I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
I think being close as one can when adapting, has value in itself. So I do feel it negatively impacted the adaption, and did not add anything (if not Chapter II taking place in present day, does so for a specific story-related reason. Like Pennywise turning out to be Trump, or being the one holding Pearl Jams new album back).
Setting it in the 80s because of piggybacking on a trend and Stranger Things being popular, is therefore to me negative.
Setting the first one in the 50s, and the second in the 80s would mean you would get some of that great 80s nostalgic feel now instead. And they could have honored and included things like "Universal monsters" like the book.
And, with a good trailer and a good film - a younger of generations of movie-goers would show up regardless.
I actually critiqued an adapted script last summer, based on a children's book. And most of my feedback concerned changes from the source material, and questions about what it added. So, it's just something I care about.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets in the MCU, because that's not how it is in the comic book.
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"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
I think being close as one can when adapting, has value in itself. So I do feel it negatively impacted the adaption, and did not add anything (if not Chapter II taking place in present day, does so for a specific story-related reason. Like Pennywise turning out to be Trump, or being the one holding Pearl Jams new album back).
Setting it in the 80s because of piggybacking on a trend and Stranger Things being popular, is therefore to me negative.
Setting the first one in the 50s, and the second in the 80s would mean you would get some of that great 80s nostalgic feel now instead. And they could have honored and included things like "Universal monsters" like the book.
And, with a good trailer and a good film - a younger of generations of movie-goers would show up regardless.
I actually critiqued an adapted script last summer, based on a children's book. And most of my feedback concerned changes from the source material, and questions about what it added. So, it's just something I care about.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets in the MCU, because that's not how it is in the comic book.
I read all of that, but it still doesn’t change my mind that Kubrick>King.
I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets
Wait...what? Peter Parker is Spiderman? Now it kind of makes sense why he always disappears.
I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
I think being close as one can when adapting, has value in itself. So I do feel it negatively impacted the adaption, and did not add anything (if not Chapter II taking place in present day, does so for a specific story-related reason. Like Pennywise turning out to be Trump, or being the one holding Pearl Jams new album back).
Setting it in the 80s because of piggybacking on a trend and Stranger Things being popular, is therefore to me negative.
Setting the first one in the 50s, and the second in the 80s would mean you would get some of that great 80s nostalgic feel now instead. And they could have honored and included things like "Universal monsters" like the book.
And, with a good trailer and a good film - a younger of generations of movie-goers would show up regardless.
I actually critiqued an adapted script last summer, based on a children's book. And most of my feedback concerned changes from the source material, and questions about what it added. So, it's just something I care about.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets in the MCU, because that's not how it is in the comic book.
I read all of that, but it still doesn’t change my mind that Kubrick>King.
Okey, now watch my math: The Shining (book) > The Shining (movie) = The Shining (miniseries)
(Love Kubricks movie ofc, watched it a few years back on 35mm in the cinema )
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets
Wait...what? Peter Parker is Spiderman? Now it kind of makes sense why he always disappears.
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
I think being close as one can when adapting, has value in itself. So I do feel it negatively impacted the adaption, and did not add anything (if not Chapter II taking place in present day, does so for a specific story-related reason. Like Pennywise turning out to be Trump, or being the one holding Pearl Jams new album back).
Setting it in the 80s because of piggybacking on a trend and Stranger Things being popular, is therefore to me negative.
Setting the first one in the 50s, and the second in the 80s would mean you would get some of that great 80s nostalgic feel now instead. And they could have honored and included things like "Universal monsters" like the book.
And, with a good trailer and a good film - a younger of generations of movie-goers would show up regardless.
I actually critiqued an adapted script last summer, based on a children's book. And most of my feedback concerned changes from the source material, and questions about what it added. So, it's just something I care about.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets in the MCU, because that's not how it is in the comic book.
I read all of that, but it still doesn’t change my mind that Kubrick>King.
Okey, now watch my math: The Shining (book) > The Shining (movie) = The Shining (miniseries)
(Love Kubricks movie ofc, watched it a few years back on 35mm in the cinema )
The Kubrick film is so much better than the King novel. It's so much creepier to not know what the fuck is going on in some of those scenes and situations. King likes to hold his readers' hands so that they never have to think for themselves. He even went so far as to add 400 mostly useless pages to an already published and already long novel. I gave up on him around then. He doesn't want anything left open to interpretation.
