Incidentally,if any of you haven't seen the 1997 TV miniseries of The Shining, it's absolutely fantastic.
Teleplay by King, filmed in/around/on sets designed after the Stanley hotel (that inspired the book in the first place), and follows the book's story a lot closer than Kubrick's movie.
It also has a brilliant performance by Steven Weber that, in my mind's eye, solidifies him as /my/ Jack Torrance.
(Teleplay by King, filmed in/around/on sets designed after the Stanley hotel (that inspired the book in the first place), and follows the book's story a lot closer than Kubrick's movie.
It also has a brilliant performance by Steven Weber that, in my mind's eye, solidifies him as /my/ Jack Torrance.
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Tue 8 Jan 2019, 18:39,
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The guy who plays Dick is superfly The woman who plays Wendy is smoking hot
The guy who plays Jack..is
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I think the original is still the creepier..but it’s a bloody good version of it
(The guy who plays Jack..is
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I think the original is still the creepier..but it’s a bloody good version of it
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Tue 8 Jan 2019, 19:52,
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Wendy's hot in the book, and Melvin Van Peebles as Dick is spot on!I'm with King in that I don't fully understand why people are frightened by the movie, and I'm glad he made the miniseries.
Especially as it had the spooky topiary animals instead of a boring hedge maze.
There's a scene toward the end where Jack is trying to wrench back control from the hotel to save Danny, and Weber's performance as he keeps vacillating is a really great bit of acting.
Incidentally, Steven Weber also read the audiobook version of "It" and that's pretty good, too.
(Especially as it had the spooky topiary animals instead of a boring hedge maze.
There's a scene toward the end where Jack is trying to wrench back control from the hotel to save Danny, and Weber's performance as he keeps vacillating is a really great bit of acting.
Incidentally, Steven Weber also read the audiobook version of "It" and that's pretty good, too.
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Tue 8 Jan 2019, 21:16,
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I need to rewatch the remake again at some pointwouldn’t say the film version was a horror story or scary movie. more like a thriller based in a haunted hotel but it is chock full of wtf moments and creepy as fuck :)
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Tue 8 Jan 2019, 21:32,
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I read the book first but loved the film precisely because it's clearly Kubrick's.
Like a good cover version.
Got to be honest, from the clips I saw of the TV version it looked a bit... cheap. But then TV productions probably had a fraction of the budget of these days' HBO type stuff
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Tue 8 Jan 2019, 21:33,
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Like a good cover version.
Got to be honest, from the clips I saw of the TV version it looked a bit... cheap. But then TV productions probably had a fraction of the budget of these days' HBO type stuff
Yes!I remember watching this. I was quite young at the time, but still, the scene with the woman in the bath was one of the most frightening things I've seen on TV.
I imagine it'd probably be pretty tame now mind, but having watched the miniseries first I didn't find the Kubrick film anywhere near as good as most people seem to.
(I imagine it'd probably be pretty tame now mind, but having watched the miniseries first I didn't find the Kubrick film anywhere near as good as most people seem to.
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Tue 8 Jan 2019, 22:44,
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