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Faithful to the novel but this film is Complete Soulless Trash.
The Shining. The TV version. Completely void of the menace that is Jack Torrance. The boy, Danny, is quite possibly the most annoying child actor ever filmed. His imaginary friend is a ridiculous and also incredibly annoying floating teen in hightops that speaks as though he's hosting sesame street.
While this version is the true to the novel in perfect chronological order, it's also accomplished the task of turning the best horror novel ever written into a cheesy, unbearable, TV safe movie.
Bravo King, another laughing stock TV "Horror" movie! With the results of 'Dreamcatcher' I think most fans would approve of you sticking strictly to the writing horror. Stop selling out and Stop selling your scripts to cheesy television networks. Please leave the production of your movies to visionaries and acclaimed directors like Krubrick. Bringing darkness to the screen is an entirely different affair than bringing it to paper. Bringing great novels onto film must be entrusted to the best producers and directors in the profession, not some B movie/TV made director clown. All of King's TV made movies have had shameful results. This piece of garbage is no different. The only reason I didn't shut it down early is that I enjoy the book so much I wanted to see how each sequence adapted to film. What I found was a lightened film completely void of anticipation and terror.
Even for the biggest Overlook/Stanley hotel horror fan this film is not worth watching. Not even once. It ruins the visions you had of the events and chapters and turns them into atrocious and unintentional slapstick PG horror. If you prefer a "lighter" shade of Overlook and Jack T. than this is for you. If you prefer your perception of the novel untarnished than just read it again or enjoy Krubrick's dark, albiet somewhat liberal, adaptation of the story.
Stephen King's The Shining
Stephen King's 1997 TV miniseries outshines Stanley Kubricks Bizarre version of King's Novel.Stephen king writes the teleplay for this miniseries all but exactly to the tone of his brillant novel. Mick garris does an oustanding job directing this miniseries. Rebecca De Mornay star's as Wendy Torrance. De Mornay is so much superior to Shelley Duval's perfomance in Kubricks version. Duvall spent nearly the whole time in kubrick's version running around with her mouth hanging open and her eyes bulging as if she were semi - retarded.Steven weber gives a superb performance as Jack Torrance. Now , Steven weber is not even in the same league as Jack Nicholson. But as far as this 1997 miniseries is concerned Weber acting is so much more believable and controlled than Nicholson's in Kubrick's Bizarre version. In kubrick's version Nicholson immediately flies off the handle before you can understand why or get into his plight. Some of the faces nicholson makes throughout Kubricks' version get more and more retarded looking as well. While Weber's descent into madness is much more controlled and graduall. Courtland Mead isn't great but his character is much more involved and in depth than Danny Lloyd's Character in Kubrick's version. Lloyd spent the whole movie riding around on a big wheel and repeating redrum over and over and that was about it. While mead gives so much more depth and keeps you so much more interested in his own plight.The overlook Hotel's appearence is outstanding and just as spooky as anything there is. It's creepy old basement filled with old papers of past violent history intruig Weber. The snowbound hotel is both beautiful and menacing to look at.The real best aspect of the film is it's haunting but yet handsome Bar and Ballroom which is ideal. there is a very menacing masked ballroom party that keeps your attention every little bit.With the film being on television , there had to be a little restraint but there are more than enough shocks and chills to spare with the Bathtub scene with the gruesome old lady standang out among many shocks. Melvin Van Peebles is fine as Mr. Holloran who comes to the rescue of De Mornay and Mead when Weber finally loses it and terrorizes them. The finale as well as the whole story in the miniseries is all but exactly the way it was told in King's Novel. Look for Stephen King who actually appears at the masked party in the Ballroom.There even is a touching scene at the very end of the film when De Mornay and Van Peebles attend Mead's high School Graduation. This miniseries is 4 hours and 30 minutes long but the film moves along so nicely and smoothly , that you don't even notice how long it really is. Compared to Kubrick's version which was 2 hours long , that film moved along at a snails pace and seemed to not want to end. Stephen King's 1997 miniseries is outstanding and faithful to his novel and blows away Kubrick's 1980 version.
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