A "shining" example of how King doesn't translate well to film

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 1999)

I gotta say, the TV miniseries (done years later, I'll admit) was better than this film. Kubrick's adaptation is somewhat scary, but more "foreboding" than scary. More proof that Steven King stories don't make movies that are nearly as great as the printed product.
Too many important details of the story are left out, and we don't get a good enough sense of the true history of the Overlook. It's these details that create the *real* horror. The miniseries explored them more, and so it was, to me, much scarier, even though I pretty much knew what was going to happen.
The worst offense of this film is an over-the-top, over-acting Jack Nicholson and his undeservedly classic "Here's Johnny" line.