The Shining novel Vs The Shining movie.

[Jack Torrance]

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?

[John_and_Yoko]

Hello I just wanted to get some opinions on what you liked better?

The Shinning the movie or the Novel.

Also what do you think of the endings in each?

There's only one "The Shinning," and that's the Halloween Simpsons episode.

[Jack Torrance]

Haha I have never watched it. I will do so now though.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

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.

[John_and_Yoko]

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.

[Jack Torrance]

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.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

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.

Agree on both accounts.

[Jack Torrance]

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.

You are right the joke went right over my head. I am sorry.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

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.

You are right the joke went right over my head. I am sorry.

The Simpson's episode was called The Shinning (pronounced like the lower part of your leg.) The movie and book are called (and spelled) The Shining (with the long "i" sound)

But we all know what you meant.

[Jack Torrance]

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.

You are right the joke went right over my head. I am sorry.

The Simpson's episode was called The Shinning (pronounced like the lower part of your leg.) The movie and book are called (and spelled) The Shining (with the long "i" sound)

But we all know what you meant.

Wow Fail on my part! I am too blonde for my own good.
Or too Polish

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I too, am blonde.

[Jack Torrance]

I too, am blonde.

Yeah? Is that why you helped me there? Us blondes have to stick together!

[Brice]

This thread should be moved to The gem Theatre I think if someone doesn't mind sending it along to us.

[Aaron]

This thread should be moved to The gem Theatre I think if someone doesn't mind sending it along to us.

Your wish is my command. 1 day redirect.

[Brice]

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.)

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.

This thread should be moved to The gem Theatre I think if someone doesn't mind sending it along to us.

Your wish is my command. 1 day redirect.

Thank you, sir!

[Woofer]

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.)

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.

Right. That's why I described it as I did. I do love it, but it is not The Shining.

I should watch the miniseries again and see if I enjoy it as much as I did the one time I saw it with a group of friends (when it aired - I know I've mentioned it). *ponder*

[Jack Torrance]

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.)

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.

This thread should be moved to The gem Theatre I think if someone doesn't mind sending it along to us.

Your wish is my command. 1 day redirect.

Thank you, sir!

I agree brice you have to separate what you are reading from what you watch, and I enjoyed both.

[ICry4Oy]

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.

[pathoftheturtle]

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.

There's lots of other points to distinguish the two versions; it's valid for you to have that preference, but I'd just like to point out that Weber was at least as much "over-the-top" as Nicholson.

[ICry4Oy]

... I'd just like to point out that Weber was at least as much "over-the-top" as Nicholson.

Possibly, but I never had the hots for Nicholson and Weber makes me

[Woofer]

... I'd just like to point out that Weber was at least as much "over-the-top" as Nicholson.

Possibly, but I never had the hots for Nicholson and Weber makes me

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}

[Odetta]

Novel... without question

[Heather19]

I love the story, but I will say that I am partial to film. It's one of my all-time favorites.

[Jean]

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.)

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

And yet despite all of this, I have watched the movie a 100 times.....and still enjoy watching it.