The Shining or The Thing?

[TheRuthlessOne]

He is right

The book is trash thats why kubrick pretty much threw it out while making the movie

 

[Mangar]

Awesome movie. The Shining isn't bad but The Thing is just so good.

 

[Archie Goodwin]

He is right

The book is trash thats why kubrick pretty much threw it out while making the movie

 

[Synadil]

The Thing. Te Shining didn't impress me that much to be honest. Mostly, it was Jack being Jack.

 

[The Big Sloppy]

If we watch what she would most likely prefer, The Shining.

I would rather watch The Thing.




so we would watch The Thing.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

The Thing. Te Shining didn't impress me that much to be honest. Mostly, it was Jack being Jack.

If u watch the shining from a technical standpoint though, like trying to figure out how kubrick creates the mood, it becomes fascinating.

But i still prefer the thing.

Im not about to say carpenter was as good as kubrick. But i do enjoy carpenters films more.

 

[Synadil]

If u watch the shining from a technical standpoint though, like trying to figure out how kubrick creates the mood, it becomes fascinating.

Oh, totally agree with that.I know little about film making, but I do know The Shining, and most of Kubricks works are more art than anything else.

 

[neverwas]

the thing for me. the shinning is 2 hours of tedium.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

@shadow_priest_x What say you?

I personally think Shining is a masterpiece of film making

The Thing is a fantastic movie but Shining is more layered and more interesting to dissect

 

[GORETAURO]

It's a bitter cold, stormy winter night. You and your girl are snowed in and stuck in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere. Nothing but snow and ice around for miles. Your girl loves horror films and can be quiet and actually watch an entire movie closely. She has never seen either of these films and doesn't know anything about them. U can only choose 1 of these 2 films to show her. Which one do u pick?

The shining because I think a chic is better at taking that movie. The dog scene throws a lot of people off.

 

[Guestx]

@shadow_priest_x What say you?

I personally think Shining is a masterpiece of film making

The Thing is a fantastic movie but Shining is more layered and more interesting to dissect

I'm inclined to agree with you.

The Thing is a fine film, but it doesn't drill a hole into your psyche and fuck with your mind the way The Shining does. There's a reason a film like Room 237 exists for The Shining but not for The Thing.

Much like with 2001, with The Shining Kubrick doesn't just come right now and explain himself and explain what he means with the movie. While some people probably find that frustrating--and some might even call it poor filmmaking--for me it just makes the movie even more fascinating.

I'm surprised to see The Thing winning in the poll, especially by such a wide margin.

 

[benebox]

So to confirm when people say 'The Thing' its the film where he ends up burning their blood to see who the things are?

 

[Lavitz]

So to confirm when people say 'The Thing' its the film where he ends up burning their blood to see who the things are?

Yep.

 

[Taco Loco]

The Thing but my girl being quiet lol! I could just imagine it now... Omg! why is the dog doing that? Is it mad at the other dogs?

 

[JSN]

The ending and pacing was the biggest thing for me. I'm not a huge movie guy, and cannot articulate properly what I feel, so here is a cheap video that shows some of the blatantantly wrong things in the movie. Jack is just a different beast altogether in the movie.

http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=64780

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Comparison_with_the_novel



To continue. Jack doesn't be show his change in the movie. He seemed off from the start, and the hotel never got the chance to shine, like in Movies where a certain location has a sort of "demonic" possession. Such as type movies like The Legend of Hell House and Burnt Offerings

Yup he starts out as creepy Jack and ends as super creepy Jack. It would have been so much better if he started out as a loving, happy person.

 

[asdf122345]

I'm into Sci-Fi. SO the thing.

 

[Death By Samson]

So to confirm when people say 'The Thing' its the film where he ends up burning their blood to see who the things are?

Yes

 

[Dizzy]

I love both but I have to be in a certain mood to watch The Shining. The Thing is infinitely rewatchable for me.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

I love both but I have to be in a certain mood to watch The Shining. The Thing is infinitely rewatchable for me.

Same same

 

[Monkadelic]

I voted for The Thing, but any thread like this needs the below clip.