FIRST TIME WATCHING: The Shining (1980) REACTION (Movie Commentary)

[@kevindorn2508]

Shelley Duvall gets overlooked alot in my opinion. She played the counterpart of sheer terror and helped to sell Nicholsons madness.

[@StreetHierarchy]

I think some of her performance is pretty wooden. I like the folksy vibe she brings to the more calm scenes, but I'm pretty sure Kubrick had to actually frustrate and terrorize her to get the final performance out of her.

[@StreetHierarchy]

And I love Shelley Duvall but mostly because she was Olive Oyl and because of her work on Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme.

[@Brooklyn_Bleek]

@@StreetHierarchy lol, to this day, Popeye is the only musical I can sit through thanks to the entire cast. Especially, Robin Williams & Shelley Duval's performance in it.

[@StreetHierarchy]

@@Brooklyn_Bleek i can't get with you there, bro; I'm a sucker for musicals. Robin Williams is magic in just about everything, though.

[@kevindorn2508]

@@StreetHierarchy yeah, thats what he had to do to get EVERYTHING out of her. But i beg to differ on the end result. I still think her display of terror is unparalleled.

[@JDelwynn]

Now press F for the poor assistant who had to write "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." manually for hundreds of pages and in multiple languages.

[@spindletopcenter]

I was thinking the same thing! And doing it for at least 4 International versions!

[@PeggyV69]

I always wondered that too! I feel bad for whoever had to type all those pages. This looks like a punishment assignment in Typing class in high school 🤪

[@snowflakepillow8697]

From Mental Floss: "No one is quite sure whether Kubrick typed 500 pages of “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Kubrick didn’t go to the prop department with this task, using his own typewriter to make the pages. It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. Some claim that it would have been characteristic of the director to individually prepare each page. Alas, we’ll never know-Kubrick never addressed this question before he died." Kubrick allegedly watched this documentary every day while make 2001: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amnKeoFqnayCmqs Maybe he knocked out a few pages of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" while making The Shining.

[@tideoftime]

It was all typed out by Kubrick's secretary, during her spare time at work, over a period of several months. (People often forget that this movie was filmed over the course of over a year -- going several times its initial budget and allotted filming time -- which is why his secretary actually had time to do this over "x" months.) It is one of those props that although only onscreen for a moment carries many times its "weight" in narrative screentime value.

[@dmwalker24]

I was born in 80, and it is a generational thing. Be self-reliant, stay out of trouble, and figure out how to entertain yourself. And it turns out most of us survived.

[@Raine-97]

My dad was an 80s kid and taught me the same things ha 😁

[@ryanslife6131]

Same here 💯

[@lewstone5430]

This is fiction. You know that right?

[@dmwalker24]

@@lewstone5430 You know that the film was actually made in a real time period in history, and occasionally things change over time, right?

[@drakelondon6849]

30:00 "If he kills Mr. Halloran I'm going to be so mad." I loved how much you were rooting for Mr. H. Felt the same way. He was such a good guy!

[@parallaxnick637]

"if he kills Dick Holloran, I'll be pissed off." You and Stephen King.

[@rickardroach9075]

The Shining didn’t help him see that axe coming!

[@st0n3p0ny]

Stephen King was obviously wrong IMO. Don't get me wrong, I love the vintage-cheese "bad" Stephen King movies, but, Kubrick had nothing to apologize for. This movie will live forever. The Shining miniseries is already forgotten.

[@Guitcad1]

@@st0n3p0ny I think the book could have made a good film (or miniseries) but King wasn't the one to make it happen. It was badly miscast, badly written and badly directed. The story is just all wrong for TV, at least when that was made. Plus after the Kubrick film any adaptation is going to suffer from comparison, even if it's more faithful to the book.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

Groundskeeper Willy: After being hacked in the back with an axe for the third time. "Oh, I'm bad at this." :)

[@Grnademaster]

Haha...right!

[@hungfao]

'If you're going to cheat on your wife, don't tell you did it with a rotting corpse' Words of wisdom, CI, words of wisdom.

[@kated5477]

I was a kid in the 70's. Our parents didn't care where we were as long as we came home for dinner. Not negligent - they really didn't think anything bad would happen to us. Different times.

[@dmwalker24]

And they were trying to teach us about making decisions on our own. If you're not given the chance to screw up, then it's difficult to make the responsible choice.

