it should be good, but i just don't understand

Rating: 7/10 (7 June 2014)

i know that this movie is a classic horror. many sites put this as one of the scariest movie ever made. add that with jack nicholson and stanley kubrick reputation. i thought, this movie will be great. so, as a teenager born in the middle 90's without any film background, i watched it with such a curiosity and hope. i am excited at first, but then i always do in the beginning.
the cinematography looks fantastic, especially when it was made in the 80's. jack nicholson acting is outstanding. a shout out to Gardy and Llyod (i hope it was the right names)actors , they scared me in a different ways than any other supernatural being in horror movies. and don't get me started with the soundtrack. it was more scary than the movie. i mean the soundtrack is literary the heart of it really, sometimes i found it was overuse and unnecessary though.
beside the soundtrack, i found some other things that bothers me. first is the editing, maybe it's just a matter of preference, or generation, but how they cut off one scene to the other is off, the fading effect and the timing just not right, it really bothers me. second is, how it have scenes that should be cut off completely from the movie since i don't see how it has any significance in either plot story or cinematography like that scene where danny ride his tricycle,yeah, you could give the excuse that it showed part of the hotel, but honestly, that was unnecessary. three, there's some two cut off scene that for me better be made into one, like the first encounter between jack and his new boss. four, shelley duvall acting performance, i don't have to explain, just watch the movie. five, it's more of a psychological thriller than horror, yes, it has some supernatural aspects but it only holds like 1/3 of the story, less then 1/3 of the scenes in the whole movie. it's more focused on how Jack could change into the killer. so, it's not that scary for me who always associate horror with scary looking ghosts. maybe i should just give it more time to seep in though.
the pacing is a little bit on a slow side, but it didn't feel like it. maybe because the whole story needs to be done a little bit slower. i don't mind though except that first tricycle scene.
bottom line, it fall short to what i had expected. but, i have goosebumps now.... just by looking at jack nicholson face