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User Reviews for: The Shining

kbogesz
CONTAINS SPOILERS5/10  5 years ago
I came with high expectations since it's a well-known horror, but these almost 40 years didn't do any good to it, it seems.

The actings were terrible, I swear the little boy did the best of 'em all. Jack was overdoing it by a mile (even when he was still sane), and Shelley (Wendy) was like as if she read the lines from a screen. Scatman (Mr. Hallorann) did kinda good.

At first the pace was nicely slow, then it became boring, then it straight-up started randomly jumping around. The twins only appeared to Danny twice, the (seemingly) chemical-burned woman once, the bloodwave from the elevator was wtf, not even mentioning why did Jack call himself Johnny in the (probably) most iconic scene.
It mainly felt like a game of how-many-horror-elements-can-we-force-into-one-story. And I don't know if it's King's fault (him being the original author) or the movie was this poorly done regarding its logic. There were so many storylines introduced, yet almost all of them were just forgotten by the next scene. Why did Danny have that power? What _exactly_ was that power? Why did the isolation have an effect on Jack but not on Wendy or Danny? (Well, Wendy _did_ have a hallucination after Jack tried to chop her down, but then...) Why tf did Wendy hallucinate about a furry giving (and please, tell me I'm mistaken) a BJ to a man? And who choked Danny? Why did they hurt him?
These are just some of the questions left unanswered. Well, in fact, after watching the movie, I think I have more questions than answers. But at least I laughed a lot instead of being scared, and humanity gained some memes out of this movie.

So I'mma just slowly walk away and pretend I didn't see all the comments stating the total opposite of my opinion.
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Reply by Winchesterz
4 years ago
@kbogesz Same i think better to watch the Simpsons episode in 20min u get the same story and guess what its not a bad story but this movie was way to long.<br /> In my opinion this script would work perfect for a short movie.
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