[@wonderlandian8465]

The movie really gives the audience the impression that Mr Holloran is going to provide comfort. They build his return to the hotel in such a way where everybody assumes that he is going to assist the family in some way in order for them to escape (essentially , he did save Wendy by distracting Jack) but then he gets instantly murdered. Only adds to the sense of hopelessness the movie exudes. Shelley Duval's performance is just as important as Jack Nicholson's imo. Loved your reaction

[@jdm1066]

...He brought the Snowcat, so he did save them...

[@iamamaniaint]

He sacrifices himself, in a way, for them. Notice how we start hearing chanting in the background after he's murdered. The hotel is getting excited because they have some blood. He's definitely a hero in this film.

[@44excalibur]

FYI: In the novel, the woman in room 237(room 217 in the novel) was actually an attractive woman in her 30s who was having an affair with a young college student in his early 20s, and the Overlook Hotel was where they had their secret, illicit sexual rendezvous, since such a relationship would be scandalous in the 1920s. When the young man decided to break off the relationship, the woman was so heartbroken and distraught she committed suicide in the bathtub of room 237(217), which is the room they used for their carnal activities. Ever since then, her rotting and decomposing spirit has been trapped in that room in the Overlook, always wanting and waiting for a new "paramour."

[@iceman1833]

Um okay, but she got out of that room in Dr. Sleep to help absorb “Rose the Hat” and was in the young girl’s bathroom at the end to be restricted to her coffin.

[@44excalibur]

@@iceman1833 The Overlook burned to the ground in the original novel The Shining, and at the end of the Doctor Sleep movie, remember? There was no haunted hotel to hold her.

[@MontagZoso]

@@iceman1833 your comment has nothing to do with the original book.

[@Ocrilat]

@@MontagZoso Yea, in the book Doctor Sleep the hotel burned down (from the original book) and was never rebuilt. Also, I've said this before (on other videos) but it isn't a good idea to use the book to try and understand the film. The Shining book and film are separate entities. For example, clearly in the film there is some connection between Room 237 and the Grady sisters that was not in the book.

[@Ocrilat]

I think the only valid authorities in reference to the film are what is actually in the film, and your own perceptions.

[@cshubs]

I was a kid in the 70s. We didn't wear bike helmets, and we rode bikes everywhere on our own. No seatbelts in cars. And grownups smoked everywhere, including cars, restaurants, theaters, hospitals, and airplanes. Our folks didnt watch us as we played. we more or less came home when it got dark or cold.

[@barryscott8041]

Got this from several sources, research; .....in the 1920s there was a Silent film star who stayed at the Overlook. She ended up living out her life there. When she got old, her Boytoy/Companion left her for a younger woman. Despondent, the elderly Star drowned herself in her own bathtub.....in Room 237. She wasn't discovered for awhile........Both Ghosts of naked women are the same person. Thanks for an intelligent, patient review of this Classic!

[@lordwalker71]

I was a born in 1971 and parents definitely didn’t keep as close of an eye on their kids back then, it wasn’t until the early 80’s and there were a lot of child abductions in the news that people started to keep their kids on a short leash. I remember waking to my friends house by myself when I was 5 or 6 and walked to school by myself but when I look at 5 year olds now they seem so helpless compared to 5 years old back in the 70’s. The director tormented Shelly Duvall while making this because he wanted her to be on edge all the time and he told crew to never comfort her when she was upset, he would make them film scenes over and over like the stair scene that was filmed 125 times. A lot of people think that making this movie triggered shellys mental health issues that she is still suffering from today.

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Yeah however she made the choice to be in the film Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had problems also its the choice you made being in one of his films

[@jeannieschmidt2217]

@@andylikesstuffchannel Choosing to be in this film - does NOT equate to choosing to be abused. Mr. Kubric could have and should have been a lot more professional. No person deserves to be treated like that.

[@pencilnecked1579]

Maybe if she had been a better, you know, actor, she wouldn't have needed Kubrick to drag the performance out of her.

[@voodoochile333]

Keep it light, man

[@jeannieschmidt2217]

Being abusive to your cast doesn't make them better actors. Scaring a performance out of someone isn't anything to be proud of. Shelley was never the same after this movie. It broke her.

[@FallenHellscape]

The maze saved Danny. He knew what he was doing in there and he handled himself intelligently.

[@alanfeldstein9761]

"They don't look after this kid at all..." Back then, parents weren't overprotective. That's how I grew up to be normal.

