THE SHINING (1980) Movie Review

[@daveminion6209]

i just realized you have been on KZbin since 2007!!!! so i just had to follow. great job, awesome channel. keep up the great work !!!

[@seven2eight2]

Great review. Great movie. "Wendy, darling, light of my life...." fucking love the bat scene.

[@justintricate3258]

soy_tal_ "Im not gonna hurt ya, im just gonna bash your brain in. Right the fuck in!"

[@lucagiovanetti9870]

A masterpiece that a lot of people do not appreciate, and who keep comparing it to the Stephen King's novel, expecting to see a faithful adaptation, but failing to understand that kubrick was inspired by the book but went in a totally different direction, giving us an archetypical/ onirical/ parapsychological interpretation of the story and not a mainstream horror plot. That's what makes it so brilliant and amazing!

[@123rockfan]

Luca Giovanetti Kubrick is my favorite director, but I think The Shining is a lot of style over substance. And most of the acting is genuinely terrible in my opinion, especially Duvall. And the overly calculated cinematography and music is really insufferable. But I can definitely see why people love the film, even though I dislike it.

[@arnavverma4507]

@@123rockfan i like the start as how slow and suspensful it is, but towards the end it becomes terrible. very terrible narration

[@metalmanny666]

One thing I took from it recently is when Danny is being chased by the camera, it's almost as if we're taken into the point of view of the native spirits in the Hotel. Now, after seeing Birdman, I can't help but make the connection to the Shining, in that we are experiencing Birdman through the point of view of Riggan Thompson's alter ego.

[@LondonCityGirlTV]

This is a super review! Stanley Kubrick is definitely my favourite film maker and I loved how you analyzed the film :) x

[@balwantpadaki2707]

What a fantastic review! Thank you. This channel deserves many many more subs. I'm sure they will come along given the high quality content.

[@mthivier]

I’m old enough to have seen it in a drive-in (last movie I ever saw in a drive-in, in fact), when it first came out in the summer of 1980. It scared the sh** out of me then, and it still does!

[@THECARS7879]

I can see you playing Shelly duvalls part as Wendy and thx for the review. The Shining has been my favorite movie since 1982. I've been to the Stanley . I flew to Oregon to stay at the Timberline Lodge on a birthday. I'm a fan of Stanley Kubrick and the huge fan of the movie. I'm a huge fan of Jack Nicholson. His performance and his personality I love .

[@EMBERFIY]

the shining is so good in my opinion because it relies on tricking its viewers into feeling fear of the unknown, it relies on ambiguity and the camera angles and music to create suspense

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

I love revisiting this review.

[@MankeyGamez]

Just now found this review and this channel ... good stuff homie’o

[@alexeiponikarovsky3218]

Just watched it and it was pretty good. Your review couldn't be more accurate !

[@jbliv831]

I also think this spoke to Kubrick living in England away from New York with his wife and two daughters. Seclusion. A little mad. Thanks.

[@purplooney1332]

Just finished watching it because of your recommendation. It was a tough watch. The scene with the bat in the hall made me laugh hysterically, then felt uneasy in my chest because I realized I can’t pinpoint why I’m laughing

[@jeremyadams1521]

Great analysis! One of my top ten movies. I first saw it when I was like 5, which is pretty messed up I guess. But I loved it. This may be the reason I am desensitized to Horror Movies and they don't scare me.

[@deepfocuslens]

If I had seen that movie when I was 5 I think I would have ended up in a mental institution somewhere along the line.

[@psycane8462]

Wow you're a fantastic reviewer! You really understand film and very analytical. Can I switch the amount of subscribers you have with the amount Jeremy Jahns has?

