The Shining (1980) *First Time Watching Reaction!! | Best Horror Movie Ever?!?! |
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- The Shining (1980) *First Time Watching Reaction!! | Best Horror Movie Ever?!?! |
In this video we watch and react to seeing the 1980's horror classic "The Shining"! The Shining stars Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. The Shining is directed by Stanley Kubrick and is based off a Stephen King novel. The Shining opened in 1980 to mixed feelings by audiences but has become regarded as one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Watch us watch and react to all the scares and craziness of The Shining. We also give our thoughts at the end and rate The Shining. If you like reactions subscribe today for more!
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Great reaction ladies to this horror classic....
Do you also plan to do the sequel 'Doctor Sleep' (2019) anytime soon?....if you do, I highly recommend the extended director's cut version (the extended director's cut is the closest to the novel unlike the heavily edited theatrical version done by the movie studio itself not by the director & editor, in addition the theatrical version does contain some plot holes because of the studio edits made to shorten the runtime. The studio really didn't care about the plot/story, character development and other expositions, they just wanted to shorten the film to try to make more money in the theater release. Thankfully the extended director's cut does not have those plot holes at all & I personally think, the extended director's cut is a much richer in story & characters and a much better put together film than the theatrical is in my own opinion)
Even though Stephen King wasn't a fan of Stanley Kubrick's movie version of his novel 'The Shining', SK was very happy about Mike Flanagan's sequel film (the extended director's cut version that is) that was based on his novel. SK said he loved it. 😁 👍
Next time the sequel Doctor Sleep
Agreed 🤗
If you look for an explanation for this movie, you'll find a massive rabbit hole... The director explained that the picture at the end suggests "a sort of evil reincarnation" like a cycle of violence that repeats.
This is my favorite horror movie of all time, and one of my favorite movies period! Thanks for watching it 😃
My wife didn't care for this film at first. In fact, she only gave it a 4.5 out if 5....But I corrected her.
Ooooh you....didnt😮
Stephen King hated this movie
@@nsasupporter7557 it's because it's better than all his movies put together. Thinner, Christine, maximum over drive are not well put together, just simple movies with no backstory,, suspense, his creations all need to be reworked. Thankfully shinning was
@@user-cl1wv9bn8o “All of his movies??” Stephen King doesn’t make movies, he writes the books 😉 did you mean to say that it was better than all of his adaptations of his books? Or did you mean to say something else?
After 4 shots of Red Rum, my wife finally agreed to watch it
Phillip Stone as Grady was incredible too. The way he goes from docile, friendly and subservient to vicious, cold and cruel without ever raising his voice or gesticulating is terrifying.
Well said. Perhaps he won't have to correct you.
I agree completely
True. The way he says "I corrected her" is terrifying.
That's possibly my favorite scene in all of film. The choreography is stunning, almost like a dance. Even the way the actors lean (jack forward while he's questioning him, grady backward) until the "flip" and then their posture subtly changes with grady upright and dominant and of course that menacing lighting.
I always say, as someone who doesn't really believe or get spooked by the supernatural, the only 2 things in the film that actually scared me were Jack at numerous times but especially in the bedroom scene with Danny (ghosts may not be real, but a domineering and abusive husband/father who flies off the handle too easily sure is!) and this one😅 Kubrick really is the 🐐
@@kpmac1 The rolling 'r' is what seals it. Speaking the Queen's English to describe unspeakable horror with obvious relish.
The "shining" is often literal in this movie: there is bright light in several scenes. The manager and the family doctor early on, the bartender, and notably Grady in the bathroom (21:21), all have bright lights shining from a lamp or window behind or above them when they are talking to one of the Torrances. Instead of darkness and shadows seen in most horror films, the film does the unusual and uses bright lights as a source of creepiness. The final maze scene is again fairly brightly lit, instead of the usual scary and dark.
Jack Nicholson is just a awesome actor. His screen presence is unsurpassed.
Truly fantastic!!
He might not be around much longer, he’s 86 and he has Alzheimer’s now 😢
Jack Nicholson and Brad Dourif are probably two of my top and I'm glad they were in a movie together
Agreed. Some who don't *get* what Kubrick was going for say he "overdid" it, but frankly not many could've done what Nicholson did here.
