ITT what the fuck were the critics thinking

ITT what the fuck were the critics thinking

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>63%
If only they knew how good they had it back then

>a masterpiece of modern horror

the shinning was meant to be scary?

bump

Not enough loud noise jump scares for the zoomer.

Room 237 was the first "movie" I ever shut off halfway. Unbearable. the guy with his kid interrupting, the guy where everything was Jews...maybe it was the same guy, but just awful.

The Shining is possibly Kubrick's only bad film. It fails to make the audience neither think nor feel.

>Muh symbolism
Symbolism can't carry a movie alone, the symbolism in the shining is almost unrelated to the rest of the movie.

Jack nicholson is shit, his performance in the shining is brainlet heath ledger joker tier. The movie is just cringey, with several scenes intended to be scary that you just end up laughing at. Shelley Duvall is jar jar binks level annoying as well.

a classic

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>Kubrick is somewhere in the clouds
>I can’t show you, but he’s there trust me
>I swear
>please just trust me

I turned it off immediately after. Fuck this “documentary” and the s o y bugmen who appeared in it.

terrible bait

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most critics today are bloggers, they either actively suck the dick of every hollywood entity or they don't get adbux. Back in the day, critics worked for publications that didn't give a damn about the opinions of their advertisers, because they could stay afloat solely from sales and subscriptions.

What a faggot Ebert turned out to be. Disappointing coming from a man who worked with Russ Meyer.

I was able to get through it but I would have to agree the quality of the documentary is absolutely insulting. It’s especially insulting to Kubrick, since every person in Room 237 talks about how ‘Stanley Kubrick inspired’ them to ‘become a filmmaker’ and how his attention to detail is so unbelievably awesome, yet they record their V.O. on their laptop mics in a single take. Also some of the shit they say is just retarded.

he was a white knight. he couldn't bare to see violence against women on film. it's sad to see that he couldn't understand that just because a film includes something morally reprehensible doesn't mean it condones it

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the shining was critically panned at release, affecting its score

wouldn't most of the reviews on RT and metacritic be recent and not from the time of the release of the film say if the film was released like 40 years ago?? i may not understand how this works...

I agree

obviously

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He was just sad David Lynch defiled his waifu. We can all understand that. We know how precious a waifu is to a man.

I think I read somewhere Room 237 is supposed to be a parody of nonsensical fan theories.

yes, user, yes i do

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it says "documentary"... maybe it was some of the film-makers trying to save their trainwreck saying "it was actually supposed to be terrible"

Parody documentaries are a thing.

I think there are some genuinely interesting points made in the film that actually seem plausible but the majority of the film is made up poorly made commentaries that don't make any sense. I think if they were making a parody film they would at least try to be more consistent. What they end up with is a lazy and inconsistent piece of mush.