The Shining.
-Ostensibly a haunted house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient madness, spectral murder and supernatural visions... and also makes you jump.
-The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, I had to turn it off during three key moments... Perhaps this time, I prayed, it would seem almost comically silly. Yeah, not so much.
-The Shining met the fate of several other Stanley Kubrick films when it came out; most viewers did not like it, so they rejected it. Most importantly, they did not understand it in any way which allowed them to deal with it constructively.
Evaluation of Performances:
I thought the acting by Jack Nicholson was great, facial expressions and the feel of the character are really played upon. Danny is also like that, for someone young as well, he's really convincing to the audience and gave me quite a weird feeling, how ever, i didn't find Shelley Duvall's acting very convincing at all. She's starring in the film, so she's doing something right. But she's just not very convincing and abit of a dull actor. The way she uses the baseball bat when Jack is approaching her on the stairs, it's like she'd been told to swing it about, and thats literally all she's doing, she's just swinging it about every like 3 seconds, when really, if that was the real scenario i think you'd do it very differently. She just didnt do it for me. As a family they had chemistry, if that makes sense? They suit eachother for the film and over all I thought they was great. Also i'd never seen the film, so glad i did. was absolutely awesome.
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