― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link
Wha? I don't know about you, but Salem's Lot scared the shit out of me when I first saw it.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago) link
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― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 29 April 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Frank Swedehead, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
-- Ehh, I rewatched this a few nights ago. When Shelley's running through the Overlook at the end of the film there's this sudden snap-zoom and all of a sudden a fat man in a bear-suit giving a bloody blow-job fills the frame. It lasts for about four seconds, and it's creepy as shit. I was with watching this with Jon William in Rochester a few years ago and I was stoned as could be and thought I was hallucinating the scene. No dice, though.
― Jeremy Coombs (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
One good scene (the funeral argument) does not a good book make! I found the whole thing boring and stupid.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
― OldHickBill, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.mechaex.com/wmd/JAZZ.jpg
― Hero Worship (Barima), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
― ScatmanJohnFanclub Hostess, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― CAss (CAss), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
Compared to the book, now, the only thing I miss is any sort of balance to Jack - even the minor moments of being a loving/caring human being. Everything else Kubrick changed or eliminated seem right on, though.
Seriously one of the most chilling movies right up through meeting Grady in the ballroom/bathroom - that kills all the momentum and drama (poss. I just know what's going to happen). The disassociation caused by the overacting music and framing create tension even in innocuous scenes, but it doesn't work when Kubrick tries to be more traditional, you just start noticing that Shelley Duvall has huge fucking eyes.
The naked black women in Scatman Crothers' bachelor pad are almost as great as the masked biker men in The Royal Tenenbaums.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 9 May 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago) link
And yeah, the aniaml-outfit-fellatio thing is really really freaky. In the book, it turns out the guy he's sucking off is the owner of the hotel. The owner of the hotel is called Horace Derwent. He's got the same (not particularly common) surname as me. So I shat myself when I read that.
― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 9 May 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago) link
yeah, i think it actually works better in the movie because its so inexplicable.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link
Well, I just disagree. I liked it because it was just a really creepy update of the monkey's paw. the parts with dead children and the nightime journey to the indian burial ground were really effective to me.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 September 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
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― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, this made the rounds WAY fast... everyone's seen this today (not on ILX, I mean)
― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 October 2005 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, but the end results!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/30/west_side_story_beco.html
http://www.boardsmag.com/articles/magazine/20050601/aice.html
http://www.aice.org/ ('Trailer Park' section)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
The Shining Revised....oh my!
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
god what an insufferable dork
― budo jeru, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:38 (eleven months ago) link
Interesting; I think it works as a particularly filmic subliminal indicator that the character is weird, estranged from his surroundings, and does things both the other characters in the film and "normal" characters from other films don't do.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:42 (eleven months ago) link
I appreciate the discussions above re: the casting of Nicholson and the difficulty of accepting him as "normal" at the outset. Even in the scene in the car on the way up, he radiates menace. Michael Keaton would have been good for that part, but probably equally unbelievable as descending into madness. It's hard to think of anyone who would have filled this role perfectly.
I still think this was one of Nicholson's best performances, if not the best.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:46 (eleven months ago) link
That thread could've been 20 posts. Please post less content.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:48 (eleven months ago) link
otm. that's the insufferable part. it's fine to notice details or to want to talk about movies on the internet
― budo jeru, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:10 (eleven months ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:15 (eleven months ago) link
It's hard to think of anyone who would have filled this role perfectly.
the answer to this in most contexts is michael shannon
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:45 (eleven months ago) link
-1
― calstars, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:50 (eleven months ago) link
Interesting; I think it works as a particularly filmic subliminal indicator that the character is weird, estranged from his surroundings, and does things both the other characters in the film and "normal" characters from other films don't do.― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:42Could this be Rob Ager? His ‘subliminal’ analyses of both The Shining and Full Metal Jacket dig up a lot of hidden meaning in Kubrick’s work, well beyond the typical Room 237 speculation.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 1 June 2023 23:29 (eleven months ago) link
He’s “Collative Learning” on YouTube. Sadly he’s taken the majority of his most thorough analysis videos to his private website but there’s quite a bit of incidental work left in public. He deals a lot with the other disconcerting aspects of this film such as the impossible set design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 1 June 2023 23:37 (eleven months ago) link
50 is… more than 20
― michel goindry (wins), Friday, 2 June 2023 10:25 (eleven months ago) link
Lol omg
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 June 2023 10:32 (eleven months ago) link
a true poster (me) wd have noted (🧵 1/1) that you dont need to watch any of the THE SHINING (1980) when you can just view this gif
In films it works in the same way. It breaks the viewer’s so-called suspension of disbelief: we look at the fiction as if we are observing real events, until the actor breaks such illusion by looking directly at us.🧵 20/50 pic.twitter.com/g7zl6AoiVY— Filippo Ulivieri (@nessuno2001) May 31, 2023
― mark s, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:10 (eleven months ago) link
what if i said things that are obvious to everyone, but in a smug and breathless tone
― budo jeru, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:43 (eleven months ago) link
^ new board descrip pls mods
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 June 2023 14:55 (eleven months ago) link
"you dont need to watch any of the THE SHINING (1980) when you can just view this gif"
That's tweet 20, genius
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:00 (eleven months ago) link
🧵 1/1, bonehead
― mark s, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:04 (eleven months ago) link
20/50 morans
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 2 June 2023 15:07 (eleven months ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:23 (eleven months ago) link
I appreciate the discussions above re: the casting of Nicholson and the difficulty of accepting him as "normal" at the outset. Even in the scene in the car on the way up, he radiates menace.
I grew up watching this alongside a dad who thought Jack Torrance was a super cool character and who took maybe a few too many parenting cues from Nicholson's performance (that car trip was basically every car trip from my childhood) so it took me a long, long time to even recognize that Jack is itching to cast off his thin veneer of stability and sanity right from the start.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:20 (eleven months ago) link
Ku brick-n-hour mess age
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 June 2023 16:38 (eleven months ago) link
always thought this was a theremin
Wendy Carlos - The Shining Demo ScoreCarlos demonstrates the Circon controller, which she created in 1978 to produce a demo score for the 1980 film⚡️sound on⚡️ pic.twitter.com/Ux6YCe7Wqa— psychotronica (@psychotronica_) November 22, 2023
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:59 (five months ago) link