[@deepfocuslens]

+Psycane hahaha yes, that would be great! Thanks so much for saying so. :)

[@psycane8462]

+deepfocuslens Your welcome :D

[@loayprettyboy206]

+deepfocuslens horror movies I used to watch like zombie evil dead Halloween Friday 13th not horror the shinning is reely horror I am 25 years and it's scare me it's masterpiece

[@BezoRazo]

A most insightful review! Also, I loved you in Final Fantasy VII! ＾_＾

[@deepfocuslens]

Thanks! Is that a reference to Tifa? I've gotten that a few times. :)

[@BezoRazo]

Indeed ;-)

[@alexoswald4071]

New to the channel and I really liked this video. Awesome movie

[@allertonoff4]

great review .. but what i want to know is how did Torrance escape from the larder ?

[@deepfocuslens]

+alertonoff 4 Maybe it's a plot hole. But I'd like to think it's all part of the paranormal feel of the hotel.

[@deepfocuslens]

alertonoff 4 Yes, I have seen his analysis. It's wonderful.

[@CEWIII9873]

By a combination of convenience and plot armor. In my opinion, it is the one weak point of the movie because the ghosts break the rules

[@allertonoff4]

@@CEWIII9873 .. What Rules ?

[@THEREALGATORJOE]

Very good review ^_^ you give such good detail, more then what gave in my review I think lol

[@borgtennis]

Your comparaison to the Rite of Spring is good. Very interesting review. Thumbs up!

[@Mr06261984]

have you ever made or wirtten or been involved with the making of a film

[@mms7704]

I love your reviewers as always but I am surprised you did not say a word about the vague ending and it’s possible meanings.

[@mar78andres28]

Great review.. I'm a huge horror film fan but I also look for what u look for in a horror movie, one that I highly recommend if u haven't seen it by now is Jacob's Ladder! It's a must see.. Came out in the early 90's and fail under the radar and became a bit of a sleeper but it's from the director of fatal attraction! You mentioned Videodrone.. I'm going to look into this one.. Thanks again!

[@deepfocuslens]

Mario Gallego I'm not a fan of Fatal Attraction, but I have been hearing quite a bit about Jacob's Ladder. I'll need to check that one out. Thanks for the recommendation.

[@RPKraul]

Visually, this movie is stunning, and for that reason it's a horror staple. Now in my opinion, Nicholson's over-the-top performance does detract, and kind of squeezes all nuance out of the character.

[@liamthomas2494]

Nicholson was class in my opinion he was really consumed by the overlook

[@JNadobnik]

This film doesn't scare you by surprise. It's just the close ups and the music that gets louder. You know what you're going to see. But it's going a bit too fast m, that's why you're not (yet) prepared for it.

[@juanramonvmora]

Two octobers ago I watched it the city graveyard B-) I think you're amazing, thank you for the videos.

[@animalinstinctssociety]

Have u every seen the documentary about all of the theories and lore behind The Shining. It's in Netflix and it's pretty interesting.

[@deepfocuslens]

Yup. I reviewed it.

[@DmitriyK12]

In 2020, the Shining will turn 40 years old; I wonder if we are going to receive a special , previously unreleased edition come next year !? I didn't read the novel , but I would like to see a follow up of the novel , Doctor Sleep , on the big screen; it is supposedly a sequel to the Shining.🤔😉✌️👍

[@THECARS7879]

A 4 k ultra version is being released. Look into that

[@DmitriyK12]

@@THECARS7879 Thanks for your kind answer.

[@DmitriyK12]

I am now actually reading books that were written by SK; his political views are very liberal and a bit narrow minded but I can't disagree that he is a terrific writer.

[@DmitriyK12]

Maggie's gloves kind of make me uncomfortable; I am not sure why... they make her look like a badass. Doctor Sleep is a weird follow up and I really do have to watch it to completion one of the days.

[@shaheersk721]

I know i am posting this comment late,but can you make a video on your interpretation of the shining's ending ? Like the film has so many hidden metaphors and messages that it's hard to decode a correct theory ! What does the last photo from 1921 means (apart from the reincarnation and psychological entrapment in the overlook hotel) ?

