The Shining
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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Jack Nicholson is amazing and the sets/style/cinematography work really well. It’s a superlative film in many ways.
But it wasn’t that entertaining for me. The cello screeches every time anything happened were amazingly, distractingly annoying, and the plot and characters just seem excessively shallow. There’s over two hours of runtime and only really three characters we care about, but the closest to character development we get is realising that Jack’s a dick.
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