The Shining

harold and maude for the billionth time 10/10 i can't stress how much i love this film.

lmao wrong thread

look at me bneing sleep deprived and drunk on the internet

  On 7/27/2011 at 7:32 PM, disparaissant said:

lmao wrong thread

look at me bneing sleep deprived and drunk on the internet

lol i was just about to say..

H&M probably deserves its own thread, imosrslytbqh

Yeah, Harold & Maude is another classic (Ashby's best)...and hey, at least it's from the same era so you weren't completely off course posting that here!

i think i thought i was in the films you recently watched thread

by way of apology here is a creepy gif

Christ, that's disturbing.

so it was only the second time i watched this. this movie is quite good. lots of interesting camera work. there is a definite maze theme going on. good story, good acting. sound and music is excellent.

regarding the illogical hotel layout issue -- i suspect kubrick would visualize the shots he wanted in his head, then have the sets designed accordingly. the set designers sought to minimize their work. some of those hallways are enough to give you a panic attack -- that claustrophobic wallpaper!!

you can even smell the hotel

  On 7/28/2011 at 5:38 AM, hahathhat said:

so it was only the second time i watched this. this movie is quite good. lots of interesting camera work. there is a definite maze theme going on. good story, good acting. sound and music is excellent.

 

 

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i found the black guy's ending to be rather abrupt and unsatisfying. i suppose he had to die, but there should have been a bit more of a scuffle first. but no... he walks in the front door, and WHOP goes the axe. well, shit, jim.

 

 

regarding the illogical hotel layout issue -- i suspect kubrick would visualize the shots he wanted in his head, then have the sets designed accordingly. the set designers sought to minimize their work. some of those hallways are enough to give you a panic attack -- that claustrophobic wallpaper!!

Was this a watmmer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKV7YM3YRIw

i can't find a decent english version, so what the hell.

amüsier dich...

  On 7/28/2011 at 5:58 AM, baph said:

  On 7/28/2011 at 5:38 AM, hahathhat said:

 

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i found the black guy's ending to be rather abrupt and unsatisfying. i suppose he had to die, but there should have been a bit more of a scuffle first. but no... he walks in the front door, and WHOP goes the axe. well, shit, jim.

 

 

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I think Scatman's death might have been Kubrick deliberately poking Stephen King in the eye/playing against audience expectations (or at least the expectations of those who'd read the novel)

 

well that'd be quite silly!! i know nothing about kubrick vs. king. are you implying that the book was widely read and he was seeking to surprise people, or that he was merely seeking to piss king off?

  On 7/28/2011 at 7:04 AM, pattern recognition said:

i can't find a decent english version, so what the hell.

 

amüsier dich...

 

yes, i saw this episode many halloweens as a lad. but i only got around to watching the shining in 2009 or so

cant stress my love for this film enough

poltergeist was better, if only for craig t. nelson failing at rolling a j.

Just to comment on the OP screenshot, she does actually manage to knock him out with that grip

Teh creepiest film ever! The use of music here is nothing short of genius

  On 7/28/2011 at 9:00 AM, hahathhat said:

  On 7/28/2011 at 5:58 AM, baph said:

  On 7/28/2011 at 5:38 AM, hahathhat said:

 

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i found the black guy's ending to be rather abrupt and unsatisfying. i suppose he had to die, but there should have been a bit more of a scuffle first. but no... he walks in the front door, and WHOP goes the axe. well, shit, jim.

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

I think Scatman's death might have been Kubrick deliberately poking Stephen King in the eye/playing against audience expectations (or at least the expectations of those who'd read the novel)

 

well that'd be quite silly!! i know nothing about kubrick vs. king. are you implying that the book was widely read and he was seeking to surprise people, or that he was merely seeking to piss king off?

 

 

It was a pretty huge best seller, and Hallorann basically saved everyone in the novel. I don't really think he set out to piss King off, but Kubrick obviously likes subverting expectations and making adaptations his own.

So anyway, an audience at that time goes in, having read the book, expecting things to turn out one way, and Kubrick winningly and almost comically takes that avenue of escape away, and the audience is going "Oh shit, now what?"

I meant to type "winkingly," not "winningly." OS X Lion autocorrect, you are being disabled.

Have a watch of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJ8rK7eJeQ

saw these yesterday, pretty good

Awful lot of time spent to say, in a nutshell, "Movie magic!"

  On 7/28/2011 at 10:12 AM, Deepex said:

  On 7/28/2011 at 6:10 AM, baph said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKV7YM3YRIw

oh god you thought that gif was creepy