[@JBWinter]

Tbf, King intended them to be negligent by 70s standards too

[@user-zj5jp8zc1j]

Well now parents have to be overprotective because it’s a crazy world.

[@alanfeldstein9761]

@@user-zj5jp8zc1j It's always been a crazy world. The only thing that's changed is that parents have become paranoid.

[@norwegianblue2017]

Danny is a GenX kid, which means he didn't have all that much supervision from his parents. My parents had no idea where I was half the time. As long as it wasn't dark out they didn't worry too much about that kind of thing.

[@carloslionel1653]

This movie is a psychological MASTERPIECE. It proves you don't need jump scares to create horror.

[@Bob-jm8kl]

Neither Jack, Wendy, nor Danny/Tony are the main characters. The Overlook Hotel is the main character. As for Mr. Hallorann, his death seemed gratuitous as it was the only murder in present time. But his flying across the country wasn't in vain. He distracted Jack from moments of chopping up Wendy, and he brought up the snow cat for their escape. He's really the hero of the story.

[@angelaatwood46]

I remember friends that were guys who liked Bob back in the 80s. I never understood what the hell it meant, but then I read up on Bob's philosophy. I forgot what it meant though.

[@boredloner2609]

I feel like this movie isn’t “scary” as much as it’s “unsettling” and “creepy”. 10/10 film

[@Equint77]

One of my Top 5 movie of all time favorite films. Any movie that leaves you with so many questions and makes you rewatch over and over again looking for answers is a masterpiece in my opinion.

[@MsMelyjean]

The hotel itself eats and incorporates people. P.S. Halloran survived in the book.

[@nachoxm]

"incorporates". Yes. That's why "Charles" Grady changed into a 1920's English butler named "Delbert" Grady. Same with Jack in the photo.

[@julienielsen4462]

Great to hear that. I never read the book.

[@ggold3357]

Being born in '73 and raised throughout the late 70's and all of the 80's, it was great; leave the house at 9:00 am and not return until the street lights came on (in the summers). We had complete run of the neighborhoods. Sit down for dinner with mom and dad: "so what did you do today?". Such great memories of bike rides to anywhere, follow streams for miles, hanging out in garages, making up games and playing them for hours. Wouldn't trade it for the world.

[@skodiakman]

I was born in '89, and it was the same for me. But my parents were born in the 50s, so they instilled what they went through into me. Being overprotective is a recent thing from the middle 00s I'd say.

[@brothoftheworldbro4333]

When Jack Torrance has that conversation in the bathroom with the old caretaker Delbert Grady (or rather his ghost), who has torn his wife and daughters to pieces, and invites him to do the same thing with his wife and son, in a passage about the speech Grady tells Torrance "I know, because I've been here forever ..". Probably this is the key to the meaning of the ending in which Torrance appears in the photo during the party of the Hotel Owerlook on July 4, 1921. In reality, the spirit of Torrance is that of Delbert Grady and vice versa, as both were possessed by evil and that cursed spirit has always been in that hotel, and will remain there forever

[@tideoftime]

That's one of the (many) reincarnation theories bandied about in that regard, and certainly makes sense in several contexts.

[@RoseTintMyWorld-cr5zo]

"Okay. I don't think they should be there." Calmest first reaction to the twins I've ever seen. Haha

[@pencilnecked1579]

Yeah not being a helicopter parent was the thing back in the day. I'm 39 and when I was a kid during the late 80s, weekend and summer days were spent playing out in the tract of woods behind the apartment complex we lived in, either with friends from the building or by myself if no one else was around.

[@st0n3p0ny]

Caped, if you ever watch this one again, pay attention to the interior layout of the hotel. There's some very disturbing stuff going on that nobody notices. Ulmman's office window for instance, he's bottom floor smack in the middle of the hotel, but you're seeing trees and bright sky out (that view was an impossible illusion). You also have the one shot steady cam of Danny riding around the halls, he goes from first floor to 2nd floor with no cuts and without going up stairs or anything.

[@LocalFoe]

My fav is the tv playing with no power cord.

[@st0n3p0ny]

@@LocalFoe never caught that. I think there was something interesting a chair against a wall in one scene. It moved or disappeared inexplicably. That doesn't happen by accident in a Kubric movie.

