Here's an axe. Cut your way out of a hedge maze.

Good luck!

EDIT: What I'm saying is, regardless of the pacing of the film or the quality of the acting, your complaint about the ending is baseless and appears to be relying on some sort of horrible misunderstanding as to how axes function and/or what hedges are.

I haven't seen it either, but maybe it was something you had to see when it first came out to understand how important and good it is. It's like that with a lot of things. Take video games for instance. If someone was to go and play Goldeneye for the N64 for the first time, they probably wouldn't understand why everyone loved it so much because they've played games that have emulated and built off what it was. I played Half Life for the first time this past year, and I didn't particularly find it phenomenal, but that's probably because I'm used to what games present now, and they usually offer similar things to what Half Life did when it first came out. If you want a musical example, look at Eddie Van Halen. Though finger tapping was pretty inventive back in the day, now it's fairly common place, so if someone picked up Van Halen for the first time, the stuff Eddie does wouldn't really surprise them a terrible amount because everyone does it as well.

Again, that's just a possibility. Figured I'd pitch the idea at least.

Dude, put *SPOILER ALERT* or something in the title.

I think you watched the movie expecting Japanese ghost girls to walk out of the TVs and crawl on the walls or something. That's not the point of the film. It's about falling into insanity, and the whole movie has that feel to it, that's why many people regard it as a masterpiece.

Yes, watching a character slowly slip into complete insanity should be paced better for the ADHD crowd who thinks most anime has either coherent and intelligent narratives.

Also, you didnt do yourself any favors by watching that movie on cable. Get the dvd, its better. The cable version has scenes cut out so the tv version doesnt make as much sense

Giving an opinion on a movie like that after watching it on tv doesn't do it justice. Not only are the entire scenes missing but the pacing is completely jacked up due to commercial breaks. In a film like this one, the pacing is HUGE part of the package. If you have the chance, try watching it in a dedicated setting.

You know who also hated The Shining movie? Stephen King

of course stephen king hated it. he wrote the book and stanley kubrick did the movie. it was totally changed from the book (which is an amazing book). King then did his own version of the movie which in my opinion was pretty terrible.

I watched it on HDnet. No commercials and no editting. I would have put a spoiler alert but its been out for 29 years...

Cheezisgoooood, I think that makes sense then. When I had heard it was a horror movie, I figured yes he goes insane but he'd at least pop around corners or something.

The Crotch, yeah I kinda jumped ahead of myself with the whole axe thing. But I still think its somewhat anti-climactic for him to freeze to death.

I think the one thing that never made sense to me was when Wendy was looking for Danny and she started seeing the odd stuff. I understood that Danny could see it because he could shine and Jack could see ghosts because he was insane, but she was neither of those.

The Shining is the bomb! Kubrick is the bomb!

Heeeeeerreee's Johnny!

Quote: The Crotch, yeah I kinda jumped ahead of myself with the whole axe thing. But I still think its somewhat anti-climactic for him to freeze to death.

It would have been more anti climactic if he hacked the family to death. The freezing was a lot harder to foresee than the violence. Besides, this movie wasn't made for cheap thrills; it was designed to be a psychological thriller and a look into the face of insanity.

Quote: I would have put a spoiler alert but its been out for 29 years...

You hadn't seen it until earlier today. Spoiler tag that shit, man.

Maybe you should stick to these movies instead.

I hear in HS Musical 3 they all freeze to death. Oh, sorry....[spoiler].

It's because it was good for it's time. It's like Zelda OoT, it might not look so good now but back then it was freakin amazing