[ SECRET POST #5049 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5049 ⌋

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[this was a text secret, I just screencapped it - I'm not one of the pretty secret makers, sorry]


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[(Anonymous)]

I didn't like The Shining because I knew too much about it already going in. It was like, "Oh, now it's the scene where the kid's riding his trike... Now it's the scene in the bathroom... Now it's the 'all work and no play' thing..." I was just watching all these plot points that people talk about or that became memes and there wasn't any suspense.

[sparklywalls]

I was going to comment something similar in that I feel like it's one of those films that REALLY suffers for its iconic moments being so drilled into popular consciousness now. Like, I don't mind it, it's not my favourite Kubrick film and I know there's differences with the book that can cause a whole other debate. But even as someone who overall enjoys it, it feels a bit like "oh look, here comes X bit that has been parodied to death" while you're watching it.

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to say something similar.

I like anime and had forever been hearing about Akira and what a great movie it was.

I watched it and was like, meh, it was okay, but I didn't really get "groundbreaking" from it. But then I realized because I'd seen so much other media that was derivative of Akira and the parts that WERE novel and unique were being copied in a million different ways I'd already seen. So because I saw it after I had seen so many other things it inspired, it didn't feel groundbreaking to me.

Maybe something similar is going on for OP.

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[(Anonymous)]

I guess it's possible, but when I watched The Shining I did not see any scenes that made me go "ah yes I remember this from other movies." When watching it I enjoyed it somewhat from the pov of watching unique set design, I think the hotel must have been a wonderful space to work in with all those ominous looking walls and that carpeting. The scene where the ball rolls into Danny's toys was really well done visually.

The Shining itself is a book I've stayed away from (I think King's books are really overwrought and there are better horror novelists out there.) So while I knew the broad strokes walking in (the dad goes crazy in the hotel and tries to kill his family) I didn't know about things like the imaginary friend in Danny's finger or that Danny's mother asked a child psychologist to interview him at the beginning of the movie. I also didn't know about things like the woman in the bathtub that turns into a cackling Baba Yaga or about the black guy who makes friends with Danny and tries to rescue him.

So all of that stuff going in was a surprise to me. It's just that I started laughing around the old lady scene and I kept cracking up as the movie got dumber and dumber with its wild zooms and stuff.

The thing is I actually really like Kubrick as a director. I found 2001 to be a much more frightening movie than The Shining since 2001 plays on a lot of fears like dying out in space, out of control AI, the intimidation of discovering we're not alone in the universe. I also really loved A Clockwork Orange, my boyfriend introduced me to it in college and I watched it 18 times in 4 days because it enraptured me so much. I never want to watch it again because that was enough but Kubrick movies are usually really great so I don't really understand what went wrong with The Shining.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

(OP of this thread just saying I also loved/was terrified by 2001 and A Clockwork Orange despite not liking The Shining, so we're simpatico on that.)