[@PeggyV69]

You mentioned how no one was watching Danny. It was the 70s we had a lot of freedom. On the weekends or during summer vacation I would leave the house early in the morning go to a friend’s house & not get back home until before dark. In the summertime when it wouldn’t get dark until almost 9pm we could be out playing until that time.

[@Being_There]

Yep generational..in the 1970s -80’s we would leave the house in the morning after breakfast to go play with our friends and have great adventures…as long as we were back by dinner! It’s sad the world’s too f_cked up now that kids lost their freedom. Basically…crazy people were rare and just not part of our “normal” American culture like it is today.

[@darkzer0670]

Yup and now crazy runs the world. People screaming science while saying men can give birth and forcing everyone to take an experimental drug cocktail or else they can't live.

[@whenthepawn1999]

@@darkzer0670 men can give birth if they’re trans

[@SVTDI]

@@whenthepawn1999 So they cant, a man can not give birth, a woman can.

[@SilverMenace100]

The guy getting blown by the man in the dog costume is Horace Derwent, the former owner of the hotel. In the novel, he wanted his friend to meet him upstairs on the night of the party.

[@3DJapan]

5:37 Yeah when we were kids in the 70s and 80s we could just go out on our own all day, as long as we were back by the time yes street lights came on.

[@angelaatwood46]

Yeah back in the 70s and 80s it was "go outside and play" meaning you finding something to do by yourself to amuse yourself either alone or with friends.

[@mattwhite2328]

Groundskeeper Willie: Ye’ve got the Shinnin’. Bart: You mean the Shining. Groundskeeper Willie: Shh! Ya wanna get sued???

[@hermithermit479]

Ya gotta check out the sequel now, Dr. Sleep. Tremendous film.

[@krissiep1317]

Yes, it’ll clear up some stuff.

[@Brooklyn_Bleek]

YES! But, it has to be the director's cut version. That movie is so good tho.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

It is nothing.

[@raisethe3]

Glad you're watching this classic film. It definitely deserve all the praises.

[@myfriendisaac]

The eeriest movie of all time 💯🎬👏🏾 Atmosphere, setting, the whole cast!

[@richardkrawczyk5606]

Kubrick made the lead characters do so many takes that they were practically insane by the end of each scene. Those are the scenes he kept. Nicholson hated him for it.

[@kennethmccullah4905]

One of my favorite movies ever. If you watch it again as you see the hotel working on Jacks sanity throughout, once he gets to the bar he says, "I'd sell my soul for a glass of beer." That's when he indeed did sell his soul to the evil hotel. I agree, Dick Halloran is a great guy and I was really upset when he got killed. In the book he lives. I highly suggest you watch Dr Sleep. Its an amazing sequel about a grown Danny.

[@pencilquest9409]

I'm 100% convinced the child abuse was the subtext of the film, and super important. Not a lot of people pick up on this. Good job!

[@fernicusmaximus9282]

It is said that Shelly Duvall was not acting she was truly this scared of Kubrick and the way he treated her making this movie.

[@sca88]

Yea, as a kid in the 70's, we traveled around unsupervised most of the time. I was chased by one of the 'Freeway Killers' serial killers Greg Miley (the leader was William Bonin, the last person executed in CA in the 90's) about 275 yards as the crow flys through forest right up to my backyard. The topography was uneven with a ravine and a creek which made it farther. I was just a kid but if I wasn't a fast runner and a good athlete he would have caught me because I could hear him about 15 yards behind me the whole way. I think all the serial killers throughout the 70's, especially the end of the decade, changed things for the 80's as far as unsupervised kids, although not as much you'd think.

[@babyfry4775]

Oh my goodness. That would give me nightmares.

[@davidbouchard3275]

Back in the early 1900's the hotel was completely packed to capacity. And the winter was horrid and the people were trapped so they ate all the food and when they ran out of food they had only people to eat. So thats exactly what they did. Yes the father did kill his wife and twin daughters. But the hotel boss left that story out about the cannibalism. You will see the picture of the people that were at the hotel when all that happened at the end of the movie. To your surprise look who is in the picture in the middle at the bottom. IT'S JACK NICHOLSON!!!!!

[@davidr1050]

The hallucinations weren't getting worse.. The more power the hotel gained, the more the past bled through into the present.

[@confucius12012]

Holy shit, I love these new Shining reactions popping up over the last few weeks!

