The Shining (1980) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2022-09-29 21:02:05 +0000 UTCHey everyone! It's the first movie of the inaugural kaiielle-oween! Here is my full-length reaction to The Shining! Early access to the edit for this one will be scheduled to go out early next week and then it will go public on YouTube on Friday, October 7th.
I am not sure what I expected going into this movie but it certainly had many elements that I was not expecting! I also learned that this movie contains a very popular meme that I have seen across the internet for years and years. Please enjoy! Thank you for everything and I can't wait to hear your thoughts! [Direct link here.]
✦ KL
Comments
Firstly, when you said you would have skateboarded around the hotel, I thought, "Excellent! So would I." Secondly, it's so interesting that 2001: ASO is you most disliked film. I am incredibly curious to know why. I personally have no particular reverence for the film, but it is seemingly universally revered, and I'm fascinated to know your opinion and how it differs from the status quo. Thirdly, I've seen this film two fistfuls of times, and only recently found out what Shelly Duvall went through making it—and I must say, it taints my enjoyment of the film a bit, to say the least. Lastly, working my way through your back catalogue of full length movie reactions (more or less in alphabetical order) for the last couple of weeks has been brilliant.
Sam
2024-06-28 21:39:10 +0000 UTCVery true. 🤣 I'll give the book a shot one day.
kaiielle
2022-10-08 21:35:04 +0000 UTCJust sat down with the full reaction. It was humorous to me that you were watching a “haunted hotel” story & thought the ghosts were in Jack’s head. Though as someone coming into the movie reading the book, your commentary could be exposing story-telling flaws. Stephen King famously hates this film as it is not a faithful adaptation. He went so far as to pen the script for a tv mini series adaptation in 1997. I enjoyed your reaction, it had been a few years since I watched this in it’s entirety. Hope you are (did?) enjoy the time away with your friend.
Bryan Dempsey
2022-10-08 21:10:23 +0000 UTCGoing to skip this one for now because I've seen this movie a million times. It is October so I might watch it later in the month. Worth noting that they start the movie off in Boulder where I live and filmed at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado about 45 min. from me. Room 217 is booked years out still because of this movie.
Absher
2022-10-04 04:42:22 +0000 UTCYou're gonna be pleased to see that I too suffered from the same confusion. I thought redrum was referring to the liquid pouring out of the elevator, which looks like red rum and not blood. 🤣
kaiielle
2022-09-29 21:06:29 +0000 UTCwhen I first watched this movie myself, I felt like an idiot. Who knew that redrum spelled backwards is "Murder" 😂
LightsCameraJake
2022-09-29 21:03:59 +0000 UTC