Kubrick wanted Nicholson to play Napoleon in a film about Napoleon, but the studio wouldn't finance the film.
The book insinuated that the billionaire power-broker guy who built the place was into some sort of dark magic that somehow wedded his malevolent life force to the place. This was able to linger through the periodic sacrifices of souls taken captive by the hotel over the years. So you see at the end, the hotel found a place for Jack as well.
The hotel sensed that it could greatly amplify its power to grab people by getting hold of Danny.
What I wouldn’t give to have the builder turn out to be Ivo Shandor; what a cross-over that would make…
Actually, my idea is that the Hotel was good but its human spirits were evil.
It's funny that Jack mentions in the beginning that Wendy is a horror fan. Well, towards the end, she gets the horror movie of her life.
Doubt she is a fan anymore 😂
What’s sad is that Shelley Duvall went through hell on the set of this movie
@@nsasupporter7557 Indeed
@@jwnj9716 I forget what exactly happened, but Jack was treated like royalty and she was treated like garbage
I think that part was meant to be false. Nothing in her demeanor or temperament implies she likes that kinda stuff, even the "cannibalism" comment in the car. And Kubrick, who was notoriously meticulous, had the TV on some older hollywood seemingly romantic show or movie when we saw what she was watching in the room.
(The other instance of an observable tv show playing within the movie was wendy+danny watching roadrunner at one point, which is also obviously 100% intentional and much more on the nose).
Jack absolutely owns this every second he's on screen...legend
The Shining was one of the first Steven King books I ever read and it’s one of Stanley Kubrick’s best movies in my opinion.
I like Stephen King more enjoy the TV mini series produced by king which is more inline with the book.
@@tarzapopohead aka "King's Komplaint"
King says that he dislikes the portrayal of Jack in the movie, as his character in the book is more even-keeled and gets twisted by the hotel, whereas in the movie Jack is a textbook narcissist from the beginning and then develops into a maniac. Apparently he didn't want Nicholson to play the part either, because audiences would think Jack was a bit nuts from the off. However, I think Kubrick was right, and that the movie is a masterpiece.
Reading the Wiki page on The Shining is fascinating. The film was generally not well received by critics, some of whom totally backtracked many years later when everyone else decided it was brilliant.
Nice watch ladies, next onto the G.O.A.T. - The Exorcist. Unless you've both seen it.
Kubrick was a genius, and you ladies look absolutely stunning, as always. His use of symmetry and pacing are so unsettling. The soundtrack could be a main character in the film. In the book the dad isn't the bad guy, merely possessed. The hotel is the bad guy, and Danny makes it stronger. It tries to take Danny but can't, so it takes his dad instead, who struggles against it.
The ground is cursed, and all the ghosts are the victims of the place. At the bar, Jack said he'd sell his soul for a drink; then everything is opened up to him. He, like Delbert Grady and all the others, are quickly corrupted into pure evil. Jack becomes part of the hotel and reoccurring Ball day and Party night after he dies. Delbert thinks he's always been there, and now Jack is incorporated into their hell forever also, as seen in the 1920's pic that now includes him .
This is the type of movie you need to watch three times, you’ll find a new thing you missed every time. Great reaction.
I’m sure!! I plan on watching it tomorrow!
Watch for the appearing/disappearing chair, them going into one storage pantry and coming out across the hall (many other such things that some call “continuity errors” but you can be sure each and every one was planned and intentional. There’s a great deal to unlock in this film.
Jack Nicholson nailed it with the character he portrayed in The Shining. It gave me the heebie jeebies 🫣when I first watched this. A true horror classic.
As always loved watching the both of you react to another movie 🍿
Excellent review. You are right: the camera work, acting (especially Jack Nicholson), and the music/sound effects were all masterfully done. Stanley Kubrick was also an incredible director.
