The Shining

[Guest]

Just watched the remake of "The Shining"...Although it followed the book pretty closely, I just don't like it as much as Kubrick's version, even though the woman in room 217 is alot scarier in the remake. Just a thought....

 

[mytasteislikecandy]

Just watched the remake of "The Shining"...Although it followed the book pretty closely, I just don't like it as much as Kubrick's version, even though the woman in room 217 is alot scarier in the remake. Just a thought....

Nicholson made Kubrick's, but the second one is better because I HATE movies that don't follow the book. The first one has way too many differences for me. Another example of that is "Don't Say a Word". The book and the movie could have been two totally different stories. It totally pissed me off.

MTILC

 

[SweetCherry]

The book is way better than both versions of the movie. I don't remember which version it was, I was actually praying the woman would get bludgeoned to death so I could stop having to see her terrible acting.

 

[Moi]

I'd like to chase Courtland Mead With an axe.
It has nothing to do with the movie though...

 

[Guest]

Who is that skanky actress that played the wife? Olive Oyle was the only role she has ever excelled in.

 

[*Eve*]

I'd like to chase Courtland Mead With an axe.
It has nothing to do with the movie though...

but tell us how you really feel

 

[mytasteislikecandy]

Who is that skanky actress that played the wife? Olive Oyle was the only role she has ever excelled in.

Shelley Duvall and she SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED in that movie. I hated her and wished she had died too!! And yes, the book is MUCH better than any film adaptation...but isn't that always how it is?

 

[sweet soft kiss]

Who is that skanky actress that played the wife? Olive Oyle was the only role she has ever excelled in.

Shelley Duvall.... I really liked her in Nashville and Brewster McCloud...

 

[Guest]

I just think Jack Nicholson made a much better "Jack"....In the remake, both Rebecca DeMornay and Courtland Mead's performances are so bad they make me cringe. I adore Stephen King, but I think next time, I'll just stick to reading the books...

 

[mytasteislikecandy]

I just think Jack Nicholson made a much better "Jack"....In the remake, both Rebecca DeMornay and Courtland Mead's performances are so bad they make me cringe. I adore Stephen King, but I think next time, I'll just stick to reading the books...

Misery was a good remake. Kathy Bates is the BEST!!! I love her....and that movie is very good if you haven't seen it. I'm a HUGE King fan. The new movie "Dreamcatcher" is coming out soon. I am afraid to go see it, but I'm going to anyway.....I hope it's worth it.

"Hearts in Atlantis" was good too....even tho that was only one section of the book. Anthony Hopkins is just good in everything tho.

 

[openthighs_sarah]

I read somewhere that Kubrick frequently screamed at Duvall on the set because she wasn't performing the scenes the way he wanted. And it may only be an urban legend, but I also heard that he urinated on her once. (Just kidding! I just wanted to see how that looked in print: Stanley Kubrick urinating on Shelly Duvall...)

Personally I couldn't watch the remake because it had that doofus from "Wings" in it. Right or wrong, the character became Jack Nicholson, and maybe he played it like a psychotic axe murderer (making his character's transformation into "a psychotic axe murder" less than startling) instead of Joe Family Man, but so be it. It was definitely much more Stanley Kubrick than Stephen King, but I've always had a soft spot for Kubrick. Such a warm, endearing filmmaker... And how can you not like someone who terrorized Shelly Duvall like that?

And I have to disagree about movies that don't match their source material. Maybe it's annoying if you truly loved the book, and maybe it really is a mistake when important things are left out, but if my book was being made into a movie, I'd rather have a brilliant director making something unique and wonderful (and tailored to the medium) than one who was slavishly devoted to appeasing an existing fan base (case in point: Christopher Columbus and the "Harry Potter" movies). Maybe it'll fail miserably, but at least it'll have a spectacular demise. Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter" was very different in structure from the book by Russell Banks, but it was still wonderful. Different from the book, but wonderful.

I do hate directors who take a great book and cash in on its popularity, making something banal and lifeless out of it.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

The one movie that was better than the book: "The Mailman", the movie was much better plotted and made more sense that the book, which was more sci-fi...and bad sci-fi at that

And the movie "The Client" made the switch very well, with the only big change being that several small lines given by side characters where tightened up to come from one character.

 

[drown]

Just watched the remake of "The Shining"...Although it followed the book pretty closely, I just don't like it as much as Kubrick's version, even though the woman in room 217 is alot scarier in the remake. Just a thought....

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