I said this earlier in the thread, but the best way to do it is read both books, then watch both in order. That will make you really appreciate how different the shining movie was from the book, and how much of a fukking masterclass it was for mike Flanagan to make the book sequel story work with the first shining movie.
It helps to know the lore of the Shining. You don't have to actually watch the movie but just know what the main myth of the hotel is.
I was on a long-ass international flight and saw the whole thing, it was a great experience.I saw it on the airplane and my flight landed before I finished I was kinda mad. I went home and watched it all over. Then I went back and saw the shining for the 1st time.
I've only seen the movie but I thought it was really incredible how deeply broken they made him, especially with that total a$$hole thing he did and slowly slowly building up into the kind of person that could be redeemed.
I LOVE this movie! I need to buy this
If they can do it well then I’m all in. There’s just some the thing about a well done trilogy. They’d at minimum have to hire King as a consultant for the script. I’d be down to watch a movie about a grown Astra hunting down other members of true knot or some connected evil and taking a kid with the shining under her wing with some occasional pop ups by Danny to provide guidance. It’d bring things full circle. Especially if they can connect it to whoever built the Overlook hotel.
I'm genuinely surprised at the positive reception this film got on here. I didn't like this, at all, and am struggling to see what everyone else is seeing.
When Danny and Abra was driving to the overlook and the song starts.
Just watched again this morning. I read that the flyover shot of the lake and the shots of the car driving through the mountains were actually taken from the shining and altered to add snow and be at night.Directors Cut makes this shyt even better.