I'd go so far as to say that nearly every Kubrick film for which I've read the book (Spartacus, Red Alert, A Clockwork Orange, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Shining, The Short-Timers)is better than the source material from which it was adapted. The exception being Lolita, which is a fantastic film with great performances all around, but Nabokov's imagery, poetic pacing and impassioned prose win that bout by TKO.
I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
I think being close as one can when adapting, has value in itself. So I do feel it negatively impacted the adaption, and did not add anything (if not Chapter II taking place in present day, does so for a specific story-related reason. Like Pennywise turning out to be Trump, or being the one holding Pearl Jams new album back).
Setting it in the 80s because of piggybacking on a trend and Stranger Things being popular, is therefore to me negative.
Setting the first one in the 50s, and the second in the 80s would mean you would get some of that great 80s nostalgic feel now instead. And they could have honored and included things like "Universal monsters" like the book.
And, with a good trailer and a good film - a younger of generations of movie-goers would show up regardless.
I actually critiqued an adapted script last summer, based on a children's book. And most of my feedback concerned changes from the source material, and questions about what it added. So, it's just something I care about.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets in the MCU, because that's not how it is in the comic book.
I read all of that, but it still doesn’t change my mind that Kubrick>King.
Okey, now watch my math: The Shining (book) > The Shining (movie) = The Shining (miniseries)
(Love Kubricks movie ofc, watched it a few years back on 35mm in the cinema )
The Kubrick film is so much better than the King novel. It's so much creepier to not know what the fuck is going on in some of those scenes and situations. King likes to hold his readers' hands so that they never have to think for themselves. He even went so far as to add 400 mostly useless pages to an already published and already long novel. I gave up on him around then. He doesn't want anything left open to interpretation.
I'd go so far as to say that nearly every Kubrick film for which I've read the book (Spartacus, Red Alert, A Clockwork Orange, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Shining, The Short-Timers)is better than the source material from which it was adapted. The exception being Lolita, which is a fantastic film with great performances all around, but Nabokov's imagery, poetic pacing and impassioned prose win that bout by TKO.
For me, the Kubrick film SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS. I actually hate it passionately, though I admit a portion of that hate comes from the knowledge that so many think it's so great when it is actually so crappy and barely even makes any sense. I can, however, appreciate certain cinematic techniques that Kubrick used in it.
I absolutely LOVE the book.
I don't care for the mini-series, but it's better than the Kubrick version, because at least there is some character development and the shining actually has a meaningful place in the story.
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I absolutely LOVED IT part 1. I actually saw it twice in the theatre. I can't wait for part 2!!!!!!! I thought it was a good adaptation - it got the feel of the book perfectly IMO. But I despised the made-for-TV one. What a piece of shit that was.
Should have been set in the 50s like the book.
Should have championed practical effects instead of the CGI overload.
But the rest I liked.
I didn't mind that they changed the decade at all - I don't think that had a negative impact on the feel of the story. And I think it was probably a wise choice just considering the mass audience. They wanted a block buster that appealed to all ages, and updating it to the 80s right when Stranger Things was a massive was for sure a great idea, especially for the younger generations of movie-goers.
I think being close as one can when adapting, has value in itself. So I do feel it negatively impacted the adaption, and did not add anything (if not Chapter II taking place in present day, does so for a specific story-related reason. Like Pennywise turning out to be Trump, or being the one holding Pearl Jams new album back).
Setting it in the 80s because of piggybacking on a trend and Stranger Things being popular, is therefore to me negative.
Setting the first one in the 50s, and the second in the 80s would mean you would get some of that great 80s nostalgic feel now instead. And they could have honored and included things like "Universal monsters" like the book.
And, with a good trailer and a good film - a younger of generations of movie-goers would show up regardless.
I actually critiqued an adapted script last summer, based on a children's book. And most of my feedback concerned changes from the source material, and questions about what it added. So, it's just something I care about.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets in the MCU, because that's not how it is in the comic book.
I read all of that, but it still doesn’t change my mind that Kubrick>King.
