The Shining 4K UHD (1980)

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

My dyslexia salutes you're heroic correction of my awful spelling.

If this is deliberate, you're my hero.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

If this is deliberate, you're my hero.

We may never know

[wjasoncul]

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

We may never know

Not only dyslexia but early onset Alzheimer's

[fighthefutureofhd]

At least it will make watching movies more fun. You won't remember what you've watched so everything will be brand new to you. Even if you're seen it for 1,000 times like.

[Kyle15]

The Shining

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Kyle15

The Shining

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

At least it will make watching movies more fun. You won't remember what you've watched so everything will be brand new to you. Even if you're seen it for 1,000 times like.

I wish that was the case. Back in my DvD days, a friend went over like 2000 film's asking which year they were released. I got 1997 right.

[wjasoncul]

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

I wish that was the case. Back in my DvD days, a friend went over like 2000 film's asking which year they were released. I got 1997 right.

So what all came out in 1997?

[fighthefutureofhd]

Speed 2: Cruise Control
The Fifth Element
Men in Black
Batman and Robin
Hercules
George of the Jungle
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
The Lost world
Amistad

To name a few.

Originally Posted by Scottishguy

I wish that was the case. Back in my DvD days, a friend went over like 2000 film's asking which year they were released. I got 1997 right.

I'm the same way. I can recite tons of useless information, but basic and important stuff I can't remember.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by wjasoncul

So what all came out in 1997?

Off the top of my head, so verify if you want. 97, 98 and 99 sometimes blur together for me. Also I think I might have put a couple twice.

Eve's Bayou, Boogie Nights, Titanic, Open Your Eyes, Funny Games, Career Girls, Sweet Hearafter, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Apostle, Jackie Brown, Goodwill Hunting, Flubber, Aliem Resurrection, Home Alone 3, Batman And Robin, Starship Troopers, The Jackal, Face, Devils Advocate, Gattaca, Seven Years In Tibet, The Game, Cop Land, Steel, The Edge, Hoodlum, Cube, Men In Black, Air Force One, Wilde, The Ice Storm, The Full Monty, Con Air, Hercules, Contact, Bean: Ultimate Disaster Movie, Mrs Brown, Faceoff, Jurrassic Park: Lost World, The Searpents Kiss, Liar Liar, Cure, The Fith Element, Lost Highway, Austin Powers, Donnie Brasco, Kiss The Girls, In The Company Of Men, Murder At 1600, Life Is Beautiful, The Rainmaker, L.A Confidential, Event Horizon, Anaconda, Spice World, Amistad, Dantes Peak, Absolute Power, The Postman, Retroactive, Twin Town, Twenty Four Seven, The Jackal, Mr Nice Guy, Volcano, The Borrowers, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2

[fighthefutureofhd]

DAM-! And I had a hard time remember the few I came up with. Of course my mind ain't what it used to be.

Originally Posted by Shawn Elestren

The Shining is one of the worst novels I have ever read.

Killer hedge animals? Really?

The worst novel I ever was one that has no author to speak and was called HB. It starts off with this dude making people from dust and ribs. Then goes into some even weirder nonsensical stuff about a dude and an ark. I mean it was totally unbelievable.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

DAM-! And I had a hard time remember the few I came up with. Of course my mind ain't what it used to be.






The worst novel I ever was one that has no author to speak and was called HB. It starts off with this dude making people from dust and ribs. Then goes into some even weirder nonsensical stuff about a dude and an ark. I mean it was totally unbelievable.

I find it easier if the film is directly in front of me.

[fighthefutureofhd]

I'm at work so there are no films directly in front of me. No 4K ones. At least not any that can be talked about on here.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

I'm at work so there are no films directly in front of me. No 4K ones. At least not any that can be talked about on here.

I'm amazed by how many people don't even know UHD Blu-ray exists. Or HD Blu-ray for that matter.

[fighthefutureofhd]

I know. What blows my mind is I know people who still watch everything on a CRT television. And even worse the CRT is on top of an old one that no longer works.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

I know. What blows my mind is I know people who still watch everything on a CRT television. And even worse the CRT is on top of an old one that no longer works.

Don't see many CRTs round this country anymore. Not even in the houses of older people.

