"You've always been the caretaker." The Shining Appreciation Thread.

[gwynplaine]

Maybe my favorite Kubrick Film, maybe my favorite Horror Film, heck, possibly my favorite Film.
This is a thread for all things "Shining", to discuss its mysteries, horrors, beauties and that iconic ending.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Always loved this one. First time I ever took mushrooms I watched this with a friend. He freaked out and couldn't watch it because he said peoples' faces were melting and the music was too much. I enjoyed the **** out of the movie. Most fun I ever had watching it. I was like, "This movie's on another level." I was just so zoned in on it like never before. One of the best movie experiences I ever had.

 

[gwynplaine]

I've heard about people taking acid for 2001, but first time about mushrooms and The Shiningt:

 

[gwynplaine]

The great Philip Stone as Delbert Grady.

The great Joe Turkel as Lloyd the Bartender

 

[titansupes]

Love this movie, bizarre and unsettling. I have the book sitting next to me, but my 'to read' pile is so big I don't know when I'll get to it.

 

[gwynplaine]

Love this movie, bizarre and unsettling. I have the book sitting next to me, but my 'to read' pile is so big I don't know when I'll get to it.

Great Read. Love both the film and the book.Two different beasts for two different medium.

 

[gwynplaine]

 

[danoyse]

Love this movie. Got to see it in the theater for the first time last year, and it looked amazing.

The book is also one of my favorites. It’s so scary that it actually made me jump while I was reading it on the bus.

 

[Piper Maru]

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is definitely one of my all-time favorite movies. There are so many layers to this movie, I don't even know where to begin.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

This film is simply incredible.

 

[redhawk23]

I find the film a bit to distant and too lacking in empathy to be particularly scary but one major improvement the film has over the book is the reveal of what Jack had actually been typing all winter. So unnerving and disheartening.

Fun fact: I have a tie with the carpet pattern from this movie.

 

[Victarion]

Bookwise, I always felt like the force behind the hotel could've been the Crimson King trying to recruit Danny for his army of Breakers.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I find the film a bit to distant and too lacking in empathy to be particularly scary but one major improvement the film has over the book is the reveal of what Jack had actually been typing all winter. So unnerving and disheartening.

Fun fact: I have a tie with the carpet pattern from this movie.

Fun fact: The carpet in Sid's house in Toy Story is the same carpet pattern as well.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I actually spent the portion of my forth of July where I wasn't working watching this for the first time while I had the house to myself. F***ing loved It.

 

[danoyse]

Fun fact: I have a tie with the carpet pattern from this movie.

I had a meeting at a hotel in NYC a few years ago, and the hallways and carpet looked ridiculously like the Overlook. On our way to the room where the class was, I said “Come and play with us, Danny...” in a fake British accent and a few people laughed. One guy said he was thinking the same thing.

And the twins weren’t in the book. The playground scene in the book is plenty terrifying, nevertheless.

 

[redhawk23]

One thing I've long thought interesting about the hexagonal pattern of the carpet in the movie is that it is reminiscent of a honey comb pattern. In the book, the wasp nest is a repeating motif but I don't remember it being explicitly referenced in the film itself. Was the carpet meant to evoke that in any way?

 

[redhawk23]

Fun fact: The carpet in Sid's house in Toy Story is the same carpet pattern as well.

http://www.thatericalper.com/2013/11/18/toy-story-is-full-of-references-to-the-shining/

There are a bunch of references to Room 237 hidden in in Toy Story 3 as well.

To further honor this odd connection, animator Kyle Lambert made these mashup illustrations.

 

[redhawk23]

 

[Piper Maru]

I can still remember the first time I ever watched this movie, right from the opening credits I knew this was going to be an unforgettable movie.

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[redhawk23]

Have any of you seen the documentary Room 237, about Shining fan theories? I found it to be rather disappointing as I really didn't feel like the people they interviewed really put forth much of an argument. Of course many readings of the film border on preposterous but I've seen youtube videos where people really go to bat for even some of the most tenuous far out theories.

Here for instance is really great analysis of the disorienting layout of Overlook sets from Rob Ager. http://www.collativelearning.com/the shining - chap 4.html

Ager has done several analyses of The Shining. This one I like quite a bit. He has a few others I feel are less well argued, like his claim that The Shining is "all about the gold standard."

 

[Piper Maru]

I like Rob Ager, his videos are pretty neat.

 

[gwynplaine]

Have any of you seen the documentary Room 237, about Shining fan theories? I found it to be rather disappointing as I really didn't feel like the people they interviewed really put forth much of an argument. Of course many readings of the film border on preposterous but I've seen youtube videos where people really go to bat for even some of the most tenuous far out theories.

Here for instance is really great analysis of the disorienting layout of Overlook sets from Rob Ager. http://www.collativelearning.com/the shining - chap 4.html

Ager has done several analyses of The Shining. This one I like quite a bit. He has a few others I feel are less well argued, like his claim that The Shining is "all about the gold standard."

Awesome, thanks, Redhawk23, for the pics and link

 

[DarkSovereignty]

What are people's thoughts on the miniseries

 

[gwynplaine]

What are people's thoughts on the miniseries

You are a cruel man, DarkSovereigntyt:

What are people's thoughts about the ending? I've been thinking that maybe the Overlook wanted Jack all along as much as they wanted Danny because he was always the caretaker?

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I'd have to watch it a few more times before trying to analyzing it, I'd probably like to read the book too, perhaps watch Room 237 so I know how NOT to interpret the film.