Many thanks to Michelle & Natalie! 😱 I hope you'll watch the sequel DOCTOR SLEEP (2019) very soon. It's really good and adds to the characterization of a couple of familiar characters, as well as the overall lore. #ForceOfLightEntertainment #StanleyKubrick #TheShining #TheShining1980
This movie definitely needs to be re-released in theaters
Before doctor sleep came out they re-released it in theaters where I live. Got to see it for my first time on the big screen.
@@275lawrence Were the colours right or did they do that horrible pink version?
My favorite horror movie of all time, the one that got me into the genre.
Personally think it’s the best!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment The biggest reason it's one of the greatest horror movies ever made is because so much is left up to the audience's interpretation. I watch it every year & still find things I missed previously. There's even a documentary called "Room 237" that looks at the various fan theories about the movie.
@@JoeCool7835some people think this movie is overrated, I can see their point but I’m not 1 of those people. It’s an absolute classic movie
Jack Nicholson is the Lon Chsney of our rea. He can change his mood and expression to fit the movie effortlessly.
He is an incredible actor!
"Here's Johnny!"
Fun Fact: The door that Jack Nicholson chops through with the axe near the end of the film was real. Stanley Kubrick originally shot this scene with a fake door, but Jack Nicholson, who had worked as a volunteer fire marshal and a firefighter in the California Air National Guard, tore through it too quickly.
Now, the absolute scariest moment of this film to me is when Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) wife Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) realizes that he's just been writing the same sentence over and over and over from the very beginning, and then he's RIGHT THERE!
Shelley Duvall who has the most wonderful eyes and who's so underrated, her reactions throughout the film are unfortunately largely genuine as Stanley Kubrick terrorised the poor woman relentlessly.
Also, big shout out to Danny "Doc" Torrance (Danny Lloyd) for being the smartest person ever in a horror film with that walking-backwards-in-snow trick.
She gave a great performance. She had a lot of respect for Kubrick. Her role was definitely the toughest to get right.
Kubrick did lots of takes and that often wore down the actors. Some shoots are more grueling than others. And every working person can relate to having a tough day at the office when you have to butt heads with your boss or coworkers.
Kubrick's method is a minimum of 30 takes of every scene.
You guys completely missed something important by focusing so much on Nicholson's "dipping" in the breakfast in bed scene. He said that it felt like he'd been there before. THAT was way more important than how many times he "dipped"!!!!
Sorry we missed one detail in a movie that is highly debated and thought through to this day. Seems like a rational reply 😂
Jack Nicholson has a reputation as a heavy from this movie and A Few Good Men. Ironically two of his Academy Awards are from a Rom-Dramedy (As Good as It Gets) and the Dramedy Terms of Endearment while his third is is from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest where he is the leading man/protagonist in the drama.
Some lady sitting behind me in the theater screamed when that person in the bear costume came on.
😂😂
Kubrick used the mirrors for a purpose. They were the hotel's spirit gateway. Also, none of the spirits manifested visually until room 237 was opened. That's also when the sound of a heartbeat was added to the soundtrack.
The two girls manifested to Danny in the games room on closing day. Then again in the spot they were killed, both before 237 was opened.
@@meanstreetmook he was the only one who could because of the Shining. Jack didn't have the ability, which is why every scene he sees people in has mirrors and only after 237 was opened.
@@richardkrawczyk5606 Ah so you meant Jack and Wendy after 237, and Wendy only when the Hotel flexed all its power. Many people seem to think Jack also had The Shining, but I, like you, don't believe he did.
The Shining, classic. Michelle "Hit him again, go again" and "We can hug later" lol. Did you know theres a sequel called "Doctor Sleep?"
Again I give y'all 5 hoot 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉 Take care and stay blessed.
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A GREAT IDEA FOR A BOOK... It'd be called "The History of the Overlook", by Jack Torrance... The first 40-50 pages are the start of a good book, but as the story continues, The words "All work and no play makes jack a dull boy" begin popping up until about the 70th page when that's all that's written (Identical to the various pages Wendy saw).... In a 150 page Novel!
The Shining is a flawless horror film and it’s the perfect example of one
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Kubrick took 2 weeks to shoot the scene in the red toilet. He told the actor playing Grady that he should sound like a ghost.
