This film is like the results of a Rorschach test given to some not very bright or interesting people who are allowed to ramble on without an editor. It's like being stuck in a room while some socially inept acquaintance of yours tells you all about what he dreamed last night and how cosmically amazing it was.
shareSo I am guessing your turned the movie off?
Or walked out of the theater?
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Are you a bug Bill Murray?
Yes. I forced myself to watch around half of it till I finally couldn't stand it anymore and turned it off. I kept thinking a point would emerge or perhaps an intelligent voice.
shareWell you missed the best part!
Just kidding....I wish had I done the same.
My biggest disapoinment at the movies this year.
I mean it wasn't even fun in a "those fools be crazy" kind of way.
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Are you a bug Bill Murray?
I persisted so long because I had seen some good reviews somewhere and wherever I was watching it (not sure if it was Netflix or Amazon streaming) it had a decent rating. So I actually forced myself to ignore my own reactions, thinking there would be a payoff. Oh well...
shareThe minotaur lady killed me. I was hoping in one of her leap up and down moments, that she would leap totally away.
What was the whole gibberish about her kid having the story about the splitting headache, etc. and how there was synchronicity there? OK, but what does that have to do with the meaning of split-man as it relates to the movie?
The o.p summed it up perfectly. What a bunch of know-it-all wankers who think they are smart but they obviously have no idea. A paper tray that is a penis, Kubrick in the clouds, a typewriter means it is about the holocaust...do these people really mean it. Maybe the director of this realised their stupidity and made the dodo as a spoof
shareI enjoyed the movie, but admittedly from a superior, "I'm-glad-I'm-not-as-crazy-as-these-goofballs" perspective. I agree that the minotaur theory was the funniest one. I mean, moon-landing hoax theories have been around forever, and some people tend to see penises where there are no penises present, but minotaurs? Who looks at a poster of a skiier and goes "Hey, look . . a minotaur"? I pictured that lady visiting a ski lodge, taking one look around, and running for her life in terror . . "AIEEEE . . MINOTAURS; MINOTAURS EVERYWHERE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!"
I also had the same reaction to the split man foolishness. So, her kid told her some weird story about a guy with another little guy in his head and somehow that relates to The Shining in any meaningful way? Just bizzare.
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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.
at least you're not a "know-it-all" like them crazy people, amirite?
I thought I was missing something when that crazy lady was talking about the ski picture really being a minotaur because I didn't think anyone could be that insane on a popular documentary.
I don't take pleasure in a man's pain, but my wrath will come down like a cold rain.