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Title: I'll take the original please...
Review: Rebecca De Morany is better looking than Shelley Duvall. Definitely. However, that's about the only way this version of "THE SHINING" is better than the original.Perhaps one of the biggest reasons why is that the original falls under a category of ...oh, something like SCARY!!! Jack Nicholson's maniac performance is brilliant but it is also terrifying. The bathtub scene is unparalleled in its nastiness. And the maze? What happened to the maze? I realize that it wasn't in the original King novel, but they could have left that magnificent sequence in. (Anything was better than those "very, very scary, very, very real-looking" lion-shaped shrubs that came alive!)The illustrious Stanley Kubrick is rolling in his grave. It makes me quite sad that he lived to see this mockery of his original 1980 masterpiece. (Maybe - with any luck - he missed it.)
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