"It's just the three of them".
But that's the thing: it's never just the three of them: the Hotel is always there. The hotel is the fourth person.
Jack Nicholson did make a werewolf movie, WOLF (1994).
I like how she choked up on the bat. Makes for better control.
I’ve seen this movie many times. The father and son are sensitive to the spirits. When they entered the special hotel room, the power of the spirits was released and they were able to affect the real world. I could be wrong. Great movie.
When Michelle introduced herself as “Michelle with two Ls,” I totally thought the other one must be Michele with one L 😂. But nah… she’s Natalie 😂
With one L!
The hotel actually makes more sense if you read the book. This hotel exist in a place where reality is thin and an entity its evil and malice is spilling through kinda like IT , it is both real and in his head.
16:01 Funny that you mentioned that. Jack Nicholson later starred in the 1994 film titled "Wolf"
In the book the hotel is built on an old Indian burial ground, so it is haunted by evil spirits from the desecration.
Just watched it for the first time in 20 years on Blu-ray about a month ago ladies such a great movie
It really is!
Speaking of Jack looking like he was turning into a werewolf there is a movie starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and James Spader called Wolf. Not his best role, but I liked the story.
Stanley Kubrick is one of my favorite directors. Someone below states that it took 117 takes for them to complete the scene of Nicholson chopping through the bathroom door. That is not unusual for Kubrick. He was famous for doing a hundred takes on many shots, because he was a mad perfectionist. This would drive some actors crazy, but Nicholson kind of egged him. He would dare Kubrick to get another take. Sadly Kubrick was a little harsh on Shelley Duvall, because he needed her to reach extreme levels of stress. Stephen King didn't like this film because of the changes from the book. In the book Dick Halloran lives and escapes with Wendy and Danny. Also there is no hedge maze in the book. Instead the book has hedge animals that animate and threaten the heroes. I think Kubrick killed Halloran to shock the hell out of the millions of people that had read the best-selling book (like me). Also the hedge animals would have been an easy special effects trick. The hedge maze was much more cinematic, and mirrored the hotel.
One thing they don't go into much is the Overlook's boiler. A big part of the reason they need a caretaker during the winter is that they need to vent the pressure from the boiler consistently, or it will explode, like it did back in 1921. In fact, in the book, it does explode because Jack has been neglecting his duty to chase his family around with an axe. There's a TV miniseries that Stephen King made later because he wasn't satisfied with Kubrick's version of The Shining. It follows the book much more closely, including the reveal of who Tony is at the end. But all things considered, it's not really worth the watch unless you're big into King. If you want the best King miniseries, those would be It (Tim Curry is iconic), The Stand (The original with Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald. It's my favorite.), and 'Salem's Lot (either the original, or the Rob Lowe remake. They both have their merits.)
My favorite anecdote from this movie is that Jack Nicholson chopped his way through an actual door. He spent some time as a volunteer firefighter, so when he took that axe to the prop door they had set up, he went through it in one chop. After another prop door fell apart too quickly, Nicholson and Kubrick agreed to just put up the real door, and Jack went to work on it.
So, the 'Mister Torrance' in the July 4 1921 picture , and the boiler exploded in the winter of 1921, and now Jack Torrance is back two generations later.
- also Delbert and Charles Grady two generations apart.
Great reaction. Funny fact: Stephen king was actually not a big fan of this interpretation of his novel. However, when the book and film sequel Doctor Sleep was written decades later, the film picked up from the film, and the book picked up from the book. Worth a watch/read IMO.
Thank you!!
An old woman named Mrs. Massey committed suicide in the bathtub of room 237. (217 in the book.) Judging by Danny's visions, it was the room in which Grady stacked the bodies of his daughters. They were actually killed in the hallway.
Classic horror film! One of my favorites! Great reaction! I enjoyed it!
Awesome! Thank you!
You're welcome! 😊
This is a great ghost story. The father is being haunted the most because he has a history of drinking and injuring his son as a result. He is the 'weakest link' in the family. Danny is being protected by Tony because his mom's ability to protect him is questionable. The hotel has a history of wild times and murders. Back in the 20s people had masquerade parties (hence when Wendy saw the person dressed in the bunny costume on its knees doing you know what). They are all ghosts🤗
I actually like that what is causing it is never really explained in the movie. Makes it more unsettling.
