“The Shining” is perfect quarantine viewing
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I understand the want for studios to make movies palatable to an audience, but there is only so many people who are interested in watching these movies to begin with, so really cutting is just going to piss off the fans and won't earn you any accolades.
And it's a damn shame because in a number of cases the original footage has been lost, so there is no hope for some miraculous "Uncut" or "Director's Cut" version in the future.
But on that note, if you’re interested in the studio messing with the director’s intended work, check out the “Love Conquers All” version of the movie “Brazil” (1985). It starts like 40 minutes in, makes no goddamn sense, and ends on a happy note where the original film... definitely doesn’t. A friend of mine described it as (SPOILER for the movie Se7en): “As if in the movie Se7en instead of his wife’s head in the box, it was a cake and she rolled out on a unicycle singing Happy Birthday.”
And yes it has something to say about "Cabin fever"
It seems likely to be an influence on a lot of David Lynch's work - in terms of a sense of oddness that's hard to define the cause of, and malign supernatural elements presented without much explanation, but which "make sense" in "logic of dreams" kind of way.
I did see The Shining years ago, but have seen a lot of David Lynch's work since then, so it's only now that I make the connection.
> Making The Shining, Stanley Kubrick announced Eraserhead was his favourite film and showed it to his cast and crew, “to put them in the mood”.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/22/david-lynch-era...
So I was actually thinking of Lynch's later works (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks) that definitely came after "The Shining" But yeah, they share things big and small, from tone to camera angles.
There's a scene in The Shining, about 3 /4 of the way through, where Jack is walking down a corridor in a rage, and it's _just weird_ (1), so reminiscent of The Man from Another Place in Twin peaks, and it's hard to say what's wrong, to unpick what's going on technically.
I only noticed this on the rewatch last week. I'd guess it's a combination of the acting and sound, camera angle and framing, lens choice, and the camera moving with him over the patterned carpet.
Exactly. I once heard a film critic say, "Most great movies are either puzzles or dreams."
The Shining is definitely the latter, a movie that runs on pure nightmare logic. Nothing makes literal sense and everything makes perfect sense.
You can describe _a lot_ of David Lynch's work with that phrase. Lost Highway. Mulholland Drive. Much of Twin Peaks.
Any director could splice up some random images and say it's surreal. What's _disturbing_ about Lynch's work is that while your rational mind knows that what you see doesn't make sense, something inside you is meanwhile saying "oh yes it does".
Who? (1)
https://www.thehairpin.com/2016/07/the-best-time-i-pretended...
My year also tried to institute a "Con Air" viewing before the first flight, mainly as a poke at the previous crew, but I'm not sure that stuck.
http://screenprism.com/insights/article/why-does-stephen-kin...
Regardless, it's my favorite King movie (though I haven't yet seen "It").
A big part of this is that he felt Jack Nicholson was just playing a crazy character. But the character in the book was a father first. And you could feel that. Not to mention this book had a lot to do with King himself and how he was lost in drugs and alcohol. There was a lot of internal and external struggle for him in the book that King felt was mostly ignored. This meant that by the end, the viewer had very little sympathy for him.
Personally, I love the movie and I love the book. But I completely understand King's criticism.
Pandorum
The Lighthouse
eXistenZ
Videodrome
Hellraiser (I’m a fan of the series, some are better than others)
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
The Thing
American Psycho
The Fly
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978 version with Leonard Nimoy)
The Lighthouse is fantastic.
The submersion was amazing.
Different strokes for different folks.
It's been a while but I do remember enjoying Oculus[1] and The Blackcoat's Daughter[2]. My gf got so scared watching Session 9[3] that we had to sit there with the lights on for a while afterwards, though I haven't seen it in over a decade so maybe my memories of it are a bit rose-tinted.
[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388715/
Maybe one day I'll revisit it, because I see it recommended all the time.
But if you do find yourself alone one dark night, and in the mood for something slow and brooding, I would suggest you give it another try.
There's also Dust and CGIBros. for mainly sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Alter specializes in horror, and there are several others that I haven't checked out yet (Mr. Nightmare is a large one).
For people working from home, as I've done for years, it's nice to take a short break at lunchtime or after work and catch a 15 minute movie. My eyes are bleary after eight hours, so a short film is ideal.
Later in the evening, we'll jump on Amazon Prime or Netflix and watch something family friendly (though I recently discovered that my 15-year-old kid was watching an anime that had about the most graphic violence I've ever seen).
Is there real value to the article? I mean, really, more than the "oh well value is relative" thing... Wonder how it would be if Newton would have preferred to watch a movie (or an equivalent at the time) instead of taking a stroll thinking of his theories and finding inspiration in a falling apple (the equivalent at the time).
Parallels to the time of the black plague.