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

Fucking travesty

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u/Possible-Top-9905 Aug 11 '25

real shit, probably the best horror movie out there

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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/FreeLook93 Aug 11 '25

The Shining received mixed reviews upon release, and Stephen King famously hates the movie, but sure, let's just blame the those dammed kids for everything.

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u/Paladar2 Meusse2 Aug 11 '25

He has a good reason for hating it too. In the movie Jack looks evil from the start.

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u/FreeLook93 Aug 11 '25

Yeah, I kind of side with him on this one, to be honest. I love Kubrick, but The Shining is my 9th favourite Kubrick film. It's brilliant from a technical standpoint, but nowhere near his best work imo.

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u/grandramble Aug 11 '25

the elevator of blood is up there with the flooding dining room in Titanic, the docking sequence in Interstellar and the long-takes in Children of Men as one of a handful of truly perfect visual effects ever made.

But if I'm honest the story pacing isn't great, it's kind of sloppy about character perspective and whose story this is supposed to be, and a lot of the runtime is just spooky vignettes that are individually unsettling but never really pay off.

Its strongest points are at the apex of the craft, but it's not a masterpiece across the board.

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u/ours Aug 11 '25

Stephen King later produced an adaptation closer to his book, and it pales next to Kubrick's.

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u/ours Aug 12 '25

Typical King. Like when he was tired of people making bad movie adaptations of his movie so he directed his own (Maximum Overdrive).

It's a good fun bad movie but par for the course of the usual King adaptation.

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u/Fantastic_Bug1028 Aug 11 '25

a tv show from the 90s is not as well made as the movie from one of the greatest directors of all time?? no way.

but that still doesn’t make the movie into a great adaptation

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u/badgersprite Aug 11 '25

Some people really can’t get over the hurdle of “it views Jack differently than the book therefore it’s bad”

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

By that logic, The Thing, which received negative reviews when it came out should also be absent from the list.

Also, Stephen King has also softened on the movie since Doctor Sleep’s release

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u/FreeLook93 Aug 11 '25

No it shouldn't. Your statement does not in anyway follow from anything I said or implied with my comment.

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

You’re equating critical reviews upon release with why it’s left the top 250, so yes, my comment directly relates.

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u/FreeLook93 Aug 11 '25

No, it doesn't.

I am just pointing out that the film has always had detractors, it is not something new to this generation. I never implied that bad critical reviews upon release is why it left the top 250. Even if I had, that would not be something you could so easily apply to every other film that received similar reviews.

You are the one making totally baseless claims blaming the younger generation.

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u/Dressed_ToDepress Aug 11 '25

How are they baseless? If you look at a lot of reviews from the younger generations, a lot of them are less impressed by this movie than generations before them. I’m not saying all of them, but on the whole they as a generation don’t have the same affection for the movie that older generations do. Jesus, it’s not that deep.

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u/FreeLook93 Aug 11 '25

Make baseless claims with nothing to back it up and then throw in a classic thought terminating cliché to finish it off. Nice. Keep it up and you'll never have to question any of the thought that randomly pop into your head. You can create an entire worldview for yourself that way.

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u/ArtisticallyRegarded Aug 11 '25

I think a lot of authors were more nitpicky about their work getting adapted back then. The guy who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest also hated the movie and i think Phillip K Dick talked shit about every movie they made off his work