If you don't like this movie Jack Torrance will stick that axe up your ass!!!!!
EdTheRipper
01-01-09, 09:13 PM
Love it. Nicholson scared the shit out of me when I was younger. And the quick flashes revealing the carnage caused by the previous caretaker always gave me the creeps.
TomOpus
01-01-09, 09:28 PM
I don't hate it but I don't love... and there wasn't an inbetween selection.
If I had never read the book, I'd probably love it.... BUT having read the book before the movie was made, I have big issues with several aspects of the movie.
Ginwen
01-01-09, 09:49 PM
I was really disappointed when it first came out since it was so different from the book. Now, though, I completely separate it from the book and I love it.
dollfins1
01-01-09, 11:21 PM
liked the book alot more than the movie but nicholson was great.
Darth Maher
01-02-09, 11:20 AM
Liked it, but didn't love it.
Where's that option?
TomOpus
01-02-09, 11:38 AM
liked the book alot more than the movie but nicholson was great.He was one of the things I found wrong with the movie. Problem is Jack is supposed to gradually go under the influence of the hotel... but Jack looks nutso from the get-go.
DarthVong
01-02-09, 02:02 PM
The book was better, but I still love the film. Scared the shit outta me when I was younger.
Darth Maher
01-02-09, 02:51 PM
I remember being afraid of the cover of the book when I was a kid. The kid's eyes were white and it creeped me out.
Dang, Danny definitely looks creepy... and the topiary is getting frisky!
GoldenJCJ
01-03-09, 07:16 PM
I didn't care for it too much the first time I saw it when I was younger, but the older I get the more I like it.
But boy do I hate Shelley Duvall!
EdTheRipper
01-03-09, 10:03 PM
But boy do I hate Shelley Duvall!
Same for me. I love the movie but she just annoys the ever-lovin' shit out of me.
jones
01-05-09, 03:43 AM
I think this is one of Kubrick's finest moments and this film will always be in my all time top 5 Horror films.
Kurtie Dee
02-10-09, 05:19 PM
Dang, Danny definitely looks creepy... and the topiary is getting frisky!
That topiary lion is so cute!:)
Seriously though, Loved the movie, loved the book.
They're apples and oranges (or best looked at that way) and are both great.
The movie barely resembles the book, and I think that's OK - tons of eerie style making for a disturbing disorienting flick, while the book is obv vintage King.
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