Okey, now watch my math: The Shining (book) > The Shining (movie) = The Shining (miniseries)
(Love Kubricks movie ofc, watched it a few years back on 35mm in the cinema )
The Kubrick film is so much better than the King novel. It's so much creepier to not know what the fuck is going on in some of those scenes and situations. King likes to hold his readers' hands so that they never have to think for themselves. He even went so far as to add 400 mostly useless pages to an already published and already long novel. I gave up on him around then. He doesn't want anything left open to interpretation.
I'd go so far as to say that nearly every Kubrick film for which I've read the book (Spartacus, Red Alert, A Clockwork Orange, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Shining, The Short-Timers)is better than the source material from which it was adapted. The exception being Lolita, which is a fantastic film with great performances all around, but Nabokov's imagery, poetic pacing and impassioned prose win that bout by TKO.
For me, the Kubrick film SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS. I actually hate it passionately, though I admit a portion of that hate comes from the knowledge that so many think it's so great when it is actually so crappy and barely even makes any sense. I can, however, appreciate certain cinematic techniques that Kubrick used in it.
I absolutely LOVE the book.
I don't care for the mini-series, but it's better than the Kubrick version, because at least there is some character development and the shining actually has a meaningful place in the story.
Kubrick is excellent at what he does.
King never has needless pages in his novels, nor does he hold your hand. He weaves a story better than almost anyone and his mind is a creative masterpiece.
The Shining is a good movie, King hated it because it does not reflect the true spirit of the book. I agree. Kubrick did what he did and it is a classic, but in no way can his adaptation touch the novel.
Yeah, it doesn't touch the novel.... But I also think that the screenplay stinks. I mean, really, the character development is nil. It makes no sense that Jack Nicholson acts like he's insane literally from the second the movie starts, rather than the hotel making him insane. Wendy is just a simpering wuss the entire movie. Yeah, yeah, she manages to get her kid out of the hotel... seconds before he's literally going to be slaughtered, and out to run around in a blizzard. She knocked Jack unconscious practically by accident, and I swear, the way she holds that bat is so frustrating. Danny really doesn't even play a meaningful part in the story at all, nor does his shining, plus the parent-child relationship is never developed at all. There is no connection made between the hotel and Danny's shining really, and the fact that the women is in the room could just as well have been a haunting completely unrelated to the shining for all anyone who hadn't read the book knew. Halloran plays almost no useful role whatsoever, and clearly the ONLY reason Kubrick kept him in the script at all was so that Wendy had a working vehicle to escape in at the end. He didn't even face any resistance from the hotel itself when returning there. Nothing. Why in the world anything bad at all is going on at the Overlook is never explained in any decent way, and no, I don't think that enough was provided for any worthwhile audience conjecture. And why in the fuck is Jack suddenly in that old photo at the end of the film, in the 20s? The movie doesn't tie that together - it makes no sense. And at the end, the hotel doesn't even kill Jack - that death was just plain old dumb. These are all the reasons I hate that movie.
The hotel in the film does look exactly like I imagined the hotel to look while reading the book though (minus the all-important boiler room of course, and the playground and the topiary.....). And I like the sound that the Big Wheels makes on the floor when Danny rides it around, lol.
I like Kubrick, but not for this pile of crap film, haha.
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Yeah, it doesn't touch the novel.... But I also think that the screenplay stinks. I mean, really, the character development is nil. It makes no sense that Jack Nicholson acts like he's insane literally from the second the movie starts, rather than the hotel making him insane. Wendy is just a simpering wuss the entire movie. Yeah, yeah, she manages to get her kid out of the hotel... seconds before he's literally going to be slaughtered, and out to run around in a blizzard. She knocked Jack unconscious practically by accident, and I swear, the way she holds that bat is so frustrating. Danny really doesn't even play a meaningful part in the story at all, nor does his shining, plus the parent-child relationship is never developed at all. There is no connection made between the hotel and Danny's shining really, and the fact that the women is in the room could just as well have been a haunting completely unrelated to the shining for all anyone who hadn't read the book knew. Halloran plays almost no useful role whatsoever, and clearly the ONLY reason Kubrick kept him in the script at all was so that Wendy had a working vehicle to escape in at the end. He didn't even face any resistance from the hotel itself when returning there. Nothing. Why in the world anything bad at all is going on at the Overlook is never explained in any decent way, and no, I don't think that enough was provided for any worthwhile audience conjecture. And why in the fuck is Jack suddenly in that old photo at the end of the film, in the 20s? The movie doesn't tie that together - it makes no sense. And at the end, the hotel doesn't even kill Jack - that death was just plain old dumb. These are all the reasons I hate that movie.
