The Shining 4K UHD (1980)

[Drooch]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

Upon it's release, it wasn't that popular and didn't do that well in the U.S. That's what I said. Of course it's become a classic, as all Kubrick's have.

I prefer the international cut, personally.

Was the shorter Euro version any more popular?

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by Drooch

Was the shorter Euro version any more popular?

I. Don't. Know.

[Benh911f]

Well, depending on your site settings, we’re officially on page 237 of this thread.

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by Benh911f

Well, depending on your site settings, we’re officially on page 237 of this thread.

[K9 Mark V]

Redrum

[Eye Candy]

Originally Posted by Drooch

I rest my case.

So Dick is left-handed. Is this correct??

[Eye Candy]

Originally Posted by Benh911f

Well, depending on your site settings, we’re officially on page 237 of this thread.

I see page 119. And if you add those numbers together, you get 11... as in Apollo 11.

[Drooch]

Originally Posted by Eye Candy

So Dick is left-handed. Is this correct??

It would seem so.

Since this is page 237 ‘Dick’ is now climaxing, and we’re exactly half way through the total length of this thread.

Originally Posted by Zombie Dude

Literally my reaction to every post from that user.

Find the courage to take Blowbear’s hand, and allow him to escort you on a psycho-sexual journey into the deepest meanings of The Shining.

[philthehip]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

Upon it's release, it wasn't that popular and didn't do that well in the U.S.

Huh? I am not sure where this "it didn't do well" thing came from but it opened the same weekend as Empre Strikes Back and per screen beat ESB and once it opened to more screens did well and made a profit.

The reviews were mixed, the box-office was strong.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by philthehip

Huh? I am not sure where this "it didn't do well" thing came from but it opened the same weekend as Empre Strikes Back and per screen beat ESB and once it opened to more screens did well and made a profit.

The reviews were mixed, the box-office was strong.

$45 million on a $19 million budget isn't exactly lighting the box office on fire. It did alright, but it had a mixed reception, as most Kubrick's do, only later to be heralded as classics.

[Geoff D]

Yep. Kubrick re-edited it for the later European release precisely because of the lukewarm reception it got Stateside…

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yep. Kubrick re-edited it for the later European release precisely because of the lukewarm reception it got Stateside…

Which led to a crappier, get-in-and-get-out-because-the-babysitter’s-charging-by-the-hour edit. Proof positive that creators need to have faith in themselves.

Queue all the UK edit defenders while I yawn at them and make fun of their high waters.

[Christian Muth]

It was considered a "hit" in the U.S., but not the EXORCIST-level blockbuster both Warner Bros. and Kubrick had hoped for, and the critical reception was of course very "mixed". Kubrick had earlier turned down the offer to direct THE EXORCIST and it kind of stinged him that Friedkin's film went on to be such a phenomenon and he was hoping to surpass it.

Chris

[Zombie Dude]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Which led to a crappier, get-in-and-get-out-because-the-babysitter’s-charging-by-the-hour edit. Proof positive that creators need to have faith in themselves.

Queue all the UK edit defenders while I yawn at them and make fun of their high waters.

I mean the international cut is still a 2 hour movie. Not really a get-in-and-out type of cut.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Zombie Dude

I mean the international cut is still a 2 hour movie. Not really a get-in-and-out type of cut.

Dude, ya outgrew your drawers!

[Zombie Dude]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Dude, ya outgrew your drawers!

I don't get it...

[Alister_M]

A huge part of the whole appeal of The Shining is that it's an epic horror movie. Quickening up the pace takes away that deliberate gracefulness, similar to the rubbish "directors cut" of Alien.

[Cherokee Jack]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Which led to a crappier, get-in-and-get-out-because-the-babysitter’s-charging-by-the-hour edit. Proof positive that creators need to have faith in themselves.

Queue all the UK edit defenders while I yawn at them and make fun of their high waters.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Cherokee Jack

It’s not. Trust me, if I don’t hear one dissenting post, I’ll be delighted.

[Zombie Dude]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

It’s not. Trust me, if I don’t hear one dissenting post, I’ll be delighted.

God forbid someone likes a different cut of a movie than you do. You like what you prefer, others will enjoy what they want to.
I think both cuts are good for different reasons. I'll probably go back to the US more as that's what's on 4k.