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  Review by videogamedunkeyUnofficial ½ 4

  There is a terrifying scene towards the beginning of this movie where text appears reading "Screenplay by Steven King".

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  Review by Stanley Kubrick ½ 5

  fuck you

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  Review by Matthew L. Brady ½ 6

  I can see why Stanley Kubrick said no to Stephen King's script, because this was fucking awful.

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  Review by Tasha Robinson ½ 5

  There are a dozen reasons why this miniseries is awful, including the flat acting, ultra-cheapie production, comically baggy pacing, badly dated visual effects, and tacked-on attempt at a happy ending. (If Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of his film so much because it wasn't true to the original, why did he script this version to have a series of ultra-sentimental, overextended endings?) But the real issue is that it's painfully literal. It opens (spoiler ahead!) with a clumsy scene explaining exactly how it's going to end. The characters speak in huge hunks of undigested exposition. Steven Webber as John Torrence explains what's going on inside his head over and over and over. Most criminally, Danny Torrence's psychic friend Tony…

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  Review by Leighton Trent ★ 3

  S̶o̶r̶r̶y̶ not sorry King, I love you, but this is shit.

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  Review by averagezac ★

  So Stephen King didn’t like Kubrick’s adaptation but he wrote this thing? Ok.

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  Review by liam f ★ 5

  you know it's bad when its only improvement on the Kubrick version is the lack of the n-word

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  Review by Cats ★★★★ 5

  Well, I've been snowed in my house for two days now, so at some point I had to rewatch The Shining. Both of them. I decided to go with the Mick Garris/Stephen King miniseries first.

  For anyone who doesn't know, Stephen King has always been vocal about his disdain for the Stanley Kubrick film. He didn't agree with the casting of Jack Nicholson among other things, so he decided to work on a miniseries adaptation with director Mick Garris, who by this point had already directed Sleepwalkers and The Stand.

  I know it's not the popular opinion, but I've always really liked this miniseries. I understand why people prefer the Kubrick version, as it's obviously a better made film. The dialogue is better. It's…

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  Review by james💫 ½ 3

  it's 2019, i was just starting to get into film and i was so excited to watch the shining cause everyone talked about it… 2 full hours in and i was so disappointed that it didn't live up to the hype, but then i realized i was watching this shit show instead of kubrick's and i genuinely wanted to give up and die

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★ 13

  Stephen’s King’dom Marathon: Film #45

  ”Gentlemen… I think the party’s over”

  It’s the hotel...

  Sometimes it makes people do bad things…

  … like this movie.

  ”He said, The Overlook couldn’t hurt us,
  but he was wrong”

  
  Cinematic Playlist – Stephen King Ranked

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  Review by Dr. Ethan Lyon ★½ 16

  Hooptober 9.0, pt. 5- Maybe don't let the author write

  4/6 Countries (Spain, UK, Japan, USA)
  5/8 Decades (1970s, 1980s, 1960s, 2020s, 1990s
  1/1- Stephen King Re-Adaptation

  1st Mick Garris

  I have both read The Shining and seen the film multiple times. Is Kubrick’s film a faithful adaptation of Stephen King? No. In that respect, Garris and King’s version is better. Is Garris and King’s adaptation a good adaptation? Absolutely not. Is it a good piece of visual media? No, it’s appalling.

  Watching this makes me realise that what works so brilliantly about Kubrick’s The Shining is that he seriously applied himself to the material, stripped out that which he didn’t need and amplified the subtle suggestions to make maybe…

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  Review by slamongflobo ★ 5

  ruined the book for me bc it used to be actually scary and now i imagine these goofy ahh characters whenever i read it and it immediately turns to shit and the worst part is stephen king actually approved of it. absolutely vile and criminal. stephen king is smart in some ways and a delusional freak in others. this series being a prime example. even the it mini series is better. stephen king be like the child sex scene in it was necessary because the rule is they can’t leave the sewer without losing their innocence. my brother in christ you made the rule. stephen king be like how dare you make the best movie of all time from the book i wrote and not use every single detail. i’m going to ratio you by making the worst series possible and then you’ll see.