lørdag den 22. januar 2011

The Shining: Review



Okay, so I have just watched The Shining. It has taken me some time to get around to do this but now I did.
The plot of the movie is basically:


A man, Jack, takes a job as the caretaker of a hotel in the mountain over the winter. He, his wife and their son moves in at the hotel. The boy can, for some reason, communicate telekinetically with other people who have the gift (the shining).
After a month's time Jack starts to get a bit crazy. He is trying to write a book and his annoying wife keeps interrupting him. When Jack makes his way to the bar and receives a drink, which is all in his head btw. When he later returns to the bar he meets a previous caretaker, who went crazy and chopped his family into little pieces with an axe. He tells Jack to "correct"(kill) his family. Then Jack hunts his kid with an axe into the giant labyrinth in the yard. The boy out smarts Jack and escapes the labyrinth and leaves with his mother in a snow cat. Jack gets lost in the labyrinth and freezes to death.


Notably bad things:
  1. The wife.
    They have casted an extremely ugly (read: gross) woman to play the wife. She ruins the experience of what could have been a great movie and almost turns it into garbage
  2. Tony
    The boy have an imaginary friend called Tony who lives in his mouth. WTF? When this friend talks the boy looks at his finger which Tony apparently talks through. FAIL. It looks stupid.
  3. The ending
    In the end we see a photograph of a ball in 1921 where Jack is in the front of the picture.

    Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't get it. Is it supposed to show that Jack is in fact a ghost from '21 or is it a magic picture of all the caretakers, who have gone mad after 1921? I don't know.
Notably good things:
  1. Jack Nicholson
    He is awesome in this movie. He has that evil/creepy look that the character needs to make his point.
  2. Jack's reaction to the boy's bruised neck
    When his wife finds the boy with a bruised neck she accuses Jack of having done it.
    Jack just looks at her like he doesn't understand and just doesn't give a tine rat's ass.
  3. The first bar scene
    His wife tells Jack about a crazy woman the boy had seen and Jack has the greatest response ever: "Are you out of your fucking mind?"
  4. The blood
    The boy keeps seeing visions of blood coming around a corner and down a hallway. It looks great and I love it.
I wish someone would make a spoof of this movie where, when the boy sees the two girls he would just run them over on his tricycle an yell: "Get out of the way bitches!" or something like that. I would watch that movie!

If I had made the movie I would only change like one thing: The actress playing the wife; she is ugly and she can't act and it is because of her people say you shouldn't run with a knife in your hand.
When she runs her arms are swinging a lot and she should have stabbed herself with that knife many times.
 

The Simpsons have made a great parody of the movie, where they have included all the important things:


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