Hello I just wanted to get some opinions on what you liked better?
The Shining the movie or the Novel.
Also what do you think of the endings in each?
Hello I just wanted to get some opinions on what you liked better?
The Shining the movie or the Novel.
Also what do you think of the endings in each?
"You've had your whole F***ing life to think things over, what good's a few minutes minutes more gonna do you now?"
Haha I have never watched it. I will do so now though.
"You've had your whole F***ing life to think things over, what good's a few minutes minutes more gonna do you now?"
I don't think he got the joke J and Y. But that's exactly what I was thinking.\
And to answer the question.....The novel....always.
Sloth Love Chunk
In a nutshell, I love both versions of The Shining to death, but in different ways, and I'm glad both exist. The ending to the novel is a little odd, but not so much in what happens as how it happens. The ending to the movie is odd but there that's the point--it leaves you thinking.
In sum, they're two very different animals, and I love both for different reasons.
I would agree. I like the novel ending the best. I think if the movie would have had some more of what the novel had I.E. the moving hedges, and the basement scenes, it may have been better.
Jack Nicholson was the only person who could have played Jack Torrance in my mind.
"You've had your whole F***ing life to think things over, what good's a few minutes minutes more gonna do you now?"
I too, am blonde.
Sloth Love Chunk
This thread should be moved to The gem Theatre I think if someone doesn't mind sending it along to us.
Adore the book and just didn't like the (theatrical) movie. Nicholson was good (duh!) but just too over the top for me. They just left too much out. Liked the mini-series with Steven Weber much better though.
Novel... without question
Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.
I love the story, but I will say that I am partial to film. It's one of my all-time favorites.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I didn't like the movie at all; especially not Jack Nicholson in it. If it was an original screenplay, I might have liked it to at least an extent, but not after I read the book. In the book Jack Torrance is a real live man who tries to fight both his inner demons and the ones who come get him from the outside, and succumbs to both, - and it's that story that was so dear to me in the book. Nicholson is brilliant, he definitely steals the show, he shows off, he is irresistible, he is a total genius in this, basically, one-man performance, he is funny and scary and positively hypnotizing - and given all that, he is anything but a real man you could sympathize with. For me he is as far from the Jack-in-the-book as possible. (And the rest of the movie is just plainly pathetic.)
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yet despite all of this, I have watched the movie a 100 times.....and still enjoy watching it.
Sloth Love Chunk
Well...I certainly like the book's ending better. But I like happy endings...or least happier than the one you get from the movie. And I can certain get where Jean is coming from on this one. I can watch the Shining. The imagery is outstanding. But in the end, yeah, I prefer the book.
Agreed 100%.
PLUS.
Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance looked batshit crazy from scene one.
In this order:
1) The novel.
2) The mini-series for its more accurate adaptation.
3) Kubrick's story by the same name with the same characters in the same hotel with the same ghosts, but really isn't The Shining at all.*
*I love it. It just is NOT Stephen King's The Shining.
{hijack}Incidentally, King just got called a big old perv over at snopes.com because of his short stories. {/hijack}
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
If you can separate it from the book mentally it's an enjoyable and entertaining movie I think. I think the problem is we know what it could have/should have been. If Mr. Nicholson could have supressed that over the top shit until the end and acted more sublimely and progressed to that point I think it would have been brilliant. I still have fond memories of the film though.
Thank you, sir!
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"