" I'm just very confused and I need some time to think things over"
Glad that you both "enjoyed" watching The Shining, a classic and frightening film!
Beautiful babes.
I recommend Rob Ager's analysis of the Shining. He has other interesting ones like The Exorcist, The Thing, etc.
This movie hit network tv when I was in 3rd grade. I wasnt able to watch it but I did see the part where Danny and Jack were going through the snow maze before I was discovered and sent to bed.
When you get the chance, go watch this (and all Kubrick films) in a movie theater. The surround sound and ambiance add to the experience so much. There's a lot to miss just watching it on TV.
Yeah I recently saw this at a local Alamo Drafthouse and it was absolutely electric. The sound design was omnipresent and overwhelming on a full cinema sound system
@@Chilipotamus check out 2001 A Space Odyssey if you can one day. If seen it a hundred times before but this was beyond amazing.
Yeah that’s true. Kubrick was a master and all the films are definitely best appreciated on a big screen. 2001 and Barry Lyndon are two others that would blow you away, seen on a big screen and the Shining is as well.
The scene with the two guys in the room where one has on a furry costume, confuses everybody. In the book it's supposed to be two men engaging in a sex act. The director should have just left that scene out. It's not a scary scene. And it just breaks the mood.
The hotel was haunted because, as they said in the beginning of the movie, it was built on an Indian burial ground. It had the power to manipulate weak minds.
The husband had a weak mind because he was already a bad person (selfish, abusive, alcohol abuse, etc).
The son had a weak mind because he was just a little kid. And he had suffered physical abuse.
The wife had the strongest mind. She was the last to be manipulated. She didn't see any ghosts until her husband turned on her, and understandably scared her to death.
The ghosts had the ability to open doors (let Jack out of the pantry). And the hotel could change the picture after Jack's death. That is why he was in the picture in the end from 1921.
There are several theories about how he could have gotten out without any supernatural intervention. The only one I remember off the top of my head is as you see him speaking to Grady you can actually see there's another door with a shelf in front of it. He might have realized that and gone out the unlocked side door. They're like four other theories. The channel "Collative learning". Covers several Shining theories pretty well
"Heeeeere's Johnny!"
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Danny Lloyd.
Not An American Fact: As he lived in England, Stanley Kubrick was not at all familiar with the "Heeeeere's Johnny" line (from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)) that Jack Nicholson improvised. He very nearly didn't use it.
Hot Take Fact: There is a great deal of confusion regarding this film and the number of retakes of certain scenes. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the scene where Wendy is backing up the stairs swinging the baseball bat was shot 127 times, which is a record for the most takes of a single scene. However, both Steadicam operator Garrett Brown and assistant editor Gordon Stainforth say this is inaccurate. The scene was shot about thirty-five to forty-five times.
Method Director Fact: Despite Stanley Kubrick's fierce demands on everyone, Jack Nicholson admitted to having a good working relationship with him. It was with Shelley Duvall that he was a completely different director. He allegedly picked on her more than anyone else. He would really lose his temper with her, even going so far as to say that she was wasting the time of everyone on the set. She later reflected that he was probably pushing her to her limits to get the best out of her and that she wouldn't trade the experience for anything, but it was not something she ever wished to repeat.
That was such a fun reaction, you guys cracked me up so many times during that one! I loved your commentary at the end. I never really thought of it as a two and a half hour movie (which it is), and yes, it flies by....and it's only three people mostly! All of Kubrick's movies are interesting, intelligent, one-of-a-kind and often trippy. In fact, he's made three of the trippiest movies of all time (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange)! Jack Nicholson is always great and he didn't always play crazy, he's great in everything, including romantic roles. He followed this with "Reds" where he's in a love triangle with Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty. And then he got his second Oscar for his brilliant performance in one of the ultimate so-called "chick flicks" "Terms Of Endearment" with Shirley MaClaine and Debra Winger. Don't miss that movie, on or off the channel. And of course in the 70s he played so many great roles in super classics including Chinatown, Carnal Knowledge, The Last Detail and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Two of his last great roles were in "About Schmidt" where he plays a timid widower and "Something's Got To Give", another romantic comedy with Diane Keaton.
