The Shining

who can forget that day

Somehow the miniseries doesn't rank at the very bottom of this: http://www.vulture.com/2013/07/all-of-stephen-kings-tv-work-ranked.html

Enh, I haven't seen a lot of those, but mid-pack is about where I'd put TV Shining. I believe I've opined elsewhere, I thought it did an okay job.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/24869854b7e5bc873d6ac7dff4471f2f/tumblr_mqfrpnSI2W1rce5tlo1_500.jpg

Never noticed it before, but love the very UK "Games Room" on the door.

is that UK? i remember hotels having those as a kid. particularly ones with the addams family pinball game.

In my humble country, it was called a "Game Room".

Funny how it's like that and yet, we play sports and UK enjoys sport.

xp, yeah, in Colorado it would certainly have been called a "Game Room."

Saw room 237 last night, wow

do you have maths rooms in the US

Dude, we don't even have math.

bro do you even have lifts?

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http://maudit.tumblr.com/post/22308427007/the-making-of-the-shining-by-vivian-kubrick-x

wau @ jack gettin into character!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3flxetmgE1qiz3j8o5_r1_250.gif

me irl

i love that making-of

Me, too. It was included in a silver anniversary VHS tape I had years ago so I haven't seen it in a long time.

http://jezebel.com/stephen-king-hates-the-shining-because-it-s-misogynisti-1361182451@laurabeck

Another valiant attempt to reclaim his book's reputation away from the movie's fans.

dude, I like your books. LET IT GO ffs.

Breaking: Stephen King Digs Up Kubrick's Corpse & Skull-Fucks It One More Time

that article makes a cogent point though

The wrong one.

You might not be a fan of Stephen King, but if any of his books actually deserves praise for straddling that line between literary and popular fiction, The Shining is definitely it.

Would rank at least four or five of his other books well above The Shining: The Book, but it has been awhile since I've read it.

Conversely, I wouldn't rank a single SK adaptation above Kubrick's film, with the sole possible exception of Carrie.

which one? The one about the movie being terrifying is lol wrong.

xp

i find wendy sympathetic in the movie (and, again, really don't buy the 'jack is crazy from the start' criticism).

king's got every right to voice his opinion -- it was his book, after all -- but it is kind of peculiar that he never seems to bother bashing any of the other 90,000 shitty movies that have been made from his work.

most of which have "stephen king's..." in huge letters before the title.

One glance at the list of his top 10 favorite adaptations from his own work confirms: he loves the shitty movies based on his work.

Worst of Stephen King's 10 favorite adaptations of his own fiction

i know this thread is mostly about the movie but this is a thoughtful review of DOCTOR SLEEP, the sequel to the shining--

http://www.vulture.com/2013/09/book-review-stephen-kings-doctor-sleep.html?mid=twitter_vulture

can't believe he didn't even include 'carrie'! crazy old guy.

Here's hoping King gets forced to deal with Haneke or Von Trier or some other high-profile asshole director for the movie version of Dr. Sleep.

which one? The one about the movie being terrifying is lol wrong.

about the characterisations of jack and wendy. i love the hell out of the movie and don't seek to tear it down, but wendy in particular is nothing like the book wendy (although i wouldn't call her a 'misogynistic character').

i agree with The Shining being his best stab at lit fic tbh

he's always been quite vocal about preferring shitty film adaptations, but he's been a shitty writer since the early-mid 80s so no surp really

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/01/what_stanley_kubrick_got_wrong_about_the_shining/

the faithful tend to incant the words “genius” and “masterpiece” and “great” over and over again, as if those terms constituted the workings of an argument rather than its conclusion.

Any year that didn't see the release of Room 237 and this might've almost passed the smell test.

i think that article is completely wrong, almost line by line, right down to the line about kubrick's supposed "i'm-a-genius stance" (which applies way more to king these days imo).

I wish Salon would just stop.

it finaly hit me that "dull boy" vs. shining and danny's "talent" play off of Jack's own artistic insecurities.

― ryan, Saturday, December 1, 2012 11:44 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

danny is also "a very willful boy," playing into the same or similar insecurities

http://roadtrippers.kinja.com/real-hotel-from-the-shining-is-digging-up-its-pet-cemet-1452618677

This will end well.

Sequel is on the stands, there's an excerpt in the new issue of Cemetery Dance

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

oh brother

the true NOT morelike

spunky!

Just finished watching Room 237.

o_O

hmmm, someone among us went to a hotel

42 photos from the filming of The Shining:

http://imgur.com/a/Ur9Zo

^ nice one. Film critic Alexander Walker v. recognisable in the second picture of the twins.

Here you go, Morbs. Merry fucking Festivus.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/david-cronenberg-says-stanley-kubrick-didnt-understand-horror-and-that-the-shining-is-not-a-great-film-20131104

well, it's not an election, hon. Hasn't at least one of SK's associates been quoted as saying the blockbuster success of The Exorcist was a factor in his search for a horror project after Barry Lyndon?

You're right. The Shining's status as a classic is no longer up for a vote.

lol