[@CEWIII9873]

What do you think? That is probably the correct theory...

[@MontyDatta]

I loved the skit Key and Peele did based off The Shining.

[@thedeadlyviperassassinatio8210]

Kubrick is one of my favorite directors, but upon rewatch as an adult, I have some issues with The Shining - primarily story and character issues. Jack is an abuser from the start and felt like he could be a family annihilator without the ghost story. Honestly, the haunting feels like an afterthought, he could have just gone insane and it wouldn’t really affect the plot. He kind of started at 90 and zoomed to 100, which made him a one dimensional villain to me instead of a sympathetic victim of a haunting and left him with a very tiny character arc. I have no idea how he’s the groundskeeper from 1921. I don’t get the significance of it being July 4th ball, but setting the murder/haunting in the winter. I don’t know what the motives of the ghosts are. I don’t like the magical black person trope only for him to die immediately when he literally has telepathic powers which should have alerted him to the danger. And what was with the “jump scare” where Shelly sees a large man in a Winnie the poo costume going down on a startled random white guy?? lmaooo what does that represent?? I felt like Kubrick was almost screwing w us with that scene. Idk I love many elements of the film - camera work, performances, setting, definitely the themes of domestic abuse and alcoholism which were scarier than all the blood and creepy ghosts combined - but I wish the story laid out a clearer motive and ended with more resolution or explanation. Like explaining why this particular caretaker of the past went insane in the first place, or why the ball has anything to do with the events unfolding. The bar I understand - Jack’s clearly an abusive alcoholic - but what was the symbolic meaning of the party? If there had been some tragedy at the party or Jack had killed them all then I think I could somehow understand the plotting, but as it stands it all feels so very random when I look at it from a big picture story POV. And the boy’s power he shares with the aforementioned magical black person trope isn’t explained or put to much use except to act as a device to flash disturbing images. Ultimately he does very little with the power, except calling upon the magical black person I suppose, but even then, they can have “conversations in their mind” but he fails to communicate “my dads on the lose w an ax!”?And where does this power come from and how is it related to the haunting/rest of the plot? I’m left with so so many questions that the only thing that came across was Jack nicholson’s abuse (which already very much existed prior to these ghostly happenings) and how it’s escalated by madness. But I’m failing to tie that together with the haunting itself. Maybe, as many others have done, I need to put the puzzle pieces together or read in more to any clues, but I can’t help but feel that should have been executed in the script. Haven’t read the book, so curious how they compare in terms of plot and the motivations of the haunting itself. Indian burial ground (also a problematic cliche) is tossed around but it all seems to center on these wealthy white ppl in the 20s. So why do they want this murder, why is Jack so drawn to them, why are they malicious spirits?

[@Tolstoy111]

It’s not about the characters per se. It’s about how they seem to the non humans, the hotel etc. it’s not a film about people encountering the supernatural, it’s about the supernatural encountering people. Kubrick clearly did not want to make yet another film about a good man who succumbs to tragic forces. It’s been done a million times.

[@thedeadlyviperassassinatio8210]

After watching Dr. Sleep and learning more about King’s novel, I can actually appreciate that the Shining did not explain certain events. The explanation we do get makes the whole thing fairly cheesy imo. And I agree, I prefer this Jack to the Jack of the novel, based on King himself. I think Kubrick took the bones of the novel to tell a story of domestic abuse via an allegory for alcoholism. My interpretation is that Kubrick believes the evil originated with Jack and the haunting, as a metaphor for his alcoholism, simply brings out the evil that’s already there. In doing this, Kubrick highlights the more grounded fear of domestic abuse, but to the detriment of the supernatural elements imo. I still feel given Kubrick’s interview where he says Jack is representative of sort of a generational, reincarnated evil, hence the photo at the end, there could be more integration of this backstory. I wish the haunting focused on the previous caretaker and this ball from the 20s, and how this ball left all these souls trapped in the hotel. Unless they are merely symbolic of some other abstract evil entity that the hotel itself represents. But king’s novel and the interactions with ghosts (proven not a hallucination when they physically let Jack out of the store room), do point to human spirits trapped in the hotel.