PS: I have to say it one more time: your post film remarks were fantastic, every single thing you said was right on.
Thank you!!
The Overlook Hotel is an evil entity, that feeds on negative emotion and energy. Danny has a very powerful shining, which is like a cataclyst for the Overlool Hotel. It also buffs up the the ghosts ability to interact with physical world, kind of becoming real.
Jack Nicholson is so good in this movie
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I love you say you like how “they” did the camera work….One man envisioned and made all decisions. Watch out for the rabbit holes looking for an explanation to this movie. Thanks you. And a special thank you to you. 😉
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1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original "Bladerunner" 😇
2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson.
3. It took 117 takes for Jack to chop through the doors. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes.
4. The reason King didn't like this adaptation of the movie is because he didn't like the changes Kubrick made. This thing was remade just for King and although the remake was more in line with the book IMVHO it wasn't as good at this one.
5. Two of the changes he didn't like were Jack's decent into madness was too rapid, and Wendy wasn't such a patsy in the book.
6. Shelley Duval said making this film was the worst thing she ever experienced in her life. She was abused on and off camera".
7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".
8. The real villain here is the hotel itself.
9. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up.
A lot of settlers in the Old West had cabin fever, except it was called “prairie madness.” Isolation does strange things to people.
After a few days of solo backpacking without seeing anyone, I can see how a few months alone could destroy a person. Though in this movie (and the book) he wasn't alone...in more ways than one.
@@michaelb1761 Solo backpacking sounds amazing, but I totally hear what you’re saying lol. I guess everything has a cost.
Like the pandemic?
Thanks ladies
Thanks for watching!
Jack Nicholson's eyebrows give him such a deranged look
And the way he can move his mouth
The bartender & the alcohol are real. It's one of the spirits. Remember, Jack said he'd sell his soul for a glass of beer. So a spirit appeared & gave him a drink
Y’all really need to watch A Clockwork Orange. It’s in my opinion, Stanley Kubrick’s best film
What is that about?
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment just trust me, definitely one of the most unique films ever made.
Red rum... All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Shelly Duvall is wonderful in this.
For a lighter film with her, she played Olive Oil in the live action Popeye movie starring Robin Williams. Think it came out in the late 80s?
Shelly Duvall is fantastic, especially in the scarier scenes. Surely Kubrik's methods had something to do with it.
I was 12yo watching The Shining for the first time at a bday party and over the years watching it over and over its weirdly become a comfort movie I can fall asleep too, its fascinating how the film was constructed. Have a great one!
Thank you!! You too!
I enjoyed your this a lot. One of the more fun “reaction channels” imho, (and I’ve watched a bunch). Good observations and plenty of humor sprinkled in. Great job.
Thank you!!
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. What a great movie I watch it every year.
The famous "Here's Johnny!" line was from the way Ed McMahon use to introduce Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. Jack Nicholson improvised the line... it wasn't in the script.
I always hated that the Chef Hallorann dies in the movie... he was such a nice guy and trying to help them. Funny thing is that in the book he lives and helps the mom and boy get out of the hotel.
Hopefully you guys will check out the follow up movie: “Doctor Sleep”. It’s based on King’s follow-up novel that he wrote decades later.
Thank you two for this reaction video,.....From Canada.
Thank you for watching!
There is a worthy sequel book and film titled “Doctor Sleep”. It picks up with Danny after the Overlook.
Unworthy.
Thank you so much, #ForceOfLightEntertainment, for uploading this awesome movie reaction. I love you both so much, and I'm still supporting you because your content is absolutely amazing, and also because I enjoy watching your reactions to different movies and TV shows.
