I just saw...(SPOILERS)
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 5:31am
...The Shining for the first time of my life today (the movie, not the miniseries). I gotta say, knowing what was going to happen before it did kinda ruined the experience for me...(thanks a lot Kas and your Shining in 60 Seconds as performed by Bunnies) Jack Nicholson was scary, but he wasn't that scary. The movie wasn't very "horrifying". And I get the sneaking suspicion that boredom was the main reason for the homosexual man-in-bear suit encounter. I mean come on? That scene was pretty goddamn pointless, if not just to make Shelley Duvall scream some more (Christ, that poor woman. All she did in the movie was scream her ass off, must've been hell to act like that). The look in Nicholson's frozen corpse was priceless. Anyway, thats all I wanted to say. It was a very good movie, but it wasn't a scary movie.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 6:01am
People were easier to scare when it was made.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 7:58am
I was expecting a lot more gore when Jack killed that black Shiner guy.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 12:24pm
Read the book. The movie is trash compared to the book.

Although dead bathtub lady gives me the creeps.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 2:30pm
The book rox.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 3:08pm
I heard that the miniseries stayed truer to the book, but the miniseries didn't have Jack Nicholson in it.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 3:39pm
Yeah, the miniseries was more truer to the book.

And the original was pretty much a bore to me, but I do like the cinematography of Stanley Kubrick.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 5:30pm
I've noticed that some of the supposedly "scariest movies of all time" are really not that frigthening at all. The Exorcist, for example.
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  • Posted On: Aug 20 2004 11:51pm
The Exorcist is more gory and repulsive than anything else.
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  • Posted On: Aug 21 2004 5:40am
Again, people were easier to scare in the past. They were scary movies, once.