[@Tolstoy111]

@@thedeadlyviperassassinatio8210 there is a dispute over who let Jack out. Was it Danny? He talks like an abuser talks (give me one more chance etc)

[@thedeadlyviperassassinatio8210]

Kubrick said the following in an interview with Michel Ciment: “As the supernatural events occurred you searched for an explanation, and the most likely one seemed to be that the strange things that were happening would finally be explained as the products of Jack's imagination. It's not until Grady, the ghost of the former caretaker who axed to death his family, slides open the bolt of the larder door, allowing Jack to escape, that you are left with no other explanation but the supernatural.” Highly recommend the interview. It’s excellent.

[@DrBecoke]

This is how you make a great cinematic experience out of an infantile story. Great review!

[@jamlym4974]

The Shining isn't the type of creepy where I think about it when I'm walking around the house at night. But it definitely has haunted my dreams.

[@bish8256]

Can you please do Cruel Intentions and / or Requiem for a Dream

[@65g4]

great review and movie i havent seen it in a long time it might be time to see it again

[@RightNowMan]

Great review.

[@ganganthefatman1382]

How do you feel about A Clockwork Orange?

[@deepfocuslens]

+GanGanTheFatMan (TheFatMan) That's one that I admire very much, but ultimately I have mixed feelings on it as a narrative piece. I've been planning to review it at some point.

[@ganganthefatman1382]

deepfocuslens Mixed feelings on the narrative? Interesting... I admire it as well, especially since it's his only movie that gave me two different interpretations. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it. You seem like a genuine deep thinker. Quite the rarity these days.

[@brandonmarvel9107]

Lol “the nine of you who haven’t seen it, go see it!” 9 dislikes. Lol you scared the crap out of them.

[@MrSearching4thetruth]

Fantastic review 100%

[@kanevalerca8941]

It is november now,why😭

[@waterblonk]

I've seen this movie multiple times, trying to like it. I take everything you and other reviewers have praised about it into account upon watching.... but it just doesn't work. The Shining is the single most pretentious, poorly acted, poorly written, nonsensical, boring, cheesy, overrated, over-directed, plothole filled piece of shit I've ever seen in my life. It's way too cartoonish and over the top to be scary, nothing in it makes sense and it's just throwing bullshit at the screen and seeing what people will make out of it. How this is concidered a classic is beyond me. There are many movies that improved with multiple viewings. But everytime I watch the Shining I find more things to hate about it.

[@DoveSharma]

+waterblonk I would like to think it was a very well-directed movie on one of the worst stories written on paper. Jack Nicholson was good in the movie, but the wife and the kid were some of the worst performances. A guy goes crazy and haunts his family, as boring as it sounds. just the because of the scenes had a great director to add dimensions, it does not make a movie good. I think it's one of the most overrated movies of all time.

[@bulletpug_revolution2056]

It's frustrating that both the theatrical cut and the European extended cut's leave out essential scenes one has and the other doesn't. So I'm never satisfied with either versions of The Shining! No movie in history has ever betrayed me that way! I'm going to renegade my own one day. That's right, I'm going to out-Kubrick, Kubrick.

[@MirrorDomains]

Cool! Love this movie!

[@AdrianMedrano93]

I rewatched the movie today and I was like yo how come it’s not as scary as last time ? Me: Realizing I had the lights on 😐

[@dancochrane5577]

Not in the top tier of Kubrick for me. King didn’t like it either. I’m going to count spoken “red rum” one day, it has to be near 100. We got the point after 20-25.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

King is a huge douchebag.

[@upgradED32]

You're a beautiful pretty lady.

