General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Comrade Khan]

Kubrick is a fucking madman so im not shocked he didnt like it lol

 

[Chris]

Glory is a great movie I forgot existed

 

[Chris]

Kubrick would call him up asking the most random questions apparently

 

[Jimmy King]

The Shining, Shawshank, and The Fog are my favorite King film adaptations

 

[Jimmy King]

The Fog ending is so fucked up lol

 

[Jimmy King]

I mean The Mist not The Fog lol

 

[Chris]

so many dogshit stephen king movies lol

half his books are shit to start with tbf but some adaptations just did them dirty

 

[Chris]

Shawshank was a short story too I'm pretty sure that was vastly expanded for a movie

 

[Jimmy King]

Green Mile is another one I like

 

[Comrade Khan]

half his books are shit to start with tbf but some adaptations just did them dirty

i forget the name but the one with the girl whos tied up isso bad lol

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

i have not actually. i do know king really liked the new IT

So TL/DR, The Shining is actually King's most personal book, it was written during a time King himself was struggling with alcoholism and he wrote Jack Torrance to be more sympathetic, as a guy with demons who's continually being tempted by the hotel into doing evil. Jack Torrance in the book is a self-reflection of King himself. Kubrick took that, and just made Jack evil in the first place. An unsympathetic asshole who hates his kid, resents his wife, and is a miserable sack of shit. King hated the interpretation of Jack in the movie *because* Jack Torrance is Stephen King.

 

[Comrade Khan]

wifey is the expert tho

 

[Comrade Khan]

im not really into horror that much

 

[Jimmy King]

There was the short story he wrote called The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon I really liked

 

[Comrade Khan]

So TL/DR, The Shining is actually King's most personal book, it was written during a time King himself was struggling with alcoholism and he wrote Jack Torrance to be more sympathetic, as a guy with demons who's continually being tempted by the hotel into doing evil. Jack Torrance in the book is a self-reflection of King himself. Kubrick took that, and just made Jack evil in the first place. An unsympathetic asshole who hates his kid, resents his wife, and is a miserable sack of shit. King hated the interpretation of Jack in the movie *because* Jack Torrance is Stephen King.

yeah that makes sense. they really did make him unredeemably assholish