The Shining

The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

quote marks killing me

he's been on a pretty good run lately so i'm not writing it off just yet. room 237 lived up to the hype btw, total trip.

"Aided by a prescient cat" has me side-eyeing this whole deal just a little bit.

They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester

The prescient cat?

"Aided by a prescient cat" has me side-eyeing this whole deal just a little bit.

― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Saturday, March 2, 2013 3:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was the thing that excited me the most!

Room 237 is a terrific watch. It reminded me, in a funny way, of the Rotten Apple youtube series "demonstrating" the Pal McCan'tBe conspiracy. It's an insight into a tangled thought process that makes some kind of internal sense but is utterly improbable.

nice Atkinson piece (R237 opens in NY Friday, LA too?):

http://blog.sundancenow.com/new-releases/viva-mabuse-30-bash-your-head-right-fucking-in

opens in LA on the 5th

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/128033/kubricks-lost-holocaust-film
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/127899/kubrick-room-237

i wanna go see room 237 sometime.

Seeing it today

Just saw Cuckoo's Nest today and was happy to see Scatman Crothers

lol, 237 is hysterical
such a good call not to show the conspiracy theorists

predictably, I loved Room 237. Just a lot of fun. I could have watched it forever.

Loved how moments of really penetrating insight are juxtaposed to the most extravagant reaching. Thought the guy who talked about the "pastness" and escaping from the horrors of history was really persuasive and even makes the film kind of moving. It's jives with what I've felt about it, anyway.

Loved the bit about the carpet. Never noticed it before and totally captivated by that idea. Also buy that many of the continuity errors are so obvious that they seem deliberate. I mean, a whole chair missing? Pants changing?

The main point against the Apollo guy isn't so much anything he says but his own paranoia and just how improbable and crazy what he's saying sounds.

also this movie brings up a feeling I wish had a name: when credulity turns to incredulity. you want to believe and agree, your fascinated and open to what is being said, and then the revelation comes and it doesn't connect with your experience and there's an urge to laugh and an even deeper feeling of disappointment or frustration, "no that's not it."

yeah i loved it, i think i laughed hardest at the women seeing the minotaur in the damn skiing pic. main takeaway i got was i really really want to see the shining again soon (and i'm not even that huge on kubrick compared to most of ilx and the shining esp doesn't rank that highly but just seeing it here was enough).

Oh man, I really want to see 237. And I don't even like the Shining all that much (I think it's good, just not... revelatory).

yeah i was like "I DON'T SEE A MINOTAUR!" but really does work with the maze theme?

and Kubrick's face in the clouds, and the really bizarre "phallus" that one guy sees.

yeah was so disappointed to not see kubrick's face in the clouds, I WANT TO BELIEVE

haha. also there's still SO MUCH weird shit that they don't even get to! dudes, no one has a clue what the blow-jobbing bear costume thing is about? and the one lady totally punts on the guy with the drink and split head.

must check imdb for other continuity errors

i cd swear the bear costume guy is straight from the book?

yeah but.....???

anyway other than the carpet thing my favorite part was the bill watson stuff, since that's always intrigued me as well. he's up to no good, that guy.

Bear guy is regularly used to suggest danny being abused by his dad, it seemed weird no one mentioned it?

The bear (actually dog costume) guy is from the book. There's actually a pretty detailed backstory for it that ties into the hotel's history. Kubrick presumably thought it was way freakier sans explanation. And he was right!

I also like how everyone assumes it's a guy...

The Indian slaughter/violence-of-American-history subtext seems the most plausible out of all the theories in the movie. The only problem is that the guy pushing that angle turns what was likely one of many threads into the film's raison d'être.

I hate to keep people out of the theater, but Room 237 is "on demand" at least in NYC

i saw it thru itunes.

The Indian slaughter/violence-of-American-history subtext seems the most plausible out of all the theories in the movie

There's that one website that did an exhaustive scene-by-scene depiction of it, which follows this train of thought, and has been posted many times on this thread, probably 2 or 3 times by me, so i'd feel embarrassed about posting it again. I think the site that hosted it was called 'mastermind' or something...

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1729_10151547696865600_1549660818_n.jpg

xp the doc refers to a msg board poster named mastrmind who declined to be interviewed. thats the jumping off pt for the superimposition stuff

oh dude that baphomet thing is amazing holy sh1t

OMG YES

that's really cool

u guys don't think Ascher wants you to accept evrything put forth in the film, now do ya

no.

he's a filmmaker not a schoolteacher iirc.

He's actually both, but they teach postmodern theory now, y'know.

oh dude that baphomet thing is amazing holy sh1t

Jack's not even making the right hand gestures tho

actually that photo is Jack's head superimposed onto an actual vintage photograph, believe it or not.

http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/192x/c5/97/fd/c597fd4611dc82a636d349228c94f918.jpg

actually actually!

literally actually

actually for real in actuality!

BAAAAAAAALSHIT

that's Baphomet, not Baal bro.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8xwa5GVsR3NqYPRYULOOHATcczOulgzJX13h6qN1QCXAyoDOykQ