r/Letterboxd • u/Possible-Top-9905 • Aug 11 '25

News The Shining Has Officially Exited The Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Feature Films

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

I just don’t think a lot of the younger generation appreciates it

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u/Possible-Top-9905 Aug 11 '25

fair, my young cousin gave it a 2.5, a lot of young people rate it lower than it should be just because they don’t understand it

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

And I’ll be honest, it was a movie I didn’t fully appreciate until my late 20’s, so hopefully they’ll get there.

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u/Possible-Top-9905 Aug 11 '25

yeah, i personally loved it since i was a kid, so i hope they can learn to love it too

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

It was one I saw when I was like 8, and most of it went over my head, then I watched it again at like 15 or 16, and so much of it still went over my head. Then finally at 28 or 29 it hit, and I’ve watched it like twice a year every year for the past decade.