Aww thank you Brian! ❤️❤️
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The best interpretation of the Shining I have ever heard is called the Wendy theory. It proposes that it was Wendy who was schizophrenic and also suffered from Munchausen by proxy. Every bizarre scene such as with the bear suit human. Everything involving room 237. Dany having the shining. It is all her decent her madness. Each of the scenes involving her losing her mind all have continuity errors. Kubrick was a stickler for only having exactly what he wanted in each scene. The errors are not errors but on purpose to let the viewer know that what she is interpreting as real is in fact not. Jack never escapes from the locker with the help of a ghost or whatever viewers may think because he was never there. When Wendy first sees the locker there is clearly a light switch near the door handle on the outside. When she "locks" him in there is no light switch. She did not lock him in, she dragged him outside after hitting him with the bat and he died of exposure. We know this because a closer look at the decay of the body and amount of snowfall and ice is not consistent for a short amount of time. He has been there for awhile. Also, she is the woman in 237. She hurts Danny as she has always done to receive sympathy from others for his wounds and a "you go girl" approval for putting up with such a "horrible" man. There is no Shining. Munchausen by proxy patients often invent fanciful abilities for the children to make them seem special. Again making her seem special. It was all Wendy's madness.
The Shining is a great movie for any genre.
3:10 "... _just_ what I want." Don't chop Jack into pieces. 🍻
18:00 is one of the scariest scenes in the movie for me, because you know it's an evil spirit
"Keep drivin', boy" made me laugh!
My folks took me to see this at a drive in when I was about Danny's age! That's how parents rolled in the day!
Fun fact: Jack Nicholson got his movie break in the classic film with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider!
Natalie's nonchalant whoot whoot @ 25:42 😂
Great spooky movie. Great reaction. Thank you, forever and ever and ever and...
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Poor Shelly Duval was pushed to the brink of madness by the director of this movie. He couldn't get the performance out of her that he wanted so he used some pretty vicious tactics to get it. This movie scarred her.
Baloney. Duvall spoke well of Kubrick during filming. He's a take factory and doesn't explain his motives.
"He kinda looks like he's turning into a werewolf..."
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About that... You ladies should check out Jack Nicholson in Wolf, with Michelle Pfeiffer and James Spader 😉
Oh!! Thanks!
To be honest, I didn’t care for that movie. Thought it was rather boring.
But Frankenstein with Robert De Niro was good
@@ForceOfLightEntertainmentyes, Jack Nicholson gets bit by a wolf at the beginning of the movie and he slowly but surely starts turning into a wolf
The unsung hero of the movie.....was the Road Runner. Had Danny not watched those cartoons he might NOT have survived being pursued by a crazed but hobbled Jack in the maze.
I think what can make horror so effective is when it (it's world) becomes non-linear and discontinuous. It makes no sense to our logical human minds.
Needless to say, this is a bona fide classic. I remember the first time I saw this was around the summer of 1983 on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. I was 7 and had waited that whole week to see it. Was worth the wait let me tell you. I know it sounds kind of weird but us 80s kids were just a different breed. 😂 What a great movie. Between the Actors, Director and Screen play, that just don’t make ‘am like this anymore. Dug this reaction, girls. Can’t wait for the next one.😊
Thank you!
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Hi from Spain, it's the guy who always recommends They Live. Since you're discovering so many horror classics and you definitely like action movies, here's an expanded list of recommendations:
- John Carpenter: Halloween (horror), The Thing (horror), They Live (action/sci-fi/unique movie), Escape from New York (super cool action).
- Hitchcock: The Birds (horror, it has no freaking music), Vertigo (suspense, masterpiece), pretty much his whole filmography including underrated gems like The Lady Vanishes (a lady dissappears in a train) and The Rope (whole movie is in a flat filmed to appear as a single shot).
Hey! Thanks! We already have reactions to Halloween and The Thing! Check them out!
@@ForceOfLightEntertainment Okay, so the updated list of recommendations would be:
1) The Birds by Hitchcock because it's a pure horror movie and you seem to be a "horror movie month".
2) Vertigo by Hitchcok (suspense) and They Live by Carpenter (sci-fi, you laugh sometimes, action, politics, 5 minute fights).
