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[Strax]

Guys i'm watching The Shining

I don't think I like Kubrick movies, i'm bored out of my mind, just like I was when I watched 2001... And i'm really into space stuff and horror movies, that makes it even weirder

The Shining is one of my fav. movies, top 3 stuff, so I can't understand being bored by it. I get people not liking it but I've never heard people thinking it's boring before. I've never viewed The Shining as horror, to me it's more like a thriller with 1-2 horror scenes/moments. 2001 on the other hand might be the most boring 'mainstream' film ever made unless you're really into filmmaking.

 

[Gozer the Gozerian]

they say the best wrestling characters are just the people who portray them turned up to eleven, so I think it goes without saying that Patrick far and away had the best gimmick at the Rumble

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[Salarians]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgqz8Je7P0s

 

[funkystudent]

Blood an Wine is still in my backlog.

At this stage I kinda should just buy it on PC and replay the entire thing.

 

[alr1ght]

Guys, I will ruin The Shining. When they're outside in the bitter winter cold, no one's breath can be seen. They're all androids.

 

[killroy87]

Yeah he interned at Whiskey.

Also Nick Robinson warning

I forgot Nick interned for them!

I don't know if I have ever once heard them speak of him, or reference his time there.

 

[J.W. Stillwater]

I'm glad that Vinny and Brad will never do the wrestling LARPing. They're too pure.

 

[darkwing-buck]

Can't wait!

 

[Death Metalist]

TwinPeaks.jpg

Can't wait!

I've awoken.

Gonna watch the Rumble as soon as I get back from buying food for Twin Peaks tonight.

I'm all set.

 

[Dineren]

I really need to finish up the second season, but it has really been dragging.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Youre killing me DM. If I have even one donut it kills my stomach.

 

[drabnon]

Giant Bomb |OT32| Fuck 'em

Giant Bomb |OT32| Sandbirds of a feather

 

[PushTheButtonMax]

Guys, I will ruin The Shining. When they're outside in the bitter winter cold, no one's breath can be seen. They're all androids.

Wow, Kubrick's genius shows down to the last detail.

 

[killroy87]

Just a heads up, I'm working on the new thread. What do you guys want the title to be?

Giant Bomb |OT32| Mmm-hmmmm

(i just like that Abby says mm-hmm all the time, it's endearing)

 

[broncobuster]

Guys, I will ruin The Shining. When they're outside in the bitter winter cold, no one's breath can be seen. They're all androids.

They'll employ Fincher's cold breath tech for the rerelease.

 

[hamchan]

I forgot Nick interned for them!

I don't know if I have ever once heard them speak of him, or reference his time there.

He was on UPF earlier this year.

 

[Fevaweva]

Like all of Kubrick's adaptations, he butcher's the source material for the worse. The Shining, the novel, is at least a million times better than the film.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Like all of Kubrick's adaptations, he butcher's the source material for the worse. The Shining, the novel, is at least a million times better than the film.

They both stand by their own merits, tho. If I watch the movie its not because I want to see an adaptation of the book, and if I read the book its not because I want to read the source material of the movie.

 

[Fevaweva]

They both stand by their own merits, tho. If I watch the movie its not because I want to see an adaptation of the book, and if I read the book its not because I want to read the source material of the movie.

There is 'adaptation' and there is casting Jack Nicholson as a character whose descent into madness is supposed to be a shock.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

There is 'adaptation' and there is casting Jack Nicholson as a character whose descent into madness is supposed to be a shock.

And Nicholson owned that role.

Like I said, they both stand as stand alone stories with little to no relation to one another.

 

[hamchan]

The Shining is a bad adaptation that is still an incredible movie.

 

[Jothel]

This Witcher panel lol

Worth watching?

 

[Strax]

Like all of Kubrick's adaptations, he butcher's the source material for the worse. The Shining, the novel, is at least a million times better than the film.

Given that The Shining is genarally thought of as one of best movies ever made I think most people are willing let that slide the things he changed. I wish more film adaptations would cut out or change things in novels that don't work, are too long or unnecessary. To Kill a Mockingbird and LOTR would've been terrible movies without all the changes and cuts made.

 

[BTA]

I'm all set.

Ah, I didn't consider donuts. I just bought a cherry pie and some coffee (well, "caffe macchiato") gelato to have with it.