[@WiseGuy5674]

In the novel, the hotel is alive and it depends on the caretaker to dump the boiler for the heat in the winter and because if it’s not dumped it can explode. The previous caretaker went crazy and bashed his family’s heads in with a huge wooden mallet. Oh, an btw, in the novel there was a section in the back with huge hedge animals instead of a maze.

[@theConquerersMama]

Shortly after this came out, we lived at a ski lodge for the winter season. Very busy place as opposed to The Overlook. However, as a kid/tween getting to run all over I would scare myself senseless imagining our hotel was haunted. Jumping at every little thing.

[@angelaatwood46]

Your pretty special. I've seen lots of movie reactions, but your intelligence holds a spotlight. Thanks for choosing this movie. Stanley Kubrick is the mastermind behind the film. The scariest one in my opinion was A Clockwork Orange, which he did very well, ten times more frightening than The Shining. If you do a movie reaction to that, I would be very interested in your reactions.

[@bigredtlc1828]

Extra film from the beginning wide shots of the mountain landscape was used by Warner Bros when they inserted the happy ending for Blade Runner where Decker and Rachel escape. Interesting connection.

[@Alli8833]

When you wondered about how they raised the kid, being cool about him knowing about cannibalism, someone keeping a close eye on kids, etc... dude, that was just the early 80s! A whole different world for kids back then! A frankly, possessed hotels aside, it was an awesome way to grow up!

[@TheKayaklover]

Remember at the beginning when he tells Wendy, "I like it. I feel like I've been here before", right after they checked in. I guess that's like an answer to your ending comments, "That just messed me up". I like your mind.

[@iangrant3615]

The ending is perhaps trying to suggest that the hotel absorbed his spirit and he becomes part of the 'party' of guests/ghosts from the 1920s that Jack himself was able to see when he was unraveling. The fact it seemed like it was his destiny/fate to end up at the hotel and that he said he felt he had been there before adds another layer of intrigue to the notion that it wasn't just random, but something perhaps that was compelled by the hotel, or whatever forces are behind it.

[@odemusvonkilhausen]

It's interesting hearing the difference between generations, and when and how we were raised. You talk like Jack and Wendy are unfit parents, because they let Danny have a little freedom and ride his bigwheel around the hotel. My brother and I left the house in the morning, came back at 6 for dinner, and then went back out until 10 pm. We never checked in or anything.. And when you were asking what the point of the maze was, I was thinking, "There is fun to be had, that doesn't involve a screen or monitor", and then you confirmed my suspicion. I'm so glad I grew up when I did.

[@SaraBanartist]

Jack Nicholson's eyebrows have reached a level of menace not seen since Joan Crawford.

[@jonc2648]

Mr. Holloran can receive premonitions from Miami, but 100 feet from an axe murderer he can’t perceive anything? I doubt that. Mr. Halloran sacrificed himself; he’s hero of the film.

[@babyfry4775]

Jack was great in this movie. It is a psychological movie. The hotel is haunted and they’re finally seeing the ghosts who are there. Grady let him out of the freezer. Jack slowly goes crazy and the boy and Mr. Halloran knew bad things were coming. They’re prescient. This is based on Stephen King staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado. He encountered some haunting there. My husband and I stayed there and didn’t experience any haunting but we took a tour and some weird things happened on the tour. It’s in a beautiful setting. Good reaction. Everyone was good in this movie.

[@brianoneil9662]

I rewatch this just for the dogman-BJ scene reaction "What the hell is that? Aw hell NO! What the hell IS THAT?" Makes me laugh every time.

[@johnnypatneaud5493]

The "HERE'S JOHNNY!!!" Scene, scared me as a kid, for reasons I don't have to explain.

[@StayWildflower]

Now you're going to want to catch Dr. Sleep, it's tell Danny's story as an adult.

[@normcmiller]

The hotel eats souls and then incorporates them into its history.

[@falcon215]

Stephen King actually didn't like Jack Nicholson's performance. He thought it was way over the top but I can't imagine anyone else doing a better job.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

Cool fact the ice cream scene was shot i think 80 times poor Scatman Crothers told Stanley "Please man I can't do this anymore," while the little boy and actor Danny Loyd took it in stride and actually had a lot of fun.

[@sprayarm]

Always ready for another Shining reaction!

[@AntonioReyes-ov7vl]

There's a very good breakdown on the movie you can find on KZbin that explains how it's Danny projecting his thoughts into his father's head.