3) Other Hitchcock movies like The Rope or The Lady Vanishes if you feel like moving more into suspense (I'm watching Escape from New York from Carpenter again and it's not that great, but it's definitely interesting as it's a movie that feels like a video game and Metal Gear Solid clearly copied it). The Lady Vanishes perhaps I'm over rating it, but it's a refreshingly "cute" suspense movie and works as a time machine as well as it's from the 30s! It's quite an experience. Of course, there are 5 big Hitchcock films (Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest, etc.) that theoretically come before that, but I enjoyed those more.
A complex classic film. Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, let's also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone (Grady) and Joe Turkel (Lloyd) for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil.
TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Does that signify Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing.
Here are a few of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS is a variation of "Theseus and the Minotaur" with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head on several occasions in the film? When Hallorann and Danny are talking in the kitchen portions of the conversation were telepathic, and we didn't hear them. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The later is a great movie with W. C. Fields. I love it when Danny asks Jack if he feels bad. That can be taken two ways as in do you feel evil or do you feel unwell. And, of course, Jack repeats the girls saying forever and ever, meaning I want to join with the hotel in death. Jack does, of course, sell his soul for a drink. Is that why Lloyd the bartender won't take his money? Jack's already paid in full? The people and things Danny and Jack see are real, but only people with shining can see them at first. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1921 July 4th ball is taking place, a woman walks with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on Jack. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel because they sensed it was evil, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." In the conversation between Jack and Grady, Grady switches between Grady and the entity of the hotel. Jack also switches with the "caretaker." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby when the family first arrives. Jack definitely has a wandering eye. He never seems to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly later in the film but only weakly earlier when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You also see it in "Full Metal Jacket." And I think HAL in 2001 shows it. When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the evil entity that's alive. That's who he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her as a result of his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1921 photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. So, he was there in 1921 and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal (except for Hallorann, I suppose) at the hotel. No Jack, though. At least, I think that's what I read once. Might be wrong about that.
I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. Got some beefs. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when clearly they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to kill him.
Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who killed the monster in the maze.
There are full blown full documentaries that break down this movie. If you look up the movie's meaning you are going down a big rabbit hole.
Already been down it 😳🤩
They dismiss the woman because it's his job not hers, he's showing him the ropes.
It was just a joke 😜
Yes, as Natalie said it was a joke. No more 😁
Thanks for the reaction. :) Loved it. Now you are ready for another Jack Nicholson masterpiece in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (Award Winning)
I have heard that’s why the studio didn’t want to cast him for this movie. Thank you!!
23:21 I bet you if someone made a book, and only put those words in it, it would sell.
The boy doing his friends voice and when he's having his fits. Will always make me nervous for him. The mother always looked a nervous wreak and I always felt sorry for her because Kubrick was a Prick/Bully to her while filming. And the scene of running through the maze being chased by daddy, was brilliantly light and will always be a classic to me. Seen a reaction to Doctor Sleep and it looks good but will after see it in full before making my mind up. Michelle and Natalie both of you going in blind was good and you still had laughable moments.✓✓✓ Chuffed you enjoyed this Classic and I loved your reactions. Cheer's Gorgeous Ladies.xx 🇬🇧 Suggestion:: I may of mentioned Exorcist 3. You'll Love it.xx
So much to say and has been said about the book and movie; suffice it to say that I also had questions upon first seeing it at about 19-years-old, but the creepy score by Wendy Carlos, Joe Turkel (the bartender) who usually played beatnik types in early 60s movies, Philip Stone, whom Kubrick had used in "A Clockwork Orange", and the main cast. I had read "Doctor Sleep" the many years later sequel, a couple times before seeing it and think it is worth checking out also. Thanks for the upload.
Read the book, so much better. Also there is a sequel. And Kubrick is a genius, this is one of the most well filmed movies ever. Watch the documentary on the making of the movie.
The acting across the board was superb.
I've always thought that he was destined to be possessed by this spirit of the psychotic caretaker. hes the caretaker reincarnated or something? its also mentioned that the overlook is built on an indian burial ground which is a recurring theme in stephen king stories
Believe it or not Shelly Duvall was a quirky sex symbol in the late 60s and early 70s.