I shouldn't have read the book.

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2003)

It seems as if only everyone who read the book first didn't like the movie. I'm no exception. My problems with the film have nothing to do with it not exactly following the book. That's not something I expect from a move, they're two different mediums, differences are to be expected. My problem was that the move took the elements from the book and boiled them down to a couple of seconds and put them on the screen without explaining what the meant (for example the twins, they were a developed subplot in the book, in the movie they were just there).
I may be the only person on the planet who didn't like the blood pouring out of the elevator scene. It was as if a special effects guy went up to Kubrick and said "We got this great effect, it ain't taken from anywhere in the book, and it don't have anything to do with the story, but it's really cool, ya wanna use it?" And he said "Sure."