Sadly Over-hyped

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

If you are a conservative and get disgusted by thoughts other than what the govt wants you to believe, you will not like this movie. It is an excellent deep analysis of the shining and kubrick like dan brown did for divinci code. Nothing is proven, yet nothing is disproven. Just disaprovals from candy land conservatives.

After spending time with Jan Harlan at a conference, and hearing from his own mouth what garbage all these theories are, as well as from Leon Vitali, who was on set with Kubrick the whole time during the filming of The Shining, it is very clear to me that none of the people involved in this film have anything to add to Kubrick's legacy except rumors and lies about Kubrick's works. Most of them don't understand the technical aspects of filmmaking, not even perspective or depth of field, nor do they understand allegory, and they seem to think they have uncovered sinister secrets that are simply storytelling vehicles that even a child can put together. A hateful gang of talentless bores with no creative knowledge trying to make money off of a genius, but can't even come up with decent study notes, even when their heads are bashed together by this director, who, as a director should have had some respect for Kubrick and his family. I was incensed and disgusted by the whole thing. A completely useless film, in fact worse than useless in that it makes a ridicule of Kubrick. and no, it's not ironic. If anyone wants insights into The Shining, better watch Making The Shining by Vivian Kubrick instead.

This documentary is about the interpretations and perceived meanings of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining and pretty much a circle-jerk around the film and praising Kubrick as some sort of film god. Most of the "clues" that they talk about in the movie are just coincidences that appear on frame. Other things they talk about are continuity errors which they claim are intentional. So, apparently Apparently continuity errors are well thought out works of genius.What the f*ck is up with the narrator checking on his crying baby? How did that get through the final cut?The people behind this have WAY too much time on their hands to watch this movie over and over again just to spot these erros and then claim the movie to be a masterpiece.Stanley Kubrick was a great director and The Shining was a great movie, but this "documentary" kinda makes me hate the movie now... and that's saying a lot.Worst 100mn I've ever wasted.1/10

Other hidden meanings in "The Shining": 1. In the gin commercial, the ice cube to the right clearly shows the Secret Service man driving JFK's limo in Dallas turning around and shooting the president. 2. A frozen-frame blow up of the poster to the left of the faux skier one reveals a photo of the box where President and Mrs. Lincoln were watching "An American Cousin" on the night the president was assassinated. To the extreme left you can see a myopic 2nd assassin firing a Derringer that missed Mrs. Lincoln, the second must-have target. 3. In the opening credits of "The Shining", as soon as Stanley Kubrick's name scrolls upwards out of the frame, in addition to his airbrushed photo skillfully placed in the clouds, and to its immediate left, is the right earlobe of Jon Voight, Kubrick's first choice to play Jack. 4. The original sneak prevue release, shown in a theater in Honduras, had Danny carrying a ripe banana as he fled into the maze. He gets corned by his homicidal father and obsessively eats the banana, tossing the peel in front of him. His father raises the ax, steps forward and slips on the banana peel, hitting his head fatally on a partially obscured obsidian bust of Stephen King. This ending was booed by the attending Hondurans who subsequently burned down the theater to protest the racial profiling of bananas. Kubrick then re-shot the ending we all know. 5. As a movie running 1 hour and 42 minutes, the laughs for this commentator stopped coming after 20 minutes. Picture was far too long to sustain a light-weight comedy.