The hotel in the film does look exactly like I imagined the hotel to look while reading the book though (minus the all-important boiler room of course, and the playground and the topiary.....). And I like the sound that the Big Wheels makes on the floor when Danny rides it around, lol.
I like Kubrick, but not for this pile of crap film, haha.
Omitting all (or most) of this is exactly what makes the film so terrifying. Leaving all of those blanks for the viewer to fill in with whatever horror his/her imagination comes up with is why it’s considered a classic.
The worst part to me is actually the scene in which it gets all explain-y with Scatman telling Danny about the shining. Yeah, thanks for the big footnote in the book of duh.
Yeah, it doesn't touch the novel.... But I also think that the screenplay stinks. I mean, really, the character development is nil. It makes no sense that Jack Nicholson acts like he's insane literally from the second the movie starts, rather than the hotel making him insane. Wendy is just a simpering wuss the entire movie. Yeah, yeah, she manages to get her kid out of the hotel... seconds before he's literally going to be slaughtered, and out to run around in a blizzard. She knocked Jack unconscious practically by accident, and I swear, the way she holds that bat is so frustrating. Danny really doesn't even play a meaningful part in the story at all, nor does his shining, plus the parent-child relationship is never developed at all. There is no connection made between the hotel and Danny's shining really, and the fact that the women is in the room could just as well have been a haunting completely unrelated to the shining for all anyone who hadn't read the book knew. Halloran plays almost no useful role whatsoever, and clearly the ONLY reason Kubrick kept him in the script at all was so that Wendy had a working vehicle to escape in at the end. He didn't even face any resistance from the hotel itself when returning there. Nothing. Why in the world anything bad at all is going on at the Overlook is never explained in any decent way, and no, I don't think that enough was provided for any worthwhile audience conjecture. And why in the fuck is Jack suddenly in that old photo at the end of the film, in the 20s? The movie doesn't tie that together - it makes no sense. And at the end, the hotel doesn't even kill Jack - that death was just plain old dumb. These are all the reasons I hate that movie.
The hotel in the film does look exactly like I imagined the hotel to look while reading the book though (minus the all-important boiler room of course, and the playground and the topiary.....). And I like the sound that the Big Wheels makes on the floor when Danny rides it around, lol.
I like Kubrick, but not for this pile of crap film, haha.
Omitting all (or most) of this is exactly what makes the film so terrifying. Leaving all of those blanks for the viewer to fill in with whatever horror his/her imagination comes up with is why it’s considered a classic.
The worst part to me is actually the scene in which it gets all explain-y with Scatman telling Danny about the shining. Yeah, thanks for the big footnote in the book of duh.
Oh yeah, to me it just makes it a bad plot with bad characters. I know exactly what you're getting at, and do think that method has worked very well in many movies... I just don't think it was done well for The Shining at all. It was done outstandingly badly from my perspective. Like, it doesn't just leave room for the viewer to fill in the blanks. It sincerely makes no sense a lot of the time, lol. Of course I do realize I'm in the minority with this opinion. That's okay with me, haha.
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
The Shining scared the bejesus out of me, so much that during a family trip, I refused to stay at a hotel because its hallways reminded me of the film.
Personally, I think House of 1000 Corpses is a masterpiece for the genre, and Devil's Rejects is even better. I know people get mad at the 'hillbilly' cheesy horror bit, but that is Rob Zombie's wheelhouse and what he watched growing up, and exactly what he is trying to create.
Personally, I think House of 1000 Corpses is a masterpiece for the genre, and Devil's Rejects is even better. I know people get mad at the 'hillbilly' cheesy horror bit, but that is Rob Zombie's wheelhouse and what he watched growing up, and exactly what he is trying to create.
