What is so good about it?

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2016)

I wonder if the people giving 9 or 10 stars to this movie have ever read the book. The movie totally misses the point of the book, as King himself often stated:
"The character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. Absolutely no arc at all. When we first see Jack Nicholson, he's in the office of Mr. Ullman, the manager of the hotel, and you know, then, he's crazy as a sh*t house rat. All he does is get crazier. In the book, he's a guy who's struggling with his sanity and finally loses it. To me, that's a tragedy. In the movie, there's no tragedy because there's no real change.".
I guess as a movie (for the time) its okay, not really scary though. Jack is playing Jack (as he always is), Jake is boring and Wendy is just dumb.
Go read the book!