[QUOTE=Gojirosan;86784]Kubrick's The Shining is the best. A masterpiece on many levels.
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It's a great movie but not so much a Stephen King adaptation as Kubrick's own take on it. I think it works because it doesn't use all the supernatural elements that are included in the book; the animated hedges for example. What works on page might not work on screen and Kubrick recognised this. The sense of isolation hasn't been matched on mainstream cinema (apart from Carpenter's The Thing).
My favourite SK books are the first four Dark Towers. I hope they're left alone.
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