is Anyone Obsessed with The Shining?

[Tear Up a Trick]

I got lost down a YouTube rabbit hole of watching people's theories on this film.  I saw the 237 documentary.
 It's pretty wild how analyzed this movie is, to the point that people have created some amazing maps and found out about the artists that painted pictures hanging on the walls.  I dig the movie, seen it a bunch of times over the years, but wow people are into it like I can't even believe.

Any body here get obsessive or wild on it?

[animalflesh]

Yeah it’s one of the best movies ever made and Kubricks best film

Probably one of the most visually expressive movies I’ve ever seen, each scene feels horrifying no matter what’s happening

[TheLurper]

The Shinning

[EdLawndale]

It's a fine film, though I think I prefer "2001" and "Full Metal Jacket"

[Atiba Applebum]

I saw shining all the way through very recently (had caught bits and pieces of the 2nd half on TV through the years so I felt like I had basically seen the whole thing) and I kinda sorta agree with Stephen King that Jack Nicholson isn’t great casting because he starts off kind of unhinged looking and there isn’t far for him to go when the transformation happens.   He nails the back 3/4, but in that first job interview it just seems logical he’d go loopy

[50mm]

Shining is great. Don't really get lost in theories. Love to read about the production of films. 2001 is insanely impressive still I believe.

[SneakySecrets]

Shining is great. Don't really get lost in theories. Love to read about the production of films. 2001 is insanely impressive still I believe.

Most people don’t know that Moonwatcher and HAL were played by the same actor.  Fun fact.

[Freelancevagrant]

Yeah it’s one of the best movies ever made and Kubricks best film

Probably one of the most visually expressive movies I’ve ever seen, each scene feels horrifying no matter what’s happening

Backed. Film theory can get hella convoluted but the shining is so tastefully layered and wonderfully shot that it flows like a stream. Fucking love that movie.

[Deputy Wendell]

yes...one of the only truly unsettling American "horror" films

and i wholeheartedly disagree with a lot that has been said about Shelley Duvall's character--she's a fucking badass who keeps it together and saves her child while her husband, her child, and the Overlook Hotel are all fucking tripping...even if she's a bit hysterical at points while handling things.

by the way, one of the most incredible opening credits sequences ever--i know the score has a lot to do with it, but still, how the fuck does one make long aerial tracking shots of driving through the mountains so absolutely fucking menacing?

[Tear Up a Trick]

yes...one of the only truly unsettling American "horror" films

and i wholeheartedly disagree with a lot that has been said about Shelley Duvall's character--she's a fucking badass who keeps it together and saves her child while her husband, her child, and the Overlook Hotel are all fucking tripping...even if she's a bit hysterical at points while handling things.

by the way, one of the most incredible opening credits sequences ever--i know the score has a lot to do with it, but still, how the fuck does one make long aerial tracking shots of driving through the mountains so absolutely fucking menacing?

Yes to everything you said.  Wendy is amazing.  She survives!  That alone is impressive.

My favorite fun fact is that David Lynch is a huge influence on The Shining.  Kubrick had the cast watch it while they filmed to influence them, and there's even more than that:

https://screenrant.com/shining-movie-connection-david-lynch-eraserhead/#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20get%20his,telling%20a%20very%20different%20story.

[goeatsomefriedbread]

It’s a great film, I read somewhere that they would alter the set between shots (opening and closing doors, moving Danny to different parts of the carpet etc) to create a subconscious feeling that something was off. The old lady rotting in his arms horrified me as a child, great film.

[Deputy Wendell]

It’s a great film, I read somewhere that they would alter the set between shots (opening and closing doors, moving Danny to different parts of the carpet etc) to create a subconscious feeling that something was off. The old lady rotting in his arms horrified me as a child, great film.

this makes total sense...it's funny how jarring and unsettling (i keep resorting to this word for some reason) all of those tracking shots following Danny on his big-wheel are--not just motion, space (the constriction of space in the scene when he finally runs into the twins in the tighter hallway), and setting (the colors, and patterns of the halls and carpet), but the sound of the different surfaces also, as he passes from rugs to hard floor--this all really does give the sense that "something is off" and keeps us as viewers off balance a bit--i think film/cultural scholars might call these Brechtian moments...maybe.

either way, i honestly could watch these scenes all day...fucking brilliant:







anybody see the new film? been meaning to check it out...

[jamersonbass]

It's a top 5 for me for sure.  The first time I watched it, I was home alone sick on the couch while the rest of my family went to my brothers basketball game.  That was a trip at 12 years old.  I certainly didn't pickup much nuance, but it had such a lasting effect on me.  I've watched it several times, watched the doc.  One of the most beautifully shot movies of all time.

[pugmaster]

The book is sort of weird.  In the beginning it starts off with a scene where dude has just creampied his wife.


The movie is great.

[Phil Leotardo]

The book is sort of weird.  In the beginning it starts off with a scene where dude has just creampied his wife.


