Movie Discussion! - Page 452

Really good movie, I enjoyed it a lot as someone who hasnt read the book but loved the shit out of reading Stephen King in high school. The movie REEKS of Stephen King, I'm positive that Kubrick would have tortured the actors of this movie too if he saw it and had it associated with what he made. The movie really kind of goes out of its way to mirror the Shining in a lot of ways, which is kind of a point the movie tries to make, you know, passing on wisdom, the future generations learning from and being better of than the ones that came before, and the duty of the older generations to pass that knowledge on. Im mostly just mental to keyboard diarrhea'ing when I say this, but given the nature of the ageless hippy steamdrinker fucks, and the appearance of 'ol Dick Halloran, and Danny's issues with his shitty father being kind of responsible for fucking up his Shining juxtaposed against Abra's extremely healthy parental life and her extremely potent shine, really paints a portrait of "those greedy old fucks ruining everything for the next generation," what with the hippy steamdrinkers literal murder and exploitation of actual fucking children.

Anyways, great movie, the ending where they retread the Overlook is really nice, granted the ghosts are really... fresh looking, and recasting Jack Nicholson? Bad move, they shouldve just got the real one because you actually just cannot replace the man. The Shelley DuVall recast was pretty good though.