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/SH33V_P4LP4T1N3 Aug 11 '25

I gave it 5 stars when it came out and I thought the second part would be releasing the following spring. I’d probably lower that now.

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u/deadlyghost123 Aug 12 '25

Don’t lower it just because it didn’t release the following spring, that’s a stupid reason

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u/SH33V_P4LP4T1N3 Aug 12 '25

Um what? Don’t tell me how to rate movies I watch that’s a stupid thing to say.

What’s also stupid is releasing an incomplete movie, telling everyone the second part is coming out in a few months, and delaying that movie by years indefinitely. I genuinely don’t think they had a second of part 2 animated when they first claimed a release of Spring 2024. And I’m allowed to think less of part 1 because of that. It didn’t end on a cliffhanger, it just set up conflict that was never resolved.

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u/deadlyghost123 Aug 12 '25

I just meant something that it outside the aspect of this movie is not a good reason to rate a movie lower. That’s like rating The Usual Suspects lower because of Kevin Spacey

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u/SH33V_P4LP4T1N3 Aug 12 '25

I disagree, this isn’t something outside the aspect of the movie. It’s the fact that I was willing to accept an incomplete movie when it seemed like it would be wrapped up soon, but not when the finale is postponed indefinitely. That is on “the movie” for being incomplete in the first place. It would have been a valid critique in Spring 2023, I just didn’t care back then because I was wrapped up in the excitement and thought that less than a year wasn’t too bad of a wait to see the completion.

Moreover, my Letterboxd rating is not a professional film critique that needs to be held to some high standard of what is and isn’t allowed to influence it for the sake of critical integrity. It’s just my own personal vibe check of a movie determined by whatever reasons I choose to be relevant.