One of the most overrated movies ever!!!

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2005)

I rated this a 1(awful) only because 0(complete disaster) was not available.
If I were to write a plot summary for this movie, it would go something like this: "While taking care of an isolated hotel over the winter, an abusive husband (not surprisingly overacted by Nicholson) steadily and increasingly menaces his mousy, wide-eyed, afraid-of-her-own-shadow wife (Duvall) and his seemingly mentally challenged son (Lloyd) who does little but ride his Big Wheel throughout the corridors of the Overlook Hotel while talking to his finger." I had read the book a few years prior, and although I was not expecting the film to stay absolutely true to the book (they never do), I was absolutely DYING to see the topiary animals come to life and scare the wits out of not only young Danny in the film, but yours truly as well......I mean, how could one leave THAT frightening scene out of the movie???? Well, Kubrick saw fit to do just that........leave it out. Instead, I got to roll my eyes and shake my head in dismay as I watched a demented, axe-wielding Jack chop through a door and exclaim "Heeeeeeeer'es Johnny!" I had to exit the theatre in order to double-check the marquee to ensure that I had entered the correct cinema.