The Shining

aren't they also like violently against texting in movies etc? sounds like they're the good guys.

i mean to complain about a theater like that, so obviously passionate about their love of movies, in an era when there are so few good and independent screens left is very... i dunno... ilx

that said, if nobody ever posted anything about stanley kubrick on the internet ever again, i wouldnt mind

eat a meal or watch a film. decide.

eat a film

Eat a watch.

I've never understood the fondness for popcorn in cinemas. I'm not a fan of the taste, the smell or the sound it makes.

you don't have to eat a whole meal. I usually just get a soft pretzel and a milkshake and track the progress of my stomach ache throughout the movie.

Cheap to make, keeps a log time, pure profit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXmUSMPUpA

Jersey City movie palace party

http://www.loewsjersey.org/films/95-the-shining-nite-masquerade

Noticed Room 237 on YouTube. You probably wouldn't want to watch it for the first time there, but may be useful for watching certain parts again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y18NlwTHGoQ

You probably wouldn't want to watch it for the first time there, but may be useful for watching certain parts again.

thanks for the head's up.

Excellent film. Not sure why you wouldn't want to watch it (unless you have strong negative feelings about The Shining itself--I guess I could see that).

I enjoyed the movie. I don't know if I want to spend any of my time hearing how it's really all about the faked moon landing.

Anyway, I'll be sure not to watch it on YouTube if I ever do feel the need to see it for a first time.

pplains, it's worth your time and i wouldn't argue against seeing it on the teevee
you're not obliged to buy into the conspiracy theories or take them seriously.

The moon landing stuff is, what, 10-15 minutes of the film? The other readings in the film are a lot more plausible, or at the very least, less maddening.

i like the shining but i got tired of listening to poorly recorded phone conversations about it after 20-30 minutes

if you don't mind eavesdropping on skypes through a wall the visual gags are pretty great, i'll admit

I think I said it upthread somewhere, but I actually kind of wanted it to be loonies (even though I felt bad about wanting it to be loonies), but was very happy at the end that actually the vast majority of people were not painted as crazy at all... if anything, they're just good critical minds who got stuck on a singular reading. Aside from moon-landing guy.

That post is a little garbled but I am quite drunk. Sorry.

the spectrum of spectatorship

more intriguing theme than the Timelessness of Evil or whatev

it feels more like 'presented for your consideration: a catalogue of ~thoughts~ about The Shining' than a lol omg look at these wackos, which I very much appreciated

I mean, you can laugh and point at pretty much all of them in their own way, but the filmmaker mostly lets you do that on your own.

yeah.

Room 237 is a great watch.

Wish it had done a better job of exploring the gulf between "Stanley Kubrick was a GENIUS and EVERYTHING meant SOMETHING even the TYPEWRITER MODEL" and "Stanley Kubrick should have fired his continuity person and set dresser."

I really liked the part about the layout of the Overlook. That's my favorite kind of fan obsession, really - taking what's clearly there, whether it's intentional or not, and working out the meaning/impact of it on the film (or book or song or whatever else) in great, specific detail.

it really taps into, what i like to think of as 'ultimate art' i.e. the unattainable idea that, as Phil D says, that everything constituting a particular piece of artwork is there for a reason and that all elements exist in symbiosis with each other with nothing left out and nothing included by accident or for unnecessary purpose. I don't believe even Kubrick could achieve this, but it's a thought I like to entertain whenever I come across anything I find myself obsessing over.

Watched the whole thing for the first time in a really long time. Didn't realize that most of Danny's face shots was basically just this over and over:

http://i.imgur.com/OZGQepA.jpg

Also, maybe this is a very common observation, but I had never noticed that the elevators, with the floor dials, are also making that "Kubrick" face.

http://i.imgur.com/ubMyz9P.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OZGQepA.jpg

Whoops

http://i.imgur.com/ubMyz9P.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ADwnbJN.jpg

http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplaytheshining/

New movie from the director of Room 237 sounds really interesting: http://thedissolve.com/reviews/1633-the-nightmare/

http://i.imgur.com/JFrfdl1.jpg

The only shot from that take.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/us/hotel-that-inspired-the-shining-builds-on-its-eerie-appeal.html
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/09/04/us/04labyrinth-01/04labyrinth-01-articleLarge.jpg

"(T)his maze of juniper trees disappointed some visitors."
Fine caption.

ah, hell, stupid username gets in the way of my stupid message

Wait til they read the book and realize it was animals, not a maze.

do you have the SLIGHTEST I-DEA what a MORAL OR ETHICAL PRINCIPLE IS? DO YOU?

then: a gesture to the diffuse snowy light above him, an expression of terrible pain at the thought of disappointing the hotel

http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbp28blMzK1qi4nyc.png

lol

one of my favorite Polish movie posters:

http://150597036.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/shining41.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/P38VKsz.jpg
thank you

this is.... something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i17pORf_iE4

A production electrician speaks:

One time Jack said he had done his back in and needed a few days off. That’s a lot of time when you’re shooting a big film, but Stanley said okay. The next day we were in the sparks room watching Wimbledon when Stanley walks in. He asks what we’re up to and as he turns to look at the telly, there he is: Jack Nicholson sat in the crowd with a girl on either side. Stanley went mad....

It was a small crew and he used us for bit parts. Because they rarely shoot leading artists when you can’t see their face, he said to me: “You look like Jack – put on the jeans and boots.” In the film, when a semi-conscious Jack is dragged into the food store, those are my legs on screen. He asked me to be the guy in a bear suit with his arse hanging out and his head in a man’s lap at the end. But I said: “No, mate, I ain’t having that.” Could you imagine? Everyone at home saying: “That’s Bobby Tanswell.” Nope, sorry.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/24/a-brush-with-jack-nicholson-stanley-kubrick-the-shining-1979

I'd never seen this, but it's clever/cute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jBgaX0ErGU

Was visiting my parents over the weekend and recognized the Overlook carpet pattern in their doormat.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/20160430_130323_zpsnypwgquc.jpg

They've had the mat for years, but I just never made the connection. It definitely predates the patterns recent baconing.

I'm sorry to defer with you sir. But you are the caretaker.

It always throws me off when Grady uses the word 'nigger.' What the place has male, white racist ghosts? This doesn't support the "built on an indian burial ground" reference.