Kubrick vs King

Rating: 9/10 (25 January 2005)

I'm a Kubrick fan and I adore his movies. But I didn't like the Shining very much. Probably it's because I'm a Stephen King fan as well.
In the book, you can understand every detail and the story makes better sense. But in the movie everything was so shoddy.You can't even understand how Jack went crazy.
You can't see how the hotel makes him one of it's slaves. He just goes crazy.
What I mean is, the major role belongs to the hotel, but it has a very limited part in the movie.
If you haven't read the book, you can enjoy the movie. Because it's not a bad one. It has very scary scenes actually. But like I said before I didn't like it because there was nothing from the book.
Overall, it's a good movie, you won't hate when you see it, but if you've read the book, you may be disappointed a little bit.
P.S:I hated Shelley Duvall when I saw the movie.Her sound and her weird behaviours..There should have been a more "normal" person instead of Shelly Duvall.