no telling what they would do to it - probably have a busload of cheerleaders accidently get stranded up there too..
A Ron Howard Production. LOL.
That's hilarious! Thanks for posting!
There are some chilling scenes in this movie but overall it's one of the most wildly overrated films of all time.
REDRUM, REDRUM, REDRUM!!
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Words of wisdom there, Lloyd. Words of wisdom.
The butler did it/
I hear that King didn't like it.
There was a later remake for television.
Kubrick had more to say with other films.
I was thinking of posting this. Anyway it can't be all that overrated since there is so much contention about its value. It's a one of a kind film that no one has been able to duplicate without sliding into parody. To make a horror film so overlit was a stroke of genius. You can see everything...but really nothing at all.
OH GOD rack it
GUYS I don't know if you know this but SCI Fi channel had remake of it few years ago
Which explain why Jack Nicholson character went crazy
Well, what can I say. You're considerably more qualified here than I am. :)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 — Robert Ryang, 25, a film
editor’s assistant in Manhattan, graduated from
Columbia three years ago with a double major in film
studies and psychology. This week, he got an
eye-opening lesson in both.
Since 2002, Mr. Ryang has worked for one of the owners
of P.S. 260, a commercial postproduction house,
cutting commercials for the likes of Citizens Bank,
Cingular and the TriBeCa Film Festival.
A few weeks back, he said, he entered a contest for
editors’ assistants sponsored by the New York chapter
of the Association of Independent Creative Editors.
The challenge? Take any movie and cut a new trailer
for it — but in an entirely different genre. Only the
sound and dialogue could be modified, not the visuals,
he said.
Mr. Ryang chose “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1980
horror film starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley
Duvall. In his hands, it became a saccharine comedy —
about a writer struggling to find his muse and a boy
lonely for a father. Gilding the lily, he even set it
against “Solsbury Hill,” the way-too-overused Peter
Gabriel song heard in comedies billed as life-changing
experiences, like last year’s “In Good Company.”
Mr. Ryang won the contest, and about 10 days ago, he
said, he sent three friends a link to a “secret site”
on his company’s Web site where they could watch his
entry (www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov).
One of them, Mr. Ryang said, posted it on his
little-watched blog. And that was that. Until this
week, when he was hit by a tsunami of Internet
interest.
On Wednesday, Mr. Ryang said, his secret site got
12,000 hits. By Thursday the numbers were even higher,
his film was being downloaded and linked to on
countless other sites, it had cracked the top 10 most
popular spoofs on www.ifilm.com, and a vice president
at a major Hollywood studio had called up his office,
scouting for new talent.
“He said it’s being circulated everywhere in the film
community,” Mr. Ryang said of the executive, not
wanting to name the man for fear of alienating him.
“He wanted to know who I was, and if I had any
creative ideas. I told him I’d put together a reel.”
Mr. Ryang said that he was blown away by the
experience, and that his boss wasn’t exactly angry,
despite the computer system’s nearly having crashed,
because of all the attention he had won for P.S. 260.
Though, it seems, the attention was directed more
specifically at Mr. Ryang — who is suddenly being
forced to rethink his future as an assistant.
“People have been calling producers here, asking about
who made it,” he said. “I really didn’t realize how
fast the world moves.”
If God can be a big black slab in outer space then why can't the Devil be a bartender named Lloyd? Who was played in the movie by Joe Turkel who was one of the three accused soldiers in Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory'
Great spoof!
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