[@hv3926]

Danny's toy bike is called a Big Wheel I was a little old for them (I was already 10). But I was well aware of them.

[@smallvillefan72]

"Lock the door!" "Burn the room down!" lol hilarious 🤣😯

[@selenawolf2466]

Poor Mr. Halloran. But he DID save them - he brought the snowcat for Shelly and Danny to escape.

[@staciepoole8161]

No one seems to realize that Tony actually protected and saved Danny’s life. Think about it.

[@shainewhite2781]

Stephen King hated the movie as it cut scenes from the novel that never made it in the film. Stanley Kubrick filmed 20 takes for the scene that involves Shelley Duvall swinging the bat. She lost most of her hair during filming. A fire broke out in one of the soundstages where they were filming. Jack Nicholson slept on the set between scenes. Scatman Crothers cried after Kubrick filmed his scenes 50 times, and asked why he couldn't make up his mind. No one treated Shelley Duvall with respect throughout the remainder of the shoot.

[@stephanx2384]

There's a behind the scenes footage video on here where Jack is getting into character for the axe vs door scene. It's absolutely stunning.

[@indridcold3762]

"Ooooohhhhh axe murderer......kill"

[@rnw2739]

Stunning?!!! You're easily pleased... it was pathetic.

[@st0n3p0ny]

Kubrick set it up with a flimsy prop door the first time too. But, Jack was a trained firefighter and he was just blasting through it too easily.

[@joannebell3614]

The way they use the music in this film is astonishing. Also, have a look at the documentary on it. I think you'll like it.

[@dsmkrotj4990]

Both Danny and Mr.Holleran can communicate telepathically.

[@caoilo6812]

I was born in the late 80's here in Ireland up until the 00's you were expected to play quietly inside or quietly outside and no one cares where you were or what you did until it got dark. You were expected to look after yourself. Though we weren't really allowed to watch what ever we wanted you could once in a while get away with it on the bedroom TV. Myself, one of my sister and a cousin used to go for walks for miles out into the countryside where we lived and no one ever batted an eye lid even though we were all under 12. I couldn't be ok with that now. The thing was I was probably safer doing that then being at home. TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ I suffered a lot of abuse growing up. All from family. When the Caped informer said he had never heard anyone play down the abuse of their child before he had never met my mother. Not only was one of her things to play it down, she often blamed me on my own abuse, a lot of which came from her. Once at 13 I tried to commit suicide she told everyone that the mark around my neck was an allergic reaction from starch 🤣

[@GForce_ART]

"You alright Jack?......no no.... he's not ok...." XD

[@lynnb9124]

Great reaction. I first saw this movie when I was 10, and even to this day, I still feel uneasy whenever I watch it. The scene with that woman in the bathtub still disturbs me.

[@jillk368]

There was a made for TV miniseries produced by Stephen King. It goes much more into depth as to the hotel's history, the Torrance family history and it's brilliantly acted also. Kubrick's The Shining is an all-time favorite movie for me. But I have also come to appreciate how well done Stephen King's The Shining was. I highly recommend - - that and the book as well.

[@_SPARTAMARCUS]

The sequel to this movie is fantastic! Not a horror film but still great. It is called DOCTOR SLEEP.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

It is just garbage.

[@neilsun2521]

Whenever the kid's watching TV it's always 'Roadrunner' on. To subliminally tell the audience he's gonna be running later in the film...

[@AW-yj6md]