[@jimreid5]

Have you seen this movie? Where you bothered by the N word usage in it?

[@MrCakir53]

Watch Room 237. Fascinating, mind provoking.

[@deepfocuslens]

seen it

[@espdemon]

That movie is kinda nonsensical. Waaaaaay too out there. The Shining is the greatest horror film ever made and it has nothing to do with that silly analytical "film"

[@CEWIII9873]

@@espdemon Agreed

[@michaeldonovan4793]

Kubrick's hit and miss for me..Hits- The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon..Misses -2001 A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, and his early stuff..You call him a master visionary, I call him overrated..

[@stingfan16ify]

It didn't work for me. I found it supremely overrated, and I can see why King hated it. It looked good, but lacked substance and suffered from Nicholson's typical hammy overacting. A 5.5 on a scale of 10 due to the sets and craftsmanship involved.

[@Stephen0560]

I'm actually going to see it, this Sunday. I want to become a fan of it, but, right now, I just find it kind of boring.

[@devilzdandruff9199]

It's the greatest horror film ever made... as long as you understand everything that is and isn't happening. Many things happen which aren't even shown. The Shining is a MASTERPIECE and Jack Nicholson's performance is iconic.

[@gregg3423]

better review please !!!!

[@espdemon]

You didn't even touch on the astral plane in the film. Not sure you grasped the entirety of the cerebral part of this masterpiece.

[@captainbeefheart5815]

Jack Nicholson overacts a bit imo. My favorite Kubrick is Barry Lyndon.

[@dancochrane5577]

A bit?!? It’s hammy to the nth degree.

[@rjmacready8830]

I prefer the film to the book. It brings out the themes more quicker and clearer than the book, which is a little long for what it tries to say.

[@robertborcherding9085]

"For the 9 of you that haven't seen "The Shining"... LMAO. I need to watch it again. I saw it when it came out and I hated it. I saw it because I had read the Stephen King novel twice and loved it. So when the story deviated from the book, it really disappointed me. I didn't go to see it because of it's cinematic value, or to see beautiful scenery, I went to see the book brought to life. That's my failing. I haven't seen the movie since then, but you've convinced me that I need to. Viewers have unique motivations going into a movie. That's the challenge for directors. Nothing to do with "The Shining" but another director's choice completely turned me off a movie Franchise and made me hate an actor. I was never a real Tom Cruise fan, but I didn't hate him. When he did "Mission:Impossible" and the villain turned out to be Jim Phelps, it was all she wrote. I grew up in the '60s and '70s and was a HUGE Mission:Impossible fan. There is no way on God's green earth that Jim Phelps would ever be a traitor. No effing way. I understand the shock value, but you have to keep it realistic. I enjoyed the film up to that part. I walked out. The only time I've ever walked out on a movie. I can feel myself getting all pissed off and worked up over it again and it's been ages since that load of crap came out.

[@Mr06261984]

make a frankenstien video

[@timnanos516]

In case you were interested and didn't already know: www.fathomevents.com/event/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/more-info/details www.fathomevents.com/list-all

[@deepfocuslens]

+Tim Nanos Thanks for the info! I've seen it in theaters twice.

[@aranerem3767]

Hi, how are you?

[@Tolstoy111]

You should review this one again. It’s only grown in stature over the last ten years and I’m sure you’d have more to say.

[@Taboada30]

Take a look to ``Room 237´´, the filmmaker who made it was obsesses d with the film for long time and actually analizes details which are mind blowing. Of course, finally it is another interpretation. There are about 4 documentaries about it just about this film.

[@geminiifilms6768]

Ughhh, Marry me?

[@5carecrow94]

Go away.

[@gouvyrock]

it's the most personal kubrick movie- it has lots of underlines-1 it talks about the fake moon landing 2 the slaughtered of indians 3 his wife discovering the fake moon operation 4 pedophilia 5 the higher ups and a lot more- make some research on google ;)