The Shining 35 year anniversary ....

holly8

.. showing in cinemas around the country over the next few days ... love it but have never seen it on the big screen ....what age recommended category is it in?

mikhail

holly8 wrote: »

.. showing in cinemas around the country over the next few days ... love it but have never seen it on the big screen ....what age recommended category is it in?

It's been rated as 18s and 16s here at various times. There's a parential guidance section here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/parentalguide

Mr E

I was at it last night. Hadn't seen it for years. Still a great movie, but some of Kubrick's direction is a bit dated now (the sudden zooms are really naff). A lot of the score was challenging on the ears too.

Nicholson's performance still stands up though, especially in the last half hour.

To answer the OP, the rating was 16s.

ancapailldorcha

Going to see it for the first time on Monday. A cinema in Notting Hill is showing it. My expectations are high.

charlie_says

Love that movie.

Probably will go too now.

holly8

Saw it...was great...hard to believe 35 yrs.. watched it on the edge even tho have seen it lots...still gets you

AllGunsBlazing

Even as a psychotic, axe - wielding killer Nicholson is still oddly likeable. Probably why I never found myself even remotely frightened by this movie.

Still beautiful to look at though, as is the case with pretty much all Kubrick films.

JupiterKid

The Shining is a classic. As another poster opined, it's great to look at but the sense of foreboding is also strong.

It is definitely one of the better horror films ever made. I have it on DvD and need to dig it out to watch.

philstar

what the hell was the nude babe coming out of the shower all about?

or was it just something kinky Jack suggested?????

tipptom

Grady; Did you know Mr Torrance that your son is attempting to bring an outside party in to this situation? Did you know that?


Jack; Its his mother,she interferes.




Grady;Perhaps they need a good talking to sir,if you don't mind me saying so.
Perhaps....a bit more.
My girls, sir,they didn't care for The Overlook at first.
One of them actually stole a box of matches and tried to burn it down.
But I.... corrected them,Sir.
And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty....I corrected her

holly8

It seems different, I didn't remember some scenes ... now I realise it was the 20 min longer US version

Eddy_Phelan

I watched this again the other day and it still gets me every single time!

pumpkin4life

One of the greatest movies of all time. Maybe Kubrick's finest film.

The spatial design of the Overlook Hotel was purposely done to fùck with you and disorientate you. You don't pick up on this stuff on the bat, but you know, deep down something while watching it is very very wrong. Genius of the movie lol. It's not just mere scary lads jumping out at you from the dark kind of film.

charlie_says

Went the other night. Fantastic film.

Had trailers for modern horrors at the beginning, all looked terrible. The Shining is how it's done correctly.

tricky D

Caught the Kubrick Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in San Francisco a few weeks back which was pretty cool with lots of stuff.

Here's some of the original props and a letter re Clockwork Orange and Ireland (a bit ott if I may and not great quality)

ancapailldorcha

I really, really liked it. Great performances and it was a genuinely unnerving film. The only things I didn't care for were the two main departures from the novel. The first was that Jack is presented as a good man plagued by demons who is eventually driven insane. Jack Nicholson's version of the character didn't seem sympathetic at all, even from the outset. The second was that Wendy seems to only exist to wail, scream and run in this. Minor issues but I might not have noticed had I not already read the novel.

SEPT 23 1989

Trippy carpet was constantly moving