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Title: No Shine to this Shining...
Review: Uggh. You've got to be kidding. This movie more closely followed the original book... So what, it fails. Kubrick's movie was written, directed and acted with the knowledge that S. King needs to be edited, A LOT, before he stuff is ready for the camera. This movie, like The Stand, fails because the producers didn't have the sense to slice, pare, and whittle King's work down to a managable form that works. Books are a great medium for authors like King because you can wind, meander, and stroll through concepts at your leisure and the fluff is not so obvious. In a movie, you've got to cut out all the ancillary-related stuff and get to the point. This movie fails to do just that. Stick to the Kubrick movie or read the book for the "purist" view of this work, but, at all costs, avoid this bloated corpse of a flick.
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