2006-08-26 16:47:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The original was better. King always gripes the movies dont follow his books very well unless he is involved. He is right. But he is not a director, he is a writer and to get the effects he wants to illustrate his books, it comes out cheesy. Any movie of his that he likes I usually dont, he relies way too much on computer animation and effects. I love his books, though. He just doesnt know how to direct a movie and make it realistic. The Shining was creepy, the first version and only mediocre when King shot it how he liked it.
2006-08-26 18:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by hipichick777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while I'm sympathetic to SK's complaints about the original, and agree that they're valid, I MUCH prefer Kubricks.
Yes, Nicholson looks like an axe murderer from the first frame, and yes, (and this part is just my opinion, not King's) Shelly Duvall is so simperingly annoying that it wouldn't take all winter but as little as an extended elevator ride for me to want to go after her with a baseball bat.
I will also concede that the second one had the CGI advantage for King's brilliant scene with the topiary, but I also thought the hedgerow maze in the original was a brilliant substitution, and used to very good effect.
Lastly, I must say, I love Nicholson and there's something about Steven Webber that I find really annoying.
2006-08-27 00:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King.
2006-08-27 01:46:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Kings with Jack Nicholson...Here`s Johnnnnny!!!
2006-08-26 23:53:10 · answer #4 · answered by Carol H 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd say the Kubrick version was better in terms of being a movie, while the made-for-tv version was better for being more accurate to the book.
2006-08-27 00:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by wiredlainx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original. The acting was far better & I prefer skills to FX. Not that I'm saying the remake wasn't good, but it's hard to top Jack N.
2006-08-26 23:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by Shadow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely Kubrick's version. It may not have followed the book completely but it had more suspense and horror than the other one.
And, besides, who can play that part better than Jack?
2006-08-27 01:05:06 · answer #7 · answered by Bugsy Groucho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stanley kubrik directed the movie and stephen king wrote the story ..
one of the favourite lines from the movie that i like is this one:
"Darling. Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash 'em right the *** in. Ha, ha."
and the other line i like is when Jack smashes through the door and says ' here's johnny!! '
2006-08-27 02:21:45 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the original was far more suspensefull at least to me, the remake, while maybe more true to the original material seemed to rely on special effects and such, the suspense was carried off greatly by great actors on the original, Jack...nuff said..
2006-08-26 23:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by glennwest98 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original one is 10 times better. I've seen lots of re-makes and rarely is the re-make better than the original.
2006-08-27 00:01:20 · answer #10 · answered by worldhq101 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