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Eh.... so Stephen King is now okey with Kubricks film...?
from the trailer this seem to follow Kubricks film specifically and not Kings story
Obviously Warner Brothers talked him into it. No, SK isn't suddenly okay with Kubrick's garbage movie The Shining, lol (man, I HATE that movie!!). Maybe SK just accepts that a sequel has to be based on the Kubrick version for it to work with the public?
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I'm pretty sure those clips were used just to let people who weren't aware know that this is the sequel to the Shining. Kubricks movie being the most well known was the easiest way.
Soul I can't believe your disdain for that movie. Tsk tsk....
And so you see, I have come to doubt All that I once held as true I stand alone without beliefs The only truth I know is you.
I'm pretty sure those clips were used just to let people who weren't aware know that this is the sequel to the Shining. Kubricks movie being the most well known was the easiest way.
Soul I can't believe your disdain for that movie. Tsk tsk....
It doesn't even make sense!
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I'm pretty sure those clips were used just to let people who weren't aware know that this is the sequel to the Shining. Kubricks movie being the most well known was the easiest way.
Soul I can't believe your disdain for that movie. Tsk tsk....
Still.
I get that the carpet, blood flowing from elevator and the twins are iconic.
But still
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
I'm pretty sure those clips were used just to let people who weren't aware know that this is the sequel to the Shining. Kubricks movie being the most well known was the easiest way.
Soul I can't believe your disdain for that movie. Tsk tsk....
Well she's from Canada, so there's that
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I'm pretty sure those clips were used just to let people who weren't aware know that this is the sequel to the Shining. Kubricks movie being the most well known was the easiest way.
Soul I can't believe your disdain for that movie. Tsk tsk....
Well she's from Canada, so there's that
But speaking of Kubrick, I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time in years and years the other day (I think it could be classified as horror). Now THAT is a good movie. I'd forgotten how totally sad and chilling the HAL death scene is. Amazing.
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Setting it in the 80s because of piggybacking on a trend and Stranger Things being popular, is therefore to me negative.
Setting the first one in the 50s, and the second in the 80s would mean you would get some of that great 80s nostalgic feel now instead. And they could have honored and included things like "Universal monsters" like the book.
And, with a good trailer and a good film - a younger of generations of movie-goers would show up regardless.
I actually critiqued an adapted script last summer, based on a children's book. And most of my feedback concerned changes from the source material, and questions about what it added. So, it's just something I care about.
And yes, Spiderman shouldn't scream out he is Peter Parker to everyone he meets in the MCU, because that's not how it is in the comic book.
Peter Parker is Spiderman? Now it kind of makes sense why he always disappears.
(Love Kubricks movie ofc, watched it a few years back on 35mm in the cinema
I'd go so far as to say that nearly every Kubrick film for which I've read the book (Spartacus, Red Alert, A Clockwork Orange, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Shining, The Short-Timers) is better than the source material from which it was adapted. The exception being Lolita, which is a fantastic film with great performances all around, but Nabokov's imagery, poetic pacing and impassioned prose win that bout by TKO.
King never has needless pages in his novels, nor does he hold your hand. He weaves a story better than almost anyone and his mind is a creative masterpiece.
The Shining is a good movie, King hated it because it does not reflect the true spirit of the book. I agree. Kubrick did what he did and it is a classic, but in no way can his adaptation touch the novel.
The worst part to me is actually the scene in which it gets all explain-y with Scatman telling Danny about the shining. Yeah, thanks for the big footnote in the book of duh.
Agreed about Crothers' role!
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
The movie is fantastic...and different from the book. Love them both.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3565270/rob-zombie-says-trailer-3-hell-coming-next-week/?fbclid=IwAR33dwHbRYTnzNXKHOc_6HLJsMt2BCOll4ckVZsI6rvsBd2otdBz9DrrTuQ
Personally, I think House of 1000 Corpses is a masterpiece for the genre, and Devil's Rejects is even better. I know people get mad at the 'hillbilly' cheesy horror bit, but that is Rob Zombie's wheelhouse and what he watched growing up, and exactly what he is trying to create.
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All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
Mike Flannagan is directing this(Occulus, Geralds Game, House on Haunted Hill(Netflix) )
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
from the trailer this seem to follow Kubricks film specifically and not Kings story
Soul I can't believe your disdain for that movie. Tsk tsk....
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
I get that the carpet, blood flowing from elevator and the twins are iconic.
But still
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