yeah, i think it actually works better in the movie because its so inexplicable.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:04 (nineteen 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.
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― 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
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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
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― 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
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― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link
someone needs to remix this movie. here's what to do:
- remove 80% of the music. too many times this movie spills into overkill because of the combination of jack nicholson + crazy modern classical music. I think nicholson by himself = already spooky (plus also funny, which is another thing the shining should have exploited more)
- ...which means you need to hire an editor to make this movie happen in under 2 hours, so all dialogue and extended pan shots of (admittedly beautiful) scenery don't go stale
- structure the movie around the bar scenes. these move at a good pace, don't have a bunch of dramatic overkill, are funny, nice to look at, and give a great idea of jack's motivation to kill, are good barometers for his madness.
- hold off on the scariest images until the end. dropping the blood coming out of elevators in the first 20 minutes is bad pacing for a movie that in general takes its time getting to the finish line
― Dominique, Monday, 26 November 2007 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
You're silly in the head.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 26 November 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
someone needs to remix this movie.
I mean, did you SEE that awful miniseries?!
― Eric H., Monday, 26 November 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"remixing"/"re-imagining"/"tweaking" this film would be like taking a runny, pungent dump on "The Mona Lisa." Don't fuck with it.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 26 November 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe they could CGI Shelly Duvall out of the film and put Winona Ryder in instead, as a way of appealing to the young people. Also, they could get Greedo to shoot first.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 26 November 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree with this, jack's descent into madness happens too suddenly - you don't get much of a sense of what he's actually like before he goes crazy so there's no counterpoint. then, when he does, it goes on for too long. really great movie but it's totally improvable.
― jed_, Monday, 26 November 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not so sure about holding it off until the end, though. The first shining that Danny has in the bathroom (about the elevator and the split-second splice of the twins) is very effective for presaging/foreshadowing and captures the viewer's attention quickly.
I do think when Shelly Duvall finally sees the elevator, though, it's been shown too many times by that point and not effective.
― Joe, Monday, 26 November 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm trying to think if any other Great Director's Worst Film has inspired such slavish devotion...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 November 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I can only assume you've seen Fear and Desire. And A Clockwork Orange.
― Eric H., Monday, 26 November 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
slavish = people like it?
― remy bean, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Much as I'm totally not in the business of "improving" movies, I sort of agree with this. I never really thought it was right that Duvall literally sees the bloody elevators.
― Eric H., Monday, 26 November 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the bloody elevators work best in that trailer. (Eric, I will give you Fear and Desire, I meant since Kubrick became Kubrick.)
To me to the degree it works at all it's a Grand Guignol Kramer vs Kramer, only there's no genre universe in which those 2 actors would be married to each other. I was a squeamish little teenage pussy when it debuted and it didn't scare me much.
I'll probably see it once more, thanks to the doubtsthis has planted, and be done with it forever.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the entire movie should've taken place in the pantry.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the shining is the only post-strangelove kubrick i have any great attachment to, though i'd prob like barry lyndon more now.
the whole bit with shelley running around at the end is pretty silly, though.
― J.D., Monday, 26 November 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
20/50 morans
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 2 June 2023 15:07 (ten months ago) link
what if i said things that are obvious to everyone, but in a smug and breathless tone
― calstars, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:23 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
Ku brick-n-hour mess age
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 June 2023 16:38 (ten 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
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