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Plot:
Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. When he arrives there with his wife and son, they lear...( read more 
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MCT:July 2, 2008''Darling. Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash 'em right the fuck in. Ha, ha.''
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Jack Nicholson: Jack Torrance
Shelley Duvall: Wendy Torrance
The Shining as soon as it begins, as soon as the music eerily plays and the landscape zooms in and past, you instantly know this is a piece by Kubrick. I mean it's so blindingly obvious.
The film is based on Stephen King's novel and the combination of Stanley Kubrick bringing it to life on the big screen we have before us gold.
We get a boy who right from the off is made apparent he has a psychic gift and visions of things best not seen.
Danny Lloyd plays Danny Torrance with remarkable skill for a boy so young which is a wonder to behold.
Shelley Duvall who portrays Wendy really annoyed the hell out of me. I mean here we have this strange looking woman who delivers her lines in such a flimsy fashion, and I mean some of the clothes she wears are so distasteful it makes The Shining in areas a horror movie for all the wrong reasons. Her scared disposition is believable in parts though and she doesn't do a totally bad job.
Moving on to the main attraction of Shining and yes you have guessed it, it's Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance who steals the limelight and ultimately the show. He's so insanely nuts and off the chain, my humour called for me to laugh every single time he went psychopathic. I mean he totally captures and freezes onto frame the sheer madness of Jack's character. Whether it be visions from his mind perhaps of figures from the past or real supernatural influences from the Hotel, we are treated to his mind and left to make up our own conclusions. Are the figures real or merely part of his sub conscious being drawn out? It's definitely an excuse for discussion and Jack going completely ape is an excuse to re-watch this horror masterpiece.
The Shining features some of the most warped music which reminded me of the other greats of Kubrick like 2001 and Orange. The Cinematography especially the last scene in the dizzying maze and the start with the countryside being shown is virtually faultless.
Be it the creepy visions the boy has of past occurrences, rooms splashing with blood, or a pair of twins who were blatantly murdered by a previous caretaker. Be it Jack's spiraling maddened journey into the dark side, or his conversations with a surreal bar man who appears to be from the past and part of Jack's weathered conscience. Shining really shines as a masterful piece in the horror stakes and will remain a shining performance for Jack Nicholson and a directorial achievement for the late Kubrick.
The REDRUM and ''HERE'S JOHNNY!'' has become iconic and it's not hard to see why.
Overall I felt Shining is a work of genius that obviously will be replicated and copied by many more horror films trying to achieve the same shocking outcome but alas they all pale in comparison. The ending wasn't as bloodthirsty as I would of hoped, and the closing part with him in the picture wasn't totally understood by me. But the more I think about it, the cleverer it appears to be, like The Shining is telling me Jack has been consumed and become one with a Hotel and place that has buried an ancient angry foreboding embodiment of anger.
The shining grand achievement of Kubrick. -
MCT:December 28, 2007Heeeere's Johnny! He is such a good actor.
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MCT:September 11, 2007
Stanley Kubrick's venture into the horror genre proves as a chilling, suspenseful, and thoroughly intricate tale of the human condition at it's most schizophrenically sadistic depths. The film is taut, looks wonderful, and is a finely tuned example of the highs of this medium, but most of all - it is scary, and it is the techniques that bring this scare factor that excel this film.
Through the abstinence of typical methods of frightening the audience, The Shining is an example of fulfilling the needs of the genre through alternate methods. Much like Hitchcock's portrait of horror reverence, 'Psycho', the scoring of the picture lays the main basis for the frights. There is a seeming stream of music in the picture, with further control through the alternations of volume, that help to emerge from the depths of the piece to the very fore to help build the suspense of a scene until it's climax is reached. In many respect's, the composition tends to mirror the underlying supernatural elements of the film, but like the exterior layer exclaims - these forces are never defined.
Much in the same way as the music heightens itself through scene installments, the overall pacing of the picture tends to hold a constant rise in weight and suspense. Like a reflection of the slowly dwindling grasp on reality of our character's, the film's rythm begins at a comfortable level - we understand the situation and relate with this family. However, as the months roll in the film and the minutes roll on our screens, the levity is lowered to depths below the surface - the paranormal takes hold of our sanity and we are forced into a state of losing rational thought as we are unable to truly delve into the meanings of the events given to us. As the film moves along, we are almost sent into a state of psychosis where reality is amorphic and time is displaced.
While The Shining may not be one of the more intellectual of the director's repertoire, it remains as one of the entertainment driven film's of Kubrick's collection (an inescapable hole of this genre). But it is the identifiable nature of this piece that excels this film to the fore, achieved through it's revolutionary cinematography. Kubrick combines his trademark tracking sequences with the fascination of the steady cam, where smooth visual textures are rendered on otherwise changing landscapes. The shots and sequences of this film would be near unachievable had this invention not been used, and it is Alcott's experimental nature with this device that sends through the dizzying nature of the film that works so well in furthering the spooks of the scoring.
As vibrant as the technics of The Shining are, a review of the piece would be lacking without giving due note to the fine performances of Jack Nicholson and Danny Lloyd, with the latter almost stealing the scenes off of the veteran actors. -
MCT:March 8, 2007One of Kubrick's greatest movies. Its a film with the suspense on its highest level. Great plot. Nicholson has a great performance, he amaze me how he changes its mood in a second, hes a great actor.
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MCT:January 21, 2007
VERY GOOD! jack nicholson betraded as what he really is CRAZY!!!!! HE IS SOOOO CREEPY!! the book was really good it went by fast! everyone started screamin when he stabed dick with the ax except me haha. lady in bath tub icky
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MCT:December 2, 2008
No where near what I expected. Was a bit let down but can still understand why its a classic. However when you look back at it you realise how much of a psychological thriller it was
Comments
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Juliaistoocoolposted 142 days ago -
could some-body please explain the ending of this to me ........what was the deal with him being in the photograph ??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????
posted 159 days ago -
REDRUM REDRUM. (People have gotten jack nicholsons face from the movie poster tattooed on them.Thats how good this movie is)
posted 172 days ago -
I see that the short version of this film has just been reissued on DVD in the UK again. What a wasted opportunity. And who cares what Stephen King thinks or doesn't think about Kubrick's "The Shining"? As far as I'm concerned, he forfeited the right to complain about lousy adaptations of his work when he directed one of the worst: "Maximum Overdrive".
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Stephen King may be a talented writer, but he is an IDIOT for saying that his version of The Shinning, which aired on I believe it was the Sci-Fi Channel, is scarier than the original. He probably felt chaffed that he didn't have the artistic control over the movie, which I heard he didn't want & gave up willingly when he signed the rights to the book over to the studio, but he grew disenfranchised with it over time.
This is a MUCH scarier and better version than the thing that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel!posted 315 days ago -
i love this movie! couldn't take a bath again for a while. I was really young when i watched this film.
posted 327 days ago -
Well,its one of my favorite movies,but just if you dont relate it with Stephen Kings book,Kubrick changed almost everything!!! the characters are great,but if you read the book at first and you are a King´s fan...you can hate the movie.
posted 396 days ago -
if you like the shining have a look at this - it's very funny and the guy doing jack is amazing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bZVhXxzzG58posted 456 days ago -
Amazing. Along with Clockwork Orange And 2001: Oddisey... The best of Kubrick. Different from the book, a lot. But I'm not comparing, I'm saying that, as a movie, is simply a classic, and one of the best. With Misery and It, the best movies bassed on King's movies.
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