Didn't like Room 237 quite as much the second time. There was one guy--his theory was vaguer than the others, and he had a habit of pausing and then laughing at his own commentary (the guy with a son who was out of work)--who started to get on my nerves. The most compelling theory to me is the Native American one, which I notice is proposed in this thread's very first post.
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
native american thing is compelling cuz it's just a theme in the movie like any other theme in any other movie. i don't think it's the center but it's there and it harmonizes w other themes. the other theories are occult+totalizing and (at least in the case of the moon landing) seem to involve the movie Actually being about something that has nothing to do w what it's pretending to be about, which is a less impressive concept to me than, yknow, a successful piece of art.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Just found this on the street!🗻
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― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 18 December 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
i passed Garrett Brown, inventor of the Steadicam, on his way into the Linc Ctr cinema last night. (ie he ran behind Danny in the maze)
no one tell clemenza
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
(ie he ran behind Danny in the maze)
wearing, never forget, danny-shoes
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 19 December 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
you can still see The Shining in 35mm on NYE in NYC.
http://www.filmlinc.org/series/going-steadi-40-years-of-steadicam/#films
It is, of course, almost the worst film in that series.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2016 03:52 (seven years ago) link
Xanadu must be much better than I've been led to believe.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
Didn't like Room 237 quite as much the second time. There was one guy--his theory was vaguer than the others, and he had a habit of pausing and then laughing at his own commentary (the guy with a son who was out of work)--who started to get on my nerves.― clemenza, Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:45 PM (eight hours ago)
― clemenza, Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:45 PM (eight hours ago)
Nah, that guy is awesome. His theories on the syncs, the wipes, the dissolves, and the forwards and backwards theory was incredibly compelling. Plus the Playgirl mag.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
The one who annoyed me was the architect (?) who claimed to have been mind-blown by the layout of the Overlook the first time she saw the film. Not because she didn't have something interesting to say, but rather because I sincerely doubt that even someone who is fascinated by architecture would notice a minor structural oddity on a first viewing.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 December 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
The masterstroke in this is when the babe in the bathtub becomes sick grandma. Nothing is more frightening to the male psyche than the realization that all flesh is mortal.
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=434928
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
? I thought that might have been the professor in the film, but it's not...The course he teaches is Bio137!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
it's the kid in The Shining
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
stephen king: listen this hotel is fucked upstanley kubrick: indeed, if these walls could talk, we walk around looking the other way from the suffering, death and horror that takes root in our lives, the foundations our society is built uponstephen king: NO THE HOTEL IS EVIL— i'm camille! (@_girltype) December 6, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
hee
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 December 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
still think Jack & co. would have fared better at a la Quinta or Best Western
― fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Friday, 8 December 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
“All the best people”
― calstars, Friday, 8 December 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
I remember one of the HS friends i saw it with opening night called Barry Nelson (Ullman) "Reagan."
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 December 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
2 20s and 2 10sI was afraidThey’d be there tilnext April
― calstars, Sunday, 25 March 2018 02:24 (six years ago) link
and all the irreparable harm it's caused me.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 25 March 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
They’d be thereTil next April
― calstars, Sunday, 25 March 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVlXbS0SNqk
― MaresNest, Thursday, 5 July 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
Still want this poster.
https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/purgatory-jared-lyon.png
― Roomba with an attitude (Sanpaku), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
exposing the eeriness inherent in hotels
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, 5 July 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
New Pogo track is based on The Shining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pptpmkHXg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 23 September 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
That footage from the Japanese paranormal investigations TV show crew filming Elstree and interviewing Vivian and Stanley (on the phone) is a delight from start to finish, including the soundless car journey through West London and up to Borehamwood.
The YouTube comments are almost entirely highly positive, although I guess probably consist mainly of middle aged men remarking on how captivating watching 20 year old Vivian talk is. Well, fair enough I'spose.
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Monday, 24 September 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link
Link?
― calstars, Monday, 24 September 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
MareSnest links it above.
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Monday, 24 September 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
we were watching this tnite for halloween and it's amazing how fresh + relevant it feels today maybe more than ever
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 November 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
especially wild when you recall how reviled it was on release
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 1 November 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 1 November 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
i need to watch this again soon
― macropuente (map), Thursday, 1 November 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
Say someone burns toast...
― calstars, Thursday, 1 November 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
Someone burns toast.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 November 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
after I picked up a copy on DVD recently so I can make mk2 watch it, someone pointed me to this interesting analysis re the trike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvXaubxzrE&feature=youtu.be
never noticed these things before, but then I don't when watching a film.I just watch it, and then move on, but this film has a lot of subtle on screen clues as to whats going on.Was Stanley really this subtle, or, just careless re the trike ?
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:29 (five years ago) link
video isn't working can u give another link
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
ooops, sorry.
https://youtu.be/xNvXaubxzrE
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
I still revile it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
I mean, as its director's worst post-Fear and Desire film goes, it's still pretty in-te-res-ting.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
i don't buy that the changes are bc some of the film is taking place in the novel and some isn't. more likely explanation for the continuity changes imo -assuming they're intentional and not errors- is that the hotel itself manipulates and shifts reality. the film's emotional core doesn't work if it's a fantasy. if he's a successful writer fantasizing about murdering his family it brings too much of the subtext into the text - it's not a secret that the novel is about steven king's own struggles with anger, fear of his own capacity for violence, his own fears + anxieties vis-a-vis his work (he returns to themes of writer's block over and over again in his novels). to say that's actually the text of the film moves us too far away imo from the horror by fictionalizing it w/in the fiction. but we don't have that much distance in the film - these things are really happening. instead read the continuity errors like you do the impossible interior architecture - subliminal hints that something is /wrong/.
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 November 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
instead read the continuity errors like you do the impossible interior architecture - subliminal hints that something is /wrong/.
I totally agree with this.Sometimes people read too much into things.
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Lisa and Louise Burns posing outside the wardrobe department right before filming their iconic Shining hallway scene. [1979] pic.twitter.com/O8VwOdOe0l— 📷🎥 (@moodvintage) April 15, 2019
― Mordy, Monday, 15 April 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
I used to follow the twins on Facebook and it was really delightful, just endless travel pictures of them smiling while visiting different museums and landmarks
― One Eye Open, Monday, 15 April 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
love the hand-lettered wardrobe sign.
― andrew m., Monday, 15 April 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Grady makes an appearance in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
― calstars, Saturday, 11 May 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Speculation that a new 4K HD disc of The Shining will include the hospital coda:
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/05/16/the-4k-disc-of-the-shining-kubrick-alternate-ending
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 May 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
SUprisingly bad movie lobby poster
https://gizmodo.com/kubrick-and-bass-intense-creative-process-making-the-sh-1618114464
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
these might not work promottionally (and don't capture the film's vibe) but I actually really like these!
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
I’ve read the coda as (part of the screenplay as I recall) and i think SK was right to cut it. Couple of caps and a link to the script :https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shining_(Deleted_Ending_Scene)
― calstars, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
I'm glad so far there has been resistance to the idea of The Shining 2: Danny Returns
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link