[fighthefutureofhd]

You're lucky then. Of course, I can't say much. I still have an huge CRT in my house. My problem is I live on the top floor and it is too heavy to get down my stairs to remove it. No one wants it and I can't throw it away. I may have to break down and call College Hunks.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Walking into the line fire like an idiot here, but I’m pretty sure all he’s/she’s saying is there aren’t many examples of somebody departing so far from the source material—especially source material considered by most to be a crowning classic of the genre—and yet somehow creating their own crowning classic of the genre. Seems a very fair and accurate assessment to me.

But, as said, several things that he adapted were contemporary works that weren't considered "classics" at the time or were little-known pieces from whatever author e.g. The Luck of Barry Lyndon from Thackeray (SK was looking at doing Vanity Fair before he alighted upon Redmond Barry's tale of woe). And 2001's story he produced concurrently with Arthur C. Clarke writing the book, Kubrick even had to sign off on the book before it could be released (which wound Clarke up no end). A few were made years later from very successful then-modern books like Lolita or A Clockwork Orange or The Short-Timers but even so, people weren't exactly up in arms about any changes that were made.

Stuff happens when books are adapted into films, I mean in order for them to even be "artistically successful" they can't just print words on a screen, by definition the literary source must be condensed and rearranged and recomposed for this filmic milieu - though it helped that there was no internet back then for people to air such grievances!

So Scottishguy's comment still doesn't make much sense to me, that the wider public and critics would harbour a grudge just because SK bent the source material to his will. Some of the authors certainly did, but that's not the same thing: people and critics want a good movie first and foremost and with Kubrick you were guaran-goddamn-teed to get one.

[edit] Kubrick himself soon became the selling point, his legendary meticulousness about controlling every single aspect of the production going before him; what was the photography gonna look like, what was the acting gonna be like, what was the music gonna be like etc. For cineastes every new Kubrick movie became a highly anticipated event no matter what source material he adapted or how he adapted it. That's where I'm coming from here: Kubrick WAS the brand

[professorwho]

I still have a CRT, mainly for playing retro games. Funnily enough, I'm looking to buy a CRT- a Sony PVM for that glorious RGB Scart for retro games.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

But, as said, several things that he adapted were contemporary works that weren't considered "classics" at the time or were little-known pieces from whatever author e.g. The Luck of Barry Lyndon from Thackeray (SK was looking at doing Vanity Fair before he alighted upon Redmond Barry's tale of woe). And 2001's story he produced concurrently with Arthur C. Clarke writing the book, Kubrick even had to sign off on the book before it could be released (which wound Clarke up no end). A few were made years later from very successful then-modern books like Lolita or A Clockwork Orange or The Short-Timers but even so, people weren't exactly up in arms about any changes that were made.

Stuff happens when books are adapted into films, I mean in order for them to even be "artistically successful" they can't just print words on a screen, by definition the literary source must be condensed and rearranged and recomposed for this filmic milieu - though it helped that there was no internet back then for people to air such grievances!

So Scottishguy's comment still doesn't make much sense to me, that the wider public and critics would harbour a grudge just because SK bent the source material to his will. Some of the authors certainly did, but that's not the same thing: people and critics want a good movie first and foremost and with Kubrick you were guaran-goddamn-teed to get one. [edit] HE soon became the selling point, his legendary meticulousness about controlling every single aspect of the production going before him; what was the photography gonna look like, what was the acting gonna be like, what was the music gonna be like etc. For cineastes every new Kubrick movie became a highly anticipated event no matter what source material he adapted or how he adapted it.

So, again, I never once said or meant to imply that King's novel was considered a classic immediately upon its release. That's a total non sequitur to my point and I don't know why it keeps coming up. King's novel, at some point in time, became a classic (for not an inconsiderable amount of people, the definitive one) of the genre; that's all that matters to my point. In terms of being flummoxed "that the wider public and critics would harbour a grudge just because SK bent the source material to his will", have you seriously never heard the (in my experience, exceedingly common) lamentation that movies are never as good as the novels upon which they're based? And have you never witnessed the common rage of the unwashed masses when a movie based on a beloved work takes liberties with it? But Kubrick was a rare master who built a career out of taking other people's highly regarded written creations and "bending them to his will" so that they sometimes only retained tangential fidelity to the original stories and yet, nearly each time out, they were considered classics in their own right, rather than bastardizations of the source.