| Re: the shining
SPOILERS BELOW, YOU'VE BEEN PRE-WARNED!!
Why can't films ever be as good as the books for once, or at least make a valiant effort at being closely comparable? Watched the film of The Shining last night, lord god what garbage. Ok, if anyone watches it soon, just try and pay attention to how forced their speech is with each other(all characters, although Lloyd the bar tender wins first prize) and the pauses they take before replying. It's madness. But the part where Wendy see's the guy in the bear suit in the room with Grady was about the only part in it that really gave me that "scutter factor" , if I can be so crude. But the substitutions in the film are badly chosen, I'm sure everyone will agree. Nicholson looks like a lunatic from the offset, a hedge "maze" instead of hedge "animals", an axe instead of a mallet, no "HERE'S JOHNNY!!!!!! in the book-although I thought that was a tad disappointing at the time-no Halloran survival, and the strange inclusion of Jack driving a ball off the side of the Colorado Lounge continuously doesn't seem to do anything other than tell us he's extremely bored. Good job, Kubrick. |