Posted on 10/28/2024 3:59:16 PM PDT by Beowulf9
I just want to say of course the movie The Shining is on here and there and I've seen people talking about it. I've seen some of it but what bothers me is how come the wife and kid don't feel any sorry for this husband and father of theirs having some kind of tragedy happen to him? I know, he tries to kill her but still if that was your husband wouldn't you think there'd be some emotional attachment to the guy? Some horrible derangement happened to him? I know they're claiming it's possession or something but wouldn't you think somewhere would be some regret for what happened to this husband/father guy?! Seems shallow. No real depth for the characters.
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There is a scene at the begining of the movie where it infers the boy has an injury from being abused by the dad.
And the dad is on edge all the time and angry all the time.
Actually, the Wendy character was being portrayed as mentally challenged or slow.
Just watched “Passengers” which interestingly reminded me of a tone downed and futuristic Shining. Like it.
If you sat and watched the whole movie from start to finish, you would understand.
I saw “The Shining” in a movie theater when I was a teen. IMO, the film was a masterpiece, and all the actors played their roles perfectly. But, I have never, ever watched that film in full again because at least one scene was just... gruesome.
However, other scenes are psychological horror in the buildup to the end, and those clips are kinda fun to watch sometimes, especially the typewriter scene that rlmorel described. That one has to be one of the best scenes in horror movie history.
Joe Turkel was the actor portraying Lloyd. He was also in another great Kubrick movie, “Paths of Glory”. Several actors reappeared in Kubrick movies over his career.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
Give the guy a break! She probably was a lousy cook, lousy house keeper and nagged the hell out of him. I would have tried to kill her myself.....
I have always fantasized about a job like that. Where I can be all by myself in seclusion for an extended period of time with nothing to do but read my books and watch it snow outside, with a full larder of food to draw upon.
I have to have something more to think of, chew on. something a bit deeper. People are more complex than just that. Something like The Haunting based on The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson. Some depth to consider in the characters.
All seems a bit too contrived. Bring them here, arrange for someone to have something go wrong with, destroy that guy at the end. I just don’t get how this movie is so liked. Everytime I watch it I find I have to turn it off. That twin thing, comes off as ridiculous to me.
You can see it coming. Set character up for the kill in the plot. Make him unlikeable and then we can put guy in crosshairs and kill him.
I end up feeling kind of frustrated, I don’t want to be led into being happy a guy met with some awful end, what kind of person am I to be smiling at that? I don’t want to see someone destroyed for the sake of some kind of entertainment.
I did read recently Nicholson marveled at Duvall’s ability to cry on cue, and she had to retake a scene over and over again, and she did it every time. Even she spoke of how hard that was and that she had some anxiety about it because she was afraid the night after the take Kubrick’d make her do it again.
That to me was interesting.
Never heard of that remake... Checking the trailer now... Steven Weber and Rebecca DeMornay must’ve played the characters very differently. Weber has always seemed like a nice guy, and I never saw DeMornay in a timid role. She’s played some scary roles herself, such as the nanny in “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.”
That scene was genius. Who would imagine those harmless words typed on a paper would be so frightening. lol
I read the book.
We were supposed to go cross-country skiing but it was snowing way too much and back then we needed trails with tracks. So we were stuck in the lodge.
A small lodge in the Rockies had it on their bookshelf. Maybe 50 miles from Estes Park!
Good Lord, you will never know until you watch it. It great in a fun way because you know its totally fiction.
Its unlike 'Silence of the Lams' which was really creepy because you know there are actually people out there that are really like that.
In horror movies, personal flaws and conflicts help lead to horror. Since conflict between people is normal, there is a message in most horror movies against letting personal conflicts and flaw become so severe or abnormal as to lead to horrorible outcomes.
As terrible as the decline of Jack Nicholson into madness and death is, are his faults and poor choices alone to blame? Or did his wife and son also play a role in evoking the evil forces that he fell victim to? Is their lack of sadness at his death due to psychological stress, or is there also a sense of satisfaction about that outcome? Was the haunted hotel helping to liberate them from an abusive husband and father?
Stanley Kubrick was a sophisticated director and storyteller who left little to chance. I think that is what he was hinting at.
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I’m doing fine here in red-ish Florida (I don’t kid myself - the state still has plenty of Democrats). I’m confident Trump will win here.
I loved “Passengers”! Loved it.
Of course, everyone sees the parallel in the Bartender characters, although the one in Passengers is very likable, while the one in The Shining make you think something quite different...:(
I think I am going to watch “The Shining” tonight...:). Been a long time...
Ah. I forgot you moved...well, that ain’t no blue state, that is for sure. I thought we were still living up to the North...:)
Silence of the lambs was fantastic. Man, what an actor Anthony Hopkins is. I read Jodie Foster did not talk to him during the making of the movie and he said he I think was told she was afraid of him. “She says he was a little too good at his role and it made her uneasy”.
I’ll try to watch it next time I see it. Prob will be soon.
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