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Total waste of time. Irritating as hell.


If you going to make a documentary about a movie, talk to the people who made the movie. There was not a single question asked to anyone who had anything to do with the movie. No old interviews with the Kubrick, or King, or the actors, or the art director, or the prop people, etc, etc. The idiots spouting their *beep* "theories" about The Shining don't even show their faces. One guy goes on for quite a bit about how the front of the hotel architecture is altered from one scene to another. Bullcrap. It's called the back of the building. I have two models of the Timberline hotel that I bought when my wife and I stayed there and it matches perfectly. The architecture does not alter from one scene to another. He just doesn't know what the hell he's talking about and he just wasted my time. Everyone babbling on and on as they try to cram square pegs into round holes in order to support some "clever" crap they thought of. The skier in the poster is a minotaur?! Yeah, looks just like one of those hornless minotaurs with the head of a man that I've heard so much about. Freaking losers.

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But this wasn't a documentary about The Shining. It is a documentray about those *beep* theories. That is the whole point of the doc.

I agree with you that the movie is kind of a waste and alot of what these people were spouting is a whole lot of crap (yeah...the skier being a minotaur was a stretch).
I was actually hoping for some fun theories. But none of them held any weight. It seemed like some of them were pulling their idea right out of their asses. Again...the skier poster? WTF? And I had no idea the difference in the architecture was different because it was different angle (front vs. back). And I love the whole idea that the baking soda had a Native American name....so it was abviously about Native Amercian genocide. And the typewriter was German....obviously about the holocaust.
I was incredibly disapointed with this documentary.

I did like the idea that Danny was trying to pyschically kill Jack. That was interesting.
And I would love to see the movie shown frontwards and backwards super-imposed.

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And OMG...the guy with the supposed raging hard on.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

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Are you a bug Bill Murray?

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