The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: Barry Nelson, Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Shelley DuvallDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Well this is probably hands down the best psychological thriller ever put to film with the exception of psycho. At any rate if you have never seen this masterpiece....shame on you! The newer two disk versions second disk has some cool btsi with Jackie and goofy Shelly Duvall which are hilarious! And ahhh. Kubricks shots in the film make the movie that much creepier! Turn the lights off, turn the sound up, and scare the hell out of yourself!DVD Review: Perhaps the Best Horror Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Not much to say. Even though its an old movie by today's standards, this is the ultimate horror movie. Must be seen, owned and appreciated. DVD Review: Thrilling, With Some Pictorictous Scenes to Boot
Summary: 4 Stars
Please, for the love of god, avoid going into this movie thinking it's one of the scariest movies of all time. It's most definitely not the scariest movie of all time, but I think that's just a marketing tag line to get people to watch it more. No, The Shining is a work of art, and does not need a tag line to describe the movie. While I wasn't scared when watching it (actually fascinated!), this is still quite terrifying depending on who you are, and it's a great thriller movie (somewhat of a horror movie, but I think it's more of a thriller.
Jack torrence is easily one of the most enjoyable and fascinating movie villians, and his pysche underneath is downright interesting and believable. I won't say too much, but his drive to live and play is crushed, and he can't get anywhere with his writing, there is no inspiration in the house he lives in, and he seems fustrated with everything. I think it's these kinds of things that made him go insane, being locked up in a hotel, knowing his job is at stake, knowing he can't do anything, knowing he was writer's block. Once you look at those things, it's easy to see why he would go crazy in the first place. Jack Nicholson does a great job portyaing his insanity, and his wife is a shred of humanity in the midst of the looniness of him and his son. Some people think of his wife as annoying, but I think she's a great character, who provides moral grounds for the movie.
Forgetting the plot, you have to applaud Stanley Kubrick for making this such a feast for the eyes, and for it being a fine piece of film making. In particular, the shots of the hotel are gorgeous. That thing is huge, and it makes the setting for the movie all the more memorable. The introduction of postcard-worthy Colorado is nice as well, truly worth looking at. The camera angles are nice as well, making it claustrophobic when it needs to, panning and ariel when needs to, and close up when it needs to. And of course, the Elevator shaft that spills blood is insanely cool, as is the infamous scene when Danny meets the two ghosts, and views them bloody and dead all over the hallway. I like hallways.
I guess that's it
B+
DVD Review: 2nd terrible movie I've seen by Kubrick
Summary: 1 Stars
I've never read the book, I kept hearing people say how good this movie is (scariest of all time) so I decided to do it the honor by giving it a try since I've been getting into good horror movies recently. I never read the book, so I had nothing to base it on. The only other movie of Kubrick's that I remember seeing would be 2001 and that was terribly boring. The only part I liked was Hal, that scene was pretty cool.
In short, it sucked. I knew it would suck when I looked at the counter and noticed nothing happened 45 minutes into the movie and it was going to last roughly 2 1/2 hours.
He did a lost of showing when he should have been telling or showing what was necessary for the movie. Nothing really developed. Nothing happened for 45 minutes, then all of a sudden he's getting mad at being interupted by his wife? What was eating at him? Was he having problems with coping with not drinking? I don't know, there was no hint at what was going on internally with these characters whatsoever. It was all showed, nothing was told. Why? Because Kubrick had no idea of what he was either trying to show or say, he just pretended he did.
The black guy travels all the way from another state just to get killed and provide a vehicle? That's all the Shining was good for? What did it do for the kid besides him repeatedly saying redrum?
This movie was terrible. I might read the book just to see if even Stephen King did it right. Maybe the audio book. I'm mad I wasted my time on this movie.
One saving grace, Jack's performance.
DVD Review: The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Summary: 4 Stars
Esta pelicula es un clasico del cine de horror. Yo ya la habia visto antes., pero ahora hace parte de mi coleccion de buenas peliculas. Me encanto volver a verla y la recomiendo en forma muy especial. Esta edicion especial viene subtitulada y trae material adicional excelente
Description of The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
?Heeeeere?s Johnny!? In a macabre masterpiece adapted from Stephen King?s novel, Jack Nicholson falls prey to forces haunting a snowbound mountain resort with a macabre history.Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him--all arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demands for take after take after take.) The Shining is terrifying--but not in the way fans of the novel might expect. When it was redone as a TV miniseries (reportedly because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film in 1980) was there--but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to hide... --Jim Emerson
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's movie is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer, who's settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him--all arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demands for take after take after take.) The Shining is terrifying--but not in the way fans of the novel might expect. When it was redone as a TV miniseries (reportedly because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film in 1980) was there--but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to hide... --Jim Emerson
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