First of all, loved watching you watch this classic,..Jack Nicholason is so masterful in this,..I swear this and him as Joker in Batman are like his top performances,.and of course One Flew Over To Cuckoo's Nest,..I feel like movies like this,..they just give him lines,..and the director just says action, and they unleash him,..they don't have to tell him how to act it out, just give him his lines, tell him where to stand, and thats it!,..of course Kubrick is the masterful director, like Ridley Scott,.shows you these long isolated scenes of the countryside, then the vastness of the hotel,.how even if.you weren't a kid you could get lost, the scene of Wendy, Shelly Duval trying to escape,..like Sigourney in Alien,..going down frightful hallways,..never knowing what will pop out and get her,..and a simple scene with blood flowing like a waterfall from the elevator is enough to terrify you,..and show you how evil that place is,..genius director, genius actors, everything just fell into place,..huh watching movies like this, and Alien,..makes you so not want to go to some country lodge, or outerspace,..Jaws has you never wanting to go near the ocean!,..loved it when you nearly lost your cookies in front of us,..lol when Jack was going tongue and cheek with the corpse,..and Mr. Holloran,..yess, yess, aka "Scatman" Crothers,..bet you didn't know you were watching a legend,..could "scat" with the best of them, like,...hmmm like ummm Ella Fitzgerald!,..yeah, yeah, of course you didn't know,..cause you're just a kid,..I was so pleasantly surprised when I first saw this movie and saw he was in it,..just a jewel,..don't know how Kubrick got him to do it, amazing, and wonderful,. and Shelly, she was Olive Oil,.yeah that Olive Oil, none other than Popeye the sailor man!,..the movie, with Robin Williams, not everyone's fav, but I loved it, I mean c'mon Popeye brought to life, and who else could've pulled it off but Robin God Bless him Rip,..Shelly also I think was a guest of "the Crypt Keeper", in Tales of The Crypt series, great actress,.and also the bartender Jack first sees,.is that super rich, replicant creator Tyrell from Blade Runner😉,.do check out the other shows they've all done, Jack was in some interesting ones before this, "Five Easy Pieces, Carnal Knowledge with Art Garfunkel,.(yeah, of Simon and Garfunkel),..do check out the other shows, Godspeed, Peace ✌

[@Floridabackroads69]

The parental criticism that you gave is generational before Adam Walsh was kidnapped and murdered son of famed John Walsh of America's most wanted Fame kids would just wander around on their own nothing was wrong with this I grew up this way as well as my peers when Adam walsh was kidnapped and murdered that's when things changed and parents kept a constant eye on their children ever since

[@pulkmees]

Well Mr. Halloran did help. He got a working Snowcat up there for them to escape with.

[@derekhilton8859]

My two favourite parts of the review .. Jack at the bar: "words of wisdom, Lloyd, words of wisdom". Secondly, When you said the head chef at the Lookout has good taste in art. Damn straight!!! Too bad you had to blur that part out. Love this movie!

[@msdarby515]

Just found your channel and this is my 3rd reaction I've watched. Love your insights, intelligence, and especially your commentary throughout. Great channel. Subscribed!

[@flibber123]

There are A LOT of theories about what's going on in this movie. I believe what you see is what you get, this hotel is haunted. They are not hallucinating. The shining is sort of a psychic power, but it also powers the ghosts in the hotel. That's why people with the shining can see the ghosts. Hallorann has the shining, so that's why he knows the hotel is haunted. But his shining ability is not that powerful. That's why the ghosts in the hotel don't scare him away from working there. Danny's ability is very powerful, which is why he can call Hallorann for help and why the hotel wants him to die there. Grady, his daughters, and Jack are all stuck there as ghosts, so we can guess Danny and his power would have been stuck there too if Jack had managed to kill him.

[@misandristmayhem]

I really think that they were all clairvoyant, it just manifested differently for each of them. Mr. Halloran stated that him and his grandmother had the shining, so I assume that he (Mr. Halloran) gained it from her. I believe Danny gained it from his parents.

[@Chilipotamus]

His mom didn't have the Shining, he got it from his father, which is why they were seeing everything from the get go. Danny is immensely talented and powerful, and the hotel feeds off that power and gets stronger the longer he spends in the hotel. Shelly only sees the visions when things are coming to a head and the hotel is strong enough to manifest itself. Just the read I got on it.

[@theprophet9429]

Imagine watching this as a red blooded teenager, like I did. Mr Hallorann's artwork was still fresh in my mind when Kubrick revealed the petrifying naked old hag. I didn't know what to think. Set me back years. 😂

[@filipohman7277]

Awesome Work Bro, Thanks 👍👍 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

[@kennymonty8206]

Yeah, kids back in the day kind of just took care of themselves. Our parents either worked us hard or neglected us entirely, or some combination of that. In the Summer, I recall my parents telling me to go outside and have fun and come back when it was time for dinner, about sunset. Sometimes it was boring. But, once you got used to it, it was really great. You wouldn't believe me if I told you the stories of the things that happened to me.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

The photo means he was always the Keeper Doctor Sleep explains it well the hotel is "Alive" and it chooses a specific family the photo basically shows that their will always be a Jack,Danny and Wendy hence all the ghost in the Hotel they are an imprint of those people however the soul is long gone to the after life the evil is left and the hotel feeds on that at least that's what I think it means I find that is the most making sense theory there is.