The movie is great.

Yeah the book is much different from the movie, ending and all. Still a great read if you're a fan of Stephen King or The Shining in general. Doctor Sleep is more on par with what they shot for that movie. Was a lot of fan service with the callbacks to the original but I enjoyed the fuck outta it. Def check it out if you're a fan of the original.

[TheLurper]

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The book is sort of weird.  In the beginning it starts off with a scene where dude has just creampied his wife.


The movie is great.

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Yeah the book is much different from the movie, ending and all. Still a great read if you're a fan of Stephen King or The Shining in general. Doctor Sleep is more on par with what they shot for that movie. Was a lot of fan service with the callbacks to the original but I enjoyed the fuck outta it. Def check it out if you're a fan of the original.

Thinking of Stephen King books, I remember reading the Running Man when I was relatively young. That was way gnarlier than the goofy ass movie.

It'd be amazing if someone remade the Running Man and made it more like the book. It'd be amazing especially in todays world.

[Telly]

All shining and no braille makes op a dull boy.

[behavioralguide]

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The book is sort of weird.  In the beginning it starts off with a scene where dude has just creampied his wife.


The movie is great.

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Yeah the book is much different from the movie, ending and all. Still a great read if you're a fan of Stephen King or The Shining in general. Doctor Sleep is more on par with what they shot for that movie. Was a lot of fan service with the callbacks to the original but I enjoyed the fuck outta it. Def check it out if you're a fan of the original.

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Thinking of Stephen King books, I remember reading the Running Man when I was relatively young. That was way gnarlier than the goofy ass movie.

It'd be amazing if someone remade the Running Man and made it more like the book. It'd be amazing especially in todays world.

The running man is so good, read it when i was younger too and remember it making a big impression

[Tear Up a Trick]

For Wendy fans, there's a fun theory out there called "The Wendy Theory" that builds a pretty interesting argument that she is the one who suffers the initial mental breakdown and a lot of what we see are her psychotic hallucinations, and Jack is almost more of a victim.

[Cuban_Lynx]

For Wendy fans, there's a fun theory out there called "The Wendy Theory" that builds a pretty interesting argument that she is the one who suffers the initial mental breakdown and a lot of what we see are her psychotic hallucinations, and Jack is almost more of a victim.

Shelley Duvall has suffered a full mental breakdown in recent years. She’s definitely somewhere on the schizophrenia spectrum now.

[Deputy Wendell]

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The book is sort of weird.  In the beginning it starts off with a scene where dude has just creampied his wife.


The movie is great.

[close]

Yeah the book is much different from the movie, ending and all. Still a great read if you're a fan of Stephen King or The Shining in general. Doctor Sleep is more on par with what they shot for that movie. Was a lot of fan service with the callbacks to the original but I enjoyed the fuck outta it. Def check it out if you're a fan of the original.

oh man, i was trying to restrain myself from starting with the gifs...that's a good one...your boy is firing on all 8 cylinders in this scene too

[jamersonbass]

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The book is sort of weird.  In the beginning it starts off with a scene where dude has just creampied his wife.


The movie is great.

[close]

Yeah the book is much different from the movie, ending and all. Still a great read if you're a fan of Stephen King or The Shining in general. Doctor Sleep is more on par with what they shot for that movie. Was a lot of fan service with the callbacks to the original but I enjoyed the fuck outta it. Def check it out if you're a fan of the original.

This is a hot take!  I like it, and will have to check it out now.  Also, Jocelin Donahue is bae...

[straight]

kubriks best film was the moon landing

[Croquet temper]

One of my favorites. I made a fuck buddy watch it with me once, lolz. I still remember her reaction to the quick shot of the guy in the bear suit giving a bj. She also thought the movie was too slow. Lame. 

Barry Lyndon is darkly humorous but very subtle and I really feel like watching it lately.

[matt_2993]

^^yup that scene was the most horrifying frame to me as a kid even tho I didn't even understand it



Also just want to say how much I appreciate all the love for this movie going on in this thread. An all time favorite for me

[G raham]

bear costume scene is the coolest scene in the history of film

[Atiba Applebum]

Think this might be the original one of this trope.  Remember watching it 13 years ago along with Back to the Future recut as a forbidden gay romance a la Brokeback Mountain

[coyote2425]

It's one of those 'if it's on, I'm watching it' movies for me, definitely favorite Kubrick and horror movie.

I haven't gotten lost in the theories and need to rewatch/finish the doc.

[straight]

kubrik abused shelly duvall by making her do this scene hundreds of times until she was so exhausted to get the results he wanted out of her .. it’s said that she was never the same after what he put her through during the filming of this film

[Deputy Wendell]

Think this might be the original one of this trope.  Remember watching it 13 years ago along with Back to the Future recut as a forbidden gay romance a la Brokeback Mountain

mother of god man, is nothing sacred?

i fucking literally spit coffee out of my nose when "Solsbury Hill" starts that moving montage...egads.