Stephen King's The Shining (Two Disc Special Edition) | Stanley Anderson, Peter Boyles

Stephen King's The Shining (Two Disc Special Edition) | Stanley Anderson, Peter Boyles | This Wendy Is For Certain-Better On The Eyes".

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Stephen King's The...

	Stephen King's The Shining (Two Disc Special Edition) Stanley Anderson, Peter Boyles Warner Home Video, 2003 average customer review:based on 200 reviews view larger image
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Jack Torrance and his family move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack's writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack's past. But Jack's young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining. - a gift the hotel's vile spirits desperately want.

DVD Features:
Additional Scenes:11 additional scenes
Audio Commentary:Feature-length commentary by Stephen King, cast members Steven Weber and Cynthia Garris, Director Mick Garris and select crew
Interactive Menus
Scene Access

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Very true to the book written by Stephen King!

This is a great movie if you are the type of person who likes a movie about a book to be true to the book. In The Shining that was done by Stanley Kubrick, it was his "interpretation" of the book by Stephen King. And although it was a great movie on its own, it was not at all very true to the book. In this movie, which was a 3 night mini-series on ABC, Stephen King was allowed to make it almost exactly like the book he wrote, simply because there was enough time to! The book was amazing, and this movie will creep you out at times, and entertain you to the max! It is a great story. You will not regret buying this dvd!

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This Wendy Is For Certain-Better On The Eyes".

1 of my favorite actress's Ms. Rebecca DeMornay, Portryed 'Wendy' in this version of 'Stephen Kings- The Shining" Now this Lady is a Looker, as for Shelly DuVall- Wellll- She makes a Great Olive Oil :-) lol.....
While the Little Boy who played 'Danny' wasnt as articulate; as The Danny In the Big Screen Version. He was excellent".. The fact alone that you arent subjected to 10,000 vile 'Curse Words' is in its self, worth the price of the DVD set.

This version goes into a lots more detail than the Big screen one, and helps clear up a lots of 'Void Thoughts' that 1 may wonder about in the 1 with Jack Nicholson and Shelly DuVall.. This 1 isnt as Graphic and Gory as the Original, But I Just Loved The Ending. The Gentleman that portrayed Mr. Dick Holloran, is simply Great. Not to put Scatman down any. But, he played a great part and I just loved his "Cadddy".. I am very happy with my dvd set and would reccomend it to any Ardent Horror Film Buff. Thumbs Up.

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Stephen King betrays his own novel

Stephen King never liked Kubrick's adaptation of his eponymous novel. Granted. Then he finally did it himself in the form of a mini series for TV. He had two things to carefully avoid: direct similarities to the film and direct betrayal of his own book since he criticized Kubrick's film as not being faithful to the book. As for the first objective, he tries hard and succeeds on a few elements. Success with the animals carved from bushes in the garden. Success with the hotel that is not the one used by Kubrick, hence smaller and less spectacular. But then the differentiation he is trying hard to introduce makes him change some elements that are directly from the book, hence he drops elements I personally consider essential in the book. The use of the radio: we directly jump to destroying it in a fit of furor. The sabotaging of the snow mobile is reduced to some kind of secondary element. He is not shown has becoming both haunted by the past of the hotel and impotent in his own intellectual work: he drops his playwright's project and delves into discovering the past thanks to old newspapers he finds in the cellar, research and reconstruction, that is intellectual potency. The child does not connect with the killed twins and the man does not connect with the female victim. His going back to the past is reduced to some short sequences and only to two men, altogether. Why has this haunting been reduced? But the famous axe is gotten rid of in favor of a giant crocket hammer that reveals itself particularly sturdy when used as a killing weapon. But the worst is still to come. The end of the hotel is due to the explosion of the boiler. The hotel is not destroyed in the book and Torrance freezes to death in the labyrinth. This explosion is directly caused by Torrance himself in some kind of scuffle with the two ghosts from the past. Torrance hence remains sane at the end and kills himself, the culprit of all this tale, destroys the monstrous hotel, and even worse, a sequence is added ten years later when the boy graduates with honors mind you from his high school in the presence of the black cook who survived what should have been his death and the mother, and, betrayal of betrayals, the ghost of the father expressing his love to the son who receives it with gratitude. This adaptation by Stephen King himself shows an evolution of the author both because of age probably, answering thus to the criticism that he is too cruel with his characters, and to the medium he is using here, television that requires some kind of curbing because of the wide audience it has. But the series, though the rhythm is slower than the film's and that is good, appears to be a pale version of the book and we do not capture the cold of the winter, the isolation of the place and the horror of the derangement of Torrance and also of his wife and his son. We miss particularly the mechanism that brings total annihilation to anyone and anything that stands in the way of the planned vengeance of the past onto the present. There is only one answer to that situation SOS and escape if you can. That's the book. The series does not create that atmosphere and that urgency, not to speak of that fate, connected in the book to some kind of lore about Indians.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

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More true to the book

I liked this miniseries better than the orignial movie. It followed Stephen King's book more closely and was actually filmed at the Stanley Hotel. I thought Steven Weber was more credible as a guy who is slowly taken over by the Hotel than was Jack Nicolson. This version made you understand it was the Hotel that was evil, not the people.

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