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Rebecca de mornay the shining7/7/2023 Years later, this culminated in his creation of a better, fuller miniseries version. King himself had a lot of hate for the film. I’m not the only one who thought that Kubrick crapped all over Stephen King’s book. Sure, it’s fun to watch Nicholson go nuts and abuse his family, but he’s not exactly my go-to actor for sympathetic characters, which was what his role should have been. If Nicholson’s Joker and Duvall’s Olive Oyl were swapped in for their characters in The Shining, no one would be the wiser. What was supposed to be a story about a family trying to keep itself together and a father trying to overcome alcoholism and pull his life together became in Kubrick’s hands an artsy horror shitshow featuring Jack Nicholson as Wolfman Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall as a mousy, goggle-eyed fashion atrocity. By the time I watched it all its horror moments had become cliché, but after reading Stephen King’s much better source material I’ve come to hate it pretty thoroughly. I’ve made it no secret that I really dislike Stanley Kubrick’s version of The Shining. Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Steven Weber
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