[@NSoutherland_WellnessMD]

I love your reactions , " Boy, keep peddlin." I cried 😂😂😂😂

[@russellhunt2071]

The director constantly berated Jacks wife in this. He did it to make her crying scenes more believable.

[@aallerton]

Hi! I watched this movie first when I was about 12 and it messed me up so bad that I literally couldn't sleep for a couple of weeks. Since then I've watched it countless times and every time I discovered something new. Not to mention that it's one of the most over-analyzed pieces of cinema ever made. BTW, King famously hated the movie and the book is a totally different thing. Basically what Kubrick did was he took the basic plot line of the story and created his own masterpiece around it. As a big fan of "The Shinning" I really enjoyed your reaction video. 👍

[@staciepoole8161]

Tony was protecting Danny. Tony showed up when the abuse start, years before.

[@japython]

That's a fire axe, I think alot of building might still have them

[@Chapterhouse86]

Thank you for not censoring the only "offensive" thing in the film. It seems all streaming platforms that has this movie have removed that line completely now. Imagine editing a masterpiece because a word hurt your feelings.

[@scottjo63]

There was a mini series more based on King's book and was King approved you should go check out that really answers questions like Tony who lived in Danny's mouth and Danny's big Shine to Mr. Halloran that actually wakes up the ghosts of the hotel. Also, there's Dr. Sleep. Not only one of the best sequels ever made, but paid GREAT homage to this Shining. If you think this Shining was disturbing wait until you watch Dr. Sleep. Even Ewan McGregor's "force" is no help. He's in it as the grown up Danny.

[@TTM9691]

Doctor Sleep is so/so and nowhere near "one of the best sequels ever made", not even close (and Stephen King's miniseries is not particularly great either.) If you have questions, or need a sequel, just read the book (Both of them). If you liked it and want to say so, fine, but please don't be over-hyperbolic, declaring that something is "one of the best ever" when half the people who've seen it think it's unbelievably lame. (like me). It's good for about 20 minutes in the middle when it stops trying to remind you of "The Shining". The "homages" are ridiculous and never-ending. All you needed was: this is Danny grown up. The book doesn't go back to the Overlook, and my gosh, that was just the most ridiculous, laughable, un-scary thing I've ever seen. If anything that movie teaches you what Kubrick brought to the table, because you can recreate a set, but you can't light and photograph it and make it seem ghostly and alive like Kubrick.

[@markfeggeler3479]

The book is much more respectful to its characters. Halloran survives, Wendy has more depth and strength, and the hotel is a character in its own right.

[@Mc.Garnagle]

Respectful? Those are what's called "creative choices." King made them with the novel and Kubrick made his own with the film. They're completely different entities.

[@ccrdcd38]

Danny made up the finger thing when Tony speaks himself

[@joerenaud8292]

The Overlook Hotel was built on a sacred Indian burial ground and the construction crews had to fight off Indians while building it so there was a curse on the hotel right from the start and the jet set and super rich became infected with returning there year after year creating the most horrific deaths and murders that infected the hotel over time. And people like Jack Torrence would reincarnate over and over again to visit that hotel to recreate those horrors one life time after another, just as they all did. When you do the research and know just how psychotic the globalists really are, you have no trouble understanding how things like this can happen and Stanley Kubrik was intimately close to a lot of the super rich and knew these kinds of things did in fact happen. Far more horrifying things have happened that Stanley Kubrik was aware of but he was eventually silenced and murdered for trying to divulge those secrets through his movies.

[@hakanyuksel985]

That's probably one of the best examples of house is the monster kinda thing. And in this case the house has taken another victim, that is Jack. All the other visions are probably old visitors and maybe even victims of the hotel. And yeah as you might have realised it's got a very sick sense of atmosphere, what with teddy bear man doing that thing with tuxedo guy and so on

[@JoyfulOrb]

Big hedge mazes were built, originally, as places people could walk and talk in privacy, without it being scandalous, since they were in the public garden. So, young couples, older couples, groups of friends sneaking alcohol, big parties with dancing, it was a thing! History is great.

[@Cheryworld]

Best Movie of a Stephen King novel: Firestarter (1984) Drew Barrymore as a little girl with psychic powers

[@seanrobey8335]

She was actually scared the whole time at the climax those tears and screams were real