King's hatred of a movie adaptation of his work is about the only sure-fire way to pique my interest, especially if it's related to The Shining.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
Always a good sign when the trailer for your sequel relies almost entirely on famous clips from the original movie, plus modern actors re-enacting iconic shots from the original movie. What could possibly go wrong?
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
haha, the Kubrick shots are in painful contrast with the "made-for-netlix" lighting on all the sequel footage.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
I'm honestly kind of surprised that a trailer for a Shining sequel where a super handsome movie star furrows his brow and dramatically says "I always called it... THE SHINING" hasn't already been done on Mr Show or FunnyOrDie or something
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
This looks bad but then again trailers are bad but then again Flanagan will do everything he can to walk the line between reverence for kubrick’s film and fidelity to king’s crappy sequel novel, which will be bad
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
trailers are the least bad thing of all those things
― mark s, Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
I agree and I really don’t like trailers
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
I'm quite surprised Flanagan is leaning on Kubrick so much. His Gerald's Game adaptation was extremely faithful to the book - to its detriment
― Number None, Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
For sure, and that same impulse - pulled in two directions - is now gonna give us the worst of both worlds I think
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
I can't be mad about closing it with Wendy Carlos's arrangement of "Dies Irae."
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
It’s funny cause hill house was such a loose interpretation of the text, apparently it’s only the male SKs whose ~vision~ you have to respect(Also proved that mike could come up with shitty mawkish endings all on his own without a source text like Gerald’s game)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
tbf Shirley Jackson's initials are not SK
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
She’s not male either
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
lol rereading my elaborate opinions on gerald's game elsewhere, this shining film will be bad
― mark s, Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
also now i'm thinking of a kubrick version of gerald's game
― mark s, Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:19 (four years ago) link
cuffs wide shut
bondy lyndon
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Dr Strangelove or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bond
― omar little, Thursday, 13 June 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Or whatever the hell it was called~!
apparently the only shot in that trailer that is Kubrick's is the blood coming from the elevators -- everything else is new footage from Flanagan.https://screencrush.com/the-shining-doctor-sleep-comparison/
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
making, with Ready Player One, two movies in two years that have used re-created scenes from The Shining.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
What scene did RPO use?
― calstars, Friday, 14 June 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
the elevators and Room 237https://youtu.be/GwyoKJiB9Vk
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
Oh wait, I was wrong - King likes this after all and this is probably going to be v bad, haha.
This movie is going to blow your mind. If you have any left after IT CHAPTER 2, that is. https://t.co/cUPCfwZS08— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2019
I still think Gerald's Game is a great watch as long as you skip the last five minutes or so.
― Roz, Friday, 14 June 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
King likes or claims to like any/all adaptations of his work these days
― Simon H., Friday, 14 June 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
that said I like Flanagan in general, more for how humane, well-edited and well-acted his movies are than how "scary"
― Simon H., Friday, 14 June 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
humane unless you have acromegaly :(
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 08:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjs97Wmz-jiAhV4BWMBHY9dBvAQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewwavecrashing.com%2Fpost%2F29412194982%2Fwelcome-to-rondos&psig=AOvVaw0iuxoNoM-w-ESxG_8zgliv&ust=1560589561682936
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 14 June 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jyriz.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 14 June 2019 09:11 (four years ago) link
Why does King think all Indian burial grounds spawn evil
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
he invented that, it's his thing
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
it's not the burial ground that spawns evil, it's the desecration of the burial ground iirc? tho maybe pet semetary iirc it wasn't bc it was desecrated but bc it was a burial site for cannibal victims or something?
― Mordy, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
damn if Stephen King is giving it a rave I better check it out
― omar little, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Why does King think all Indian burial grounds spawn evil― | (Latham Green), Friday, June 14, 2019 7:49 AM (one hour ago)
― | (Latham Green), Friday, June 14, 2019 7:49 AM (one hour ago)
Exactly why I love what Kubrick did with The Shining (esp. through the Room237 filter!)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
The “Indian burial ground” is not in the novel, it’s kubrick’s addition (although yeah king later used it in pet sematary)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
The best example of king getting owned by filmmakers will always be that he wrote a mallet attack into the shining and Kubrick changed it to an axe to much better effect, and then years later he wrote an axe attack into misery and Reiner changed it to a mallet... to much better effect
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
amityville horror was one of kubrick's favourite films
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
TIL that poltergeist does NOT feature an IBG (technically I learned that when I watched it, but I misremembered it as having one until reading this article just now)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 14 June 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
pale-tergeist
― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
so I got about 1/3 of the way through this book and it was hokey and kind of dumb. holding out hope the movie is better but the book didn't impress and King's kindly magical negro stuff really grated (it's been ages since I read one of his books so it's not like that's new, but I'd forgotten about it).
― akm, Saturday, 15 June 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
One thing about the Shining is it seems like its one of those movies that is all about creepy mystery and if you tried to explain it the thing would fall apart - creepy mystery is only good when its in a quantum state
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG_NZpkttXE
― tonga, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
Damn. For a second, I thought Jim Carrey's acting skills had jumped a mile.
― pplains, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
The only way to make that more terrifying is to deepfake Carrey's face on to Shelley Duvall too.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
Please explain what a deepfake is. I love that clip, but I'm confused as to what's been done.
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
Using AI to CGI humans, is how I understand it - instead of painstaking work to change faces frame to frame they use machine learning to do it faster and better.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
That's the original movie with Jim Carrey's face wrapped around Jack Nicholson's head.
― pplains, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
the crossed eyes at the end are pretty creepy
― calstars, Thursday, 11 July 2019 02:05 (four years ago) link
Thanks--read a little bit online. That clip is...quite amazing.
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 July 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
fun stuff on that guy's channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjI-JaRWG7s
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 11 July 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link