The Shining (1980)

IT'S JOOOOHNY !

Masterpiece <3

I love both the book and the movie 😍
It's a creepy story, but very interesting.
I was very worried about Wendy and Danny😢

The film gave us a lot of references in the cinema and the gaming industry

one of King's favorite film adaptations!

The film does not match the book in Wendy's description and Danny's behavior
He is an emotionless loony, and she is a mangy horse, which I'm sorry, but not according to the book

One of my favorite movies!
I can review it endlessly.. And every time as the first

In a word - Classic;

I always thought that Radiance would be about (spoiler alert) a horror movie like 1408 or Astral with an exorcist, where an evil ghost inhabits the father of the family and he finally fights with himself.
But I never thought that the film was a psychological thriller mainly about domestic violence, values, where the hotel simply reveals the true essence of the characters. There is no such thing as evil because there is an evil spirit. The actress was also infuriated by her behavior, but if you think about it, there's a hell of a lot of mothers with such spineless behavior. And more often than not, in reality, the mother will end up under the axe with the child, and it's scary. And the film gives hope. Hope ept.

A super movie. Truly a masterpiece for all time

Shelly Duvall played just on the edge, no worse than Jack here

It's stressful enough to be on pins and needles.
Nicholson's grimaces, Duvall's serene face, and the music, now insinuating and absorbing, now disturbing, did their job.
I missed the cook's line and their almond connection with the kid

The movie is boring!

The end pulled the whole movie. It's a pity Halloran, he just arrived and was immediately soaked (I remember in the book I read a scene with a dead woman in the bathtub and there were goosebumps, but here I laughed at her appearance. If you separate the film from the book, it is very good for its time

For its time, the film is super!

What bullshit...

The book is great, but the movie is not bad either, I liked the acting

Classics of cinematography

Favorite King movie. The atmosphere, the direction, and the actors are all very fascinating. The unhurried narration at first only reinforces the interest in what kind of madness will happen next.

The shooting, the game, the plot, everything is just fine!👏🏻

There is so much emptiness, emptiness, and closeness in the scenes of the film.

It's a very good movie. I ordered a book right away
It was interesting to read about the fate of the actress and various references, many points become clearer
Of course, there was not enough disclosure, but somewhere I saw that there were more explanations in the book

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It's a great movie, it's a pity they didn't show Nicholson enough for such a timekeeping.

A true masterpiece in the horror genre. The atmosphere of tension, the excellent cinematography and the incredible performance of Jack Nicholson make this film unforgettable.

The movie doesn't look much like a book, but it's still pretty unique.

After reading the book, I didn't like the movie. A lot of important points in the plot were not shown (about Danny's connection with his father, about Danny's connection with Holoran) and in general the ending of the book and the film is different. I can only mention the location, the music, Nicholson's game, and it was just interesting to see the ending of the film, which is different from the book.

A creepy movie for its time.

A very powerful and scary movie!

Generally, horror/thriller films are controversial, one may find it scary, another may find it different. But for me, "The Shining" is the perfect horror movie, which it should be, on top of everything else, a 1980 movie. You don't really find any normal horrors right now, just some weird murders and that's it. In the shining, there is a minimum of murder and a maximum of psychological meaning and tricks, which makes, as for me, this film unique in its genre, which is only worth the soundtrack, the whole film is accompanied by suspenseful music, the acting completely reflected the inner state of the characters imprisoned in the hotel. The film raises interesting topics: the destruction of a family, the change of a person under the influence of the environment, isolation as a tool of transformation, obsession with the past and degradation. I rate the film 4.5/5 or 9/10

YASSS🫀

Well, it's a classic. It's a very beautiful film, interestingly shot, with great acting. The whole movie, until the last one, I thought it was about how you can go crazy if you live alone with your family, which made me wonder - seriously? I was very surprised by the ending, that my wife and son were saved, and the maniac just froze to death. Maybe I haven't watched horror movies before, but it seems like such an ending is much rarer. And it was unexpected for me, I was already used to being sure that no one would escape. Perhaps the only negative that I remember is the inexplicable supernatural abilities of the boy and the miraculously turned out to be the same abilities of some left-wing man. It knocks you down and you realize that anything can happen right now, because this is a fantasy world.

Just work, no idleness—poor Jack knows no fun.

Perhaps if I had watched this movie before reading the novel, I would have been just as surprised and amazed by it, but ... the opposite is not given.
I am disappointed in the setting of the plot and its total change ... the reader desperately wants to feel the atmosphere of the novel and walk through the same places that he drew inside his head, but visually ... but, I repeat, it is not given…

What can I add to the above?
That's right, King kicked that pompous Kubrick in the ass. Jack has been a crazy psycho on the screen from the very first minute. Wendy is some kind of downtrodden pussy. Danny depicts furniture with autism. The book kept me in suspense from beginning to end. And in the movie, already at the fifth minute, it became clear that the psycho was going to kill klusha. Well, what's the intrigue here?...

Worse than a book. I don't understand why THIS is considered great. Maybe on an exhale, adjusted for time, it could have been estimated at 4 points, but now it's clearly not past the test of time, (although the same Hitchcock still looks fine) terribly misky kinzo.

My mouth has dried up to comment on every scene, if it weren't for Dr. Song, I would never have gotten around to this film adaptation. Shut down all the sounds and music, it's a complete mess. Kubrick is terrible.:

Rating: 5/5. "Shining" is not just a movie, but a standard of psychological horror. Kubrick masterfully plays with the atmosphere: the silence, the long corridors, the inexplicable cold of the Overlook Hotel penetrate under the skin. Nicholson is a genius, and his Jack Torrance has become an icon of the genre. Decades later, it's still scary and beautiful.

After reading the book, it's a terrible movie adaptation! No wonder King didn't like it.
A special tin, this is Wendy. Why they made some kind of hysterical weakling out of her, I didn't understand, considering that Wendy from the original source wasn't like that at all.

So, I watched this film adaptation and the 1997 film adaptation. And I decided to write a comment here, because this film adaptation is the most popular and well-known. And what I want to say is that both versions are not bad!

Kubrick has his own reading and understanding of this story. More colorful/bright, effective and spectacular. I've never had the urge to stop the movie. I'll also mention Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence. He played the madman wonderfully! Knowing how much mental and physical strength he has given to this role, I would like to applaud him separately. And Kubrick himself, I'm sure, put a lot of effort and money into this film. Considering that filming lasted almost a year. Of course, the film was not shot exactly based on the book, but if you forget that it is a film adaptation, then as an independent work it was very good.

In King's version, I liked the fact that the characters are more detailed and the events are logically explicable. More important scenes were shown, revealing Jack's personality and image. Which made it more clear why he was so influenced by the hotel. We all have certain demons that we suppress every day. Some have more, some have less. Jack is just the kind of character who found it difficult to deal with them in everyday life. And once in the hotel, the entities that inhabited it easily released all its demons outside. I also liked that King's ending seemed more emotional and complete.

It seems pointless to argue about which film adaptation is better and which is worse. To me, they're both good. Each in its own way. And they don't need to be compared. And the authors, of course, will each pull a blanket over themselves. That's understandable. After all, everyone has their own view and their own understanding of events, characters, and the visual image itself. We can just choose what is closer to us and enjoy watching.

It's a very atmospheric film.

I've watched the movie twice, never read the book. And the first time I watched the movie, it seemed boring, drawn out and empty. But the second viewing changed my mind. Maybe I've grown up and realized something, maybe it just happened that way) But the fact remains, even if King didn't like the film adaptation. Jack Nicholson's great acting + Kubrick's unique style = an all-time cult film.