That combined with the garbage I've already eaten today means it's probably best that I didn't consider buying some mini donuts or something.

 

[Red UFO]

how many hours a night does Jeff gerstmann sleep

 

[OdysseusVA]

Worth watching?

I had to stop watching about half way through, but I think so

 

[Human Trashcan]

Like all of Kubrick's adaptations, he butcher's the source material for the worse. The Shining, the novel, is at least a million times better than the film.

I have not read the book but The Shining is a fucking brilliant film regardless of how true it is to the novel. The Godfather's not true to the novel either, does that make it bad by default?

 

[ElectronicOldMen]

Fuck reverence to source material tbh, it super rarely works out. Be creative, do your own thing with it. Being overly slavish to material created in another medium is a hindrance way more often than a help.

 

[Zaph]

Fuck reverence to source material tbh, it super rarely works out. Be creative, do your own thing with it. Being overly slavish to material created in another medium is a hindrance way more often than a help.

Yup. If the source material was always held sacred, we wouldn't have the second best film of all time - Starship Troopers

 

[- J - D -]

The Hobbit trilogy is an excellent example of when deviating from the source material results in a truly outstanding work.

 

[Archaix]

The Hobbit trilogy is an excellent example of when deviating from the source material results in a truly outstanding work.

fucking what

 

[OdysseusVA]

I want to say that was bait

 

[Antiwhippy]

Shadow of war is an even better example honestly.

 

[funkystudent]

The Hobbit trilogy is an excellent example of when deviating from the source material results in a truly outstanding work.

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[xxracerxx]

The Hobbit trilogy is an excellent example of when deviating from the source material results in a truly outstanding work.

Such classic scenes such as the Go-Pro barrel ride shot. Outstanding stuff.

 

[Blitzrules240]

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Aww young Jeff and Vinny. Vinny's expression mid quote is funny.

 

[- J - D -]

Such classic scenes such as the Go-Pro barrel ride shot. Outstanding stuff.

All in glorious 48fps too. The way middle earth was meant to be seen.

 

[J_Viper]

Paths of Glory is Kubrick's best film

I have also not seen all of Kubrick's films

 

[Lari]

I finished watching the PAX Rumble show...
what did I just watch?!

 

[Human Trashcan]

I finished watching the PAX Rumble show...
what did I just watch?!

I'd guess the PAX Rumble show

here all night folks

 

[Blitzrules240]

I'd guess the PAX Rumble show

here all night folks

Your comment in the Yakuza Kiwami thread about Don Draper's hat made me laugh and I needed that.

So thanks duder.

 

[Antiwhippy]

I finished watching the PAX Rumble show...
what did I just watch?!

A bunch of games journalism people trying to be funny.

 

[Gobias]

Such classic scenes such as the Go-Pro barrel ride shot. Outstanding stuff.

Never watched these movies and I just looked this scene up. Oh my

 

[tryagainlater]

Staying true to The Hobbit book would have made a pretty boring fucking movie. I don't blame Jackson for trying to expand on what reads like a summary of a longer story. I do blame him for a lot of the shit in those movies though.

Still not as bad as sexy Shelob though.

 

[OdysseusVA]

I finished watching the PAX Rumble show...
what did I just watch?!

Game of Thrones

Alliances
Rivalries
Betrayals
Deaths

All for the crown

 

[bomma_man]

I have not read the book but The Shining is a fucking brilliant film regardless of how true it is to the novel. The Godfather's not true to the novel either, does that make it bad by default?

Fuck reverence to source material tbh, it super rarely works out. Be creative, do your own thing with it. Being overly slavish to material created in another medium is a hindrance way more often than a help.

Yup. If the source material was always held sacred, we wouldn't have the second best film of all time - Starship Troopers

Finally, good opinions in this thread

 

[Lari]

Game of Thrones

Alliances
Rivalries
Betrayals
Deaths

All for the crown

That sounds like my jam.
But watching a man getting poisoned on live streaming "TV" and no one doing a goddamn thing about it, was harsh.

Poor Austin, RIP.

 

[Ashby]

27 years in the making ends tonight.

 

[ArjanN]

Like all of Kubrick's adaptations, he butcher's the source material for the worse. The Shining, the novel, is at least a million times better than the film.

Pretty sure the general opinion about this is almost universally the exact opposite.

 

[Gozer the Gozerian]

27 years in the making ends tonight.

My life!?