Sep 21, 2026 · 48 min · 23 segments
This week, we review a classic. The 1980 Kubrick film: The Shining. You've had over 40 years to watch this movie... so we're going to spoil it. *The plot of*…
Most people know it was, uh, an adaptation of a Stephen King book, and everyone always says things like, "The book's so much better," and they're usually right.
But there are very few cases where I think the movie actually is better than the book.
Kubrick does things that I feel like if anyone else did them would be considered hackey, and but 'cause of the way he does it, it just always freaking works for his [laughs] movies.
Some of his just transitions, I'm like, man, if anyone else tried to do some of these transitions that he's doing, they just wouldn't work.
And it's like some of the flashes that he was doing, too, he w- it felt like he was holding them too long, and it's like but he's not, 'cause it's actually more effective the way he's doing it.
Most people know it was, uh, an adaptation of a Stephen King book, and everyone always says things like, "The book's so much better," and they're usually right.
But there are very few cases where I think the movie actually is better than the book.
Kubrick does things that I feel like if anyone else did them would be considered hackey, and but 'cause of the way he does it, it just always freaking works for his [laughs] movies.
Some of his just transitions, I'm like, man, if anyone else tried to do some of these transitions that he's doing, they just wouldn't work.
And it's like some of the flashes that he was doing, too, he w- it felt like he was holding them too long, and it's like but he's not, 'cause it's actually more effective the way he's doing it.
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